WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.880 Hello, and welcome everybody to another edition of The Cajun 2 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.880 Night Live. I am your host, the Cage to Night, 3 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.560 Jacob Mook, and I want to thank everybody for joining 4 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.519 me on this evening. If you're listening to this the 5 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:19.719 following day, you need to be a part of this conversation. 6 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:21.440 The only place to go to do that would be 7 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.920 to go to patreon dot com slash Cajun Night and 8 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:25.679 it's in the link in the description below. 9 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:27.120 Only one tier for entry. 10 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.320 Come join us every Wednesday night at nine pm Central 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.839 and be a part of the conversation. A lot of 12 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.320 things going on, y'all. As always, there's never a shortage 13 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:39.520 of buffoonery that is happening in our world. And honestly, 14 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:44.439 I kind of almost forgot that the Clintons were out 15 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:44.880 and about. 16 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:48.079 I know that they're, you know, free people. 17 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.679 They're out here breathing the free air, and I have 18 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.880 an issue with that, but whatever, they kind of fall 19 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.280 into the realm of you know, irrelevance from time to time. 20 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.520 Then out of nowhere, they just they come right back 21 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.799 up in the headlines. And boy, oh boy, this is 22 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:03.399 not a good one for them to come up while 23 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:06.239 talking about. But let's get into it together, y'all. So 24 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.280 this is from NBC News. House Republicans plan on holding 25 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.319 Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to testify in Epstein probe. 26 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:17.599 Yeah, that's a thing. That's the thing. 27 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.239 So the announcement comes a day after the Oversight Committee 28 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.560 chair James Comer said he would seek to hold former 29 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.079 President Bill Clinton in. 30 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.640 Contempt for skipping his deposition. 31 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:32.040 Yeah. So essentially they have been called in for questioning 32 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.159 and they both said, no, we're not gonna do that. 33 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:38.319 We're doing something else because they know how deeply embedded 34 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:40.799 they were with Epstein. We're gonna play this short little 35 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:42.480 clip here, and then we're gonna read the article. But 36 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.040 you know, every time, every time you think the Clintons 37 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.519 might just be going to the House for good, they're irrelevant. 38 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.760 They're retired, they're old school now here. They are out 39 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:52.079 here just doing the shit. Again. 40 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:52.640 Here we go. 41 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.359 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are facing the prospect 42 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.799 of being held in contempt of Congress. This after failing 43 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:02.519 to peer for a closed door deposition as part of 44 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.640 the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. 45 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.759 I think it's very disappointing as a result of Bill 46 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.319 Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena. 47 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.599 The Clinton's informed the committee they had nothing material to 48 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.080 offer the investigation, and in a letter to Chairman James Comer, 49 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:25.039 they argued his subpoenas were legally invalid, writing every person 50 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.639 has to decide when they have seen or had enough 51 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.639 and are ready to fight for this country, its principles, 52 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.879 and its people, no matter the consequences for us. Now 53 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.919 is that time. The former president has long denied any wrongdoing, 54 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.560 but Republicans point out that Clinton has repeatedly appeared in 55 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.479 photos and documents connected to Epstein, arguing he has information 56 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:48.319 to provide. 57 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:51.360 No one's accused of Bill Clinton of any wrong doing. 58 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:52.680 We just have questions. 59 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.759 Most Democrats we spoke to today either avoided the question 60 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:59.240 or defended the Clinton's decision to skip the deposition. But 61 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.000 Democrats wrote Sonna, who wrote the law to force the 62 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.120 DOJ to release all the files, had a different take. 63 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.039 Do you think the president should have appeared? 64 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:08.599 He should appear. 65 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:11.599 I have always said that this needs to be transparent. 66 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:17.120 Everyone involved should be providing an explanation, and I have 67 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.639 conducted this in a way that doesn't single out Republicans 68 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:21.439 or Democrats. 69 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:23.639 Yo, shout out to Rocanna. 70 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.240 I know he's a Democrat, and I don't necessarily agree 71 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.120 with the majority of his statements that he makes on 72 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.719 the political scale. He just went on The Sean Ryan 73 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:38.240 Show and he is very loudly proclaiming that Congress, Senate, 74 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.840 the White House are all going out of their way 75 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.599 to protect pedophiles and they're not even being shy about 76 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.400 it anymore. It was a great episode just throwing that out. 77 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.360 But yeah, I agree with Roe. These two if they 78 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.759 were questioned, if they were subpoenaed, they should be they 79 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.719 should show up, and they said, no, your subpoena is 80 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.800 invalid because we already told you we don't have anything 81 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:00.280 to say. 82 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.479 Can you imagine. 83 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:05.039 Can you imagine if you were subpoena to appear before 84 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.719 a judge in your local community and you just said, no, 85 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.000 I have nothing to say to you, because that's that's 86 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.800 just gonna go over so well, so well right, that's 87 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.040 not gonna lead any bit towards And they're not even 88 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.600 saying that they did anything wrong. They got some questions 89 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.439 for them and that's all there is to it. Wow, 90 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.240 But you know, rules for thee, not for me. Go ahead, Sam. 91 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:29.079 Before I read this article wagh In. 92 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.279 I was gonna say, it's funny because they are these 93 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.279 the same Clintons that men's the land, that no man 94 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.199 is above the law when and trying to get Trump 95 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.519 and when it's the both of them are stumbbags. 96 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.199 It's the same Clinton's with the emails, the private servers, 97 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.319 the whole Bengati situation. What does it matter? The Lewinsky, 98 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.079 the whole nine, The same Clinton that he's painted on 99 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.480 a giant mural in Epstein's house in a blue dress, 100 00:04:59.480 --> 00:04:59.959 the whole nine. 101 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.600 All that keeping keep in mind. 102 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:08.199 Uh uh, Hillary, she started out as the one too. 103 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.600 Uh uh. The she started out as a lawyer under 104 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.040 the Nixon things on Watergate. 105 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.639 Yeah, and then she also worked under a very loud 106 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:17.600 and proud Klansman. 107 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:19.360 Yeah. 108 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.079 And she also said that, well, what are you about 109 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:27.160 tending to montic Lensky about her getting caught blowing about 110 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.000 the mess in the office. 111 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:29.399 Uh. 112 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.160 She said, well, what do you expect when you drag 113 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.680 one hundred dollars through a treasure park? And I'm like, 114 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:36.360 it's just a loyal cut. 115 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.279 She is, she is God. I'm trying to remember the Klansmen. 116 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:44.240 That was that they worked under Bob's Dewey something there 117 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.000 wasn't David Duke, it was I. 118 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.360 Thought it was Dewey or am I thinking about the 119 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.879 treasurer that killed herself on lot of TV? 120 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:53.160 Look it up? 121 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:54.040 Look it up. 122 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.920 Because Biden and Killery both really got their start in 123 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:00.439 politics working under him, and uh, that was a whole thing. 124 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.639 His big push was to resegregate schools, and he was 125 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.439 on that kick well into the nineties. 126 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.040 But yeah, somebody looked that up. I'm drawing a blank 127 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:09.639 on the name here. 128 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:14.000 But anyway, Biden was it was Biden, and that said 129 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.199 he didn't want his kids to go up in a 130 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.399 school in a zoo. 131 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.279 And then I was like, if you don't vote for me, 132 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:23.600 you ain't black. Yeah. 133 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.439 These people, these people don't have like functioning brains in 134 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:26.959 my opinion. 135 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.639 The audacity of their caucacity. 136 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.439 Oh, it's it's boundless. It's boundless. 137 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:33.319 But anyway, anyway, get into the article here. 138 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.480 The House Oversight Committee will seek to hold former Secretary 139 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:39.480 of State Killery Clinton in contempt of Congress after she 140 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.040 did not appear for a scheduled deposition as part of 141 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.360 the Republican led Panels investigation into Jeffrey Epstein chairman James 142 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.920 Comer announced Wednesday. The move comes days after Comer said 143 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.120 the committee would seek to hold former President Billium in 144 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.959 contempt for failing to appear for his scheduled deposition Tuesday. 145 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.240 So basically both of them just decide they're not showing 146 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.560 up again. Just kind of reiterating what Comber said. We're 147 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.279 going to hold both Clinton's and criminal contempt of Congress, 148 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.560 he said this Wednesday morning. The House Oversight Committee will 149 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.879 vote on both content measures next Wednesday and then bring 150 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.000 them to the House floor. The committee had negotiated in 151 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.319 good faith, good faith rather with the Clinton's attorneys for 152 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:20.199 five months. 153 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:21.839 We have bent over. 154 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.319 Backwards, he said. Wow. The committee subpoenaed the Clintons last year. 155 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.560 They were scheduled to appear in October, but that was 156 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.639 later pushed to December because of their attendance at a funeral. 157 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 Comber said the Clinton's lawyer did not provide alternate dates, 158 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.720 so he rescheduled their depositions for mid January and larry 159 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.120 to Comber on Tuesday. The Clinton's argued that the subpoenas 160 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.439 were quote legally invalid end quote, because that's that's how 161 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.600 that works, and said they did not plan to appear 162 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.000 for depositions. The letter cited legal analysis prepared by two 163 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.439 law firms, which they said they provided to the committee Monday. 164 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.759 Every person has to decide when they have seen or 165 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.480 had enough in a raid, a fight for this country. 166 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.959 It's principles and it's people's, no matter the consequences. 167 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.680 When of these two ever, ever, period ever fought for 168 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:11.519 this country its principles or its people. 169 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.279 But all right for us, now is that time? 170 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:16.199 Sure? 171 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.959 Yeah, because that's coming in to get questioned about some connection, 172 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.120 some ties to Epstein, just some questions, some things. 173 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.920 Clearly, this is your time to stand. 174 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.920 On principles of America. What the fuck are you talking 175 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.039 about anyway. The letter also said the Clintons expected the 176 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.600 Committee to vote to hold them in contempt, saying, you 177 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.279 will say it is not your decision to make, but 178 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:38.159 we have made it. 179 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.840 Now you have to make yours. Damn go ahead, Royce. 180 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.840 So even with the whole thing about them, have the integrity. 181 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.320 Part of that integrity should be showing up in court 182 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.440 when they're supposed to. You would sink, since since they've 183 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.159 never been held the cattle for either actions. Hillary with 184 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.320 all of her males, uh you know, her husband with 185 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:07.200 everything else, is like they're not first of all, they're 186 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.759 not showing any kind of good precedent and they just 187 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.799 aren't gonna do anything and that like so, I mean 188 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.399 literally literally, how many times were they gonna hold a 189 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.080 hunter and contempt because he didn't show up? And then 190 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.360 nothing ever happened to that? And the same thing I 191 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.639 kind of feel with these guys, like, yeah, they there, 192 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.240 you know, there's a lot of saber rabbitaling going on. Yeah, 193 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:36.000 holy my contempt. But let the actual chances for them 194 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.200 to do something, I would say are is very minimal. 195 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.200 I don't really have too much faith in the system anymore, honestly. 196 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.200 Yeah, I'm with you on that. And then continuing here, 197 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.879 it says the Clinton's lawyers, Ashley Callen David E. Kendall 198 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.600 wrote in a separate letter to Comber on Monday that 199 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:54.200 the subpoenas were and there's a direct quote here, and 200 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:59.519 also listen to the amount of of just outlandish language 201 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.879 they are you using. It's subpoenas for questioning. They're doing 202 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.159 a deposition into Epstein. Some names are brought up, Hey, 203 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.240 you two, your names are brought up, and we need 204 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:10.879 you two to come in and talk to us a 205 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.879 little bit about this. Their lawyer's response was that these 206 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:18.519 subpoenas were quote, invalid and legally unenforceable because they are 207 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.360 untethered to a valid legislative purpose, unwarranted because they do 208 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:28.440 not seek pertinent information. And unprecedented infringement on the separation 209 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:34.919 of powers. All right, invalid and legally unenforceable. Congress is 210 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:38.080 subpoenaing them to show up and talk about some things 211 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:43.320 that is legally enforceable, and it is valid, okay, untethered 212 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:47.759 to valid legislative purpose. They are currently doing a deposition 213 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:53.159 into a guy where both of these individuals clearly had ties. Yes, 214 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:59.799 it is very legislatively purposeful, invalid, okay, unwarranted because they 215 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:01.399 do not seek pertinent information. 216 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.799 That's literally what the deposition is about. 217 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.759 That's literally what these questions are is to extract pertinent information, 218 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.039 and if there is none, then there will be nothing 219 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:11.440 to say. 220 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.360 It will be very clear at that time, given a. 221 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.559 Written statement is not the same as showing the fuck up, 222 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:22.000 but all right, and an unprecedented infringement on the separation 223 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.799 of powers no, no, this is this is literally what 224 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.960 the House Oversight Committee does. This is this is the 225 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.679 system of checks and balances. This is within their powers. 226 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.360 So the lawyers are basically just throwing out this flamboyant 227 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.639 legal language to try to make it seem like this 228 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.240 is all superferous, and it's like, no, it's not, it's not. 229 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:44.799 This is actually very pertinent. It's something needs to happen. 230 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:45.840 And the fact that. 231 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.639 Y'all are crawl fishing this hard, this early, that's that's 232 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:53.440 not playing well. But also to your point, Royce, I agree, 233 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.320 I don't know what's actually gonna shake out from this. 234 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.799 I hope they see their day in court. I hope 235 00:11:57.799 --> 00:11:59.720 they both go to jail. I don't believe it's ever 236 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.080 gonna happened in my lifetime, but we can try to 237 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.240 get high on hopium, you know. On Monday, House Speaker 238 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.320 Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, said that the Clintons of 239 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.360 the Clinton's rather I think it would be contempt of 240 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.879 Congress if they didn't turn up, which is true. Hillary 241 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.320 Clinton spoke a person Nick Merrill, it's a raging piece 242 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.320 of shit question the Committe's approach. In a statement, last month, 243 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.679 saying since this started, we've been asking what the hell 244 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.240 Hillary Clinton has to do with this, and he hasn't 245 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:31.080 been able to come up with an answer. All right, 246 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.840 Hillary Clinton has not been accused of any wrongdoing related 247 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.240 to Epstein, and her name has not appeared in the 248 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.440 thousands of files the Justice Department has released so far 249 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.240 after the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed. No, but your 250 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:47.200 husband did. Your husband did, and you're not going to 251 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.720 testify against your husband. They're questioning you on some things, 252 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.840 maybe some whereabouts, maybe some specific dates, things like this. 253 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.879 That's not necessarily testifying against Bill. You have to go 254 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.240 there and see what the trying to find out. That's 255 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:02.759 how this goes. And if they are trying to make 256 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.440 you testify against your husband, you complete the fifth and 257 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.200 you can walk away, and then that's just the way 258 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.320 it goes in a legal sense. 259 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:10.960 But all right, cool. 260 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.559 The first set of files released last month included numerous 261 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.360 pictures of Bill Clinton, who was also not accused of 262 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:22.120 any wrongdoing. A bit okay. Clinton said he cut ties 263 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.960 with Epstein, the late sex offender, before Epstein was accused 264 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:27.440 of having sex with a minor in two thousand and six. 265 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.840 That is actually very, very inaccurate. 266 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.360 There's actually quite a paper trail to show that the 267 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.480 Clintons were very close with him up until two thousand 268 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.679 and nine, and even some might argue into the twenty teens. 269 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.519 When the Clintons left office, they were broke, like they 270 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.360 were broke broke, so they had to do something to 271 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.080 make some money. Yeah, they could have wrote some books 272 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:53.200 and whatever, but at the time Bill was still kind 273 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.960 of living an infamy from the who Lewinsky situation. So 274 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.159 what did they do. They called their homeboy, Jeff, and 275 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.440 he put them on a speaking tour that was paying 276 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.039 big money for both of them. As a matter of fact, 277 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.279 cut to Killery later on became a Secretary of State 278 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.360 under Obama in the twenty teens, which the whole reason 279 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.039 why she even stayed relevant in that, although she did 280 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.799 run against him at one point for the Democratic nomination, 281 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.000 whatever was because she was still making her rounds on 282 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.360 the speaking circuits and Jeff Epstein is the one that 283 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.200 made sure that they were getting their paychecks. So yeah, 284 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.519 to say there's no connection past six, I'm sorry, that's 285 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:34.600 like mathematically paper trail bank statements. That is an incorrect statement. 286 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.879 But anyway, The Justice Department set in a court filing 287 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.159 last week that more than two million Epstein files have 288 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.759 yet to be released. The statutory deadline to release all 289 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.440 the files was December nineteenth. Okay, so that's the first 290 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:50.600 article we have on the Clintons, and then again we're 291 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.080 talking ABC News now. Clintons say now is the time 292 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.799 to fight for this country as they targeted, as they 293 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.960 were being targeted for contempt. I wanted to play this 294 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.159 one as well. See how that compares in contrast to 295 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:02.279 what the last article said. 296 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:07.200 The extraordinary standoff between the Clintons and congressional Republicans. The 297 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.240 chair of the GOP led House Oversight Committee moving forward 298 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.399 with the unprecedented step of trying to hold former President 299 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.600 Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 300 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.440 contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from an investigation into 301 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.559 convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton skipping his scheduled 302 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.320 testimony yesterday and Hillary Clinton expected to do the same today. 303 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.440 No one's accused of Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We 304 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.480 just have questions, and that's why the Democrats voted along 305 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.000 with Republicans to subpoenavill. 306 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:40.639 Clinton standing alongside two Republicans who themselves defied subpoenas from 307 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.320 the House. January sixth, Committee Oversite Chair James Comer, promising 308 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.679 his panel will take contempt votes next week, but an 309 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.519 escathing four page letter the Clinton's calling the investigation partisan 310 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.000 and the subpoenas legally invalid, writing, the committee's probe is 311 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.240 supposed to be directed at the government's handling of the 312 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.240 Epstein case, all while you have done nothing with your 313 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.240 oversight capacity to force the Department of Justice to follow 314 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:06.639 the law and release all of its Epstein files, adding, 315 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.120 every person has to decide when they have seen or 316 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.480 had enough and are ready to fight for this country, 317 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.759 its principles, and its people, no matter the consequences. 318 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:15.320 For us. 319 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:18.559 Now is that time Bill Clinton was friendly with Epstein 320 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.879 in the nineties and early two thousands. No Epstein survivor 321 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.840 has ever accused the former president of wrongdoing, and both 322 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.480 Clinton's have denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes, writing to the Committee, 323 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.120 we have tried to give you the little information we have. 324 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.480 We've done so because mister Epstein's crimes were horrific. 325 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.440 So I'm just going to ask a quick question here. 326 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.840 Anybody feel free to unmute yourself if you know the 327 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:47.440 answer to this. What year was Jeffrey Epstein arrested? 328 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:50.960 Anybody? 329 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:52.200 Which time? 330 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:54.600 Wasn't it two thousand and six? 331 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:57.360 Well, two thousand and six is the first time, yes, 332 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.279 and that's when he got the lightest of sweet hard 333 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.679 deals ever. But the time he actually got arrested for good? 334 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.559 Anybody remember what year that was? 335 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.119 Twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen? 336 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:08.839 Was it? 337 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:09.039 One? 338 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.359 In twenty sixteen he was actually arrested, but then he 339 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.079 was sentenced in twenty nineteen. 340 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:20.519 That sounds accurate. Sounds like yeah, it sounds it out ballpark? 341 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.640 Okay, So just and correct me if I'm wrong. Here? 342 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:30.119 Who was the Secretary of State in twenty sixteen? Hilly 343 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.480 and correct me if I'm wrong. But the Virgin Islands 344 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.839 and Little Saint James, which is Little Saint Thomas is 345 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.400 little island is a part of the US territory. Correct, 346 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:47.279 I believe, sir, So just gonna throw this out. 347 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:51.599 Who comes out bad way? John Kerry was twenty sixteen. 348 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.400 Hillary Clinton I think exited in twenty twelve or twenty eleven, 349 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:56.519 right after Libya. 350 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.720 She left because of Benghazi. Yeah, that's right. And then 351 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.559 Carrie stepped in. Damn, Damn. 352 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.000 I was trying to draw a connection there, but Damn 353 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.200 I was off by a few years. Fuck well, it'd 354 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:11.880 be like that anyway. I still do believe that they 355 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.519 had full knowledge of his quote unquote wrongdoings. I'm not 356 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.519 even gonna say quote unquote him being a real motherfucker here. 357 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.160 They fully were aware of it, They fully knew about it. 358 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:23.319 There's no way. 359 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:26.160 So yeah, them being subpoened and brought in for questioning 360 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.240 on this, I don't even think this is a crazy 361 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:31.559 point to make, honestly. 362 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:34.000 I mean, I mean, there was a portrait of Bill 363 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.720 Clinton in a blue dress on the island, so obviously 364 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.880 both Bill Clinton and I imagine his wife probably had 365 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.680 a good idea what was going on, just a hunch. 366 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:45.440 Oh for sure. 367 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.880 And then there's also so many pictures of Bill Clinton 368 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.799 with Epstein, Like we saw a couple of them in 369 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:54.079 those clips. There's pictures of Bill with young women sitting 370 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:58.599 on his lap with their faces redacted because those women 371 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.960 are victims, confirm victims of Jeff Epstein. So again I'm 372 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.839 having a real hard time seeing has he has one 373 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:10.440 of the victims sitting on his lap in pictures like 374 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.680 I'm there's gonna be a connection here. Yeah, and again, 375 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.640 the House isn't even saying that they definitely were involved 376 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:20.440 in any kind of wrongdoing. They're just want to ask 377 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.119 them some questions, and they are trying to throw all 378 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.720 the legalies they can out there to say, Nah, bro, 379 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:28.720 they ain't us. You can't you can't make a show up. 380 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:31.759 You can't even make your show up. So like whatever, 381 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:36.079 it's it's unlawful, it's it's unprecedented, it's whatever. Dude. 382 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:37.960 Oh, I hope they see their day in court. 383 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.240 But anyway, this pretty much just reiterates what we already 384 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.720 read about. So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bore 385 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:49.160 everybody with another iteration of it. But yeah, anyway, moving 386 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:54.319 on to another shithead politician here. California Governor Newsom says 387 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:58.880 he's blocking Louisiana's push to extradite doctor accused of mailing 388 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:04.000 abortion pills. Yeah. I had just found this article and 389 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:05.640 I was like, you know what, this is probably going 390 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:07.519 to be a decent one to talk about. Let's get there. 391 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.200 Newsom said, extra diagnot the doctor would have violated an 392 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.119 executive order he signed in twenty twenty two. Barring state 393 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.559 agencies in his administration from assisting other states' efforts to 394 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:24.559 prosecute abortion providers. Man fuck Gavin Newsom. Oh, let's get 395 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.839 into it here. So, California Governor Newsom said Wednesday he 396 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.480 was blocking Louisiana's attempt to extradite a doctor in the 397 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:34.039 Golden State accused of mailing abortion pills. The Democrat governor's 398 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.839 announcement comes a day after Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry shout 399 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:40.680 Out said he sent the extradition paperwork in an effort 400 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.279 to bring the physician to justice. Louisiana has some of 401 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.240 the strictest anti abortion laws in the country, while California 402 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:50.920 law aims to protect abortion providers from criminal prosecution for 403 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:53.880 treating out of state patients. See, this is the problem. 404 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:58.039 This is the problem. If this person wanted that, they 405 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.039 could have gone to California and gotten the procedure, the pills, 406 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:03.640 or whatever else. If it's happening in California, that's a 407 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.640 California problem. If it's happening in Louisiana, that's a Louisiana problem. 408 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.079 So yeah, this is this absolutely within the rights. But 409 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.559 let's get into it here. The Democratic governor's announcement. Oh, 410 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:17.680 we already said that one. I'm sorry, Newsom said. Extrading 411 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:20.279 to the doctor would have violated an executive order he 412 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:23.319 signed in twenty twenty two barring state agencies in his 413 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.640 administration from assisting other states' efforts to prosecute abortion providers. 414 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:32.440 Once again, an executive order in California for his states' 415 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:37.400 efforts to prosecute these providers. We're not talking about that. 416 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:42.720 This is a Louisiana thing. That's ridiculous out loud, but okay. 417 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:46.440 We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to 418 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:49.480 reach into California and try to punish doctors based on 419 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:54.680 allegations that they provided reproductive health care service. That's I 420 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.079 really don't like the verbiage that this cunt is using. 421 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.559 I'm gonna be honest with you, but all right, not today, 422 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.039 not fit, he says. Landers's office did not immediately respond 423 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.519 to your request for comment on Newsom's announcement. Louisiana was 424 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:15.200 pushing to extradite remy quoita koee taokoe too quoito koto fuck. 425 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:17.920 I don't know a physician in San Francisco Bay Area, 426 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:24.079 Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrel said Tuesday that Cotex faced 427 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:28.119 a criminal charge of abortion by means of abortation inducing 428 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:31.559 drugs and risking risk, spending up to fifty years in 429 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:35.799 jail if convicted. An email and telephone message seeking comment 430 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:40.400 on Tuesday from cotexs on the extradition push went unanswered. 431 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.880 So I guess we'll see how this shakes out. But essentially, yeah, 432 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:46.400 they're not talking about extraditing somebody. 433 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.000 For the principle of it. 434 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:50.079 They're saying that, Yo, you're doing California things in Louisiana 435 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.240 and we don't like it. 436 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:53.519 We'll see how that shakes out. 437 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:55.680 Be completely honest with you, I hope that his ass 438 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:57.960 comes here and gets the justice, but I guess we'll say, 439 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.359 we'll have to see. Moving all, let's talk about Trump, 440 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.519 that's talking about shitead politicians. Let's talk about this, And 441 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:08.519 I actually I want to hear y'all's opinions on this one, 442 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:12.400 because depending on which side of the aisle you lean 443 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:15.920 more towards. Some people are saying that this is an 444 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.839 amazing idea for America. It's gonna help us and all 445 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.079 these things, and other people are saying that this is 446 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:26.000 going to basically lead to a recession and into more 447 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.319 inflation and all these things. So I'm not an economist. 448 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:33.480 I've never claimed to be. I barely understand how the 449 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:34.920 math be math in half the time. 450 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.039 Right, But that. 451 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:39.599 Being said, should the Fed cut interest rates to make 452 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:44.079 it cheaper for the federal government to borrow? Now, they're 453 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:46.960 not talking about just cutting interest rates for the federal government. 454 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:51.000 They're talking about cutting interest rates for everybody, for us. Right, 455 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.759 he is trying to cut it down to one percent, 456 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:58.279 which would be dope. But the other side of that 457 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:02.680 is this could lead to inflation, and some have said 458 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.200 that this could also lead to economic collapse. I don't know, 459 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:08.000 but I would love to hear everybody's opinion on this. 460 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:10.880 As we read in here. President Trump has said repeatedly 461 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:13.240 that he wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates 462 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:16.079 to bring down the cost of the large and growing 463 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:19.839 federal debt. In June twenty twenty five, the Truth Social 464 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.319 post that he made said, if too late Federal Chair 465 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.200 Jerome Powell and the Fed would cut we would greatly 466 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:29.640 reduce interest rates long and short on debt, and that 467 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.000 is coming due. He is costing our country. If fortune 468 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.599 borrowing costs should be much lower, he said another truth 469 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:40.640 social post in July of twenty twenty five, FED should 470 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.160 cut rates by three points very low inflation, one trillion 471 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.880 dollars a year would be saved. Okay, I'm not sure 472 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:50.960 that math is accurate, but fair enough. The Wall Street 473 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:54.599 Journal reported in December of twenty twenty five, so just 474 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:57.160 a few weeks ago, after an interview with the president, 475 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.640 quote asked where he wants interest rate to be a 476 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.839 year from now, Trump said one percent and maybe lower 477 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.839 than that. He said rate cuts would help the US 478 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:10.440 Treasury reduce the cost of financing thirty trillion dollars in 479 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:14.839 government debt. The federal government does spend a lot on interest, 480 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:17.920 about nine hundred and seventy billion dollars in the fiscal 481 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.720 year of twenty twenty five, which, just so we're all 482 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.880 clear here was about three point two of America's GDP. 483 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.359 So three point two percent of our GDP was spent 484 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:34.000 just on interest on our own debts. Okay, not a 485 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.759 big fan of that, but I'm also not a big 486 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:37.400 fan of the amount of debt that we have accrued. 487 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:38.960 So I mean, I get that this is a double 488 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:42.480 handed sword here or a double edged sword or and 489 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:46.359 fourteen percent of all federal outlays. So over the past 490 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:49.519 several years, it benefited from issuing bonds during a period 491 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.519 of very low interest rates. On average, it is paying 492 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.160 three point three percent on its debt, but bond market 493 00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:00.400 interest rates have been rising. CBO estimates estimates. It's rather 494 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.319 that if all interest rates, including those three month Treasury 495 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.440 bills and ten year Treasury notes, were zero point one 496 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.039 percentage point higher each year than they are in the 497 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.359 CBO's economic forecast, rising government net interest costs would cause 498 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.519 deficits to exceed the agency's baseline projections by three hundred 499 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:22.480 and fifty one billion dollars or one point six percent 500 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.960 over the twenty twenty six to twenty. 501 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:25.880 Thirty five period. 502 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:31.200 Damn. This post explains why the Fed and most economists 503 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:34.880 believe that making the treasury borrow cheaper should not be 504 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.240 the FED subjective. Okay, So before we get into this, 505 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:40.720 I would love to hear if anybody has an opinion 506 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.720 on this, or if somebody understands economics a little bit 507 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:46.400 better than I do. Is cutting the federal interest rates 508 00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:48.920 positive or negative for America as a whole? 509 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:53.759 Okay, personally, I think we need higher interest rates. I 510 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.519 think Trump's wrong. This is short term thinking to boost 511 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.880 and goose the economy. 512 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:00.480 All right, explain all this. 513 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:05.200 Why do interest rates need to be higher in your perspective. 514 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:08.559 I think natural interest rates should be around six percent 515 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.400 per year. If you borrow a dollar, you should have 516 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:14.720 to pay about a dollar and six cents to back 517 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:19.799 after a year and most the Federal Reserve and the 518 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.359 government do have quite an incestuous relationship. So the Federal 519 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:26.400 Reserve gets its authority from Congress from an Act from 520 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:31.079 nineteen thirteen, and the President appoints the chairman, and it's 521 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:34.400 actually twelve banks, but effectively it's just one, and their 522 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.880 decisions are usually unanimous, with the Fed chair appointed by 523 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:42.759 the President. But anyway, normally the Federal Reserve ends up 524 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.680 printing way more money than it should be printing to 525 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.599 keep interest rates low so that people can borrow money easily, 526 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:53.880 and this results in too much of a booming economy 527 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:55.839 in the short term at the expense of a big 528 00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:59.559 recession or depression that comes later. This is called Austrian 529 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.079 business cycle theory. If anyone wants to look that up, 530 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:04.839 if they haven't already heard of it, named after Austrian 531 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:10.559 economists like Ludwig vun Misus and yeah, Trump Nixon fell 532 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:13.240 into the same trap. He just really wanted to win 533 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:16.920 the next election and instituted a lot of you know, 534 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:20.240 price and wage controls on the one side, and also 535 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.359 printed a bunch of money which led to huge interest 536 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.400 rate explosions later in the seventies when mortgage rates were 537 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:32.519 like seventeen eighteen percent per year. So, yeah, you can't 538 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:35.119 be forcing the interest rates low by just printing a 539 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.519 bunch of money. When you introduce a bunch of money 540 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.160 into the banking system or buy a bunch of treasury 541 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:44.400 bonds with it with new money, that does keep interest 542 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.440 rates throughout the economy low for the short term, but 543 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.880 it's going to result in a massive misallocation of capital 544 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.440 and you know, a huge market bubble in the dot 545 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.720 com bubble or real estate bubble, or maybe an AI 546 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.680 bus which we may be in right now, and then 547 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.839 one day, you know, all those stock prices are going 548 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:09.839 to collapse and the loans can't be paid back, and yeah, 549 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:13.839 we need higher interest rates. The Federal Reserve can lower 550 00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.759 them temporarily for like the two thousand and eight recession, 551 00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:19.599 but they want to get what they call a soft 552 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.880 landing where they eventually re equilibrate to like three to 553 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.160 six percent. Trump wants to reduce it right now to 554 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:29.640 goose the economy, but that's the wrong thing to do, 555 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:32.079 and we're all going to pay for it massively later. 556 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:33.400 That's my opinion. 557 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.759 I'm not disagreeing with you. My next question is, just 558 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.000 like you said, Nixon tried doing this. I think Reagan 559 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.519 even tried doing this to a lesser degree, but these were, 560 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.680 like you said, to try to get everybody on their 561 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.039 side for a re election. That's typically why presidents have 562 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:54.359 done this in the past. Trump doesn't have his sites 563 00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:57.160 on another election cycle, or at least he hasn't made 564 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.480 that public. If I don't know, maybe he'll try for 565 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:02.079 a third time and all the legalities and things that 566 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:05.720 go with that. But what would be his motive behind this? 567 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:08.000 Just to boost the economy in the short term and say, 568 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:09.680 look what I did. I'm out of here, doup and 569 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.839 it's no longer his problem because he's still a business. 570 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.559 I think Republicans are going to have a bad midterm election, 571 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.359 but it would be even worse if the economy really sucked. 572 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:22.920 I think that's his calculation. 573 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.759 But okay, even with that being said, nobody actually takes 574 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.720 the mid terms very seriously. They they talk a big 575 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.920 game on all the mainstream media things, and the politicians 576 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.720 are always talking about it. It's typically a wash. It's 577 00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:38.759 typically a pendulum swing, and then this midterm election is 578 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:40.279 going to go this way, the next one goes this way. 579 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:40.799 It doesn't. 580 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:43.319 It doesn't like actually account for a fart in the win, 581 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:43.880 doesn't it. 582 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.599 Yeah? I agree. It normally just goes against whichever party 583 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:50.799 controls the presidency. I think it always does. I don't 584 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:55.119 think there's any exceptions to that. So he could just 585 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.319 he should just accept that, and he should want higher 586 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:00.920 interest rates. But politicians don't want to think long term. 587 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:03.440 They want to think short term and just maximize the 588 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.960 short term. I think that's just the problem here. 589 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.559 Fair enough, Okay, Well, let's read in a little bit 590 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:13.079 here and see if what Tony is saying is what 591 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:15.359 the economists are saying here. If the Fed were to 592 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.640 set the short term interest rate, that is the primary tool, 593 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.920 lower than necessary to achieve its congressional mandated goals of 594 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.920 maximum employment and price stability, history suggests that the likely 595 00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:29.440 result would be an unwelcome inflation. Lower rates tend to 596 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.400 stimulate borrowing and faster economic growth, and when demand grows 597 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.400 faster than supply, prices rise. In the latter part of 598 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.200 the twentieth century, Argentina, Brazil, and Israel suffered high inflation 599 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:43.319 when their central bank kept issuing or interest rates low 600 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:47.240 at a time of large budget deficits. Lessons of history 601 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:50.880 are stark, especially when central banks are focused or excuse me, 602 00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.960 or forced to help finance budget deficits by keeping interest 603 00:31:54.000 --> 00:32:01.119 rates too low. Former Fed share Ben Barnacneki. 604 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.920 He was during the two thousand and eight points. 605 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:09.079 Okay, okay, fair so, Ben Bernanki said in a recent 606 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:14.200 Hutchins Center video, added former FED Chair Janet Yellen in 607 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.920 the same video, the result has almost always been high 608 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:19.200 and sustained inflation. 609 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:20.920 Damn. 610 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.279 So that is what the math does in this. 611 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:27.279 Regard, So has the Federal Has the Fed ever explicitly 612 00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:32.079 suppressed interest rates to lower federal borrowing costs? Yes, the 613 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.160 Fed put out a point three seven five ceiling on 614 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:38.880 short term treasury securities and a two point five percent 615 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.720 ceiling on thirty year bonds during World War II to 616 00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:44.839 maintain that rate. As the Treasury borrowed more, the FED 617 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.920 bought more treasury securities to keep interest rates from rising. 618 00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:51.759 When the war ended, the FED gradually allowed rates to rise. 619 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:55.440 But November nineteen fifty, with the Korean War beginning, President 620 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.200 Truman asked the FED to reaffirm its commitment to keep 621 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.720 long rates below two point five percent. The FED balked. 622 00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.680 The result was the March nineteen fifty one Treasury Fed Accord, 623 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:08.799 which freed the FED to set rates as it deemed 624 00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:14.839 appropriate to manage the economy. Wow, so this this all 625 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:19.279 goes back to fuck the Korean War. I didn't know this. 626 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.359 I wish I understood this a little better. Somebody like 627 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.880 Bob Murphy would be perfect to talk to on this. 628 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:29.599 But basically, the Federal Reserve prints a bunch of money 629 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:33.599 when the government asks them to to, and that gooses 630 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.440 the economy, keeps interest rates low so people can borrow 631 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:41.319 money easily and normally. Wartime is the main excuse the 632 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:44.839 government gives from why it needs the Federal Reserve to 633 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.319 be able to do this. Well, if we go to war, 634 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:50.599 we don't have to be reliant on selling war bonds. 635 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.319 We want to be able to just print what we 636 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:56.880 need and even Milton Friedman back in the eighties said, oh, yeah, 637 00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:59.359 we need the Federal Reserve for this reason. But more 638 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:03.079 radical libertarians that definitely believe that we don't need a 639 00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.559 federal reserver or central banking system at all. 640 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.320 I see, I see their talking points. 641 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.960 I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't inherently agree 642 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.480 with all of them. I do believe the taxation is theft, 643 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:18.519 but I also like, that's that's what happens. You're never 644 00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.440 going to live somewhere where you're not paying some sort 645 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.320 of an extortion fee for living there. That's the law 646 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.000 of the land, and it has been since the very 647 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.119 beginning of time, you know what I mean. At least 648 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:31.239 we're living in the superpower on Earth, and I'm good 649 00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:31.559 with that. 650 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:35.960 But I mean, also, yeah, the founders were really skeptical 651 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.400 of central banking. That we got the first national bank 652 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.440 that lasted twenty years and then it went away, and 653 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:43.199 then the second National Bank from something like eighteen sixteen 654 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:47.320 to eighteen thirty something. Andrew Jackson made that one go away. 655 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:53.159 But and we did have a relatively free banking system 656 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:56.119 where the dollar was just pegged to a quantity of gold. 657 00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.880 The Civil War kind of ruined that for a lo 658 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.159 little while, but the country kind of got back on 659 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:05.159 track after the Civil War, and then nineteen thirteen is 660 00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:08.440 when the Federal Reserve came into existence, and there was 661 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.360 the whole bimetallism question at that time too, which I 662 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.840 don't fully understand. I can't do justice to it. But basically, 663 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:18.480 the dollar was very stable in the eighteen hundreds and 664 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:24.079 the early twentieth century, and now like a dollar can 665 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.880 buy you only what like one or two pennies could 666 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.559 have bought you back in nineteen thirteen, right, and it's 667 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:31.840 only gonna get worse. And by the way, even nickels 668 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.440 now it costs like six point two cents to make 669 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:35.199 a nickel, and. 670 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.440 We're going to be the next year to drop absolute 671 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.320 I actually don't think they're gonna take away the nickel. 672 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.000 I think there's going to do away with all coinage, honestly. 673 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:48.239 Which in one regard sucks, but in another regard, my 674 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:51.760 coin collection value is kind of ghost sky high, and 675 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.639 I'm kind of here for that in my own personal 676 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:57.519 selfish reasons. But yeah, I hear you a hundred percent, 677 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.079 and I wish that we would go back to a 678 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:04.119 gold backed currency. I don't like the fiat currency. I 679 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.400 don't like how it's basically an open traded it's a 680 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.280 stock and it can go up and down depending on 681 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:12.159 the market and depending on the Fed, and depending on 682 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.800 the reserve, and depending on how it compares against other 683 00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:18.920 people's currencies. I am not a fan of that whatsoever. 684 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:21.880 But yeah, every president that's tried to get us back 685 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:23.559 on the gold standard has ended up with a bullet 686 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:26.960 in their heads. So there may be reasons why the 687 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.000 people at the top want to stay that way. Not 688 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:32.559 trying to go conspiratorial, but that is there's definitely a 689 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:35.079 historical precedence for that one. But as we are talking 690 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.559 about this, I have actually never given the shameless plug 691 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.159 on the Cage to Night. But as we're talking about this, 692 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:42.360 if anybody listening to the Cage Night, we'll have to 693 00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:43.840 get your start in the buying and selling and trading 694 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.559 of gold and silver bullion. Then go to cocsilver dot com. 695 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:49.000 The link is in the description below, because as we're 696 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.639 talking about these things, literally to your point, Tony, when 697 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:56.519 we started this affiliate program with coc Silver, this coin 698 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.519 costs a little over thirty dollars. 699 00:36:58.519 --> 00:36:59.920 It's one troy ounce of pure soil. 700 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:03.079 Right now, it's over eighty five dollars for this coin 701 00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.920 and we've only been an affiliate of theirs for a year, 702 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.320 a little over a year. I mean we're talking a 703 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.079 few weeks here. Just in that one span of time, 704 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.000 the dollar is going up down and doing all that shit. 705 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:18.360 Silver and gold have always maintained a value. I think 706 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:21.440 it's a wise investment anyway. I know that there's more 707 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:26.199 aggressive investment opportunities that you could do, right, And I 708 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.519 was talking to shit. I think I was talking to 709 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.039 my dad about this as a matter of fact, and 710 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:33.440 they were looking at if you were to put your 711 00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:37.519 money just in a mid level or even a low 712 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.119 risk of financial investment portfolio, you would have gained more 713 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.000 money in a twenty year span than if you would 714 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.199 invest in precious metals. And I get that, However, that 715 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.199 financial system can collapse because there's always an event like 716 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:55.679 a bubble, There's always an event like a nine to eleven. 717 00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.280 There's always an event that can happen right around the corner, 718 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:00.559 and your whole nest egg just got ripped out from 719 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.039 under you. Meanwhile, silver and gold are always going to 720 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:09.960 be rocked. I love them. I love these these backings anyway, Uh, Sam, 721 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:11.000 go ahead. 722 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:16.199 Brother, I was I was gonna say about the gold 723 00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:20.480 did we got took off of that so that we 724 00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:25.039 could get put on the the Federal Reserve money situation 725 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:30.119 the Greenbacks in nineteen twelve, which was why they used 726 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:30.880 the Titanic. 727 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.639 Correct, that's that's the conspiracy for sure. 728 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.280 But that which was even referenced in the movie. But 729 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:40.840 it's funny. 730 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.880 You're talking about how they're gonna get rid of the 731 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.679 the coins. Does that Does that mean that the Rednecks 732 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:50.719 that the it would be more valuable per shot if 733 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.079 we used a porter nickel. 734 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:57.199 Rounds with segage you all. 735 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.719 If you're gonna melt down a quarter to make a 736 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.840 slug to go in your twelve gage, you. 737 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.559 Pack the packed them into the thing. You make a 738 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.920 quarter shot that way. It still acts like it'll spread 739 00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.840 out like bird and butt. But it's fucking coins. 740 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.039 I don't know. Like if you were to take the no, 741 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.719 that's way more expensive. I haven't priced shotgun shells in 742 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:21.239 a while. I just go buy a box whenever I 743 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.400 go hunting. But if you're looking at the price per show, no, 744 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.159 I hear you. 745 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:28.760 But you're reloading them with quarters. 746 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:30.639 So like, even if you're putting like four quarters in there, 747 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.360 you're putting like a dollar worth of shot lead is 748 00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:37.079 going to be cheaper than the quarter. That's that's an 749 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:37.760 expensive action. 750 00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:40.119 Get rid of the coins when they get rid. 751 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.360 Of I know these these little nine mills that I 752 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.159 have that are silver. These are like fucking fifteen bucks 753 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:50.320 a pop. But I mean it's a silver nine mil bullet. 754 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:51.639 What I'm gonna do? I got a whole I got 755 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:52.360 two mags full. 756 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.559 I mean I gotta. I guess a Canadian. 757 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:02.119 Nickel it's five cents, has a beaver on it. 758 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.760 I wonder how much it would be actually worth if 759 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:05.639 you go off of the weight. 760 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:07.719 Is it actual silver? 761 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:10.440 I don't know. 762 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:15.840 It's Canada nineteen seventy nine. It has a beaver on it. 763 00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:18.519 Look into it. I mean it might be. 764 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.679 All knows that it has a young Elizabeth the second, 765 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.159 so she's dead. It gotta be worth something. 766 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:28.360 I mean, maybe, no doubt. Let's get into this. 767 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:30.760 What about quantitative easing, which I think is what you 768 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:33.440 were talking about earlier Tony. Most of the time the 769 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:35.719 FED sets very short term interest rates and lets the 770 00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:39.039 bond market move longer term interest rates, which depend on 771 00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:44.079 the market's expectations about the economy, inflation and the federal deficit, 772 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:47.519 and the federal short term interest rates. But when the 773 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.400 FED short term interest rates hit zero during the global 774 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:54.559 financial crisis of eight nine and during the COVID pandemic, 775 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:58.480 the FED policymakers decided the economy needed more stimulus. The 776 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:02.320 FED brought trillions in long term treasuries and mortgage based 777 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:06.400 securities in what is called quote unquote quantitative easing or QE, 778 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.519 with the stated objective of lowering long term interest rates. 779 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.039 And although saving the treasury money was not the reason 780 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:18.039 for the QE, it did have that effect. Okay, so 781 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:23.239 what does economists mean by fiscal dominance. Fiscal dominance occurs 782 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:26.079 when government borrowing is so large that the central bank 783 00:41:26.119 --> 00:41:28.280 is pressured to keep interest rates low to reduce the 784 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.800 government's borrowing costs, even if the economic conditions call for 785 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.800 higher interest rates. Fiscal dominance is a is dangerous because 786 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.119 it typically results in higher and more volatile inflation or 787 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:42.519 politically driven business cycles. That's what Yellen said at the 788 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:46.599 January twenty twenty five American Economic Association meeting. When the 789 00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.840 central bank is constrained from raising rates or shrinking it 790 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:54.239 it's balance sheets because that would increase debt service or 791 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:59.920 trigger fiscal stress. Inflation expectations may become unanchored. Households and 792 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:02.880 firms may come to expect that inflation is the path 793 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:07.159 of least resistance for managing high debts. Once such expectations 794 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:12.079 take hold, stabilizing prices become significantly more costly. Fiscal dominance 795 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:16.719 is also likely to raise term premium and borrowing costs 796 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.280 as investors become concerned that the government will rely on 797 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:24.239 inflation or financial repression to manage its debts. In addition, 798 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:26.840 a central bank that is perceived as an arm of 799 00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:30.079 the treasury may have less space to act forcefully in 800 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:33.840 a crisis. For all those reasons, avoiding fiscal dominance has 801 00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:37.039 been a central objective of modern central banking framework. 802 00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:42.360 Wow, yeah, I'm I hear both sides. 803 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:48.400 I see why Trump would want to lower these interest rates. 804 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:49.159 To stimulate and help boost things and all of this. 805 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:49.920 I get it. 806 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.880 But I also hear what the Fed is saying, right, 807 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.719 doing this with the interest rates will screw us over. 808 00:42:56.840 --> 00:42:58.559 Maybe not now, maybe not a year from now, but 809 00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.519 maybe five years from now, maybe ten years from now, 810 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:03.719 I don't know, But that also is very subjective based 811 00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:07.159 off of the world economics at that time, right, and 812 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.760 how our dollar compares to everything else, and what our 813 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:10.920 debt looks like at that time. 814 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.360 So I hear it on both ends here. 815 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:17.800 So how much higher or how much could in higher 816 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.639 inflation lower the cost of debt? How much could higher 817 00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:26.559 inflation lower the costs of debt? Okay? For many debt ors, 818 00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.400 inflation is a plus, y'all. Bet it allows them to 819 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.559 pay back their loans with cheaper dollars. But inflation wouldn't 820 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.480 do much to lighten the burden of the federal government's debt. 821 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.000 Two reasons. One, much of the federal government's the debt 822 00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:42.239 is short term. When it matures, it will be replaced 823 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.719 by debt at then current interest rates, and those rates 824 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.079 will be higher if there's more inflation. About twenty two 825 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.400 percent of the debt outstanding matures in a year or less. 826 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:57.079 The weighted average maturity of federal debt is under six years. Wow. 827 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.559 And number two, the government is running big debt deficits, 828 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:03.199 so it has to borrow more every year at current 829 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:07.039 interest rates. Yeah, I also don't I understand the whole 830 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.239 running the country in a deficit. And again, I'm not 831 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:13.400 an economist, I'm not a math guy, and I get 832 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.800 that it It doesn't make sense to me out loud. 833 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.280 Okay, I own a business. I own, I own two 834 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:19.519 of them. 835 00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.159 As a matter of fact, if I was to go 836 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.880 to my bank or my or even my accountant and 837 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:27.639 tell them, hey, bro, I am gonna start running my 838 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.079 business in a deficit and we're just gonna use that 839 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:33.639 moving forward so that I can be a little more 840 00:44:33.639 --> 00:44:36.679 flexible when curveballs come and shit hits the fan, because 841 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.679 we've we both know that's gonna come, you know what 842 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:40.559 I'm saying. So I'm just gonna run it in a 843 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:43.039 deficit and it's just gonna work out in the long run. 844 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.559 I think my accountant might actually quit on me, like 845 00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.159 out loud, I don't think my boy would stay my 846 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.519 boy at that point. And I understand that we're talking 847 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:55.039 about a small business as opposed to a actual nation. 848 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:56.880 I understand there's some some differences here. 849 00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:00.639 It's not apples stole oranges, but out loud, that makes 850 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.480 no fucking sense to me. If we have the ability 851 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.480 to run in a surplus, why don't we and We 852 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.119 do have that ability, right. The last time we ran 853 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.039 in a surplus was during the dot com bubble, and 854 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.360 I understand the dot com bubble was the reason for 855 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.039 the surplus, I get it. But we have the capability 856 00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.559 to do that now, especially with the amount of industry 857 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.119 we have in this country. Why must we run in 858 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:27.960 a deficit it I don't know. Anyway, I don't want 859 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.719 to spend too much time on this one, but I 860 00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.239 did want to bring up the fact that Trump is 861 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:32.880 talking about cutting interest rates. 862 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:34.800 He's talking about one percent, if. 863 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:37.239 Not lower, So be on the lookout for what that 864 00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:41.639 might mean on the nationwide, if not global scale, as 865 00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:44.440 far as debts and money and inflation and all of 866 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:46.679 these things are concerned. I thought it was worth mentioning 867 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:49.960 on this episode. Moving on here, I wanted to give 868 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.239 an update on what's going down with Maduro right, So 869 00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.599 in Venezuela Live updates, multiple detained Americans have been released. 870 00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.000 The State Department says, you know what, let's go ahead 871 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.159 and play this little quick video talking about some of 872 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:03.719 these things. 873 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.079 Now to the new report on a US strike against 874 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.760 an alleged drug voat, detailing how the military may have 875 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:12.679 disguised its plane as Ciciclian aircraft in a way that 876 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.599 violated the laws of war. Chief Global Affairs anchor Martha 877 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:17.920 Ratits says the story, good morning, Martha. 878 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:20.519 Good morning George. This morning. More controversy over that US 879 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:24.760 strike on a suspected drug boat last September, where survivors 880 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.920 clinging to the boat who were killed, legal experts saying 881 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:31.119 that may have violated the laws of war. Now The 882 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:33.480 New York Times is reporting that there may have been 883 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:37.079 an additional violation of the law. According to The Times, 884 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.920 the US military aircraft used in the stripe was painted 885 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.800 to look like a civilian plane. The Times also says 886 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:48.559 the plane carried munitions in its fuselage that were not 887 00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:52.920 visible under its wings. This raises questions about whether or 888 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:56.960 not the United States committed what is called perfidy, which 889 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:02.480 prevents combatants from intentionally fooling adversaries into believing they are civilians. 890 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.159 President Trump has said that the United States is engaged 891 00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:09.599 in an armed conflict with drug cartels, and the paper 892 00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.320 sites one former JAG officer saying that if the aircraft 893 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:17.079 disguised its military nature and got close enough for people 894 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:19.280 on the boat to see it, they may have failed 895 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:23.320 to realize they should take evasive action or surrender to survive, 896 00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:27.079 which could be a war crime under armed conflict standards. 897 00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:30.599 A White House spokesperson told The Times that the strike 898 00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.239 was fully consistent with the law of armed conflict, and 899 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:38.000 the Pentagon telling the paper the US military utilizes a 900 00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:41.960 wide array of standard and non standard aircraft depending on 901 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:46.440 mission requirements. Adding prior to the fielding and employment of 902 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:50.079 each aircraft, they go through a rigorous procurement process to 903 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:55.320 ensure compliance with domestic law, Department policies and regulations, and 904 00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.679 applicable international standards, including the law of armed conflict. But 905 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.159 all of this definitely prompting new questions, guys, definitely. 906 00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:07.840 Okay, So I'm not one hundred percent on this. I 907 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.800 hear what they're saying as far as perfidy, Okay, got you. 908 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:14.840 If they put bombs on like a bow in seven 909 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:19.519 forty seven or something like that, yeah, that's absolutely against 910 00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:21.960 the rules here. But to say that bombs were not 911 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:26.079 attached to the wings and they were internal, most of 912 00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:31.559 our bombers drop ordinance in that manner. So I I'm not. 913 00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:33.480 Sure one hundred percent what they mean by this. 914 00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.480 If it is true that they were using a civilian 915 00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:39.199 aircraft with no identifying markers to show that it was 916 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:44.400 a military aircraft. That that's the conversation, right, that they 917 00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.320 may actually have a leg to stand on on this 918 00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.239 one if it was a plane that the Venezuelans or 919 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.360 even the boat itself couldn't identify because they don't have 920 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:55.480 adequate radar systems to be able to tell what that 921 00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:57.360 is or something like that. And I'm not trying to 922 00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.679 take this opportunity to shit on Venezuela. I'm saying, if 923 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.239 for whatever reason their radar didn't see it or didn't 924 00:49:03.239 --> 00:49:08.480 properly identify it, but it was by I view identifiable, 925 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:14.639 then this is blown in the water. Wow, puns, puns, y'all. 926 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:16.760 Anyway, let's talk about it here, so depose. 927 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:20.079 Venezuelan Prime President Nicholas Muduro and his wife appeared in 928 00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:22.840 federal court in New York last week following their capture 929 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.960 by the US forces in a military operation Venezuela, capital 930 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:28.960 of Caracas. Following the operation, President Trump said that the 931 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:32.559 US would run Venezuela for an unspecified period of time. 932 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.360 Venezuelan Vice President Delse Rodriguez has been sworn in as 933 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:41.840 interim leader to lead the country. Since the operation to 934 00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:46.599 capture Maduro, Trump has also issued threats against Cuba, Columbia, 935 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:47.320 and Mexico. 936 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:53.280 Yeah, no doubt. DOJ releases legal rationale from a dureau operation. Okay. 937 00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:57.840 The Department of Justice released a redacted opinion and a 938 00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:02.679 redacted opinion from its Office of Legal Council Interesting on 939 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:05.079 Tuesday that laid out the legal justification for the US 940 00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:08.239 operation to arrest Nicholas Maduro and remove him from Caracas. 941 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:11.800 The Justice Department document defined the operation as an active 942 00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.280 armed conflict to be found it within the president's unilateral 943 00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:16.480 constitutional authority. 944 00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:17.159 Fairfair. 945 00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:21.280 The opinion said that the DOJ was briefed and assumed 946 00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.960 that there is no contingency plan to engage in any 947 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:29.559 substantial and sustained operation in Venezuela. Well, that's good. Hopefully 948 00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:31.199 they don't put boots on the ground and have some 949 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:33.880 sort of like an actual forward offensive into Venezuela. 950 00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.920 I don't think anybody would benefit from that, but all right. 951 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:39.159 The legal memo was transmitted to the National Security Council 952 00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:41.679 on December twenty second, roughly two weeks before the operation, 953 00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:45.320 and signed by the Assistant Attorney General. Some senators viewed 954 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:48.000 the opinion behind Closed Doors earlier Tuesday, with their views 955 00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:52.679 of its quality split among party lines. So now let's 956 00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:56.199 talk about this. Multiple Americans detained of Venezuela have been released. 957 00:50:56.760 --> 00:51:00.360 Multiple Americans released. The State Department said on two day. 958 00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.119 We welcome the release of detained Americans of Venezuela. This 959 00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:06.360 is an important step in the right direction by the 960 00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:10.440 interim authorities, the State Department spokesperson said on Tuesday. So yeah, 961 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:13.360 for anybody who's been paying attention, some of these American 962 00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.480 citizens that happened to be in Venezuela at the time 963 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.440 were detained by the government after the Maduro snatch and 964 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.760 grab operation took place, and now they're been released, which 965 00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:27.320 is very smart for them. It's very smart. This marks 966 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.920 the release of detained Americans since the ouster of former 967 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:33.760 President Nicholas Maduro. Okay, anyway, let's see show more if 968 00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.760 I can find more. President Trump said that on Sunday 969 00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.239 that Venezuela had started the process in a big way 970 00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:43.199 of releasing their political prisoners. Very good, anyway, I didn't 971 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.440 want to bring up that at least. So Maduro he's 972 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:49.719 in jail, he has been he's had his day in court. 973 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.159 As far as what he's being arrested for, he has 974 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.639 pled not guilty to all charges. He's still being held 975 00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.079 in New York as of this moment. They haven't given 976 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.480 him any kind of verdict just yet. He will see 977 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.599 what happens. I still find it incredibly interesting that they 978 00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:08.159 took his wife with him. Typically, when you go and 979 00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:10.760 do a snatch and grab operation, you're just going after 980 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.480 the guy. You're going after the HVT, right, the high 981 00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:18.719 value target. To bring his wife along with him. This 982 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.400 and again, I'm not trying to go into the conspiratorial 983 00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:25.119 talking points, but I can't not hear this leads me 984 00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:27.679 to believe that he knew they were coming, and he 985 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.599 cut a deal with them, and he went willingly. 986 00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:32.039 I don't know. 987 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:35.519 This could completely be out of left field and completely 988 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:40.239 based in nonsense, but I could you imagine that if 989 00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.400 the Trump for instance, let's say the Democrats win the 990 00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.480 next election and they fry him alive for all of 991 00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:47.599 his you know. 992 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:49.719 Things that he's done that they hate. All right? 993 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:50.039 Cool? 994 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:55.960 Could you also see them arresting Millennia for what? What 995 00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:59.159 does she do? She was the first lady? Unless you 996 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:02.400 have some sort of documented proof that she was involved 997 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:05.920 in all the buffoonery here in the chicanery, why would she. 998 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:06.960 Get arrested too. 999 00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:11.719 And it's not to make him a more compliant prisoner 1000 00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:15.679 by any means. I'm just saying, I think that there 1001 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.199 was a little bit more to the story than what 1002 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:19.440 we're being led to believe. And then, oh, my god, 1003 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:24.760 the stories y'all, the stories about these energy wave attacks 1004 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:31.239 that uh that the security guards suffered through. They were 1005 00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:34.239 knocked out and they all had nosebleeds and concussions and 1006 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:38.840 all this, And dude, I read so many of these 1007 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:42.719 first hand accounts. I'm gonna be honest with you, Although 1008 00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:45.960 it is possible, there's very it's very possible that this 1009 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:46.559 took place. 1010 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:53.800 I don't I don't really. For instance, I'll give you 1011 00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:56.440 a just for instance. Here the dude who was. 1012 00:53:56.400 --> 00:53:59.480 Saying that they heard a high pitched, whining noise and 1013 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:02.800 then he, you know, he just collapsed and he woke 1014 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:04.960 up with a migraine and his noses bleed, and he's 1015 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.239 trying to claim that now he's got like cancer or something, 1016 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:11.280 who knows, who knows. He also said that out of nowhere, 1017 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.519 all we knew is the there was no planes in 1018 00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:17.559 the sky. The radars went down inexplicably. And then it's like, yeah, 1019 00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:20.199 because America has this thing called a growler, and that's 1020 00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:23.159 what it does. It knocks out radars like out of nowhere. 1021 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:26.480 That's the whole purpose of it. But okay, Then it 1022 00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:30.119 sounded like there was weapons firing at three hundred rounds 1023 00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:34.880 a minute, y'all. The saw the squad automatic weapon. My 1024 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:38.559 baby fires at twelve hundred rounds a minute. But the 1025 00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:41.280 three hundred rounds a minute is not a that's not 1026 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:44.119 a very high bar to say that, Like they're using 1027 00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:48.920 advanced weapons, like most most weapons that fire in a 1028 00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:52.599 fully automatic fashion can go over three hundred a minute. 1029 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:56.000 Throwing that out here, but okay, whatever. 1030 00:54:56.599 --> 00:54:59.000 Then he's talking about the nosebleeds and the migraines and 1031 00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:01.760 he on hundred of them got knocked out all at once, 1032 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.960 and it's like, ah, are we sure about that? Are 1033 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:06.840 we sure you didn't just kind of get scared and 1034 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.000 hide and now you're coming up with a story to 1035 00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:13.559 make up for your blatant disregard of your position and 1036 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:17.719 abandoning your post. I don't know that sounds a little 1037 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:20.679 more credible to me now again, is it possible that 1038 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:22.760 we use some sort of a sonic weapon on these people. 1039 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:24.920 It's very possible. It's possible. 1040 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.199 I'm also not mad at that because the alternative is, Okay, 1041 00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:30.880 you have a migreen and a nosebleed, or you took 1042 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:33.840 a three hundred blackout to your dome. I honestly think 1043 00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:35.639 that this was actually the more humane way to go 1044 00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:38.199 about it. If they really did use sonic weapons on 1045 00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:40.559 these people, I don't know. I guess more information will 1046 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:43.119 come out as the week's go on, But anyway, we'll 1047 00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:45.559 keep everybody updated on what's going on with Maduro as 1048 00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:50.760 the things go forward. Now, let's talk Greenland, y'all. Let's 1049 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:55.000 talk Greenland. Last year, Trump had made mentions that he 1050 00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:59.119 wanted greenland, America needs greenland for reasons and things. 1051 00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:00.000 And stuff and all the shit. 1052 00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:03.599 I'm gonna be honest, I thought that he was joking 1053 00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:06.360 a little bit, kind of flexing's kind of putting his 1054 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:09.760 dick on the table to see who noticed. It appears, 1055 00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:13.679 as of this moment, members of the retinue that Trump 1056 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:16.320 was not joking, he was not bluffing, that he really 1057 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.840 really wants greenland and the day and I'm also pulling 1058 00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:25.480 this up here because CNN is saying one thing and 1059 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:29.599 Fox is saying another about the exact same situation. And 1060 00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:32.360 I think that it's interesting and very important for us 1061 00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:36.239 as well informed individuals to look at the full picture 1062 00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:40.719 and to see the mainstream media spinning the narrative into 1063 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:44.440 the wild assertions that they're making. Before I get into it, Royce, 1064 00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:45.360 go ahead, brother. 1065 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:47.119 Good question. 1066 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:52.639 So no, just a quick question, because notoriously, CNN obviously 1067 00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:56.599 is very left wing. Fox went well, I don't know 1068 00:56:56.599 --> 00:57:02.440 if I would call Fox so much rightly. Are definitely 1069 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:05.320 not as right as what they used to be. What 1070 00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:12.559 is your opinion about newsbacks because they obviously they claim 1071 00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:18.880 to be more middle But I haven't done a whole 1072 00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:21.559 lot of research, but I know that my aunt watches 1073 00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.719 it like almost twenty four to seven, So I'm just 1074 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:26.719 kind of curious. 1075 00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:27.920 About that. 1076 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:31.480 It depends on the talking point, and if we're talking 1077 00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:33.880 about their literature, it depends on who wrote the article. 1078 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:37.039 I'm be honest with you, dude, and I wish god 1079 00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:39.519 if ground News is listening, please give me a sponsorship. 1080 00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:44.000 I love your product. Ground News is a website that 1081 00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:47.679 will show you all of the articles left right, center, 1082 00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:50.760 all the stuff, and they'll also show you this publication 1083 00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:53.800 or this news outlet is traditionally more this way or 1084 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.639 that way, left of center, center, right of center, far right, 1085 00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:00.639 far left, whatever the case is. I like ground News 1086 00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.880 a lot for at least giving everybody that uh that 1087 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:08.760 lends to look through Uh Newsmax, I want to say, 1088 00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:10.719 is a little bit more left of center. 1089 00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:13.920 But I could be wrong, could be wrong. 1090 00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:15.760 So I'll tell you this. 1091 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:23.360 As far as their political sphere, they are very, very 1092 00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:26.679 very pro Trump, which I mean, I understand it. 1093 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:28.880 But there are. 1094 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.880 A few pundits that are like they love sucking his dick, 1095 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:35.360 and I'm like, I just I just get into item, like 1096 00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:38.719 please just shut the hell up, Like just. 1097 00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:41.599 Am I getting them confused with another publication. To be 1098 00:58:41.599 --> 00:58:46.239 honest with you, Newsmax might be very conservative. I'm unfamiliar 1099 00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:46.960 as at this moment. 1100 00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:50.920 Okay, fine, so like then there's one American nation. I 1101 00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:54.800 know that, but yeah, so Newsmax there are a few. 1102 00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:59.639 Just very yeah. 1103 00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:01.480 It just it's almost disgusting. 1104 00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:07.639 It's like I think, Uh news Max is trash. Ground 1105 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:08.920 News is the way to go. 1106 00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:13.000 Hex head on, brother, is this your first time jumping 1107 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:13.920 on the cage and Night Live. 1108 00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:18.320 It's like second or third time. Yeah, but first time 1109 00:59:18.360 --> 00:59:19.440 I actually said anything. 1110 00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:24.119 Fuck Yeah, well welcome, welcome, And okay, so you said 1111 00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:26.320 Newsmax is trash, give us the breakdown here. 1112 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:28.559 I'm kind of unfamiliar with them. 1113 00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:32.199 News Max is just it's almost like just a knockoff 1114 00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:39.079 of Fox News. But it's uh, it's just crappy, crappy reporting. 1115 00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:42.519 Ground News is the way to go. Yeah, you can 1116 00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:43.400 see everything. 1117 00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:48.480 There's no I don't know, there's no bias on ground News. 1118 00:59:48.599 --> 00:59:50.519 Well, at least they show you what the bias. 1119 00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:52.920 Is right, exactly exactly, and at. 1120 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.440 Least I'll appreciate that if I know what I'm about 1121 00:59:55.480 --> 00:59:58.840 to read is super left leaning, Okay, I know what 1122 00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:01.000 I'm getting into, and I'll still read it at least 1123 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:04.440 with that that knowledge in the back pocket. But yeah, 1124 01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:06.519 ground News they're they're putting in the lord's work in 1125 01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:07.159 my opinion. 1126 01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.159 Oh man, yeah, yep. 1127 01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:13.199 And Newsmax, their their app and their website are just 1128 01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:14.880 total crap. 1129 01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:19.159 And it's slow and just I mean it's dial up. 1130 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:21.079 It's almost dial up shit. 1131 01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.239 Well, I mean, there we have it, I suppose. And 1132 01:00:25.280 --> 01:00:27.519 then even still as we're talking about that, Trump arrangement 1133 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:29.760 syndrome is a real thing on both sides of the aisle, 1134 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:31.760 And it sounds like the people in Newsmax have it 1135 01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:34.599 on that side where your boy can do no wrong, 1136 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:39.400 everything he does is from Jesus himself. Then you also 1137 01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:42.039 have the people like this on CNN that believe that 1138 01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:46.559 every single thing Trump does is clearly satanically uh, you know, motivated. 1139 01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:47.920 So take that for what it is. 1140 01:00:48.039 --> 01:00:50.280 Yep, he's killing kitts, He's. 1141 01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:52.960 Killing them all yeah. Anyway, all right, so let's get 1142 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:55.880 into it here. So the Danish officials say there's a 1143 01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:01.199 fundamental disagreement with the US over Greenland. Uh, you know what, 1144 01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:03.360 let's let's just read into it here. So what we're 1145 01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:07.000 covering here tensions over Greenland. Leaders from Denmark and Greenland 1146 01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:10.280 said a fundamental disagreement persists with the Trump administration over 1147 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:12.760 the future of the territory, following their meeting with Vice 1148 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:16.000 President Jade Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Today's 1149 01:01:16.039 --> 01:01:19.760 meeting came after President Trump said anything less than US 1150 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.840 control of Greenland is unacceptable. Yo. Trump is using some 1151 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:27.920 very uh using some very hardline words as far as 1152 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:32.400 this goes. He wants Greenland bad, which he's saying that 1153 01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:37.000 it is a matter of national security. I've I have 1154 01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:41.400 never I don't think I've ever heard of president say 1155 01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:45.440 we must take over this sovereign land as a matter 1156 01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:48.519 of national security in quite some time, quite some time. Right, 1157 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.400 I'm not talking about Iraq. He was talking about deposing Saddam. 1158 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.079 We weren't talking about taking over Iraq. We didn't take 1159 01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:58.440 over Afghanistanford, That's that was different. These were operations. He's 1160 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:02.639 talking about buying it, and they actually did a numbers 1161 01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:09.679 crunch seven hundred billion dollars to buy Greenland. Now that's 1162 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:12.719 kind of crazy to me that enough economists got together 1163 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:14.960 was like, hey, you know what, this giant iceberg with 1164 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:18.920 only a few thousands inhabitants, seven hundred billion would be 1165 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:22.000 a fair asking price for it. And then the people 1166 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.119 of Denmark are like, yo, it's not for fucking sale. 1167 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:26.280 And I just have a weird feeling that Trump's gonna 1168 01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:30.519 be like, I mean, there's everybody's got a price. I 1169 01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:30.920 don't know. 1170 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:33.880 This is God, It's a weird time to be alive. 1171 01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:38.320 Sam, I see your hand, brother, go ahead. 1172 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:41.239 Does that mean that instead of does that mean we're 1173 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:43.679 gonna get if we if they don't want to sell 1174 01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:48.239 it and Trump's gonna be this big swinging dick of America, 1175 01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:53.760 does that mean that we're gonna have to start issuing all. 1176 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:54.800 We're gonna start fighting in the Arctic night they wanted 1177 01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:55.719 to in World War Two. 1178 01:02:56.639 --> 01:02:59.239 I don't think that would be a very good idea. 1179 01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:00.039 I'm gonna be. 1180 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:01.760 Honest say it was a good idea. 1181 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:03.199 I mean, it's nice. 1182 01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:06.880 You don't you don't invade Russia doing fucking winter and 1183 01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:08.920 this is winter twenty four fucking seven. 1184 01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:11.320 It's an icy hellskate. 1185 01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:15.519 Bro Their population somebody correct me on this one. It's 1186 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:18.960 under one hundred thousand. It's like fifty six thousand or 1187 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:19.519 some shit. 1188 01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:23.280 Fifty fifty seven thousand, fifty six fifty seven thousand. 1189 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:28.960 So we're talking about there. We have more marines in 1190 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.480 the infantry then they have citizens of that nation. 1191 01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:35.039 See is it? 1192 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.400 Is it Glendon or Iceland. 1193 01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:39.840 That has like there's this big ass vault there that 1194 01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:42.920 has like all the virusis and shit of the Greenland. 1195 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:45.920 Yeah, and this is what we're trying to buy. 1196 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:51.480 Correct, Yes, but there's there's more strategic reasons for it 1197 01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:55.920 than just that. Although that is a thing. So Historically speaking, 1198 01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:57.719 if you look back in the Cold War, when we 1199 01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:00.880 didn't have the satellite technology that we have now, we 1200 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:04.519 had a series of radar bases in basically a straight 1201 01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:09.320 line across Greenland because we were expecting Soviet subs or 1202 01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:12.079 Soviet ships or Soviet plans to make their way across 1203 01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:15.679 the North Pole essentially and attack us from up top. 1204 01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:18.280 So we had these radar stations set up all over 1205 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:22.000 Greenland and it wasn't in an invasion sense. We ridged 1206 01:04:22.079 --> 01:04:24.000 the land as we do every other nation that we 1207 01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:26.800 have a military base, outposts and all these things. 1208 01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:27.360 We rent the land. 1209 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:31.239 Everybody benefits all the things, all the stuff we abandon them. 1210 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:34.880 If I'm not mistaken, in the mid seventies or early eighties, 1211 01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:37.639 I forget when the last one was finally decommissioned. But 1212 01:04:37.679 --> 01:04:39.960 my point is, yeah, so like us, having a military 1213 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:43.320 presence in Greenland is a thing with historical precedents. 1214 01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:48.480 That being said, we don't need Greenland for that anymore. 1215 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:51.679 We have all the capabilities to see shit well before 1216 01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:53.599 it ever gets to us. We don't need it for 1217 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:58.280 the radar outposts. I don't know what he's thinking as 1218 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:02.079 far as the national security is, can and I don't 1219 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:02.519 see it. 1220 01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:08.199 I think there's something more behind the scenes, something's going on. 1221 01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:13.039 Yeah, I agree. And then to further that point, so 1222 01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:17.079 let's talk about Fox. So CNN is obviously saying everything 1223 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:21.760 Trump's saying is bad, fundamental differences. They're pissed off Trump 1224 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:24.480 is making Greenland doesn't fall into the. 1225 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:28.239 Lapse of China and Russia. And this is what Fox 1226 01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:28.920 is saying. 1227 01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:32.400 This is why he's trying to buy Greenland, because Russia's 1228 01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:35.079 gonna buy it or China's gonna buy it once again. 1229 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:38.480 Denmark is not getting ready to sell this bitch to anybody. 1230 01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:42.039 So what exactly does he mean? Let's talk about it here, 1231 01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:43.840 let's listen in is happening. 1232 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.079 I think it's not a matter of whether we're gonna 1233 01:05:46.119 --> 01:05:49.480 take de facto control of Greenland, it's how and when 1234 01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:52.559 the leaders of both Greenland and Denmark traveling all the 1235 01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:54.320 way to the White House to meet with Vice President 1236 01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:57.840 Vance and Secretary of Rubio today, and as expected, their 1237 01:05:57.920 --> 01:05:59.400 leaders are digging in their heels. 1238 01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:02.920 We had what I will describe as a frank but 1239 01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:04.679 also constructive discussion. 1240 01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:06.400 We also agreed to. 1241 01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:10.400 Disagree and therefore we will, however, continue to talk The 1242 01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:13.480 big difference is whether that must lead to a situation 1243 01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:20.519 where where US acquire Greenland, and that is absolutely not necessary. 1244 01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:24.159 I mean, okay, that's fine, but who do you trust 1245 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.719 more to decide what's necessary for US national security? Trump, 1246 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.440 Rubio and Vance? Are those two all right? Having Greenland 1247 01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:35.880 under US authority? However, that's structured, it's critical given both 1248 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:39.559 Russia and China's ambitions in the region. So, except for 1249 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:42.880 wounding their pride, US commander the second largest island in 1250 01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:48.000 the world will mean both Denmark and Greenland are better off, because, 1251 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:51.480 after all, a strong and safe America means a stronger, 1252 01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:52.840 safer Europe. 1253 01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:55.440 You know, we're doing the Golden Dome, We're doing a 1254 01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:58.400 lot of things, and we really needed. If we don't 1255 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:00.519 go in, Russia is going to go in, China is 1256 01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.039 going to go in. And there's not a thing that 1257 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:05.679 Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything 1258 01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:06.119 about it. 1259 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:11.000 More here to discuss, as Carla Sans, former US Ambassador 1260 01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:14.039 to Denmark and share for Foreign policy at the America 1261 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:17.039 First Policy Institute, Madam ambassador. 1262 01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:18.800 Great, real quick, real quick, before we listen to the 1263 01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:22.480 former ambassador, but what the fuck is he talking about? 1264 01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:28.039 Did I miss something. China and Russia. I understand they 1265 01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:30.599 have ambitions for so many things, China more than Russia 1266 01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:33.119 as far as like ambitions for business things and things 1267 01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:37.360 like that. Russia's got their hands full right now. And fine, cool, 1268 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:40.840 What the fuck are we talking about right now? That 1269 01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:44.920 this is actually better for Greenland for America to just 1270 01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:47.880 take it over and like this, Like I'm not inherently 1271 01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:50.480 disagreeing because I am a bit of a patriot. I 1272 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:52.480 do think that America is the best country on Earth. 1273 01:07:52.519 --> 01:07:54.760 That's just my opinion. I have no ready to really 1274 01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:58.800 quantitate that other than my own egoic sensive patriots. I 1275 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:02.960 get it, I get it, But what the fuck is 1276 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.239 he talking about? Did I miss something? 1277 01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:10.800 There's got to be something there that we don't know about. 1278 01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:13.000 Did they just find oil. 1279 01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:17.239 Or the rare earth minerals. 1280 01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:22.119 There's got to be a positive something, a huge depositive 1281 01:08:22.159 --> 01:08:23.399 rare earth minerals that. 1282 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:26.439 I think is the goal. 1283 01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:31.359 But I really don't know. I mean, I'm speculating. 1284 01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:34.119 I think you might be right here, because I mean 1285 01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:38.880 I haven't heard of Greenland's booming, you know, hydrocarbons industry, 1286 01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:41.640 although they may have one. I'm not very familiar with it, 1287 01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:45.359 but with that being a very mountainous and cold terrain 1288 01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:47.239 like that, it would. 1289 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:49.239 It would stand to reason that there may be some. 1290 01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:53.560 Proven, rare earths somewhere on the island that they're not 1291 01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:57.520 being very public about right now for their own national security. 1292 01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:00.600 That Trump may have gotten a memo and he's like, hey, 1293 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:03.800 guess what look sounds like Greenland needs some freedom from 1294 01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:05.439 those oppressive. 1295 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:07.399 Danes that have been over them for so long. It 1296 01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:14.720 sounds very crazy in the rhetoric. But here we are, Okay, yeah, 1297 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:17.439 this bitch is behind basically all. 1298 01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:19.760 Right, let's hear from the former ambassador, and I have 1299 01:09:19.800 --> 01:09:22.279 a weird feeling she's gonna be like, Yep, Greenland just 1300 01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:23.840 wants America to take over. 1301 01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:25.239 I just have a weird feeling. 1302 01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:26.359 But let's see. 1303 01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:33.199 To see you tonight. You heard what the foreign officials 1304 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:36.840 were saying. But the Danish foreign minister says, the US 1305 01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:40.600 has quote wide military access already to Greenland, and we 1306 01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:42.880 can ask to increase our presence there. So why wouldn't 1307 01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:43.520 that be enough? 1308 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:50.560 Why wouldn't American taxpayers pay more for Europe's defense or Greenland, 1309 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:53.800 which is a possession of Denmark? Right, I don't think so. 1310 01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:57.399 President Trump is looking at this with clear eyes. Greenlanders 1311 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.840 will go independent in the twenty first century. Just like 1312 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:04.119 Iceland left the Kingdom of Denmark in the twentieth century, 1313 01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:07.560 Greenland will leave. President Trump's making sure they don't fall 1314 01:10:07.560 --> 01:10:10.680 into the lap of China or Russia. That's a good thing. 1315 01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:16.079 Greenlanders really want the Greenlandic dream. They want prosperity, they 1316 01:10:16.079 --> 01:10:19.520 want good paying jobs. They don't have that because they 1317 01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:23.560 rely on welfare from Denmark. Denmark doesn't have the ability 1318 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:27.880 to develop Greenland. It doesn't have the ability to defend 1319 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:31.800 Greenland either. And in fact, in twenty nineteen, when President 1320 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:35.880 Trump asked the current Prime Minister Mitri Friedrichsen to please 1321 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:41.159 put more assets into Greenlandic security because it was unsecure, 1322 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:44.560 she said, yes, she would, she'd put two hundred million 1323 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:46.159 dollars into that security. 1324 01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:47.359 And you know what she did. 1325 01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:51.199 She put two million and it wasn't into security at all, 1326 01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:53.920 so one percent of what she committed to, and that 1327 01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:57.760 wasn't even real security. So you can't trust what she says. 1328 01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:02.000 She and Denmark will never be able to afford to 1329 01:11:02.239 --> 01:11:03.680 defend or secure Greenland. 1330 01:11:05.359 --> 01:11:08.199 Greenland would be gone right now if we weren't gonna 1331 01:11:08.239 --> 01:11:10.760 we weren't defending it. I mean, I mean, I'm sorry. 1332 01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:11.439 But that's just a fact. 1333 01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:12.000 I mean it. 1334 01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:14.760 Ditto with Canada. So not to say we don't love 1335 01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:16.920 our Canadian military counterparts. 1336 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:17.159 We do. 1337 01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:17.800 We love them. 1338 01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:21.199 But without the United States might and all the billions 1339 01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:24.239 and billions we put into our military, they'd already have 1340 01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:25.039 fallen to China. 1341 01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:29.399 Okay, I don't inherently disagree with what she just said. 1342 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:34.039 I I wouldn't. Wow, all right, a lot. 1343 01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:37.760 Of TI unpacking that one. Without America defending Greenland, it 1344 01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:40.720 would have already fallen. That is an inaccurate statement. I 1345 01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:45.079 believe without America defending Canada, which I mean, it would 1346 01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:49.640 have fallen into China. Man maybe not maybe again, but yeah, no, 1347 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:54.000 Canada has US protecting it, so it doesn't need much 1348 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:56.239 of a military. So like, I'm good with that. That 1349 01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:59.319 is a true statement. Maybe the angle that shees you're 1350 01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:02.439 trying to work is accurate because Canada got in bed 1351 01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:06.119 with China, real, real, real hard just four or five 1352 01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:08.199 years ago. As a matter of fact, they were allowing 1353 01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:13.359 China to amash troops in Canada to do training operations 1354 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:16.760 really close to the United States border and nobody bad 1355 01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:18.960 Deny at that point, and it. 1356 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:20.159 Was all, well, that's not true. 1357 01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:23.880 There's never been Chinese troops cut to the local town 1358 01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:27.039 outside of where the Chinese troops were encamped. Were pissed 1359 01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:29.840 off when the Chinese troops left because they were spending 1360 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:32.920 money in this small town and they actually their economy 1361 01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:36.279 boomed because of it. So there's actual boots on the ground, 1362 01:12:36.359 --> 01:12:40.039 well civilian boots on the ground that are saying no, no, 1363 01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.000 the Chinese were absolutely here. So and I mean that 1364 01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:45.479 was under Trudeau and the guy running Canada right now 1365 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:49.079 is a Trudeau junior and it's really sad, but it's whatever. 1366 01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:51.520 But yeah, now Canada's got us protecting them. That's a 1367 01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:58.520 true statement. I am unaware of Greenland's Shield of America 1368 01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:01.840 that's been protecting it from big bad China and Russia 1369 01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:04.680 for the last few decades. I may be very ignorant 1370 01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:06.279 to this. I could be so wrong. I could be 1371 01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:10.720 so wrong. I just I have a weird time putting 1372 01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:15.279 that together. But all right, let's yeah, let's keep going. 1373 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:20.880 But the NATO allies and BESSA are getting involved as well. 1374 01:13:20.880 --> 01:13:24.640 According to reports, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, are sending 1375 01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:28.760 troops to Greenland. I've been continuing threats. 1376 01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:31.000 Okay, what is that gonna do? 1377 01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:32.199 I'm sorry, I'm laughing. 1378 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:35.159 That's just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. They're 1379 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:38.640 not even willing to send troops to, you know, protect Ukraine. 1380 01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:41.079 They're going to send troops to Greenland. 1381 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:47.399 Okay, okay, a couple things there. One Greenland and Denmark 1382 01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:50.680 or NATO that the NATO people, that's our homies. So 1383 01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:54.000 they're sending troops to a NATO country, but they're not 1384 01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:55.840 willing to send to you because Ukraine is not a 1385 01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:56.720 NATO country. 1386 01:13:57.279 --> 01:13:59.159 That's not within their wheelhouse. 1387 01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:03.000 That's not they could they could be generous and send 1388 01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:06.640 Ukraine troops if they so chose, but all these countries 1389 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:10.359 have been sending them armaments and funding and resources to 1390 01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:16.560 help them defend themselves. So yeah, this is why, this 1391 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:19.760 is why I wanted to show both the CNN and 1392 01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:24.319 the Fox's opinion on the Trump Greenland situation. Y'all see 1393 01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:27.199 how the narratives are very different and they're being spun 1394 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:32.680 very extremely in very very opposing ways. So yeah, that's 1395 01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:34.880 this is where we're at. 1396 01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:40.840 I guess hex head, what's your thought bro, I think. 1397 01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:41.880 I don't know. 1398 01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:50.279 I I think Ukraine we're sending our moldy bread. It's 1399 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:53.880 not moldy yet, but we're sending our munitions out there. 1400 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:55.520 It's not moldy yet. 1401 01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:59.039 But we we're getting new stuff going. 1402 01:14:59.479 --> 01:14:59.960 Yeah. 1403 01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:02.359 Yeah, we're clearing out our old inventory. 1404 01:15:04.760 --> 01:15:05.039 God. 1405 01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:08.479 Yeah, I don't know. On the other side, I really. 1406 01:15:08.199 --> 01:15:11.880 Don't Tony way In on this, brother, you have a 1407 01:15:12.119 --> 01:15:16.399 You've got a really interesting take on a lot of geopolitics. 1408 01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:19.279 What do you think is the overall goal here or 1409 01:15:19.279 --> 01:15:20.439 the reason behind it? 1410 01:15:21.359 --> 01:15:24.279 In Greenland? I've heard it might be minerals. I've also 1411 01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:27.720 heard it might be to get more military up there. 1412 01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:30.880 But did you know we'd already have a small military 1413 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:34.079 presence there. It's called the Thuley Air Base, and it's 1414 01:15:34.159 --> 01:15:36.800 really really small. Calling it a base isn't really even 1415 01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:38.720 the right word for it. It's like a strip. 1416 01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:40.199 Yeah. 1417 01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:42.720 Yeah, I don't really have a strong opinion about Greenland. 1418 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:46.520 There's fifty thousand people there. They probably wouldn't mind if 1419 01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:51.560 America formally took over, And yeah, I don't have a 1420 01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:53.039 strong opinion about it, really. 1421 01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:56.880 I mean I agree that people there probably would be 1422 01:15:57.119 --> 01:15:59.800 They probably would actually be happy, And I'm not saying 1423 01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:03.359 that because I'm a patriot. Like realistically, like our economy 1424 01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:06.039 is doing better than Denmark. We're not a socialist nation 1425 01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:10.039 or borderline socialist nation. They probably wouldn't really notice much 1426 01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:12.880 of a difference, to be completely honest with you, as 1427 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:14.680 far as their day to day lives are concerned. 1428 01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:17.079 But even so, yeah, we have a base up there. 1429 01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:20.079 If a matter of fact, I'm trying to remember, the 1430 01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:24.239 first country to build an airstrip was England. 1431 01:16:24.520 --> 01:16:27.119 They built an air airport for. 1432 01:16:27.119 --> 01:16:28.600 Lack of better words, I'm not even gonna call it 1433 01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:31.520 like a base, and then a few years later America 1434 01:16:31.600 --> 01:16:33.880 decided to build one there too, and then we started 1435 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:36.840 to operate it as a if you want to call 1436 01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:40.039 it a military installation or an international airport or what 1437 01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:43.680 I guess both could be used. An interchangeable dialogue on 1438 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:47.319 this one, But even still, I don't see the purpose. 1439 01:16:47.439 --> 01:16:49.760 Like you said, it might be minerals, it might be, 1440 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.439 But what would be the purpose of us having a 1441 01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:55.640 higher military presence in Greenland. No one's invading the fucking 1442 01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:59.359 giant iceberg with fifty thousand inhabitants. Okay, I'll say sixty 1443 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:03.760 bord around Okay, so sixty thousand people live on the 1444 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:06.720 second largest island on Earth, and it's also a fucking 1445 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:10.239 ice block. No one wants to invade that, bitch, So 1446 01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:12.800 what are we do? I'm there, I feel like there's 1447 01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:14.920 so much more here that we're missing. I'm gonna have 1448 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:15.840 to do more of a deep dive. 1449 01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:16.920 I'm gonna have to go. 1450 01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:19.439 And yeah, there could be a lot of oil under 1451 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:22.479 the Arctic Ocean too, and Rush is the closest to it. 1452 01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:26.039 But like everyone's kind of tried to agree not to 1453 01:17:26.319 --> 01:17:28.920 drill yet, but everyone wants to be in a position 1454 01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:29.600 where they could. 1455 01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:32.880 Okay, I could see that being a possibility, But hell, 1456 01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:36.239 didn't we just quote unquote takeover Venezuela. They got more 1457 01:17:36.239 --> 01:17:38.800 oil than Saudi Arabia, and we have all the refineries 1458 01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:42.520 to refine the sour crude or. 1459 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:43.680 Whatever the fuck they want to call it. 1460 01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:47.199 I mean, if that's what it is, if it's oil. 1461 01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:51.159 I think the idea is to use up everybody else's 1462 01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:56.560 oil first, the first, and then we have ours for 1463 01:17:56.720 --> 01:18:00.479 the rest of them, you know, for eternity or whatever 1464 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:05.279 however long oil lasts. And I've heard that they're offering 1465 01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:12.560 each resident one hundred thousand dollars for to join the States. 1466 01:18:14.560 --> 01:18:18.079 They're offering the inhabitants of Greenland. 1467 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:21.880 One hundred thousand dollars apiece to become a US citizen. 1468 01:18:22.199 --> 01:18:26.319 I think so. I think I've read a couple of articles. 1469 01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:30.199 And I think so that they are like, yeah, just 1470 01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:31.920 throw money at them. 1471 01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:37.399 Now the tinfoil hat comes on as far as I'm concerned. Uh, 1472 01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:41.319 whenever the government is willing to offer large sums of 1473 01:18:41.359 --> 01:18:44.159 money to people just for the fuck of it, there 1474 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:48.239 is always I actually can't think of one time where 1475 01:18:48.279 --> 01:18:49.000 there wasn't. 1476 01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:54.640 Some serious fuckery afoot. So now I'm gonna have to 1477 01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:55.960 do a whole deep dive on this. 1478 01:18:55.960 --> 01:18:58.159 I'm probably gonna make a fucking cult to Conspiracy episode 1479 01:18:58.159 --> 01:18:58.680 about this one. 1480 01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:00.920 I'm ready. 1481 01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:03.880 Oh my god, Royce, lay in here, brother. 1482 01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:08.600 There are two quick thoughts, the first of which, so, 1483 01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:14.279 h the minerals could be one thing. Also, doesn't Greenland have. 1484 01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:17.439 A ship ton of bunkers that are filled like with 1485 01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:22.239 all these the foods and seeds for the for the. 1486 01:19:22.199 --> 01:19:26.000 Star pile of the world, So that could be power 1487 01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:30.199 to have access to that as a hey, you know, 1488 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:32.840 like it doesn't matter what you guys do we have 1489 01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:35.359 means to survive. 1490 01:19:37.560 --> 01:19:41.319 And there there is a seed bunker that has I 1491 01:19:41.359 --> 01:19:45.920 think every seed that is available is stored. 1492 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:47.039 There, right. 1493 01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:50.720 So the so the fact that that's there and Trump 1494 01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:55.800 is so adamant on being there, there could be a 1495 01:19:55.800 --> 01:19:58.920 connection at the very least as far as that and 1496 01:19:58.720 --> 01:20:01.520 you and then the only other thing as far as 1497 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:07.600 even though people aren't going to attack Greenland directly, it's 1498 01:20:08.119 --> 01:20:14.039 almost an intermediary between America and Europe or you know, 1499 01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:18.600 you know, it's a nice it's a nice barrier. 1500 01:20:19.880 --> 01:20:21.680 It could be used as a staging ground. 1501 01:20:22.000 --> 01:20:25.000 It absolutely could be used as staging ground if somebody 1502 01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:28.279 was to try to attack mainland USA. I hear this 1503 01:20:28.439 --> 01:20:33.079 and I'm that's absolutely a possibility. The bunkers absolutely also possibility. 1504 01:20:33.119 --> 01:20:36.279 Minerals oil all that could be. And I will say 1505 01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:39.119 to the point that you and Hexhead are making here, 1506 01:20:39.399 --> 01:20:43.399 Ravenly has done this for years. You can look at 1507 01:20:43.439 --> 01:20:47.640 every single simulation where it talks about a global pandemic, 1508 01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:53.439 a global catastrophe, the polar ice cap shifting, you name it, 1509 01:20:53.479 --> 01:20:56.760 whatever mass scale disaster you can think of. 1510 01:20:57.520 --> 01:21:00.399 Greenland seems to be the one spot. 1511 01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:05.319 That will probably be okay more or less than anywhere 1512 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:08.439 else on Earth, and there's reasons for that. On the 1513 01:21:08.479 --> 01:21:10.680 plate tectonic scale, there's reasons for that. As far as 1514 01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:12.720 their distance from the equator, there's reasons for that. As 1515 01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:14.600 far as they're low population, there's a reason for that. 1516 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:17.800 For their because they're mountainous and those are pretty fucking stable. 1517 01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:24.520 There's tons of reasons for this. So perhaps that is 1518 01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:28.720 the case. Maybe there is something way more catastrophic than 1519 01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:31.279 what we have information on as of this moment. 1520 01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:33.800 That's right around the corner, and Trump is society. 1521 01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:35.960 He's pulling out all the stops to get to as 1522 01:21:35.960 --> 01:21:39.439 many Americans to the actual bunker as possible. 1523 01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:42.319 That's there's a greater than zero percent chance of that 1524 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:42.760 for sure. 1525 01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:51.880 Wow wow wow wow. Okay, let's continue on with the 1526 01:21:51.920 --> 01:21:55.840 conversation here. So Trump issues a stern warning to NATO 1527 01:21:56.159 --> 01:22:01.920 ahead of vance's high stakes Greenland meeting. Okay, so, uh, 1528 01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:04.760 let's see. Should we hit play the headlines? Should we 1529 01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:06.159 read the article? What would y'all prefer? 1530 01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:08.720 I'll throw the headlines out. 1531 01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:17.920 Let's do it. Let's see what's up. Number one Ice 1532 01:22:17.960 --> 01:22:20.199 agents struck renee Goods vehicle. 1533 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:23.560 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, wait wait wait, hold on I'm sorry, 1534 01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:25.600 I'm sorry. Let me let me read that one again. 1535 01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:29.000 Let me lower the wine. So the ICE agent that 1536 01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:33.479 struck miss Goods car suffered from internal bleeding to the 1537 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:36.960 torso because yes, she did in fact hit him with 1538 01:22:37.520 --> 01:22:40.079 her car, and you could see that from his bodycam footage. 1539 01:22:40.520 --> 01:22:43.880 And so yeah, she hit the dude and she got got. 1540 01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:48.760 The federal agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in 1541 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:51.560 Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso when 1542 01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:55.640 he was struck and her vehicle. Department Homeland Security Assistant 1543 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:59.960 Secretarya Tricia McLoughlin confirmed on Fox News on Wednesday, Yep, 1544 01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:02.720 no doubt. And keep in mind also this same ICE 1545 01:23:02.760 --> 01:23:08.760 agent was drug underneath a car six months prior. The 1546 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:12.239 same dude who was making a stop got ran over 1547 01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.560 and drug under a car just a few months prior 1548 01:23:15.680 --> 01:23:19.560 to this incident. So yeah, it's not like he didn't 1549 01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:21.880 know what time it was when the car lunched forward 1550 01:23:21.960 --> 01:23:23.600 at him and then hit him. 1551 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:27.439 So yeah, did she That is what happens. 1552 01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:30.760 And also there's people that are saying that she was there, 1553 01:23:31.239 --> 01:23:34.000 you know, she was peaceful, she was protesting. No, she 1554 01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:40.319 was literally sent there and was successful in uh, basically, 1555 01:23:40.680 --> 01:23:46.359 what's the word uh something in uh something in investigation 1556 01:23:46.720 --> 01:23:51.720 or something in a rest about Yeah, her and a 1557 01:23:51.800 --> 01:23:55.159 group of people in their cars went there to obstruct 1558 01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:59.119 ICE agents in doing their duty, which is against the law. 1559 01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.560 So yeah, she wasn't just like an innocent Biastand and 1560 01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.119 they kept using the video where she backed up a 1561 01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:07.640 little bit and waved people through. See, she wasn't obstructing traffic. 1562 01:24:08.319 --> 01:24:11.359 That's that's beside the point. It's not about her being 1563 01:24:11.359 --> 01:24:12.840 in the middle of the road that was the issue. 1564 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:15.079 The fact that she was blocking in ICE agents was 1565 01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:18.000 the issue. Then they had told her multiple times to 1566 01:24:18.039 --> 01:24:21.319 get out, to move to whatever. Her wife got out 1567 01:24:21.319 --> 01:24:22.960 of the car and started shit talking one of the 1568 01:24:22.960 --> 01:24:25.720 ICE agents, which fine, freedom of speech, cool things when 1569 01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:27.880 they were trying to remove her from her vehicles, when 1570 01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:30.439 she hit the dude and yes he is he suffered 1571 01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:33.479 internal belying he's fine, I'm sure, but yeah, she hit 1572 01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:35.720 him and she got got This is absolutely a thing. 1573 01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:39.119 The extent of the blame of the US Immigrations officer 1574 01:24:39.439 --> 01:24:44.359 Jonathan Ross was not immediately clear. Christine nom Said had 1575 01:24:44.359 --> 01:24:46.840 previously said the agent was treated out of hospital following 1576 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:51.199 the incident, before being released later that same day. Oh god, yeah, 1577 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:53.199 this is this. All the headlines are going to be 1578 01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:57.560 about the mayor, Jacob Frey. He downplayed the incident but 1579 01:24:57.560 --> 01:24:59.520 then told the ICE agents to get the fuck out 1580 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:01.760 of them in the as And it's like, dude, you're 1581 01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:05.920 a mayor. You're a mayor. You're talking about federal agents. 1582 01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.039 You have no power here. But all right, anyway, next one, 1583 01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:15.520 number two, US freezes all visa processing for seventy five countries, 1584 01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:19.199 including Somalia, Russia, and around the State Department is pausing 1585 01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:22.399 immigrant visa processing. Jesus, hold on, I'm gonna turn off 1586 01:25:22.479 --> 01:25:24.560 that music because I thought there was gonna be people 1587 01:25:24.600 --> 01:25:25.319 talking during this. 1588 01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.239 There is not, So let's just read it here. 1589 01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:31.479 The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa's processing for 1590 01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:34.520 seventy five countries in an effort to crack down on 1591 01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:38.640 what was that, to crack down becoming a citizen. The 1592 01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:41.960 State Department memo, seen first by Fox News Digital Directors, 1593 01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:45.720 consiler officers to refuse visas. Jesus, they're rolling fast at 1594 01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:48.000 this and I am not reading fast enough. The countries 1595 01:25:48.039 --> 01:25:53.600 include Samalia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, Yemen, 1596 01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:57.079 and one more. The pause will begin January twenty first, 1597 01:25:57.079 --> 01:25:59.880 and will continue indefinitely until the Department conducts a rea 1598 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:05.800 assessment of immigration. Third one rfj RFK Junior comments on 1599 01:26:05.840 --> 01:26:09.199 Trump's unhinged eating in jokes with Okay, never mind, RFK 1600 01:26:09.279 --> 01:26:11.119 Junior is given Trump shit for having a bad diet. 1601 01:26:11.119 --> 01:26:12.920 Who cares anyway? 1602 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:16.239 To the article itself here, President Trump sent a warning 1603 01:26:16.279 --> 01:26:19.920 to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO ahead of jd 1604 01:26:20.079 --> 01:26:23.319 Vance's high stakes meeting with the Danish and Greenlandic officials. 1605 01:26:23.760 --> 01:26:26.760 The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security, 1606 01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:29.279 he wrote on a truth social post on Wednesday. He 1607 01:26:29.319 --> 01:26:31.960 added that the acquisition was vital for the Golden Dome 1608 01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:35.079 that we are building. The Golden Dome is the cutting 1609 01:26:35.119 --> 01:26:37.760 edge missile defense system meant to intercept threats targeting the 1610 01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:41.640 American homeland, similar to the Iron Dome in Israel. NATO 1611 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:43.880 should be leading the way for us to get it. 1612 01:26:44.239 --> 01:26:46.920 If we don't, Russia or China will. And that's not 1613 01:26:47.039 --> 01:26:50.520 gonna happen militarily without the vast power of the United States, 1614 01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:54.239 much of which I built during my first term and 1615 01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:57.680 am now bringing to a new and even higher level. 1616 01:26:58.000 --> 01:27:01.520 NATO would not be an effective force deterrent, not even close. 1617 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:04.239 They know that, and so do I. NATO becomes far 1618 01:27:04.319 --> 01:27:06.760 more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of 1619 01:27:06.760 --> 01:27:07.479 the United States. 1620 01:27:07.520 --> 01:27:10.000 Anything less than that is unacceptable, he added. 1621 01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:14.880 Keep in mind he just mandated and actually got the 1622 01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:17.840 thumbs up for all NATO members to start spending five 1623 01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:22.479 percent of their GDP on their military, which is impressive. 1624 01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:26.119 I am happy about that also, but a lot of 1625 01:27:26.159 --> 01:27:28.399 these countries are spending somewhere between two and three percent, 1626 01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:30.479 and help the thing, it was like a little under 1627 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:33.199 half of the countries couldn't even make the two percent minimum. 1628 01:27:33.439 --> 01:27:36.800 Trump just strong on them into making five percent GDP 1629 01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:37.640 their minimum. 1630 01:27:37.880 --> 01:27:38.680 I'm here for it. 1631 01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:41.760 But also, if that's the case and NATO is going 1632 01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:46.039 to be stronger overall very soon, I don't see why 1633 01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:50.239 Greenland is such an asset. But again, we may just 1634 01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:52.079 have more things that are going to be coming out 1635 01:27:52.159 --> 01:27:55.920 about this here soon, I don't know. Follow up posts 1636 01:27:55.920 --> 01:27:58.479 on truth social On Wednesday morning, Trump shared a report 1637 01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:01.159 by just the News stating that the day Defense Intelligence 1638 01:28:01.159 --> 01:28:05.760 Service issued a warning regarding Russian and Chinese military ambitions 1639 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:11.359 toward an expansion around Greenland in a recent assessment. So 1640 01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:14.560 the Danish are actually saying that China and Russia are 1641 01:28:14.600 --> 01:28:17.319 actually making their way towards Greenland. 1642 01:28:17.720 --> 01:28:18.720 That's interesting. 1643 01:28:20.479 --> 01:28:23.800 NATO tell Denmark to get them out of here now. 1644 01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:27.279 Two dog sleds won't do it. Only the USA can trump. 1645 01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:31.000 Oh my god, two dog sleds. This fucking dude. Danish 1646 01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:33.800 intel warren last year about Russia and Chinese military goals 1647 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:36.760 towards Greenland and the Arctic. In recent years of the 1648 01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:40.159 United States has significantly increased its security policy focused on 1649 01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:42.800 the Arctic, while Russia continues its military build up and 1650 01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:46.680 China continues to develop its capacity to operate both submarines 1651 01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:49.399 and surface vessels in the region. That's from the d 1652 01:28:49.479 --> 01:28:53.840 DIIS Danish Department of Intel reportedly said in its intelligence 1653 01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:57.600 Outlook in twenty twenty five. The DDIS noted that neither 1654 01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.159 the war in Ukraine nor the increased US focus on 1655 01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:03.439 Greenland and the Arctic has altered Russia's long term interests 1656 01:29:03.439 --> 01:29:10.479 and objectives in the region. Oh, okay, does make America 1657 01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:14.960 go away? Hat with the that's funny, that's funny. Greenland's 1658 01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:19.960 Prime Minister Jens Friedrich Nelson. Nielsen told a news conference 1659 01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:22.880 in Copenhagen on Tuesday that quote, if we had to 1660 01:29:22.920 --> 01:29:25.239 choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, 1661 01:29:25.319 --> 01:29:28.119 we choose Denmark, we choose NATO, we choose the Kingdom 1662 01:29:28.159 --> 01:29:32.520 of Denmark, we choose the EU. Okay. Trump later responded 1663 01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:35.239 to Nielsen, saying, I disagree with him. I don't know 1664 01:29:35.239 --> 01:29:37.359 who he is. I don't know anything about him, but 1665 01:29:37.399 --> 01:29:40.199 that's going to be a big problem for him. Wow. 1666 01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:44.560 I don't even know who that guy is, but it's 1667 01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:46.199 gonna be a problem if he keeps talking like that. 1668 01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:50.920 Jesus Christ Trump, He's out here doing the most speaking 1669 01:29:50.960 --> 01:29:54.800 of and with my bullshit Trump impersonation. This is a 1670 01:29:54.840 --> 01:29:57.399 Trump impersonation that Royce actually sent us. In the beginning 1671 01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.399 of the episode, doctor Drea is behind him Trump with 1672 01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:02.680 doctor Dre in the studio. 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Here 1701 01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:03.880 as we were talking about Trump, as we're talking about 1702 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:07.279 Russia and all this silliness, and Tony, I'm hoping that 1703 01:31:07.279 --> 01:31:09.319 you're gonna weigh in on this one here, brother, because 1704 01:31:09.560 --> 01:31:12.520 I found this article. I don't know how verified it is, 1705 01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:15.560 but this was posted December thirty first of last year, 1706 01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:16.600 just a few weeks ago. 1707 01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:23.239 Ten thousand in counting Russian soldiers are surrendering in record numbers. Okay, 1708 01:31:23.239 --> 01:31:24.039 now let's read in. 1709 01:31:23.960 --> 01:31:26.439 Here more than ten thousand Russian soldiers have been taken 1710 01:31:26.439 --> 01:31:29.479 prisoner by Ukrainian forces since the start of the Russian 1711 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:32.640 full scale invasion in February of twenty twenty two. Now 1712 01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:36.159 I find that interesting, and there's gonna be people that 1713 01:31:36.199 --> 01:31:39.039 are gonna say some crazy things here, like so you're 1714 01:31:39.039 --> 01:31:42.960 telling me more Russians have surrendered than the entire American 1715 01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:46.640 forces lost in twenty two years of combat in two countries. 1716 01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:49.000 And okay, I hear that, But we also got to 1717 01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:51.960 look at the scale of how many Russian troops have 1718 01:31:52.039 --> 01:31:54.399 been sent to Ukraine versus how many American troops went 1719 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:57.840 to those two countries. It's not an apple to apples comparison. 1720 01:31:57.880 --> 01:32:00.880 I feel like that's worth mentioning. But anyway, according to 1721 01:32:00.920 --> 01:32:03.680 the data published on December thirty first by Ukraine's Coordination 1722 01:32:03.760 --> 01:32:06.680 Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the number 1723 01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:10.079 of captured Russian personnel continues to rise annually, with twenty 1724 01:32:10.119 --> 01:32:13.399 twenty five showing the highest figures to date. The statistics 1725 01:32:13.399 --> 01:32:16.760 are released through the I Want to Live project And 1726 01:32:16.800 --> 01:32:18.760 if you want to check out this website, it's actually 1727 01:32:19.279 --> 01:32:23.479 it's a realistic website. The Ukrainian set this up basically 1728 01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:29.000 to make or entice the Russian soldiers to just sign 1729 01:32:29.039 --> 01:32:31.880 on and become a prisoner and maybe even become a citizen, 1730 01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:34.880 like maybe after the whole thing is situated, after the fact. 1731 01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:37.520 But it's called the I Want to Live Project, and 1732 01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:41.279 apparently a lot of Russian troops who were conscripted into 1733 01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:44.399 service would rather just go chill at a POW camp 1734 01:32:44.439 --> 01:32:47.920 than fight the drones and the trench warfare and shit. 1735 01:32:48.479 --> 01:32:51.079 According to the project data, an average of sixty to 1736 01:32:51.159 --> 01:32:55.920 ninety Russian troops surrender each week. In August twenty twenty 1737 01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:59.079 four alone, the number peaked at three hundred and fifty 1738 01:32:59.119 --> 01:33:02.119 in a single week. Since June twenty twenty three, Russian 1739 01:33:02.119 --> 01:33:06.479 forces have captured more frequently than Ukrainian troops, reversing earlier trends. 1740 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:10.039 The majority of POWs are taken in the Dunets region, 1741 01:33:10.359 --> 01:33:16.119 particularly Pokrovsk and Bachmut districts, as well as the Zaparisha 1742 01:33:16.159 --> 01:33:19.760 region and Russia's Kersk region. In twenty twenty five, Ukrainian 1743 01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:23.079 authorities recorded a sharp increase in the number of foreign 1744 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:27.239 nationals among Russian forces. That's actually very well documented as well. 1745 01:33:27.359 --> 01:33:31.479 Russia was taking in and to be fair, Ukraine has 1746 01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:34.760 also had their foreign legion, right A guy I served 1747 01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:37.880 with as a matter of fact, which I'm still pissed 1748 01:33:37.880 --> 01:33:41.239 about that he was an American. He retired from the 1749 01:33:41.239 --> 01:33:45.560 Marine Corps. He was a grunt, great guy. He signed 1750 01:33:45.640 --> 01:33:48.720 up for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. He was killed in 1751 01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:53.720 action and the Russian fuckers desecrated his body and it 1752 01:33:53.800 --> 01:33:56.880 was his picture was all over the internet. It was 1753 01:33:56.960 --> 01:34:01.760 fucking horrible. But anyway, Approximately seven percent of all captured 1754 01:34:01.760 --> 01:34:05.319 soldiers were identified as mercenaries from forty different countries, with 1755 01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:09.640 two to three new foreign fighters discovered weekly. The I 1756 01:34:09.720 --> 01:34:13.880 Want to Live Project also publish demographic data on captured personnel. 1757 01:34:14.359 --> 01:34:18.119 Eighty three were rank and file soldiers, thirty three or 1758 01:34:18.239 --> 01:34:20.960 thirteen percent rather sorry, eighty three percent were rank and 1759 01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:24.359 file soldiers, thirteen percent were non commissioned officers, and three 1760 01:34:24.439 --> 01:34:29.079 percent were officers, which, to be fair, that is a 1761 01:34:29.119 --> 01:34:31.560 pretty good metric as far as the military as a whole, 1762 01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:36.520 not just POWs, but just saying most were between the 1763 01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:40.000 ages of eighteen and sixty five years old. Again, that 1764 01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:44.600 also stands to reason. The majority seventy six percent were 1765 01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:49.000 contract soldiers, including many recruited from Russia's prisons and private 1766 01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:53.800 military companies. Mobilized individuals accounted for nineteen percent, while conscripts 1767 01:34:53.840 --> 01:34:58.560 made up nearly five percent. Very interesting, roughly twenty four 1768 01:34:58.640 --> 01:35:02.079 percent of POW reported being coerced or. 1769 01:35:02.039 --> 01:35:03.680 Misled into military service. 1770 01:35:04.079 --> 01:35:07.199 Forty percent have prior criminal records, most commonly for theft, 1771 01:35:07.279 --> 01:35:10.840 drug offenses, assault, or homicide, which I'm also not really 1772 01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:13.359 mad about. If you have a war going on, you're 1773 01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:15.680 gonna want your your savages at the front. 1774 01:35:16.159 --> 01:35:18.880 So like, all right, I mean, hell, America did that 1775 01:35:18.920 --> 01:35:19.319 same thing. 1776 01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:22.920 By the way, I know legitimately five people that in 1777 01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:26.279 the early stages of operation name your thing, from like 1778 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:29.680 four to eight, they were basically given the choice of 1779 01:35:29.760 --> 01:35:32.279 jail or the army. Like that was that was a 1780 01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:34.560 thing that judges used to do in this country. So 1781 01:35:34.600 --> 01:35:37.520 it's not like this is unprecedented. But honestly, it wouldn't 1782 01:35:37.520 --> 01:35:40.399 be for like serial rapists and shit. It would usually 1783 01:35:40.439 --> 01:35:43.159 be for low level offenses. But still, you got your 1784 01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.119 three strike rule and they're about to go spend some 1785 01:35:45.239 --> 01:35:49.359 time or you can go serve some time service in 1786 01:35:49.439 --> 01:35:50.880 one way or another. And a lot of these dudes 1787 01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:53.079 actually ended up turning their life around because of it. 1788 01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:56.800 So take that for what it is. Only seven percent 1789 01:35:56.880 --> 01:35:59.760 held higher education degrees and thirty percent had not completed 1790 01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:03.039 high school before the war. Thirty eight percent were unemployed, 1791 01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:06.079 and almost half have children, eight percent of them with 1792 01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:06.720 three or more. 1793 01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:08.279 That I mean, okay. 1794 01:36:08.720 --> 01:36:11.920 Ukrainian officials say hundreds of those captured also suffer from 1795 01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:16.039 chronic health issues, including HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, diabetes, and 1796 01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:19.279 mental illness. Yeah, the AIDS outbreak on the front with 1797 01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:23.039 the Russians is crazy, and there's multiple reasons for that. 1798 01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:25.840 Some are saying it's because they're sharing needles. Some are 1799 01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:28.720 saying because it's like a lot of rape soldier to 1800 01:36:28.800 --> 01:36:31.479 soldier rape on the Russian side. I honestly don't know 1801 01:36:31.520 --> 01:36:34.039 how much of that is rhetoric, how much of that 1802 01:36:34.159 --> 01:36:37.680 is true. Who's to say, But yeah, there is a 1803 01:36:37.800 --> 01:36:40.680 crazy amount of HIV and AIDS that has been blowing 1804 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:42.840 up on the Russian side of the conflicts. 1805 01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:46.399 But take that for what it's worth. Excuse me. 1806 01:36:46.960 --> 01:36:50.319 Ukrainian officials say hundreds of those captures also suffer. 1807 01:36:50.359 --> 01:36:51.399 Are you right that? I'm sorry? 1808 01:36:51.479 --> 01:36:56.439 According to the coordinated coordination efforts, Excuse me. According to 1809 01:36:56.479 --> 01:37:00.279 the Coordination Headquarters, over six thousand Russian POWs have been 1810 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:04.399 repatriated to Russia as part of prisoner exchanges. More than 1811 01:37:04.439 --> 01:37:06.920 half of these exchanges occurred in twenty twenty five. However, 1812 01:37:07.000 --> 01:37:09.760 not all returned soldiers survive long after release. 1813 01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:11.039 Yeah you'll have that in Russia. 1814 01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:14.439 Ukrainian officials say at least two hundred and thirty seven 1815 01:37:14.479 --> 01:37:17.600 former POWs were either killed or went missing after being 1816 01:37:17.640 --> 01:37:20.159 sent back to the front lines. At least four Russian 1817 01:37:20.159 --> 01:37:23.920 soldiers have been captured a second time. They are really 1818 01:37:23.960 --> 01:37:26.479 bad at their jobs with those four, not the whole thing, 1819 01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:30.720 just those four, Like bro, you play you missed and 1820 01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.279 sucked at hide and seek to this level twice, but 1821 01:37:33.319 --> 01:37:37.119 all right. The data also suggests that Russia prioritizes the 1822 01:37:37.159 --> 01:37:40.640 return of ethnic Russians with short captivity periods and no 1823 01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.359 serious injuries. In contrast, foreign fighters have not been requested 1824 01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:48.560 for exchange. The Ukrainian side emphasizes that thousands of Russian POWs, 1825 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:53.000 especially wounded, ill or conscripted soldiers, remain in captivity. According 1826 01:37:53.039 --> 01:37:57.119 to Ukrainian authorities, Russia has consistently refused to participate in 1827 01:37:57.159 --> 01:38:01.119 an all for all exchange format with the fourth for 1828 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:04.840 the fourth consecutive year. Okay, so a lot of things 1829 01:38:04.840 --> 01:38:07.800 to break down there, Tony weigh in, Please, sir, what 1830 01:38:07.920 --> 01:38:10.359 is your take on this? Is this propaganda? Is there 1831 01:38:10.399 --> 01:38:12.840 a shred of truth to this? Because, I mean, prisoners 1832 01:38:12.840 --> 01:38:15.479 are being taken on both sides. There have been documented 1833 01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:17.920 prisoner exchanges on both sides, and I could see that. 1834 01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:21.239 But as far as Russian's just surrendering and saying fuck this, 1835 01:38:21.279 --> 01:38:24.159 I don't want to fight this, what's your take like. 1836 01:38:24.199 --> 01:38:26.560 In terms of it happening more than usual? I think 1837 01:38:26.560 --> 01:38:29.560 it's happened at consistent rate throughout the war. And I 1838 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:32.920 just went ahead and asked, ROC you know about this 1839 01:38:33.000 --> 01:38:33.600 whole issue. 1840 01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:37.680 Crock estimates, AI do be lying, A, I do be lying. 1841 01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:40.399 It's a reasonable member. And before I even asked it 1842 01:38:40.439 --> 01:38:43.239 about this particular article, it said, well, maybe five thousand 1843 01:38:43.319 --> 01:38:46.479 to eight thousand Russians have been taken prisoner, and I'd 1844 01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:49.800 say that's within this ballpark. That's very reasonable. And it 1845 01:38:49.840 --> 01:38:53.600 even listed out a lot of the previous prisoner exchanges 1846 01:38:53.640 --> 01:38:56.560 that have happened. There's been like twenty of them normally 1847 01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:02.960 in the you know, Doubler triple digits. Uh, yeah, I 1848 01:39:02.960 --> 01:39:07.039 think this is basically true. United twenty four Media though 1849 01:39:07.079 --> 01:39:10.840 it's a very very pro Ukrainian news outlet. That's what 1850 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:14.960 practically all their articles are about. And I think I'd 1851 01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:17.399 run into them like once before, but I skimmed their 1852 01:39:17.439 --> 01:39:20.439 website again at the beginning of this episode just to 1853 01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:23.399 because I was googling. I was trying to find the 1854 01:39:23.439 --> 01:39:25.479 story because you mentioned that we were doing it, and 1855 01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:27.479 at first I couldn't find it. I had to scroll 1856 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:30.119 down Google's first page I had. 1857 01:39:31.359 --> 01:39:34.039 I had heard about this somewhere I forget where. Probably 1858 01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:35.960 one of the other podcasts I listened to was talking 1859 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:39.439 about how there's like record numbers of Russians surrendering, and 1860 01:39:40.039 --> 01:39:42.600 there was a few cases where it was legitimately they 1861 01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:46.079 were like surrounded and it was like a legitimate surrender. 1862 01:39:46.119 --> 01:39:48.760 It wasn't they It wasn't like these conscripts that basically 1863 01:39:48.760 --> 01:39:50.399 got to the front line, put down their weapon and 1864 01:39:50.439 --> 01:39:51.960 put their hands up and said fuck it, I'll be 1865 01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:56.039 a pow like. It was legitimate combatant surrendering type things 1866 01:39:56.079 --> 01:39:59.520 which happens in conflict. I get that, but uh yeah, 1867 01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:03.159 when they said these record numbers, it was suggested that 1868 01:40:03.199 --> 01:40:04.920 it was way more of the dudes getting to the 1869 01:40:04.920 --> 01:40:06.800 front and being like, never mind, I'm not doing this. 1870 01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:09.520 So I don't know how much of this is true. 1871 01:40:09.720 --> 01:40:12.479 Information on both sides of this is so skewed, So 1872 01:40:12.560 --> 01:40:14.359 I mean, who's to say, right. 1873 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:17.000 Yeah, I've seen too much information from the pro Russian 1874 01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.880 side that says, oh, look, we've got more captains, we've 1875 01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:21.920 got more prisoners of war. Oh man, they're about to 1876 01:40:21.920 --> 01:40:25.039 collapse any day now. And I just posted a stupid 1877 01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:29.479 little meme looking photo here of NPC characters from both sides. 1878 01:40:29.960 --> 01:40:32.920 In March twenty twenty two, Ukraine is about to win 1879 01:40:33.399 --> 01:40:35.199 on one side, and then on the other side, it's 1880 01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:37.600 an identical looking guy saying Russia is about to win, 1881 01:40:37.880 --> 01:40:40.600 and then September twenty twenty four, exact same two guys 1882 01:40:40.600 --> 01:40:43.680 saying the exact same thing again. In January twenty twenty six, 1883 01:40:43.840 --> 01:40:46.920 the exact same two guys saying the exact same thing again. Yeah, 1884 01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:48.840 and it just feels like this just keeps on going 1885 01:40:48.920 --> 01:40:49.960 this way. 1886 01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:54.920 Yeah, it's uh. They had their their successes in their 1887 01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:58.079 first initial push. At the rate they're going right now, 1888 01:40:58.319 --> 01:41:01.359 it would if this doesn't up, you're still holding true 1889 01:41:01.600 --> 01:41:03.279 to the belief that this is all going to be 1890 01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:04.520 wrapped up by March of this year. 1891 01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:09.640 Uh yeah, I'll just I don't know how to put 1892 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:13.640 money on it or whatever. There's probably a polymarket, Oh yes, 1893 01:41:13.720 --> 01:41:14.439 there is. 1894 01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:19.640 Oh yes, okay, I mean, and I really have no 1895 01:41:21.760 --> 01:41:24.359 reason to believe one way or another on this. I 1896 01:41:24.399 --> 01:41:26.880 will say that if if this does not come to 1897 01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:30.000 a conclusion relatively soon, and if Russia does decide to 1898 01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:32.319 just dig their heels in and just fight it out 1899 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:38.920 until the entire western coast, I should say border rather 1900 01:41:39.119 --> 01:41:42.520 of Ukraine. Dude. Going by the math of what they've 1901 01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:44.359 been able to accomplish in the last couple of years, 1902 01:41:44.439 --> 01:41:47.079 it would take them like two hundred years to get there. 1903 01:41:48.439 --> 01:41:50.239 For the role of God, I hope that they, just 1904 01:41:51.000 --> 01:41:52.720 like cooler heads, prevail on this one. 1905 01:41:52.840 --> 01:41:53.319 I don't know. 1906 01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:55.359 We kept hearing things that de Lensky was ready to 1907 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:58.000 come to the negotiating table. We heard that the Russian 1908 01:41:59.159 --> 01:42:01.600 ambassadors but some sort of Russian officials were going to 1909 01:42:01.640 --> 01:42:02.960 Miami and they were ready to. 1910 01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:06.199 Make a deal. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. I don't even 1911 01:42:06.239 --> 01:42:07.760 know if any real talk was had. 1912 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:12.119 Yeah, I haven't heard of it. I don't keep as 1913 01:42:12.159 --> 01:42:16.439 much tabs on this as I used to. But I 1914 01:42:16.479 --> 01:42:20.439 predict Russia's still gonna just take small amounts of territory 1915 01:42:20.520 --> 01:42:24.399 very slowly. They don't want to rule over a very 1916 01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:29.600 hostile population, so they're mostly focused in the East, and 1917 01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:32.000 they're just gonna keep going, and they're trying to let 1918 01:42:32.119 --> 01:42:35.279 Ukraine just throw more and more men at the front line, 1919 01:42:35.720 --> 01:42:38.960 kind of like Germany did with World War One in France, 1920 01:42:39.000 --> 01:42:41.319 where they set up a large defensive line and didn't 1921 01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:44.600 really move for years and just let the Western now 1922 01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:48.720 I throw troops at that line because the defense was 1923 01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:50.319 more advantageous at that time. 1924 01:42:50.640 --> 01:42:53.119 Yeah, it was a war of attrition, which is what 1925 01:42:53.159 --> 01:42:58.399 this is now. Yeah, I don't know, We'll see how 1926 01:42:58.439 --> 01:42:58.800 it goes. 1927 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:00.279 I don't have anything else to say. 1928 01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:03.720 I feel you go ahead, Sam. 1929 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:08.159 I could see sorry, I could see this easily becoming 1930 01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:09.239 a DMZ like. 1931 01:43:09.439 --> 01:43:11.079 Uh that it is in Korea. 1932 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:15.119 Uh, just a the military as I could see it 1933 01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:17.479 becoming a ceasefire, not really a fool on. 1934 01:43:17.640 --> 01:43:20.479 Hey you want to quit? No, not really. I can 1935 01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:23.640 see it like eventually they'll just like ease up. 1936 01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:26.680 But I still figured anow that like twenty thousand is 1937 01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:28.159 gonna die before that happens. 1938 01:43:28.399 --> 01:43:31.000 No, I oh, twenty thousand for sure. Oh my god, 1939 01:43:31.239 --> 01:43:34.840 I've I've lost what the chore statistics are. But yeah, 1940 01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:38.319 it's that's for sure. But yeah, I agree, I've been saying. 1941 01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:42.039 That otistic, right, Yeah. 1942 01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:43.039 I've a I've been saying it for a while that 1943 01:43:43.079 --> 01:43:46.159 I could see a DMZ forming as a result of this. 1944 01:43:46.680 --> 01:43:47.199 Uh. 1945 01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:50.920 But again, there's so much that has to happen between 1946 01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:54.039 now and whenever they finally decide that they've had enough. 1947 01:43:54.760 --> 01:43:58.560 I don't Zelenski's not going to back down. He's he 1948 01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:00.720 is digging as he was as much as he can 1949 01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:04.279 because he's fighting for his home turf Russia. It really 1950 01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:07.800 is dependent on Russia. Zelenski and Ukraine have been willing 1951 01:44:07.840 --> 01:44:11.359 to come to the negotiating table multiple times. Putin has 1952 01:44:11.399 --> 01:44:13.720 to decide that he's done. He has to decide that 1953 01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:17.800 whatever arbitrary goal he was setting out to accomplish, he 1954 01:44:17.880 --> 01:44:20.399 has met or at least gotten close enough to justify 1955 01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:23.239 the amount of loss. So as soon as he decides 1956 01:44:23.239 --> 01:44:26.359 he's good, I could see a DMZ being in stated, 1957 01:44:26.439 --> 01:44:30.560 But who's to say what that actual goalpost will be 1958 01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:33.880 or if he decides to move it or backtrack or 1959 01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:34.439 whatever the case. 1960 01:44:34.479 --> 01:44:37.319 I I don't know who's to say one way or another. 1961 01:44:37.359 --> 01:44:43.039 Honestly, anyway, while we are talking about foreign things, let's 1962 01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:47.279 talk about this one. Iran or Iran or Iran, however 1963 01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:50.319 the fuck you want to pronounce it briefly closes airspace 1964 01:44:50.560 --> 01:44:54.800 as US tensions rise, flights rerouted across the regions, So 1965 01:44:55.399 --> 01:44:58.640 let's just read straight into it here. Iran temporarily closed 1966 01:44:58.640 --> 01:45:02.960 its airspace last Wednesday to most incoming and outgoing flights 1967 01:45:03.000 --> 01:45:06.279 amid escalating tensions with the US. According to a notice 1968 01:45:06.600 --> 01:45:10.520 posted by the Federal Aviation Administration the FAA, the restriction 1969 01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:12.960 was scheduled to be in place from ten to fifteen 1970 01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:17.840 pm UTC Wednesday to twelve thirty am UTC on Thursday. 1971 01:45:17.880 --> 01:45:20.640 The notice said it was later extended to one fourteen 1972 01:45:20.680 --> 01:45:24.880 am and then to one thirty or three thirty am UTC. 1973 01:45:25.760 --> 01:45:29.239 Live data provided by flight Tracker and flight Radar showed 1974 01:45:29.279 --> 01:45:33.279 aircraft skirting around Iran's airspace as of eight thirty am, 1975 01:45:33.319 --> 01:45:35.319 and they have two pictures on screen where it shows 1976 01:45:35.359 --> 01:45:36.840 them all just going. 1977 01:45:36.640 --> 01:45:39.239 Around it at that point. 1978 01:45:39.720 --> 01:45:44.039 The order exempted international flights to and from Tehran provided 1979 01:45:44.039 --> 01:45:47.640 they received prior approval from Iran's Civil Aviation authority. The 1980 01:45:47.680 --> 01:45:51.920 airspace closure comes ascensions escalated after the US President threatened 1981 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:55.800 intervention following a deadly crackdown on anti government protests in Iran. 1982 01:45:56.319 --> 01:45:59.359 Trump later appeared to soften his tone. Speaking at the 1983 01:45:59.359 --> 01:46:02.000 White House on Wednesday night, Trump said that he has 1984 01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:05.079 been assured that the killing of protesters in Iran has stopped, 1985 01:46:05.359 --> 01:46:08.279 and that he would watch it and see. Regarding potential 1986 01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:12.000 US military action, the US has withdrawn some personnel from 1987 01:46:12.039 --> 01:46:15.279 American military bases in the Middle East amid Iranian threats 1988 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:19.079 to strike those locations of Washington launches an attack. Several 1989 01:46:19.119 --> 01:46:21.640 airlines have canceled their re routed flights to Tehran in 1990 01:46:21.720 --> 01:46:27.159 recent days. India's largest airline, Indigo ah NICE, said Thursday 1991 01:46:27.159 --> 01:46:29.720 that some of its international flights would be impacted by 1992 01:46:29.720 --> 01:46:32.199 Iran's airspace closure. Well, yeah, I guess that would be 1993 01:46:32.880 --> 01:46:36.920 earlier this week. Germany warned its airlines against entering Iran's airspace. 1994 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:41.159 The luft Hansa group said Wednesday that it would bypass 1995 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:45.560 Iranian and Iraqi airspace until further notice. With some flights canceled. 1996 01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:49.359 The US has prohibited all American commercial flights from overflying 1997 01:46:49.399 --> 01:46:54.720 Iran airlines include the Immirates, Katari Airways. Turkish airlines have 1998 01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:57.720 also canceled multiple flights to Iran over the past week. 1999 01:46:58.479 --> 01:46:59.479 That's also interesting. 2000 01:47:00.359 --> 01:47:05.720 Katar, Turkey, and the UAE have all canceled flights going 2001 01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:10.279 over Iran's That's pretty interesting to me, especially because that 2002 01:47:10.319 --> 01:47:15.199 ties into well, well, we're gonna talk about the UAE 2003 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:19.600 and their lack of funding to their students in the UK. 2004 01:47:19.960 --> 01:47:22.560 I think it's hilarious. But anyway, let's go here. 2005 01:47:22.600 --> 01:47:24.760 So the next thing I wanted to talk about while 2006 01:47:24.760 --> 01:47:27.359 we're still on the topic of Iran here, there's been 2007 01:47:27.399 --> 01:47:29.880 a lot of talk about the protests. There's a lot 2008 01:47:29.920 --> 01:47:32.840 of talk about possible regime change in the country. Feel 2009 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:36.399 how you want to feel about that. Fine, However, there's 2010 01:47:36.439 --> 01:47:38.239 been a lot of media that has come out of 2011 01:47:38.279 --> 01:47:44.079 Iran that shows that the videos are actually AI and 2012 01:47:44.079 --> 01:47:48.399 their dated photos to mislead about what the pro regime 2013 01:47:48.760 --> 01:47:53.800 rallies are happening in Iran right now. So basically, if 2014 01:47:53.840 --> 01:47:59.279 you have seen any type of pro Ayatola protests in 2015 01:47:59.319 --> 01:48:03.520 Iran in the past three weeks, it was more than 2016 01:48:03.680 --> 01:48:08.359 likely AI or dated things that were kind of retooled 2017 01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:11.039 to look newer, to make it look like, oh, the 2018 01:48:11.079 --> 01:48:13.880 country is split, the country doesn't want the Ietola to 2019 01:48:13.920 --> 01:48:14.399 go anywhere. 2020 01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:16.680 That's simply just not the case. 2021 01:48:16.760 --> 01:48:18.359 Right here, we actually have a video that we're going 2022 01:48:18.439 --> 01:48:20.560 to play to learn a little bit more about the 2023 01:48:21.920 --> 01:48:23.319 propaganda on this one. 2024 01:48:23.399 --> 01:48:24.000 Let's learn together. 2025 01:48:24.079 --> 01:48:27.920 I've seen massive social unrest continue in Iran as protesters 2026 01:48:28.119 --> 01:48:32.000 demonstrate against the theocratic government amidst an internet blackout and 2027 01:48:32.079 --> 01:48:35.199 a wave of crackdowns. Now, amidst those protests, the government 2028 01:48:35.239 --> 01:48:37.880 has also called on its supporters to take to the 2029 01:48:37.880 --> 01:48:41.039 streets as well in a show of loyalty. But online 2030 01:48:41.199 --> 01:48:44.920 false images by social media users are misleading those numbers. 2031 01:48:44.920 --> 01:48:47.359 So let's take a first look at what the state 2032 01:48:47.600 --> 01:48:52.880 media is sharing. Iran's government back to Press TV broadcasted 2033 01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:57.319 this aerial footage on its online media presence, saying it 2034 01:48:57.399 --> 01:49:01.800 captures monumental crowds rallying into Iran crowds that are powerfully 2035 01:49:02.119 --> 01:49:06.640 united towards the regime. Now, this was also followed by 2036 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:10.319 its parent company, which also shared similar images, The Islamic 2037 01:49:10.319 --> 01:49:14.560 Republic of Iran Broadcaster Broadcasting, saying that this is footage 2038 01:49:14.600 --> 01:49:18.560 from INKILOB Square or Revolutionary Square in the capital Tehran, 2039 01:49:18.800 --> 01:49:22.520 saying it shows loyalists gathering there carrying photos of the 2040 01:49:22.560 --> 01:49:26.760 Supreme Leader Ayotola Ali Haamine as well as the official 2041 01:49:26.760 --> 01:49:29.600 flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Now, this is 2042 01:49:29.640 --> 01:49:33.039 what the States authority media has been airing, but online 2043 01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:36.640 pro government user accounts on social media have been also 2044 01:49:36.920 --> 01:49:41.079 sharing out of context content to tork up these pro 2045 01:49:41.119 --> 01:49:44.479 government demonstrations. We have been seeing a lot of AI 2046 01:49:44.640 --> 01:49:48.439 generated and dated content being shared as if it is 2047 01:49:48.479 --> 01:49:52.439 in fact currents ongoing protests. This user on social media 2048 01:49:52.600 --> 01:49:57.159 was one of many to share this video showing the 2049 01:49:57.239 --> 01:50:00.560 official flag of the Islamic Republic stretching out for miles, 2050 01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:05.319 flanked by what we think is thousands of protesters alongside it. Now, 2051 01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:07.840 what I can tell you is that this video is 2052 01:50:07.960 --> 01:50:12.520 AI generated. Not only is there multiple distorted facial features. 2053 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:15.039 If we take a closer look at the video itself, 2054 01:50:15.439 --> 01:50:18.520 there are multiple distorted facial features. At one point, the 2055 01:50:18.560 --> 01:50:21.840 protester almost seems to be blending in with the flag itself. 2056 01:50:21.880 --> 01:50:23.640 But apart from that, if we take a look at 2057 01:50:23.680 --> 01:50:27.439 the watermark embedded on the video, we can actually find 2058 01:50:27.479 --> 01:50:29.840 the source of it. Which was this TikTok account in 2059 01:50:29.880 --> 01:50:32.720 which on the video there was a clear disclaimer that 2060 01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:36.359 this is AI generated content. Now moreover, the account behind 2061 01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:39.880 it actually is a prolific account that shares a series 2062 01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:44.119 of AI generated content falsely depicting ongoing protests in Iran, 2063 01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:48.199 and as of now this account has been suspended. Now 2064 01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:51.640 other accounts are actually sharing dated, out of context footage, 2065 01:50:52.159 --> 01:50:56.640 misrepresenting it as currents ongoing pro government protests. This user 2066 01:50:56.880 --> 01:50:59.399 on x shared this image saying that it shows a 2067 01:50:59.439 --> 01:51:02.199 massive Ranian human wave in the streets of Tehran in 2068 01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:06.479 support of the Supreme Leader and in support of the government. However, 2069 01:51:06.880 --> 01:51:09.439 this image is in fact six years old. We can 2070 01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:12.640 see that same image here dated in an article from 2071 01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:15.600 twenty twenty, and the image itself is from January sixth 2072 01:51:15.600 --> 01:51:18.760 of twenty twenty, depicting the funeral of Iranian military leader 2073 01:51:18.960 --> 01:51:23.000 Cassim Solimani. In fact, images from Cassam Solamani's funeral are 2074 01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:27.319 circulating quite a lot, being misrepresented as current as current images. 2075 01:51:27.680 --> 01:51:28.720 Here's another example. 2076 01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:29.600 This user on x. 2077 01:51:29.560 --> 01:51:32.560 Shared another photo saying that it shows the size and 2078 01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:36.720 scale of pro government support. Again, a reverse image search 2079 01:51:36.840 --> 01:51:40.239 shows us that this is also from Cassam Solimani's funeral 2080 01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:44.319 dated back to twenty twenty, so we can see here 2081 01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:48.119 how images are being distorted out of context in order 2082 01:51:48.159 --> 01:51:52.399 to talk up pro government support and rallies in support 2083 01:51:52.399 --> 01:51:54.279 of the Iranian government. Of course, this is at a 2084 01:51:54.319 --> 01:51:58.119 time where the government itself is trying to downplay descent 2085 01:51:58.239 --> 01:52:02.920 and downplay the extent of the anti government demonstrations. Of course, 2086 01:52:03.079 --> 01:52:07.399 considering the communications blackout in Iran, it makes it more 2087 01:52:07.439 --> 01:52:10.720 difficult than ever to receive and verify images coming out 2088 01:52:10.800 --> 01:52:13.159 of the country. And the trickle down effect of that 2089 01:52:13.359 --> 01:52:16.520 is that users on social media are more readily sharing 2090 01:52:16.600 --> 01:52:19.760 things AI images, dated footage. They're sharing it more readily 2091 01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:21.920 than ever, believing that it is in fact real. 2092 01:52:23.199 --> 01:52:23.960 There we have it. 2093 01:52:24.239 --> 01:52:28.279 So the article is very short, no real reason to 2094 01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:31.880 read it because she kind of did a great job 2095 01:52:31.880 --> 01:52:35.439 of explaining it all herself. So with that being said, 2096 01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:40.079 what does this regime change look like hypothetically if it 2097 01:52:40.159 --> 01:52:43.680 is successful, if the Ayatola is ousted and they bring 2098 01:52:43.800 --> 01:52:48.479 back Reza Pahlavi probably mispronouncing his name, my apologies. The 2099 01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:52.640 exiled prints urging Iranians to seize cities. Now, this is 2100 01:52:52.680 --> 01:52:55.880 an article from al Jazeero, which is a Katari publication, 2101 01:52:56.159 --> 01:53:00.119 and we know that. So now this dude, he's living 2102 01:53:00.159 --> 01:53:03.359 in Bethesda, Maryland as of right now as a political refugee. 2103 01:53:04.159 --> 01:53:06.640 But I want to learn more about the guy. 2104 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:10.399 So for decades, Raza Polavi was the polite face of 2105 01:53:10.439 --> 01:53:14.159 the Iranian opposition in exile, a former fighter pilot who 2106 01:53:14.159 --> 01:53:17.920 spoke of nonviolent resistance and secular democracy from his home 2107 01:53:17.960 --> 01:53:20.920 in the United States. But this weekend, the tone of 2108 01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:23.239 the sixty five year old heir to the Peacock throne 2109 01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:27.319 and son of the Iran's last shaw changed dramatically. In 2110 01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:30.960 a direct challenge to the Iranian government, Polavi challenge or 2111 01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:35.079 called on Iranians to seize the city centers and prepare 2112 01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:39.279 for his imminent return, prompting that Iranian state media describes 2113 01:53:39.359 --> 01:53:43.399 as armed terrorist attacks across the country. I bet they 2114 01:53:43.439 --> 01:53:46.439 would that they of course, the Iotola would call that that. 2115 01:53:47.600 --> 01:53:50.079 Our goal is no longer merely to come into the streets, 2116 01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:52.520 Polavi declared in a statement released on his ex account. 2117 01:53:52.600 --> 01:53:55.159 The goal was to prepare to seize city centers and 2118 01:53:55.279 --> 01:53:59.439 hold them so from air to exile. Polavi was born 2119 01:53:59.479 --> 01:54:02.239 in t Iran on October thirty first, nineteen sixty Oh, 2120 01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:04.800 a Halloween baby, just like my dad. Seven years after, 2121 01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:07.880 the US and the UK engineered a coup against Iran's 2122 01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:14.560 then elected Prime Minister, Mohammad mosadig Mosadeg. Yeah, who has 2123 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:18.840 nationalized the assets of the Anglo Persian Oil Company known 2124 01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:23.479 now as BP. In nineteen fifty one, Polavi was officially 2125 01:54:23.560 --> 01:54:26.039 named Crown Prince at the age of seven. His path 2126 01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:29.680 seemed destined for the throne until the nineteen seventy nine 2127 01:54:29.720 --> 01:54:33.079 revolution up ended the region. At seventeen, he left Iran 2128 01:54:33.560 --> 01:54:36.199 for fighter pilot training in the US at Reese Air 2129 01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:39.279 Force Base in Texas. While he was away, the representative 2130 01:54:39.319 --> 01:54:43.119 monarchy collapsed and the current political system was established. Barring 2131 01:54:43.159 --> 01:54:46.279 his return, Polavi completed his training and later earned a 2132 01:54:46.279 --> 01:54:49.720 degree in political science from the University of Southern California. 2133 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:52.239 During the Iran Iraq War in the nineteen eighties, he 2134 01:54:52.319 --> 01:54:55.199 famously volunteered to serve as a fighter pilot for his country, 2135 01:54:55.399 --> 01:54:59.159 but was rejected by the authorities of Tehran, which, yeah, 2136 01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:01.720 that makes sense. He has lived in exile ever since, 2137 01:55:01.840 --> 01:55:05.119 residing in the US with his wife, Yasmin, and their 2138 01:55:05.159 --> 01:55:09.960 three daughters. So for now, talking about preparing to return. 2139 01:55:10.359 --> 01:55:13.680 For more than forty years, Polavi advocated for a referendum 2140 01:55:13.720 --> 01:55:18.279 and nonviolent change. However, his rhetoric has sharpened significantly in 2141 01:55:18.359 --> 01:55:22.079 recent days. On Saturday, he urged workers in key sectors 2142 01:55:22.159 --> 01:55:26.199 transport oil and gas to launch nationwide strikes to cut 2143 01:55:26.239 --> 01:55:29.600 off the financial lifelines to the state. He specifically called 2144 01:55:29.640 --> 01:55:33.479 on the quote youth of the immortal guard, end quote 2145 01:55:33.920 --> 01:55:39.479 the erstwhile imperial forces and security forces to defect. I too, 2146 01:55:39.520 --> 01:55:42.560 am preparing to return to the homeland, so that at 2147 01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:46.520 the time of our national revolutions victories, I can be 2148 01:55:46.520 --> 01:55:50.000 beside you, he stated. His call to action comes amid 2149 01:55:50.039 --> 01:55:53.880 reports of the largest anti government protests in years. Pallavi 2150 01:55:54.039 --> 01:55:57.319 asked supporters to hoist the pre nineteen seventy nine Lion 2151 01:55:57.439 --> 01:56:00.439 and Sun flag, a symbol of his father's rule, and 2152 01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:04.000 to occupy public spaces starting from six pm local time. 2153 01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:08.159 So I have seen that flag be raised in place 2154 01:56:08.239 --> 01:56:11.720 of the current Iranian flag all over the country. So 2155 01:56:11.800 --> 01:56:15.960 there's terrorist accusations. Of course, the response from Tehran has 2156 01:56:16.039 --> 01:56:20.680 been furious. On Sunday, state affiliated media outlets labeled the 2157 01:56:20.680 --> 01:56:24.640 protests as a new phase of insecurity and an internal 2158 01:56:24.800 --> 01:56:29.159 armed war. I find it funny that the Ayatola and 2159 01:56:29.199 --> 01:56:35.000 the Iranian government, who fund multiple terrorist organizations, are calling 2160 01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:36.359 this terrorism. 2161 01:56:36.840 --> 01:56:37.399 But all right. 2162 01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:43.439 A report by the conservative Vatan e m rouse Yeah newspaper, 2163 01:56:43.479 --> 01:56:48.199 cited by Taznin news agency describe Pavlov's call at pa 2164 01:56:48.319 --> 01:56:53.279 Lavi's call as cover for terrorism Nuclei Wow to attack 2165 01:56:53.359 --> 01:56:55.960 police and besiege forces. 2166 01:56:56.399 --> 01:56:59.119 Not to be mistaken, this is not merely a riot. 2167 01:56:59.399 --> 01:57:02.800 These were all armed terrorist attacks, or reports stated, claiming 2168 01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:06.079 that dozens of security personnel have been killed. Officials have 2169 01:57:06.159 --> 01:57:11.079 linked Pallavi's escalation to foreign interference, specifically accusing the US 2170 01:57:11.119 --> 01:57:15.279 and Israel. Well, of course, they claimed the unrest is 2171 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:18.279 a plan b by President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister 2172 01:57:18.560 --> 01:57:21.680 Netanyahu following the conclusion of the twelve day war between 2173 01:57:21.800 --> 01:57:26.159 Israel and Iran in May of last year. So opposition 2174 01:57:26.399 --> 01:57:30.439 against the opposition, let's continue. While Polavi has found new 2175 01:57:31.359 --> 01:57:34.479 or renewed popularity in the streets, he faces sharp criticism 2176 01:57:34.520 --> 01:57:38.279 from within the fractured Iranian opposition. I'm not gonna try 2177 01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:42.000 to pronounce the name. Nader and around expert argued in 2178 01:57:42.079 --> 01:57:45.600 a recent article that Polavi's political activities have become divisive. 2179 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:49.720 Critics accused his circle of attacking other prominent descendants, such 2180 01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:54.960 as Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, labeling them leftists 2181 01:57:55.079 --> 01:57:59.880 or terrorists. Could be interchangeable dialogue. Polavi has doubled down 2182 01:57:59.880 --> 01:58:04.039 for his advisors, despite others unease about them. Nata wrote 2183 01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:10.199 questioning whether the Prince has become the opposition against the opposition? Okay, 2184 01:58:11.079 --> 01:58:14.399 other there are also concerns about manipulation. Nator not that 2185 01:58:14.439 --> 01:58:18.960 Pelavi's online support is partially driven by cyber armies linked 2186 01:58:18.960 --> 01:58:23.359 to the Iranian government designed to sow discord, raising questions 2187 01:58:23.399 --> 01:58:25.479 about who is co opting whom. 2188 01:58:26.479 --> 01:58:27.119 Okay. 2189 01:58:27.600 --> 01:58:31.760 Despite these internal riffs, Polavi remains the most visible figurehead 2190 01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:34.640 for the current wave of unrest, with the Trump administration 2191 01:58:34.760 --> 01:58:37.760 maintaining a hands off approach, asserting it is up to 2192 01:58:37.840 --> 01:58:40.560 Iranians to choose their own leaders. In the streets of 2193 01:58:40.600 --> 01:58:44.079 Tehran burning, the exiled prince appears to be making his 2194 01:58:44.159 --> 01:58:48.920 final gamble for the throne he lost forty seven years ago. Okay, 2195 01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:52.920 I mean again, I'm not necessarily against the regime change. 2196 01:58:52.960 --> 01:58:54.039 I know a lot of people are. 2197 01:58:54.720 --> 01:58:58.039 If it's done truly and purely by the Iranian people 2198 01:58:58.520 --> 01:58:59.760 and this is what they want. 2199 01:59:00.680 --> 01:59:02.079 I'm here for it. 2200 01:59:02.159 --> 01:59:04.840 If this is being influenced by foreign actors or something 2201 01:59:04.920 --> 01:59:06.640 like that, then yeah, I think we need to mind 2202 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:10.960 our own business. But that's also how regime changes go worldwide. 2203 01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:16.119 You know, it's never really clean anyway. Yeah, go ahead. 2204 01:59:16.159 --> 01:59:16.800 I don't think that. 2205 01:59:16.920 --> 01:59:20.039 I don't think Rezapalavi Junior is going to end up 2206 01:59:20.039 --> 01:59:23.079 in charge of Iran if they have a regime change. 2207 01:59:23.119 --> 01:59:25.520 It's just going to be somebody else already there. Kind 2208 01:59:25.520 --> 01:59:28.560 of like everyone thought Maria Karina Machado was going to 2209 01:59:28.640 --> 01:59:31.960 be in charge of Venezuela because she was the US 2210 01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:35.079 favorite and she was making the media circuit all around 2211 01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:37.600 the Western world. And she's not going to be in 2212 01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:38.800 charge of Venezuela. 2213 01:59:38.920 --> 01:59:40.119 No, they don't know who she is. 2214 01:59:40.239 --> 01:59:42.039 She was the one that just won the Nobel Peace Prize, 2215 01:59:42.079 --> 01:59:45.640 if not mistaken, but it was for humanitarian efforts, and 2216 01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:48.720 no one in Venezuela knows that she just was the 2217 01:59:48.760 --> 01:59:51.399 award of the Nobel Peace Prize because the state media 2218 01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:52.199 suppressed at all. 2219 01:59:52.920 --> 01:59:55.560 I think they know, but they still regard it as 2220 01:59:55.840 --> 02:00:00.880 the Maduro and Chavista people regarded as a complete like 2221 02:00:01.000 --> 02:00:07.319 fraudulent or a publicity stunt more than anything. That's how 2222 02:00:07.359 --> 02:00:07.960 they regard it. 2223 02:00:08.079 --> 02:00:10.479 They don't I read into her, dude. That priest prize 2224 02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:12.760 was well deserved from what I read anyway. 2225 02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:16.520 But even still they give it to Obama and stuff 2226 02:00:16.520 --> 02:00:19.000 before he even did anything. So a lot of that's 2227 02:00:19.039 --> 02:00:21.600 a fair point. Prize is just political. 2228 02:00:22.239 --> 02:00:23.359 Depends on what it's for. 2229 02:00:23.560 --> 02:00:24.239 I'll give you that. 2230 02:00:25.159 --> 02:00:28.199 I actually know someone who was nominated for humanitarian efforts 2231 02:00:28.199 --> 02:00:31.840 and it was a legitimate like this woman deserved in 2232 02:00:31.840 --> 02:00:34.960 my opinion, But it depends on what it's for. Evidences 2233 02:00:34.960 --> 02:00:37.079 in the way of science or technology or something. You 2234 02:00:37.119 --> 02:00:38.560 have to have something behind it. But then they gave 2235 02:00:38.560 --> 02:00:41.560 it to al Gore to lie to us about global warming, 2236 02:00:42.039 --> 02:00:44.039 and you're right, they gave it to Obama two weeks 2237 02:00:44.079 --> 02:00:46.600 after he was elected for nothing, So I see what 2238 02:00:46.600 --> 02:00:47.319 you're going here. 2239 02:00:48.000 --> 02:00:50.399 Yeah, we're getting lots of numbers out of how many 2240 02:00:50.439 --> 02:00:52.720 people have died any run and they cut off their 2241 02:00:52.880 --> 02:00:57.439 their internet obviously, right, But I've seen anything from like 2242 02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:02.159 one to twenty thousand. Nothing's really backed up yet, and 2243 02:01:02.239 --> 02:01:05.439 I'm curious to know what the final number is actually 2244 02:01:05.479 --> 02:01:08.560 going to be. And I don't know how much of 2245 02:01:08.560 --> 02:01:10.680 this is AI. I don't think I saw that one 2246 02:01:10.720 --> 02:01:15.119 particular AI video of the flag outstretched, but there's there's 2247 02:01:15.199 --> 02:01:20.159 been outdated video shown on both sides too. And did 2248 02:01:20.199 --> 02:01:23.640 you see x Elon Musk changed the flag Iran to 2249 02:01:23.680 --> 02:01:28.399 the one with the lion holding the sword. Crazy crazy 2250 02:01:28.399 --> 02:01:30.560 about that, because it's like the regime change isn't even 2251 02:01:30.560 --> 02:01:32.720 done yet, but this is a kind of mind war 2252 02:01:32.880 --> 02:01:37.359 where the zone just gets flooded by as much material 2253 02:01:37.399 --> 02:01:39.880 as possible to make everyone think it's a fad of klumple, 2254 02:01:41.079 --> 02:01:44.720 and both sides are trying to do that. Right, Let's 2255 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:47.239 see what I think Trump personally, I get the sense 2256 02:01:47.239 --> 02:01:49.199 he's trying to back away from this a little bit, 2257 02:01:49.239 --> 02:01:51.319 because at first he was saying, we are going to 2258 02:01:51.439 --> 02:01:54.680 drop you know, missiles on Iran if they're too hard 2259 02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:58.399 on the protesters, and now just within the past day 2260 02:01:58.439 --> 02:02:00.920 he's saying, you know, this is up to them, this 2261 02:02:00.960 --> 02:02:03.439 isn't for America to decide. And I think, Okay, he's 2262 02:02:03.560 --> 02:02:06.039 trying to back away a little bit. I support him 2263 02:02:06.079 --> 02:02:09.359 backing away. I don't see anyone waiting in the wings 2264 02:02:09.399 --> 02:02:13.840 to take over Iran. It might just fragment maybe Israel 2265 02:02:13.920 --> 02:02:17.359 in the US would prefer chaos over there over the 2266 02:02:17.399 --> 02:02:20.680 current regime over there, even if we can't get Rezipalabi 2267 02:02:20.920 --> 02:02:21.439 in power. 2268 02:02:22.680 --> 02:02:25.800 Maybe yes, Maybe no, though, because if Iran goes into 2269 02:02:25.880 --> 02:02:29.079 full on chaos, that's going to be a breeding ground 2270 02:02:29.119 --> 02:02:31.159 for the exact thing that they're trying to get rid of, 2271 02:02:31.439 --> 02:02:33.359 because now all you're going to have is some local 2272 02:02:33.399 --> 02:02:37.880 warlord or some terrorist group take over, and that's the 2273 02:02:37.920 --> 02:02:41.239 opposite of what anybody, including the other Muslim countries, and 2274 02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:44.560 they at least want, I don't see to your point. 2275 02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:47.039 I think Israel would want that. I think that would 2276 02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:49.279 be less of a threat to Israel than the Iranian 2277 02:02:49.319 --> 02:02:50.720 government currently is. 2278 02:02:52.560 --> 02:02:55.720 Break this down for me because, like, for instance, Syria 2279 02:02:56.239 --> 02:02:58.800 is a fragmented nation that is currently being led by 2280 02:02:58.840 --> 02:03:02.319 an al Qaeda leader, right I don't think Israel's like 2281 02:03:02.359 --> 02:03:05.159 super stoked about that. I don't think they're also super 2282 02:03:05.199 --> 02:03:08.039 worried about that right now. But I think that they 2283 02:03:08.079 --> 02:03:11.359 had a pretty good working relationship with Ala Sad at 2284 02:03:11.439 --> 02:03:13.000 least for a good bit. Now he was sucking up 2285 02:03:13.039 --> 02:03:16.279 his own people, that's fair, but they didn't have to 2286 02:03:16.319 --> 02:03:18.399 worry about much out of a Syria for a good 2287 02:03:18.439 --> 02:03:18.960 bit there. 2288 02:03:19.720 --> 02:03:23.359 I didn't get that impression. I thought Asad was allowing 2289 02:03:23.479 --> 02:03:27.840 arms traffic to go from Iran to Lebanon and that's 2290 02:03:27.880 --> 02:03:30.720 been cut off. Now, I think that was Israel's main goal, 2291 02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:35.600 and they won. Okay, that's fair time, and that's for 2292 02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:39.039 the straight of horror moves. I think that. You know, 2293 02:03:39.079 --> 02:03:44.560 it's very Arab territory. Yeah, and even inside Iran, both 2294 02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:49.199 sides of the Gulf are Arab, not Persian. So I 2295 02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:51.960 think Israel and the US would find a way to 2296 02:03:52.079 --> 02:03:55.279 keep the straits of horror moves open if the Iranian 2297 02:03:55.359 --> 02:03:58.439 government were to collapse and it were to fragment into 2298 02:03:58.439 --> 02:04:02.239 different territories, so that problem would not be a problem either. 2299 02:04:03.079 --> 02:04:06.239 I think that might actually be the anticipated outcome. I 2300 02:04:06.239 --> 02:04:09.079 would say that outcome is way more likely than Rezapalavi 2301 02:04:09.239 --> 02:04:14.359 Junior becoming the Shah again. Now, actually, I still bet 2302 02:04:14.439 --> 02:04:18.359 that the Aotola holds power. That's my final beat to 2303 02:04:18.399 --> 02:04:19.079 your point. 2304 02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:22.399 I could see the potential of the prince to not 2305 02:04:22.560 --> 02:04:25.680 regain power, right, but maybe a regime change in some 2306 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:29.720 by a local, maybe more of a democratically elected individual. 2307 02:04:29.960 --> 02:04:32.399 Maybe the Ayahtola loses a bit of his power and 2308 02:04:32.439 --> 02:04:36.039 becomes more of a religious figurehead than the combination of 2309 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:37.039 religious and political. 2310 02:04:37.119 --> 02:04:38.840 I could see something like that shaking out too. 2311 02:04:39.359 --> 02:04:41.640 But you also keep in mind your boy, the prince, 2312 02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:44.479 he's hadn't been back to that country since he was seventeen, 2313 02:04:45.359 --> 02:04:48.840 Like he's nobody in that country really remembers the good 2314 02:04:48.840 --> 02:04:51.560 old days of his dad. Like that's a far that's 2315 02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:55.920 a far gone, antiquated look at things. So don't I 2316 02:04:55.960 --> 02:04:58.079 don't know. I could be so wrong here, and the 2317 02:04:58.079 --> 02:05:01.399 Iranian people are begging to bring back the monarchy. 2318 02:05:01.800 --> 02:05:03.880 I could be I could be wrong. I'd say it's 2319 02:05:03.920 --> 02:05:06.960 like a one percent chance I would give it. Fragmentation 2320 02:05:07.119 --> 02:05:10.039 is more like a twenty thirty percent chance, and seventy 2321 02:05:10.079 --> 02:05:13.479 percent chance I toold is going to keep power. I'm 2322 02:05:13.479 --> 02:05:15.840 more concerned, I think, with what's going to happen in 2323 02:05:15.880 --> 02:05:19.319 the next week. I think the US might launch some 2324 02:05:19.359 --> 02:05:22.560 missiles against Iran, a small number, and then Iran's going 2325 02:05:22.600 --> 02:05:25.479 to have a proportionate response like they did after Sole Money, 2326 02:05:25.640 --> 02:05:29.560 or like they did kind of to Israel this past June. 2327 02:05:29.680 --> 02:05:32.039 I think it's going to be kind of limited both ways, 2328 02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:36.560 and I hope Iran doesn't start it. I think if 2329 02:05:36.600 --> 02:05:39.600 Iran were to start it, they would get a disproportionate 2330 02:05:39.640 --> 02:05:43.640 response in return, they were you know, more at risk 2331 02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:45.640 if they started it. Then if they just sit there 2332 02:05:45.680 --> 02:05:47.840 and wait for the US to do what the US 2333 02:05:47.960 --> 02:05:50.439 is going to do, maybe another bunk or buster on 2334 02:05:50.560 --> 02:05:51.640 four to doh or something. 2335 02:05:52.239 --> 02:05:54.960 Now, I also am of the belief at this time 2336 02:05:55.000 --> 02:05:59.239 that this although yes, Israel has you know, their their 2337 02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:02.600 they want Iran to go through a regime change for sure, 2338 02:06:02.960 --> 02:06:05.720 America does too, but again so does all the other 2339 02:06:05.760 --> 02:06:12.439 Muslim countries. Could this be a Muslim on Muslim situation hypothetically. 2340 02:06:12.560 --> 02:06:13.800 Like the Saudis probably do? 2341 02:06:14.159 --> 02:06:21.399 I think, I know, the Qataris, the UAE, Saudi's, Jordanians, 2342 02:06:22.159 --> 02:06:25.960 none of them get down with the current way Iran. 2343 02:06:25.760 --> 02:06:26.359 Is being ran. 2344 02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:28.279 Well. 2345 02:06:28.319 --> 02:06:32.439 I think the Sunnis have the biggest opposition to Iran, 2346 02:06:32.520 --> 02:06:38.119 but Qatar historically has been sort of more favorable to 2347 02:06:38.199 --> 02:06:41.000 Iran than the Saudis. For sure, the Saudis really hate Iran. 2348 02:06:41.079 --> 02:06:43.960 I think the Hasher Mights hate Iran. The Iraqis, I think, 2349 02:06:43.960 --> 02:06:46.880 are more cool with Iran. The Iraqis are mostly Shia. 2350 02:06:47.279 --> 02:06:51.960 Saddam Hussein was a Sunni. The Kuwaitis are Shia, but 2351 02:06:52.039 --> 02:06:53.560 I think they hate Iran too. 2352 02:06:54.000 --> 02:06:56.920 It's not even about the religious From what I can tell, 2353 02:06:56.960 --> 02:06:59.039 it's not has to do with the religious affiliations. 2354 02:06:59.359 --> 02:07:01.319 It has to do with the fact that they are 2355 02:07:01.399 --> 02:07:02.960 bad for business. 2356 02:07:04.520 --> 02:07:06.920 Iran could shut down the straight or horror moves, so 2357 02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:08.439 the Kuwaitis don't like him. 2358 02:07:09.359 --> 02:07:11.159 No, how could I put this? 2359 02:07:11.800 --> 02:07:14.199 So you remember when you were in school, when you 2360 02:07:14.239 --> 02:07:16.640 were a kid in class and you had that one 2361 02:07:16.800 --> 02:07:20.199 kid in that class that was always an asshole, And 2362 02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:23.039 when he wasn't there that day, you were stoked because 2363 02:07:23.039 --> 02:07:25.520 you knew the day was just gonna go smoothly. But 2364 02:07:25.640 --> 02:07:29.000 every time that he was there, he would just cause 2365 02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:32.159 trouble and make the day go on longer, and he 2366 02:07:32.239 --> 02:07:34.800 and the teacher would just get into it, and then 2367 02:07:34.800 --> 02:07:36.319 he'd have to go to the office. And now you're 2368 02:07:36.359 --> 02:07:38.039 just sitting there for an hour while they have this 2369 02:07:38.079 --> 02:07:40.560 bickering match and all this dumb shit because this kid 2370 02:07:40.600 --> 02:07:42.680 can't just shut up and get along like the rest 2371 02:07:42.680 --> 02:07:47.000 of you. From what I can tell, that's Iran, it's not. 2372 02:07:47.279 --> 02:07:48.720 It has nothing to do with the fact that they 2373 02:07:48.800 --> 02:07:50.760 worship a lot. It has nothing to do with their 2374 02:07:50.800 --> 02:07:53.039 brand of Islam. It has to do with the fact 2375 02:07:53.039 --> 02:07:55.680 that they continuously do what they can to stir the 2376 02:07:55.720 --> 02:07:57.840 pot and kick the hornet's nest, and to a point, 2377 02:07:57.920 --> 02:08:00.439 everybody can deal with that. But it's gotten to a 2378 02:08:00.479 --> 02:08:03.159 point now to where it's getting in the way of 2379 02:08:03.239 --> 02:08:08.119 business right and now, especially with the Saudi's, the Kataris, 2380 02:08:08.279 --> 02:08:11.800 and the Immirates all wanting to get more in bed 2381 02:08:12.199 --> 02:08:16.279 with not just America but the wider Western world as 2382 02:08:16.319 --> 02:08:20.600 a whole. They see Iran in the current regime as 2383 02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:25.039 a liability rather than as an asset. What is your 2384 02:08:25.079 --> 02:08:25.560 take on. 2385 02:08:25.479 --> 02:08:30.199 This, Well, Yeah, Iran's support for Hezbla is probably the 2386 02:08:30.199 --> 02:08:35.199 one thing that all the other countries that hate Iran 2387 02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:37.640 hate most about them, and it's the thing that the 2388 02:08:37.720 --> 02:08:41.039 most anti Israeli people love the most about Iran. It's 2389 02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:44.359 their support for Hezbalah and that's probably what it all 2390 02:08:44.399 --> 02:08:49.000 revolves around. As for the whole Saudi Iranian I guess 2391 02:08:49.239 --> 02:08:51.880 Saudi Arabia is pretty far south a Lebanon. Maybe they 2392 02:08:51.880 --> 02:08:54.920 don't care about it quite as much, but they've been 2393 02:08:55.319 --> 02:08:58.880 rivals since before Israel existed. There must be other reasons. 2394 02:08:58.920 --> 02:09:00.960 And I'm not super famili you're with it. I would 2395 02:09:01.000 --> 02:09:03.920 just chalk it up in large part to Sunny versus 2396 02:09:03.920 --> 02:09:05.000 Shia and. 2397 02:09:05.039 --> 02:09:07.000 Try versus tribe, clan versus clan. 2398 02:09:07.039 --> 02:09:11.880 Who knows, dude, Yeah, I can't really speak authoritatively on that, 2399 02:09:12.000 --> 02:09:14.399 but everybody knows. They just don't like each other. And 2400 02:09:14.439 --> 02:09:18.560 the Saudis also tend not to like the Shia Arabs. 2401 02:09:19.199 --> 02:09:22.439 Within Saudi Arabia, there's a few Shia Arabs next to Kuwait, 2402 02:09:23.199 --> 02:09:27.000 and Saudi government doesn't really like them very much either, 2403 02:09:27.640 --> 02:09:32.239 And I also chalk that up to general sectarian division. 2404 02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:36.199 As for deeper history, I don't know, So that's the end. 2405 02:09:36.279 --> 02:09:38.039 That's a limit of my knowledge. 2406 02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:40.520 Dude, to look into the deeper history of the Middle 2407 02:09:40.520 --> 02:09:42.800 East as a whole, to figure out who hates who 2408 02:09:42.880 --> 02:09:47.199 and why takeaway Israel just just for the sake of 2409 02:09:47.239 --> 02:09:51.399 this conversation, put Israel off to the side. There is 2410 02:09:51.640 --> 02:09:55.720 no clear cut way to decide why this group hates 2411 02:09:55.760 --> 02:09:58.319 this group, why this group is boys with this group, 2412 02:09:58.399 --> 02:10:00.359 why this one is enemy and my enemy he is 2413 02:10:00.359 --> 02:10:03.760 my friend. It's it's messy. The deeper you look into it, 2414 02:10:03.800 --> 02:10:07.720 the messier it gets. Honestly, I've tried for years, and 2415 02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:10.000 there are some things that make sense to me. Some 2416 02:10:10.079 --> 02:10:12.800 things that are just. It is what it is there, 2417 02:10:12.920 --> 02:10:16.079 It's the Middle East is just, it's its own animal. 2418 02:10:16.520 --> 02:10:20.399 Honestly, well, I just asked Grock. It said pretty much 2419 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:23.479 everything we already said, Sunni versus Shia. It also mentions 2420 02:10:23.520 --> 02:10:28.439 the Hohoth East who I forgot who sure Yemen. Other 2421 02:10:28.520 --> 02:10:33.680 proxy wars Syria, Yemen, Iraq, other flash points nineteen eighty 2422 02:10:33.720 --> 02:10:36.479 to eighty eight Iran Iraq war Saudi back to Iraq, 2423 02:10:37.600 --> 02:10:42.920 twenty sixteen execution of Shia cleric Nimmer. I'll Nimmer Iran 2424 02:10:42.960 --> 02:10:45.600 protested the heck out of that he was a Saudi 2425 02:10:46.119 --> 02:10:49.640 Shia Muslim, and Saudi Arabia executed him for some reason. 2426 02:10:49.800 --> 02:10:58.279 I don't remember. Oh yes, attacks by by Yemen on 2427 02:10:58.359 --> 02:10:59.359 Saudi Aramco. 2428 02:11:00.279 --> 02:11:01.760 Mm let's see. 2429 02:11:01.760 --> 02:11:04.439 There's a few other things. That's That's pretty much it. 2430 02:11:04.520 --> 02:11:09.000 Actually, who knows, But yeah, I don't know what the 2431 02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:11.680 regime change will look like if it is successful. I 2432 02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:16.479 am hoping that it would make Aron a better ballplayer, 2433 02:11:17.039 --> 02:11:19.680 so to speak. But I mean, who's to really say 2434 02:11:19.680 --> 02:11:21.800 it won't just get replaced by somebody who is equal 2435 02:11:21.880 --> 02:11:24.479 to what they currently have. I you know, who knows. 2436 02:11:24.560 --> 02:11:26.760 We'll have to just wait and see now. I did 2437 02:11:26.800 --> 02:11:28.680 want to kind of finish up with this article because 2438 02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:31.680 we talked about it on the Live yesterday and I 2439 02:11:31.720 --> 02:11:34.680 feel like people may not have the full context on 2440 02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:35.039 this one. 2441 02:11:35.119 --> 02:11:38.239 So let's get into it here. Radicalization alarm. 2442 02:11:38.560 --> 02:11:43.399 Why the UAE is losing faith in UK universities For 2443 02:11:43.479 --> 02:11:48.000 everybody who hasn't heard the UAE, who very well to 2444 02:11:48.039 --> 02:11:51.359 do nation and they send people from their country all 2445 02:11:51.399 --> 02:11:56.000 over the world to go to higher levels of education 2446 02:11:56.439 --> 02:11:59.520 all over the world. But the way that the UK 2447 02:11:59.680 --> 02:12:02.560 has done business for the past few years and let 2448 02:12:02.680 --> 02:12:06.399 so many I don't want to just use the word terrorists, 2449 02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:11.159 but people into their country that are dismantling the UK 2450 02:12:11.319 --> 02:12:14.399 as a whole. It has gotten so bad, and the 2451 02:12:14.520 --> 02:12:16.840 UK has said, no, it's not that bad. It's being 2452 02:12:17.279 --> 02:12:21.119 blasted is more than it is online whatever. The rape 2453 02:12:21.119 --> 02:12:23.520 gains aren't a thing. The women getting asked to throw 2454 02:12:23.520 --> 02:12:25.479 it in their face is not a thing. This is 2455 02:12:25.560 --> 02:12:28.000 just a culture thing. Y'all have to be more tolerant 2456 02:12:28.039 --> 02:12:29.880 all of this shit. The UK government has said that 2457 02:12:29.920 --> 02:12:34.079 for a while it has gotten so bad that even 2458 02:12:34.239 --> 02:12:39.960 other Muslim nations are now not allowing their population to 2459 02:12:40.039 --> 02:12:42.319 go to school in the UK. And if they do, 2460 02:12:42.760 --> 02:12:45.359 they're not paying for it like they used to, because 2461 02:12:45.880 --> 02:12:49.680 they're people who happen to be Islamic will go to 2462 02:12:49.720 --> 02:12:53.479 the UK and become radicalized by whatever kind of Islam 2463 02:12:53.520 --> 02:12:56.600 they currently have in the UK, And it's gotten so 2464 02:12:56.720 --> 02:12:59.239 bad that now it's being recognized on a wider scale, 2465 02:12:59.640 --> 02:13:02.039 to the tune of pulling funding. Let's get into it here. 2466 02:13:02.640 --> 02:13:06.760 The UAE has taken a decisive step to limit government 2467 02:13:06.800 --> 02:13:10.840 funding for Immoradi students who want to study at British universities, 2468 02:13:11.079 --> 02:13:14.600 reflecting rising tensions over the UK stance on the Islamist 2469 02:13:14.800 --> 02:13:18.840 Muslim brotherhood. The move signals deeper strains in a historically 2470 02:13:18.880 --> 02:13:22.399 closed relationship and raises questions about the future of the 2471 02:13:22.520 --> 02:13:27.399 UK UAE educational ties. So according to the Financial Times report, 2472 02:13:27.439 --> 02:13:31.159 the UAE's Ministry of Higher Education published a revised list 2473 02:13:31.359 --> 02:13:34.960 of international universities eligible for state scholarship in June of 2474 02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:38.640 twenty twenty five. While institutions in the United States, Australia, 2475 02:13:38.720 --> 02:13:44.319 France and Israel were included, British universities were notably absent. 2476 02:13:45.000 --> 02:13:49.039 Officials told the UK representatives that the exclusion was intentional, 2477 02:13:49.279 --> 02:13:53.279 not an oversight. Sources familiar with the discussions explained that 2478 02:13:53.359 --> 02:13:57.479 Abu Dhabi's primary concern was preventing Imoradi students from exposure 2479 02:13:57.520 --> 02:14:01.640 to what it views as potential is longist radicalization on 2480 02:14:01.840 --> 02:14:06.560 UK campuses. A person with direct knowledge said they don't 2481 02:14:06.600 --> 02:14:10.239 want their kids to be radicalized on campus. UK officials 2482 02:14:10.319 --> 02:14:13.600 responded by emphasizing the importance of academic freedom. 2483 02:14:14.560 --> 02:14:15.520 That's their response. 2484 02:14:16.279 --> 02:14:20.520 They're losing funding for a certain demographic of students because 2485 02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:23.560 of the other demographic of students they have, and they're 2486 02:14:23.600 --> 02:14:25.439 just telling people that, well, we just. 2487 02:14:25.359 --> 02:14:27.399 Need economic we just need educational freedom. 2488 02:14:28.920 --> 02:14:33.000 BRAH officials with knowledge of the policy also told The 2489 02:14:33.000 --> 02:14:36.239 Times UK that federal funding was being limited for citizens 2490 02:14:36.239 --> 02:14:38.560 hoping to study in the UK, but that the government 2491 02:14:38.640 --> 02:14:42.359 was not imposing a blanket ban on enrollments. Wealthier families 2492 02:14:42.359 --> 02:14:45.159 can still send their children to British universities if they 2493 02:14:45.239 --> 02:14:48.520 cover the costs themselves, while state funding continues to be 2494 02:14:48.600 --> 02:14:52.359 available for students studying in other countries. The decision comes 2495 02:14:52.399 --> 02:14:56.319 after federal funding for emmorties pursuing UK studies had already 2496 02:14:56.359 --> 02:14:59.680 declined prior to June. Students who had already enrolled in 2497 02:14:59.680 --> 02:15:03.119 British universities continue to receive support, but the new rules 2498 02:15:03.159 --> 02:15:06.039 mean that Imoradi students starting courses in the UK will 2499 02:15:06.039 --> 02:15:08.439 face limited or no government funding. 2500 02:15:09.119 --> 02:15:12.600 Wow, this is from David Collier on X. 2501 02:15:12.720 --> 02:15:14.880 The UAE has cut funding for students who want to 2502 02:15:14.920 --> 02:15:16.920 study in the UK. It is worried they will be 2503 02:15:17.000 --> 02:15:18.000 radicalized on campus. 2504 02:15:18.119 --> 02:15:18.960 Let me say that again. 2505 02:15:19.079 --> 02:15:21.880 An Arab state will not send its kids to the 2506 02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:26.279 UK because it's worried we will turn them into Islamic terrorists. 2507 02:15:26.840 --> 02:15:30.640 Let that sink in. I couldn't have said that better myself, honestly. 2508 02:15:31.239 --> 02:15:35.760 So yeah, the radicalization concerns in the Muslim Brotherhood. The 2509 02:15:35.880 --> 02:15:38.960 UAE's move is closely tied to its long standing concerns 2510 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:43.439 about Islamist movements, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the Arab 2511 02:15:43.560 --> 02:15:46.920 uprising in twenty eleven, Abu Dhabi has imposed strict controls 2512 02:15:46.920 --> 02:15:51.720 on domestic Islamist activities and sought to limit political Islam regionally. 2513 02:15:52.159 --> 02:15:55.600 Under President Shikh Muhammad bin Zaid al Nayan. 2514 02:15:56.680 --> 02:15:58.000 I may have gotten that right. 2515 02:15:58.319 --> 02:16:02.039 The UAE has repeated question the UK's decision not to 2516 02:16:02.199 --> 02:16:07.239 proscribe the Brotherhood. Official UK data shows that during the 2517 02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:10.800 twenty twenty three twenty twenty four academic year, seventy students 2518 02:16:10.800 --> 02:16:14.840 in UK universities were referred for possible participation in government's 2519 02:16:14.920 --> 02:16:21.079 Prevent Deradicalization program for signs of Islamist radical radicalization. 2520 02:16:21.199 --> 02:16:22.680 Good Lord nearly double the. 2521 02:16:22.680 --> 02:16:26.039 Previous year out of a total higher education population of 2522 02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:30.039 almost three million students. While one UK academic downplayed the 2523 02:16:30.079 --> 02:16:32.760 scale of the Islamist activity on campus, they noted that 2524 02:16:32.840 --> 02:16:35.879 events such as the Israel Gaza conflict have contributed to 2525 02:16:36.000 --> 02:16:40.000 heightened tensions and protests on campus. The UK government's twenty 2526 02:16:40.000 --> 02:16:42.760 fifteen review concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood had not been 2527 02:16:42.799 --> 02:16:46.559 linked to terrorist activities in or against Britain. Of Prime 2528 02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:50.000 Minister Keir Starmer's administration stated last year that the matter 2529 02:16:50.040 --> 02:16:55.120 remained under close review. Separately, Nigel Farage, leader of the 2530 02:16:55.159 --> 02:16:58.719 Reform UK Party, has pledged to ban the Muslim Brotherhood 2531 02:16:58.719 --> 02:17:01.959 if he becomes Prime minister. The UAE government funded Farage's 2532 02:17:02.000 --> 02:17:05.360 visit to the country in twenty twenty five. So anyway, 2533 02:17:06.159 --> 02:17:08.760 I thought this was interesting to bring up. This was 2534 02:17:08.799 --> 02:17:11.879 actually updated January of this year, actually just a few 2535 02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:16.239 days ago, and you know, just grand total of things 2536 02:17:17.079 --> 02:17:18.799 that is something that really does need to sink in. 2537 02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:22.399 Muslims don't want their kids going. 2538 02:17:22.159 --> 02:17:26.639 To school with those Muslims, and whatever you thought whenever 2539 02:17:26.680 --> 02:17:30.760 I just said those Muslims, it's probably right, and that's 2540 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:33.360 something that really needs to sink in. Britain has been 2541 02:17:34.719 --> 02:17:37.159 They're basically a country in free fall from what I 2542 02:17:37.200 --> 02:17:37.639 can tell. 2543 02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:39.639 And it's not just because of that, it's because of 2544 02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:40.559 so many things. 2545 02:17:40.559 --> 02:17:44.799 But this might be the final catalyst to really bring 2546 02:17:44.879 --> 02:17:47.559 down the last bit of whatever might remain of the 2547 02:17:47.559 --> 02:17:48.280 British Empire. 2548 02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:51.120 I don't know. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. 2549 02:17:51.159 --> 02:17:54.360 I hope Britain gets there, puts their testicles back on, 2550 02:17:54.959 --> 02:17:57.840 and like reasserts their dominance and their own country. 2551 02:17:58.479 --> 02:17:58.879 I hope. 2552 02:17:59.520 --> 02:18:04.120 I just don't see it happening anyway. Oh good, members 2553 02:18:04.159 --> 02:18:06.799 of the retinue. As we wrap this episode up, I 2554 02:18:06.799 --> 02:18:09.000 want to thank you all for joining me this evening 2555 02:18:09.399 --> 02:18:11.520 and talking with me about all the things and all 2556 02:18:11.600 --> 02:18:23.559 the stuff going on around the world. Oh go ahead, Sam. 2557 02:18:19.639 --> 02:18:26.079 I was just I was just gonna say that. 2558 02:18:26.280 --> 02:18:29.680 Everything, because you always do a good job and whatever. 2559 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:35.680 You're cutting out a good bit. But I think I 2560 02:18:35.719 --> 02:18:38.360 got what you were trying to say, and I appreciate you. Sam. 2561 02:18:38.440 --> 02:18:40.319 You are the spirit animal. Not only have the cult 2562 02:18:40.319 --> 02:18:42.920 of Conspiracy, you are the spirit animal of the Cajun 2563 02:18:43.000 --> 02:18:47.239 Night as well. Clearly obviously so anyway, all good members 2564 02:18:47.239 --> 02:18:48.559 of the retinue, I want to thank you all for 2565 02:18:48.600 --> 02:18:51.040 coming out here this evening. Again. For anybody who would 2566 02:18:51.040 --> 02:18:52.920 like to join the conversation next week, you go to 2567 02:18:52.959 --> 02:18:56.159 link in the description below to patreon dot com slash 2568 02:18:56.200 --> 02:18:56.799 Cajun Night. 2569 02:18:57.120 --> 02:18:58.360 There's only one tier for entry. 2570 02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:00.440 We get together every Wednesday night at nine him Centro 2571 02:19:00.559 --> 02:19:03.360 and we discuss all the things around the world. Sometimes 2572 02:19:03.360 --> 02:19:07.639 it's history, sometimes it's science, sometimes it's tech, sometimes it's geopolitics. 2573 02:19:07.959 --> 02:19:11.239 Sometimes it's just whatever comes up in conversation, and we 2574 02:19:11.280 --> 02:19:14.239 thoroughly enjoy our Wednesday night talks. I want to thank 2575 02:19:14.280 --> 02:19:16.479 everybody again for coming out here. I am the Cajun 2576 02:19:16.559 --> 02:19:19.120 Night and as always, God bless