WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.839 Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of The 2 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.400 Cage and Night Live. I am your host the Cage 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.039 Night Jacob Uk and I want to thank everybody for 4 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.960 jumping in on this one. You know, the the grouping 5 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.960 sometimes go up, sometimes go down, It depends on the night. 6 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.320 I understand everybody's got lives that they live, but I 7 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:27.480 really do appreciate everybody jumping in on this one. And 8 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.199 for anybody listening to this on Thursday, if you would 9 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:32.240 like to be a part of The Cajun Night Live 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.600 and be a part of this conversation, come check out 11 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.799 The Cajun Night on Patreon. And I cannot thank everybody 12 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.840 that is here tonight enough for helping me in this 13 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.359 regard and jumping in this to make this what it 14 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:48.359 is becoming. So thank you. Okay, So lots of things 15 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:50.600 to discuss as far as just what is going on 16 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.200 with the world right now. This isn't going to be 17 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.719 a necessarily Trump centric episode. It's also not going to 18 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.880 be a Trump centric episode. A lot of things going on, 19 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.280 a lot of things. I actually wanted to share this, uh, 20 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.280 this one clip before we really get rocking and rolling here. 21 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.239 I couldn't believe that they were being as loud and 22 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.159 proud as they were about this, So everybody knows that 23 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.200 does is coming after usaid. That's not an unknown fact. 24 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.319 It's very big. We talked about in the media space. 25 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.799 All right. Now, if y'all heard that they were told 26 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.760 to start shredding things and getting the burners ready for 27 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:35.680 when the bags got full. Now, I understand that whenever 28 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.840 people are being indicted, that's the typical status quo. And 29 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.280 if Trump would have said they're shredding all the files, 30 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:45.920 they're burning all the proof, people would have immediately wrote 31 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:47.319 it off like it was a lie. It was just 32 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:51.719 Trump talking that noise as he does. Except the fact 33 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.159 that this is coming from NBC, who is historically a 34 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.799 very liberal media outlet, a very anti Trump media outlet, 35 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.799 and they are reporting from their insight sources that that 36 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.760 is exactly what has been done. Yeah, we're going to 37 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.959 go ahead and just play that now, So y'all, uh, 38 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.719 what do you Yeah, Well, let's go ahead and play that, 39 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.240 and y'all tell me what y'all think about this. 40 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.319 My vantage point is a former White House employee about 41 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.120 shredding and destroying documents, This was not only unethical, but 42 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:24.240 I think illegal, But NBC News is reporting this USAID 43 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.000 staff is being told to shred and burn while they're 44 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:28.199 classified documents. 45 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:28.599 Quote. 46 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:32.080 The US Agency for International Development is instructing its staff 47 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.319 in Washington to shred and burn documents, according to an 48 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.159 email obtained by NBC News. The document destruction was set 49 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.319 to take place Tuesday. According to an email from Erica Carr, 50 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:48.400 the agency's acting executive secretary, quote, shred as many documents first, 51 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.120 and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes 52 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.319 unavailable or needs a break. Car wrote, I worked in 53 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.520 government for most a decade. I've never heard of so 54 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.479 much shredding being required that you would know ahead of 55 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:05.280 time that quote the shredder would become unavailable or need 56 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:05.800 a break. 57 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:07.560 What is that about, right? 58 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.560 I actually this morning got a message from somebody who 59 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:16.000 left USAID earlier this year and passed along this email 60 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.840 to me. And my response is, naturally is a standard 61 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:23.159 operating procedure. And this individuals had known that they had 62 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.800 never heard about burning or shredding of federal records at USAID. 63 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.120 But then again, this individual told me they've never heard 64 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.520 of the entire agency being gutted in their headquarters at 65 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.240 the Ronald Reagan Building being shut down. When are documents 66 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.800 burned by the State Department or USAID, typically at an 67 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.439 embassy when it is about to be overtaken. Marines have 68 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.400 the authorization as a means of ensuring the classified records 69 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.840 and personnel data do not get in the hands of 70 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.599 individuals of who are seen as threats. They do go 71 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.039 and burn documents, but that's not what this situation is here. 72 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.039 And I was talking to a national security records lawyer 73 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:08.360 here who is already sent to the National Archives a 74 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.199 demand to have the records stop from being destroyed. We 75 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.360 should note that this was all taking place today here, 76 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.479 and the way that this lawyer put it to me 77 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.879 was that this is number one of violation of the 78 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.800 Federal Records Act, but number two that there is a 79 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:26.040 standard operating procedure when it comes to processing records. And 80 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.879 unless all of these records were digitized or there was 81 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.800 a clarity that, for example, records older than ten years 82 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.680 old that had been appropriately deemed by necessary officials is 83 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:41.600 no longer having to be archived maybe terminated, those can 84 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.279 then be ultimately destroyed. 85 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.600 But this email is very. 86 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.959 Explicit to these individuals who received it quote, shreds many 87 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.720 documents first and reserve the burn bags for when the 88 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.480 shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break. They were directed 89 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.120 to go and clear out these classified safes and personnel 90 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:02.439 documents from what usould be us USAID headquarters and Marco Rubio, 91 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.519 the state department that is now overseeing USAID. They just 92 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.759 earlier this week said that eighty three percent of the 93 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.199 contracts that USID oversaw have been eliminated. And the way 94 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.839 that USAID official suggested to me is that if they're 95 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.600 truly trying to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, 96 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.639 many of these documents would have records as to exactly 97 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.040 where payments have gone and how contracts have ultimately been 98 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.079 executed across the across the world. 99 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:32.160 And so if you are. 100 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.839 Shredding and burning these documents, you are effectively removing a 101 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:39.879 paper trail that could be paramount to actually understanding how 102 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.439 USAID has executed and used its capacities overseas, and so 103 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.959 much of that could be understood by these archived documents 104 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.040 that were clearly been ordered today to be burned and destroyed. 105 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.720 Yeah, so this isn't just some little group in the 106 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.519 all building that's just trying to cover their own ass 107 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.639 because they themselves and that wing were associated the entire 108 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.279 building got sent that memo from the tippy top, Miss 109 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.240 car If I'm not mistaken, feel free to chime in 110 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.160 on this when any of you this is absurd. Now. 111 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.199 Granted again, we know that like Wolf of Wall Street, 112 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:23.759 when the Feds were coming in get rid of everything, right, 113 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.759 that's understood, But that's also understood to be illegal as hell. 114 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.319 So for an actual government entity to be doing that 115 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.240 right now, I think this is just wild. 116 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.680 Yeah, this ispoliation of evidence. It's definitely a violation of 117 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:45.600 Federal Records Act and probably FOYA two. And it reminds 118 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:47.680 me of the scene in the movie Downfall, if you've 119 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.920 ever seen that, where at the end of World War Two, 120 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:52.800 the Nazis are just throwing as many documents as they 121 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.639 can on the fire yep. And in my opinion, US 122 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.199 eight is mostly just a soft power projection intelligence organization 123 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.040 and they don't want any of this stuff public, so 124 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.920 it's it's kind of obvious what's going on. In my opinion, 125 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.959 that's that's true in my hyper reality. 126 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:10.879 Oh one hundred percent. And I like that you said 127 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.279 it that way to a soft power projection agency, which 128 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.319 I mean, if we were really going to split hairs here, 129 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.639 I don't know what else you can call them. Yeah, 130 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.160 they they we Trump made a big display of the 131 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:27.680 Iraqi Sesame street right and the bearded circus ladies on 132 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.040 ice teaching us about global warming in Ireland, and like, yeah, yeah, 133 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.920 there were some some wild things that were funded. Fair fine, 134 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.759 but when you look at what USAID was actually founded 135 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.319 before and what principle that was, like, what their goal was, 136 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.279 what their mission was understood, it was completely soft power projection. 137 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.600 I mean you could say it was used to sway 138 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:54.560 elections in certain countries, which I mean, to be fair, yeah, 139 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.040 you could say it was to shift cultural influences in 140 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.319 certain areas of the world. Again, that's another form of 141 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.439 self power projection one hundred percent, and there's more agencies 142 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.319 that do it. It's not just u USI Jesus I 143 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.800 can't speak. It's not just us AI D And I 144 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.920 know the name leads credence to thinking that it is 145 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.959 a uh an AID giving organization to third world countries. 146 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.439 That's not exactly the case. There was some of that, 147 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.079 but not not as much as the name would lead 148 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.319 us to believe. Yeah, and there they are now going 149 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.279 through the process of trying to cover their own tracks here. 150 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.879 And it's that's the thing again. If Trump would have 151 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:36.519 said that on the mic, people would have immediately been, Oh, 152 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.960 there's Trump just talking that noise, just doing whatever. No, no, no, 153 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.840 this is insider information. And even the liberal media has 154 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.320 to acknowledge that that's real. And I think that the 155 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.320 liberals as a whole are terrified of it because this 156 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:56.440 is only the beginning and they know that. Yeah, it's 157 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.000 it's wild things, y'all. 158 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.159 Yeah. The other thought I have is I remember here 159 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:08.039 in years ago that corporations figured out that lobbyists in Washington, 160 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.679 d C. Was one of the biggest returns on investment 161 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.360 that they could make in terms of one dollar in 162 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.960 yielding like two thousand dollars back in additional revenue. And 163 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:23.200 I'm not surprised at all if us AID sees a 164 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:27.399 similar potential in lobbying foreign governments this way. For example, 165 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:31.919 Barisma with Ukraine and Hunter Biden getting a million dollars 166 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.240 a year. Yeah, just a little bit of whispering like hey, 167 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.679 can you get me a job? And yeah, it's a 168 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.720 huge return on investment. You get a million dollars a 169 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.159 year from Barisma, for example, just as one example, and 170 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.240 there's probably a million more. 171 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.759 One hundred percent. And then we could only look just 172 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.159 yester year ago when Joe Biden was talking about he 173 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.240 threatened to fire the the was it attorney general or 174 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:54.919 district attorney? 175 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.159 Was it was some prosecutor. I don't think it was 176 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.559 attorney general. His name was Shoken, but he was going 177 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.000 to pross acute hunter Biden for the whole Barisma deal 178 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.799 in Ukraine. It's been cropt for a long time. I 179 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:07.840 don't mean to just slam on Ukraine all the time. 180 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:08.480 I get it. 181 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.039 I think that those people deserve a place to live 182 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.159 on earth. But their government, like so many governments throughout 183 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.559 the world, is it's like they're incapable of running themselves. 184 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.759 And maybe that's not even a fair characterization. But the 185 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.799 worst people rise to the top there and it's gotten unlucky. 186 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.759 Perhaps is that an unfair characterization, though? I mean, let's 187 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.919 if we're gonna really just boil it all down here 188 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.320 and put the bullshit aside. It's like Romania, same thing. 189 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.639 There's tons, tons of nations out there that I mean, honestly, 190 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.919 Central America most of their elections have been swayed by 191 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.799 We could say America, we could say China, we could 192 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:49.600 say Russia, we could name name the foreign actor depending 193 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.879 on the election year, depends on which one threw the 194 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.519 most money in on the pot, but either way it goes. 195 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.840 A lot of these countries are honestly just swaying whatever 196 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.960 way the actual powers that be want them too, and 197 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.240 that's that solve power projection. Ukraine is a prime example 198 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.639 of it that I don't even think that's an unfair characterization, 199 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:08.440 to be honest with you. 200 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.840 Yeah, it's kind of mysterious to me, in my opinion, 201 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.559 what causes a government to be functional or not, or 202 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:23.279 to corrupt or not. It seems like societies just get 203 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:28.960 lucky or unlucky. I don't know why. Sometimes the government 204 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.720 gets taken over by the worst people in some countries, 205 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:33.799 and then in other countries it doesn't. I don't know 206 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.200 if it's fundamentally related to the culture, or if they 207 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.759 just get lucky or unlucky with a certain group of 208 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:40.840 people that get in power. 209 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.720 I could see culture having something to do with it, 210 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.039 but then not always necessarily the case. It's very much 211 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.159 case by case, right, And I think it also has 212 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.320 to do a lot with the And this is going 213 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:56.919 to be kind of a ridiculous thing to say, but 214 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.120 at the same time, if I'm wrong, please somebody tell 215 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.879 me so. But I think there is a ratio to 216 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:09.120 what their natural resources are versus their military capabilities, and 217 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.759 if they have a decent balance of both, and they're 218 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:14.519 friends with other people that have a good balance of both, 219 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:16.960 then maybe they'll be okay. If they have a lot 220 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.519 of resources, and manpower is a resource, right, water can 221 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.679 be a resource, wood minerals, oil, gold, name doesn't matter. 222 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.159 There's tons of them out there. It's all about what 223 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.039 is most valuable at that time. And if they are 224 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.279 really high on natural resources but have a dogship military, 225 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.600 they just all of a sudden have revolutions and uprisings 226 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.480 and coups and all of these things happen every so often. Now, 227 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.039 flip that script. If you have a country that's super 228 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:47.080 high militarily but has almost no natural resources or not 229 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.879 a lot, or it's hard to ship them, or whatever 230 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.679 the case, then we have a situation like North Korea. 231 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.679 They are a military culture through and through, but they 232 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.120 don't have a lot to offer the outside world except 233 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.399 for a few resources, so they're kind of left alone 234 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:04.039 in that regard. Nobody messed with them. So it's I 235 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.519 think there's a balance to be had there. And it's 236 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:10.679 also about how well the leaders of that nation can 237 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:14.039 play the game with other leaders. It's it's a it's 238 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.639 a real it's a poker game, if you will. As 239 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.320 far as the geopolitics of this kind of thing goes, 240 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:20.480 I see it. 241 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.519 Yeah, And what you're describing also sounds like Japan before 242 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.879 World War Two, having not evy resources but having a 243 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:32.480 strong military. And uh, well, in Japan in particular, I 244 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.440 feel like that's a society that a lot of other 245 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.799 people throughout the world envy because they have such a 246 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:38.720 low crime rate, they seem to have a very high 247 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:41.960 trust society, and then their government seems to be less 248 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.720 corrupt than normal, maybe much less. 249 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.639 Yeah, and they have, but it's a lot less for sure. 250 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:49.919 Uh huh. 251 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.840 Yeah. What's the secret sauce that allowed them to have that? 252 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.159 And some people say they don't have enough, they have 253 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:59.720 few enough immigrants. I don't know, Maybe that's part of it. 254 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.559 Maybe there's a blend of that in other factors. 255 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:04.960 That could be it. That may have something to do 256 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.879 with it for sure. I mean, but that also depends. 257 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.360 So America, for instance, has a culture of immigration, right, 258 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.159 we are a nation of immigrants. The whole melting pot 259 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:17.600 theology has been indicative of America since the beginning. Japan 260 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.960 not so much. Hell, they were in isolest nation for centuries. 261 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.559 I actually just watched a little thing today on the 262 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.960 longest standing monarchies on Earth. I did not know that 263 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:31.399 Japan is the longest standing monarchist nation on Earth. Their 264 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.720 monarchy goes back to arguably either six point thirty BC 265 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.600 or ninety one a D. And there's a direct line 266 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.559 from them to the current emperor. Now it's more of 267 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.320 a figurehead type of situation still, but it doesn't matter. 268 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.919 He's still has some sort of a quote unquote say 269 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.720 in certain things there. But they have a very unique 270 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.240 culture to them because they were left alone for so long. 271 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.960 So I think that, like you said, culture plays a 272 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.399 little bit to do with it. The resource game, they 273 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.679 didn't have a lot of them, so they created them 274 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:06.919 with their tech industry. Right now, everybody wants to have 275 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.000 some sort of a business situation going down in Japan, 276 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:13.200 right in Tokyo and all these things, not they're not 277 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:16.200 the leaders of it that they once were, but they 278 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.399 also got a massive leg up and a massive economy 279 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.000 boost when they went that direction after World War Two. 280 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.879 So it's it was kind of like betting on that 281 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.519 particular horse was a really good move for them too. 282 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.960 So it's like I said, there's a game being played here. 283 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.919 But then let's flip over to anywhere in Sub Saharan Africa. 284 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.519 There's very few exceptions of countries that are doing even 285 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:42.360 decently at this time that have really good resources and 286 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:47.559 not much military or some kind of version or you know, 287 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:52.120 mixture thereof. And they, like South America for instance, same thing. 288 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:56.399 They just get raped by whoever the current superpower that 289 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:59.720 happens to be knocking at their door once. And sometimes 290 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:02.879 that's soft power projection, sometimes that's through actual boots on 291 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.799 the ground intervention. It's it's messy, you know. But if 292 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.440 one of these African nations were to out of nowhere, 293 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.679 establish a strong military and rebuild their country, rebuild their culture, 294 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.639 rebuild of their economy, all of these things, I could 295 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.000 see them potentially being a real world player. Maybe not 296 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:24.960 a superpower by any means, but that's the thing you'd 297 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.799 have to that'd be too hard, honestly, because there's so 298 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:29.960 many warlords that are vying for that position at the 299 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.240 first sign of somebody trying to encroach on their power, 300 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.120 on their slice of the pie. And it's that's kind 301 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:37.799 of what has led Africa to be what it has 302 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:45.919 been since well since the transatlantic slave trade went away. 303 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.559 It's pretty much picked up on that front. 304 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.360 Yeah, and getting back to what I was saying earlier, 305 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.919 it's everyone's got ideas for how society should be optimally organized, 306 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.799 and a lot of it's just speculation. And I should 307 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:02.519 say that my own ideas are just as speculative as 308 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.839 anyone else's. But everyone's been trying to find whatever secret 309 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.359 sauce it is that makes the high trust society and 310 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.519 it makes the government work with as little corruption as possible, 311 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:16.000 and nobody, I would argue, nobody has actually really found 312 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.960 an answer yet to that question. It's kind of like 313 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.160 the ultimate Holy Grail question, how should we organize society? 314 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.839 And people have strong ideas about it. I have strong 315 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.279 ideas about it, but I don't know anything for sure. 316 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.640 Yeah, I get it. Anybody else want chimement on this 317 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:33.440 feel free? 318 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:36.799 So the only thing that I was thinking while you 319 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.680 were talking about. This is specifically the culture. But with 320 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.640 Japan is it seems like a lot of that culture 321 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.519 has been based on Honor's where if you look at 322 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:50.440 the shogunate, if you look at a lot of the 323 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:55.599 samuraized like there is a specific culture of honor. 324 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:58.200 That's why whenever they see each other, you know, you 325 00:17:58.359 --> 00:17:59.359 now out of respect. 326 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:04.599 You know, obviously as Americans and coming from English, we have. 327 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:05.640 Our own. 328 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:09.920 Reasons why we have a handshake as opposed to you know, 329 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.680 why they did about But as far as the honor system, 330 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:17.279 seems like that's one of the reasons why that might 331 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.640 have something to do with it to where that's kind 332 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:25.000 of been bred into the culture. So I mean, at 333 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.319 least as far as a very service level explanation. 334 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.960 But you know, if if. 335 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:35.880 In other countries everything is based on power, then you 336 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.319 have all these warlords that are just trying to you know, 337 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.480 power hungry and trying to get to the top dog. 338 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:46.240 And then even in America, but you know, the last 339 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:51.680 election we have we know basically that the election was stolen, right, 340 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:55.440 so since we had that, there were enough people in 341 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:01.400 the shadow realm whatever to change the dynamic because they 342 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.319 didn't like the direction that we were going as far 343 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:11.359 as being more US centric and global global centric. So 344 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:16.680 maybe something like like that. But obviously things can get 345 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:21.559 swayed depending on who really is in charge, you know, 346 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.319 and if people aren't wise to what's going on, it 347 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.519 seems like there is a much greater chance of seeings 348 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.480 happening like that. You know, this election didn't go like 349 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:35.240 the last one because you know, most of everybody else 350 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:38.319 were wise to it, you know, because what whether it's 351 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:42.839 because of conspiracy theory podcasts, whether it's because you know, 352 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:43.640 they took a look at. 353 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.400 The economy of like how the hell did this happen? 354 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:49.799 How of the go from you know, someone who was 355 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.960 doing amazing for the country to someone who literally basically 356 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.160 sold out the United States within the first nine days 357 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:59.759 in the office. So it's so funny to see the 358 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:04.240 difference between the first hundred days in office this time 359 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.160 for this presidency as opposed to the first hundred days 360 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.759 of office when Biden got in. He canceled every you 361 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:15.799 know a lot of things that were going on. So 362 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.079 you know, it all depends on who's who's in control, 363 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:24.799 who is power hungry, and what their intents potentially are. 364 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.759 Yeah, Oh, as far as that goes with the first 365 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:31.799 hundred days in office. And I know that relatively speaking, 366 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.839 we're young, right, we weren't alive during the or at 367 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:38.400 least not alive enough to understand what was going on 368 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.119 in the Carter administration, right, and the Reagan administration and 369 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:47.079 Clinton and all these things. Fine, fine, but dude, the 370 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:50.119 only other time that I can think of anyone doing 371 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:54.599 stuff this drastic in the first hundred days was Trump 372 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.960 the first go round, when he came in and repealed 373 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.119 a bunch of executive orders that Obama had put down. 374 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.759 You have, you have a track record of the new 375 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:06.319 guy taking out some of the old you know, rules 376 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:09.200 that the past administration had done nothing to the level 377 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.799 that Trump did in twenty sixteen. So with that being said, 378 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.160 he came in this time with a whole different ethos, 379 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:20.279 a whole different mindset. And yeah, it's and I've said 380 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.039 it before, I felt like it was maybe too much, 381 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.680 too fast, But now, bro, seeing the uh, the moves 382 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.599 that have been made, I think it's not enough. To 383 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:31.599 be honest like he I'll tell you what. The dude 384 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:35.119 wakes up every day and has not wasted a second. 385 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.319 Has he even gone to the golf course one time 386 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.680 since he's taken office this go round, so I don't think. 387 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:42.440 So much like it. 388 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:45.000 But now it's his best time to do it, because 389 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:47.240 when you take office as president, that's what they call 390 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.160 the honeymoon period, and that's your big opportunity to run 391 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:53.000 as far as you can, as quick as you can. 392 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:56.680 I had two other thoughts about you know, corruption and stuff, 393 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:02.880 and countries can uh performed pretty well in multitude of 394 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:04.799 ways even with a lot of corruption, and I would 395 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:06.960 say that China is a pretty good example of that 396 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.359 when you consider how much high speed rail they've built 397 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:13.200 since two thousand and eight, whereas California can't seem to 398 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:16.039 build any right And I was living in California when 399 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.039 they passed the ballot proposition in two thousand and eight 400 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.559 to create a high speed rail line from the Bay 401 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.240 Area to Los Angeles, and they got like one mile 402 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:25.880 of it built right now, it's pathetic. And the United 403 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.200 States also went through a period where it had a 404 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.240 reputation of very high corruption in the immediate post Civil 405 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:35.079 War period, and yet we built a massive rail network 406 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:37.119 in our country at that time too, So it is 407 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.920 possible to have a fairly high amount of corruption and 408 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:43.200 still be very functional. At the same time, my other 409 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:45.960 thought was that I used to be an anarchist. Some 410 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:48.599 other listeners may have used to be an anarchist too, 411 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.799 but I'm not really anymore just because reasons. But I 412 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.400 think that any high trust society can function with any 413 00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:00.160 kind of government, and no government is probably ideal, and 414 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.240 a high trust society confunction with no government, and I 415 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:04.799 think I used to believe that if we get rid 416 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.039 of the government, we can create the conditions for a 417 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.359 better high trust society, and now I don't exactly believe 418 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:14.839 that anymore. But it goes back to what I was 419 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:18.200 saying earlier. Whatever's the secret that makes a society functional, 420 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:22.359 It may not be a particular kind of government. If 421 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:25.559 you have a bad situation with a low trust society, 422 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:27.559 no kind of government, it's going to work that well 423 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:29.440 for you. But if you have a high trust society, 424 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.640 any kind of government or no government would work. 425 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:35.880 In my opinion, it absolutely could. Right and not to 426 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:39.839 just continue to harp on Japan here, but as a 427 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:43.960 perfect example, right in Japan, they teach their children for 428 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:46.319 the first like I think it's first through third grade, 429 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:50.880 how to maintain the school grounds and do things a 430 00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:54.400 certain way and to take care of everything that you have. Meanwhile, 431 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:56.680 in America, you can't get people to put their shopping 432 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.000 carts back where they go when they go to Walmart. 433 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:01.960 And I've used that example before, but that's a pretty 434 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:05.559 good litmus test for a society. Look at their local 435 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:08.319 shopping center. Are the buggies all pushed back in the 436 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:10.279 area when people leave or do they just leave them 437 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.319 strung about the parking lot? Right, that's a clear indication 438 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.799 that some people will do the quote unquote right thing, 439 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.559 even when no one's watching. And those types of people, 440 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.359 if you had an entire society of that, like they 441 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:26.279 do in Japan, then it would be no big deal. Right. 442 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.799 That's why the yakuza, who are just outlaws like they're 443 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.200 they're not like, oh my god, they're so scary. In Japan, 444 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.160 they're deemed so scary because they are stepping outside of 445 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:39.480 those laws, and that is so taboo there that they 446 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:43.720 are seen as these ultimate bad guys. From what I've 447 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.960 read about yakuza reports and stuff like that, they're not 448 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.559 any more quote unquote scary than like the Italian or 449 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:53.400 the Jewish, or the Irish or the Russian mafia by 450 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:56.799 any means, they're just the Japanese mafia, and they have 451 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.240 a slightly different cultural way about them by all any meats, 452 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.240 But it's like they're not doing anything more than you know, 453 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:08.000 drug dealing, prostitution, rings, extortion, the same kind of gambit 454 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.960 that any other type of organized crime really runs. But 455 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.000 because it's in a land where everybody just follows the 456 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.160 rules because that's their way, it's it's deemed to be 457 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:21.119 so much worse if a mayor, and I've used that before, 458 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:24.039 as far as the shopping carts go, too, there's people 459 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:26.880 that are gonna do what they're gonna do regardless. And 460 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:29.279 if we can't trust people to even do something as 461 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:31.759 minimal as putting a shopping cart back, how can we 462 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:34.799 trust an entire society to do what they're supposed to 463 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.839 do free from any type of overwatch. Now there's limits 464 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:41.400 to that. I believe that the government shouldn't be overwatching. 465 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:43.240 I believe they need to keep to their own business 466 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:45.559 and let people have their own freedoms. I agree with 467 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:47.880 this one hundred percent. But that kind of goes in 468 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:50.839 line with your point. Right, If people were to take 469 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:53.319 responsibility for their actions, and they were to do what 470 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:57.119 was right. We wouldn't need the government. We wouldn't need cops, 471 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.640 we wouldn't need detectives, we wouldn't need the crime justice 472 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.960 system or jails or any of that. Unfortunately, we got 473 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.920 people that are just peopling out here, you know. So 474 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.759 I'm with you. I think anarchy is a it's a 475 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.680 fun idea, but it's not practical, at least not in America. 476 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.240 It's not. There's no way that that would go anywhere 477 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:25.640 other than the purge, honestly. But yeah, you said you 478 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:28.119 had two points. Actually, oh, I. 479 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:30.400 Think those were the two. So the number one society 480 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:33.400 confunction with a lot of corruption, and yeah, number two 481 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.319 high trust society is more important than a specific kind 482 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:39.240 of government, and the government can't get you there. 483 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:42.200 Yeah, And to your point about the society functioning with 484 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.680 the high level of corruption, China is a prime example 485 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.880 of that. Don't get me wrong, But honestly, how many 486 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.759 sovereign nations are there right now that are somehow still 487 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:54.799 standing even though they are fraught with corruption? And I 488 00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:57.359 mean I'm not saying America is the outlier by any 489 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:00.400 stretch of the imagination, or even any Western power, but 490 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.880 there's there's levels to the corruption for sure. Again, look 491 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.680 at South America, look at Africa, these these tons of 492 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.359 these nations in these continents are somehow running and yes, 493 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.640 some better than others. Some have starvation issues, some not 494 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.359 so much, some just have infrastructure issues. And it depends 495 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:24.720 on the location. But yeah, society can run in spite 496 00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:28.200 of and sometimes with the help of overarching corruption. It 497 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.279 that kind of goes back to culture as well in 498 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.079 a lot of cases. All right, oh, let me see here, 499 00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:36.200 we got some things in the chat. Anthony was here 500 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:41.319 for a minute, but he had to dip out, it seems. Uh, evening, folks, Anthony, 501 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:43.279 if you're listening to this later, if you jump back in, 502 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.559 what's up, homieh Alex, glad to have you with us 503 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:49.680 this evening, Yo, yo U in the warehouse straight up 504 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:51.400 forking hit him by it. 505 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:51.720 Ha ha. 506 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:55.200 Well let's just say it's mister Palace or yeah, you're 507 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:57.440 on the you're on the fork cliff right now, probably Alex. 508 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:01.240 Good things, good things. Uh, I got a dip y'all, 509 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.640 have a good night. Oh well, we appreciate Anthony, appreciate 510 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:06.240 you for stopping him for the time that you could. 511 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.440 All right, so got another thing I wanted to share here, 512 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:13.079 and this is I'm I'm gonna play a video from 513 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.920 the Quartering, which is a YouTube channel that I am 514 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.039 personally a fan of. I love this guy on what 515 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:23.000 he says. Everybody heard about Alex Jones's one of his staff, right, 516 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.039 one of the reporters getting brutally murdered the other day. Well, 517 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:29.200 come to find out he was shot in the neck. 518 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.200 I didn't know if it was a stabbing, a mauling, 519 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:36.160 car wreck, or what the case was. All we kept 520 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.319 hearing was that it was brutally murdered, brutally murdered, all 521 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.720 these things. So now got this little quick clip of 522 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:46.039 Alex Jones speaking on it. And there's a little more 523 00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:48.759 to the story because apparently he is on a hit 524 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:56.759 list allegedly from Ukraine. Now, before that goes anywhere, it's 525 00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.799 very easy to reroute an IP address to pinging you 526 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.799 or France or Russia or America for that matter. So 527 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.119 I don't know for a fact that this is the case, 528 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:09.400 but there's other members of his staff that have recently 529 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:12.160 been swatted. And if anybody doesn't know what that means, 530 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.839 it's essentially when somebody on the Internet finds out a 531 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.000 person's address, calls the local police, pretends to be them 532 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.200 and says, I've got my wife and kids tied up 533 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:24.400 and I'm about to murder all of us and commit suicide. 534 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.839 So the swat team comes in and kicks in your door, 535 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:29.960 thinking that you're about to do something crazy, and in reality, 536 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:31.960 you and your family are just like sitting down having dinner, 537 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.920 and it's like, what the hell? Right, So there's a 538 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.839 lot of things going on towards Alex Jones right now, 539 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.839 and now he's getting reports from a general that he 540 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.000 is on a hit list. So y'all listen and tell 541 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.000 me what y'all think about it. 542 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:47.640 Out of which we're going to talk about in a second. 543 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:50.359 Two therapy has always. 544 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:53.039 Been there, of course, y'all. I hate YouTube ads so much, 545 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.359 so much. And for anybody listening to this, by the way, yo, 546 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.400 I have ads on all the listening platforms that I have. 547 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.319 You don't want to hear the ads, come check it 548 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.400 out on Patreon, whether that called the Conspiracy Patreon or 549 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.440 the Cajun Night Patreon. That will be the only way 550 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.400 to get ad free listeners. Uh, here we go. 551 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.599 All right, General Flynn and tried to call me this 552 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.000 morning when I was working out and I missed. I 553 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.880 missed his call, but he called my producer and said 554 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.519 the same thing. 555 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:23.960 Former Edifis tell SAX. 556 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.599 He said, from his high level intel sources, Uh, there 557 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:31.519 is a contract out on me, and of course it's 558 00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:34.160 tied to the Ukrainians. But this is just emblematic of 559 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.759 how desperate they are. That's NATO through the Ukrainians. Don't 560 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:42.440 forget that it was a NATO operative from America CIA 561 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:46.000 recruiting for the Ukrainian war. With the six cell phones 562 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.160 that Trump talked about last week and all the passports 563 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:50.759 that tried to kill Trump and mar Lago. 564 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.559 Yeah, whatever happened to that guy? 565 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:52.839 Right? 566 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:59.079 You know multiple uh you know, you know, multiple cell phones? 567 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:02.200 You know kid his brother had, you know, a family 568 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.400 member had a computer full of those types of images 569 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.599 that you see I NFBA and know one to put 570 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:08.680 on people's computers, et cetera, et cetera. 571 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:13.160 He's on a pedophilia, by the way. They they one 572 00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.200 of his brothers had a computer that apparently was riddled 573 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.920 with this type of imagery and video content that up 574 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.240 from everybody that knew this guy and whatever. I know, 575 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:25.640 it's like, who you never really know about people. No, 576 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:28.400 they they actually went after this guy and planted that 577 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:30.440 on his computer as a way to ruin him. But 578 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.400 I digress. 579 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.279 So that's their base of operations. So it's m I 580 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:42.119 six running NATO, join this and anything happens to me, 581 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:46.000 Karri Starmer, Barack Obama, the runing operations out of there NATO, 582 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:48.160 and we know it's not just the Ukrainians. 583 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.240 It's looking worse and worse that they've hired a group 584 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:53.720 or something. 585 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:57.759 That's what they do to send a message everybody with 586 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:02.119 Jamie and so secure to Nations is terrorism and it's 587 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:02.920 all they got left. 588 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.119 So it's a fight for America in the future. And 589 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:07.880 like I said, I. 590 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:09.400 Knew this week's ago, but it was asking the same 591 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.359 thing about it. When I mentioned a little on the air, 592 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.519 I got contact and saying, hey, man, you know, did 593 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:18.240 you did you say that because you heard that from 594 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.599 mysel I said, no, I got a father's sources about 595 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.279 people come into town in the last three weeks trying 596 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:23.880 to kill Elon. 597 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:28.000 And you know. 598 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.640 That's why I was on rogue talking about, yeah, I might. 599 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.240 Get killed because of that, that the teams were here 600 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.960 for sure for him. I mean, they stopped him twice 601 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:42.119 that we know of, and they got other crazies they've 602 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:44.839 wound up. And if I told you what happened last 603 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:47.799 night at m for Wars, not just the swatting in 604 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.559 the middle of the night of Chase guys or his family, 605 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:52.960 but the stuff coming in, I'm probably gonna go ahead 606 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:54.200 and cover at the eleven am to day. 607 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.680 But the left is disgusting and all right, so actually, 608 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.599 let's play the video of the swatting that took place 609 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:05.319 of this guy at his home for anybody who doesn't 610 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.160 know exactly what that looks like. And I should have 611 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:10.960 pulled up the X itself rather than this guy's video, 612 00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.319 although I will give him all of the shout out. Everybody, 613 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.880 go check out the quartering on YouTube. I absolutely love 614 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.039 this gentleman and his content. But all right, so this 615 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:21.880 is the video right here. His security cameras are not 616 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.200 facing the best angle. This one over here is him 617 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.000 and cuffs and this is the cops telling him to 618 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.759 come out with his hands up and all this. Keep 619 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:32.039 in mind, like nothing about this was real. It was 620 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:35.839 like ten thirty at night and he and his family, 621 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.799 his kids were in bed and all this and the 622 00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:42.920 cops got a call once at noon that day saying, 623 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.400 you know, I am so and so and I'm about 624 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.240 to chase geyser I think his name is. I'm about 625 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:50.680 to kill my family and all of this. So the 626 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.359 cops came by at noon, but nobody was home. They 627 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:57.720 received twelve phone calls between then and ten thirty when 628 00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:00.960 they came back and took put him in cuffs and 629 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:03.319 all of these things. Searched the home and said, oh, 630 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.000 so this is not true, and he's like, no, this 631 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.279 is absolutely not true. I'm not doing this. But y'all 632 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:07.960 check this out. 633 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:14.440 Are you inside knowledge? Can you step out with your 634 00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:22.599 hands up? Step out of your house now with your 635 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:25.559 hands home? Come the house with your hands up. 636 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:29.119 That's exactly what they did at my house, by the way, 637 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:31.880 So every neighbor came out to you. 638 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:42.440 There's two cops of flashlights over here. 639 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:49.840 They're like, Comet, got to fix your security cameras, chase 640 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:51.320 AM and pm A wrong. 641 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:55.079 There he is right there. 642 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:03.119 Hi, I'm ja Oh my god, I freaking ads. So 643 00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:07.239 this going down like this? They are actually being swatted, right, 644 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.159 and then the apparently the info Wars office was also 645 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:16.559 swatted in a very similar fashion for you know, just 646 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:19.719 just because they they did not like what info Wars 647 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.400 has to say. And apparently they are saying, quote unquote 648 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.559 at this time that it is Ukrainian sources that are 649 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:30.840 leading to these swattings and in these cops trying to 650 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:32.679 kick down the doors and all of these things. And 651 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:34.760 Alex Jones is gonna probably do a report on that 652 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.360 here soon. This only dropped eight hours ago as a 653 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:42.480 time of recording. Now this is if the video about 654 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.519 Alex Jones when he was driving a minute ago drop 655 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:48.519 this morning. This was last night, So listen in on 656 00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:49.880 this one. 657 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:50.360 All right. 658 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.599 I've got some very critical news to everyone out there, 659 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.159 not just info Wars, but to the people of America 660 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.960 and the world, because my operation is a major canary 661 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.320 in the coal mine indicating where humanity is in their 662 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:09.559 fight against the globalist extinctionist death cult. 663 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:10.760 As you know, our. 664 00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:16.760 Reporter Jamie White was murdered late Sunday night and we 665 00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.039 shot executions doll through the neck a few miles from 666 00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:25.440 our offices outside his home. Then yesterday in case guyser 667 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.159 got swatted during the day, no one was home, and 668 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:34.559 then last night someone impersonating him called the Austin Police 669 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.840 Department and said that he had basically tied up his 670 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:39.480 wife and children and was going to kill him. 671 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:40.079 Yep. 672 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:43.639 And they came to the house with loud speakers, told 673 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.440 him amount his hands up, guns pointed at him, and 674 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:48.440 put him in handcuffs. Went into the house and found 675 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:53.599 his wife and two young daughters sleeping, and they said, no, 676 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:57.000 someone called in impersonating you. They had literally dozens of 677 00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.480 swats that they didn't respond to after the daytime. 678 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.559 When now, that's just the backdrop of what's going on. 679 00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:06.719 I've had some high level folks in Army Special Operations 680 00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:09.480 call me two days ago saying that they're getting major 681 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:12.639 intel that there are hit teams. 682 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:18.039 Out with the high priority to kill me and others. 683 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.800 Then I got a call last night about seven o'clock 684 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:26.400 from a extremely respected journalist. They don't want their name 685 00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.840 us at this point, just leave. 686 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:29.000 It at that. 687 00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:32.000 Who got a call from a very trusted source in 688 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:37.559 high level intelligence that said they've never seen the three 689 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.840 hits in the NSA system with anybody but President Trump 690 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.039 or his family at this level. 691 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.559 So this is the I mean again. 692 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:48.039 So. 693 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:53.760 What does everybody's take on this? Now? I'm not exactly 694 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:57.559 Alex Trump or Alex Jesus Christ, Alex Jones, Dick Ryder. 695 00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.760 I think that he gets it right a lot more 696 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:02.000 off then he gets it wrong, And I think that 697 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:05.920 he is a I would consider him a version of 698 00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:07.800 a trusted source. You may not be able to trust 699 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.119 one hundred percent of what he says, but I feel 700 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:12.760 very confident in trusting about ninety five percent of what 701 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:18.360 he says on on average. Right, So for quote unquote, 702 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:23.280 and we could say the elites, NATO, I, six, whatever, 703 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:27.480 name the actor on this one. For them to be 704 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:33.159 coming at him and his organization right now, that's beyond 705 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:36.039 a massive red flag. What is y'all's takes? 706 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:37.280 What's he talking? 707 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:41.079 My question is what's he talking about now as opposed 708 00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:44.159 to before that's gotten their flash, So. 709 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:45.400 Like, so what's going on? 710 00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:49.000 Whether it's the news or so, that's my question. Do 711 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.679 you know is he talking about he talking about politics? 712 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:55.360 He talking about Trump? Like, what's because that would be 713 00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.000 the biggest question and potentially indication where it's coming from. 714 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:04.880 So like, if you're talking about Ukraine or hey, these 715 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.079 guys are doing this, then it makes sense that it 716 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.599 comes from Ukraine. If they're saying all right, well I'm 717 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:11.719 gonna let out all the information that I. 718 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:16.079 Have on Iran, Israel whatever. 719 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.800 So like as you guys always say, like follow the money, 720 00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:23.320 So where where does that come from? 721 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:26.760 Right? And you're right? For instance, the two gentlemen that 722 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.360 we're trying to kill Trump around the time when all 723 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.320 of the Democrats were saying we need to go to 724 00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:34.880 war with Iran. Next thing, you know, we have two 725 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.360 Iranian actors that are trying to take out Trump. And 726 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.800 that just kind of got talked about for I think 727 00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:44.360 an afternoon on mainstream media, and then it got moved 728 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.360 on to the next topic. No big deal. The shooter 729 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.199 that actually did put a bullet into Trump, No one 730 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.920 actually quote unquote knows his motives. Two weeks of contact, 731 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:57.599 two weeks of media coverage on that, onto the next story. 732 00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.960 Oh oh my god, we're still talking about that. He 733 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.960 didn't even die, it was just his ear. And right 734 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:06.239 then we had the guy who tried to shoot him 735 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:10.480 on the golf course. Who I mean, this guy was 736 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.199 obviously a Ukrainian actor. That's not even a hypothetical. This 737 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.400 guy was he bled blue and yellow, right, and then 738 00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:21.639 he they talked about that for I believe it was 739 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:26.960 like three days max, and dependent on the media itself. 740 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:29.760 I think CNN talked about it for two days. Fox 741 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.840 probably talked about it for three. MSNBC I think it 742 00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:34.559 was like a day and a half and then on 743 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.719 to the next story. So I'm with you. It really 744 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.400 depends on what he was talking about beforehand. I don't 745 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.840 know off top what exactly he did or said to 746 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:48.760 kick the hornet's nest this hard, but you would think 747 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.320 that they would have been trying to take out Info 748 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.199 Wars while Biden was still in office. Or maybe that 749 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.000 was because the they, the quote unquote globalists, the powers 750 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.239 that be, the elites name the bad guy added you like, 751 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:06.920 maybe they thought that the American people had regarded Alex 752 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.039 Jones as kind of a kook, so they really didn't 753 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:14.599 take him that serious. But I mean, yeah, I mean, Tony, 754 00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:15.559 what are your thoughts on this? 755 00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:19.920 I wish I had more. I heard that Alex Jones 756 00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:23.599 got back on YouTube finally, so maybe, yeah, he can't 757 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:25.840 be written off as a kook so much anymore. So. 758 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:28.199 Anyone who might have had an incentive to kill him 759 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.239 a while ago has even more incentive now because he 760 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.199 has more reach now. I totally agree with you that 761 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.519 he's right, maybe like ninety something percent of the time. 762 00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.880 But yeah, I don't watch him that much, and I 763 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:43.599 don't have a super strong opinion about him. And part 764 00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:47.039 of me even wonders, could he be fabricating all this? 765 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:49.679 And I think probably not, but there's a small chance 766 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:55.280 he might be exaggerating. But then again, his researcher guy 767 00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:58.880 really did get killed, so yeah, yeah, it seems it 768 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.320 seems true. So I really wish I'm the best, and 769 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:04.519 you know, their whole team, and I hope I think 770 00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.880 they're on the right side of things in general, but 771 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:08.559 I don't watch them. 772 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:11.079 I don't watch him religiously by any means. I catch 773 00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:13.719 clips from time to time whenever he like says something 774 00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.400 that later comes to be true, and then that gets 775 00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:21.599 blasted everywhere. But and again, he's got his biases, you know, clearly, 776 00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:25.360 he's got his his own take on things that some 777 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:28.280 people may disagree with. I have not agreed with every 778 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:32.719 single thing he said. The Sandy Hook situation fried him alive, 779 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:34.719 which I think there was a lot more going on 780 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.000 behind the scenes on that one than what they told 781 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:40.199 us initially, especially with how they treated him in the 782 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.719 fallout of that. But I mean, there was tons of 783 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:46.320 conspiracy shows that were saying the exact same thing, but 784 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:48.679 they needed to make an example out of whoever was 785 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:51.639 speaking at the loudest, and I think that's what happened there. Now, 786 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.199 I am not of the belief that Sandy Hook was fake. 787 00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:58.599 Don't nobody come after me on that shit. Okay, I'm 788 00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:01.840 not here to say that there's fake kids that didn't 789 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.159 die or whatever, like, yeah, it's not what I'm gonna do. 790 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.000 But at the same time, there are tons of school 791 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.760 shootings that do happen that there are way more questions. 792 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:12.840 What was that one in Florida that David Hogg or 793 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:16.920 whatever his name was, who he graduated from that school 794 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:19.639 four years prior to the shooting, but somehow on the 795 00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:21.920 day of the shooting he was at the school and 796 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.760 then he started making the rounds and being a speaker 797 00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:28.320 on these circuits about anti gun rhetoric, and he was 798 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:31.039 like college age instead of being like a junior like 799 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:33.960 he claimed to be. That was a whole other talking point. So, 800 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.679 like the Sandy Hook thing was kind of in that 801 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.639 mix of when everybody was worried about school shooters. That 802 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:40.039 was the whole thing. We got to get the guns 803 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.239 off the streets because these school shootings happening every day 804 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:44.639 in America, And it was like, yeah, just because of 805 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.239 who's in charge right now, and just because they're trying 806 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.320 to put it to a vote about what weapons are 807 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:53.559 and are not allowed. Soon as that vote went away, y'all, 808 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:55.840 notice they all and heard shit about school shootings anymore. 809 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.239 Well, it also reminds me of how serial killers used 810 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.639 to be a big phenomenon for decades, and if anyone's 811 00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:06.280 been following that Program to Kill series from a little 812 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.280 while back, it seems like school shooter school shooters replaced 813 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.320 serial killers basically, if you look at the trend overtime, 814 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.239 serial killer went down, but then school shooters started. 815 00:44:17.679 --> 00:44:17.880 Yeah. 816 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:21.519 Now, I think luckily, school shootings might be getting less common. 817 00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:24.079 It seems like there's just one every couple of years, 818 00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:26.719 one big one and maybe a few really minor ones. 819 00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:31.440 But yeah, Jim Fetzer, he was the guy who Alex 820 00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:35.199 Jones platformed like one time. And I don't think Alex 821 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:37.719 Jones really went all in on that whole theory that 822 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.719 no one died Sandy Hook, but he platformed Jim Fetzer 823 00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:45.199 one time, and they've really, I don't know, Attorney General 824 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.440 of Connecticut or something just used that to skewer him, 825 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:50.559 and they didn't they give him like a thirty trillion 826 00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:54.639 dollars fine or something insane, something ridiculous. Hey, but it's 827 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:56.840 it's ridiculous. It's just words. 828 00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:57.599 Right. 829 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:01.000 Yeah, maybe he's wrong, and that should damn of just credibility. 830 00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.079 But yeah, I'm but I'm doing whatever. 831 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.079 Grand children's inheritance by any means. I mean shit, I 832 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.599 co host a conspiracy show. If we're wrong about something, 833 00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.679 I hope nobody comes after me for one point nine 834 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.119 billion dollars in reparations for the heartache of those people 835 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:18.840 that I talk shit on. Good God. 836 00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:23.559 Yeah, a sense of proportionality, that's a pretty core concept 837 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.400 to law. Right, it's just words. Yeah, so what's the 838 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:33.880 damage and proportionality or I don't know, punitive damage. 839 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:37.440 I wouldn't know the legal jargon, to be honest with you, 840 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:40.599 But there's no way that this guy offended people to 841 00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.920 the tune of over a billion dollars, Like for real, bro, 842 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.760 and I I fully understand the grieving families of these 843 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.000 children wanting this guy to shut the fuck up about it. 844 00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:57.280 Get that even wanting a little bit of money for 845 00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:00.480 their pain and suffering for people who because the Internet 846 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.920 is the Internet, right, and people are crazy, so it 847 00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:06.119 can't just be a guy talking shit into a mic 848 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:09.400 and the Internet listens to it as content and moves 849 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.119 on with their day. You have people finding these family 850 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:16.559 members and doxing them, harassing them, coming to their workplaces 851 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.320 and calling them liars. And like you know, as a parent, 852 00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.000 if I just lost a child in some brutal way 853 00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:24.320 like that, then to have people come up to me 854 00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:26.760 and call me a piece of shit for lying about it, Yeah, no, 855 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:29.199 that would that would be received very negatively from me. 856 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:29.960 That would that. 857 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:33.159 Would probably in that regard, blood would be get more blood. 858 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:35.639 I'm speaking on behalf of all myself here. I have 859 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:38.039 a temper like a motherfucker, So that wouldn't go well. 860 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:40.480 But my point is I get it. As far as 861 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:45.079 getting at least something from him, bro a billion, The 862 00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.679 man isn't even worth that, Like do you where you 863 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:50.360 think this money's gonna just magically proof out of but 864 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:52.760 it Yeah, yeah, that was a whole thing. 865 00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:55.360 Yeah, just to punish him and send a message and 866 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:58.480 chill everybody else and make it clear you can't just 867 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.639 say what you want even if you're wrong. That's the thing. 868 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:06.239 Being wrong should be its own punishment. Losing credibility ought 869 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:07.239 to be the punishment. 870 00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.440 We say that, but CNN is still a channel somehow, 871 00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:14.320 so I mean, really and truly being wrong is not 872 00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:17.280 you help people make a whole career out of being wrong. Shit. 873 00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.440 Look at Bill Maher, that dude. 874 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:20.239 Yeah. 875 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.960 Actually, I've been listening to him more and more recently 876 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.239 with his little comedy pot or what he considers a 877 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.280 comedy podcast. It is really great whenever he gets somebody 878 00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:31.719 on there that knows what the hell they're talking about 879 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:34.800 and shuts him down very hard because he thinks that 880 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:37.800 he is so well versed in the ways of the world. 881 00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:41.480 In reality, he's like, he's an old liberal that can't 882 00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:45.000 even identify with the liberals anymore. But he's too left 883 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.239 to be considered a centrist or even a left of 884 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.880 center anymore. And so it's his pretentious nature just kind 885 00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:52.840 of fucks him more often than it helps him. And 886 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:56.400 it's great. You know, I know, Irony that I am 887 00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:58.800 the one saying that. I get it's everybody listening. I 888 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:01.320 get called a pretentious press a lot because of my views, 889 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:05.599 it'd be like that. I get it anyway. Anyway. So 890 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.039 aside from that, Alex Jones being put on a hit 891 00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:11.000 list to a level that's equal to the President of 892 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:14.639 the United States very fascinating. I definitely want people to 893 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.960 keep an extra eye on the prize when it comes 894 00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.840 to our boy Alex and the Info War staff, because 895 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:21.880 apparently it's not just him. They're coming after the rest 896 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.400 of his staff with the swattings. He said his guy 897 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:29.480 died through the neck execution style. Now, I'm not an 898 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:35.800 expert in executions or anything like that. That doesn't I 899 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:37.760 would have to look at how like if they ever 900 00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:41.199 actually release autopsies or something about this guy. Is it 901 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:44.400 like through the spine or like through the I don't 902 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:47.360 know of many executions that take place through the neck, 903 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:51.400 through the head maybe, and the chest maybe. All Right, 904 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:53.880 the next thing one. 905 00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:56.480 Yeah, that stood out to me a little bit too. 906 00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:58.639 I'm glad you brought it back up. That didn't seem 907 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.039 one hundred percent right. But then again, I'm not an 908 00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:03.760 expert on executions either. Well a little, I do know, 909 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:05.760 as it tends to be in the head and through 910 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:10.079 the temple because it's weaker bone than the parietal and 911 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:14.480 in the Program to Kill book, apparently a small twenty 912 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:18.079 two caliber is better than a big giant, you know, 913 00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:20.880 forty five or something because there's no exit wound and 914 00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:24.519 the bullet gets destroyed and the ballistics evidence gets a 915 00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.519 lot harder to sort out, right, it bounces around inside. 916 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:30.400 I mean maybe if you put it like on the 917 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:34.480 juggular itself and pull the trigger, then like, okay, maybe 918 00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:37.280 I could see that. But again, I've never heard of 919 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.639 somebody getting a shot in the neck being considered execution 920 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:43.760 style unless there is a new way that executions are 921 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:49.159 being done this way, like by these these you know, 922 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.159 what's the word I'm looking for here Tier one super 923 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.760 secret squirrel type situations, and maybe they've gone this route 924 00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:58.880 in the execution game. I could be wrong, I don't know, 925 00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:03.519 But either way, that goes outside of his house, and 926 00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:05.239 I heard some reports saying that he was trying to 927 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:08.199 stop a robbery and got shot. I don't know if 928 00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:10.239 that's just a story that's spun up to try to 929 00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:13.280 give some sort of narrative to it, or if there's 930 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.079 actual proof to back that claim, or whatever the case is. 931 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:19.199 Even if it is just a random killing and there 932 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.559 wasn't any kind of nefarious you know, foreign or domestic 933 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:26.239 actors trying to come at info Wars itself. The fact 934 00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:29.360 that that happens the same week that this guy gets swatted, 935 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:33.840 Alex Jones gets told by the government and by non 936 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:37.320 government reporters that he is on an international hit list. 937 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.239 The fact that all that's culminating at the same time 938 00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:43.960 leads me to believe that the shooting, the killing was 939 00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:47.599 not so random. Yeah that's again, maybe that's just my 940 00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:51.119 conspiratorial mind here, but it just it screams that there's 941 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:55.559 more going on here. I don't know. But speaking of 942 00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:58.679 more going on, I'm gonna share the screen again because 943 00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.880 we heard I heard a lot of reports about what 944 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:05.079 is going on with this black Rock port deal. 945 00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:05.880 Now. 946 00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:08.400 I know some people are going to feel some type 947 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:11.239 of way that this was a move against China. Some 948 00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:13.000 people are going to feel some type of way saying 949 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:17.039 that this was not necessarily against China, this was for America. 950 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.519 But the fact that it was Blackrock themselves that made 951 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.239 this purchase happen, that didn't give anybody a warm and 952 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:27.639 fuzzy feeling. And I think we can all acknowledge that, right, 953 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:32.280 I just you know. So with that in mind, we're 954 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:33.639 gonna go ahead and read a little bit of this 955 00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:37.199 Reuter's article. And yes, I know it's Reuter's, and I 956 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.880 understand people are gonna throw whatever shade they want about it, 957 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.400 but just let's hear it out and see what because 958 00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:45.719 of course they're going to put this in whatever light 959 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:46.280 they can. 960 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:50.360 Royce, go ahead, Sorry, this is something different than what 961 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.320 we're talking about now. Tonally, you know that there are 962 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:57.360 chats going on in Zombie wanted me to mention that 963 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.840 she cannot use her mic, so to mention that's this, 964 00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:08.079 to mention what sorry to I'll read the chats every 965 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:10.119 once in a while since there are things going on there. 966 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:12.599 Okay, all right, matter of fact, I will read the 967 00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:14.639 chats now, just in case I don't want to move 968 00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:18.519 on and then go back to something here. She says, 969 00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:22.400 I love japan culture. They were very kind, clean and respectful. Yes, 970 00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:24.480 very true, very true. Everybody I've ever talked to that 971 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:30.239 ever was in Japan has said that unanimously. She also 972 00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:32.239 went on and said, I wouldn't be surprised if most 973 00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:36.119 of the large whistleblowers of calling out all of what 974 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.480 is happening are on a list, they will run their 975 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:41.280 course then kill them. It could be all for show 976 00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:45.920 distraction and keeping keep playing games. I could see that 977 00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:49.440 one hundred percent. But that's the thing. Alex Jones has 978 00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:52.400 pissed off so many people in the past like this, 979 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.480 and even before Sandy Hook, he was calling out nine 980 00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:59.199 to eleven, before it happened, he was calling out COVID, 981 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:01.840 he was calling out Obama for things. I think he 982 00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:03.960 was one of the first to actually acknowledge that Michelle 983 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.880 Obama's a dude. So like, I mean, it's as far 984 00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.559 as pissing in people's cheerios and getting the quote unquote 985 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:14.119 right guy to set out a hit on him, Like, yeah, 986 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.119 he's he's been doing that gang for a while, so 987 00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.360 why now is it going that way? God, Alex says. 988 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.440 I like Alex Jones, but I just remember him beating 989 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:28.360 it to beating it to tranny porn a few years ago. 990 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:32.559 I mean, okay, hey, I'm not gonna judge a man 991 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:34.480 based off of what he does to get his rocks off, 992 00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:36.760 as long as it's not children. You know, I'm not 993 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.199 a big proponent for pornography in any regard. I think 994 00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:44.039 that rot your brain. But I also found out tranny 995 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:50.320 porn is overarchingly watched by straight men. And I mean 996 00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:54.280 in theory, I understand that. Right, there's two sets of 997 00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:57.599 boobs to look at and it's technically straight porn, so like, 998 00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:02.960 I get it. Yeah, I'm just I guess that's the thing. 999 00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:05.360 Alex Jones, I didn't know he was into the training 1000 00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:09.079 point though. That's pretty funny. Actually, that's that's pretty good. 1001 00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.480 David David foul. Yeah, yeah, it's that that same David 1002 00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:18.000 hog slash fog slash, change that vowel with another tone. 1003 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:21.920 Let's see here. Zombie says the head is execution or 1004 00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:24.480 the back of the next spine. But that's a knife. 1005 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:26.800 Even if it was a gunshot to like the base 1006 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:29.559 of the spine, I could see that being considered execution 1007 00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:34.719 style if it's through the neck. Again, unless I six 1008 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.440 has started changing up how they do executions, and they're 1009 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.679 going through the juggular now, and by through I mean 1010 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:42.320 like not from a distance, point blank range, putting the 1011 00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:44.840 barrel up to the juggular and pulling the trigger like okay, 1012 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.559 that will get the desired effects. There's no fixing that, 1013 00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:49.760 and the man's gonna bleed out in like eight seconds. 1014 00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:53.239 I think it's like potentially ten seconds max. So, like 1015 00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:58.079 I could see that being a style of execution by bullet. 1016 00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.519 I just it's kind of a new one on me. 1017 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:03.880 If that's a new trend in the executioner world, I 1018 00:55:03.920 --> 00:55:06.800 don't know. Uh, they can't flat out kill Trump or 1019 00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:09.639 Alex because they would be turned into martyrs. It's a 1020 00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:14.639 strategy game. Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. They they tried, 1021 00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:17.800 they tried turning Trump into a martyr. And I've said 1022 00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:20.920 that before too, Like people keep downplaying the fact that 1023 00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.559 we were like two centimeters away from having a civil 1024 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:27.280 war because that would have been the fall out if 1025 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.639 Trump would have been actually killed on a live TV 1026 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.599 in Butler, Pennsylvania. I don't think we would be having 1027 00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:38.920 this conversation right now. Maybe I'm just crazy, right, Maybe 1028 00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:41.719 I've been sipping the conspiracy kool aid for a little 1029 00:55:41.719 --> 00:55:45.599 too long and I've detached from reality. Okay, fine, Fine, 1030 00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:48.960 I just have a hard time believing it because there 1031 00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.039 are so many crazies out there that support Trump and 1032 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.559 see him as a messiah figure, and there are so 1033 00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:57.400 many crazies out there that hate Trump and see him 1034 00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:00.000 as a Satan figure. And if he would have died. 1035 00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:03.920 I just had this crazy strong feeling that the two 1036 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:07.000 would have clashed and it would have been an actual battle, 1037 00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:09.239 like physical bloodshed battle. 1038 00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.480 Do you think the same would have been done if 1039 00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:16.599 Troe hadn't have won the election, if he would if 1040 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.119 he would have let's just say rallied. 1041 00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:22.440 And said, all right, look now that we know the 1042 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:24.920 elections have been. 1043 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:27.360 Rigged, let's go actually do something. 1044 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.199 Do you think then instead of being a mark, he 1045 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:31.440 would have been the head figure. 1046 00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.400 I could see that happening. Potentially for sure, he would 1047 00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:38.119 have been the like trying to lead a coup or 1048 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:44.119 something like that. That's very possible that may have And 1049 00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:46.559 I'll even give you that there's probably a sixty five 1050 00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:48.679 in my own personal opinion, probably like a sixty five 1051 00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:51.199 percent probability that if Trump would have lost the election 1052 00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:54.239 like he did in twenty twenty where it was clearly stolen, 1053 00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:56.719 if this one would have been clearly stolen from him 1054 00:56:56.719 --> 00:57:00.880 to that level again to Camala, Yeah, yeah, there would 1055 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:02.400 have been a little bit of some uprising. There'd have 1056 00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:04.960 been some upheople if he would have been murdered on 1057 00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:10.440 national television, though, Yeah, I only see bloodshed coming from 1058 00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:15.599 that like people have no chill within them anymore. I 1059 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:19.159 think that we lost that around the time somewhere in 1060 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:24.199 Biden's term. Think that society in America lost their chill. 1061 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.519 And I don't even see because when Trump lost it 1062 00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:29.480 the first time and had it or the first time 1063 00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.119 the time that he had the election stolen from him. 1064 00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:35.039 The side that would have had something to say about that, 1065 00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:39.079 the right, the Republicans, the Conservatives, the ultra conservatives, even 1066 00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:44.599 they typically are conservative people, and now I mean just 1067 00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:48.000 politically conservative. I mean they're typically you know, they got jobs, 1068 00:57:48.039 --> 00:57:51.440 they got families. They're not trying to gear up for 1069 00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:54.400 war because an election didn't go their way. They're trying 1070 00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:55.920 to make it back to work Monday more. And they're 1071 00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:57.920 going to be mad about it. But they got responsibilities 1072 00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.960 and things to have it done twice after we saw 1073 00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:04.960 what the Biden administration did for four years and all 1074 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.559 the corruption and all the things, to have that robbed again. 1075 00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:11.599 I have a hard time believing that they would have 1076 00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:13.840 just taken that one sitting down, and I have a 1077 00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:16.079 hard time believing that it just would have been tea 1078 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:20.360 party gatherings this time. I yeah, I don't know. I'm 1079 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:23.480 very happy that that didn't happen. And I've also heard 1080 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:27.199 reports from certain conspiratorial people that that is exactly why 1081 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.840 they allowed quote unquote Trump to get elected, is because 1082 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:33.519 they knew that if he didn't get elected, it would 1083 00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:36.559 have gone to physical violence in all over the country. 1084 00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:39.239 So as a way to appease the people and give 1085 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.320 them what they want, right, feed them bread and send 1086 00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:44.000 them to the circus, they allowed Trump to win this 1087 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.920 past election. Now, I am personally not of that belief. 1088 00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:50.079 He won every single swing state that could be won 1089 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:54.320 in record breaking time and all of these things. But 1090 00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:56.800 that's also not because they loved Trump so much. I 1091 00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:58.760 believe there was no way they were going to allow 1092 00:58:58.840 --> 00:59:03.360 Kamala to get in charge. That was ridiculous. So it 1093 00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:06.320 could have been anybody running against Kamala and they probably 1094 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.280 would have had the election go the same way. But 1095 00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:11.559 maybe that's just my own biases showing. I don't know. 1096 00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:16.920 I definitely think martyring him would have been, oh the worst, 1097 00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:19.119 the worst thing that they could do. And then that's 1098 00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:24.000 the thing Alex Jones is not some people see him 1099 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:26.119 at the same level as Trump, right and if he 1100 00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:28.679 was to get killed right now, they would see him 1101 00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:31.239 as a martyr, and they'd be pissed about it. Alex 1102 00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:34.840 Jones getting murdered would not get the same response as 1103 00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:38.320 Trump getting murdered. I think we can all acknowledge that. However, 1104 00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:42.199 it is a sign of the times that this is 1105 00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:46.119 what they are doing to those with mouthpieces large enough 1106 00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:49.079 and loud enough to get the message heard. And he 1107 00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:51.559 has been doing it for so long and touching on 1108 00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:58.199 so many topics and pissing off so many of the elites. It. Yeah, 1109 00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:00.920 I'm kind of shocked that this as long as he's 1110 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:04.400 been able to run without people around him getting suicided 1111 01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:07.360 or something like that. Right, I figured this would have 1112 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:10.639 happened years ago, but he's kind of been relegated to 1113 01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:14.400 the kook farm for a good while. He's definitely getting 1114 01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:17.159 taken more serious now, And now that this is happening, 1115 01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:22.199 people can't not take him seriously. So you know, all right, 1116 01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:25.519 let's keep breeding here. But what if he said it's true. 1117 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:27.920 It seems like he's enough of a threat that he 1118 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:32.239 might get killed anyway. Yeah, it's very possible, Zombie says. 1119 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:34.880 I think if the elites wanted him dead, he would be. 1120 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:38.760 You can't tell me that Blackrock for example, with a 1121 01:00:38.920 --> 01:00:41.880 net worth of eleven billion, couldn't murder this man. I 1122 01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:45.000 feel like BlackRock's got a higher net worth than eleven billion. 1123 01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:47.920 I could be wrong, because this deal they just made 1124 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:50.880 wasn't like twenty seven billion for this. We'll talk more 1125 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.559 about it here in a moment anyway, But yes, Blackrock 1126 01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:57.239 absolutely has the deep pockets to take out whoever they 1127 01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:01.119 want taken out. That's beyond question. He is serving a purpose, 1128 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:04.360 whether it be to stir up discontentment or shift perspectives, 1129 01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:07.760 help move the narrative. Maybe doesn't even know he's a puppet. 1130 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.000 But all of the millionaires up millionaires run in different 1131 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:15.559 circles than us normal people do. It's very true, and 1132 01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:20.320 Royce agrees with that for sure, she says, especially, lah 1133 01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.440 I can't speak, especially if the world elites decide they 1134 01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:27.280 have had enough plane crashes, bombing, shooting, poison, a million 1135 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.039 ways to kill someone. Yeah, that's one hundred percent, and 1136 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:32.599 that's no. I'm glad you brought up plane crashes. Okay, 1137 01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:36.360 y'all remember last month when they were talking about all 1138 01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:40.159 these planes crashing. It's so bad. It's more than ever before. 1139 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:43.559 Even though in the month of February we had less 1140 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.039 plane crashes than we did the year prior. In the 1141 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:50.079 month of February, well, we never heard about those. Why 1142 01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:53.280 because it just wasn't the narrative that they were running 1143 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:58.599 at that time. If you look at the statistics on 1144 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:04.800 plane crashes per plane flights, it's really really, really really low. 1145 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:07.800 Some get more optics than other's. The one in DC, 1146 01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:11.320 there was no way that that couldn't get optics put 1147 01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:14.519 on that. The Delta flight that flipped on its roof, okay, 1148 01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:17.480 that's that's next level wild. There was no way that 1149 01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:20.480 couldn't go without getting cameras put on it. Most of 1150 01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:24.639 the plane crashes, though, even even for Capita, are bush 1151 01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:28.360 planes and small prop planes and things like that. It's 1152 01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:32.119 very rare that a commercial plane goes down, but when 1153 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:36.360 it does, it's definitely more critical because there's more lives lost, 1154 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.039 and depending on if it lands in a city like 1155 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:41.960 in Philly, or if it lands in the ocean or 1156 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.480 even a river and the people were able to evacuate, 1157 01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:48.320 whatever the case, it happens, but it is substantially less 1158 01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:51.519 than what the media would have had us believe last month. 1159 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:55.679 But of course, because Trump is coming after DEI and 1160 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:58.480 the FAA just did a DEI thing, and it was 1161 01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:01.800 a whole Trump's making. These planes crashed. They found like 1162 01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:05.239 they had their own corkboard with pictures and threads all 1163 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.159 over it. Right, the left has one, the right has one. 1164 01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:09.880 The people in the center are trying to combine them 1165 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:12.599 to see what's actually going on here, and so they 1166 01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:17.159 found like a single thread that could be connected. Trump 1167 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:21.719 taking out all these DEI mandates has led to planes crashing. 1168 01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:24.679 Never mind the fact that these people were in that 1169 01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:27.800 job before he took office and that had nothing to 1170 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:29.880 do with anything, but it was a talking point that 1171 01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.559 they wanted to run on because the liberal media had 1172 01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:35.159 to find something to come at Trump, and it's clearly 1173 01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:38.159 his fault that everything's going like this. It's like, y'all, 1174 01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:40.920 y'all are reaching at this point. But the worst part 1175 01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:45.440 is that people believed the propaganda. A lot of people did, 1176 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:47.519 and it's not something that people need to be ashamed about. 1177 01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:49.719 We're only going off with the narratives that we are 1178 01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:54.079 getting told, right. Not many people look into it any deeper, 1179 01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:55.760 and they're just saying, like, God, planes are going down 1180 01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:58.000 left and right, why is this? Well, I'm not flying, Well, 1181 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.440 I'm not flying this month, but Bue, you were safer 1182 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:03.639 to fly this year than you were last year. And 1183 01:04:03.679 --> 01:04:05.760 believe it or not, you were safer to fly last 1184 01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:08.400 year then you were the year before that. So it's 1185 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:12.639 actually playing. Crashes are decreasing on mass. But you wouldn't 1186 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:16.280 have known that if you watch the news, because that's 1187 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:19.000 how the narrative gets spun. But I agree with you, 1188 01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:21.559 though there's a million ways to kill somebody, there's tons 1189 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:23.199 of plane crashes that happen. As matter of fact, what 1190 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.199 uh JFK Junior killed in a plane crash as a 1191 01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:29.119 matter of fact, I think that was also a part 1192 01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.960 of the whole Kennedy assassination plot, but or one of 1193 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.480 the Kennedy assassination plots. Anyway. RFK still holding down strong, 1194 01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:40.679 but we'll see how that goes. I'm hoping that they don't. 1195 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:43.000 He doesn't piss in the wrong people's cheerios and they 1196 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:44.920 take him out in some sort of way because he's 1197 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:48.320 going against vaccines and trying to make America healthier. I 1198 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:50.199 feel like a lot of people with a lot of 1199 01:04:50.239 --> 01:04:53.639 money have a vested interest in keeping Americans sick and 1200 01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:57.559 feeding them junk. So him coming at it with this way. 1201 01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:00.920 I'm hoping that he has a really good protection detail. 1202 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:06.719 But yeah, yeah, let's see. Yeah, that's true. A trillion 1203 01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:09.840 I think it's trillion, eleven trillion dollars at Blackrock is 1204 01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:12.119 on the hook for I could see that for sure. 1205 01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:16.800 Let's see your goth Alex actually shared a thing independent 1206 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:21.639 Alex Jones spot. Oh no, is this the thing? Oh god, okay, 1207 01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:24.440 give me a second. I'm gonna I'm gonna share the screen. Alex. 1208 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:27.599 Of course you would come with this ship gypsies, yo, Royce, 1209 01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:30.840 you right, is the gypsies? Clearly it's the Gypsy. 1210 01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:33.280 I was waiting for you to see my new name. 1211 01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:35.440 I was like, I find that funny. 1212 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:38.440 It was, and that's the thing. It's meant to be 1213 01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:41.079 funny whenever I say that. But dude, I didn't realize 1214 01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:43.639 that I actually would piss off real gypsies with that, 1215 01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:46.079 I you know, to any of the good rolling people 1216 01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:47.960 out there. It was completely a joke. But I'm going 1217 01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:50.920 to continue making the joke like that's not going there. 1218 01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:54.320 Yeah where now the g and Gypsy? 1219 01:05:55.320 --> 01:05:57.880 I love it. I mean, Dode, the Mormons get caught 1220 01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:00.519 pissed off when we call them the Mountain Jews. I 1221 01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:04.039 mean probably, but do we stop? No, No, we don't care. 1222 01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.440 It's funny anyway. All right, here we go. This is 1223 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:14.360 the Independent of goth Alex you use asshole, Here we go. 1224 01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:19.440 This is from August of twenty eighteen. Alex Jones spotted 1225 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:25.239 with transgender pornography on his phone despite transphobic rants. Oh shit, 1226 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:29.719 right when conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, whose transphobic rants have 1227 01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:35.840 seen his broadcasts removed from YouTube, unwittlingly revealed transgender pornography 1228 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:39.679 on his phone. Video appears to show the radio show 1229 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:43.920 host behind the controversial info war brand was filming a 1230 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:47.679 segment promoting personal wellness products on an affiliate site when 1231 01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:50.119 he clicked away from the page on his mobile phone 1232 01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:52.679 for a split second. The camera is still trained on 1233 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:55.840 his screen, revealed an array of open tabs, including a 1234 01:06:55.840 --> 01:07:01.920 page titled naughty t Babe Marissa bro bro all right, 1235 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:06.280 content creator, one oh one. You don't use your work 1236 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:11.280 phone for your goon activities. You just don't like I 1237 01:07:11.559 --> 01:07:15.719 oh man, Oh that's bad and I was in twenty eighteen. 1238 01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:18.400 Holy shit, that's great. 1239 01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:19.559 Uh. 1240 01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:24.440 T babe is a term yeah yeah. Marissa Minks described 1241 01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:29.000 as Australia's number one trans companion, Triple X adult model. 1242 01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:32.480 The actor later tweeted her support, writing that it was 1243 01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:39.360 fantastic he is watching seeds, but she also retweeted several 1244 01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:44.199 posts criticizing mister Jones for his hypocritical and blatantly anti 1245 01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:47.159 trans views. It is not clear if the phone belongs 1246 01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:49.159 to mister Jones, who made no comment about the page 1247 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:50.800 at the time of the video and has yet to 1248 01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:57.880 respond publicly. Wow. I honestly had no idea that that 1249 01:07:58.039 --> 01:08:00.199 was the thing. I had heard rumors about it. I 1250 01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:02.400 didn't know this was something. I didn't know this was 1251 01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:07.800 real life, Alex. So thank you, thank you for bringing 1252 01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:14.480 that to our attention. Holy shit, you know again, tea 1253 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:19.119 girl porn apparently is predominantly watched by straight conservative men. 1254 01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:22.680 I should make that statement as well. Uh there, I 1255 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:25.720 forget where I saw this. There was a like it's 1256 01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:27.640 a map of the continental US, and it was like 1257 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:31.640 which state searches for what type of porn? More than 1258 01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:34.600 anything else. Oddly enough, I want to say it was 1259 01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:40.359 either Louisiana or Mississippi. No, no, no, no, no Louisiana. 1260 01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:45.600 It was ebony porn Mississippi and Alabama were trans porn, 1261 01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:50.840 uh Texas. I think it was cock porn. It's been 1262 01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:53.039 a hot minute since I looked at the list, but yeah, 1263 01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:55.479 it was like certain things that you wouldn't think you 1264 01:08:55.479 --> 01:08:57.880 would see in certain areas. But then like, that's kind 1265 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.520 of how that works, right, Porn is to get your 1266 01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.319 rocks off on like sometimes the most taboo topics and 1267 01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:06.840 it goes that way. But yeah, I don't know, I am. 1268 01:09:07.119 --> 01:09:10.319 I'm definitely on this belief these days that porn is 1269 01:09:10.479 --> 01:09:13.600 a uh an addiction, or at least it can become 1270 01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.600 an addiction. And I believe it can definitely rot your mind, 1271 01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:21.399 regardless if it is quote unquote regular or something obscure. 1272 01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.840 I feel like it detracts from your partner. I feel 1273 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:31.800 like it gives you an unrealistic expectation of what this 1274 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:34.199 act is supposed to be. And I'm not going on 1275 01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:36.840 to this whole talk sex is supposed to be sacred 1276 01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:41.119 between a married cup but look, fine, fine, fine, obviously okay, 1277 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.880 but I also feel like culturally it has gone to 1278 01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:47.279 such a level that like it's never gonna be able 1279 01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:49.199 to come back from. It's not what it was in 1280 01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:52.640 the eighties and nineties. It is it's so far out 1281 01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:55.880 there these days that it's Yeah, at this point, I 1282 01:09:55.880 --> 01:09:59.960 believe it's actually geared to rot your brain, and there's 1283 01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:01.920 there's a lot of studies on that. As a matter 1284 01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:04.079 of fact, it's not like I'm just speaking into the 1285 01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:08.119 ether about this shit. But either way, either way, getting 1286 01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:13.239 off of the tea girl, porn Alex you beautiful bastard. Anyway. Okay, 1287 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:17.279 so here we have Blackrock. This is the Reuters article 1288 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:22.359 Blackrock to buy Hong Kong's firms Panama Canal port steak 1289 01:10:22.479 --> 01:10:26.359 amid Trump's pressure. Now again, the fact that Blackrock bought 1290 01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:29.399 this does not exactly give anybody a warm and fuzzy feeling. Oh, 1291 01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:31.039 there's a little video about it. Let's check out the 1292 01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:32.520 video and see if there's anything good here. 1293 01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:36.319 You'd be surprised. 1294 01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:39.520 Oh my god, it's an ad. I thought that was 1295 01:10:39.560 --> 01:10:44.720 gonna be a video about Blackrock. Of course there's an ad. Well, okay, 1296 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:47.600 we on even watch the ad. The summer here, Trump 1297 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:52.760 vowed to rest control rest yeah, rest control of the 1298 01:10:52.880 --> 01:10:56.520 Strategic Canal. Over seventy five percent of vessels in the 1299 01:10:56.520 --> 01:11:01.760 canal have US origins or destinations, and Blackrock has briefed 1300 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:06.359 the White House on the deal March fourth. Here Reuters, 1301 01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:10.279 an investigator group backed by black Rock agreed to buy 1302 01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:12.920 a majority stake in the Hong Kong based company that 1303 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:15.840 runs ports along either side of the Panama Canal, giving 1304 01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:19.039 the US firm control of key docs amid pressure from 1305 01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:22.159 the White House to take them from China. A twenty 1306 01:11:22.159 --> 01:11:25.880 two point eight billion dollars sale by Hong Kong's c 1307 01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:30.079 K Hutchins to the US and Swiss investors also includes 1308 01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:34.039 dozens of ports in other countries, the company announced Tuesday. 1309 01:11:34.479 --> 01:11:36.319 The move appears to be a win for the US 1310 01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:40.199 president's aggressive diplomacy, just hours before he is due to 1311 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:44.319 tout the success of his first six tumultuous weeks of 1312 01:11:44.359 --> 01:11:46.920 his second term in the address to the US Congress. 1313 01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:50.239 So that's another thing that I think people are also 1314 01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:54.159 missing here. They bought like over forty different ports when 1315 01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:58.319 they did this buyout of the c K. Hutchins group. 1316 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:01.720 Now that I think it's like forty different ports in 1317 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:04.680 twelve different countries or something like that. But of course, 1318 01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:07.600 the crown jewel of this deal was the ports on 1319 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:12.239 either side of the Panama Canal. For obvious reasons. Now 1320 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:14.680 let's keep going here. He says. He vowed to rest 1321 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:17.119 control from the strategic canal connecting the Atlantic to the 1322 01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:21.800 Pacific Oceans during his January twentieth inauguration speech, falsely claiming 1323 01:12:22.079 --> 01:12:31.479 China is operating it. Okay, that's not necessarily false. It's 1324 01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:36.840 it's kind of like a white lie. So China has 1325 01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:42.479 had controlling interest over five different quote unquote ports along 1326 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:46.439 the canal. Now, when I say quote unquote, they're not 1327 01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:49.199 exactly ports, because they're along the canal. It's not like 1328 01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:51.600 you're getting any kind of thing other than through traffic. 1329 01:12:52.239 --> 01:12:55.640 That being said, it has been understood that China was 1330 01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:57.560 getting a slice of that pie, and has been for 1331 01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:01.720 the past few years. Panameians are the ones that really 1332 01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:05.880 benefit the most from this canal being there one but 1333 01:13:07.439 --> 01:13:09.880 the CCP has absolutely been wetting their beak on this 1334 01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:13.159 for a good while here. So now America will be 1335 01:13:13.239 --> 01:13:15.399 the only ones wedding their beak on this other than 1336 01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:19.039 the locals, which was kind of the entire point of this. 1337 01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:22.479 It says. The transaction appears to hand command of the 1338 01:13:22.560 --> 01:13:26.960 vital docs to both entrances of the canal to US interests. 1339 01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:31.600 Trump refused to rule out military action to assert US 1340 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:34.359 control over the canal, which is operated by the Panama 1341 01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:39.479 Canal Authority or an autonomous agency overseen by the Panamanian 1342 01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:45.880 government and surrounded by several ports. The US President has 1343 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:48.720 complained about the presidence of Chinese and Hong Kong based 1344 01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:53.359 companies in Panama, and American officials and politicians have said C. K. 1345 01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:56.760 Hutchins control of the ports represents a security risk for 1346 01:13:56.880 --> 01:14:01.119 the operation. Last year, about twelve thousand ships use the canal, 1347 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:05.479 which connects nineteen A, one nine and twenty ports across 1348 01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:08.800 one hundred and seventy countries, but its position is strategic 1349 01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:12.079 for Washington, as over three quarters of all vessels passing 1350 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:16.079 through the canal originate in or are bound for the US. 1351 01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:22.279 The sale of licenses will result in the consortium gaining 1352 01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:29.520 a ninety percent stake in Panama Ports Company. WHOA, I 1353 01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.720 didn't know it was going to be a ninety percent stake. 1354 01:14:32.199 --> 01:14:36.239 That's massive, which has been the operator of the Balboa 1355 01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:39.399 and crystaball ports in the Central American country for more 1356 01:14:39.439 --> 01:14:43.319 than two decades. C. K. Hutchins said in a statement. Blackrock, 1357 01:14:43.399 --> 01:14:46.600 the world's largest asset management firm based in New York, 1358 01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.760 has briefed the White House and congressional leadership on the deal. 1359 01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:54.359 A person familiar with the transaction said this would be 1360 01:14:54.800 --> 01:14:59.800 BlackRock's largest infrastructure investment to date. The person said, in theory, 1361 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:02.760 the deal, by showing the firm to be acting in 1362 01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:06.159 Trump's favor, could ease Republican pressure on Black Rock and 1363 01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:09.640 its CEO, Larry Fink, over its past embrace of the 1364 01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:13.720 use of environmental society or social and governance factors the 1365 01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:19.279 ESG factors in investing, which, to be fair, they really 1366 01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:22.520 have gone hard left in a lot of their business model, 1367 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.880 So this could be a strategic move for them to 1368 01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:30.159 kind of get Republicans off of their back. That being said, 1369 01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:33.880 this is one of those that's kind of a victory 1370 01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:37.000 for the American economy anyway you slice it. Whether it 1371 01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:39.000 was a liberal at the head of it or conservative 1372 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:41.399 at the head of it, it's kind of a big 1373 01:15:41.520 --> 01:15:45.720 w But the company and Fink have remained under attacked 1374 01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:49.119 by Republicans and supporters of Trump's MAGA movement on climate 1375 01:15:49.239 --> 01:15:53.119 and diversity issues. The US State Department, White House, National 1376 01:15:53.199 --> 01:15:57.000 Security Council, and Panama's government did not respond to requests 1377 01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:01.600 for comment. A huge victory here. Ryan Berg, director of 1378 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:05.199 the Americans Program at Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1379 01:16:05.239 --> 01:16:07.720 called the sale a win for the US and said 1380 01:16:07.760 --> 01:16:10.520 he hoped it put the debate over the Canal security 1381 01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:14.079 to rest. He says, in strategic competition with China in 1382 01:16:14.199 --> 01:16:17.640 the Americas, this is a huge victory. C K Hutchins 1383 01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:21.000 is a publicly listic company not financially chied to the 1384 01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:27.720 Chinese government, though Hong Kong firms are subject to state oversight. Okay, 1385 01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:31.479 I'm gonna say that one again. So apparently this Hong 1386 01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:36.159 Kong company is not directly linked or tied to the CCP, 1387 01:16:37.479 --> 01:16:41.880 even though they are subject to state oversight. That's just 1388 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:46.199 CCP ran with extra steps. But all right, especially since 1389 01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:48.920 Hong Kong has now become a part of Mainland, I 1390 01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:51.359 know that people are gonna argue about that. I am 1391 01:16:51.399 --> 01:16:54.479 not here to argue semantics. It's understood that the CCP 1392 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:57.560 runs Hong Kong. Now, that's why they had a whole uprising. 1393 01:16:57.600 --> 01:16:59.840 Then you had these college kids making crossbows out of 1394 01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:02.560 tech trash to try to fight the soldiers that were 1395 01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:07.760 trying to take over the town. But I digress. Other 1396 01:17:07.800 --> 01:17:12.520 reports in Panama operations are operated by companies from the US, Taiwan, 1397 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:15.880 and Singapore, which is another big thing that the CCP 1398 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:17.479 would want to try to put a stop to us 1399 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:21.600 if Taiwan has anything to do with it. Panama's authorities 1400 01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:24.720 have announced to an audit of c K Hutchins contract, 1401 01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:30.359 saying they're investigating its compliance with concessions agreements. Panama's Attorney 1402 01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:33.079 General determined earlier this month the c K Hutchins Port 1403 01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:37.880 contract was unconstitutional. Yeah, I'll bet. The Panamanian ag said 1404 01:17:37.880 --> 01:17:40.279 that the Supreme Court in Panama was set to make 1405 01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:43.199 the final ruling on it legal on its legal status. 1406 01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:46.319 The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made his first 1407 01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:50.319 overseas trip as top of US diplomat to Latin America 1408 01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:53.119 last month, including the Panama, where he pressured the country 1409 01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:56.600 over China's presence along the canal. After his departure, Rubio 1410 01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:00.680 hailed Panama's decision to exit China's Belton wrote in Infrastructure 1411 01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:05.479 Plan good Shit. He expressed optimism and media interviews that 1412 01:18:05.640 --> 01:18:09.600 Hutchinson would not own the concessions in the future. The 1413 01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:12.199 sale of the Panama Ports license held by the unit 1414 01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:16.680 of billionaires Lee Ka Shings By the way, if there's 1415 01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:20.039 any Asian names in this, forgive me, I'm going to 1416 01:18:20.199 --> 01:18:23.239 butcher them. I only speak American English and barely at 1417 01:18:23.239 --> 01:18:28.600 that conglomerate to a consortium that includes black Rock Global 1418 01:18:28.600 --> 01:18:32.399 Infrastructure Partners in Terminal Investment will give it to control 1419 01:18:32.520 --> 01:18:35.680 of an eighty percent interest in Hutchinson Ports for an 1420 01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:40.680 equity value of fourteen point two to one billion US dollars. 1421 01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:44.199 It will get control of forty three ports comprising of 1422 01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.720 one hundred and ninety nine berths in twenty three countries, 1423 01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:52.520 while delivering cash proceeds in excess of nineteen billion dollars 1424 01:18:52.520 --> 01:18:55.159 for the Hong Kong based consortium. Okay, so I was 1425 01:18:55.199 --> 01:18:57.840 a little off earlier when I said that, so forty 1426 01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.960 three ports, one hundred nine berths and what that means 1427 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:06.520 is like docks, essentially glorified docs in twenty three countries. 1428 01:19:07.279 --> 01:19:09.920 Everybody's only focused on these two on either side of 1429 01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:12.159 the Panama Canal, because again that's kind of the crown jewel, 1430 01:19:12.199 --> 01:19:15.359 the whole ordeal. But this was way more of a 1431 01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:18.800 move than what people are initially talking about right now. 1432 01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:21.640 But America will feel the effects of this in a 1433 01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:26.239 very positive way here soon and the CCP will absolutely 1434 01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:28.920 feel the negative effects of this in a very big 1435 01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:32.000 way here soon. But I digress, because keep in mind 1436 01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:35.159 all of those terrorists that are being done to China, 1437 01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:38.399 they now have to pay a toll, so to speak, 1438 01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:41.520 to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific and or 1439 01:19:41.640 --> 01:19:48.039 go all the way around South America. That's that's money, money, money, money, 1440 01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:52.079 money money. But anyway, the sale does not involve any 1441 01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:55.279 interest in the Hutchinson Port Holdings Trust, which operates ports 1442 01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:59.600 in Hong Kong and Sheezan shes Han Sure as well 1443 01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.600 as so China or any ports in mainland China. 1444 01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:02.960 C K. 1445 01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:06.279 Hutchins said the consortium has agreed that negotiations will be 1446 01:20:06.520 --> 01:20:09.560 on an exclusive basis for one hundred and forty five days. 1447 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:13.399 The company said. Blackrock completed the acquisition of Global Infrastructure 1448 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:17.119 Partners for approximately twelve point five billion in cash and 1449 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:21.119 stock last October the last. At the time, CEO Fink 1450 01:20:21.199 --> 01:20:28.119 described infrastructure as quote a generational investment opportunity. Okay, so 1451 01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:30.960 that is the short and dirty of it. Blackrock is 1452 01:20:31.079 --> 01:20:34.640 making very big moves and very big plays as far 1453 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:39.159 as that's concerned. Everybody, What is y'all's take on this 1454 01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:42.520 business venture by our boy Larry Fink here. Now, I'm 1455 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:44.840 not exactly a fan of him. I'm not a fan 1456 01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:47.199 of the things that Larry Fink has done or been 1457 01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:49.560 a part of in the past. And I'm not a 1458 01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:52.319 fan of Blackrock at all. Hell, we've done episodes against 1459 01:20:52.359 --> 01:20:54.479 them on the Cult of Conspiracy as a matter of fact. 1460 01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:57.439 But the fact that the Panama Canal is about to 1461 01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:01.000 be back in US control, that does, in fact give 1462 01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:03.000 me a warm and fuzzy feeling. But am I alone 1463 01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:04.119 in this? What are your thoughts? 1464 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:08.800 Unfortunately, I'm very service level with most of the stuff. 1465 01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:12.399 Obviously, it is good that Panama is back in the 1466 01:21:12.520 --> 01:21:15.920 United States' control, for sure, that's a great thing. 1467 01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:19.000 As far as their investments, who knows. 1468 01:21:19.039 --> 01:21:22.920 We also don't know what ties they have with a 1469 01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:25.359 Trump in general. You know, we don't know if he 1470 01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:29.279 was the one that prompted them to try to do. 1471 01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:32.319 Something, or if they asked it. 1472 01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:35.119 You know, we don't know. There's a lot that we 1473 01:21:35.199 --> 01:21:37.319 probably don't know about the whole acquisition. 1474 01:21:38.479 --> 01:21:43.600 Mm hmm. That's fair, Yeah, that's fair. I mean, And 1475 01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:45.680 that's the thing we're talking about so many different ports 1476 01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:50.119 and in so many different ways. Here. It's ah, yeah, 1477 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:52.359 I feel like the effects of this, like I said, 1478 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:54.239 are going to be felt for a good long while. 1479 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:58.359 I hope it goes I hope this all goes through 1480 01:21:58.399 --> 01:22:00.720 and that the left will even have to acknowledge the 1481 01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:05.039 benefits of this deal and the tariff situation as well. 1482 01:22:06.399 --> 01:22:08.439 I brought up something here and I'm trying to see 1483 01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:13.960 if it pulled up or not. The Canadian economic indicators comparison. Yeah, 1484 01:22:14.199 --> 01:22:15.760 I mean we could pretty much just talk about this. 1485 01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:22.720 So Canada has a very US reliant economy, like all 1486 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:25.600 all jokes aside everything else. And no, this is not 1487 01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:29.560 me shitting on Canada or Canadians. I will shoot on 1488 01:22:29.600 --> 01:22:34.840 the Canadian government one hundred percent. They really can't survive 1489 01:22:34.920 --> 01:22:39.159 without us. And I'm not saying that to boost America's 1490 01:22:39.159 --> 01:22:41.439 ego here or beat our chest by any means. But 1491 01:22:41.479 --> 01:22:44.760 that's just the status of it. That's the brass tacks. 1492 01:22:46.119 --> 01:22:48.520 They were talking about putting on more tariffs on us, 1493 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:50.399 and we were talking about putting more tariffs on them. 1494 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:53.840 I'm hearing reports that Alberta is now trying to they 1495 01:22:53.840 --> 01:22:56.359 have a little bit of a what's it called not 1496 01:22:56.439 --> 01:22:58.439 a poll? What is it when you get a bunch 1497 01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:03.359 of people to sign a list a petition, thank you. 1498 01:23:04.079 --> 01:23:07.600 They have a legal petition going on right now in Alberta, 1499 01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:11.640 Canada to see if they want to relinquish their Canadian 1500 01:23:11.680 --> 01:23:16.479 citizenship and become the fifty first state. Now, I'll say 1501 01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:19.159 that if that happens, I would be very happy to 1502 01:23:19.159 --> 01:23:23.199 welcome Alberta into America. They're pretty much the Texas of Canada. 1503 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:25.800 They have do you look at the way they have 1504 01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:29.479 voted in pretty much every talking point of note in 1505 01:23:29.520 --> 01:23:32.600 the past few decades. Very conservative, they have a booming 1506 01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:36.640 beef industry, they have a booming farm industry. They're very 1507 01:23:36.680 --> 01:23:40.399 agriculturally minded. They they're Yeah, I would not mind at 1508 01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:43.600 all if Alberta became a part of America. I don't 1509 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:47.960 really have much love for most of the rest of 1510 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:50.119 the nation. I don't really know a lot of people 1511 01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:53.359 outside of Alberta, to be honest with you, them and 1512 01:23:54.239 --> 01:23:57.600 I know a couple of people in British Columbia depending 1513 01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:01.279 they can be okay Quebec. They pretty much all suck, 1514 01:24:01.479 --> 01:24:03.720 except for George Saint Pierre. He's like the one exception. 1515 01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:07.600 Uh yeah, it's just yeah, I don't know. But as 1516 01:24:07.600 --> 01:24:09.479 we're talking about these tariff wars and all of these 1517 01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:13.720 things going through the Panama Canal with these tariffs involved 1518 01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:16.000 as they are, is it crazy to think that they 1519 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:18.520 would have to pay an extra high toll in order 1520 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:20.720 to use the canal? Mean that we'd be able to 1521 01:24:20.720 --> 01:24:23.079 wet our beak even deeper? I like that. 1522 01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:28.880 I don't know, I guess so. Does Alberta also have 1523 01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:29.560 tons of oil? 1524 01:24:31.159 --> 01:24:32.680 I want to say they do? 1525 01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:37.800 Yeah, me too. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. 1526 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:39.359 I feeling. And I don't know if it's a pipeline 1527 01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:42.399 that runs through Alberta or if it's actually oil rigs 1528 01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:45.359 that are in Alberta. But either way, hey, again, what 1529 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:46.560 are we even talking about here? 1530 01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:46.920 You know? 1531 01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:51.000 And then I've heard other things about Greenland. People are 1532 01:24:51.039 --> 01:24:53.640 worried that we're about to have some sort of special 1533 01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:57.600 military operation to take over Greenland. They don't have a 1534 01:24:57.680 --> 01:25:00.560 military like I mean, I'm sure they some sort of 1535 01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:02.279 like a National Guard force or something like that, but 1536 01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:07.880 they're under Denmark. That's not going to be a occupation 1537 01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:11.439 or anything like that. People are taking a lot of 1538 01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:13.520 what is being said right now and running with it 1539 01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:16.159 like it's going to be absolute fact, I think that 1540 01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:18.840 there is uh. I think there's a game being played, 1541 01:25:19.159 --> 01:25:21.880 you know, there's a war of words to de escalate 1542 01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:23.800 things before it has to get to a certain point. 1543 01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:24.640 I don't know. 1544 01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:27.720 The population of Greenland is only about fifty thousand people. 1545 01:25:27.840 --> 01:25:31.399 It's not much to be worried about. Iceland is three 1546 01:25:31.479 --> 01:25:35.079 hundred thousand. I had a professor from Iceland once. But anyway, 1547 01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:37.600 Greenland is negligible. Yeah. 1548 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.640 I heard there's a conspiracy out there to say that 1549 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:41.560 Finland's not real. Have you heard this one? 1550 01:25:41.960 --> 01:25:44.319 Finland? I have not heard that one yet. 1551 01:25:44.479 --> 01:25:47.239 The same could be said for Greenland or Iceland, although 1552 01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:50.680 your professor kind of put a well maybe so basically, 1553 01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:54.000 any nation out there that's got a super small population, 1554 01:25:54.079 --> 01:25:56.760 they're not even real. Bro. Anybody you've ever heard of 1555 01:25:56.840 --> 01:25:59.279 that says they're from there, they're a fed. Anybody on 1556 01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:01.279 the internet that' says as they're from there, it's a bot. 1557 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:01.600 Like. 1558 01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:03.560 Finland's not even a real place. It's not even a 1559 01:26:03.560 --> 01:26:06.720 place you can go. It's like Antarctica, it's all. There's 1560 01:26:06.760 --> 01:26:08.880 so many crazy things on the internet, dude. 1561 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:11.199 Yeah, I heard of the dead Internet theory. That's a 1562 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:15.840 pretty similar thing. There's also the theory that there's as 1563 01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:18.199 many black people as white people in the US, and 1564 01:26:18.239 --> 01:26:24.000 the theory that population statistics are all vastly inflated. But 1565 01:26:24.119 --> 01:26:26.640 I don't believe any of those. I think it seems 1566 01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:29.560 true that there's three hundred million Americans. There's seven or 1567 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:32.199 eight billion people in the world, and there are people 1568 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:35.319 from Iceland. They have a pretty crazy language. I know 1569 01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:38.840 he wasn't German because he can pronounce the sound, which 1570 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:40.880 most Germanic languages can't. 1571 01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:44.359 Yeah, they just think their teeth into those of these 1572 01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:47.920 and all that. Yeah, No, but Finland's definitely a real place, 1573 01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:52.119 like obviously the Finish are a very very fun people. 1574 01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:54.239 I might add I've met some of them, but of course, 1575 01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:56.960 per the conspiracy theory, they were just FEDS that were 1576 01:26:56.960 --> 01:27:00.319 playing the role. And it's it's it's ridiculous how some 1577 01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:02.880 of these theories get a little bit of traction behind 1578 01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:05.159 them with the Internet being the Internet, but neither here 1579 01:27:05.239 --> 01:27:05.600 nor there. 1580 01:27:06.239 --> 01:27:08.399 Yeah, I think Finland's got four million people, and they 1581 01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:12.560 also have a very interesting language. It's related to Hungarian 1582 01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:16.399 and pretty much nothing else is related to those languages. 1583 01:27:17.199 --> 01:27:20.119 That's pretty wild. I didn't know that. Why in the 1584 01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:24.039 world would Hungarians and Finish have a similar language. Well, 1585 01:27:24.279 --> 01:27:27.640 I'm sure historically somebody conquested this area versus that area, 1586 01:27:27.640 --> 01:27:29.319 and they just kind of adapted to it and kind 1587 01:27:29.319 --> 01:27:31.319 of never changed it or something along those lines. 1588 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:35.520 Yeah, they're from Central Asia around the time of Attila 1589 01:27:35.560 --> 01:27:39.399 the Hun and they brought whatever that language was. And 1590 01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:41.600 also a lot of the northern people of Russia who 1591 01:27:41.600 --> 01:27:46.079 are not Slavic speak that. It's called an Ugric language, 1592 01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:49.319 the Ugric language family. If we want to really nerd 1593 01:27:49.359 --> 01:27:49.720 out on. 1594 01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:55.680 This, that's that's pretty legit. Okay, let me see you here. 1595 01:27:55.720 --> 01:27:59.119 Hold on, Uh, I'm gonna share the screen because Zombie 1596 01:27:59.159 --> 01:28:01.560 shared a video and go ahead and play that. It's 1597 01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:03.960 all about this black Rock deal. Let's see what we 1598 01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:10.560 got here. This is from the Hill. By the way, 1599 01:28:10.640 --> 01:28:11.079 the Hill. 1600 01:28:11.199 --> 01:28:13.039 If you follow the news, you've probably heard of a 1601 01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:14.319 company called Blackrock. 1602 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:16.039 I know we've discussed it on Rising. 1603 01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.600 It is the world's largest asset manager, controlling eleven point 1604 01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:23.239 five trillion dollars in assets last year. Many on the 1605 01:28:23.319 --> 01:28:26.960 right have grown to dislike the investment firm for partaking 1606 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:32.119 in what's called ESG, or environmental social governance initiatives, put simply, 1607 01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:36.640 Blackrock was prioritizing investment in companies that meet certain ESG 1608 01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:40.520 standards on things like climate change and diversity. Now that 1609 01:28:40.600 --> 01:28:42.680 appears to be over. 1610 01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:46.079 Per the Wall Street Journal, Blackrock backed out of net 1611 01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:50.680 Zero Asset Managers in January. Net Zero Asset Managers is 1612 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:54.840 an initiative dedicated to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 1613 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:56.000 twenty fifty. 1614 01:28:56.359 --> 01:29:00.960 In BlackRock's most recent annual report, they dropped references to DEI. 1615 01:29:01.479 --> 01:29:04.319 For instance, The Wall Street Journal pointed out a stark difference. 1616 01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:07.840 Reporter Jack Pitcher writes Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, and a 1617 01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:10.479 twenty twenty one letter to shareholders said quote, we have 1618 01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:13.079 a long term strategy aimed at improving diversity. 1619 01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:14.199 Equity, and inclusion at Blackrock. 1620 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:18.239 To truly drive change, we must embed DEI into everything 1621 01:29:18.399 --> 01:29:21.439 that we do. Compare to that's their most recent report, 1622 01:29:21.560 --> 01:29:25.199 which says, quote, delivering for the firm's clients requires attracting 1623 01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:28.880 the best people from across the world. Blackrock is committed 1624 01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:32.119 to creating an environment that supports top talent and fosters 1625 01:29:32.119 --> 01:29:35.079 diverse perspectives to avoid group thing. 1626 01:29:35.119 --> 01:29:35.920 Oh, that's much better. 1627 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:38.920 There's been a lot of pressure since twenty twenty two 1628 01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:43.119 from Red State Attorney's General House Republicans and oil and 1629 01:29:43.159 --> 01:29:46.760 gas lobbyists to stifle ESG efforts. 1630 01:29:48.199 --> 01:29:49.680 I want to tell you a story. 1631 01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:54.720 Acts to this commercial, Roy, since that Jewish dude is 1632 01:29:54.720 --> 01:29:56.479 actually talking about Jesus. I wanted to talk to you 1633 01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:58.199 about that later on as a matter of fact, But 1634 01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:00.239 neither here nor there anyway exactly. 1635 01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:05.159 Those commercials too, I've given to them before. 1636 01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:11.439 Have you really who are the organization? 1637 01:30:12.479 --> 01:30:13.880 Yeah? 1638 01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:17.039 Uh, well, the commercial itself shows a group of people 1639 01:30:17.640 --> 01:30:21.319 of varying backgrounds, not all just Jewish, but varying people 1640 01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:24.560 of varying backgrounds who all some believe that the story 1641 01:30:24.600 --> 01:30:28.039 of Jesus was basically just a Sunday school story. One 1642 01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:30.840 dude says that he thought that Jesus was Italian. I 1643 01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:33.680 don't know why that was a grown up that actually 1644 01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:35.960 said that out loud, but like it's a thing, he said. 1645 01:30:36.359 --> 01:30:39.720 One of them is a Jewish dude who looked at 1646 01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:41.800 the story of Jesus and said that it was in 1647 01:30:41.880 --> 01:30:47.880 fact the Second Coming, or not the second Coming, the 1648 01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:51.279 coming of the Savior as prophesied in the Book of Jeremiah, 1649 01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:54.560 and all these things. But yeah, I we'll talk about 1650 01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:56.640 that one offline. I don't want to make this episode 1651 01:30:56.680 --> 01:31:00.199 of a religious debate, but for sure of all the people, Yeah, 1652 01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:02.399 me and you definitely need to discuss those later on. 1653 01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:04.760 But anyway, Yeah, that's Blackrock and the. 1654 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:09.960 Things good ending workforce representation goals, not requiring managers to 1655 01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:13.680 interview a diverse set of candidates, and their credit facility 1656 01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:16.319 is not lending money based on whether the borrowers meet 1657 01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:20.840 diversity targets. Blackrock also made another major move. They stuck 1658 01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:24.119 twenty three billion dollar deal with C. K. Hutchison, a 1659 01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:27.800 Hong Kong based conglomerate that gives Blackrock control or key 1660 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:31.600 parts of the Panama Canal. Here's Trump touting that move 1661 01:31:31.680 --> 01:31:32.159 last night. 1662 01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:38.119 Further enhance our national security. My administration will be reclaiming 1663 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:40.000 the Panama Canal. 1664 01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:42.399 And we've already started doing it. 1665 01:31:43.239 --> 01:31:47.960 Just today, a large American company announced they are buying 1666 01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:52.279 both parts around the Panama Canal and lots of other 1667 01:31:52.319 --> 01:31:54.680 things having to do with the Panama Canal and a 1668 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:58.760 couple of other canals. The Panama Canal was built by 1669 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:04.359 Americans for Americans, not for others, but others could use it, 1670 01:32:05.159 --> 01:32:07.960 but it was built a tremendous course of American blood 1671 01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:12.880 and treasure. Thirty eight thousand workers died building the Panama Canal. 1672 01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:18.479 I didn't mean to do that. I don't know what 1673 01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:21.239 the hell just happened, but okay, I do wish that 1674 01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:24.720 he would have I wish he would have mentioned the 1675 01:32:24.800 --> 01:32:27.479 fact that it was Blackrock that had bought out, he said, 1676 01:32:27.479 --> 01:32:31.600 a very large company. I wonder what the room would 1677 01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:33.039 have done if he would have said that it was 1678 01:32:33.119 --> 01:32:38.920 Blackrock that did it, because Blackrock was so bolstered by 1679 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:41.439 the left for so long, and seeing as how half 1680 01:32:41.479 --> 01:32:45.079 of the room stayed seated every time Trump said something 1681 01:32:45.199 --> 01:32:47.479 at all, I'm wondering if he would have said that 1682 01:32:47.479 --> 01:32:49.760 Blackrock was buying it, if they would have felt some 1683 01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:52.119 type of way. But you know, I digress. 1684 01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:56.680 Conservative filmmaker Robbie Starbuck wrote on x Blackrock was one 1685 01:32:56.720 --> 01:33:00.760 of the largest entities forcing DEI into corporations. Their leadership 1686 01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:03.800 declared that they must embed DEI into everything. Larry Think 1687 01:33:03.840 --> 01:33:07.760 even admitted Blackrock was forcing behaviors the companies to change. 1688 01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:13.119 Today they're exiting DEI were winning musician Chris lash meanwhile, 1689 01:33:13.159 --> 01:33:17.920 in reference to Blackrock acquiring Panama the Canal, Ports wrote this, 1690 01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:19.760 MAGA has been against Blackrock. 1691 01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:21.119 How is this a victory? 1692 01:33:21.640 --> 01:33:24.560 Chris Rassini, a senior fellow at the Ron Paul Institute, 1693 01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:28.319 posted when they said the US will take the Panama Canal, 1694 01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:30.520 it turned out to be Blackrock. When they say the 1695 01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:33.000 US will get Ukraine's minerals, it will turn out to 1696 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:36.159 be who Now. All the while, the American people are 1697 01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:39.399 led to believe that they're winning a prize that actually 1698 01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:43.000 cost them three hundred billion dollars. So this is a 1699 01:33:43.119 --> 01:33:46.319 very interesting topic. I think we'll have plenty of disagreement, 1700 01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:49.880 although maybe some areas of disagreement. The way Blackrock, in 1701 01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:56.479 my view, has operated to force businesses to comply with 1702 01:33:57.279 --> 01:34:01.640 ESG and DEI mind set is I think very bad. 1703 01:34:01.720 --> 01:34:04.640 As they are now admitting. I think they mostly did 1704 01:34:04.640 --> 01:34:07.439 those things as a form of pr And this is 1705 01:34:07.479 --> 01:34:10.279 where you might actually agree from your probably their sinister 1706 01:34:10.399 --> 01:34:13.039 and bad kind of global capitalist ta jenemy. 1707 01:34:13.399 --> 01:34:15.159 They're making you overlook. 1708 01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:16.920 That by saying, but look at our good DEI stuff, 1709 01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:18.880 look at our diverse look at how many black people 1710 01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:19.479 we're employing. 1711 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:22.319 You can't yell at us mouth. I thought that was 1712 01:34:22.359 --> 01:34:23.199 what you were going to say. 1713 01:34:23.239 --> 01:34:25.479 You're project on. To me, there are separate issues for 1714 01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:27.359 me here. First of all, the fact that Fink had 1715 01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:30.920 been previously such a champion for the environment. To see 1716 01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:34.079 him surrender, that is very sad to me. I don't 1717 01:34:34.119 --> 01:34:38.279 see why we're making social investment wrong, social responsibility like 1718 01:34:38.319 --> 01:34:40.239 it's a bad thing. And I think that if we 1719 01:34:40.279 --> 01:34:42.000 ask this is a basic issue. 1720 01:34:41.760 --> 01:34:43.359 Does it makes everything more expensive for us? 1721 01:34:43.439 --> 01:34:43.640 Oh? 1722 01:34:43.920 --> 01:34:44.720 More expensive? Well? 1723 01:34:44.840 --> 01:34:45.199 What about? 1724 01:34:45.239 --> 01:34:45.439 See? 1725 01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:48.000 This is how I feel as an individual. I believe 1726 01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:50.000 on the earth, God would have me try to do 1727 01:34:50.039 --> 01:34:53.399 the right thing, not make money more important than doing 1728 01:34:53.560 --> 01:34:56.600 the right thing. I think it's a perversion of the 1729 01:34:56.640 --> 01:35:00.479 principles that should underlie our economy and our politics to 1730 01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:04.479 make corporate profits always the bottom line, as opposed to 1731 01:35:05.359 --> 01:35:08.279 humanitarian and democratic principles. So I think there is such 1732 01:35:08.279 --> 01:35:11.119 a thing as righteous profits. And I don't think we're 1733 01:35:11.159 --> 01:35:14.000 going to make less money in the long run if 1734 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:16.840 we also steward well the earth on which we live. 1735 01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:19.279 It's not going to be good for anybody economically when 1736 01:35:19.279 --> 01:35:23.159 this economy, when this environment, if the environment implodes the economy, well, but. 1737 01:35:23.159 --> 01:35:26.840 It's not just a trade off between the environment being cleaner, healthier, whatever, 1738 01:35:26.960 --> 01:35:30.600 and profits it's off a trade off between helping the 1739 01:35:30.680 --> 01:35:34.800 environment and our material living standards and asking people I'm 1740 01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:37.199 not talking about rich CEO type people find they could 1741 01:35:37.199 --> 01:35:40.560 sacrifice more whatever, But for people to sacrifice, for people 1742 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:45.600 to live more difficult lives now to save the environment 1743 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:47.199 in the future, it's just never gonna be a winning message. 1744 01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:49.600 So we need and now I'm for protecting the environment. 1745 01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:53.439 I'm for moving to cleaner sources of energy as it 1746 01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:55.560 makes sense to do so, as you can still make 1747 01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:59.039 those technologies as they become more profitable over time, ending 1748 01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:02.560 like Europe should and its dependency on Russian gas and oil, 1749 01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:04.960 that would be great move from oil to gain I 1750 01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:07.199 would say mood to nuclear, which is very clean and 1751 01:36:07.319 --> 01:36:09.039 very safe, which I know people on the left don't like, 1752 01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:10.520 and we moved away from and I think that's been 1753 01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:14.279 very actually disastrous for both the environment and profits and 1754 01:36:14.399 --> 01:36:18.760 having a more environmentally safe standards. But look, you can't 1755 01:36:18.800 --> 01:36:20.560 just say like, oh, yeah, you're gonna we're gonna take 1756 01:36:20.560 --> 01:36:23.079 away your access to really high functioning washing machines, or 1757 01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:24.880 we're gonna take your way your access to gas stews, 1758 01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:28.359 like normal ordinary working people are actually the ones who 1759 01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:30.640 are the most annoyed by that because rich people can 1760 01:36:30.720 --> 01:36:33.319 just can buy fancier things that cost more and it 1761 01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:38.159 doesn't matter to them. The higher environmental ESG standards are 1762 01:36:38.319 --> 01:36:40.960 felt by people who don't have money to spare. 1763 01:36:41.159 --> 01:36:43.920 This is why being a business leader is an art 1764 01:36:43.960 --> 01:36:45.039 and not just a science. 1765 01:36:45.439 --> 01:36:45.680 You know. 1766 01:36:45.840 --> 01:36:48.520 A first principle of the United States for the government itself, 1767 01:36:48.800 --> 01:36:51.520 is to be a broker between individual liberty, which includes 1768 01:36:51.560 --> 01:36:54.800 financial liberty, economic liberty, and a concern for the common good. 1769 01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:58.159 And I think a righteous CEO. I think a responsible 1770 01:36:58.560 --> 01:37:01.960 business leader is one who is obviously seeking to make 1771 01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:04.760 a profit, obviously to increase value for your stockholders, but 1772 01:37:04.840 --> 01:37:07.960 realizes that there are other stakeholders as well, and that 1773 01:37:08.039 --> 01:37:10.319 includes the people who breathe the era on this planet, 1774 01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:12.960 that includes our grandchildren. So I don't think it has 1775 01:37:13.000 --> 01:37:14.960 to be an either or, And I think America is 1776 01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:17.520 righteous when we're at a big both. And can we 1777 01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:18.720 move on to Panama? Now? 1778 01:37:19.600 --> 01:37:20.279 I bought it here? 1779 01:37:20.359 --> 01:37:24.680 My God, the ads right, and yes, yes, everybody listening, 1780 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:28.319 I have regular listenership on things like this. Ads annoy 1781 01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:30.920 me too. Come to Patreon that's where we have the 1782 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:32.920 ad free listening. It's a I'm gonna say on that. 1783 01:37:33.039 --> 01:37:34.359 Moving on, thank go. 1784 01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:39.560 Ahead, thank god that takes your three hour videos to hut. Sorry, 1785 01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:41.319 I was gonna say, because that takes your three hour 1786 01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:43.119 episodes and it makes it that much longer. 1787 01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:48.159 Yeah, yeah, I know. It's dude. We get so much 1788 01:37:48.199 --> 01:37:50.840 hatred in comment section for the amount of ads. First 1789 01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:52.880 of all, we have no control over the amount of 1790 01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:56.199 ads that get put onto our episodes. We don't. Okay, 1791 01:37:56.199 --> 01:37:59.319 we can either have ads or no ads. One of 1792 01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.439 those is the way that we can have this be 1793 01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:05.479 our full time job, and the other makes this completely 1794 01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:08.359 a hobby. I'm not a fan of them. But at 1795 01:38:08.359 --> 01:38:10.640 the same time, it's not like I myself, this is 1796 01:38:10.680 --> 01:38:12.520 my personal account. I don't have some sort of like 1797 01:38:12.600 --> 01:38:15.159 paid membership to YouTube where I have the ad free shit. 1798 01:38:15.359 --> 01:38:17.359 I don't have that on Spotify either or Apple or 1799 01:38:17.359 --> 01:38:20.119 any of that. I am just a regular dude, and 1800 01:38:20.159 --> 01:38:22.640 it annoys the shit out of me too. For anybody listening, 1801 01:38:22.720 --> 01:38:26.680 come to Patreon, I'm telling you, I hate the ads too. Anyway, 1802 01:38:27.119 --> 01:38:28.439 let's do this night. 1803 01:38:28.520 --> 01:38:31.560 The President says, it's like he's going around threatening countries, 1804 01:38:31.720 --> 01:38:35.000 not just Canada, he says about Panama. He says, we're 1805 01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:37.760 going to take the Panama Canal one way or the other. 1806 01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:39.119 We're going to take it. 1807 01:38:39.600 --> 01:38:42.680 Excuse me because right now, whether you agree with what 1808 01:38:42.760 --> 01:38:45.560 happened before in the seventies I think it was or not, 1809 01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:49.479 it doesn't belong to us right now now. One of 1810 01:38:49.479 --> 01:38:51.720 the problems that the president has with all this has 1811 01:38:51.760 --> 01:38:53.720 to do with China. So you think the head of 1812 01:38:53.760 --> 01:38:56.359 Panama wasn't on the phone with the Chinese this morning. 1813 01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:00.199 We are not thinking at all about the repercussions of 1814 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:02.800 some of this. He's like a bull in the China shop. 1815 01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:06.680 And oh, but I think this move was aimed very 1816 01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:09.079 directly at curbing the Chinese influence. 1817 01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:10.319 I agree with you a. 1818 01:39:10.359 --> 01:39:13.760 We should not seek to conquer Panama or Greenland, or 1819 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:16.840 it's ridiculous. I don't actually think it's being contemplated. We 1820 01:39:16.840 --> 01:39:19.520 don't want to have more military engagement anywhere. 1821 01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:21.159 What about his wine. 1822 01:39:22.880 --> 01:39:25.840 Influence, I don't know what that means. 1823 01:39:25.880 --> 01:39:29.600 I hope that means greater economic engagement with the relevant 1824 01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:33.760 stakeholders in Greenland, Panama, et cetera, to have a better 1825 01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:37.199 and more prosperous trade and economic relationship on our terms. 1826 01:39:37.239 --> 01:39:38.479 This is an important. 1827 01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:41.119 Issue for those of us who see things a little differently. 1828 01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:45.760 I'm told all the time by conservative friends, by Trump 1829 01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:48.159 voter friends, and so forth. Oh, Mariannie doesn't mean that. 1830 01:39:48.199 --> 01:39:50.520 He doesn't mean that. The more time goes on, the 1831 01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:52.800 more some of these crazy things he says. Oh, he 1832 01:39:52.840 --> 01:39:55.479 does mean. So when the President stood up last night 1833 01:39:55.520 --> 01:39:56.960 and he said we're going to get it one way 1834 01:39:57.000 --> 01:40:01.319 or the other, We're going to get it. The President's 1835 01:40:01.319 --> 01:40:02.680 behavior at this point. 1836 01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:04.119 I don't think that seeds the deal that he wants. 1837 01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:06.760 He's going to get lie he's getting with Zelenski after 1838 01:40:06.840 --> 01:40:07.279 all the. 1839 01:40:07.199 --> 01:40:09.840 Fact that he's a tough negotiator at times, I think 1840 01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:11.680 all of us are like, Yeah, if we are being 1841 01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:16.439 treated unfairly by Panama in terms of Chinese ships, et cetera, 1842 01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:19.039 I'm okay with that. That's very different than saying we're 1843 01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:21.239 going to get it back one way or the other. 1844 01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:24.319 And I think that we have every reason as Americans 1845 01:40:24.359 --> 01:40:28.319 who expect far more sobriety, far more responsibility, and far 1846 01:40:28.399 --> 01:40:30.399 less ineptitude on the part of our presence. 1847 01:40:31.079 --> 01:40:33.520 One last thought on the Black Rock story. 1848 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:37.000 You know, when he says we're not going to do DEI, 1849 01:40:37.119 --> 01:40:39.560 we want to just hire the best and brightest people 1850 01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:43.039 and have diverse perspectives. I think sixty seventy percent of 1851 01:40:43.039 --> 01:40:44.399 Americans agree with that. 1852 01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:47.199 What's wrong with that, Well, you know, on the I 1853 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:51.159 think on the deif if they feel that there's coming 1854 01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:53.680 back to the center. In terms of the way companies operate, 1855 01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:56.000 it's not for me to say, because it's a private company. 1856 01:40:56.199 --> 01:41:01.239 In terms of saying to anybody who who values diversity inclusion, 1857 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:05.119 who values the idea that we must include people who 1858 01:41:05.119 --> 01:41:07.720 have been historically wronged in the way we function as 1859 01:41:07.720 --> 01:41:10.640 a society, number one, I'm all for that. Number Two, 1860 01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:13.920 I don't like the idea of the government saying this 1861 01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:16.760 is what I this is not how I should see things, 1862 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:20.279 even like this, even as woke stuff. All right, some 1863 01:41:20.399 --> 01:41:22.640 of it makes me roll my eyes as well, But. 1864 01:41:22.560 --> 01:41:23.479 That's not the point. 1865 01:41:23.720 --> 01:41:25.680 The government. People, if they want to look at it 1866 01:41:25.720 --> 01:41:27.439 that way, they get to look at it that way. 1867 01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:29.560 I get to look at things my way. You get 1868 01:41:29.600 --> 01:41:31.359 to look at things your way. And I would never 1869 01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:33.039 say to you, even though I think you're wrong most 1870 01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:34.399 of the time and you think I'm wrong most of 1871 01:41:34.479 --> 01:41:36.560 the time, I would never say to you. And I 1872 01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:38.800 sure as hell don't think the government should be telling 1873 01:41:38.840 --> 01:41:41.560 you that your way of thinking should die. 1874 01:41:41.640 --> 01:41:41.800 Now. 1875 01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:43.960 I don't think you're wrong about that at all. 1876 01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:44.479 Thank you. 1877 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:45.800 Okay, we agree on that one. 1878 01:41:46.119 --> 01:41:54.520 Okay, so let's discuss everybody as far as the Black 1879 01:41:54.640 --> 01:41:57.079 Rock Group doing it. Well, Okay, let's back up to 1880 01:41:57.119 --> 01:41:59.279 what you said about Trump saying one way or another, 1881 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:04.239 we're gonna get it. I understand why they think that 1882 01:42:04.239 --> 01:42:08.720 that initiation that clearly means military action. I don't believe 1883 01:42:08.720 --> 01:42:13.039 that that's gonna happen. Trump the DOS organization just cut 1884 01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:17.000 DoD funding. They're not trying to get us involved in 1885 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:20.159 another war. If anything, he's trying to prevent us from 1886 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:22.520 going into some sort of war. From what I could 1887 01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:25.560 tell anyway, He's a guy that makes deals. He wrote 1888 01:42:25.560 --> 01:42:28.000 a book on the art of the deal, as a 1889 01:42:28.000 --> 01:42:29.720 matter of fact, and I think that this is how 1890 01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:32.199 that happens. This is very similar to how I think 1891 01:42:32.239 --> 01:42:34.880 the Ukrainian mineral deal is gonna take place. It's not 1892 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:38.239 gonna be by United States military action, regardless of what 1893 01:42:38.319 --> 01:42:42.199 Tucker Carlson says. Thinking that America's done everything shy of 1894 01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:44.479 launching nukes at Russia and that we are fully at 1895 01:42:44.479 --> 01:42:46.640 war with Russia right now, I think that that's a 1896 01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:52.159 preposterous claim. But this is how that happens. If, for instance, 1897 01:42:52.199 --> 01:42:55.720 if an American business on the Panama Canal was to 1898 01:42:55.840 --> 01:43:01.079 get bombed by some foreign government, foreign military, the American 1899 01:43:01.079 --> 01:43:03.720 military will now step in. But this is how you 1900 01:43:03.760 --> 01:43:05.760 do it on the business end, to where you don't 1901 01:43:05.840 --> 01:43:08.680 have to come at it from a military end. I mean, 1902 01:43:08.760 --> 01:43:10.720 what are your thoughts on this whole SHEBANKI. 1903 01:43:10.399 --> 01:43:14.279 Yeah, well I got one, which is what's going on 1904 01:43:14.319 --> 01:43:16.680 with the Panama Canal reminds me of all the people 1905 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:18.960 arguing over what's been going on in the South China 1906 01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:21.840 Sea for the last five plus years, except it's in 1907 01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:25.800 our hemisphere instead of theirs. As far as I'm concerned, Yeah, 1908 01:43:25.840 --> 01:43:29.399 maybe Panama should control the canal, but it's more in 1909 01:43:29.479 --> 01:43:33.560 the US sphere of influence. It's in our hemisphere, and 1910 01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:36.840 I see how our country has a lot of interest 1911 01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:39.560 in controlling it too, And Trump even mentioned that it 1912 01:43:39.600 --> 01:43:42.439 was a lot of Americans who died building it. And 1913 01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:45.760 I would also agree that China has more interest in 1914 01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:49.600 their local water ways than we do either. So hopefully 1915 01:43:49.680 --> 01:43:52.359 we can both just stick to our spheres of influence. 1916 01:43:53.399 --> 01:43:56.000 That would be ideal, but I guess that never happens, 1917 01:43:56.039 --> 01:43:59.199 because there's a dollar to be made if control can 1918 01:43:59.239 --> 01:44:04.279 be shifted anywhere in the world. Maryann Williamson, she seemed 1919 01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:06.239 a lot more annoying than I remembered her during the 1920 01:44:06.239 --> 01:44:10.399 Democrat primaries back in twenty twenty. I was like, Oh, 1921 01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:14.600 come on, you're just the twentieth central century socialist. I mean, 1922 01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:16.560 I think it's like, oh, shut up. 1923 01:44:17.119 --> 01:44:19.920 Most liberals are, from what I can tell most and 1924 01:44:19.960 --> 01:44:22.680 I'm not saying those that happen to be registered Democrat, 1925 01:44:23.279 --> 01:44:26.720 most liberals these days, or not even just left of center, 1926 01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:33.119 like true liberals are twentieth century central socialists. It's or 1927 01:44:33.119 --> 01:44:36.640 at least it's like socialism light right. That's that's essentially 1928 01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:39.439 what they want. More government interference, even though she is 1929 01:44:39.760 --> 01:44:42.760 at this moment saying the government shouldn't tell you how 1930 01:44:42.800 --> 01:44:45.720 to feel, even though it's exactly what the government has 1931 01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:51.399 been doing for the past entirety of the administration. I yeah, 1932 01:44:51.640 --> 01:44:53.640 by an administration, that's all they did was tell the 1933 01:44:53.680 --> 01:44:56.680 American people what they should feel about things, rather than 1934 01:44:56.920 --> 01:44:58.479 telling them what the situation was. 1935 01:44:59.039 --> 01:45:02.279 Or in terms of how to high people and you know, 1936 01:45:02.640 --> 01:45:05.920 qualifying it based on race and other protected characteristics. That's 1937 01:45:05.920 --> 01:45:08.279 exactly what the Civil Rights does. That's exactly what the 1938 01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:11.880 EEOC does. And those requirements only get stricter and more 1939 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.960 strictly enforced when Democrats are in power. And this may 1940 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:20.319 be an unpopular opinion, but I'm against the Civil Rights 1941 01:45:20.319 --> 01:45:22.560 Act as we currently have it. That's kind of an 1942 01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:26.239 LPNH position too. It's done too far. We got to 1943 01:45:26.319 --> 01:45:29.399 just peel it back to just outlawing Jim Crow laws 1944 01:45:29.439 --> 01:45:33.319 and not trying to control whether the breakdown of the 1945 01:45:33.359 --> 01:45:37.479 workforce at a particular company matches particular demographics, because it's 1946 01:45:37.479 --> 01:45:38.640 never gonna no. 1947 01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:42.199 Just like you said earlier, there are certain people that 1948 01:45:42.279 --> 01:45:44.720 believe that there is an equal number of black and 1949 01:45:44.760 --> 01:45:49.520 white people in America. That is mathematically inaccurate. Now, depending 1950 01:45:49.560 --> 01:45:52.039 on what state and what city you live in, it 1951 01:45:52.079 --> 01:45:55.640 may appear to be so. But the last statistic that 1952 01:45:55.720 --> 01:45:58.800 I saw was two to one white to black right, 1953 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:01.239 and that's nation wide new way, And I mean, I'm 1954 01:46:01.600 --> 01:46:04.079 that's generalizing. I'm sure it's a little bit more or 1955 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:06.760 less in that regard. And I remember the last time 1956 01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:08.520 I looked up that statistic as a matter of fact, 1957 01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:12.680 was whenever the it wasn't was it out in Sterling 1958 01:46:13.479 --> 01:46:15.920 when that killing happened, and everybody was going on and 1959 01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:19.279 on about how the whole BLM movement and all this stuff. 1960 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:21.720 I was having this conversation with some guys I worked with. 1961 01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:24.119 I was at a shell in guys from Louisiana at 1962 01:46:24.159 --> 01:46:28.159 that time as a matter of fact, and the statistics 1963 01:46:28.159 --> 01:46:30.680 on this was something that they, even the people in 1964 01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:33.159 the smoke pin of black and white, they both couldn't 1965 01:46:33.159 --> 01:46:34.640 believe this when I said it. So we had a 1966 01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:36.840 couple of guys start googling things and come to find 1967 01:46:36.840 --> 01:46:41.039 out I was right here. So two to one white people, men, 1968 01:46:41.159 --> 01:46:45.319 women didn't matter. White people are shot and killed by 1969 01:46:45.359 --> 01:46:48.279 police every year than black people. That's a two to 1970 01:46:48.319 --> 01:46:52.119 one ratio. Okay, And two to one white people are 1971 01:46:52.239 --> 01:46:56.359 arrested by police officers than black people every year without fail. 1972 01:46:57.079 --> 01:46:59.680 Now what does that tell you, right? It says that 1973 01:46:59.760 --> 01:47:02.079 the ones that are breaking the law are going to 1974 01:47:02.119 --> 01:47:05.399 break the law regardless of their skin color. There's about 1975 01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:09.079 an equal number of outlaws regardless of racial background. Now, 1976 01:47:09.680 --> 01:47:16.600 now where the potential systemic racism comes into play is 1977 01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:19.239 whenever you look at in the judicial system, in a 1978 01:47:19.319 --> 01:47:23.640 court of law a black man first offense, first offense 1979 01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:25.880 for a black man and a white man, the black 1980 01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:28.319 man is three times more likely to get a harsher 1981 01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:31.159 prison sentence than the white man. And that is also 1982 01:47:31.399 --> 01:47:35.439 a fact. That's a statistical fact. Now, that is not 1983 01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:40.359 racism with police officers. If anything, that's racism with judges. 1984 01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:42.800 And if we want to address that as a nation 1985 01:47:42.920 --> 01:47:44.880 and say that that's where we need to start putting 1986 01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:48.880 more pressure, I'm here for it. Three to one. That's absurd. 1987 01:47:49.760 --> 01:47:52.560 But it's not the cop killings and all this shit 1988 01:47:52.600 --> 01:47:54.399 that they were trying to boost and blast throughout the 1989 01:47:54.479 --> 01:48:00.039 narratives and on the media escapes for the past ten years, right. No, 1990 01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:03.039 it's I want this country to get back to being 1991 01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:06.319 a meritocracy. And there's gonna be some that will say 1992 01:48:06.319 --> 01:48:09.920 it never was a meritocracy. It's always been about uh, 1993 01:48:09.960 --> 01:48:12.760 you know, nepotism and who you know and all these things. 1994 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:15.680 I get it, and I also understand the and I 1995 01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:18.039 have empathy for those that may not have had the 1996 01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:21.960 opportunities to get the good jobs, right, people that were 1997 01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:25.840 born into bad situations and never had the opportunity to 1998 01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:28.600 go for a higher education or a higher trade school 1999 01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:32.800 for people who wanted that opportunity, but because of just X, 2000 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:35.720 Y or Z reasons, that was never afforded to them. 2001 01:48:36.000 --> 01:48:38.119 I get it, and yes, I believe we should have 2002 01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:41.119 something in place to help these people get the opportunity 2003 01:48:41.159 --> 01:48:45.199 that everybody deserves. I'm with this, okay, in it out loud, 2004 01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:48.920 in theory, that sounds great, But to do it to 2005 01:48:49.000 --> 01:48:53.680 such a way to where the government will start, uh 2006 01:48:54.640 --> 01:48:56.279 what's the word. 2007 01:48:56.039 --> 01:48:58.920 When they disparate impact. 2008 01:48:58.760 --> 01:49:04.239 Right punishes when the businesses for not having thirty percent 2009 01:49:04.279 --> 01:49:07.079 of the workforce be women or thirty percent of the 2010 01:49:07.079 --> 01:49:09.680 workforce being X type of minority or whatever. 2011 01:49:10.159 --> 01:49:12.720 No, that's we got to quit that shit. The government 2012 01:49:12.760 --> 01:49:14.960 should have no place in business, the same way the 2013 01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:16.680 government should have no place in religion. 2014 01:49:19.399 --> 01:49:19.640 Yeah. 2015 01:49:20.199 --> 01:49:23.079 Yeah, I think our country is still sixty five percent 2016 01:49:23.159 --> 01:49:26.800 white and falling. It's something like fourteen percent black and 2017 01:49:26.840 --> 01:49:31.239 that's kind of steady. And then the rest is Hispanic, 2018 01:49:31.359 --> 01:49:33.479 Asian and multiple races. 2019 01:49:34.520 --> 01:49:37.159 Yeah, the Hispanic community was on the rise. Anyway, We'll 2020 01:49:37.159 --> 01:49:38.880 see what happens in the next four years. 2021 01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:43.199 Have a weird field, at least in Texas, it seems 2022 01:49:43.199 --> 01:49:45.760 like there's a ton of them. Well yeah, and in Louisiana. 2023 01:49:45.760 --> 01:49:49.159 There's probably probably a disproportionately higher number of black people too, 2024 01:49:49.159 --> 01:49:52.680 as compared to maybe Oklahoma or California, Oregon and stuff 2025 01:49:52.760 --> 01:49:53.039 like that. 2026 01:49:53.319 --> 01:49:55.439 Sure, and I mean in Montana, I just have a 2027 01:49:55.479 --> 01:49:59.159 weird feeling there's not that many Hispanics, Like I'm sure 2028 01:49:59.199 --> 01:50:02.000 there is. I'm sure there is, probably not as much 2029 01:50:02.039 --> 01:50:05.800 as there is, you know, white people just throwing it out. 2030 01:50:05.920 --> 01:50:08.359 I know that I might be completely off base here, 2031 01:50:08.359 --> 01:50:11.239 but yeah, it depends on location in the nation. For sure. 2032 01:50:11.399 --> 01:50:13.800 The closer you get to the border, the more Hispanish Gonacy. 2033 01:50:13.880 --> 01:50:16.800 But then you look at a Oregon and Washington, they 2034 01:50:16.840 --> 01:50:20.800 have a booming Hispanic population there, which is crazy. Alaska, 2035 01:50:21.479 --> 01:50:25.640 crazy high number of Hispanics there. I didn't know that, honestly. 2036 01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:27.680 That kind of shocked me. But yeah, man, when they 2037 01:50:27.720 --> 01:50:29.840 decided to go north, they wanted to go to the 2038 01:50:29.920 --> 01:50:33.000 far North. And I mean, all right, no one's gonna 2039 01:50:33.000 --> 01:50:35.319 be Ice is not looking for them in Alaska, you 2040 01:50:35.399 --> 01:50:36.840 know what I mean? Like, if anything, that might have 2041 01:50:36.920 --> 01:50:40.119 been a wide strategy move on their part. I get it. 2042 01:50:40.159 --> 01:50:43.079 But anyway that Jacob Ice. 2043 01:50:44.800 --> 01:50:49.119 Ice didn't go into Alaska, it's already there. I like 2044 01:50:49.199 --> 01:50:53.319 it oh Man. Now, all right, as we're talking about 2045 01:50:53.319 --> 01:50:55.479 black Rock and all these things, I did want to 2046 01:50:55.479 --> 01:50:58.640 bring up this one last little article before we wrap 2047 01:50:58.640 --> 01:51:02.039 it up for the evening here talking about why Ukrainians 2048 01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:05.960 are skeptical of a ceasefire deal even after three years 2049 01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:09.199 of war. Now this is from NPR, so take that 2050 01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:11.520 with a grain assault. It's going to be very left leaning, 2051 01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:13.880 and because it's left leaning, I have a weird feeling 2052 01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:16.640 it's going to be very pro Ukrainian. I don't know, 2053 01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:21.439 but Ukrainians being skeptical of the seasfire even after three 2054 01:51:21.520 --> 01:51:23.640 years of this and Trump making these deals and the 2055 01:51:23.640 --> 01:51:26.199 mineral deals and all of these things, it's interesting. This 2056 01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:29.119 is from February. By the way, it has been three 2057 01:51:29.199 --> 01:51:31.840 years since Russia laws his full scale invasion of Ukraine. 2058 01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:34.359 MPR's i'm not gonna pronounce that name speaks with the 2059 01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:36.920 Ukrainian journalists. I'm not going to pronounce that name either. 2060 01:51:37.239 --> 01:51:41.039 About how Ukrainians feel about the ceasefire discussions that don't 2061 01:51:41.079 --> 01:51:45.319 include them, she says. We now want to focus on 2062 01:51:45.560 --> 01:51:49.840 how negotiations over ceasefire are being received by Ukrainians, especially 2063 01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:53.439 as it appears a deal would make them code or 2064 01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:58.760 seed territory and influence to Russia. Natalia is a Ukrainian 2065 01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:01.079 journalist based in Kiev and the co founder of the 2066 01:52:01.119 --> 01:52:04.279 Reckoning Project, which has been documenting human rights abuses during 2067 01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:07.680 the war. She says, tomorrow is the what the hell? 2068 01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:11.800 Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the Russian invasion. You 2069 01:52:11.840 --> 01:52:14.840 write in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine that 2070 01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:19.199 considering the human cost of the war and Russia's massive firepower, 2071 01:52:19.239 --> 01:52:21.720 you might think Ukrainians would be eager to end the war. 2072 01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:24.279 But you say that's not true. How do Ukrainians feel 2073 01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:28.960 about the ceasefire discussions between the US and Russia. Natalia says, so, 2074 01:52:29.199 --> 01:52:31.319 Ukrainians are eager to end the war, but with some 2075 01:52:31.439 --> 01:52:35.199 level of security guarantees. For instance, the ceasefire which at 2076 01:52:35.279 --> 01:52:38.359 current position will benefit Russia because Russia needs the post 2077 01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:42.399 to rearm itself to decrease the Western support of Ukraine. 2078 01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:45.239 And the concern is very serious that the ceasefire might 2079 01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:48.960 give time for Russia for bigger war when Ukraine would 2080 01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:53.199 be let's say, demobilized and occupy more territories. What I'm 2081 01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:56.600 also claiming in the article is that we not speaking 2082 01:52:56.640 --> 01:52:59.880 about just the human rights abuses, But how Russia you 2083 01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:03.279 use the occupied territories to militarize them to create a 2084 01:53:03.359 --> 01:53:07.359 larger launch path for even future invasions. And that's what 2085 01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:11.159 Ukrainians tried to explain, that it's currently better to go 2086 01:53:11.279 --> 01:53:14.000 on fighting rather than give it more time for Russia 2087 01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:17.840 to wage an even bigger war in some time. And 2088 01:53:17.880 --> 01:53:20.439 that part is missing in these talks because they are 2089 01:53:20.479 --> 01:53:23.479 not all about that. Okay, so we're not going to 2090 01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:26.600 read the entire conversation between the two, but I also 2091 01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:32.199 find that to be an interesting thought here the ceasefire 2092 01:53:32.279 --> 01:53:34.439 and this is that was in February. I think it's 2093 01:53:34.439 --> 01:53:37.000 at twenty third, so it was a couple of weeks 2094 01:53:37.039 --> 01:53:41.119 ago before the current ceasefire deals are talked about. But 2095 01:53:42.279 --> 01:53:45.159 as a hypothetical here, a lot of people are of 2096 01:53:45.199 --> 01:53:47.720 the belief and Tony, I actually want to get your 2097 01:53:47.720 --> 01:53:50.359 two cents on this in specific here. So a lot 2098 01:53:50.399 --> 01:53:53.479 of people are of the belief that Russia is Let's 2099 01:53:53.520 --> 01:53:57.319 say that the ceasefire does take in Ukraine, and Russia 2100 01:53:57.640 --> 01:54:00.560 takes the lands that they've already accomplished and grabbed, and 2101 01:54:00.680 --> 01:54:04.840 they're satisfied, right, And let's say hypothetically they do not 2102 01:54:05.760 --> 01:54:08.319 wait for the next administration to come in. Let's say 2103 01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:11.279 hypothetically a Democrat wins and they know that they could 2104 01:54:11.279 --> 01:54:12.920 get away with it again and go for even more 2105 01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:16.239 land in Ukraine. Let's just say that that's not Putin's intent, 2106 01:54:16.439 --> 01:54:19.680 all right. I've also heard that they are talking about 2107 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:23.279 invading Estonia. I've heard that they're talking about Poland. I've 2108 01:54:23.319 --> 01:54:25.840 heard they're talking about a couple of different nations. Are 2109 01:54:26.479 --> 01:54:29.239 truly worried that Russia's going to set their sights on 2110 01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:32.800 them next. From what you have seen and from what 2111 01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:36.079 you have researched, because I know you have a particular 2112 01:54:36.159 --> 01:54:39.159 side of this aisle that you stand on, is there 2113 01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:40.920 any basis of credence to this. 2114 01:54:42.399 --> 01:54:46.680 I'm glad you asked, because personally I give zero freedence 2115 01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:49.800 to the idea that Putin wants to gain any territory 2116 01:54:49.800 --> 01:54:53.680 with a hostile population, including Poland or Estonia. The Estonian 2117 01:54:53.680 --> 01:54:57.600 president or high rank and I don't know exactly what 2118 01:54:57.680 --> 01:55:00.439 she is, but her name is Kara Kalis. She's always 2119 01:55:00.479 --> 01:55:03.560 saying that Estonia is being threatened by being taken over 2120 01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:05.359 by Russia. And they do have a history of that. 2121 01:55:05.399 --> 01:55:08.560 Those Baltic states were owned by the Soviet Union. Many 2122 01:55:08.560 --> 01:55:12.079 of those Baltic people welcomed the Germans as liberators in 2123 01:55:12.159 --> 01:55:17.239 nineteen forty one. That's a true story. Also, Poland is 2124 01:55:17.479 --> 01:55:21.439 very hostile to Germany and Russia throughout all its history, 2125 01:55:21.479 --> 01:55:26.159 and they would be very hostile to Russia. Putin, for 2126 01:55:26.319 --> 01:55:30.199 at least his public statements has been to say he 2127 01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:34.800 has no interest in conquering anything other than these these 2128 01:55:34.880 --> 01:55:38.720 four or five territories. Their names are the Ganska, Donetsk, Zapparogia, 2129 01:55:39.399 --> 01:55:45.079 kirsn and Crimea because those places have a very Russian 2130 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:48.039 friendly population. Central and Western Ukraine do not have a 2131 01:55:48.079 --> 01:55:52.159 Russian friendly population. Poland does not have a Russian friendly population. 2132 01:55:53.680 --> 01:55:56.760 Putin is not a big time expansionist like Napoleon Hitler 2133 01:55:57.119 --> 01:56:02.760 or Joseph Stalin. So I think I understand why the 2134 01:56:02.880 --> 01:56:05.800 Ukrainians are afraid because let me give you a small 2135 01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:09.199 perspective on just my own family history. I mentioned last 2136 01:56:09.319 --> 01:56:14.920 night that my grandfather was almost recruited into those Werewolf 2137 01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:17.800 brigades at the end of World War Two in nineteen 2138 01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:21.199 forty five, and he burned his uniform and deserted. But 2139 01:56:21.520 --> 01:56:24.359 many Germans were really afraid that they were going to 2140 01:56:24.399 --> 01:56:27.760 be wiped out, they were going to be sterilized in mass. 2141 01:56:28.600 --> 01:56:31.880 There were books to this effect. There was one called 2142 01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:33.960 German He Must Perish, which was reviewed by the New 2143 01:56:34.039 --> 01:56:37.199 York Times, and they were very, very very scared that 2144 01:56:37.439 --> 01:56:40.920 something like that had a high probability of happening. I 2145 01:56:41.119 --> 01:56:44.399 completely understand if many Ukrainians feel the same way. They 2146 01:56:44.439 --> 01:56:46.640 don't want to give up fighting. They're afraid to give 2147 01:56:46.680 --> 01:56:49.760 up fighting because what if somebody just marches in and 2148 01:56:49.880 --> 01:56:53.159 kills all of us, even if the chance seems kind 2149 01:56:53.159 --> 01:56:57.800 of low, Why risk it? And when you're already in 2150 01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:01.199 your sunk cost fallacy of fiveighting and losing and fighting 2151 01:57:01.239 --> 01:57:05.199 and losing. I think I understand the motivation to keep 2152 01:57:05.239 --> 01:57:08.159 going and the belief that maybe we'll pull something good 2153 01:57:08.159 --> 01:57:13.720 out of this, and I think they're stuck in that mindset. Also, 2154 01:57:13.800 --> 01:57:17.640 there's only one politically acceptable opinion to have about the 2155 01:57:17.680 --> 01:57:20.760 war in Ukraine right now, which is the same political, 2156 01:57:21.119 --> 01:57:23.760 only politically acceptable opinion that it was allowed to have 2157 01:57:23.800 --> 01:57:25.840 in Germany in nineteen forty five, which you've got to 2158 01:57:25.920 --> 01:57:28.439 keep fighting because they're going to kill all of us, 2159 01:57:29.159 --> 01:57:31.520 and after this is all over, you're going to have 2160 01:57:31.560 --> 01:57:34.520 a bunch of people going, man, what the hell were 2161 01:57:34.560 --> 01:57:36.600 we thinking? That was a big mistake. If there's a 2162 01:57:36.600 --> 01:57:39.039 big disillusionment that comes at the end of pretty much 2163 01:57:39.079 --> 01:57:42.399 every war, especially if you lose it like the South 2164 01:57:42.640 --> 01:57:45.520 in the world in the Civil War or just wherever. 2165 01:57:46.119 --> 01:57:51.359 So yeah, I think the Ukrainian opinion is I trust 2166 01:57:51.399 --> 01:57:54.239 it's there, and I trust that there's also a diversity 2167 01:57:54.239 --> 01:57:56.359 of opinion. But you're not going to hear the anti 2168 01:57:56.399 --> 01:57:59.640 war opinions coming out of Ukraine right now. And it's 2169 01:57:59.680 --> 01:58:02.520 reaching a natural end. Russia has won pretty much everything 2170 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:05.720 it ever wanted to, so I think it's going to end. 2171 01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:11.960 It's reaching a natural end, and uh, we're just nothing 2172 01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:13.399 I say is going to make a difference. 2173 01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:17.159 But we're strictly talking in the hypothetical realm here, of course. 2174 01:58:17.199 --> 01:58:21.960 I mean there's yeah, I don't I'm yeah, same very much. 2175 01:58:22.000 --> 01:58:25.680 Same the whole thing about uh Moldova. I've also heard 2176 01:58:26.399 --> 01:58:30.640 in North Macedonia. I've heard Estonia be mentioned. I mean, 2177 01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:35.039 Poland has been getting ready for some type of military 2178 01:58:35.039 --> 01:58:38.479 action against them for since Russia's even started this. As 2179 01:58:38.479 --> 01:58:42.119 soon as Russia started moving blood bags to the Russian border, 2180 01:58:42.439 --> 01:58:45.520 Poland started buying up every weapon that America would sell them, 2181 01:58:45.880 --> 01:58:48.119 So I mean they're ready for it. I don't think 2182 01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:53.239 that Russia wants that smoke with Poland. They are they're 2183 01:58:53.279 --> 01:58:55.600 waiting for it. They're they're waiting on the bell to 2184 01:58:55.720 --> 01:59:00.479 ring Estonia. I don't see what the strategic value of 2185 01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:03.920 that would be. North Macedonia the same way, Moldova the 2186 01:59:03.960 --> 01:59:10.039 same way. I don't. Putin didn't strike me as an 2187 01:59:10.039 --> 01:59:15.720 expansionist until this situation. And yes, there's gonna be a 2188 01:59:15.720 --> 01:59:17.520 lot of people that will say that, well, he wasn't 2189 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:20.920 trying to expand until they kept leaning more towards NATO. 2190 01:59:21.439 --> 01:59:24.279 But because of this, two other nations have now joined NATO. 2191 01:59:24.399 --> 01:59:27.720 So I'm hoping that he has seen that to be 2192 01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.359 what it is and he doesn't want to continue pushing. Right, 2193 01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:34.279 the ceasefire would hold, but they already have a track 2194 01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:37.760 record of showing how the ceasefires haven't held in the past. Now, 2195 01:59:38.159 --> 01:59:40.960 do you believe that's more because Ukraine kept making moves 2196 01:59:41.000 --> 01:59:43.760 towards NATO or do you believe that's because that was 2197 01:59:43.760 --> 01:59:45.439 never Putin's intent in the first place. 2198 01:59:46.399 --> 01:59:49.000 Well, were these ceasefires part of the Minska agreements, because 2199 01:59:49.000 --> 01:59:51.359 that would all be before this war. And I have 2200 01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:53.520 not looked deep enough into this, but I've heard the 2201 01:59:53.560 --> 01:59:56.560 allegation there have been twenty four seasfires and Putin's violated 2202 01:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.119 all of them. I don't remember any since twenty twenty two, 2203 01:59:59.600 --> 02:00:02.479 so I think they're talking about the pre twenty twenty 2204 02:00:02.479 --> 02:00:05.680 two period. And I would allege that the West was 2205 02:00:05.880 --> 02:00:09.159 just as bad about violating the Minsk agreements, not giving 2206 02:00:09.159 --> 02:00:15.840 the don Bass it's semi autonomous state that it should 2207 02:00:15.840 --> 02:00:18.359 have had, which I'm sure gets really detailed if you 2208 02:00:18.399 --> 02:00:23.600 look into the nitty gritty details. Miracle was never interested 2209 02:00:23.640 --> 02:00:27.399 in forcing Ukraine to abide by the Minsk agreements, so 2210 02:00:28.279 --> 02:00:32.039 I would not primarily blame Russia for violating the Ceasfire. 2211 02:00:32.079 --> 02:00:34.560 Back then, there was a low key civil war going 2212 02:00:34.600 --> 02:00:40.159 on for eight straight years, and yeah, Ceasfire, It's just 2213 02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:45.000 I'd say it was violated by both sides. So Russia's 2214 02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:50.159 taken something like eighty or one hundred miles of territory. 2215 02:00:50.199 --> 02:00:54.720 They've pushed the border. I don't think fighting over, you know, 2216 02:00:54.800 --> 02:00:58.000 pushing that border another mile east or west is really 2217 02:00:58.000 --> 02:01:00.600 worth it to anybody. Let's just draw the line where 2218 02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:04.760 it is, and Putin may insist on a buffer zone 2219 02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:07.840 of an additional couple of miles or something. But at 2220 02:01:07.840 --> 02:01:10.920 this point, I think we're arguing over minutia and the 2221 02:01:10.960 --> 02:01:13.079 front lines aren't moving that much, and it's really worth 2222 02:01:13.079 --> 02:01:16.000 it to just stop it. I think a great analogy 2223 02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:19.720 of this would be the Mexican American War, which ended 2224 02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:23.319 in eighteen forty six. I want to say forty five 2225 02:01:23.600 --> 02:01:28.239 forty six. The US basically stole Texas from Mexico. And 2226 02:01:29.640 --> 02:01:31.640 some people would argue against me on that, but for 2227 02:01:31.680 --> 02:01:34.399 the sake of argument, let's just say US stole Texas 2228 02:01:34.399 --> 02:01:36.760 from Mexico. Would it be worth it for Mexico to 2229 02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:39.399 keep fighting to try to move the border back. No, 2230 02:01:39.680 --> 02:01:42.319 they would just get slaughtered and the US Army would 2231 02:01:42.359 --> 02:01:45.319 lose folks too. It's not worth it. It's better to 2232 02:01:45.399 --> 02:01:48.279 just move the line and be done with it and 2233 02:01:48.319 --> 02:01:49.880 stop the killing and stop the dying. 2234 02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:51.039 Yeah. 2235 02:01:51.119 --> 02:01:54.279 So that's what Germany had to do too. Germany had 2236 02:01:54.279 --> 02:01:56.119 to see lots of territory that had been German for 2237 02:01:56.159 --> 02:01:59.159 eight hundred years. But it's better to just do that 2238 02:01:59.239 --> 02:02:01.960 and stop to kill and stop the dying. It's a 2239 02:02:02.079 --> 02:02:04.239 bitter pill to swallow, but you just have to do it. 2240 02:02:04.279 --> 02:02:07.880 Sometimes I guess my only retort to what you've said, 2241 02:02:07.920 --> 02:02:10.960 and I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of it, 2242 02:02:11.039 --> 02:02:14.880 is you're saying that Russia has got the lands that 2243 02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:17.760 they set out to get, right, or at least the 2244 02:02:17.800 --> 02:02:21.000 majority of them, or the majority of those oblasty and 2245 02:02:21.079 --> 02:02:25.359 all of that when they made their initial push. If 2246 02:02:25.399 --> 02:02:27.560 those are the areas that they were trying to get 2247 02:02:27.600 --> 02:02:31.640 at initially, why did they have a line going to Kiev. 2248 02:02:33.920 --> 02:02:39.680 Okay, that's a good question. Yeah, that was over expansionist 2249 02:02:39.800 --> 02:02:43.000 of them, and they basically got kicked out. It could 2250 02:02:43.000 --> 02:02:46.319 not keep the areas around Kiev. They could not keep Butcha. 2251 02:02:46.880 --> 02:02:50.079 There's a big controversy over a massacre that happened in Butcha, 2252 02:02:50.119 --> 02:02:53.000 and both sides point the finger at each other. I 2253 02:02:53.399 --> 02:02:57.600 do not know who's actually responsible for that the massacre. 2254 02:02:57.640 --> 02:03:00.159 I mean, at that point, who even knows. But they 2255 02:03:00.159 --> 02:03:04.600 had a seventy mile truck pile up because they, again, 2256 02:03:04.600 --> 02:03:08.439 they overestimated themselves, and that was very clear very early 2257 02:03:08.479 --> 02:03:11.960 on as far as like what the Russian military might 2258 02:03:12.119 --> 02:03:15.279 actually had to bring to the table. But yeah, I 2259 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:18.680 just I've heard some theories to say that, well, they 2260 02:03:18.680 --> 02:03:20.920 were going to just take Kiev. And use that as 2261 02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:23.159 a bargaining chip to take the lands they wanted, and 2262 02:03:23.159 --> 02:03:25.039 then they were going to go back home, only with 2263 02:03:25.159 --> 02:03:30.720 these oblasti that they were after. I don't I personally 2264 02:03:30.760 --> 02:03:33.279 don't see how and why that would have been their move. 2265 02:03:34.039 --> 02:03:38.760 But you know, Putin's speech at the very beginning would 2266 02:03:38.760 --> 02:03:41.560 have justified taking the whole country. That's kind of what 2267 02:03:41.640 --> 02:03:46.039 he sounded like, and that would have been overly expansionist. 2268 02:03:46.239 --> 02:03:47.560 I don't know if he would have taken it and 2269 02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:50.920 then pulled back or tried to hold all of it. 2270 02:03:51.439 --> 02:03:52.880 I don't think he would have tried to hold all 2271 02:03:52.920 --> 02:03:55.399 of it personally, but I can understand the idea of, 2272 02:03:56.000 --> 02:03:59.079 you know, trying to occupy it and neutralize whatever threats 2273 02:03:59.079 --> 02:04:03.560 are there first, instead of letting them stit there and 2274 02:04:03.600 --> 02:04:08.159 regroup and a more long term war effort. It's kind 2275 02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:11.279 of like when you go into Germany. It's obviously hostile 2276 02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:13.960 territory to the Soviets and the Americans and everyone else, 2277 02:04:14.000 --> 02:04:17.279 but you just got to go in and stomp out 2278 02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:20.399 every last square foot you can find, and then you 2279 02:04:20.439 --> 02:04:23.439 can think about withdrawing later. Maybe it's a similar line 2280 02:04:23.439 --> 02:04:23.880 of thinking. 2281 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:28.000 I hope that the ceasefire holds. I hope that the 2282 02:04:28.039 --> 02:04:31.880 American mineral deal will set up shop for American businesses 2283 02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:35.079 in Ukraine, and that Putin would be wise enough to 2284 02:04:35.199 --> 02:04:37.640 not try to get in the way of American business 2285 02:04:37.920 --> 02:04:40.800 because that's not going to be a wise move. I 2286 02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:43.920 think that that is actually a very smart thing for 2287 02:04:44.039 --> 02:04:46.279 Trump to do. As a matter of fact, it set 2288 02:04:46.359 --> 02:04:49.199 up American businesses in such a way to where if 2289 02:04:49.239 --> 02:04:51.479 anybody was to attack that, it would be a declaration 2290 02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:55.720 of war on America itself. I think that's a brilliant idea. 2291 02:04:56.199 --> 02:04:58.199 And I've heard people say that that's not exactly the 2292 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:02.800 case because America had those biolabs along the Russian Ukrainian border, 2293 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:06.079 and when Russia took over, they took off those bio labs. 2294 02:05:06.079 --> 02:05:08.920 Where was the American upheaval for that? And it's like, 2295 02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:12.880 you understand, those biolabs were being operated off the books, 2296 02:05:12.920 --> 02:05:15.439 like they were owned by American companies, but through shell 2297 02:05:15.479 --> 02:05:18.520 corporations they were making like saran gas and shit like 2298 02:05:18.560 --> 02:05:21.279 we couldn't, Yeah, we couldn't clearly say that that was 2299 02:05:21.319 --> 02:05:24.920 American owned. That would have been a really bad move 2300 02:05:24.960 --> 02:05:26.560 for us because then we would have had to acknowledge 2301 02:05:26.560 --> 02:05:28.640 that we're the ones that sold Saddam Hussein the saran 2302 02:05:28.680 --> 02:05:32.039 gas bombs he used on his Kurdish population and nobody 2303 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:32.399 wanted to. 2304 02:05:32.399 --> 02:05:35.239 Just saw a video, yeah, yeah, of a Russian general 2305 02:05:35.279 --> 02:05:39.319 saying they identified for two hundred and forty compounds linked 2306 02:05:39.359 --> 02:05:48.279 to Boston University in Ukraine, primarily anthrax and cholera. There 2307 02:05:48.279 --> 02:05:51.439 were probably others too. Yeah, the video wasn't Russian. It 2308 02:05:51.560 --> 02:05:52.760 was subtitled luckily. 2309 02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:54.000 Yeah. 2310 02:05:54.279 --> 02:05:57.840 Also, this week or just over the last few days, 2311 02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:01.359 Russia has taken most of kurse region back. The last 2312 02:06:01.439 --> 02:06:04.239 big city to go is called Suja, and they're fighting 2313 02:06:04.239 --> 02:06:06.720 for it right now. So Kursk is about to be 2314 02:06:06.840 --> 02:06:12.119 Russian again. They are. They've invaded the Sumi region, which 2315 02:06:12.159 --> 02:06:15.640 is right across from Kersk. So most of these disputed territories, 2316 02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:17.960 the five I mentioned earlier, they're all in the south 2317 02:06:18.000 --> 02:06:20.319 and east of the country. But Kursk is kind of 2318 02:06:20.359 --> 02:06:23.560 center north. Yeah, Sumi is kind of centered north. It's 2319 02:06:23.560 --> 02:06:25.800 near Kiev. I think it's a little east to Kia. 2320 02:06:27.520 --> 02:06:29.319 So you know, while since I looked at the maps 2321 02:06:29.359 --> 02:06:31.520 of the front lines, so I don't know, but I'll 2322 02:06:31.880 --> 02:06:34.119 I believe it, Okay, uh huh. 2323 02:06:34.199 --> 02:06:36.439 So that's going on there. I'm trying to remember what 2324 02:06:36.520 --> 02:06:40.840 else is going on. The front lines are not moving 2325 02:06:41.159 --> 02:06:43.920 that much. It's just a stalemate like World War One. 2326 02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:50.800 Yeah. Yeah, I'm hoping that ceasefires will hold, American businesses 2327 02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:52.960 will get set up there, and this can be a 2328 02:06:53.039 --> 02:06:56.640 long lasting piece and ceasefire and that everybody can go 2329 02:06:56.720 --> 02:06:58.640 home feeling like they took some sort of a w 2330 02:06:58.840 --> 02:07:02.039 from it. And I guess we'll have to see if 2331 02:07:02.159 --> 02:07:04.880 Putin is in fact on an expansion his kick right now, 2332 02:07:04.880 --> 02:07:07.079 and we'll see if he does try to invade Estonia 2333 02:07:07.119 --> 02:07:10.840 and then all these places. I don't know. God, I 2334 02:07:10.840 --> 02:07:13.239 hope he doesn't. I really hope he doesn't. 2335 02:07:13.319 --> 02:07:17.880 But I'd give you one hundred dollars if he does. 2336 02:07:18.560 --> 02:07:19.600 Y'all heard, pretty sure. 2337 02:07:20.159 --> 02:07:22.119 Y'all heard on the mic Tony is on the hook 2338 02:07:22.159 --> 02:07:24.560 for a hundred bucks. If Putin goes into another country? 2339 02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:29.359 Wait, should I qualify that as Estonia or Poland? 2340 02:07:30.560 --> 02:07:32.039 Oh, now we're gonna get specific. 2341 02:07:32.159 --> 02:07:37.880 Now, I guess Georgia. I don't know. There was the 2342 02:07:37.960 --> 02:07:39.960 thing with Georgia in two thousand and eight, and there's 2343 02:07:40.000 --> 02:07:42.119 always a chance something like that can happen again. But 2344 02:07:43.239 --> 02:07:49.199 let's see Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland, let's see where else, 2345 02:07:50.119 --> 02:07:52.840 or Finland. I would say, yeah, no chance, I'll give 2346 02:07:52.880 --> 02:07:54.680 you a hundred bucks if he if he steps a 2347 02:07:54.720 --> 02:07:55.680 foot into any of those. 2348 02:07:56.039 --> 02:07:57.960 Well, Finland is part of NATO now, aren't they? 2349 02:07:59.279 --> 02:07:59.960 Yeah they are now? 2350 02:08:00.279 --> 02:08:02.760 Yeah? No, he would never, good God, he would never. 2351 02:08:03.039 --> 02:08:05.479 Although I also was Estonia. I'm pretty sure I think 2352 02:08:05.479 --> 02:08:07.680 all the Baltic states are since two thousand. 2353 02:08:07.359 --> 02:08:11.239 And four, it was Estonia. I remember Estonia and Finland 2354 02:08:11.239 --> 02:08:14.520 were the two that jumped in since Ukraine got invaded. 2355 02:08:14.600 --> 02:08:16.479 I forgot about Estonia. 2356 02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:19.600 Waitit no, it's just Sweden and Finland since twenty twenty two. 2357 02:08:19.720 --> 02:08:21.840 We think all the Baltic states in Poland were two 2358 02:08:21.840 --> 02:08:22.439 thousand and four. 2359 02:08:22.800 --> 02:08:26.520 Okay, damn well, yeah that makes sense. And the Baltics 2360 02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:28.279 wanted to make sure they would never go back into 2361 02:08:28.279 --> 02:08:33.680 the Russian grouping. Okay, I guess we'll find out. I hope, 2362 02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:37.359 I hope. I'm I'm talking completely out of my ass here. 2363 02:08:37.720 --> 02:08:41.359 I'm hoping that it was the it was the absolute 2364 02:08:42.239 --> 02:08:44.800 you know, kicking the pants that Putin hoped it would be, 2365 02:08:44.840 --> 02:08:47.199 and that they got all the resources and that he 2366 02:08:47.279 --> 02:08:49.720 stopped the NATO expansion in the way that he hoped 2367 02:08:49.760 --> 02:08:52.279 he would, and like, it's all gonna work out. I 2368 02:08:52.359 --> 02:08:56.439 really hope so, because dude, we don't need another forever war, 2369 02:08:56.800 --> 02:08:59.960 and this was getting ready to become a forever war. 2370 02:09:00.520 --> 02:09:02.960 It just it's time to bring it in. It's time 2371 02:09:03.000 --> 02:09:07.840 to bring it in for a good closing. But uh yeah, wow. 2372 02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:11.439 All right, With all this being said, everybody, I want 2373 02:09:11.439 --> 02:09:14.199 to thank you all for joining me on another live 2374 02:09:14.439 --> 02:09:17.279 edition of The Cajun Night again. For anybody who would 2375 02:09:17.279 --> 02:09:19.239 like to join in the conversation next week, come to 2376 02:09:19.279 --> 02:09:22.560 Patreon link is in the description below. There's only one 2377 02:09:22.600 --> 02:09:24.880 tier from membership. Nobody's trying to get rich off of 2378 02:09:24.920 --> 02:09:26.760 this ship. I'm just trying to get a little community 2379 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:30.720 built that likes having these types of conversations. And uh yeah, 2380 02:09:31.119 --> 02:09:33.760 as always, thank you all for joining me. God bless