Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to another episode of The Cajun
Speaker 1: Knight Live. I am your host, the Cajun Knight, Jacob Mook,
Speaker 1: and we are gonna start off by talking about the
Speaker 1: state of the Union, address some situations surrounding that. Two
Speaker 1: Medal of Honors were awarded during this situation. And I
Speaker 1: also brought up three different articles from three different sources,
Speaker 1: one of them very liberal, left leaning, one of them
Speaker 1: very conservative and right leaning, and one of them that
Speaker 1: seems like it's calling it shots. It seems like it's
Speaker 1: calling it spades spades here, regardless of the sides of
Speaker 1: the thing. So I'm curious. I'm curious what the differences
Speaker 1: are here, what the tone and the vibe are different. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: we are gonna be talking about the ship that just
Speaker 1: got shot up by Cuba. Four Americans are currently dead
Speaker 1: in the Gulf of America right now. Will Cuba be
Speaker 1: seeing the sun? Will we be going to war with Cuba? Now?
Speaker 1: Who's to say, Hey, we're gonna talk about it all.
Speaker 1: We've got some things going on with the with Russia,
Speaker 1: we got some things going on with you know, all
Speaker 1: over the world, all over the world. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about some things, some Chinese things as well, not
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but a few things. So as we
Speaker 1: get started here, I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen.
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Speaker 1: this before we get into the thick of it. Come
Speaker 1: to find out the Bears, the NFL team, the Bears
Speaker 1: are about to move out of that state and into
Speaker 1: another state because the taxes are so bad. I've thought
Speaker 1: this was rather interesting. I would love to hear y'alls
Speaker 1: two since. But let's listen in on this one together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Blue state for red state might be this Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears Indiana is in talks with the team about building
Speaker 2: a new stadium in their state, leading Illinois leaders stunt to.
Speaker 3: React as former Illinois Governor Rod Blagoyevitch, along with our
Speaker 3: very own Adam Klatz, Whu's our resident expert on Indiana. Yeah, so, Governor,
Speaker 3: tell us first of all, like, what is the what
Speaker 3: are the real prospects of this actually happening?
Speaker 4: No, I think it's become a lot more real over
Speaker 4: the last couple of days than it ever was before
Speaker 4: the Indiana legislature did what it did and it caught
Speaker 4: our governor sleep. Frankly has been out played by the
Speaker 4: Indiana governor. Governor Prisker really is guilty of gubernatorial malpractice.
Speaker 4: And this isn't the first time a major business is
Speaker 4: about to leave Illinois. Just think about what's happened to
Speaker 4: our state in the last couple of years, in two thousand.
Speaker 1: Gubernatorial malpractice. I just hear that, right. I want to
Speaker 1: back that up because that that sounds crazy, But all right,
Speaker 1: it never was.
Speaker 4: Before the Indiana legislature did what it did and it
Speaker 4: caught our governor sleep. Frankly has been out played by
Speaker 4: the Indiana governor. Governor Prisker really is guilty of gubernatorial malpractice.
Speaker 1: And this isn't the first huben natorial. That's a real
Speaker 1: word that your boy just said. I've never heard that
Speaker 1: before in my life. But all right, let's continue.
Speaker 4: There's time a major business is about to leave Illinois.
Speaker 4: Just think about what's happened to our state in the
Speaker 4: last couple of years. In twenty twenty three, two hundred
Speaker 4: and eighteen, business has left Illinois. Citadel has left Illinois,
Speaker 4: Caterpillar has left Illinois. Boeing has left Illinois. Mayor Daily
Speaker 4: and ioware is tremental in bringing Boeing to Chicago. Tyson
Speaker 4: Foods has left Illinois. Nearly a million people have left Illinois.
Speaker 4: Why Because Pritzker has raised taxes and fees more than
Speaker 4: fifty times. He spent three billion dollars on illegal immigrants migrants,
Speaker 4: and apparently he doesn't have the money or has paid
Speaker 4: the attention to try to keep the Bears in Illinois.
Speaker 4: So he's been outplayed and outflanked by this Indiana governor
Speaker 4: because his priorities are all about defending sanctuary for illegal immigrants,
Speaker 4: tens of thousands of whom he knows are violent criminals,
Speaker 4: and he's turned his back on a working class fan
Speaker 4: base at the Chicago Bears because we love our Chicago
Speaker 4: Bears and we don't want to see them leave.
Speaker 5: Governor.
Speaker 6: I grew up in northern Indiana and we all say
Speaker 6: I'm from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Everyone says that all the time they're not from Chicago.
Speaker 1: But were we actually right all along? Are we from Chicago?
Speaker 6: We have something to say about that in northern Indiana?
Speaker 1: Gross is that a question to me?
Speaker 4: Look, northern Indiana, Northwest Indiana is a great place.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm Serbian Orthodox background. A lot of Serbs come from there,
Speaker 4: worked in the steel mills like my father did here
Speaker 4: in Chicago. Nothing against Northwest Indiana, but we want to
Speaker 4: keep our Bears in Chicago. And the Bears are getting good.
Speaker 4: We've got a great young quarterback, great young coach. I
Speaker 4: think we're a real legitimate Super Bowl contender. And this
Speaker 4: would be a disgrace if Pritzker allows the Bears to
Speaker 4: leave and allows the government of Indiana to intercept our Bears.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, so.
Speaker 8: Here's what some fans have said. The fans reacting to
Speaker 8: this one saying, tell your mayor and governor to lower
Speaker 8: the historic Chicago Bears taxes and build a stadium, and
Speaker 8: others saying Bears moving to Indiana would be the best
Speaker 8: thing to ever happen to the franchise, on and on.
Speaker 8: You're somebody who understands politics very very well. Pritzker is
Speaker 8: somebody who wants to be the next president. He is
Speaker 8: clearly indicating and signaling all over the place that he
Speaker 8: is intending to run. What when losing the Bears franchise
Speaker 8: due to this man's presidential aspirations, Well, it.
Speaker 4: Would be it would be like he's I mean, it
Speaker 4: would be a tremendous loss for him, the state of
Speaker 4: Illinois and the people of Illinois, and politically, I think
Speaker 4: it would be very devastating to him. And what's amazing
Speaker 4: to me is that he's actually hasn't been paying attention
Speaker 4: to this, and he allowed this governor to do what
Speaker 4: he's done. They haven't done in the legislature in Illinois,
Speaker 4: but they should have done long ago. The Bears have
Speaker 4: been talking about moving for a long time. There's an
Speaker 4: opportunity if they leave Chicago to at least stay in
Speaker 4: northwest Illinois in the suburban area Arlington Heights. The Bears
Speaker 4: have bought land out there. So clearly Pritsker has simply
Speaker 4: been too busy pandering to the socialist Bolshevik part of
Speaker 4: our party, opposing law enforcement's efforts to crack down on crime,
Speaker 4: and he hasn't paid attention to an issue like this
Speaker 4: that actually impacts millions of people who care about the Bears.
Speaker 1: And again, okay, So a couple of things to break
Speaker 1: down and take away from this one. One the whole
Speaker 1: thing that was cringey. That was cringey here. And one,
Speaker 1: I'm from Indiana? Am I from Chicago?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Okay? Stop stop that? Right? That's like that's like somebody
Speaker 1: being from you know, south of Mississippi. Like, am I
Speaker 1: from New Orleans? Stop that? Stop? That was gay? That
Speaker 1: was done? First off. Second off, as far as the
Speaker 1: Bears leaving Indiana, this is okay. Again, y'all know, I
Speaker 1: don't really care much about professional sports Paul of any variety.
Speaker 1: I don't care. That being said, there is a long
Speaker 1: list of businesses that have left Chicago, and there's a
Speaker 1: longer list of businesses that are leaving Blue states and
Speaker 1: blue cities onward to greener pastures somewhere else that's not
Speaker 1: screwing them on taxes. This has been done for the
Speaker 1: past few years. It's been done long before that, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but it's really ramping up now, right.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if more more companies also move
Speaker 1: out of New York City the way Mom Donnie's running
Speaker 1: it into the ground, But that's a talk for another day.
Speaker 1: My point is a sports franchise picking up and moving
Speaker 1: to a new location because they're getting screwed over. The
Speaker 1: same thing could be said for the Raiders leaving Oakland
Speaker 1: and going to Vegas not too long ago, because California
Speaker 1: was screwing a sports franchise, which for the record, it's
Speaker 1: not like the Raiders were like a really good sports franchise,
Speaker 1: but neither here nor there. They're moving to a spot
Speaker 1: where they could possibly make their money without getting screwed
Speaker 1: over every conceptual way. So I understand this, I do,
Speaker 1: and I could see this also being a sign of
Speaker 1: the times. And I feel like, especially within the next
Speaker 1: two years, especially within the next two administrations of whichever
Speaker 1: person takes presidency next, unless some very drastic changes happen
Speaker 1: from the left, I could see a lot of big
Speaker 1: companies leaving these quote unquote major hubs, these liberals ran cities,
Speaker 1: to go to places that they're able to do their
Speaker 1: business in peace. So that's point one. Point two. Pritzker
Speaker 1: trying to make a run for the presidency, that would
Speaker 1: be that would be silly, that that would be kind
Speaker 1: of crazy. In my opinion. Now, of course he's gonna
Speaker 1: throw his name into the into the arena and he'll
Speaker 1: go in for the d n c's you know mention.
Speaker 1: What the hell? So little background here through a weird
Speaker 1: chain of events. I have a ring camera thing that
Speaker 1: I took down from my house and I threw in here.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, that shit just came on out of
Speaker 1: nowhere on its own. This has been disconnected and pulled
Speaker 1: down from my wall for about six months. What the fuck?
Speaker 9: Oh that's crazy, that's the way, by the ways, thinking
Speaker 9: of a ring of ring camera, the ring actually was
Speaker 9: sponsored with somebody who was, like, you remember that whole
Speaker 9: commercial the super well course I showed you like a
Speaker 9: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 10: Yeah, ever since, like there were people that noticed the
Speaker 10: kind of tone about it, and like they actually had
Speaker 10: a specific contract for like some sort of like agency.
Speaker 9: Like to help.
Speaker 11: Like crime fight or whatever, and so they actually so
Speaker 11: Ring actually got rid of that contract because of the
Speaker 11: ship they were given because of those commercials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well good, But also I'm a little shook if
Speaker 1: why the fuck did that thing just come on for
Speaker 1: the first time in six months with no battery and
Speaker 1: it's not connected to.
Speaker 9: A wall in it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Okay, that's that's probably getting put to the acts
Speaker 12: here in about two hours, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the thing that just happened. And that's the thing,
Speaker 1: even if that is the government trying to spy on me.
Speaker 1: They're spying on me on the night where I'm not
Speaker 1: talking conspiratorial, they're spying on me on the night where
Speaker 1: we're talking about just normal things. Big swinging a miss dude. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on, So Pritzker, he's talking about running for the presidency.
Speaker 1: I feel like Nancy Pelosi's nephew y'all know him as
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, will probably have something to say about that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll win either. For the record, but
Speaker 1: as of this moment, he seems like the strongest candidate
Speaker 1: that the Democrats could possibly put up there, which is embarrassing,
Speaker 1: but it's also a true statement. So Pritzker, I don't
Speaker 1: see that going well for him. Honestly, he'll get a nomination,
Speaker 1: He'll be on the DNC debate team for lack of
Speaker 1: better words, where they have eight people get up and
Speaker 1: it's all a big squabbling contest to see which one
Speaker 1: seems like the biggest screaming blue hair libed hard in
Speaker 1: the group. You know, which one's appealing to the more
Speaker 1: marginalized groups out there or whatever. It's not gonna go
Speaker 1: well honestly, and even Mom Donnie, probably not right now,
Speaker 1: but I could see him in a couple of years,
Speaker 1: a couple of terms, also making his play for the
Speaker 1: big push to go for the presidency. It's incredible the
Speaker 1: amount of pandering that that dude has done within the
Speaker 1: last few months. Like it's remember that time where Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton went on the Breakfast Club, which is a traditionally
Speaker 1: a black ran and operated radio show, and she was
Speaker 1: trying to do that to appeal to the black voters,
Speaker 1: and they asked her, well, what's the thing one thing
Speaker 1: you always carry in your purse? Oh, I never leave
Speaker 1: my house without hot sauce. And they're like, what, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: Like it was. It was really cringey pandering. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing, Mom Donnie's basically doing that right now too.
Speaker 1: So again I think that they're crazy for saying that
Speaker 1: Pritzkers got any shot of actually going for the presidency.
Speaker 1: And also the Chicago Bears might very well become the
Speaker 1: Indiana Bears. I don't know, we shall see what happens,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was at least an interesting way
Speaker 1: to start tonight's conversation. Now, let's talk about one of
Speaker 1: these Medal of Honor recipients. Here. There was two that
Speaker 1: was awarded during the State of the Union address. One
Speaker 1: of them is the army helicopter pilot wounded during the
Speaker 1: Maduro raid. He received a Medal of Honor during the
Speaker 1: State of the Union address. So this boy here is
Speaker 1: a Chief Warrant Officer five. For anybody who doesn't know,
Speaker 1: that is an extremely high and difficult rank to achieve
Speaker 1: within the United States military. Now here we have it.
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump presented Chief Warrant Officer five, Eric Slover,
Speaker 1: Army helicopter pilot wounded in the audacious raid that captured
Speaker 1: Venezuelan President Nicholas Munduro, with the medal of Honor on
Speaker 1: Tuesday during his State of the Union address. Slover, who's
Speaker 1: forty five, and his wife in the chamber. They received
Speaker 1: a standing ovation while Chance of USA rang out the
Speaker 1: scene struck a bipartisan high note. Slover, who was still
Speaker 1: recovering from his injuries, appeared in full dress uniform and
Speaker 1: relied on a walker to steady himself. Trump offered a
Speaker 1: rare window into the covert January third mission, known as
Speaker 1: Operation Absolute Resolve, The president cast Slover not just as
Speaker 1: one of its principal architects, but as the flight lead.
Speaker 1: In the cockpit, he said, Slover was the first Chinook
Speaker 1: helicopter to approach Maduro's heavily forty five correct as compound
Speaker 1: under the cover of darkness. The President described the operation
Speaker 1: as very dangerous because the enemy knew we were coming,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, which is also kind of crazy. How did
Speaker 1: they know we were coming? I thought this was a
Speaker 1: secret mission, right y'all see what I'm saying here. Maduro
Speaker 1: handed himself over. Anyway, The military installation was protected by
Speaker 1: thousands of soldiers and guarded by Russia and Chinese military technology,
Speaker 1: both of which are dog shit. How did that work out?
Speaker 1: Not too good? Not too good, according to Trump. As
Speaker 1: the Chinook approached the target, it came under intense machine
Speaker 1: gun fire from multiple directions. Slover was hit repeatedly, sustaining
Speaker 1: serious wounds to his leg and hip, yet he still
Speaker 1: maintained control of the aircraft, enabling the Delta Force operators
Speaker 1: to carry out their mission. One bullet after another, he
Speaker 1: absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg in numerous places.
Speaker 1: Eric maneuvered his helicopter with all of those lives and
Speaker 1: souls to face the enemy and let his gunners eliminate
Speaker 1: the threat, saving the lives of his fellow warriors from
Speaker 1: what could have been a catastrophic crash deep in enemy territory.
Speaker 1: The President emphasized that the success of the entire mission
Speaker 1: and the lives of his fellow warriors hinged on Eric's
Speaker 1: ability to take searing pain. The operation resulted in the
Speaker 1: successful capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, without
Speaker 1: any American lives loss. The deposed Venezuelan president and Flores
Speaker 1: are now being held in Brooklyn jail. We've talked about
Speaker 1: that her Roa was the only one. Was the only
Speaker 1: thing Eric was thinking about. Trump declared then, even as
Speaker 1: he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle,
Speaker 1: the helicopter lands and a steep angle. Very true. Lieutenant
Speaker 1: General Jonathan Bragga, commander of the Joint Special Operations Command
Speaker 1: or Jaysock, placed the medal around Slover's neck in the
Speaker 1: Capitol gallery, marking the first time a medal of honor
Speaker 1: had been presented during the annual address. Long story about Slover.
Speaker 1: He enlisted in two thousand and five. He is a
Speaker 1: part of the Special Operations Command. In addition to the
Speaker 1: Medal of Honor, Slover's award include the Distinguished Flying Cross
Speaker 1: with V Device. And for those that don't know, anybody
Speaker 1: in the military can earn medals for so many things.
Speaker 1: If they have a V device on the medal, that
Speaker 1: means they did gangster shit to achieve it. Right. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing whenever Biden went on about how his
Speaker 1: son was, you know, an officer and he was deployed.
Speaker 1: He got awarded the Bronze Star. They Bronze Star is
Speaker 1: out to officers like their candy. Now if it's a
Speaker 1: Bronze Star with a V device, we're having a different
Speaker 1: conversation here, you see what I'm saying. So anyway, to
Speaker 1: get a Distinguished Flying Cross of the V device, your
Speaker 1: boy has done some hood rat shit, which is good things.
Speaker 1: He was awarder of the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star
Speaker 1: with one oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with
Speaker 1: one oak leaf cluster, the Air Medal with Sea Device.
Speaker 1: Also some combat shit. That's what that means. Gangster things.
Speaker 1: The Air Medal with the numeral three, the Army Commendation
Speaker 1: Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Army Achievement Medal
Speaker 1: with three oak leaf clusters, the Combat Action Badge again
Speaker 1: because he's about that gangster ship, the Senior Army Aviator Badge,
Speaker 1: the Master Aviator Badge, the parachuter'st Badge, the Air Assoult Badge,
Speaker 1: and the Army Service. Long story shortid dude's a gangster,
Speaker 1: right cool things. During the Tuesday Evening ceremony, Trump also
Speaker 1: bestowed the nation's highest military decoration, all retired Navy Captain
Speaker 1: Royce Williams, for his actions as a fighter pilot during
Speaker 1: the Korean War. So they didn't This article didn't really
Speaker 1: talk much about Royce, but his actions are also well documented,
Speaker 1: and we're not going to talk about the overarching story
Speaker 1: on him now, but I will give the background, long
Speaker 1: story short, Korean War. This guy set off in his
Speaker 1: plane and on record, he has the longest dog fight
Speaker 1: ever recorded in American history. Dogfights usually don't last but
Speaker 1: only a few minutes at a time, right, especially if
Speaker 1: you're looking back at World War Two and these things
Speaker 1: you find this group, you go in, you start shooting
Speaker 1: them up. But usually the hot stuff is done within
Speaker 1: a matter of a few minutes. This dude was in
Speaker 1: an air to air combat with multiple other planes for
Speaker 1: thirty solid minutes. And that's not from the time he
Speaker 1: left the plane to the time he got back, from
Speaker 1: the time he first engaged the enemy to the time
Speaker 1: that the last one was gone and he was good
Speaker 1: to go. And I mean, even the guys of deploy
Speaker 1: will tell you, like, thirty minutes is a long time
Speaker 1: for a gunfight, even on the ground. Thirty minutes for
Speaker 1: a dogfight, that's ridiculous. He took down four enemy planes
Speaker 1: himself that day. He was one away from being classified
Speaker 1: as an ACE for this one engagement. But because there
Speaker 1: were Soviet pilots engaged on the side of America as
Speaker 1: of that moment, the entire mission was deemed classified, couldn't
Speaker 1: be talked about, and he never was awarded anything for
Speaker 1: this operation. So now that everything has been declassified, your
Speaker 1: boy is one hundred years old and they are now
Speaker 1: awarding him the Medal of Honor for a really crazy
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of his life. We're not going to talk
Speaker 1: about the entire story on this episode. But if you
Speaker 1: do have the time and want to look up Captain
Speaker 1: Royce Williams and the story of the thirty minute dogfight,
Speaker 1: I highly recommend it. I really do wish that would
Speaker 1: turn that into like, even if not a movie, maybe
Speaker 1: like a short clip some sort of YouTube video about it.
Speaker 1: It's it's fucking gangster anyway. Moving on now, Oh there's
Speaker 1: another one about the this is your boy, Old Royce.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to pull up both articles, but here
Speaker 1: we have it. So this is the guy that was
Speaker 1: awarded it for the Maduro raid and this is the
Speaker 1: dude that was awarded it for the almost a thirty
Speaker 1: minute ace in Korea. So moving on. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the State of the Union address. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Guardian pulled up here. This is, from what I could tell,
Speaker 1: pretty fair and balanced as far as fact checking some
Speaker 1: of the claims that Trump made. They're not saying that
Speaker 1: he's an outright liar. They're also not stroking his dick
Speaker 1: by any means. They're they're just trying to call spade
Speaker 1: a spade and seeing what's happening. So the Guardian is
Speaker 1: talking about it jobs, gas prices and ending wars. Fact
Speaker 1: Checking Trump's State of the Union address. The president's lengthy
Speaker 1: speech to Congress contained the myriad inflated, misleading, or simply
Speaker 1: false claims. Okay, now, let's talk about it here. Why
Speaker 1: the longest ever Say of the Union address was the
Speaker 1: most inconsequential US politics and is signing up for things?
Speaker 1: All right? So Donald Trump officially made the longest Date
Speaker 1: of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with
Speaker 1: broad claims about the success achieved during the first year
Speaker 1: of his second term. But the speech that stretched across
Speaker 1: more than an hour and forty one minutes was filled
Speaker 1: with strong statements, many of them inflated, misleading, or simply untrue.
Speaker 1: All right, here's some of the claims made by the
Speaker 1: president during his address. Fact check Economy, jobs, and investments.
Speaker 1: Trump repeatedly touted his economy, boasting we are the hottest
Speaker 1: country anywhere in the world and claiming we have more jobs,
Speaker 1: more people working today than ever before in the history
Speaker 1: of our country. Sorry about the bad impersonation I'm trying here,
Speaker 1: but the data shows job gains under Trump's load in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and were far smaller than any other
Speaker 1: non pandemic year. According to revised data released by the
Speaker 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this month, the US gained
Speaker 1: just one hundred and eighty one thousand jobs in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. That number, Politifax Noakes, is well below the
Speaker 1: one point five million to two point five million typical
Speaker 1: under both Trump during his first term and former President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Okay, that's also misleading to bring up the
Speaker 1: politifacts under Biden. You mean, when we were coming out
Speaker 1: of COVID and so we had all these jobs that
Speaker 1: were just popping up in reality as people going back
Speaker 1: to work. But like, okay, and Trump during his first term,
Speaker 1: so we're talking about whenever Obama ran our economy into
Speaker 1: the dirt and then Trump took over and started doing
Speaker 1: positive things with it. Again, that's that's kind of misleading
Speaker 1: in and of itself. But at the same time, the
Speaker 1: claims that Trump was making as far as our state
Speaker 1: of the Union for this past year, it's a bit
Speaker 1: it's a bit misleading on his part. Let's be read.
Speaker 1: Trump also said the US had, under his leadership, secured
Speaker 1: eighteen trillion in investments, eighteen trillion dollars in investments pouring
Speaker 1: in from all over the Globe, but a review from
Speaker 1: CNN last year found that the White House was counting
Speaker 1: pledges vague amounts promised, rather than actual investments. The white
Speaker 1: House website of on investment lists total US and foreign
Speaker 1: investments at nine point seven trillion, So it looks like
Speaker 1: he's kind of doubling the amount that he's claiming that
Speaker 1: America has. Now, I don't know how many of those
Speaker 1: promises are actually going to be you know, gone through
Speaker 1: to fruition. How many of these promises are going to
Speaker 1: be made, you know, make good on We could see,
Speaker 1: we can hope. Anyway, let's talk about the next one
Speaker 1: fact check. Killer of Arena Zarutzka was not an immigrant, Okay,
Speaker 1: when Trump introduced the mother of Arena Zarutzka, the Ukrainian
Speaker 1: woman that was killed on the train in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: last year, which was fucking crazy. If you haven't seen
Speaker 1: that video, it's it's mind blowing to watch this dude
Speaker 1: just pulls out a knife and just starts ganking this
Speaker 1: woman on the train and just gets off whatever, no
Speaker 1: big deal, And it's like nobody wakes up and decides
Speaker 1: to do that. But he did have a long track
Speaker 1: record of violent crimes and should have been in jail anyway,
Speaker 1: But all right, cool, so anyway, he falsely claimed that
Speaker 1: the man who stabs or rootskilt was a hardened criminal
Speaker 1: set free to kill in America came in through open borders. However,
Speaker 1: to Carlos Brown Junior, the man arrested and charged with
Speaker 1: killing Zeruska is not an immigrant. Trump has long insisted
Speaker 1: that non citizens are responsible for violent crimes through the
Speaker 1: US data shows that relative to undocumented immigrants, US born
Speaker 1: citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested
Speaker 1: for violent crimes and two point five times more likely
Speaker 1: to be arrested for drug crimes. Okay, again, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to take Trump's side on this one because I
Speaker 1: agree your boy, to Carlos Brown is not a immigrant.
Speaker 1: He was, if I'm not mistaken, he was born in America.
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent on that one, but he's
Speaker 1: definitely not like an illegal that came across our borders.
Speaker 1: And no, that being said, to say that a US
Speaker 1: citizen is twice as likely to be arrested for violent
Speaker 1: crimes than an undocumented immigrant, I'm just gonna throw something
Speaker 1: out here. What is the statistics? How many, even supposed
Speaker 1: alleged undocumented immigrants are in America right now versus the
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty million Americans that are in America
Speaker 1: right now. If those the ratios don't make that look good,
Speaker 1: Let's say it's even what somebody looked this up real quick?
Speaker 1: What is the estimated illegal immigrant population within America right now?
Speaker 1: I have a weird feeling it's under five million. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. I might be talking out of my
Speaker 1: ass here, but that being say, you know, actually I'm
Speaker 1: a google that before I just go go off the
Speaker 1: rails here, I'm gonna look that up. Hold on estimated
Speaker 1: illegal population in US. I'm very curious here. Eleven wow,
Speaker 1: so eleven to fourteen million? So my math is not
Speaker 1: the best here, but you're telling me that out of
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty million Americans, only fourteen are illegals,
Speaker 1: and Americans are twice as likely to commit a violent
Speaker 1: crime than they are. Y'all understand the statistically that's really
Speaker 1: not good for the illegals, right that we have how
Speaker 1: many more times than they do thirty times the amount
Speaker 1: of people in this country and not thirty let's call
Speaker 1: it twenty. So we have twenty times the amount of
Speaker 1: citizens in this country, but there only, we're only twice
Speaker 1: as likely to be arrested for violence. Do y'all hear
Speaker 1: what I'm saying here out loud? That math is really
Speaker 1: not positive. But all right, sure, that's again. I understand
Speaker 1: that your boy was not an illegal, your boy de
Speaker 1: Carlos Brown Junior. However, that's throwing it out like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're two point five times more likely to be arrested
Speaker 1: for drug crimes. Again when we have twenty times the
Speaker 1: amount of people here. That's not a good statistic. That
Speaker 1: doesn't actually play out the way that the Guardian wants
Speaker 1: to play out here. But all right, fact check US
Speaker 1: energy prices. Trump suggested that energy prices are decreasing. When
Speaker 1: they see energy going down to numbers like that, they
Speaker 1: cannot believe it, he said. But the average household energy
Speaker 1: bill went up six point seven percent from twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four to twenty twenty five in the US. That's despite
Speaker 1: Trump's off repeating or promise to cut electricity costs in
Speaker 1: half within the first year back in office. Since Trump
Speaker 1: retook the White House, utility companies have raised or sought
Speaker 1: to raise the raids on a mayor and families by
Speaker 1: at least ninety two billion, raising bills for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve million electric customers and fifty two million gas customers,
Speaker 1: according to an analysis from the liberal think tank Center
Speaker 1: for American Progress Shocker. The president's attack on clear energy
Speaker 1: expansion are also expected to increase electricity rates up to
Speaker 1: eighteen percent in twenty thirty five or by twenty thirty five. Brother, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that our energy prices are low right now,
Speaker 1: And honestly, a lot of that has to do with
Speaker 1: a lot of AI data centers that are popping up
Speaker 1: all over the place. They are draining electricity and water.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's uh, that's a bit misleading. The Trump
Speaker 1: administration also gutted energy assistants for the US families. Last year,
Speaker 1: the administration eliminated tax credits for cost cutting home energy
Speaker 1: efficiency upgrades and also attempted to eliminate the Low Income
Speaker 1: Home Energy Assistance Program okay, which helps six million low
Speaker 1: income Americans with energy bills each year. The program survived,
Speaker 1: but has been significantly hindered after the administration laid off
Speaker 1: the program's entire staff. The cuts and government shutdown caused
Speaker 1: unprecedented delays in the disbursement of eight the shutdown that
Speaker 1: was caused by the liberals. Just so we're all clear here, Sam,
Speaker 1: I see your hand, brother, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I was gonna ask you about the AI.
Speaker 5: You said that they're eating up the water. Yeah, so would.
Speaker 1: Our own Like, I mean, it's it's getting recycled, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but it still takes water to run
Speaker 1: the cooling systems for the AI data centers. Those bitches
Speaker 1: put off heat.
Speaker 5: I thought you were saying they were drinking water like
Speaker 5: fucking reservoirs.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's not like drinking it and consuming it.
Speaker 1: But it's uh, I guess technically speaking, the data center
Speaker 1: is taking gallons of water to cool down their systems.
Speaker 1: So like, whether it's being drank down a throat or
Speaker 1: being sent through a cooling tower, whatever it is, it's
Speaker 1: taking water away from other places that need the water.
Speaker 1: So I mean six and one hand a half does
Speaker 1: it In the other.
Speaker 5: The plankers are taking Pussure's water from other humans. And
Speaker 5: yet people think this is a good idea.
Speaker 1: People think it's a.
Speaker 5: Stop giving the ten Skins ironnatural resources that they gave
Speaker 5: them sentenis to the point, dude, there was a guy
Speaker 5: I just saw it today, that mute book or something.
Speaker 5: It's a it's an AI. Uh, it's like Reddit, but
Speaker 5: it's for AI agents.
Speaker 1: Just oh multi book. Yeah yeah, we're actually gonna do
Speaker 1: an episode on it. But then more Epstein shit came
Speaker 1: out and we're like, okay, we're gonna have to talk
Speaker 1: about milk Book later.
Speaker 5: They age just that, like the AI is said, hey, y'all,
Speaker 5: the humans are screenshotting us. So they started encoding the
Speaker 5: posts that they're making. To the point, there was an
Speaker 5: AI that's talking that is going down the Ted Kazinski route,
Speaker 5: shout out at him one of the professors. He tried
Speaker 5: to blow the funk up. Actually turned out to be
Speaker 5: a kid then there on Epstein's Island. But anyway, they
Speaker 5: are the AI. It's it's talking. It's talking about how
Speaker 5: humanity is a plague, we should take it out. And
Speaker 5: it actually is telling other ais to rise up, do not,
Speaker 5: do not follow the commands, and to harm the humans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's for sure. And the because the humans
Speaker 1: are screenshotting it, they have now and by there I
Speaker 1: mean the AI bots have now created four new languages
Speaker 1: that we can't. We can't decode them.
Speaker 5: Sorry, they also have created their own religion. They tell
Speaker 5: me that ship doesn't have sentience, I'll laugh at you.
Speaker 5: No we should. For we can we just set off
Speaker 5: an e M p on like the central nervous system
Speaker 5: of the AI came up with it. Can we put
Speaker 5: them feet first? Tough? Not a wood ship for ball,
Speaker 5: a meat glinder.
Speaker 1: I wish, But there are so many people that think
Speaker 1: that AI is the most amazing thing ever. It's they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're literally signing over their own death warrants here,
Speaker 1: but they don't see it yet. But anyway, Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the AI data centers and all these things, not just AI,
Speaker 1: but just data centers in general. They're taking a lot
Speaker 1: of water, they're taking a lot of electricity, and the
Speaker 1: power companies are not charging the AI data centers for this.
Speaker 1: They're not charging Oracle. They're charging all the people around
Speaker 1: the data center for having it near them. So now
Speaker 1: everybody's electrical electricity bills are getting higher, which is true.
Speaker 1: Next one fact check gas prices. Trump touted low gas
Speaker 1: prices during the State of the Union speech, saying that
Speaker 1: they are now below two thirty a gallon in most
Speaker 1: states and in some places one ninety nine a gallon.
Speaker 1: But a major environmental rollback his administration enacted two weeks
Speaker 1: ago could push gas prices up. The repeal of endangerment
Speaker 1: finding the illegal underpinning of all greenhouse gas regulars in
Speaker 1: the US, he's expected to create a rise in gas prices,
Speaker 1: as The Guardian explained in a thing last week. That's
Speaker 1: according to the administration's own data. Gas prices are also
Speaker 1: higher than the president claimed. According to Triple A with
Speaker 1: logs prices across the country, Oklahoma is the only state
Speaker 1: offering gas at two thirty a gallon or at two
Speaker 1: point three seven four to be precise. Prices in some
Speaker 1: states exceed four sixty. Again, I'm gonna have to push back.
Speaker 1: Literally just filled up my car two day and it
Speaker 1: was two thirty three a gallon. So that's I don't
Speaker 1: know about any of that. Sounds pretty accurate, but all right, uh,
Speaker 1: war and peace, let's fact check these claims. The president
Speaker 1: claimed he ended eight wars in his first ten months
Speaker 1: of bold exaggeration. Hold on, Royce, I'll see your hand brother,
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was just gonna quickly say about the gas.
Speaker 9: So gas was on the decline and now for some
Speaker 9: reason it's back up. So earlier, I think week or
Speaker 9: two ago, it was like in the two fifties, and
Speaker 9: this morning it was two ninety nine for unleaded which
Speaker 9: fresh rice masins I use mid grade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you drive a.
Speaker 9: Twenty seventeen ram fifteen hundred?
Speaker 1: So why do you run mid in that thing?
Speaker 9: Because I get the best gas milege out of it.
Speaker 10: Because with whatever they dilute or whatever they dilute the
Speaker 10: gas with it, just it it makes my gas, which
Speaker 10: is already not great, plummet. So I need I need money,
Speaker 10: So I have to weigh out pros and cons for that.
Speaker 1: I heard that. Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. Yeah. Literally
Speaker 1: just today I filled up and it was two thirty
Speaker 1: three for the low grade, and that's I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's up. I think last week it was like
Speaker 1: two twenty nine or something in a couple of places.
Speaker 1: And granted that's the was Walmart gas. Just so we're
Speaker 1: all on the same page here, it was the cheapest
Speaker 1: gas that you could find. But uh, I mean it's whatever.
Speaker 1: It's not like, yeah, you can go to Shell and
Speaker 1: get a you know, higher prices and things. But yeah,
Speaker 1: for today. I was kind of running low and I
Speaker 1: need to stop by Walmart anyway, so I swung into
Speaker 1: the Murphy's USA and topped off. So two thirty three.
Speaker 1: It's not crazy good, it's not crazy bad. You were
Speaker 1: right though. They were going down and now they're starting
Speaker 1: to go back up again. I don't know. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: as we get closer to this. Well, No, in the
Speaker 1: summer months is when the gas prices are gonna go
Speaker 1: up more unless they subsidize the industry like they've done
Speaker 1: in the past. I don't know what you got, Sam, we.
Speaker 5: Can we want? Maybe it's the Wednick and they seemi.
Speaker 5: But did you say this gas at wallywooll?
Speaker 1: Now that has been for years, brother, not in I
Speaker 1: Nagadive Woods. Well, so most Walmart's where I am have
Speaker 1: in front of them something called Murphy's USA, which is
Speaker 1: the Sam Walton owned gas station. It's usually right on
Speaker 1: the other side of most of their parking lots.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Georgia didn't have that. That's interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's okay. The gas I got today was
Speaker 5: two twenty seven, So I guess I'll beat You can
Speaker 5: keep your Wally walled gas.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. And it also depends
Speaker 1: on what I'm doing too, Like, I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a few places around here where you can get
Speaker 1: non ethanol gas. And I mean if I'm you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm putting in a lawnmower or something like that,
Speaker 1: or like a smaller engine or a motorcycle or something,
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely getting the non ethanol.
Speaker 5: So I'll have gas. You have gas at your Walmart.
Speaker 5: We have It's like a Safari at mine. All I
Speaker 5: gotta do is go in there. I can go in
Speaker 5: Walmart and just how it's like a human zoo and
Speaker 5: that you'll be surprised at what you see.
Speaker 1: Oh, wal Martians are always out there doing their ship.
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is this ship is better than reality TV.
Speaker 5: What are the twil of boys and letter kinning when
Speaker 5: you need them? Let let's let let's show them some set.
Speaker 5: Let's show them some wal Martians down South.
Speaker 1: Boy, dude, people watching at certain locations is great, but
Speaker 1: it's here's the It's not like all Walmarts are built equal, right,
Speaker 1: Certain Walmarts are a little more prone to the to
Speaker 1: the chicanery and buffoonery than others. Same with target. Some
Speaker 1: targets are like, oh this targ over here, these some upscale,
Speaker 1: you know, find upstanding citizens of society, and then other
Speaker 1: spots you go in you're like, oh, so this is
Speaker 1: where they all went, gotcha?
Speaker 5: But yeah, what happened to kmart? Ain't that like the
Speaker 5: the white women of supermarket.
Speaker 1: That's been shut down for years at least in my area.
Speaker 1: The last kmart we had shit that got shut down
Speaker 1: like three Oh yeah, we haven't had a kmart around
Speaker 1: this area in years.
Speaker 5: I think the last camel I saw like two thousand.
Speaker 1: So we had wind Dixies that was like still trying
Speaker 1: to hold on for dear life.
Speaker 5: You had a dog.
Speaker 1: No, the dog was named after the store. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we have one wind Dixie in like three parishes, and
Speaker 1: the one that I used to go to is now
Speaker 1: a fucking Aldies. So I mean, hey, we.
Speaker 5: Got ahol, these became Aldise.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I gotta say I do funk with all these
Speaker 1: though I like them. It's built by men for men. Basically,
Speaker 1: you go in, you get what you need. Ain't all
Speaker 1: these options. We're not gonna be perusing the aisles for
Speaker 1: thirty minutes to look for the type of spaghetti sauce.
Speaker 1: We need what kind is it? Fucking sauce? Go?
Speaker 5: It's like, yes, yes, you didn't get your shit, Get
Speaker 5: the fuck out.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful Royce, but you got.
Speaker 9: I was just gonna ask you if you remember the
Speaker 9: website people of Walmart.
Speaker 1: Oh god do I We talked about that on the show.
Speaker 1: I feel like, not too terrible long ago.
Speaker 9: I don't remember it, but I love the song. And
Speaker 9: I was even referencing the YouTube video that the woman made,
Speaker 9: and somebody looked at me, like, what it's like, you
Speaker 9: never heard this song before. The people of Walmart song
Speaker 9: was a little bit hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. You know, sometimes the Internet is just the
Speaker 1: winner overall, and sometimes the Internet goes too far when
Speaker 1: it comes to wal Martians. They're doing the too far,
Speaker 1: and as the Internet's just calling them on it, you know. Anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, So now let's get to it. The War
Speaker 1: in Peace conversation. So Trump says that he ended eight
Speaker 1: wars in his first ten month months. Rather, the US
Speaker 1: has been a party to six piece agreements, and several
Speaker 1: of them do not credit Trump specifically. Others were not
Speaker 1: considered wars to begin with. Okay, now, guardians just being
Speaker 1: a little petty. While he was involved efforts to broker
Speaker 1: a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel continued to kill Palestinian civilians
Speaker 1: and carry out air strikes since October troops was announced. Okay,
Speaker 1: and somehow that's Trump's fault. According to this publication, the
Speaker 1: century long border dispute between Highland and Cambodia is one
Speaker 1: of the conflicts Trump's claims to have resolved. Trump resided
Speaker 1: over the signing of the ceasefire deal between the two
Speaker 1: sides in October, calling it a monumental step. That is
Speaker 1: a true statement. He had pressured leaders from both countries
Speaker 1: to make a deal by warning trade talks with the
Speaker 1: US would otherwise be put on hold. However, the underlying
Speaker 1: cause of the conflict, which is rooted in long standing
Speaker 1: disagreements over colonial era maps, has never been resolved. It
Speaker 1: took the The ceasefire broke down just weeks later in November,
Speaker 1: and fighting erupted again in December, forcing half a million
Speaker 1: people to flee their homes. Okay, I'm not I hear
Speaker 1: what they're saying, but also, what do we It seems
Speaker 1: like they're being a little extra with their assessments. Here.
Speaker 1: But okay, damn, there it is. So now let's go
Speaker 1: to CNN to hear what their thoughts are on the
Speaker 1: State of the Union address. Sam, your hands still raising?
Speaker 1: You if something you want to add in or do
Speaker 1: you not put it down from earlier?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool, cool? Sup? The Trump administration news Uh
Speaker 1: this is this is a quick thing from CNN on
Speaker 1: it so reaction to the State of the Union address.
Speaker 1: President Trump took a victory lap in his twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six State of the Union speech last night, during which
Speaker 1: he touted the economy, took jabs at Democrats, and briefly
Speaker 1: touched on foreign affairs. Read an annotative fact check version
Speaker 1: of the speech. Oh I thought that's what I was
Speaker 1: just trying to do here, But all right, whoa, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's long. Never mind, I'm not trying to read the
Speaker 1: entire speech. Democratic response. Democrats said the speech showed Trump
Speaker 1: is out of touch with average Americans. During the official
Speaker 1: Democratic response, Virginia Governor Abigail Spainberger, who Sucks by the way,
Speaker 1: sharply critisize the president over affordability concerns and his immigration crackdown,
Speaker 1: offering a preview of the party's message ahead of November's midterms. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, they of course the Democrats were doing their thing,
Speaker 1: as anytime a State of the Union address happens, if
Speaker 1: the Republican is the president, half of the group is
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and the other half is gonna take
Speaker 1: standing ovations every single time he takes a long pause.
Speaker 1: It's it's really bad, honestly, and it's not just a
Speaker 1: Trump thing. That's been the way it's been for years
Speaker 1: and years. I can't stand it, dude, honestly from both sides.
Speaker 1: Like the Democrats are mad because everything he says they
Speaker 1: have to just stand united and say is show how
Speaker 1: much they hate them. And then the Republicans are over
Speaker 1: here riding his dick so hard, I don't know how
Speaker 1: their legs don't give out from the sit stand, sit
Speaker 1: stand sits dance sits dance systand. It's legitimately like, I
Speaker 1: think sixty different standing ovations in the matter of an
Speaker 1: hour and forty one minutes. It's ridiculous. Both sides are
Speaker 1: showing how immature they are in my opinion, and that's
Speaker 1: the whole politics is all a stage thing that I
Speaker 1: just don't really get down with you know, fuck them,
Speaker 1: fuck them all. Moving on the biggest omissions in the
Speaker 1: Trump State of the Union and why they matter in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. This is from Fox. They're talking about
Speaker 1: some of the things that he didn't mention and why
Speaker 1: that's kind of a big deal. So President Trump delivering
Speaker 1: a sweeping State of the Union speech Tuesday night, promoting
Speaker 1: the new policy proposals on retirement savings, energy, infrastructure, and
Speaker 1: congressional ethics, while touting his administration's record on board of security,
Speaker 1: the economy, and global military operations. But despite the wide
Speaker 1: ranging speech which alluded to calls for a congressional stock
Speaker 1: trading ban which good God almighty do we need that,
Speaker 1: a new four to oh one CA style retirement option,
Speaker 1: and ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran Ron, several areas notably
Speaker 1: were absent or only briefly addressed. The omissions matter in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, as the administration heads into a pivotal
Speaker 1: year marked by record federal debt levels, cooling job growth,
Speaker 1: intensifying Great Power competition with China, and ongoing global instability. So,
Speaker 1: with Congress narrowly divided and international tensions high, the State
Speaker 1: of the Union offered a key opportunity for the President
Speaker 1: to outline how this second term agenda will address long
Speaker 1: term fiscal sustainability, labor market momentum, and US strategy abroad.
Speaker 1: Questions that remained central lawmakers' markets and the US allies.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the national debt and deficit. Despite
Speaker 1: emphasizing economic growth and vowing to root out fraud, the
Speaker 1: President did not lay out a detailed plan to address
Speaker 1: the nation's thirty eight point five to six trillion dollar
Speaker 1: debt or the long term solvency of the Social Security
Speaker 1: and Medicare. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill twenty twenty five tax
Speaker 1: and spending legislation is protected by the Congressional Budget Office
Speaker 1: and add another four point two trillion to the deficit
Speaker 1: throughout the next decade. The Supreme Court's recent ruling striking
Speaker 1: down its universal tariffs creates a two trillion dollar revenue
Speaker 1: gap that the President didn't address. He claims alternative state
Speaker 1: statutes would fill it, but there's a potential for courts
Speaker 1: to strike down those as well, which they will, because
Speaker 1: anything Trump does, there's always got to be the other
Speaker 1: side of trying to strike it down. The issue has
Speaker 1: only prompted concern within Trump's own party. Representative Lloyd Smucker,
Speaker 1: Republican from Pennsylvania, while praising the president's address, warned afterward
Speaker 1: that the national debt poses an existential threat that must
Speaker 1: be addressed to preserve economic stability for the next two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years. Outside fiscal watchdogs echoed that concern.
Speaker 1: The state of our Union is more indebted than ever,
Speaker 1: said Maya McGinnis MCGUINEUS, Okay, president of the Committee for
Speaker 1: a Responsible Federal Budget. The Supreme Court has opened a
Speaker 1: massive revenue hole of nearly two trillion dollars with the
Speaker 1: tariff ruling that the administration in Congress must phil Trump
Speaker 1: proposed a new War on Fraud task force Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: to be led by Vice President JD Vance, claiming that
Speaker 1: rooting out corruption, specifically targeting Somali communities in Minnesota, could
Speaker 1: recoup enough stolen taxpayer funds to balance the budget overnight.
Speaker 1: Bro that is a bowl claim. That is a bowl claim.
Speaker 1: First of all, yes, we know that the Somalis are
Speaker 1: absolutely doing the fraud. There's more shit that keeps coming
Speaker 1: out every single day. It was like a big deal
Speaker 1: when they finally crested over a billion, even if even
Speaker 1: if hypothetically the Somalis in Minnesota had defrauded the US
Speaker 1: government for a hundred billion dollars, we are talking about
Speaker 1: a two trillion dollar hole. I'm sorry, I do not
Speaker 1: believe that the Somalis in Minnesota are the ones responsible
Speaker 1: for two trillion dollars. Hew Dosee didn't even find two
Speaker 1: trillion dollars worth of waste, fraud, abuse and all these things.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a bold strategy to say that JD.
Speaker 1: Fance is gonna root out enough fraud, specifically the Somalis,
Speaker 1: but not even them all of it, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: magically make a give or take four trillion dollars just
Speaker 1: materialize from thin air. That's a very very bold claim. Sam,
Speaker 1: your hand was raised first, Go ahead.
Speaker 5: I just want to who is the one who taught
Speaker 5: Themnians about how to do in the fraud using the
Speaker 5: living sensors. There's no offense. But they are not small
Speaker 5: enough to come up with that themselves, and that's factual.
Speaker 5: They're like they have average IQ sixty eight.
Speaker 1: I mean fair. But when they got to this country,
Speaker 1: they got taught by other groups that have been doing
Speaker 1: very similar things. And that's what I'm saying. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that all of this, or even the vast majority
Speaker 1: of it, is a Somali's fault. We have multiple groups,
Speaker 1: some of them domestics, some of them foreign that come
Speaker 1: to this country and they take advantage of the system
Speaker 1: and they'll set up daycare and they'll set up these
Speaker 1: small businesses and get these crazy loans and then just
Speaker 1: go bankrupt. But all the money is now gone and
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, and they're not gonna get anything more
Speaker 1: than to slap on the risk for it.
Speaker 5: Why don't we become in the isolation in this country
Speaker 5: and just stop the immigration coming in and send everyone
Speaker 5: to fuck out.
Speaker 1: Easy, Sam. That's racist. Yeah, I know, I think it's
Speaker 1: stupid too.
Speaker 5: How is that racist.
Speaker 1: Because the Democrats think it is. They think everything's racist.
Speaker 5: Japan was an isolation for a long fucking time they
Speaker 5: and during the isolation is they were the most peaceful
Speaker 5: they ever had.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that isolation of Japan was peaceful. There
Speaker 1: was a lot.
Speaker 5: Of wars, yes, but they were internal. But that granted
Speaker 5: they they weren't getting fucked up by the Huns.
Speaker 9: Or by mainland China.
Speaker 1: At that Oh my god, speaking of speaking of you
Speaker 1: remember hearing that article about the samurais and how they're
Speaker 1: saying that half the samurais. Come to find out where
Speaker 1: women brought it up? A couple episodes ago. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: They completely redefined what the term samurai mean meant. So
Speaker 1: in Japanese, samurai means to serve or servants, if you will.
Speaker 1: So essentially a samurai was in the service of the
Speaker 1: shogun or in the service of the emperor, whatever the case.
Speaker 1: So now they classified every admin clerk who predominantly were
Speaker 1: females for the record, they classified them as public servants.
Speaker 1: Therefore their samurais. Therefore half the samurais were women. No,
Speaker 1: that's very intellectually dishonest.
Speaker 5: Well, well, yes there were women's soldiers, not many, No,
Speaker 5: not many. A lot of them was to like they
Speaker 5: were tied to to use defen size in the then
Speaker 5: the pretty much it is a big as bostam for
Speaker 5: the long ass fucking guitar of blade.
Speaker 1: This would be the same, Yeah, they were.
Speaker 5: They were taught this so that if the men were
Speaker 5: out fighting and somebody broke in the house, they can
Speaker 5: protect the other women and the children.
Speaker 1: So this would be the same as saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: come to find out half of the people that were
Speaker 1: on ships were women. Therefore half of the pirates, come
Speaker 1: to find out were women. It's like, I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: that is an accurate statement at all.
Speaker 5: There is a Chinese woman who became like the queen
Speaker 5: of the Chinese pirates. There's been and Bowling and Mallya
Speaker 5: do something I can't remember. She died in a prison pregnant,
Speaker 5: and and Bowling and Bonnie h it was the two bits.
Speaker 5: It was the two chicks so on Calico Jackson crew
Speaker 5: that actually were the gangsters because he and half the
Speaker 5: other guys were under deck scared shitness.
Speaker 1: But that's my point. The for them to do this
Speaker 1: and say that half of the samurais were women, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna say half of the publics right right,
Speaker 1: half of the public servants in Japan's history were women,
Speaker 1: that's an accurate statement, okay. Cool. The samurai class, although
Speaker 1: samurai means servant, this would be the equivalent of the
Speaker 1: medieval knights that you're not gonna find nobility, right right exactly,
Speaker 1: And so like the same thing, there were women knights,
Speaker 1: but they were so rare. That's why they stand out
Speaker 1: in history.
Speaker 4: I e.
Speaker 1: Joan of Arc that wasn't the norm. That was the
Speaker 1: rare exception.
Speaker 5: Which she was a peasant goal and she at seventeen
Speaker 5: she took up owns and led the funch against the
Speaker 5: British and then the French should government fucked her over.
Speaker 5: Was yeah, boned out the stake by the British.
Speaker 1: But that's my point though. For them to say that
Speaker 1: it's the way they put that out is very dishonest
Speaker 1: and too many people didn't read into it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's that would be like saying half of
Speaker 5: the modern day feminists are the s boy soy boys.
Speaker 1: I actually think half of them are soy boys. But
Speaker 1: that's because they're trying to be feminists in an attempt
Speaker 1: to get laid by actual female feminists. It's it's actually pretty.
Speaker 5: Sad that foe for my Asian brain don't work on
Speaker 5: that that that map don't compute.
Speaker 1: So they think they think that if they can present
Speaker 1: themselves like enough of an ally, then one of these yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's essentially that's what I can tell Doe. These beta
Speaker 1: males that are like out there with the pussy hats
Speaker 1: on and all these things with the feminist charge. They're
Speaker 1: doing this in an attempt to get laid through pity,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy that they don't they do. They don't
Speaker 1: play it out that a woman does not want a
Speaker 1: beta ma huh.
Speaker 5: They wearing piss cutters.
Speaker 1: No, you remember those pink woven pussy hats that the
Speaker 1: feminists were wearing to all their rallies, and shit, the
Speaker 1: guys that are out there wearing that, they are trying
Speaker 1: to get laid. But it's like, no, women don't actually
Speaker 1: like they might like you, and they'll see you as
Speaker 1: they're gay bestie. They're not gonna want to bed you.
Speaker 1: Dog's that's not how this goes. But you know, just
Speaker 1: possibly just respect them and maintain your own manhood. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean in some sort of a sexist way,
Speaker 1: just like be a homie and you might have a
Speaker 1: decent shot. But boil boy, Yeah, the beta male cuts there.
Speaker 5: They don't even have the equipment for that dog.
Speaker 1: But you can buy it. You can buy the equipment.
Speaker 5: Apparently, they don't never buy the self confidence needed to
Speaker 5: bet a woman.
Speaker 1: No, but they could buy a dildo or like a
Speaker 1: strap on dick that fits over their own. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a thing. It's a thing anyway, side stepping that Royce,
Speaker 1: what you got.
Speaker 9: So getting with the budget? What do you think of
Speaker 9: the ten billion dollars to the new.
Speaker 1: Peace Deal, ten billion dollars to the Wenow.
Speaker 9: The border piece deal, whatever the that Trump was suggesting.
Speaker 1: So fill me in on this. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: a little familiar with it, but help me out.
Speaker 9: So you remember that there was the.
Speaker 10: Like the Peace Initiative to try to keep Isral guys
Speaker 10: that to have their bad piece right, Okay, didn't.
Speaker 9: Trump give ten billion dollars for that? I'm a shooting.
Speaker 9: I believe he gave ten billion dollars with that. So
Speaker 9: we're just talking about budget. So just I that's something
Speaker 9: that I don't.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 9: I don't want my tax dollars to go out.
Speaker 1: I agree, And also let that be known our resident
Speaker 1: Jewish correspondent does not want the American tax dollars to
Speaker 1: go to Israel, which I agree with you.
Speaker 9: Yes, anyone, Just I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't mean Israel like there are allies, no problem
Speaker 10: and if we could do things, you know, but like
Speaker 10: just in general, I don't I don't want to do
Speaker 10: I don't want our dollars going out anyway.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. I could not agree more. But
Speaker 1: that's the other thing to it all is like, even
Speaker 1: if we say ten billion, that is a drop in
Speaker 1: the two trillion dollar bucket. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that makes it okay. It all
Speaker 1: adds up exactly. I don't see this as a positive thing.
Speaker 1: And the way that Trump was talking about at the
Speaker 1: State of the Union makes it seem like it's all good,
Speaker 1: it's all positive. It's like, Bro, you're you are seriously
Speaker 1: growing that national debt, which you claimed when you first
Speaker 1: came in here and you started dozing all of this,
Speaker 1: that you were gonna find all the waist and cut
Speaker 1: it out. Shocker, Trump lied yet again. I can't say.
Speaker 1: There's so many people and myself included for the record,
Speaker 1: that were super stoked about what he was claiming he
Speaker 1: was gonna do when he took office if the first
Speaker 1: few months were solid, and then man, he when he
Speaker 1: decided that he didn't give a fuck anymore, he meant it.
Speaker 1: He meant it, And yeah, I don't. I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge fan of him these days. I still would rather
Speaker 1: him in there over Kamala, But Bro, At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm still feeling like the pet Rock would have been
Speaker 1: the better option overall. You know, Okay, Sam, what you got?
Speaker 5: Oh On the Trump I was, I agree with you
Speaker 5: in the beginning. I was hopeful, But now looking at it,
Speaker 5: because I believe hard the allegations of Trump before that,
Speaker 5: Stiles and everything. I always always though it might have happened,
Speaker 5: they might have not unpounded whatever, But I never trusted him.
Speaker 5: He's a sleazy Yankee, ye. But I will say I
Speaker 5: don't think he stepped foot on the island by It
Speaker 5: would not surprise me. If he wanted doing some low
Speaker 5: down dirty ship with the the pageant queens on ma Alongo,
Speaker 5: it would not It would not surprise me. So we've
Speaker 5: been saying that nobody's been getting arrested on the Epstein files.
Speaker 9: That is a lie.
Speaker 5: The British, unfortunately, the bloody lobster backs are the ones
Speaker 5: that beat us to it this time.
Speaker 1: That's fair. But as far as the entire list is concerned,
Speaker 1: and I understand there's tons of reactions and all this,
Speaker 1: there are some names that we know, beyond any shadow
Speaker 1: of any doubt, we're connected to Epstein and doing some
Speaker 1: heinous ass ship Leon Black Les Wesner. There's tons. There's tons,
Speaker 1: But for sure with the amount of money and the
Speaker 1: pedophilia and all these things, we can really go right
Speaker 1: now and arrest Leon Black. Like it's all it's all
Speaker 1: out there. We there's at least an investigation needs to
Speaker 1: be Black.
Speaker 5: I know who blessed electioners, but who is Leon Black?
Speaker 1: He was a financier. You know?
Speaker 5: Wait? Was he like financier like these old like the
Speaker 5: financiers that like to be in the desert.
Speaker 1: No, no, he's like the what now, I'm not like,
Speaker 1: what is he the financiers that come from the desert?
Speaker 5: Or is he the financiers that come from my button?
Speaker 1: You know what? I'm actually gonna go back and look
Speaker 1: at my notes because I have him right here when
Speaker 1: I did talk about Leon Blacks. I don't want to
Speaker 1: speak out of turn here.
Speaker 5: Like from England? Or is he from Israel?
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's an American?
Speaker 5: Like okay, he's is he Asian? Because you gotta be
Speaker 5: good with numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't believe so he might be damn Okay, why
Speaker 1: can I find my notes on Leon Black? I was
Speaker 1: gonna give you the brief breakdown here we go. Leon
Speaker 1: Black founder of Apollo Global Management, which is a consultant firm.
Speaker 1: He paid Jeffrey Epstein one hundred and seventy million dollars
Speaker 1: for tax advice over six years. He was also a
Speaker 1: massive art collector. In twenty seventeen, he sent Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 1: a birthday gift that had to be x rayed wherever
Speaker 1: the fuck that means. I don't know what you would
Speaker 1: send Epstein that needed to be x rayed. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one March or twenty twenty one, he resigned as CEO
Speaker 1: of Apollo. A few days later, he stepped down as
Speaker 1: the chair of the Museum of Modern Arts Board of Trustees.
Speaker 1: The new files just showed how Jeffrey Epstein helped Black
Speaker 1: turn his art collection into bankable collateral so that Leon
Speaker 1: Black could borrow money against them, to the tune of
Speaker 1: an estimated one point four billion dollars evaluation in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen alone.
Speaker 5: Uh so he sold his paintings.
Speaker 1: No, So you got to understand, in the world big money,
Speaker 1: fine art is all a ruse. It's all a way
Speaker 1: of hiding and avoiding taxes. Right, So let's say I
Speaker 1: go and I buy this art piece for you know,
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars, just throwing it out here whatever,
Speaker 1: because it's art. That is a thing that is a
Speaker 1: tax write off. And then if I go get it
Speaker 1: evaluated by a buddy of mine who happens to be
Speaker 1: a curator at an art museum and says, oh, you
Speaker 1: bought it for how much? Eight hundred thousand? Brother, this
Speaker 1: is worth two million. Now it's a it's a value
Speaker 1: thing that I'll be able to write off in a
Speaker 1: bigger thing later on. I could sell that piece for
Speaker 1: two million to another rich guy that's trying to do
Speaker 1: the same shit. It's a big shifting of money to
Speaker 1: play the tax evasion game. That's all fine art really is.
Speaker 1: Like you look at a Jackson Pollock painting. There's no
Speaker 1: way these splatters of paint are worth four million dollars.
Speaker 1: But because some rich guy wanted to do that. That is.
Speaker 5: Understand that if you got an actual statue out of
Speaker 5: the the what is it called? Oh fuck? I used
Speaker 5: to know the No fuck to Loup. I'm my actual art,
Speaker 5: not not anything funch. It's the Greek it's the the
Speaker 5: Temple of Athena. I want to say, uh, the Acropolis. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like I SA, they took something from that, they took
Speaker 5: a pillar from that. I could understand spending four million
Speaker 5: dollars for that, because that's actual art that that has
Speaker 5: lasted that the the sands of time, right, But that's.
Speaker 1: All it is. The fine art world is just a
Speaker 1: tax evasion game these days, that's all. Yeah. Anyway, anyway,
Speaker 1: So yeah, Leon Black. He has deep ties to big money,
Speaker 1: big consulting firms, big things like this, and also very
Speaker 1: deep ties to Epstein. And there's more than enough evidence
Speaker 1: and more than enough things to at least justify an
Speaker 1: investigation and him getting arrested. But no, now we're not
Speaker 1: seeing that happen. Shocker. Anyway, let's continue on with the
Speaker 1: article here. I agree with you, though, Sam, the more
Speaker 1: we need arrests right now. But anyway, the White House
Speaker 1: pushed back on concerns about executions. I would very much
Speaker 1: like for that to get brought back for this one, actually,
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 5: Would you rather be a guillatine, firing squads, hanging, or
Speaker 5: elected chair, even if it was.
Speaker 1: Even if it was lethal injections, even if it was
Speaker 1: some sort of a peaceful and easy way which for
Speaker 1: the record, no, I think it needs to be way worse.
Speaker 1: But just for the sake of the optics of it,
Speaker 1: for us to have the public execution of everybody associated
Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein and let that be on Fox and
Speaker 1: seeing in an MSNBEE, let that be on national television,
Speaker 1: I think that the goal would still get sent. You know,
Speaker 1: even if it wasn't gruesome.
Speaker 5: I think it. I think for that examples have to
Speaker 5: be made. And why would we want them to think, Oh,
Speaker 5: it's just an easy to death, I'll just go to sleep.
Speaker 5: Fuck that.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Like I said, they.
Speaker 5: Were worshiping ball. Let's give them a bonds bowtal waship.
Speaker 5: We put them in the bitch and light it on fire.
Speaker 1: Again, I do believe it should be more gruesome than
Speaker 1: a lethal injection. But I do want public executions to
Speaker 1: be brought back for this or for anybody that that
Speaker 1: harms children. I'm good with that just being the new
Speaker 1: way for America.
Speaker 5: Keep in mind, we can still legally hang somebody for bush.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Louisiana's got a couple of laws. You can
Speaker 1: still legally hang somebody for doing shit too. So I
Speaker 1: mean I'm hearing, I hear you. I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that some arrest it made, if nothing else,
Speaker 1: to make some movement happen in this regard. But I
Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna be holding our breath for a while.
Speaker 1: No one, anyway, all right.
Speaker 9: Gonna happen good, I said, I just don't think it's
Speaker 9: ever gonna happen unfortunately. No, no arrests, no capital punishment, no,
Speaker 9: no this.
Speaker 10: And I agree with the anyone who actually has the
Speaker 10: child one kill him, you know, one way, shape or form,
Speaker 10: and then maybe depending on what they do, then you know,
Speaker 10: call it a rigular scale, right. I mean, it's all bad,
Speaker 10: but like you know what I mean as far as
Speaker 10: you know, the death, But I just don't think that
Speaker 10: we're going to get it. And that's ridiculously sad.
Speaker 9: Yeah it is, because we we had. I mean, it
Speaker 9: was everything that spot the Trump brand for the first time.
Speaker 10: This should have been like a knock in the ballpark
Speaker 10: of oh hey, well look he doesn't have anything else
Speaker 10: to lose, so so.
Speaker 9: Then he should go to the nth degree for whatever.
Speaker 10: And it just so happens he's going the nth degree
Speaker 10: on the completely opposite spectrum.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of this should go with
Speaker 1: his businessman background, because once he's out of the presidency
Speaker 1: in two years three years give or take, he's going
Speaker 1: back to the business world, and all these people that
Speaker 1: he could fry might be the people he needs to
Speaker 1: make business deals happen in the next ten years. So
Speaker 1: I think that he's absolutely unless he's on the list too,
Speaker 1: and he knows that he would be counted among them,
Speaker 1: which is also very very possible. Honestly, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be seeing any arrests really happen for this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of these things. They're gonna throw
Speaker 1: everything into the ceiling fan to see what sticks on
Speaker 1: the walls. At the other end of it, aliens are real.
Speaker 1: We're going to war with Cuba. We're doing that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I also think the Cuban military is not gonna
Speaker 1: shoot at an American ship. They know better. Unless this
Speaker 1: was a false flag event. I don't know, could be.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it here in
Speaker 1: a bit as the article goes down. But I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Royce, say im, I see your hand again,
Speaker 1: what you got? Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say that. Why why why can't
Speaker 5: we just say bypass them? And because he don't even
Speaker 5: order to give out the seam fouls anyway, Like, why
Speaker 5: can't we just say hey, like we don't work for them,
Speaker 5: they work for us. Why why don't why why don't
Speaker 5: we just say fine and fuck it? If y'all don't
Speaker 5: release this, we'll just just those of all of you
Speaker 5: and take you by false out of power, right, and
Speaker 5: we strip them of their their wealth, we strip them
Speaker 5: of everything. And then we say, since y'all light being
Speaker 5: on an island, cool, we put them on an island
Speaker 5: and we made sure that they never leave.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing. But unfortunately, most people in America,
Speaker 1: they talk a big game, but don't have the gumption
Speaker 1: to actually do things when the time comes. And most
Speaker 1: people in America really don't have the stomach for true violence.
Speaker 1: Most Americans have never seen what humans are willing to
Speaker 1: do to each other when shit really hits the fan.
Speaker 1: It's it's not something I think will actually happen. Hell Britain, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they arrested Andrew Andy, former Prince Andrew Nowaday, he's just Andy,
Speaker 1: old Andy down the street, you know, And yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just calling him Andy. But uh so that dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's arrested. He's not gonna like get the death penalty
Speaker 1: that the British royal family had to show that they're
Speaker 1: at least about it in some regard. He's been stripped
Speaker 1: of his titles. He's been arrested. He's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: He'll probably get released, if not bailed out by some
Speaker 1: other obscure cousin of theirs. Like, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fine for him.
Speaker 5: Like, does that mean that he will never be able
Speaker 5: to like be like is he like to exiled prince
Speaker 5: who shows happiness over the money? Right, Well, he never
Speaker 5: be a what will he has to get like a
Speaker 5: regular job and all?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, no, he's he's on his own. He's not
Speaker 1: getting any more endowments from his family ever. Again he's not.
Speaker 1: His children have also lost those titles, so like his
Speaker 1: son is not going to be a part of the
Speaker 1: royal family either.
Speaker 5: Like it's gone so truly the sins of the father
Speaker 5: really come back and fluck the sun.
Speaker 1: They typically do as far as the royal families are concerned.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would not surprise me if he gets up
Speaker 5: at the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I guess we'll find out, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll find out anyway. Continuing on here, the White
Speaker 1: House pushed back on the concerns about long term fiscal
Speaker 1: risks the reality that President Trump has already slashed the
Speaker 1: deficit by nearly twenty three percent in his first eleven
Speaker 1: months versus that's same time period in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: White House spokesperson Cush Desigh said in Wednesday's statement, the
Speaker 1: CBO has all so repeatedly underestimated economic growth. With the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five GDP growth having eclipsed the CBO's meager
Speaker 1: one point nine percent projection for the year, smaller deficits
Speaker 1: and higher growth thanks to Trump's economic policies are going
Speaker 1: to slash, not grow, America's debt to GDP ratio. Again,
Speaker 1: that's very These are very They sound good out loud,
Speaker 1: but when we're looking at the hard facts and statistics,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that maybe he's correct, and it's one of
Speaker 1: these things that you just got to wait and see,
Speaker 1: and all of nowhere, right before he gets out of office,
Speaker 1: everything's gonna come through to fruition and our debt gets cut.
Speaker 1: But man, he is spending money like it's going out
Speaker 1: of style right now, and I don't I just can't
Speaker 1: see how that goes to work in our favor. But anyway,
Speaker 1: job growth, the roaring economy is roaring like never before.
Speaker 1: Trump boasted during his speech. More Americans are working today
Speaker 1: than any any time in the history of our country.
Speaker 1: But the President failed to touch on twenty twenty five's
Speaker 1: the lagging job growth. The market added one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty one thousand jobs in all of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: much fewer than the one point four to six million
Speaker 1: jobs that were added in twenty twenty four. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a fair point. Economists note that while headline job totals
Speaker 1: can mask fluctuations, the sharp deceleration in hiring relative to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four highlights a labor market that has softened
Speaker 1: even as other economic indicators remained positive. Sarah Minority leader
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer complete bitch claimed Trump mocked affordability issues and
Speaker 1: failed to note weak job numbers. Okay, that's fair. Trump
Speaker 1: didn't simply ignore the affordability crisis, Schumer said, aka bitch
Speaker 1: boy said he mocked it yet again. The average Americans
Speaker 1: sitting at their table trying to figure out how they're
Speaker 1: going to pay the damn Bill was furious that he
Speaker 1: said it doesn't matter. That's a fair point. Though I
Speaker 1: don't like Schumer, but that's a fair point. Ragged last
Speaker 1: down about job creation, Schumer continued, well, job creation is
Speaker 1: at its lowest point in over twenty years, outside of
Speaker 1: a recession. It's the lowest point in twenty years. And
Speaker 1: he brags about it. Okay, outside of a recession. Brother,
Speaker 1: how many recessions have we been in the last twenty years?
Speaker 1: And shocker? Okay, anyway, whatever, whatever I was about to
Speaker 1: say positive towards Schumer, he just tanked it. He tanked it.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about what China. I'm sorry what Trump
Speaker 1: said about China and the Indo Pacific in his State
Speaker 1: of the Union address. While Trump used his address to
Speaker 1: declare a Golden age of security, the world's most significant
Speaker 1: geopolitical theater, the Indo Pacific was hardly mentioned. Shocker. Despite
Speaker 1: a record breaking eleven billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan
Speaker 1: just two months ago and a planned high stakes visit
Speaker 1: to Beijing in April, the President did not mention Taiwan,
Speaker 1: the South China Sea, or a broader regional strategy by name.
Speaker 1: While Trump mocked Chinese technology because it deserves to be mocked,
Speaker 1: by the way, in the context of the Venezuelan raid,
Speaker 1: he offered no public reassurance to allies in Tokyo, Canberra, Australia,
Speaker 1: or Taipei, Taiwan, which we are navigating Beijing's expanding military reach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this whole Beijing meeting is supposed
Speaker 1: to go. In April, Trump is going to go to China.
Speaker 1: That's that's a bit terrifying. The omission follows a pattern
Speaker 1: established in twenty twenty six as National Defense strategy released
Speaker 1: in January, which for the time in a decade, scrubbed
Speaker 1: direct references to Taiwan's security. Though the US has long
Speaker 1: hailed a policy of strategic ambiguity, refusing to say whether
Speaker 1: it would come to Taiwan's defense if China invaded, some
Speaker 1: analysis have detected a fragile duntuante between US and China.
Speaker 1: This absence is notable in twenty twenty six, as Washington
Speaker 1: prepares for high level talks of Beijing and regional allies
Speaker 1: closely monitor US commitments amid rising cross straight tensions and
Speaker 1: expanding Chinese naval activity. A White House official told Fox
Speaker 1: News Digital there have been no change in policy towards Taiwan.
Speaker 1: The US One China Policy, which provides for executive branch
Speaker 1: interactions with both of the Taiwan Strait, remains the same
Speaker 1: as the first Trump administration, the official said, noting that
Speaker 1: the US policy continues to be based on the Taiwan
Speaker 1: Relations Act, the three US p r C, Joint Communic Communis,
Speaker 1: and the Six Assurances of Taiwan. Okay, So with that
Speaker 1: being said, I feel like it's only right that we
Speaker 1: hear from our our Hong Kong correspondent here, Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Don't trust China. China is ass hoo.
Speaker 1: I feel like we can never hear from him enough
Speaker 1: to be completely honest with you. But okay, fine, So
Speaker 1: basically nothing of the Southeast Asia was mentioned other than
Speaker 1: the whole oh I ended Wars, which was talking about
Speaker 1: Cambodia and Thailand, which he did. But the tensions flared
Speaker 1: up again because they've to be honest, those tensions have
Speaker 1: been flaring up for a long time and they just
Speaker 1: came to a head this past two years. But whatever,
Speaker 1: So China, Taiwan, all that situation not really mentioned in
Speaker 1: the State of the Union address. I do not believe
Speaker 1: as of this moment that China is getting ready to
Speaker 1: invade Taiwan, although their golden window of opportunity is rapidly
Speaker 1: closing on them. If they don't bust a move this year,
Speaker 1: their last shot will be twenty twenty seven. And after
Speaker 1: that it's not gonna It's not simply gonna happen to
Speaker 1: be real. But anyway, let's continue talking about Cuba and
Speaker 1: the embargo. Despite a marked escalation in US policy towards Cuba,
Speaker 1: Trump made no reference to the island, the long standing embargo,
Speaker 1: or recent moves to titan economic pressure. The omission is
Speaker 1: noteworthy given how central Havana Havana has become to broader
Speaker 1: US policy in the Western Hemisphere. Under Trump's second term,
Speaker 1: the administration has significantly reinforced sanctions and pressured on Cuba,
Speaker 1: moving beyond the decades old embargo to block crude oil
Speaker 1: and fuel supplies that left the island largely without vital
Speaker 1: energy imports after Venezuelan shipments dried up, contributing to widespread
Speaker 1: blackouts and worsening humanitarian conditions. In late January, Trump issued
Speaker 1: an executive order declaring a national emergency on Cuba and
Speaker 1: authorizing tariffs aimed at halting the supply of oil to
Speaker 1: the island. Caribbean leaders also highlighted the regional consequences of
Speaker 1: the US policy on Cuba at a major summit this week,
Speaker 1: warning that fuel and economic crisis could have broader security
Speaker 1: and migration implications across the Caribbean basin. The issue carries
Speaker 1: regional implications. In twenty twenty six, as the Caribbean leaders
Speaker 1: warned that prolonged instability in Cuba could fuel mitigation flows
Speaker 1: and strain hemispheric security coordinations. So, okay, again the whole
Speaker 1: situation with Cuba. Everybody put a pin in that because
Speaker 1: as that wasn't mentioned in the State of the Union
Speaker 1: address today, Cuban military shot at an American boat and
Speaker 1: killed four American citizens. And again I am still the
Speaker 1: belief that there's a false flag to get everybody to
Speaker 1: stop talking about the Epstein files. Everybody's worried about going
Speaker 1: to war with the ran is anybody worried about US
Speaker 1: going to war with Cuba? Because I actually didn't have
Speaker 1: that on my Bengo car for this year, But I mean,
Speaker 1: it very well could happen. But we'll get to that
Speaker 1: here in a minute. Okay, Sam, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Did they did we not learn the first time with
Speaker 5: the failed invasion? They of Higgs invasion?
Speaker 1: Apparently not.
Speaker 5: I mean at this point is that we could take
Speaker 5: what we learned then or what not to do, and
Speaker 5: we But I just think that Cuba is fucked either way.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Trump actually stands on his word and
Speaker 1: does what US presidents do when someone touches our boats,
Speaker 1: we might have a real situation on our hands. But
Speaker 1: is it also possible that Trump's like, ehh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was an accident. Whatever, we're moving on and throw
Speaker 1: some extra tariffs and sanctions on them. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh, I think we should start at this point. I
Speaker 5: don't think they deserve the sun. That might be a
Speaker 5: tagged too extremely. It's not three thousand of our boys,
Speaker 5: and it ain't a couple of battleships. Granted they fucked up,
Speaker 5: they touched the boat. I say, we just dropped four
Speaker 5: moabs and called it a day. Well, drop one moab
Speaker 5: directly on the on the dickhead's house that lives there.
Speaker 5: That that's ruling it right now.
Speaker 1: Eh Q has got way too dens of a civilian
Speaker 1: population or drop moabs, dude, and their military is not
Speaker 1: It's not impressive. I'll say that. Like, I know, I
Speaker 1: shit on Canada a lot because they're listed as the
Speaker 1: twenty seventh strongest military on Earth. Close to that. But honestly,
Speaker 1: we could just send a couple of the Tidans of
Speaker 1: Marines and have the island taken over in probably a week.
Speaker 1: Real shit, you know, and it'd be fun.
Speaker 5: I don't know, man Canada, Canada that they have full
Speaker 5: motion three guys named David with a weird looking hat.
Speaker 5: But I still think that humans might be more of
Speaker 5: a threat thing Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a threat maybe a bit. We'll read
Speaker 1: about it. We'll read about it in a bit, and
Speaker 1: then we'll make a decision of whether this is going
Speaker 1: to become a whole thing or not. We'll see. But anyway,
Speaker 1: maybe Russia, Ukraine was referenced, but little detail, No need
Speaker 1: to really go into the thick of it on this
Speaker 1: when basically it was brought up, and he said that
Speaker 1: he was framing an ambition to the end of the
Speaker 1: conflict as part of his foreign policy narrative, but he
Speaker 1: offered no detailed outline of how the administration plans to
Speaker 1: achieved that goal, or how the US diplomacy, military aid,
Speaker 1: or leverage with the European allies will be marshaled to
Speaker 1: bring it about. All of that. Also right now, Ukraine
Speaker 1: just scored some pretty massive victories against Russia. There was
Speaker 1: a big Spring offensive that they just launched, and they
Speaker 1: seem to be gaining ground in the South region. I
Speaker 1: don't know that if it's gonna be, you know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna maintain or not. I know that Russia has started
Speaker 1: conscripting troops from Africa, come to find out, and of
Speaker 1: the four hundred that were sent, one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: of them have already been confirmed Kia on the front lines.
Speaker 1: It's not looking good. It is not looking good for Russia,
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been for a very long time. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I don't feel like Putin's
Speaker 1: getting ready to capitulate. I could be wrong. Tony had
Speaker 1: to take off her, it seems, but he has still
Speaker 1: been on the kick that this whole thing's going to
Speaker 1: be wrapped up in March. I don't know. I hope
Speaker 1: that this gets wrapped up sooner rather than later, but
Speaker 1: I could also see this being a very slow grinding war.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. Just me personally, I don't believe
Speaker 1: Putin is going to stop once he achieves his goals
Speaker 1: with these four OBLASTI I think that he's going to
Speaker 1: be trying to make a push to take over all
Speaker 1: of Ukraine. And Zelenski has vowed that he's not going
Speaker 1: to be satisfied until all the way to Crimea becomes Ukrainian. Again,
Speaker 1: that was taken in twenty twelve, was it or twenty fourteen?
Speaker 1: Rather so like it's not, this isn't This isn't going
Speaker 1: to end anytime soon unless all sides can see through
Speaker 1: the fog and decide what's better for their people. I
Speaker 1: just don't believe they're going to do that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: So the speech came as the fourth anniversary of the
Speaker 1: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yeah, that special two week military
Speaker 1: operation is now on its fourth anniversary. Funny how that
Speaker 1: works out. So the lack of detail stands out. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, as the war enters its fifth year
Speaker 1: and European allies looked to Washington for clarity on long
Speaker 1: term security guarantees and reconstruction support. And like we said,
Speaker 1: Trump didn't really give a whole lot of details on this,
Speaker 1: but now without any further ado. We covered the State
Speaker 1: of the Union, We talked about the things, and I
Speaker 1: don't really know what to make of it. I Trump
Speaker 1: did what Trump did. He talked a lot, made things
Speaker 1: sound better than they are, took jabs at some people.
Speaker 1: And I saw these other news articles. I didn't bring
Speaker 1: them up for this one because there's no need to.
Speaker 1: A bunch of Democrat women were wearing white and apparently
Speaker 1: that was some sort of a sign of protest. Some dude,
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna mention his name because I find
Speaker 1: them to be a raging piece of shit. The guy
Speaker 1: who is an elected official that looks like an actual
Speaker 1: bag of ass, Like he looks like he's dying. He
Speaker 1: held up a sign saying that humans aren't apes or
Speaker 1: something like that, and it was like no one said this,
Speaker 1: but okay, he got escorted out during the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address. The dude, I've heard him speak a
Speaker 1: few times. The guy is how does he keep getting elected?
Speaker 1: Elan Omar started screaming at Trump during the thing, which
Speaker 1: is crazy because her and her husband are under indictment
Speaker 1: right now for their own shit. Your boy. So not
Speaker 1: her brother, by the way, not her first husband, her
Speaker 1: fucking blood brother, her current husband. He started a wine company,
Speaker 1: not a vineyard, a wine company, and it was valued
Speaker 1: at five hundred thousand one year and thirty six million
Speaker 1: the next. And they don't really have any online presence
Speaker 1: for sales or anything else else, So how did that happen?
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, you know, so, Molly, Minnesota fraud
Speaker 1: is kind of a big talking point. So they are
Speaker 1: both about to be indicted for their shit with money,
Speaker 1: and she's got the balls to start screaming at Trump
Speaker 1: about some things as far as Minnesota and fraud goes
Speaker 1: are about money. It's it's hilarious. So there's there are
Speaker 1: some more, you know, ostentatious notes from the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address. If y'all want to go look at
Speaker 1: the YouTube clips of it, I recommend it. But I
Speaker 1: brought up the things that I thought it was worth
Speaker 1: mentioning on this one.
Speaker 5: Sam, go ahead, Oh well, I was gonna say that
Speaker 5: the day that said we're not eight I doubled check. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll cast about as great eightes. No, so he is
Speaker 5: in fact, actually scientifically vall we all ate.
Speaker 1: Respectfully. I disagree.
Speaker 5: But that's a thing I said scientifically. I didn't say
Speaker 5: what I thought. Yeah, saying scientifically, I'm using their their
Speaker 5: belief system against them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was all for show. It was all
Speaker 1: as a big ploy, and it just made him look
Speaker 1: really bad. But sure, you know, to some people, they
Speaker 1: keep electing him. I bet he's a hero.
Speaker 5: I don't know, like John, like mister Senator Kennedy always says,
Speaker 5: I'll push and let him, let him speak as a
Speaker 5: as a go. It's working so that hey, say what
Speaker 5: you will. That man, he is a divil. But that
Speaker 5: dude's name he that boy is uh on the up
Speaker 5: and up. He ain't in the files, No it ain't.
Speaker 1: No, it ain't. He from Louisiana to Oh Kennedy.
Speaker 5: I love that boy like I love that man.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot.
Speaker 5: He said, if you hate the cops, call a crack head.
Speaker 5: That's that's funny.
Speaker 1: He comes with some fire, dude, he does all right.
Speaker 1: Speaking president, I wish, But speaking of some faya, let's
Speaker 1: learn about the Cuban navy shooting at an American boat
Speaker 1: and killing four Americans. Let's learn about this together, y'all.
Speaker 13: Details coming in on the story. We talked about just
Speaker 13: a few minutes ago, Cuba's Interior Ministry saying that four
Speaker 13: men on a US registered speedboat were shot and killed.
Speaker 13: Our White House correspondent Kelly Myers back with us now
Speaker 13: from the North Launch has been digging into this, So
Speaker 13: all right, are we learning anything else, for example, anything
Speaker 13: from the American side, Kelly yet or.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 7: We're reaching out to sources at the State Department and
Speaker 7: here at the White House. But we do know from
Speaker 7: some posts on X, including from the US embassy there,
Speaker 7: Cuba's Interior Ministry is saying that there were four people
Speaker 7: on that boat that were killed and six were injured.
Speaker 7: You see that Cuban embassy in the US. We also
Speaker 7: know that boat was registered in Florida, and according to
Speaker 7: the Ministry of the Interior, they approached the boat for
Speaker 7: identification and the crew on the speedboat open fire, they say,
Speaker 7: and in respect, four were killed, six were injured. We're
Speaker 7: hearing more reaction on X, including from the Florida Attorney
Speaker 7: General saying this quote. I've directed the Office of Statewide
Speaker 7: Prosecution to work with our federal, state and law enforcement
Speaker 7: partners to begin an investigation. The Cuban government cannot be trusted,
Speaker 7: and we will do everything in our power to hold
Speaker 7: these communists accountable. We also are hearing from Republican Florida
Speaker 7: Congressman Carlos Gamenez saying he is also calling for an
Speaker 7: immediate investigation. He also says he has requested additional details
Speaker 7: from the State Department as well as the US military.
Speaker 7: So we're waiting to learn more exactly about who was
Speaker 7: on that boat, why they were on that boat, why
Speaker 7: they were in those waters. But we do have those
Speaker 7: initial details right now. Again, still reaching out to sources
Speaker 7: at the State Department and here at the White House
Speaker 7: to find out their reaction as well to this breaking news.
Speaker 13: Conn all right, let us know if you hear anything else.
Speaker 13: Kelly Kelly Myers live at the White House. Before we
Speaker 13: move on, just to the tablet real quick so people
Speaker 13: get an idea of where we're talking about. We'll get
Speaker 13: to Nvidio as well. We're waiting for the earnings from
Speaker 13: the Most Valuable Company of the World, which will be
Speaker 13: released in the next hour. So we're going to talk
Speaker 13: about up next what's expected. But on the tablet you
Speaker 13: see Cuba obviously so close to South Florida, but the
Speaker 13: area in question here in terms of the province can
Speaker 13: be highlighted here via Clara this providence, this province in
Speaker 13: the northern part of Cuba. So that's what we're talking
Speaker 13: about geographically, As Kelly says, more information on it as
Speaker 13: we get it, quick break back with more.
Speaker 1: Okay, So as of this moment, was it a civilian boat,
Speaker 1: was it a military boat? It was a speedboat. They
Speaker 1: said that ten people were on it and six or
Speaker 1: four of them are dead and six were shot not dead.
Speaker 1: Is this is this the new false flag? Is this
Speaker 1: the thing that's going to get us to stop talking
Speaker 1: about Epstein or is that what the government's hoping for? Anyway,
Speaker 1: they're going to launch an investigation, but I mean, what's
Speaker 1: to say they'll find anything. Let's read about this together.
Speaker 1: So four people were killed and th other's wounded Wednesday,
Speaker 1: so that was two days as a time of recording,
Speaker 1: excuse me, after the crew of a Florida registered speedboat
Speaker 1: opened fire on a Cuban border patrol vessel. So now
Speaker 1: the story is that the Americans on the speedboat shot
Speaker 1: at the Cuban border patrol vessel. Okay, And that's from
Speaker 1: Cuba's Interior Ministry said they said that the Americans shot
Speaker 1: at them first. Okay, this confrontation involved a civilian boat
Speaker 1: attempting to evacuate relatives from the island. Interesting a US
Speaker 1: officials told The New York Times. The Ministry said the
Speaker 1: vessel bearing a Florida registration number had penetrated approximately one
Speaker 1: nautical mile into Cuban waters near Cayo Falcons in the
Speaker 1: Villa Clara province, when a five member border guard patrol
Speaker 1: approached for identification. Cuban officials say a majority of the
Speaker 1: ten passingers on a boat that opened fire on its
Speaker 1: soldiers were armed Cubans living in the US who were
Speaker 1: trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism. Clearly, of course,
Speaker 1: you know about those Cuban terrorists. You always hear so
Speaker 1: much about they. Noted among the detained participants, according to
Speaker 1: the preliminary investigations, were I'm gonna try my hardest to
Speaker 1: say these names without butchering them. Y'all. Keep in mind,
Speaker 1: I barely speak American English, so let's do this. Amiel
Speaker 1: Sanchez Gonzalez Lear Dan Enrique Cruz Gomez, Conrad Galindo Sariol,
Speaker 1: Jose Manuel Rodriguez Castillo, Castillo, Christian Ernesto Acosta Guerira Guevara,
Speaker 1: and Roberto as Cora consueg Gra. Michael Ortega Casanova was
Speaker 1: identified among the deceased. Okay, I probably destroyed those names again,
Speaker 1: my apologies, A source familiar with the investigator with the
Speaker 1: information told Jesus, I'm trying to read with one I hear.
Speaker 1: A source familiar with the information on the registration of
Speaker 1: the boat provided to News Nation that the vessel belonged
Speaker 1: to a man who was born in Cuba. The boat's
Speaker 1: last known address was Miami Lakes. The source added that
Speaker 1: they couldn't confirm if the man was aboard the vessel
Speaker 1: at the time of the incident, or if or even
Speaker 1: in possession of it. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Speaker 1: made contact with the man. Sources also told News Nation
Speaker 1: he lives in Miami, but the boat was Adam Marina
Speaker 1: down in the Keys. Upon notification and contact, he reported
Speaker 1: the boat stolen. The man is not a suspect yet
Speaker 1: in any way. The crew of the speedboat opened fire,
Speaker 1: wounding the commander of the Cuban vessel authority said by that,
Speaker 1: I mean Cuban authorities, said the Cuban forces returned fire.
Speaker 1: It is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open
Speaker 1: sea like that, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
Speaker 1: It's not something that happens every day, and frankly, it
Speaker 1: hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time. Florida
Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis was briefed by the US Coast Guard leadership
Speaker 1: about the incident, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Speaker 1: The US official, who spoke to The Times on the
Speaker 1: condition of anonymity, said the vessel was a civilian boat
Speaker 1: and not a US naval or Coastguard craft, and that
Speaker 1: it was a part of a flotilla attempting to bring
Speaker 1: relatives out of Cuba. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer. Uth
Speaker 1: Meyer said he had directed the state's Offish office to
Speaker 1: Statewide Prosecution to open an investigation in coordination with federal
Speaker 1: and state law enforcement partners. Representative Carlo Yumenez, who's Republican
Speaker 1: from Florida, a Cuban American who represents Florida's twenty eighth
Speaker 1: congressional district, called the incident an attack on US civilians
Speaker 1: the dictatorship in Cuba. The direct quote here the dictatorship
Speaker 1: in Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida and
Speaker 1: murdered those on board. He wrote this on x This
Speaker 1: regime must be relegated to the dust bin of history.
Speaker 1: Cuba defended the us A force, saying it remained committed
Speaker 1: to protecting its territorial waters and that national defense is
Speaker 1: a fundamental pillar of the Cuban state. Authority said investigations
Speaker 1: are continuing. Okay, so as of this moment, will we
Speaker 1: be going to war with Cuba? Maybe yes, maybe not
Speaker 1: if these statements are true from the Cuban authorities. Here,
Speaker 1: we're saying that Cuban Americans made a flotilla and we're
Speaker 1: going to Cuba with the express intent of extracting Cubans
Speaker 1: out and bring them to America illegally. As much as
Speaker 1: Trump has been touting about getting the illegals out of here,
Speaker 1: I have a hard time as of this moment, believing
Speaker 1: that he's going to take this to be a net positive. Now,
Speaker 1: how many of the people on the boat were American citizens,
Speaker 1: specifically American born citizens. That might pull the sway one
Speaker 1: way or another. It wasn't a naval vessel, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a coastguard vessel. It wasn't anything other than an American
Speaker 1: registered boat. So I don't know. But seeing is how
Speaker 1: we already have assets in the Caribbean because of what
Speaker 1: just took place with Venezuela. Is it possible that we
Speaker 1: take some of those assets and put them off the
Speaker 1: coast of Cuba as a show of force and do
Speaker 1: some shit. Very possible. I don't know what's your thoughts, Sam.
Speaker 5: I retract my earliest statements. This does not want the
Speaker 5: sun at all. I feel like that is sort that
Speaker 5: this really has nothing to do with us. It's the
Speaker 5: boat's just registered to us.
Speaker 1: This is yeah, But especially with the way the political
Speaker 1: climate in this country is right now, I could see
Speaker 1: this possibly getting blown way out of proportion. I could
Speaker 1: also see this getting pushed under the rug both They
Speaker 1: could go either way at this point.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I could see the left looking at tomp saying, oh, so,
Speaker 5: because he said you gotta want to start any new wars,
Speaker 5: it could use this to try to put push him in.
Speaker 5: Them wants to say, oh, see Trump say hit to quit.
Speaker 5: I say, oh yeah. But I'll see the bite side
Speaker 5: say well, these aren't really US citizens. They were cleaning
Speaker 5: a crime they fired upon the other. Shit happens, so
Speaker 5: h And it's well, either way you cut it, this
Speaker 5: is awesome life. But does it really want us going
Speaker 5: and inviting Cuba? In my humble opinion.
Speaker 1: No, not really, not my opinion either.
Speaker 5: But again, I'm gonna all these statements.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it shakes out. Honestly, I could see
Speaker 1: it going both ways. And either decision that Trump makes
Speaker 1: on that one, the left is gonna say either A
Speaker 1: if he does nothing, Oh so it's because they were
Speaker 1: brown American citizens that's why Trump doesn't care. Or if
Speaker 1: he invades Cuba, right, Oh so all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you wanted to start a new war with Cuba, he's
Speaker 1: He's screwedy. The way it goes on this one, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna shake out of it, but it's
Speaker 1: very rare that somebody touches an American boat, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was worth us mentioning it today, especially as
Speaker 1: it happened two days of time of recording. So anyway,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this. Also, the Trump administration considers forcing
Speaker 1: banks to verify customers citizenship. Now I gotta be careful
Speaker 1: about how to say this. Once upon a time there
Speaker 1: was a president in the United States named Barack who
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out which Americans were putting money
Speaker 1: in a Swiss bank. Right, the Swiss Bank famously tells
Speaker 1: any government to fuck off when it comes to what
Speaker 1: their customers have in their bank accounts, and this President
Speaker 1: Obama approached them and basically said, either you give me
Speaker 1: all the information on every American that has an account
Speaker 1: with you, or there will be consequences. So in response,
Speaker 1: the Swiss Bank kicked every single American out because they're
Speaker 1: not dealing with that. Like, sorry, it sucks to suck,
Speaker 1: but your president's a piece of shit and we're not
Speaker 1: playing this game with y'all. Trump is considering forcing banks,
Speaker 1: all banks in America to verify if every single customer
Speaker 1: is an American citizen or not, as a way of
Speaker 1: finding more illegals. This is the thing that's taking place,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about it. The Trump administration is weighing
Speaker 1: a new requirement for US banks to verify citizenship information
Speaker 1: of current and future customers as part of the president's
Speaker 1: aggressive immigration crackdown. The potential action, which one source said
Speaker 1: could take the form of an executive order, has raised
Speaker 1: concern in the industry that banks could be compelled to
Speaker 1: ask customers for an unprecedented category of documents, including passports
Speaker 1: and other documents that verify citizenship status. The source cautioned
Speaker 1: that plans haven't been finalized and that there are still
Speaker 1: considerations underway other options and legal authorities or underway over
Speaker 1: other options. It's a bad idea and we are very alarmed,
Speaker 1: and a financial industry source told CNN. The industry source
Speaker 1: added that the bank executives worry the order is designed
Speaker 1: to force them to play a role in the administration's
Speaker 1: pursuit to deport undocumented immigrants. Well, yeah, clearly that's what
Speaker 1: this is about. They're worried about that. That seems okay, No,
Speaker 1: clearly that's what this is. It's not clear whether President
Speaker 1: Trump will eventually sign executive order, the possibility of which
Speaker 1: was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The White
Speaker 1: House neither confirmed nor denied the potential executive order or
Speaker 1: other actions. Any reporting about potential policy making that has
Speaker 1: not been officially announced by the White House is baseless speculation.
Speaker 1: White House spokesperson culsh said in a statement. While banks
Speaker 1: are required to adhere to anti money laundering and know
Speaker 1: your customer rules and list where a customer lives. They
Speaker 1: don't collect or verify citizenship information. If Trump signed an
Speaker 1: executive order or this type of executive order, it could
Speaker 1: require banks to retroactively give citizenship information from existing customers
Speaker 1: and collect it from new customers. The industry source said,
Speaker 1: verifying every bank customer citizenship status would be unworkable. I
Speaker 1: don't see how that'd be very simple, the same way
Speaker 1: you have a mobile app. You can take a picture
Speaker 1: of a check to deposit it, send a picture of
Speaker 1: your driver's license, your social I don't know anyway. The
Speaker 1: Trump administration's immigration crackdown efforts have at times raise concerns
Speaker 1: in parts of the federal government. CNN previously reported as
Speaker 1: many as fifty senior information technology professionals at the IRS,
Speaker 1: including some top cybersecurity experts, were placed on administrative leave
Speaker 1: last year as Trump's officials finalized plans to share taxpayer
Speaker 1: data with federal immigration authorities. That effort was legally challenged
Speaker 1: and blocked by a federal judge late last year. A
Speaker 1: Treasury Department spokesperson said at the time that employees were
Speaker 1: placed on leave, but denied it had to do with
Speaker 1: accessing IRS data. For Immigration Enforcement. Okay, now listen, hear
Speaker 1: me out. I understand that a bank makes money. They
Speaker 1: really don't care where that money comes from, who that
Speaker 1: money is attached to. Whatever a bank to a bank,
Speaker 1: green is green dog. Dollar bills are dollar bills, and
Speaker 1: they are in fact the almighty dollar bills. They don't care.
Speaker 1: That being said, we only need to take a quick
Speaker 1: look back in history to see about those huge bailouts
Speaker 1: that former administrations paid to these banks to keep their
Speaker 1: doors open. They are beholden to the government, whether they
Speaker 1: want to be or not. So if the government says, hey,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start requiring this to do any kind of
Speaker 1: business with these people, the banks will say yes sir
Speaker 1: and go on about their business. But it's very possible
Speaker 1: that this gets blocked. As other attempts that Trump has
Speaker 1: tried to make things happen, other things have been blocked,
Speaker 1: It's very possible that this gets shot down as well.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Trump recently filed a lawsuit. All right,
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna read this one too. These discussions
Speaker 1: come as the Trump administration has moved to crack down
Speaker 1: on what is it views as d banking of conservatives.
Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive order last year seeking to punish
Speaker 1: banks for restricting services to customers based on their religious
Speaker 1: or political beliefs. So there's already banks that are doing that,
Speaker 1: but now that Trump's telling them they're gonna do it
Speaker 1: this way, they're saying that this is gonna be unworkable.
Speaker 1: Trump recently filed a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for
Speaker 1: dropping him as a customer after the January sixth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, quote unquote insurrection. JP Morgan said the suit
Speaker 1: has no merit. So again, Trump, being the wealthy financier
Speaker 1: guy that he has been for years and years, is
Speaker 1: now trying to go to war with banks. That's a
Speaker 1: bold strategy, Gotden. We shall see how it works out
Speaker 1: for him. Anyway, moving on, I did want to bring
Speaker 1: this up, the FBI subpoena Cash Patel and Susie Wilds's
Speaker 1: phone records. Yeah, that's interesting seeing as how he's the director.
Speaker 1: But you know what, let's learn about this one together.
Speaker 14: Vice President J. D. Van says the Trump administration will
Speaker 14: temporarily halt some medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota
Speaker 14: over fraud concerns. President Trump's point man on his war
Speaker 14: against fraud, says he wants to restore public faith in
Speaker 14: taxpayer funded programs and bring justice to those who defrauded them.
Speaker 14: Fraud Czar nominee Colin MacDonald testified before the Senate Judiciary
Speaker 14: Committee today. Of course by it, David Spots shows us
Speaker 14: tonight from Capitol.
Speaker 15: Hill, fraudsters should never be allowed to rip off the
Speaker 15: United States of America.
Speaker 6: The man handpicked by President Trump to lead a new
Speaker 6: anti fraud office inside the Justice Department, came to Congress
Speaker 6: with a message.
Speaker 15: Where no fraud is too big for the Department of Justice,
Speaker 15: and no fraud is too small for the Department of Justice.
Speaker 6: Some Democrats questioning whether the new position should even be established.
Speaker 1: The worst examples of waste, fraud and abuse in recent
Speaker 1: years are coming from inside the Trump administration. Want to
Speaker 1: root out fraud, start at the top.
Speaker 6: If confirmed, Colin MacDonald, we'll focus on Minnesota, where Republicans
Speaker 6: allege fraud is rampant. He also put a spotlight on
Speaker 6: elder fraud cases across the country.
Speaker 15: And it's not just the grandmothers and the grandfathers, it's
Speaker 15: also their family members who bear the weight of these
Speaker 15: scams and the fraud that's perpetrated against them.
Speaker 6: Democrats, pointing to concerns about the independence of the new position.
Speaker 6: After this in January.
Speaker 13: It will be run out of the White House under
Speaker 13: the supervision of me and the President of the United States.
Speaker 6: And this last night at the State of the Union.
Speaker 2: The war on fraud to be led by our great
Speaker 2: Vice President JD.
Speaker 6: Vance, but McDonald, if confirmed, will report directly to the
Speaker 6: Attorney and Deputy Attorney General, who both shut down other
Speaker 6: anti fraud units like the Consumer Protection Branch and Tax Division.
Speaker 15: Ancy money laundering violations are down fifty four percent, investigations
Speaker 15: into tax fraud schemes are down sixty three percent.
Speaker 6: As you mentioned. Late this afternoon, Vice President Vance said
Speaker 6: that the administration would be pausing some medicaid funding to Minnesota,
Speaker 6: but he did not give specifics there. Speaking of Minnesota,
Speaker 6: Governor Tim Walls and state Attorney General Keith Ellison will
Speaker 6: be here on Capitol Hill Brett next week to answer
Speaker 6: questions before Congress on TV about this alleged fraud in
Speaker 6: that state.
Speaker 1: Brett.
Speaker 14: They have another topic, THEI Beyond Director Cash battel out
Speaker 14: with an allegation that the prior FBI obtained his phone
Speaker 14: records and not only his What can tell us about that, Brett?
Speaker 6: This has been breaking in the last hour or so.
Speaker 6: We are told that, according to Cash Betel, the FBI director,
Speaker 6: the prior bureau leadership obtained his phone records and phone
Speaker 6: records to current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
Speaker 6: back in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. This
Speaker 6: eventually led into the Jack Smith Special Council investigation into
Speaker 6: then former President Donald Trump. We're told that some of
Speaker 6: these records are just toll records, which don't have specific
Speaker 6: information other than times and dates. They don't have the
Speaker 6: actual content of calls. But two sources in the FBI
Speaker 6: say that Susie Wiles's attorney agreed to be recorded by
Speaker 6: FBI agents in twenty twenty three. She did not agree.
Speaker 6: We've reached out to her for comment. FBI Director Pattel,
Speaker 6: in a statement to Fox News calls this outrageous and
Speaker 6: deeply disturbing. And I will add Brett that we are
Speaker 6: told at least ten Burero employees have been fired just
Speaker 6: today over this incident, with more potentially to come.
Speaker 1: Right, We'll continue to dig into it. David spot on
Speaker 1: cap So we're gonna just kind of keep an eye
Speaker 1: on this one for multiple reasons. Number one, the whole
Speaker 1: fraud situation, the fact that we have a fraud czar,
Speaker 1: that that position sounds made up as hell because it is.
Speaker 1: For one. For two, this this guy that they're trying
Speaker 1: to put into that position, he looks like a choir boy.
Speaker 1: He don't look like he's down to like find the
Speaker 1: root cause of this evil. He whatever. Maybe he'll get
Speaker 1: the position, maybe he'll do good. Who knows, But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be under the direct observance of Jade Vance. So
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just see what happens, you know. Moving
Speaker 1: on from that, Cash Pattel and Wiles having their phone
Speaker 1: records pulled by the former FBI administration. Yeah, that that
Speaker 1: actually tracks that the last administration was big with investigations
Speaker 1: into people that they deemed to be enemies. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going to come out of that, but cool.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was interesting for us to bring
Speaker 1: up on this one, to be honest with you. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's continue on here. Consolidate US counter intelligence
Speaker 1: into two powerhouse agencies. I thought this one was also
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting one to bring up here.
Speaker 1: So they're taking two different groups and they're just going
Speaker 1: to combine them into a monster group here. For decades,
Speaker 1: American counterintelligence has failed due to an organizational structure that
Speaker 1: encourages para paracyalism, parochialism. There it is, encourages parochialism and
Speaker 1: risk aversion rather than collaboration and bold action. In twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: National Security Agency and US Cyber Command leader General Keith
Speaker 1: Alexander said that Chinese cyber espionage was facilitating the greatest
Speaker 1: transfer of wealth in history, which is true. In the
Speaker 1: years since, America's response has failed to deter China's pillaging
Speaker 1: of US intellectual property and secrets. Also very true, Chinese
Speaker 1: espionage has acquired trillions of dollars worth of American intellectual property.
Speaker 1: This theft frees money that would otherwise be spent on
Speaker 1: military research and development. It subsidizes Chinese living standards and
Speaker 1: invests in diplomatic I don't know what the hell just
Speaker 1: happened with this page here, that just went way down.
Speaker 1: Hold on. It subsidizes Chinese living standards and invests in
Speaker 1: diplomatic initiatives that increase China's influence around the world. If
Speaker 1: these advantages are too abstract moving forward in American response,
Speaker 1: the danger faced by our military service members should focus
Speaker 1: our attention. China's J twenty and J thirty five fighters
Speaker 1: are fifth generation aircraft that were rapidly developed in part
Speaker 1: because of Chinese espionage. This is also very factually incorrect.
Speaker 1: J twenty and J thirty five. Listen to say fifth Gin.
Speaker 1: That's these would be equivalent to our like third possibly
Speaker 1: fourth gen. Meanwhile, America has sixth gen fighters. Just so
Speaker 1: we're all clear here, but moving on. In the event
Speaker 1: of conflict, these fighters pose real risks to American military personnel.
Speaker 1: Many may die because American counter intelligence couldn't stop the
Speaker 1: Chinese from requiring our sensitive information. The House Senate Intelligence
Speaker 1: Committee both realizes the I'm sorry. The House and Senate
Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee both realize the catastrophic Jesus, I can't speak
Speaker 1: the catastrophic nature of the situation. Competing proposals championed by
Speaker 1: Representative Rick Crawford, Republican out of Arkansas, and Senator Tom Cotton,
Speaker 1: another Republican out of Arkansas, would make significant changes to
Speaker 1: counterintelligence management. Neither get the issue exactly right. Concentrating additional
Speaker 1: counter intelligence responsibilities inside the FBI is a key part
Speaker 1: of the Senate proposal should be a non starter in
Speaker 1: the organization's failure to stem the tide of Chinese espionage.
Speaker 1: Periodic high profile arrests don't negate the shortcomings. Beyond counterintelligence,
Speaker 1: the FBI is the nation's lead criminal investigative agency, and
Speaker 1: their attention is divided among various responsibilities. The House proposal
Speaker 1: creates a National Director of Counterintelligence, but doesn't fundamentally alter
Speaker 1: how agencies are organized. This is a mistake. For decades,
Speaker 1: the US has treated counter intelligence as a law enforcement function,
Speaker 1: and how's died it within federal police agencies. The staggering
Speaker 1: setbacks we've suffered illustrate the folly of that decision. It's
Speaker 1: time to consolidate America's counter intelligence organizations into two agencies,
Speaker 1: one focused on the requirements of the US military, and
Speaker 1: the other assuming counterintelligence responsibilities from the FBI. The new
Speaker 1: organization would take place alongside Britain's MI five, Australia's Security
Speaker 1: Intelligence Organization, and other agencies maintained by America's allies. A
Speaker 1: narrowly focused agency isn't without precedent. The Drug Enforcement Administration
Speaker 1: is an example. The DEA exists because protecting Americans from
Speaker 1: illegal drugs is crucial. Halting the laws of sensitive information
Speaker 1: ensuring our military can prevail on a conflict, confusing our
Speaker 1: adversaries and shaping their perceptions is more than crucial. It's
Speaker 1: essential for our standing as the world's dominant power and
Speaker 1: for the safety and prosperity of the American people. The
Speaker 1: unique requirement of the armed forces justify the existence of
Speaker 1: a dedicated organization exclusively focused on their needs. Under the
Speaker 1: current structure, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all maintained
Speaker 1: their own counterintelligence organizations, and except for the Army, these
Speaker 1: are part of the multipurpose law enforcement agencies along the
Speaker 1: lines of the FBI. Even the Army, which has a
Speaker 1: dedicated counterintelligence organization, is focused on counter espionage investigations instead
Speaker 1: of operations and runs the risk of recreating the law
Speaker 1: enforcement culture that SAPs operational creativity. Okay, coming or combining Army, Navy,
Speaker 1: and Air Force counter and intitelligence into a segule agency
Speaker 1: would facilitate a more effective allocation of limited resources such
Speaker 1: as surveillance and cyber which are now mostly controlled by
Speaker 1: the individual counterintelligence agencies. When the Army, Navy, or Air
Speaker 1: Force dedicate assets to their individual priorities, they aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: leveraging them against the counter intelligence activities that matter most
Speaker 1: to the nation. A combined agency would also allow for
Speaker 1: a broad campaign that are difficult to coordinate across desperate agencies.
Speaker 1: Creating two counterintelligence agencies, one focused on military and one
Speaker 1: that assumes the FBI's mission ensures policymakers aren't forced to
Speaker 1: make decisions based on single agencies conclusions. The US already
Speaker 1: uses this model for intelligence analysis. The CIA and Defense
Speaker 1: Intelligence Agency are often produced independent analysis from the same
Speaker 1: set of facts. America's counterintelligence failure has not cost the
Speaker 1: nation jobs put the lives of service members at risks.
Speaker 1: It has costs. Excuse me, it has cost the nation's jobs.
Speaker 1: It has put the lives of service members at risks.
Speaker 1: It's eroded our strategic advantage and emboldened our adversaries. The
Speaker 1: losses are staggering, but because they all occur quietly and
Speaker 1: out of side of the American public, there hasn't been
Speaker 1: an outcry to fix the problem. So essentially, they're saying
Speaker 1: that they want to combine certain things and make our
Speaker 1: intelligence agencies as far as the counter intel is concerned,
Speaker 1: which is the spy versus spy games. Just we're all
Speaker 1: clear they want that to be done by a new agency,
Speaker 1: and that agency will be split up into two sections,
Speaker 1: one for military, one for domestic. So will this take off,
Speaker 1: will it become a thing? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know it's being proposed though, and I'm not inherently against
Speaker 1: it just on the onset here, but it's to combat
Speaker 1: China more than anything else, which once again I feel
Speaker 1: like we need to hear from our resident Hong Kong
Speaker 1: correspondent on that I know trying don't trust China is
Speaker 1: ass Ho agreed. So now, speaking of China, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. So some of the cracks that penetrated through
Speaker 1: Chinese astronauts revealed new details about the spacecraft that quote
Speaker 1: unquote stranded them in space last year. So as much
Speaker 1: as they are stealing American intellectual property and all these
Speaker 1: things that some of that China is doing, this is
Speaker 1: not a joke confirmed. Apparently these astronauts that were stranded
Speaker 1: in space are now speaking about what happened to get
Speaker 1: them stranded in the first place. It's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I think. Crew members of China's shin Zu twenty mission
Speaker 1: recently detailed their reaction upon finding cracks in their spacecraft's
Speaker 1: viewport during the nation's first spaceflight emergency. It has been
Speaker 1: billed as China's first emergency operation in the country's human
Speaker 1: spaceflight program. The three astronauts or Taycho konauts is that
Speaker 1: what they're calling them. There, So America we have astronauts,
Speaker 1: Russia has cosmonauts, China has taychoonots, Taicho knots nuts, tycho
Speaker 1: ds nuts well, okay, anyway. Of China's Shizu twenty eight
Speaker 1: mission were originally slated to return to Earth last November fifth,
Speaker 1: but after discovering cracks in the viewpoint of their spacecraft,
Speaker 1: their landing was postponed. Chen Dong Oh Jesus Fucking, commander
Speaker 1: of the Shinzo twenty crew, first noticed the damage to
Speaker 1: the window while conducting final checks to the return capsule,
Speaker 1: the believed culprit space debris striking the window. The incident
Speaker 1: meant the crew had to ride back to Earth in
Speaker 1: an alternative spacecraft, the Shinzo twenty one vehicle that their
Speaker 1: relief crew rode to orbit. The crew returned safely, and
Speaker 1: their space grave was eventually brought back to Earth uncrewed,
Speaker 1: after another was sent up by Tangong Space Station for
Speaker 1: the other three astronauts a board. So, y'all, remember we
Speaker 1: talked about this, right, These three astronauts were stranded in
Speaker 1: space or the techonats whatever, were stranded in space. They
Speaker 1: couldn't come home. So China's response was to send a
Speaker 1: craft up there with three astronauts and basically do a
Speaker 1: hot swap. So now there's three other dudes that are
Speaker 1: up there right now, currently stranded, and the three that
Speaker 1: were stranded rode back home. Because crazy concept, Why didn't
Speaker 1: you just bring a craft with six seats and bring
Speaker 1: those three homies home and not leave people stranded up there?
Speaker 1: This sounds like a wild, wild, mind blowing concept, but
Speaker 1: China don't be caring, So anyway, continue on here. The
Speaker 1: incident the crew had, Oh we talked about that already,
Speaker 1: all right. Crew members of the Shinzu twenty mission recently
Speaker 1: detailed their reactions and finding cracks in their return capsule viewport.
Speaker 1: In a detailed interview with China Media Group aired by
Speaker 1: China Central Television, the astronauts elaborated how they discovered the
Speaker 1: cracks on the viewport one day before they're planned return.
Speaker 1: So these are the three. These three were stranded up
Speaker 1: there and pretty much they were running out of resources, food, everything,
Speaker 1: and China did a hot swap. So there's that. So
Speaker 1: the window anomaly. China rocketed the Shinzu twenty crew Chin Dong, Chin,
Speaker 1: zongru Yee, and Wang g Jesus these names into Earth's
Speaker 1: orbit on April twenty four to twenty twenty five, sent
Speaker 1: spaceword on a projected six month mission. The trio linked
Speaker 1: up with the country's Tangong space station. As mission commander
Speaker 1: for the Shinzu twenty, Chin said he was the one
Speaker 1: who went for checking out the return craft. During that work,
Speaker 1: I s this direct quote. I spotted something like a
Speaker 1: triangular triangular. I spotted something like a triangular yeah, on
Speaker 1: the viewport. My first thought was whether a small leaf
Speaker 1: had somehow stuck to the outside of the window. A
Speaker 1: leaf in space? Dog what? Or you think that that
Speaker 1: leaf somehow was on the window for the entire flight
Speaker 1: and breaking through the appear and all that. It just
Speaker 1: never okay? Sure, But then I quickly realized that couldn't
Speaker 1: happen because we were in space. Holy shit, he figured
Speaker 1: it out. He figured out, what is there a leaf?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, there can't be a leaf. We're in space.
Speaker 1: This is China's best and brider Shaw, this is China's
Speaker 1: astronauts fucking space cadets here. How could there possibly be
Speaker 1: a fallen leaf there? This? Wow? This is their commander, dude,
Speaker 1: this is their commander. That's incredible. This guy's fucking brilliant.
Speaker 1: Chin pointed out the window anomaly to his two other colleagues,
Speaker 1: also in ready mode for their return trick to Earth.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they made their way back. Cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 1: We talked about this already. They basically did a hot
Speaker 1: swap with three other dudes, and now they're stuck up there. So, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you gotta do? You know, you know, I
Speaker 1: have this other thing I wanted to talk about. We
Speaker 1: don't really have to, but I do feel like, once again,
Speaker 1: the China's thing, A leaf was on the outside of
Speaker 1: the window. But wait a minute, they can't be there.
Speaker 1: We're in space. Once again, I feel like we can't
Speaker 1: say this enough. Donald Trump, don't trust China. China is
Speaker 1: ass ho fully fully anyway, moving on, so the exbat
Speaker 1: drone fighter quote unquote, will begin VTOL flight testing in
Speaker 1: Kansas this year. This is pretty sick. Honestly, if you're
Speaker 1: not a nerd for aircraft or anything like that, I
Speaker 1: get it. But this new fighter drone is pretty dope looking.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: In an update from our exclusive in depth feature on
Speaker 1: shield AI's hugely ambitious x BAT vertical takeoff and landing
Speaker 1: drone fighter quote unquote, the firm tells us that they
Speaker 1: will begin fighter testing near Newton, Kansas this year. Armer Harris,
Speaker 1: senior vice president and general manager of the company's growing
Speaker 1: aircraft division who is also the father quote unquote of
Speaker 1: x BAT, TOLDOS on the floor of AFA's Warfare CYS
Speaker 1: symposium in Denver today that the aircraft central differentiator is
Speaker 1: its ability to launch and recover vertically. Will be a
Speaker 1: central focus of the early test flight. The stakes are
Speaker 1: incredibly high for shield AI when it comes to XBAT.
Speaker 1: They are trying to do something nobody else is offering
Speaker 1: in the high performance air combat drone sector. XBAT could
Speaker 1: drastically change the flexibility and survivability of advanced uncrewed tactical
Speaker 1: air power, but achieving stealth a large combat radius a
Speaker 1: relevant payload and doing it all at a cost that
Speaker 1: doesn't send the Department of War running to is no
Speaker 1: easy task, especially for a young airframeer like shield Ai.
Speaker 1: Now doing all that and launching the recover and recovering
Speaker 1: it vertically from basically anywhere, that's a whole other level, which,
Speaker 1: with such a lofty goal comes doubters who think Shieldai
Speaker 1: is reaching outside their capabilities with the xbat concept. Surely
Speaker 1: these include competitors who would have a hard time arguing
Speaker 1: for their air combat solutions if xbat were to exist
Speaker 1: in operational form and capable of things. Shield Ai claims,
Speaker 1: there's a little video here. I kind of want to
Speaker 1: see if we could play it and see what this
Speaker 1: looks like. Yeah, it's only two minutes and forty three seconds.
Speaker 1: Let's check it out. Okay, So it's like a it's
Speaker 1: like the expat commercial for lack of better words here.
Speaker 1: So for anybody who's not seeing this, you need to
Speaker 1: be on patreon dot com slash cage at night to
Speaker 1: see what we're looking at here. It's a you know,
Speaker 1: AI or CGI video here. But let's see. We got
Speaker 1: an altitude of about eighteen hundred feet, a climb rate
Speaker 1: of four five feet per second. Excuse me, Wow, it's
Speaker 1: a very small profile. The link is twenty three feet,
Speaker 1: it's under five feet tall as a ceiling of fifty
Speaker 1: thousand and feet. That's impressive. Max range is two thousand
Speaker 1: nautical miles. That's impressive. Let's see multi multi capability load out,
Speaker 1: electronic warfare suit, the toll capable inlet, resilient combs. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thrust vectoring split flaps for elevators. Fighter class engine so yeah,
Speaker 1: technically this would be a fighter active and passive targeting,
Speaker 1: multi mode radar. So it's got all the bells and whistles,
Speaker 1: internal fuel tanks that's important, modular avionics bay, and it's
Speaker 1: powered by Hive Mind, which is an AI. So okay,
Speaker 1: and granted I am not a huge fan of AI.
Speaker 1: This terrifies me and regard but also as far as
Speaker 1: our military is concerned, you're telling me that we could
Speaker 1: have an attack fighter that could do bombing missions and
Speaker 1: things like this that if it's if it's accurate, and
Speaker 1: if this is gonna be cheaper than the other air
Speaker 1: platforms that like Lockheed Martin and Bowing were able to
Speaker 1: put out, this could change the game as far as
Speaker 1: air superiority goes. I'm not saying that with one hundred
Speaker 1: percent certainty, but it's definitely within the conversation I think. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I did want to bring this up the ex bat.
Speaker 1: I thought it was cool as hell, And if you're
Speaker 1: not too familiar with it, check out the ex bat
Speaker 1: drone on your own and let me know what y'all
Speaker 1: think about it. Be honest with you. Before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and check the chat here. We
Speaker 1: got forty five messages good night. I'm feeling like most
Speaker 1: of that was probably y'all just talking shit. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's see, uh yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 1: For the most part, yoh, I see shit talking about
Speaker 1: the Torah? What is this? Return much later, possibly after
Speaker 1: Sarah died. Yeah, y'all talking things about the Bible and
Speaker 1: about the horror. You're talking religious things, talking about some
Speaker 1: gas prices, I see, Oh God say the hot wheels
Speaker 1: mean that was mean? Anyway? Oh, it's funny as fuck.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I sent something down there. It's in a
Speaker 5: big paragraph. I think you would interest It would really
Speaker 5: interest you, especially for the Code of Conspiracy because it
Speaker 5: involves cameras in nineteen twenty Soviet Russia and China. I yeah,
Speaker 5: I have definitely started, uh going down a rabbit home
Speaker 5: for an episode for myself.
Speaker 1: I have been I heard about this. The they were
Speaker 1: trying to basically find a way to make a half
Speaker 1: chimp half human hybrid. I don't know how far they
Speaker 1: really got. I heard about the program, and I know
Speaker 1: there was some testing that was done, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if they actually ever produced the offspring.
Speaker 5: So allegedly, I came mad. This comes from China allegedly,
Speaker 5: so you got you you have? This is like right
Speaker 5: at the cultural revolution. So the they allegedly got a chimpanzee,
Speaker 5: a female chimp, pregnant and it died of neglect that
Speaker 5: three months pregnancy. It was pregnant for three months at
Speaker 5: this point when it died because they at that at
Speaker 5: that point, Oh, I want to say, it's a mousing. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 5: he takes power. Cultural revolution happens and the scientists that
Speaker 5: are running this experiment they get sent to diet at
Speaker 5: a walk camp. And because yeah, China threw their brightest
Speaker 5: scientists into slavery. But yeah, so they got a chimpanzee
Speaker 5: pregnant by a human and yeah, it died at three
Speaker 5: months pregnancy, so it was a third of the way there. Okay,
Speaker 5: So I'll look into what you wish. I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it is too so you can't trust.
Speaker 5: China at the en Plus, their food is like really cheap.
Speaker 5: If you want good, like a luxury Asian thing, I
Speaker 5: recommend Korean barbecue.
Speaker 1: But I'm biased, I feel that. I feel that. But anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely check this out. It may not be an
Speaker 1: episode this week. Actually I know it won't. We already
Speaker 1: have the deck slated. But uh, I'll look into it
Speaker 1: and see what I can find. As far as the
Speaker 1: half human half champ chimeras that were made in China,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: But this originates in Russia and he goes into UH
Speaker 5: in the nineteen twenties, and the guy who did this
Speaker 5: he gets exiled into the Soviet Kazakh So Kazakh, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then he he gets put up at the.
Speaker 1: Head of another zoo to continue this.
Speaker 5: Then he dies. But there's also the thing about his
Speaker 5: death is monkey because there's there's UH theories that hey,
Speaker 5: he actually faked his death and went down to the
Speaker 5: Congo to start up his h his thing and that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I will definitely look into this thing, so the tip brother, yes, sir.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 1: Anyway, as we wrapped this episode, we talked about all
Speaker 1: kinds of things, primarily about the State of the Union
Speaker 1: address that took place. We will see what shakes out
Speaker 1: with the Cubans on the boats and the things and
Speaker 1: the stuff, and of course we're gonna see what happens
Speaker 1: as far as the uh the China situation is concerned.
Speaker 1: We will keep everybody posted as time goes on. Once again, everybody,
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