Speaker 1: The War State by Michael Swanson explains the great national
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Speaker 1: Before World War II, the United States was a continental republic.
Speaker 1: In the decade that followed, it became an imperial superpower.
Speaker 1: Generals such as Curtis LeMay not only wanted to invade Cuba,
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Speaker 2: Evelation through conversation.
Speaker 3: Hey, what happens when you actually play a bit of
Speaker 3: a sound that is simultaneously coherent and crazy? And I
Speaker 3: always love that h one line in the uh in
Speaker 3: one of the movies from a long time ago, and
Speaker 3: I can't remember which movie it is off the top
Speaker 3: of my head. Isn't that scary? But I always remember
Speaker 3: this part.
Speaker 4: I might not know karate, but I know karaze. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They passed the budget resolution that would gut Medicaid and
Speaker 6: food stamps to cover over a trillion in tax cuts
Speaker 6: for the one percent, and conservatives online are celebrating it,
Speaker 6: which is weird to me because I know they can't
Speaker 6: all be part of the one percent on account of
Speaker 6: how percentages work and everything, So I don't understand what
Speaker 6: y'all are cheering. And they's like, I don't know. Trump
Speaker 6: already said he's gonna help work in people because there's
Speaker 6: gonna be no taxes.
Speaker 4: On tips and overtime and stuff.
Speaker 6: All right, But those things are like the governmental equivalent
Speaker 6: of working for a soulless corporation that'll write you up
Speaker 6: for attending the birth of your child. But you know,
Speaker 6: sometimes on Fridays they let us untuck our shirts and
Speaker 6: eat cold pizza, So comparatively, those measures ain't shit, all right,
Speaker 6: But much much more importantly, also, they ain't even doing
Speaker 6: them those sayings they part of this resolution. So I
Speaker 6: ask again, what are you happy about? And they might say, well,
Speaker 6: you know, either way, they're balancing the budget. They're triming
Speaker 6: government spending, and that's good for all of us. Look
Speaker 6: not to get too professorial on you, but na uh,
Speaker 6: this is going to increase this country's debt. How are
Speaker 6: you okay with that? As a conservative? One Republican in
Speaker 6: Congress voted no on this because he said it's going
Speaker 6: to increase our debt and I just don't think that
Speaker 6: would be, you know, fiscally responsible.
Speaker 3: Well, hey, but we're getting plenty of eggs from Turkey
Speaker 3: and and I don't mean Turkey the bird. I do
Speaker 3: mean Turkey the country, and we're making all kinds of deals.
Speaker 3: And Trump again repeated that we're not paying tariffs if
Speaker 3: we're the consumers. Ever, because other countries pay the tariffs,
Speaker 3: well do they? Anyway, Let's hear a little more from
Speaker 3: that meeting with the Prime Minute stirned directly from Trump
Speaker 3: instead of from the commentary there, which was the liberal redneck.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from Trump himself. And I'll try and just
Speaker 3: shut up and.
Speaker 4: Go on with it.
Speaker 3: If unless something caresee happens during it, and we.
Speaker 4: Have some very talented people on the other side.
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, this is a completely randomly
Speaker 3: pulled clip and I am not attempting to judge it
Speaker 3: in any way. And listening to this part of the
Speaker 3: interesting press event for the first time along with you.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear this part live anyway. Here we go
Speaker 3: from earlier today President Trump with President with excuse me,
Speaker 3: British PM Starmer.
Speaker 2: We have some people that probably aren't as talented as them,
Speaker 2: but pretty good Manco what our people are pretty good?
Speaker 4: And what do you think, Little Marshall? And we'll be
Speaker 4: talking about you think you think, little Marco? Mister Starmer.
Speaker 7: The Prime Minister has said that he believes of Ladimir
Speaker 7: Putin would be risk of invading Ukraine again without a
Speaker 7: sufficient BackStar Do you think of otafoots In would be
Speaker 7: likely to invade again eventity?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think while we have a deal,
Speaker 4: it's going to be the deal.
Speaker 2: I don't think if I didn't win the election, I
Speaker 2: don't think we'd be even talking to Pootin right now
Speaker 2: or anybody else.
Speaker 3: I think, Okay, just really quickly, I want to tell
Speaker 3: you that the noise. The excessive room noise is due
Speaker 3: to the fact that this is a Fox News feed
Speaker 3: and for some reason, Fox cranks up the audio on
Speaker 3: their feeds, not necessarily the volume, but cranks up the
Speaker 3: gain on their audio, so that room noise is a guarantee.
Speaker 3: Whenever they're at the White House, in some office at
Speaker 3: the G seven, whatever, take notice. Fox News for some
Speaker 3: reason pounds you with room noise from the gain on
Speaker 3: their mixing board. I don't know why they just do it,
Speaker 3: and I just really knowed it because it was unnerving me.
Speaker 3: But anyway, back to what Trump's saying, pay attention to
Speaker 3: what he's saying, not the room noise. Try to ignore it, okay, please,
Speaker 3: So we're just you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't know if you're looking at the stats,
Speaker 2: but thousands of people are being killed a weak soldiers,
Speaker 2: mostly because the towns have been destroyed.
Speaker 4: It's thousands of soldiers. This was a very bad week,
Speaker 4: by the way. I get the status and you're talking
Speaker 4: about a human life number one. I want to see that.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't involve American soldiers, but it's Russian and
Speaker 2: Ukrainian soldiers that I can think.
Speaker 4: I think I'm speaking for both number one, we want
Speaker 4: to see that stop.
Speaker 2: And number two, I want to stop paying the kind
Speaker 2: of money that we're talking about.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad Trump doesn't want to just see
Speaker 3: wholesale murder on the planet at all times. And of
Speaker 3: course we're talking about Russian and Ukrainian troops. Ukraine has
Speaker 3: been invaded by Russia. Therefore, guess what that's the dead
Speaker 3: troops that should be there. And if somebody else is dying,
Speaker 3: it's unusual anyway, isn't it strange that it goes to that?
Speaker 3: And also take note he says several times, I get
Speaker 3: the stats, I see the stats. It's like he's reading
Speaker 3: box scores on the war. I got to tell you,
Speaker 3: when somebody's that disconnected from it, he's not seeing the
Speaker 3: photographs of it. Other presidents tell you they saw images,
Speaker 3: they saw satellites, they saw photographs. Oh well, then again,
Speaker 3: he's banned the AP and usually they have the AP
Speaker 3: photographers on the ground in war zones. So maybe he's
Speaker 3: missing it because of that, and he decided they were
Speaker 3: no good because of the Gulf of America and all
Speaker 3: so on and so forth. Also note to his set designer, publicist,
Speaker 3: whatever get him the hell out of that weirdly colored,
Speaker 3: slightly shiny goldish chair. It's not a good look. And
Speaker 3: any president i've seen sit in this chair. Just when
Speaker 3: I see an old man sitting in a chair like that,
Speaker 3: I just think they must depede on it a lot.
Speaker 3: It's like that weird golden shower color. I'm not supposed
Speaker 3: to mention that when we're talking, Trunk. I'm sorry, back
Speaker 3: to Trump's words, forget about my observations.
Speaker 2: We're helping, and we're helping NATO, but we're helping a
Speaker 2: lot more than anybody else by far, and.
Speaker 4: I want that to stop. Well, so you're having Jeff Cohea,
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. You talked about Trey Tariff this morning
Speaker 4: on your side. Just a question about China. Ten Terriff
Speaker 4: has already been implemented on China. Are you thinning to
Speaker 4: do a tent above this will be an additional tent
Speaker 4: above it?
Speaker 7: And is there from the talks with Canada and Mexico
Speaker 7: so far?
Speaker 4: Are you not seeing the progress that you wanted in order?
Speaker 4: I don't see it at all now. Not on drugs.
Speaker 4: We've done a great job.
Speaker 2: If you look at Tom Holman, he's been incredible and Christie.
Speaker 2: They've done a great job in terms of the border,
Speaker 2: but the drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds.
Speaker 4: Of thousands of people.
Speaker 2: We're losing substantially more than one hundred thousand people. I
Speaker 2: mean they're dead. The families are destroyed after that happened.
Speaker 4: So it's you know, it's not just that that's.
Speaker 2: The ultimate, but the families are absolutely destroyed. The drugs
Speaker 2: come in through they come a lot of them, not
Speaker 2: all of them, but a lot of them.
Speaker 4: Come from China. And that's why we did that ten.
Speaker 4: It's ten plus ten. Okay, was there confusion on that?
Speaker 4: There was? Okay, ten plus ten. It's a second ten.
Speaker 2: And I think you'll I think you're going to see eventually,
Speaker 2: you're going to see drug stopping because the country should
Speaker 2: not be allowing those drugs to come into.
Speaker 4: The United States of American. We're not going to allow
Speaker 4: it to happen.
Speaker 2: So that goes on on the fourth of March and
Speaker 2: then on the second of April.
Speaker 4: We have reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 2: That's reciprocal where we charge countries what they're charging us,
Speaker 2: and nobody should have a problem with that.
Speaker 4: We have reciprocal and it's reciprocity.
Speaker 2: It's something that I think everybody I've spoken to said
Speaker 2: that's fair, and it is. If somebody charges us twenty
Speaker 2: five percent, we charge them twenty five. If somebody charges
Speaker 2: us ten or fifteen or thirty or seventy, we charge
Speaker 2: them an exact.
Speaker 4: Like him out. And it's pretty simple.
Speaker 2: But it's reciprocal tariffs because the United States has been
Speaker 2: taken advantage of by many, many different countries, including our friends,
Speaker 2: Friend and Voe, and in many cases our friends took
Speaker 2: bigger advantage of And when you talk about the EU,
Speaker 2: we're talking about the EU. The EU has been really
Speaker 2: very bad to us in terms of trade, and I'm
Speaker 2: a different kind of a president.
Speaker 4: I can't let that happen.
Speaker 2: Thanks you, what would you be willing to do?
Speaker 4: I mean, prison did not stick to the terms of
Speaker 4: any deal on Ukraine. Do you know why he did
Speaker 4: not stick to the terms of any deal on Ukraine?
Speaker 4: Because he's actual of not sticking to his word when
Speaker 4: it comes to international team. I think I'll keep his word.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's I've spoken to him, I've
Speaker 2: known him for a long time.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: You know, we had we had to go through the
Speaker 4: Russian hooks together. It was not a good thing. It's
Speaker 4: not fair. I was a rigged deal that had nothing
Speaker 4: to do with Russia. It was a rigged deal with
Speaker 4: then in the country, and they had to put up
Speaker 4: with them too.
Speaker 2: They put up with a wizard just as they important.
Speaker 4: And I think you will. I don't believe you're going
Speaker 4: to violate his word. I don't think he'll be back
Speaker 4: when we make it a big deal. I think the
Speaker 4: deal is going to hold. No, they're going to have
Speaker 4: more security. You're gonna have security, You're going to have
Speaker 4: more soldiers. I know France wants to be these the
Speaker 4: president has said he wants to have soldiers, and I
Speaker 4: don't think we're going to even be necessary.
Speaker 2: But I don't think there'll be any problem with keeping
Speaker 2: the deal with the security.
Speaker 8: You want to say something, I was just going to say,
Speaker 8: I mean, the deal, if we get it, is going
Speaker 8: to be hugely important. I don't think it would have
Speaker 8: happened if the space hadn't been created for it by yourself.
Speaker 4: But if there's a deal in we've got to make
Speaker 4: sure it's a deal that.
Speaker 8: Lasts, that is not temporary, that lasts, And that's why
Speaker 8: we need to make sure that it's secure. And we've
Speaker 8: lent in and said we'll play out part, and we've talked,
Speaker 8: and we will talk about.
Speaker 3: Have you ever voted any other president being praised by
Speaker 3: everybody who sits in the room, and they always look
Speaker 3: to make sure that he's giving that tight lip knot
Speaker 3: of approval when everybody praises him only because of your efforts,
Speaker 3: mister president, only because of your greatness, mister president, only
Speaker 3: because of it was almost a surprise that he said,
Speaker 3: we're being given a respect, an honor for the country,
Speaker 3: being invited by the King of England. Also, I'm not
Speaker 3: impressed by the bloodline of the King of England. The
Speaker 3: Germans have taken over Britain as the royal familyer weird
Speaker 3: situation and no, no, no, Queen Carmela Carmela Parker bowls right,
Speaker 3: Carmela Kamala, Carmela Kamala. No, that was the chicken that
Speaker 3: ran for president terribly here, tremendously hugely. You got to
Speaker 3: use those words. There you go, This is a white
Speaker 3: man using the word hugely. It's almost as good as
Speaker 3: me saying tremendously. But people never heard it like that before,
Speaker 3: So it's a new thing.
Speaker 4: They got to get aware of it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, how we work with yourself, mister president, to ensure
Speaker 9: that this deal is something which is not far later,
Speaker 9: because it's very important if there is a deal, we
Speaker 9: keep that.
Speaker 3: You ever seen world leaders press and every cabinet of
Speaker 3: Vidual has to keep turning to him, go yes, you're included.
Speaker 3: Of course, very interesting since he's been a billionaire now
Speaker 3: they all do that, not criticizing it, just saying it's
Speaker 3: very interesting.
Speaker 4: And I think I can say that will be the
Speaker 4: easy part.
Speaker 2: That's the part we look forward to, because putting security there,
Speaker 2: that's the part we all look forward to.
Speaker 4: That's easy. The difficult part is getting the deal made.
Speaker 4: So but I think we've come along with did you
Speaker 4: have something else?
Speaker 2: Have such a he's got such a nice face, he's smiling.
Speaker 4: Radio radio. The kids told them. Because you're both from
Speaker 4: different physical backgrounds, it's true. I think.
Speaker 2: I can say this because we've known each other now
Speaker 2: really for a little while.
Speaker 4: This is not our first meeting. As you know. Uh,
Speaker 4: he loves his.
Speaker 2: Country and so do I. That's our common our common theme.
Speaker 2: He loves his country and I love our country. And
Speaker 2: we also have two countries that have gotten along for
Speaker 2: the longest period of time number number one, ally on
Speaker 2: each side.
Speaker 4: And we have good France and Australia. We have a
Speaker 4: lot of good ones.
Speaker 2: But we've had a long time relationship, a long time,
Speaker 2: hundreds of years, and we like each other frankly, and
Speaker 2: we like each.
Speaker 4: Other's country and we love our country. And I think
Speaker 4: that's our common thread. They like me, I like them.
Speaker 4: You know, it's all good because we're all and that's
Speaker 4: how we get along. Under said with China, you went,
Speaker 4: I'm the independent. Well that's good.
Speaker 10: It's on tiff. He just says, he charged down. He
Speaker 10: charged down as a he charged China. But the tariffs
Speaker 10: are paid eventually by American importers and consumers know that.
Speaker 4: No, I think they're paid for it by the country.
Speaker 4: But you know, look, we can get into that.
Speaker 2: I had I put a lot of tariffs on in
Speaker 2: my first terran and we made tremendous amounts of progress
Speaker 2: because of those tariffs. U and China paid US hundreds
Speaker 2: of billions of Dallas villions.
Speaker 4: We never had a because they took advantage. And President
Speaker 4: she's a friend.
Speaker 2: Of mine, but he know he knows better than anybody
Speaker 2: took advantage of our country.
Speaker 4: He took advantage of presidents that didn't know what they
Speaker 4: were doing.
Speaker 3: And see now I'm starting to turn this down because
Speaker 3: you know, he's never been influenced and the Wini dogs
Speaker 3: are going to maze, but he's never been influenced by
Speaker 3: the cars. Carl Sagan, you know, model.
Speaker 4: Of billions and billions and billions and billions, like he
Speaker 4: used to say on TV.
Speaker 3: Anybody remember Carl Sagan, you know when people watched educational TV.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it is what it is, right, folks, it is
Speaker 3: what it is. We are all along for the ride.
Speaker 3: And after all, this is certainly Trump and his supporter's world.
Speaker 3: And let's just see how well they do with it
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