WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:09.560 Good evening and welcome to the first ever of twenty 2 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.240 twenty six edition of The Cajun Night Live. I am 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.079 your host, the Cajun Knight, Jacob Mook. Y'all, I do 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.559 want to thank everybody for giving me the grace to 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.280 take a two week break, because on one week it 6 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.199 was New year Christmas Eve and on the next week 7 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.239 it was New Year's Eve, both of which I was, 8 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:31.120 you know, out of pocket, honestly, but I want to 9 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.119 thank everybody for sticking with the Cajun Night and making 10 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.439 this show what it has become. I thoroughly enjoy our 11 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.600 Wednesday night chit chats, you know, and boy oh boy, 12 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.000 what a time to take a little break ski you know, 13 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.280 I honestly did not if you would have asked me 14 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.359 what my BEINGO card looked like for the last two weeks, 15 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.960 I wouldn't have had on there that America was going 16 00:00:54.039 --> 00:01:00.159 to remove a person in power from a country and 17 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.560 have had the fact that America acknowledges that it's all 18 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.159 about the oil. That's all it's ever been about, which 19 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.359 props for the honesty, but also it's not the best look. 20 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:13.640 But I mean, I get it. I get it, and 21 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.799 depending on who you ask, the whole situation in Venezuela 22 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:22.000 is actually more of a connection to Russia in China, 23 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.599 and or they'll say it's a connection to the illegal 24 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.760 drug trafficking. It depends on the source, depends on who 25 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.079 you ask to be honest with you. I do find 26 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:37.959 it interesting that they had Chinese officials in Venezuela who 27 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:43.239 just had a meeting with Maduro while this situation unfolded, 28 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.439 like they're having the weirdest work trip ever. Real shit, 29 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:48.159 they went there to go meet with the leader of 30 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.640 this nation. Dude's not even there anymore. And I've heard 31 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.040 a lot of people have a lot of different opinions 32 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.680 about the snatch and grab, if you will. Some say 33 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.040 America had no right, he had no con congressional approval. 34 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:03.920 Yet no presidents had congressional approval to do pretty much 35 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:06.760 anything since World War Two, so that that right off 36 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.520 the rip. That's a really that's a silly argument to make. 37 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.840 I've heard people say that they had no right to 38 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:18.159 do this because he wasn't actually hurting anybody. And typically 39 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.039 this argument is coming from the bleeding heart liberals. If 40 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.840 you look at Venezuela days after the snatch and grab. 41 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.919 There was hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people 42 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.439 in the streets celebrating. There was I'm not gonna say 43 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:34.560 that was a one hundred percent rule. There was obviously 44 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.719 some people who were big fans of Maduro, and there's 45 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.680 also people that were huge fans of Hugo Chavez. But 46 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.120 you gotta understand, this is the minority of the country. 47 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.120 The vast majority of the country were not fans of Chavez. 48 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.840 It's pretty much anybody who's ever lived under a communist 49 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:53.719 or socialist regime are typically not fans of the regime 50 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.800 unless they had some family member high at the top 51 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.479 and they were getting hooked up on the back end. 52 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.599 What I didn't know up until recently was that Maduro 53 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.719 actually had no background in politics. He had no background 54 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.520 as a military executive or general or anything like that. 55 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.159 He was Hugo Chavez's bus driver. That Maduro's real only 56 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.560 connection to the tippy top of all of this. So 57 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:23.439 Hugo Chavez got elected in three oh four two. Maybe 58 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.759 I forget the years on this, but he ran for 59 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.120 a bit and at first it seemed like perhaps he 60 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.639 might do well for Venezuela. They had a booming economy, 61 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.560 they used to be a food exporter. For the last 62 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.280 over a decade they have been a food importer because 63 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.479 they started having state sponsors and state run farms and 64 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.919 state run mines and state run oil, and like, that's 65 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.319 never gonna work. Socialism and communism simply don't work. The 66 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:52.080 math is the math on this. It doesn't work. So 67 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.840 Chavez did everything in his power to run the country 68 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.439 into the ground and make as much money on the 69 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.280 back and as he could. Then he died, which fair, okay. 70 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.919 Then Maduro came into power, and at least the people 71 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:08.000 were they had hope that perhaps this guy who was 72 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.759 kind of outside of the system but was still inside 73 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.840 the system, perhaps he was going to do well for them. 74 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.399 I don't know how many people have friends in Venezuela 75 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.319 or who have lived in Venezuela in the last decade. 76 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.720 The people did not get down on Maduro. I know 77 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.879 multiple people who had to wait in line for hours 78 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.199 for half a loaf of moldy bread and that was 79 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.360 the only food ration they were getting from the government 80 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:35.160 that week, or they were waiting to get these food 81 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.319 deliveries to their front door, and all but maybe one 82 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.639 or two can goods would all be expired, and like 83 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.560 that was just it. You were left to deal with it. 84 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.480 They have been in a starvation crisis, they have been 85 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.839 in a humanitarian crisis for years and years and years. 86 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.839 So the people, the people in Venezuela are not exactly 87 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.040 crying over the loss of Maduro the bus driver turned Presidente. 88 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.519 That being said, I also think it's funny that, as 89 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.360 we have all these other conflicts going on around the 90 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:10.319 world right thirty five minutes is all it took to 91 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.360 shut down all of their air defense systems, which are 92 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.680 the same air defense systems used by both Russia and 93 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.079 Ukraine right now. Both of them are using these air 94 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:23.120 defense systems, and a basic growler was able to take 95 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.279 all of that out and bypass it. I also think 96 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.040 it's really funny that we were petty enough to bomb 97 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:34.319 the resting place and museum of Hugo Chavez. I thought 98 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.519 that was beautiful. That's a little extra, little extra insult 99 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.519 to injury just to be a dick. I like that. 100 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:44.079 That's cost that's good things. But then thirty five minutes 101 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.800 is all it took to go in grab him and 102 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.560 his wife, Which that's gonna be interesting. We could talk 103 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.839 about that as well, and then get out of Dodge 104 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.920 in Land in New York. Now, the fact that they 105 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.639 took the wife, this is something that's very interesting to me. Typically, 106 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.800 when there is a coup, a regime change, something along 107 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.360 these lines, they would not take the wife with him. 108 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.560 She might be seen as a innocent casualty or quote 109 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.920 unquote something along these lines. When it's all said and done, 110 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.560 they don't take her with the guy. That's never happened. 111 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.199 Some are speculating, and I'm leaning more this direction. As 112 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.959 of this moment, maduro knew what the time was. He 113 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.120 knew that this was gonna be coming here in the net. 114 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.639 He may not have known the day or the hour, 115 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.839 but he knew that his time was up. And I 116 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:37.920 think that he low key tried cutting a deal with America, 117 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.240 not to the terms of witness protection or something like that, 118 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.199 but I think that he knew that they were coming 119 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.560 to get him, so he tried to get ahead of 120 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.279 it and make himself the best deal possible for when 121 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.240 he got to the US. Now, also keep in mind, 122 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.920 he's been under indictment in the US since twenty twenty. 123 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.160 He's under indictment under a handful of countries. It was 124 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.480 on the FBI's most wanted list, Like the whole thing. 125 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.360 You can't just take a president yet we could, we could, 126 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.439 We did, We totally did that. But he keep in mind, 127 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:11.399 if they would have just been going after a bag 128 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.879 and tag of this guy himself. Could you imagine if 129 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.920 we did this with Saddam? Could you imagine if we 130 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.600 just sidestep twenty years of conflict in thousands of view 131 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.319 offs lives and just came and snatched him up. This 132 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:28.120 potentially is what just took place in Venezuela. Now now 133 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:32.240 goes to the next part. Regime changes are not kind, 134 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.920 they're not fun, they're not pretty. The opposition leader, let's 135 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.959 just call it the opposition in totality in Venezuela. They 136 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.480 have been ran very similarly to the Democratic Party in 137 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.519 America for the last few years. It's incompetence. They don't 138 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.920 have anybody that's a really strong candidate that could take 139 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.040 the reins and run with it. Yeah, you've got the 140 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.519 woman that just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and she's great. 141 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.519 I did some digging into her. She's awesome as a 142 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.399 brilliant mind, not as a state leader. Right, there's different 143 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.959 levels to this. It's like Einstein was a brilliant mind. 144 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.959 I don't think he would have done well as a 145 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.759 prime minister of a nation. This is different levels of 146 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 different calibers of mental capacity if you catch them a drift. 147 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.680 So for the opposition to Maduro their force chav as 148 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.000 a regime to take over in Venezuela right now, that's 149 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:27.480 gonna be very, very very difficult. Now cut two. Venezuela 150 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:32.279 has used to have a thriving agriculture. They no longer do. 151 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:36.360 They used to have a thriving industry. They can they 152 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.799 can produce oil. They have refineries, they have you know, 153 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.480 facilities to be able to get them back up and running. 154 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.240 These have fallen mainly into disrepair. There's a few refineries 155 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.159 that are still operating, but it is not what it 156 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.440 once was. Right and now I've also heard people say, oh, well, 157 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.320 if America is going in for the oil. We talked 158 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.080 about this last night on The Cult Live. As a 159 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:00.360 matter of fact, that's that's called like sour crude. You know, 160 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:04.279 sixty percent of the refineries in America are capable of 161 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.399 refining sour crude. That's not that big of a deal. Honestly, 162 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.080 it seems like it's a lot more difficult than it 163 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.360 actually is. It's no big deal. We can handle that. 164 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.279 We got the facilities, we got the manufacturing capabilities, we 165 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:23.279 got it. That being said, Venezuela is primarily jungle, right, 166 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.559 It's primarily some some deep wilderness which is solid. It's 167 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:28.759 good for them, love it to death all the things. 168 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.240 There is two main railways in and out of the country, 169 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:37.639 two main tunnels, and long story short, this is prime 170 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:42.080 real estate for some guerrilla warfare to take place. Now, 171 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.559 I am not saying that this is absolutely going to 172 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:48.240 play out this way, but if history is going to 173 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.360 be teaching us anything, it would lead us to assume 174 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:55.120 that where there's a power vacuum, someone's going to step up. 175 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:59.320 And America if we wanted to really get involved, if 176 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.960 we really we really wanted to get involved in Venezuela 177 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.759 and try to get it back to its former glory 178 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.559 or something that we can play ball with. The estimates 179 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.240 that I've looked at are saying that it will take 180 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.399 at least twenty years and at least two hundred billion 181 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:16.120 dollars worth of infrastructure for us to like make them 182 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.639 a quote unquote first world nation that we could play 183 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.759 ball with. We're not really interested in doing that. I 184 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.480 don't think so anyway, God, I hope not so. I 185 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.200 think what we're gonna try to do is bankroll the 186 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.600 whoever the new leader is and just kind of hope 187 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:33.960 for the best. But turmoil is also good for business 188 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.120 and as long as it keeps our adversaries out of 189 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.759 that area. And by adversaries, it's sure China rush I'm 190 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.840 saying adversaries, and a very broad term here. It could 191 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.720 be any bricks nation, it could be it could be China. 192 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.879 Who cares. Who cares, doesn't matter. As long as the 193 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.879 turmoil is so bad that it keeps our adversaries out 194 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.480 of Venezuela, then I think we call that an inherent win, 195 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.039 and they'll take it. They'll take the lowercase W even 196 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.159 if it's not the upper case that they wanted. A 197 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.879 neutral is still a dub in the American books as 198 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:08.679 of this moment. That being said, this is very tumultuous 199 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:12.159 times for Venezuela in the short term future. If we 200 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:15.440 could bankroll, even if it's just their agricultural right, even 201 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.200 just to get their farms back up and running, to 202 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.720 produce enough food to feed their own people. Strictly, I'll 203 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.000 take that as a win. Yeah, there's gonna be some 204 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.120 cartels that take over certain areas. Yeah, there's gonna be 205 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.080 some gorilla fighting that takes place in some jungles cut too. 206 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.240 I don't know how many. If you ever saw the 207 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.039 Avatar movie, the James Cameron Avatar, the Blue People, all 208 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.039 the things, if you remember Jake Sully lost his ability 209 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:44.120 to walk in Venezuela during a resource war, take that 210 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.919 to whatever level of conspiratorial thoughts you need to go to. 211 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:50.039 But my point is, yeah, this is a This is 212 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.519 gonna be some thick bush. This is gonna be some real, 213 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.879 true blue gorilla fighting. I don't think America wants to 214 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.279 get involved in it, could we? Or are we? Are we? Sure? Yeah? 215 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.000 But I don't think we would see that as an 216 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.960 inherent benefit to get involved in that way, especially if 217 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:10.559 what we could do is prop up a government, give 218 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.279 it some bankroll, give it some funding, give them some 219 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.080 agricultural help, maybe some militarily help whenever they need it 220 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.720 from time to time. Possibly we'll see, and then just 221 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.679 kind of let the chips fall where they may. That's 222 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.399 a whole lot better than a twenty year failed occupation 223 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.840 like we had in the Middle East. Then again, Venezuela 224 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.639 and South America as a whole is very different from 225 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.240 the Middle East for so many different reasons culturally and 226 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.879 everything else. But all right, let's as I've gone on 227 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.759 this long diet, try we're gonna get to everything and 228 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.879 break it down even further. But first, Sam, the spirit 229 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.799 animal hand, raise what you got, big dog. 230 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.639 Not to get in callduty Ghosts of the capital of 231 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.720 the Federation is parts of Venezuela. And you actually and 232 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.399 in that mission, you actually go after a high value 233 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:03.200 target and you you So we're officially on the call 234 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:04.480 of Duty ghost timeline. 235 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.799 And I'm here, is that call of Duty Ghosts? Is 236 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.679 that supposed to be futuristic or is that supposed to 237 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:11.320 be modern day? 238 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.000 So at the time it came out, like twenty twelve, 239 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.440 twenty thirteen or whatever, it takes place in the twenty 240 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:22.000 point in the twenty twenties America America and goes to 241 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.360 war with the Federation, which is all of Latin America, 242 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.759 and the head of it is Venezuela. 243 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.960 And it's it's a really good. 244 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.679 Gang though what it was set up for a sequel, 245 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.480 though it never got the sequel that it should. But 246 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.279 the campaign was really good because like it's not America 247 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.960 getst Russia or like you're in the sandbox anymore. 248 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.159 It's you're on the home front. 249 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.240 America got invaded, and we actually had the LOCI system, 250 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:50.840 which the. 251 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.559 Bottom of God actually we built it in again. And 252 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:58.759 the first mission is you're in space. 253 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.559 You're ahead of that that space station and it gets 254 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.519 attacked by the Federation and they use it and they 255 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.360 attack they use it in Clipple, California, and then that's 256 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:09.320 a full on invasion. 257 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.720 Wow. Okay, Hey, maybe there's a little bit of some 258 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.240 predictive programming. Maybe they had some insider knowledge. Maybe they 259 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.320 just knew that eventually Venezuela was gonna fall and we 260 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:19.919 were going to be there in the first I don't know, 261 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:21.000 but that's interesting. 262 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:26.840 But as interesting as you go after like the second 263 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:32.679 most important guy of the Federation in the castle as 264 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.480 the t A r a Caracas, Venezuela. 265 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.159 Yeah, I don't they're capital city, Caracas. Yeah. 266 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:46.799 Yeah, it's just fascinating how we just went to Venezuela. 267 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:51.600 But yet we took the high value targeting goes like 268 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:52.440 twelve years ago. 269 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:52.879 Ships. 270 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.600 Yeah, this is this is very wild times and once 271 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.360 again here I was just taking a little Chris Smith's 272 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:04.200 New Year's break from doing Cajun Night on Wednesday nights 273 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.440 because like, they fell on holidays and I was out 274 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.039 of town and all of these things. Boy oh boy, 275 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:14.440 I really really really did not expect this to go 276 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.919 off in the way that it did. But here we are, 277 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.600 here we are you know what, Let's go ahead and 278 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.080 check the chat at this time, and for anybody listening, 279 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:23.799 if you would like to be a part of the conversation, 280 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.039 go to the link in the description below to patreon 281 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.320 dot com slash Cajun Night. There's only one tier for entry. 282 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:31.759 We try to grow this thing to become the information 283 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.960 sharing Wednesday Nights sit down that it has become. I 284 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:36.919 thoroughly enjoy it. I think all the members of the 285 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.679 retinue do as well. And as you know, we post 286 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.120 these episodes on the Cult of Conspiracy on every Thursday, 287 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.399 So if you'd like to be a part of the conversation, 288 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.279 come check us out there. Yoked Yd shared a video 289 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.000 We're gonna pull that up in a bit talking about 290 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:54.919 the Minnesota ice agent situation. Tony says ice agent in 291 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.559 the wrong and Okay, so I haven't seen the video yet. 292 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.200 I saw one where it looks like the one was 293 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.039 clearly trying to run the dude over, But we're gonna 294 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.120 get to that towards the end of the episode for sure, 295 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.320 So I would love to hear everybody's take on that 296 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.039 when the time comes. Tony also says poly Market is 297 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.559 betting an attack on Iran. Same for the record. Some 298 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.559 guy recently assassinated in Iran. I don't know which guy. 299 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.120 I heard things, but it's like the sources that I 300 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.919 heard it from, I don't know how verified they are, 301 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.759 so like, was this just a dude or was this 302 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:25.720 a high ranking government official? I don't know. 303 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:28.399 It seemed like a lower ranking guy. But he was 304 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.840 driving a BMW and there's video of the assassin pulling 305 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.360 up on the left of him and shooting into the 306 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.240 end of the driver and then he just kind of 307 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.039 floors it and goes off the road and then the 308 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.799 video ends. I forget the name of the guy, I'll 309 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:42.440 find it for you. 310 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.639 Yeah, Iran's in a little bit of some turmoil right now, 311 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.919 and it's not against the Ayatola and it's not against 312 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.480 the government. It depends on which which protest you talk to, 313 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.200 They have very different reasons as to why they're protesting, 314 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.840 but they're not too thrilled with the leadership structure as 315 00:16:58.840 --> 00:16:59.440 of this moment. 316 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.880 Yeah, there's water crisis, there's lots of different ethnic groups. 317 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.599 There's a city called Obdenan that's allegedly seceding, but I 318 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.000 don't believe it. I give it like ninety percent chance 319 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.559 the regime survives. But yeah, there's an in polymarket. There 320 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:17.799 was one guy who made four hundred thousand dollars from 321 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.359 betting that Maduro would be abducted, and he made four 322 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.079 hundred thousand dollars. And there's another account that bet on 323 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.200 the exact day that Israel would strike Iran back in June. 324 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:33.480 That's now betting that Israel will strike Iran by January thirty. First. 325 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.799 Then they've put like tens of thousands of dollars on it, 326 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.440 and everyone's noticed, and the account has changed its name too, 327 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.799 but too late people already noticed. 328 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:44.519 I mean, it checks out if you were going to 329 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.440 strike Iran, right, not for the nuclear capabilities, the strikes 330 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.240 into the bunkers and things like that. At least that 331 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.279 made sense as of this moment. If you're trying to 332 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.119 cripple the country, right now would be the moment, like 333 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:58.279 that window is going to be closing here in the 334 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.319 next few weeks. But right now is that golden window 335 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:04.559 where if you're really trying to cripple Iran, you would 336 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:06.720 move now. Now, I'm not saying Israel will, I'm not 337 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.599 saying America will. Will it be a co op who's 338 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.519 to say, But now I think I think there's a 339 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.680 pretty strong claim to be made as far as somebody 340 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.319 attacking Iran as of this moment. Hell, if this is 341 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.559 the year of the yoinkining, if America is gonna start 342 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.119 yoinking leaders they don't like, I don't. I don't think 343 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:28.960 it would be the smartest decision to yank the Ayahtola. 344 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.759 That would start a religious situation that I don't think 345 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.880 anybody really wants. But at the same time, I'm also 346 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:36.559 on board with it. I'm not the biggest fan of 347 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.759 him as a person, the Prime Minister of Iran, he's 348 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.559 you know, every few years they get a new one, 349 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:46.400 and it's it seems like they are. It varies. Some 350 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.960 of them seem to be rather competent, some of them 351 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.119 seem to be family members with somebody, the same as 352 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.599 American politics. It depends on the administration. Some are okay, 353 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.200 some aren't. It is what it is. But yeah, I 354 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:00.920 don't know. I who's to say, honestly. 355 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.279 Yeah, by the way, marry Christmas to Russian Orthodox and 356 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.960 Greek Orthodox. It's December twenty fifth over there. Their calendar 357 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.240 is way behind behind us. You covered a couple of 358 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:13.680 weeks ago. 359 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:17.359 Yeah, I remember hearing about that last now in the 360 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.759 live January sixth is the Russian Christmas And that's not Russia, 361 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.359 the country that's Russian Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox. 362 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:27.519 Correct, Yeah, they're the liturgical calendar. It's December twenty fifth 363 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:29.039 over there as far as they're concerned. 364 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.039 Wow. Yeah, So yeah, marry Merry Christmas to any of 365 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:35.920 the people listening to the Cajun Night in Russia or 366 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.599 any of the countries that celebrate Eastern Orthodoxy. Mary, Merry 367 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:43.680 Christmas to y'all. Fuck yeah, let's see just an episode 368 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:46.880 over DIEGLOCKI Sam. We are gonna be doing one on 369 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:48.920 the cult here soon. We were going to, but then 370 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.359 so many things got booked up in the in the 371 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.680 median of that. But yes, Raven Lee and I am 372 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:55.960 going to be doing a DIGLOCKI episode here soon. 373 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:57.200 That's cool. 374 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:01.240 Like, I just did my first episode ever, a recording 375 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:05.759 of Zoom of my own on my new laptop. It's 376 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:09.839 not a long episode, but I it's something that I've 377 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:11.039 been obsessed. 378 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:12.640 With since I was like between the ages of ten 379 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:18.160 and twelve. I love wonder Wattin's I love the insanity 380 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:21.640 of it all and the fact that they actually tested it, 381 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:22.920 like the design and anything. 382 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:28.400 It is actually and fundamentally a very fucking aerodynamic like 383 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.240 it's one of the best desigest yeah and everything. 384 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:33.599 We're gonna be dropping an episode one it probably in 385 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:36.519 the next couple of weeks for sure. So superstoked. 386 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:41.160 Please, because I really would like your y'all the thought 387 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.039 process and actually was gonna have y'all come on and 388 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:49.240 do an episode over with me. What was my idea? 389 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.079 I just did a small one today. 390 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.359 Hell yeah, we'll schedule that out man. Also, not to 391 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.759 sidestep Tony your comment about Venezuela and Russian ships stolen 392 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:00.400 by the US and the North Atlanta, I have an 393 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:02.240 article pulled up on that. We will be talking about 394 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.359 that here in a minute, for sure, for sure. Also, 395 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:08.640 Tony says Madua was popular enough, and attack only tends 396 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:12.079 to make people support their leader. More of these poum 397 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:17.559 potumpkin celebrations don't prove anything. Ah, when you say this, 398 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:19.359 you don't have to break this one down for me, dude. 399 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:21.599 The most generous polls that I could find say that 400 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.480 he had twenty percent support in the country, and there 401 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.880 is huh oh. 402 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:28.839 Yeah, I haven't heard that, but I am aware that 403 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:32.079 a lot of these videos being posted are of protests 404 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:35.640 or celebrations that happened months and months ago, or they're 405 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.599 from different countries like Chile. Maybe some of them are 406 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:43.119 in Venezuela. But also if somebody removed Trump or Biden, 407 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:46.240 whoever's president, half of this country would celebrate, So you 408 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:48.160 would see the celebration. You're not going to see the 409 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:52.240 people staying home quite so much. So I personally don't 410 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.599 believe that Madua was super unpopular and we've really liberated 411 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.000 the people. I think we're seeing the minority come out. 412 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.880 That may be true, but the majority of the country 413 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.000 is starving and has been for a decade. Like that's 414 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.079 not like a hot take. There's real statistics to back 415 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:13.160 that claim. And you could put that all towards the 416 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.880 state because there is a socialist nation, So whatever the 417 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.640 figurehead of the socialist nation would be, they'd be the 418 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:20.759 one that where the buck stops. Sure you can blame 419 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.480 different members of the administration or whatever, but it all 420 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:27.359 falls to Maduro essentially. Right now. That being said, the 421 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:30.920 celebrations that I'm seeing are from content creators in Venezuela 422 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.960 that are doing live footage, not from months ago or 423 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.559 weeks ago, there at the protests and at the celebrations 424 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.559 as they're playing out, and it's I'm not gonna say 425 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:44.799 a million people. I will say realistically, hundreds of thousands 426 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.759 of people are celebrating in Venezuela and still are right now, 427 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:50.160 So I mean, I take that for what it's worth. 428 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:53.279 I see what you're saying that. Absolutely propaganda is a thing, 429 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.079 and there's tons of videos that are circulating right now 430 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.119 that are old and all these things. But you gotta 431 00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:59.599 know where to look. And I'm not saying that I 432 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:01.960 have some of an inside scoop, No, it's just you 433 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.400 can find content creators in Venezuela that are posting them 434 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.039 like going live at the protests and at the celebrations 435 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.079 and things, and it's it is wild Meanwhile, the only 436 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:14.279 people that I can really see protesting this are around 437 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:17.319 New York City, these bleeding heart communist folks that like 438 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.559 don't actually understand what it's like to live under a 439 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:22.599 communist regime. It's like talking to a Cuban that lived 440 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:25.519 under Castro who made it to America. None of them 441 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.000 are fans of communism. Any human being that's ever lived 442 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:31.240 under communism and then makes it to a capitalist nation 443 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:35.640 never has one positive thing to say about communism or socialism, 444 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:39.279 or Marxism or any of these things. But to that point, 445 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:42.200 Venezuela does have a lot of resources. They have a 446 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.480 lot of manpower. They can get themselves back on track, 447 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:48.839 and the people want to be there. It's not like, 448 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.279 you know, the Venezuelan people are lazy and they only 449 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.640 want to make an eight hour work week and they 450 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:56.599 want someone else to handle their problems for them. None 451 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.000 of the Venezuelan people are some hard workers. They have 452 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:01.759 no problem reading building their country in the correct way. 453 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.839 They need somebody to lead them and to give them 454 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:09.000 the direction. I don't know of any as of this 455 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.039 moment that are ready to step into that role. They 456 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.039 may have them, they may have a solid group of 457 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.400 ten to fifteen people that could be the front runner 458 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:18.200 in the next election. I just if you were to 459 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:20.160 say one of the names, I don't feel like any 460 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.319 of us would know about them because they have been 461 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.039 so repressed and by the former administrations. I don't know, 462 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:30.440 but uh yeah, when you said Potumpkin celebrations, is that 463 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.599 that's a new word for me? 464 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.440 What is this, oh, Potempkin. It has to do with 465 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:39.200 these tours that would be given to tourists in the 466 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.960 Soviet Union in the thirties and the twenties, and they 467 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:43.799 would be shown a village, and the village would be 468 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:47.519 called a Potempkin village. Potempkin is a last name in Russian. 469 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.640 I don't know if it's referring to a twentieth century 470 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:53.720 Potempkin or there was a famous one under Catherine the Great. 471 00:24:54.799 --> 00:25:00.599 But the Potempkin village was just basically a theater that 472 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:05.559 made everything look prosperous, whereas if you looked at real 473 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:08.680 life anywhere else in ninety nine percent of the country, 474 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:13.720 it was much more impoverished. So Potempkin kind of became 475 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:20.000 an adjective for any pr propaganda, you know, surface level 476 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:25.599 appearance that's contrived okay, and yeah, just so you don't 477 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:28.279 need to read my other comments, I was saying, this 478 00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:30.599 is a little like there were celebrations when the US 479 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.200 overthrew SADDAMU saying in two thousand and three, and I 480 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:35.839 remember pulling down a statue and that was all over TV. 481 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:39.079 But it's hard to capture what everyone's thinking. And in 482 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:42.359 World War Two, whenever the Germans or the Americans or 483 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.680 the Russians would invade a town or city, there would 484 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:48.160 there would always be a parade because the people there 485 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.359 just saying, look, please don't hurt us. And you're only 486 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:54.400 seeing supporters come out and the people who are not 487 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.400 in support are staying home. There's that, and one other 488 00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:02.440 one last comment. I'm amazed that the helicopters didn't get 489 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.799 shot down. There must have been stand down orders or something. 490 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.839 And I'm not ruling out the probability that there were 491 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:13.039 people around Maduro who wanted him gone, within the communist 492 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:17.920 allegedly Venezuelan government, and otherwise, it doesn't really take that 493 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.319 much technology to shoot down a helicopter. Afghans were doing 494 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:24.599 it forty years ago. I'm sure they got the weapons, 495 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:27.480 but there must have been stand down orders. So I'm 496 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.440 looking forward to learning about those conspiracies. I think their 497 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.359 vice president, Delsi Rodriguez is kind of in charge or 498 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:35.640 pretending to be in charge, and pretend nobody's making in 499 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:39.039 drastic moves right now. But yeah, that's all I gotta Yeah, 500 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:40.240 that's all I have to say about that. 501 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:42.480 So let's break all this down. As far as the 502 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.240 when Saddam was removed from power and the people were 503 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.400 celebrating in the streets, I personally know marines that were 504 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:51.319 on the block of the statue being pulled down. That 505 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:55.759 was genuine celebration. However, it's not like a hot take 506 00:26:55.799 --> 00:27:00.680 that Saddam was a ruthless dictators. That's a very act statement. 507 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:04.200 I mean, the torture sites, the rape sites, all these 508 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:06.720 things his sons had, like these prisons where they were 509 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:09.400 doing horrible shit like that. That's a real thing. That's 510 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.880 not like a crazy conspiracy. That being said, it's not 511 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:15.119 like we had somebody in the wing that we were 512 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.640 willing to put into power over there and like boom boom, 513 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:19.839 y'all got democracy. Now we're out. The people there don't 514 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:22.799 want democracy. They it's not they're not smart enough to 515 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.279 understand it. They don't want it. They they've for generations, 516 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.119 they have never seen it as a positive thing. So like, fine, whatever. 517 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:32.160 But the people were happy that Sam was out of 518 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:35.799 power as of that moment. Now cutting to the situation Venezuela, 519 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:37.880 I see what you mean. The people that did support 520 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.480 him were staying home and it's you know, the oh, 521 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:42.839 don't shoot us, we're just celebrating. Whoever the guy with 522 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:44.839 the gun currently is. I could see where you're going 523 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.960 with that. I see that for sure. When it comes 524 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.119 to the situation with Venezuela, however, the VP, like you 525 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:54.079 had mentioned, she's there and she is claiming that she's 526 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:57.960 gonna like launch a war against America. Good fucking luck. 527 00:27:58.359 --> 00:28:02.000 First off, and second off, there were no stand down orders. 528 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:05.720 I've looked deeply into this. All of the anti air 529 00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:09.640 systems that Venezuela had were all jammed because we were 530 00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:13.240 using growlers, right, and not to mention the S two 531 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.400 hundreds and the shit what was the other one, the 532 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.680 buck buck twos I think they were called the buck ones. 533 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.720 These anti air systems they have all been using in 534 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.799 Russia and Ukraine. So what does that mean for America? 535 00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:32.640 That means that we know every frequency every system, every 536 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:35.839 thing that needs to be done to jam these radar 537 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:38.759 systems and these anti air systems we have in our 538 00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:42.039 database because we've been getting the battlefield data from Ukraine. 539 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:44.240 So when we flew in and we just shut down 540 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:46.200 their systems, we just had to tune the growler to 541 00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:48.799 that frequency, and that's it. The anti air systems are 542 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.640 basically null and void, and you could actually watch the 543 00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.079 radars at this time. I forget what it's called. The 544 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.319 system that Venezuela was using as far as there to 545 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.039 see which planes were in the sky or whatever is 546 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.559 essentially the same ones that the Weather Channel uses, and 547 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:08.960 that was like their prem improper and all the things. 548 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.279 But fine, fine, maybe that was just for the cameras. 549 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:13.079 Maybe they had something secret under the table that we 550 00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:16.680 didn't know about. Okay, sure, but even still you could 551 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.880 watch real time footage. Is how like eleven thirty all 552 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.000 the planes are in the sky, eleven thirty five pm. 553 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:26.559 The skies were empty because we had shut down all 554 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.119 of their radar systems, all their anti air systems strictly 555 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:33.640 from our own growler systems, which is solid, don't get 556 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.440 me wrong, but yeah, there was no stand doown orders 557 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:39.079 and As a matter of fact, there was multiple iglas 558 00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:41.680 that were fired up at these helicopters. There was one 559 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.599 helicopter in particular that was shot. At least some fragmentation 560 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.880 hit it, and a couple of the Delta Force operators 561 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.960 got some shrapnel in them. Nothing critical. They're all fine, 562 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.440 a little patchwork, and they're all good to go. But 563 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.000 to say that the military had a whole stand down 564 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.440 order all evidence to the contrary. It's not that they 565 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:02.359 had a stando order. It's that they're that incompetent and 566 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.400 that incapable to actually stand up against a proper military. 567 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:08.279 Venezuela doesn't have a proper military. They're ranked or they 568 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.160 were ranked what nineteenth on Earth or something like that, 569 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:13.720 and we were able to take out their main leader 570 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.720 in thirty five minutes, like you could have watched the 571 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:22.000 entire Stranger Things finale in more time than it took 572 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:24.839 for US to remove a seated position of power from 573 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.640 a sovereign nation. It's that's the American military. That's how 574 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:32.039 a proper special military operation goes down, not four years 575 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:35.119 of the meat wall tactics. But that's a conversation for later, 576 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.839 I'm sure. But yeah, so I can't find any evidence 577 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:40.720 to say that there was any stand down orders given 578 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:43.039 I can't find any evidence to say that the generals 579 00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:46.400 were cool with him leaving power because as long as 580 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.240 he was in power, they maintained their positions. They wanted 581 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.720 the generals, especially wanted Maduro to stay in power. They 582 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.920 now are out of a job, or at least they're 583 00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:58.240 terrified of losing it now at the VP, who that 584 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:02.240 woman is? Keep in mind if the bus driver was 585 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:05.680 the president, who do you think the VP is? Real? 586 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:09.039 Talk here? It's not pretty, but it's not like Venezuela 587 00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:11.920 was like the shithole of the world by any means. 588 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:13.839 There's a lot of countries that are doing far worse 589 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.279 in Venezuela. Real shit. But again, I don't believe that 590 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:19.799 this was done because of and I even made the 591 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.359 joke about how Maduro was talking that shit. You cannot 592 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.559 have that much oil and that week of a military 593 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:26.160 and talk the level of shit that you were talking. 594 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.400 That's a joke, that's ingest, right. I actually think that 595 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.519 it was a lot more connected to China, which later 596 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.559 in this episode when we talk about the drill that 597 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.440 was done around Taiwan. I think China is getting ready 598 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:42.640 to make their move, and I think America knows that, 599 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.200 and I think that America understands that we tentatively will 600 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:47.640 not be able to stop it once it happens, so 601 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.880 we realize that we need to start trying to choke 602 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.559 out China for economic points. That being said, if we 603 00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.559 look at Venezuela having more oil than Saudi Arabia by 604 00:31:58.839 --> 00:32:02.200 leaps and bounds, and more gold than the minds of Africa, 605 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:05.799 not every country, but the minds that are producing the 606 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.039 most gold in Africa, Venezuela's got more of that on 607 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:11.759 mass I think it stands to reason why America wanted 608 00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:16.119 China to not have any kind of business interests in Venezuela. 609 00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:22.119 Cut too. These Chinese foreign dignitaries were in Caracas when 610 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.200 we took Maduro in the middle of the night. They 611 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:27.680 had just finished up their meeting. So I think this 612 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.119 all ties in more towards China, and I think it 613 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.799 all ties in more towards trying to choke out Russia 614 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.119 even further with the sanctions because we sanction them, But 615 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:39.359 that only applies to countries that acknowledge the sanctions. If 616 00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:41.599 we make it to where they can't do much in 617 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:46.599 the oil field, then maybe possibly they would be a 618 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:49.079 little more willing to come to the negotiating table and 619 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:51.480 play ball. I don't know if this is gonna make 620 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.720 a fart in the winds difference as far as Putin's 621 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:56.440 concerned with the situation in Ukraine. But at least I 622 00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:59.680 could see on paper how this would this would be 623 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.960 what the administration, the current Trump administration, what their end 624 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.839 goal was as far as the abduction of a dureau, 625 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:08.160 I don't know. We will see how it plays out 626 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.599 in the next few weeks. And I have an article 627 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.039 talking about how the oil tankers that they took. One 628 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.000 was off the coast of Iceland, and then one we 629 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:19.079 took like what three Venezuelan tankers. And I will say this, 630 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.319 at least America's not being coy about the fact that 631 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.920 this is obviously about oil. They're not telling you these 632 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.599 poor Venezuelan people they needed the freedom. They you know, 633 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.200 he's a bad man. No, No, Trump's being straight up. 634 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:34.160 This is about the oil. Yeah, yeah, the people needed 635 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.920 the freedom. Yeah yeah. This is about oil and resources. 636 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.720 And I at least can appreciate the transparency on that front. 637 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.200 That's not a good look to be saying it in 638 00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.440 that manner, but I appreciate the fact that he's being 639 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:49.680 straight up. So again, we'll get to all these things 640 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.240 more in here in a moment. Going back to the 641 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.839 chat here, spirarit animal says had complications during surgery today, 642 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:58.880 have two stents in now and the tubing then forced down. Like, 643 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:02.400 oh Jesus, whoa Sam, how you feeling? Brother? 644 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:12.079 I got hit by a fucking truck. I showed wards. 645 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.119 But my uh u, look, I can't spell it, but 646 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:18.400 it was when I was coming out of the anesthesia. 647 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:21.719 It was it was so swollen it was actually keeping 648 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:26.119 me from breathing that it choked me. So the anesthesia 649 00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:28.440 was not working on me like how it should have. 650 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.639 So they had to force a tube to sit down 651 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:34.760 my throat and everything, and when they did, they completely 652 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.639 cut my ve look and it fucking hurts. 653 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.679 Yeah, and uh the. 654 00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:43.199 I was supposed to go in the day to get 655 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.199 the stint removed, but the stint was calcified and starting to, 656 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:49.440 uh like attach itself to my kidney, you know. 657 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.079 Uh No, I don't know what they did. 658 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:55.760 All I know is I woke up they told me, hey, 659 00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:57.840 can glad you have two stints in you're coming back 660 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.400 next in two weeks, and I'm like, that's. 661 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:01.679 What the fuck else said last time? 662 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.639 Sam, you are gonna stay firmly in my prayers. Brother, 663 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:08.119 good God of money, thank you. 664 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.079 I would prefer to stay the fuck out in the hospital, but. 665 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.800 Yeah, that would be that would be ideal for sure. Love. 666 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:22.920 All right, let's see getting back to the chat Royce, 667 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.800 what is this picture you shared? Hold on here, I 668 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.719 just put oil in my pan and this happened. Ah ha, Yeah, yeah, 669 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.440 I just put oil on my pan in the US 670 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:34.239 invaded because that's that's what it does. And I do 671 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.960 love the Gordon Ramsey equip that he said to that 672 00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:40.039 person on Hell's kitchen that time. There's so much fucking 673 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:42.800 oil in this pan America is getting ready to invade it. 674 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:47.559 It's like, yes, yes, I wish all bosses spoke to 675 00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:50.079 their employees the way Gordon Ramsey speaks to his chefs. 676 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:54.719 That's that's correct in my opinion. Let's see another picture 677 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:56.800 that Royce shared here. And eleven year old girl with 678 00:35:56.840 --> 00:36:00.440 Down syndrome was bullied at her school in North Massa 679 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.920 after parents and other students complained about her being in 680 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.079 the same class this week, the president walked her to 681 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.599 school himself. Shout out. Shout out to the President of 682 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:10.760 North Macedonia for not putting up with that dumb shit. 683 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:16.719 Good things. Oh yeah, let's see, I'm good. I figured 684 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:18.719 that I would just said. I figured I would just 685 00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:22.239 share something of a positive nature, that there is a 686 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:27.079 president out there that actually gives a shit about a Yeah, yeah, 687 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:29.800 that's good things. At least, there's that that little bit 688 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:33.199 of a silver lining, if you will. And there's a 689 00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:36.320 silver lining in Minnesota right now. Tim Walls is not 690 00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:40.519 going for reelection because of all the situation there. Elan 691 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:43.760 Omar was removed from her position. We're gonna get to 692 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:45.599 all that here in a bit, but yeah, there's there's 693 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:48.760 some silver linings happening. And honestly, I'll be I think 694 00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:51.559 Maduro being removed is also quite a silver lining. I 695 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.960 wasn't a big fan of the guy, but anyway. Tony 696 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.159 also said Maduro's bodyguards all being Cuban instead of Venezuela 697 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:01.440 in may mean he didn't trust his own security, but 698 00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:04.119 you're probably right that there wasn't a standown order. Yeah, 699 00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.519 I found that interesting. Most of his bodyguards were Cuban. 700 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:11.840 By birth. That's you wouldn't expect that, right as much 701 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.280 as and I remember, dude, I remember talking about this 702 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:15.440 on the Cult to Conspiracy. 703 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:15.960 This was. 704 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.199 Three years ago, four years ago, years ago, and this 705 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:26.440 was during the Biden administration. Maduro had made some statement 706 00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:30.159 that like, we're ready for the Marines to invade America. 707 00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:34.119 Can't touch Venezuela. And it was like, wait, this would 708 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.159 this would literally be the same as the leader of 709 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.360 Chile reaching our Chile reaching out and saying that like, 710 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.239 we're ready for the United States Marines. You can't touch us. 711 00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.320 And it's like, what the fuck are you talking about? 712 00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:47.239 Who has we? 713 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:47.599 Do? 714 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:51.360 We have beef? I was unaware we had beef, but like, okay, 715 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.559 So apparently he saw the writing on the walls years ago, 716 00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.239 before the Ukraine Russia situation, before the Trump administration two 717 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.920 point zero or whatever else. He's been waiting for this 718 00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:06.159 time to come. And we talked about this. I want 719 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.519 to say, shoot, it might have been one of the 720 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:11.639 first Cajun nine episodes. As a matter of fact, Venezuela 721 00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:15.320 was getting ready to invade Guyana, right they had all 722 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.800 those troops of masts on the border. They were talking 723 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:20.320 about how they were gonna go in, and for whatever 724 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.639 reason they were, they were making the same claims that 725 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:26.119 Russian made as far as Ukraine. These people are speaking 726 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:28.760 that language, their natural Russians. Why are they on this 727 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.639 side of the border whatever. Venezuela is making these very 728 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:37.400 similar claims to the north and westernmost portions of Guyana. 729 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:41.960 Interestingly enough, that's also the areas of Guyana where there's oil. Shocker, 730 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.280 I know. But then out of nowhere, that just kind 731 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.719 of went outside because Trump stepped in and said, listen, 732 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.760 we stand with Guyana on this one. If Venezuela steps 733 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.239 a move into the country, then we're gonna attack Venezuela. 734 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:54.480 And all of a sudden they just went on by 735 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.119 the wayside. So I don't know, Maduro's kind of been 736 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:02.079 on one for a few years here, and yeah, every 737 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:05.239 leader's got their shit. I'm not saying that any leader 738 00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:08.119 of any nation is just like the Golden standard by 739 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:11.280 any stretch, but it seems like Madurou in the last 740 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:14.119 few years has been really willing to kick the hornets nest. 741 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:17.079 And I don't know what particular act or what particular 742 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:21.239 statement it was that got this particular hornets nest to 743 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.360 get kicked to the tune of US sending Delta Force 744 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:28.039 in after his ass, but apparently he stepped one too 745 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.079 many feet over the line. I don't know, Sam, once 746 00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:31.719 you got big dog. 747 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.000 Okay, I'm just a dumb ass from Georgia, I'll admit that. 748 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:38.440 But I ain't Guyana in Africa. 749 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:42.559 How the fuck are they going from South America to Africa? 750 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:49.280 Not Ghana? Guyana, but is a different country. Ghana is 751 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.920 a country in Africa. Guyana is a South American country 752 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:55.800 just to the south of Venezuela. 753 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:01.079 Okay, then apparently I'm a walk stereotype. I don't know. 754 00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:05.159 Like, no, you're good, brother, And to be honest with you, 755 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:07.079 the only reason I even knew that is because I 756 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:09.440 saw so I got buddies of mom that are from 757 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:11.559 the Virgin Islands. If you ever see me wearing this bracelet, 758 00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:14.760 this silver one, this is from the Virgin Islands. And 759 00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:17.679 so as Maria fat TONI knows some of my buddies 760 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.360 that are from the v I right. And so there 761 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:21.960 was a clip that I saw this dude who was 762 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.440 speaking with a thick Islander accent. He was talking about 763 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:28.800 the difference between like Trinidadian woman and a Guyanese woman 764 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:30.880 and all these things, and it was it was very 765 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:34.079 very funny. It was very very dirty jokes to be made. 766 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:40.360 But I was thinking, like, yeah, what is that at? 767 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:42.760 That is a that's a Caribbean island nation. 768 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.039 Wait, isn't that where we'reanna from? Trinidad? 769 00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:49.280 Yeah? 770 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.039 Okay, I want to go to Trinidad. 771 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:55.679 Same same. But also it's honestly for the Trinity food 772 00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:59.920 that I I do love Caribbean food. That if if 773 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.199 anybody doesn't know anything about me, I am a bit 774 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:04.679 of a foodie. And if you find me a decent 775 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.559 and when I say a Jamaican joint, fuck the jerk chicken, Okay, 776 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:10.719 Like I hear that, Give me some good curry goat, 777 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:14.199 give me some conk meat, give me some oxtail stew, 778 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:16.320 like bro that I will sit there and fuck it 779 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:19.079 up with the rest of anybody. I love. I love 780 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:23.840 cultural foods the Caribbean. They they have made a art 781 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.719 form out of cooking what some would consider scraps. I 782 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:29.599 do not consider it that, but some would consider it 783 00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:32.880 the scraps and turning it into fine dining. So anyway, 784 00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:36.599 Triiny food is on a level all its own. But anyway, 785 00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:39.760 beside the point this clip made fun of or not 786 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:41.800 made fun of. He was telling how the Guyanese women 787 00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:45.159 they you know, they they gonna, they gonna, they gonna 788 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.199 get you, right, And I was like, what the fuck 789 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.079 is this? And so I didn't even know where this was. 790 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:51.360 I searched a little bit and was like, oh, Guyana 791 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.280 is a nation in South America, which is it's not 792 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:57.639 a Caribbean nation. It's on the mainland continent of South America. 793 00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:59.719 So I was like, what the fuck is this. Apparently 794 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.840 it's close enough. The cultural you know, transitions are there, 795 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.440 so whatever, cool cool, cool, cool cool. But so yeah, 796 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:09.639 Venezuela was talking about invading them not too terribly long ago, 797 00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:12.519 and then as soon as Trump said no, no, we're 798 00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:14.400 gonna side with these people if you fuck around and 799 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:18.119 find out, Maduro was like, hey, never mind, all right. 800 00:42:18.199 --> 00:42:20.559 And this was after he had made the statement about 801 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.079 we're ready for the US Marines to invade, and it 802 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:26.239 was like, why would the Marines invade Venezuela, bro, this 803 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:30.480 makes no sense. Now I am happy, I'm very happy, 804 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:32.239 and we've been making the jokes for a while now. 805 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:34.639 If the Marines were to invade Venezuela, they would have 806 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:39.000 a ball, and I agree with that statement. However, just 807 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:43.159 speaking on behalf of myself, I am very very very 808 00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:48.079 happy that this took place with zero American casualties. I 809 00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:52.559 think there's only like what thirty Venezuelan casualties as something. 810 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:56.800 It's very low numbers, very very low numbers. Yeah. 811 00:42:56.840 --> 00:42:58.800 I think it was thirty two, and they were all Cuban. 812 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:03.239 Yeah. And as far as a regime swap goes and 813 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:07.239 a snatch and grab goes, thirty two casualties overall, y'all, 814 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.360 that's that's impressive. And then I'm not just saying that 815 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:13.320 to stroke the American military egos, Dick here Dean, I'm 816 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:16.239 just saying, like to say that we successfully had a 817 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:19.639 snatch and grab take place. We lost nobody. They only 818 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.119 lost a platoon sized element of dudes. And that's it. 819 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:29.719 It's over, y'all. That's that's phenomenal. That is surgical execution, 820 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:33.239 to be completely honest. So I'm happiest. I'm tickled to 821 00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:37.519 death about it. But anyway, let's see Sam says, I 822 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.119 hate comedies, but I love women with more red flags 823 00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:43.280 than a Soviet parade. Sam, I know you do I 824 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.880 know you love your toxic women. I see you, I 825 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.320 see you, brother. All right, without further ado, let us 826 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.920 get to the articles for this evening. We have a 827 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:57.000 few to go over here, and let's just let's just 828 00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.960 have some fun with it, you know, let's just see 829 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:01.239 where it goes. Let's start it off here. I also 830 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.679 wanted to make the mention of this the Pentagon Pizza Index. 831 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:10.000 For anybody who does not know about this website, they 832 00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.159 have never missed, they have never missed. The night before 833 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.599 this operation took place, at eleven forty, the Pentagon Pizza 834 00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.960 Index said, Shit's about to go down. Less than three 835 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:25.880 hours later, Maduro was on us soil. And for anybody 836 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:30.199 who doesn't know what the Pentagon Pizza Index is, this guy, this, 837 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:33.559 this beautiful person or group of people, I don't know. 838 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:38.639 They have started a tracking system of every pizza joint 839 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:44.039 in and around the Pentagon. And without fail, without fail, 840 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:48.599 when you see a mass influx of pizza orders being 841 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.840 made way late or way early in the morning in 842 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.519 and around the Pentagon, some shit somewhere is about to 843 00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:58.480 hit the fan. Typically, this means that people are working 844 00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:01.119 late there and they're ordering pizza for the whole office, 845 00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:05.079 if you will. This dude predicted that, not necessarily that 846 00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.960 Maduro was gonna be snatched, but that something was hitting 847 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.960 the fan and it's going down all right now, homeboy 848 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:12.760 has not missed. So if anybody is out there and 849 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.280 would like to check this out for yourself, the Pentagon 850 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:19.159 Pizza Index, I highly recommend it ten out of ten 851 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.519 as far as true investigative journalism goes over pizza joints. 852 00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:27.719 It's beautiful. This is the American way. But anyway, let's 853 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:31.559 get into it here. The US has seized a Russian 854 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.199 flagged tanker that broke its blockade of Venezuela. Now I 855 00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.639 also find this to be interesting. The Venezuela tanker was 856 00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:42.679 flying a Venezuelan flag, then threw up a Russian flag 857 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:46.639 and acted like that weren't about to get snatched. It's like, no, no, no, no, 858 00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:49.039 that's not how it goes. Either way it goes. It's sanctioned, 859 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.599 it's a sanctioned tanker, or it's a sanctioned tanker, So 860 00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.880 swapping your flags to another sanctioned nation was a really 861 00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.320 silly move. But like, here we are, but let's read 862 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:01.000 into it together. Good Retinue members, of the Cajun Night. 863 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:03.840 The ship seizure comes more than a week after its 864 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:07.719 maneuvered through a US Navy blockade of sanctioned tankers leaving 865 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.519 from a port in South America. In the South American country, 866 00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:14.559 the United States seized a Russian flagged oil tanker in 867 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.800 the North Atlantic on Wednesday, American officials said after chasing 868 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.000 the vessel across the ocean as it headed towards Europe 869 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:25.039 from Venezuela, a significant escalation in the administration's campaign to 870 00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:29.079 capture sanctioned ships. The seizure of the tanker, originally known 871 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.960 as the Bella I, comes more than a week after 872 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.920 it maneuvered through a US Navy blockade of sanctioned tankers 873 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.519 leaving the port in Venezuela. The ship switched its registration 874 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:42.239 to a Russian flagged vessel during the chase, setting up 875 00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:47.480 a possible diplomatic row with Moscow. Politico confirmed the seizure 876 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:50.239 earlier on Wednesday. This is a Politico article for the record. 877 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.559 American helicopters and a Coastguard vessel were used to board 878 00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:56.519 the tanker under law enforcement authority granted to the Coast Guard, 879 00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:59.960 while American and British submarine hunting p eight surveillance planes 880 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:03.840 at least and at least three smaller American surveillance aircraft 881 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:08.440 circled the area near British waters, according to plane tracking websites. 882 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:11.559 The US sanctioned the Bella one in twenty twenty four 883 00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:15.760 after the American officials alleged it was carrying back a 884 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:21.039 black market Iranian oil. Iranian Homeland Security Secretary Christinome, not 885 00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:23.320 the hugest fan of heard but okay, set on social 886 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.360 media Wednesday that Bella had been trying to evade Coastguard 887 00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:29.599 for weeks, as operators changed the ship's flags and painted 888 00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:36.679 a new name, the Marinera Marianera. Wait, I'm sorry you 889 00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:40.960 changed it from the Bella one to the Marinera. That's hilarious, okay, 890 00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:44.559 on the whole in an attempt to avoid capture. It's 891 00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:47.760 also came as the Navy and Coast Guard seized a 892 00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:51.039 second tanker in the Caribbean on Wednesday morning, targeting a 893 00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:55.559 vessel that the US military characterized as quote a stateless, 894 00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:01.079 sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker conducting quote a list activities 895 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:04.960 in the Caribbean sea end quote. Trump Administration official set 896 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.760 on Wednesday that the US had seized the vessels as 897 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.760 part of the nation's expansive counter drug mission that has 898 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.840 now moved beyond the waters of the Caribbean, where the 899 00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:17.000 Pentagon has parked an aircraft carrier and destroyers. While the 900 00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:20.400 administration has ordered the capture of several sanctioned vessels before, 901 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.239 the seizure of the Russian flagship could create a new 902 00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:26.920 point of tension between Washington and Moscow, as President Trump's 903 00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.599 envoys are engaged in intense diploma diplomacy with their Russian 904 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:33.800 counterparts over a peace deal in Ukraine. Now, I also 905 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.519 I'm glad that it's said that in this article. Here, 906 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:39.519 here's the deal, just because the Maduro's out of power. 907 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:42.039 I don't think America's done as far as Venezuela's concerned. 908 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:45.960 We have way too many naval assets and way too 909 00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:49.559 much manpower floating off the coast of Venezuela to take 910 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:53.239 the one guy and everybody's satisfied and goes home. I'm 911 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:55.199 not saying that they're getting ready to do a full 912 00:48:55.320 --> 00:49:00.800 land invasion. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying one 913 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:05.719 way or another. What I'm saying is that wasn't as 914 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:10.519 much of a victory to justify an entire fleet posted 915 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:13.039 up off the coast of Venezuela. I feel like there's 916 00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:17.360 gonna need to be a little more. We're gonna need 917 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:19.679 a little more ass in the game, if you catch 918 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:22.000 my drift now. I don't know to what level that's 919 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.480 going to be, But I also don't believe that the 920 00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.280 American forces are just gonna lead the coast of Venezuela. 921 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.119 Oh so willy nilly, so stand by for more things 922 00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:33.400 to be going down in that area of the world 923 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.039 moving on. It says the administration has been looking for 924 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.440 avenues to pressure Venezuela and Iran to close Russian allies. 925 00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:42.920 After the capture of Venezuela and leader Nicholas mnduro in 926 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.280 a US military operation last week. Trump's had said that 927 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:50.400 he would hit Tehran's clerical regime very hard if more 928 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:54.519 protesters are harmed after days of unrest in economic protests 929 00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:00.679 the clerical regime. So is he suggesting that the Ayatola 930 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.119 might get joint next. I don't know. I'm hopeful. I'm 931 00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.519 hopeful for my own selfish reasons, but like that would 932 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:13.119 be dope anyway. UK Defense Secretary John Healey confirmed that 933 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:16.920 British bases were used for staging for the operation, and 934 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:19.519 said in a statement that the ship with a nefarious 935 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:23.679 history is part of a Russian Iranian axis of sanctions evasion, 936 00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:28.199 which is fueling terrorism, conflict and misery from the Middle 937 00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:31.400 East to Ukraine. Of course he's gonna say this, he 938 00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:34.280 pledged the UK quote, We'll continue to step up our 939 00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.960 action against shadow fleet activity to protect our national security, 940 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:42.119 our economy and global stability. Okay, listen, hey, UK, maybe 941 00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:44.360 you should worry about your own national security on your 942 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:48.400 own soil. I appreciate you letting the Americans use your 943 00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.440 area as a staging ground. Perhaps you should get out 944 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:54.800 the insurrection that's already in your nation, But you know, 945 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.639 I digress. The Russian for Ministry on Tuesday told THASS, 946 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.280 the Russian state media agency, that quote, for reasons unknown 947 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.400 to us, the Russian vessel is getting excessive attention from 948 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:12.199 the US and NATO militaries, clearly disproportionate to its peaceful status. 949 00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:18.159 The Venezuelan flagship that swapped over to a Russian flagship 950 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:25.519 is getting unnecessary your disproportionate attention and its peaceful status 951 00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:29.519 as it's sanctioned from most of the Western world. That's 952 00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:32.360 a claim that that is one of the most claims. 953 00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:35.880 The Trump administration continued to strike a defiant tone after 954 00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:38.639 the seizure on Wednesday. Quote, the blockade of sanctioned and 955 00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:41.920 illicit Venezuelan oil remains in full effect. That part's in 956 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:46.360 bold anywhere in the world. War Secretary Pete Hexeth posted 957 00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.960 on social media just as US European Command conducted the operation, 958 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.360 which was coordinated with the Justice and Homeland Security Departments. 959 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:56.360 It is unclear where the Russian tanker will head next 960 00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:59.119 now that American law enforcement is in control of the 961 00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:03.880 ship Russian Transportation. The Russian Transport Ministry issued a terse 962 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.760 statement after Wednesday's seizure, pointing out that under the nineteen 963 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.719 eighty two UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 964 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.679 the nineteen eighty two says before the Soviet Union fell, 965 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:19.320 So that's interesting they would cite that law. But that 966 00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:23.199 doesn't mean that it went away. But all right, Quote, 967 00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:26.199 the high seas are governed by the principle of freedom 968 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:29.480 of navigation, and no state has the right to use 969 00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:37.800 force against vessels duly registered under the jurisdiction of other states. Yeah, 970 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:42.559 that's that's cute. That's cute. That's a real cute statement 971 00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.159 that was just made. But the seizure was received well 972 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.719 by some in Europe, I would assume, so who were 973 00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:50.519 glad to see the US make moves against Russia. This 974 00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:53.000 sends a clear message to Russia and their use of 975 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.599 black fleets to move sanctioned oil around the world. To 976 00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:58.599 one European official who was granted anonymity to speak about 977 00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:03.239 the national security issues, it's very welcome news. Again, I 978 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:07.280 don't how do we know it's a Russian ship? How 979 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.719 do we know it's not a Venezuelan ship crewed by 980 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:13.079 Venezuelan people that tried throwing a Russian flag when it 981 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.760 to try to get some sort of immunity. Do we 982 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:18.239 know this for a fact? Is it definitely a Russian ship? 983 00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:21.920 Because if that's the case, then this goes even further. 984 00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.840 It's a sanctioned country to a sanctioned country. So yeah, 985 00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:28.039 the US is gonna seize that shit. Like I I 986 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.719 feel like I'm missing a connection that they're making here. 987 00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:33.440 I don't know, Tony. I know you have your finger 988 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:35.880 more on the pulse of these things. Help me understand this. 989 00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:40.199 Please, Sorry, there's probably not much I can do to 990 00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:43.800 help understand. It's just I think there's obvious motivations to 991 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:47.079 do anything to knock Venezuela and Russia down a peg 992 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:50.480 by a lot of people. This Law of the Sea, though, 993 00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.760 it's kind of weird that the US has not ratified 994 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.679 it formally but signed some nineteen ninety four agreement to 995 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.599 abide by most of it. And I guess we just 996 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:03.239 kind of pick and choose when we want to abide 997 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:06.760 by it. But this Law of the Sea would make 998 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:11.920 it more permissible for these sanctioned ships to kind of 999 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:15.880 go wherever they want, and the US doesn't want that. 1000 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:19.119 I don't think Britain really had that kind of policy 1001 00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:21.800 back when they had an empire either, they really controlled 1002 00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:23.599 who can go where on the high seas. And the 1003 00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:28.920 US inherited that war right after World War Two. That 1004 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:31.559 was a big part in my opinion of why the 1005 00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:34.119 Marshall Plan happened and why Britain was the number one 1006 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:37.119 recipient of it. Yeah, but that's maybe a little bit 1007 00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:37.760 of a tangent. 1008 00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:38.440 No no. 1009 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:41.519 That also kind of reminds me of U boat activity 1010 00:54:41.559 --> 00:54:44.360 in World War One and two. Well, I did, well, 1011 00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:47.679 it's a peaceful boat. Well, it's supplying our enemies, so 1012 00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:51.719 we're gonna, you know, either take it over or sink it. 1013 00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:56.719 Right, absolutely, And I'm not I am not equating Russia 1014 00:54:56.760 --> 00:55:00.840 to the Nazis, not equating Venezuela to the Oh you are, 1015 00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:01.880 Oh shit, No. 1016 00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:04.400 I actually I'm kind of joking. I'm equating us to 1017 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:05.679 the to the Nazis. 1018 00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:07.960 Oh shut up, Tony got You always got to make 1019 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.039 the weirdest takes happen here. But no, no, I see 1020 00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:12.159 your point though. It's like, if you're supplying the enemy, 1021 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:15.280 then we're going to seize it. But you know it 1022 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:19.639 may not be full on destroying it and killing everybody 1023 00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.159 on board, but seizing it absolutely, I see that. But 1024 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:24.440 to your point you made about how the British Empire, 1025 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.519 I mean, the rule has always been and even uh 1026 00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:31.480 Alfred Tayler Mahan, the father of the modern navy, he 1027 00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:34.679 even said in his book, the country that has the 1028 00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:38.519 largest navy will run the world. Now this was also 1029 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:42.480 before you know, aviation was a thing, so we didn't 1030 00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:46.079 have the capability to fly resources from country to country 1031 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:49.039 at this time. But even still, whatever country has the 1032 00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:50.960 largest and most powerful navy is going to be the 1033 00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:52.960 one to run the world. At one point in time, 1034 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:55.559 it was a Spanish empire. After that point it was 1035 00:55:55.599 --> 00:55:58.480 the British Empire. It is currently us. Yes, I understand 1036 00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:01.239 by the numbers China has a large navy, but if 1037 00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:03.400 you also look at what they consider a naval vessel, 1038 00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:06.920 it's not We're not having the same conversation here. But yeah, 1039 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.599 so currently America's got the largest and most powerful navy 1040 00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:13.079 on Earth. Therefore, we are the police of the ocean. 1041 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:16.440 Now does that mean that that gives us the right 1042 00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:19.800 to just take over whatever boat we want? No, not necessarily, 1043 00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:22.920 but if it's also an enemy of an enemy, or 1044 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:25.079 an enemy of a friend, or whatever the case is, 1045 00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:27.000 where we decide that, Yeah, this is a seizure that 1046 00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.679 needs to happen. No one's gonna come at us like that. 1047 00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.599 The international courts are not gonna start trying American admirals 1048 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:38.800 or our American administration for this. So it's like it's 1049 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.119 they can They can cry and bitch all they want, 1050 00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:43.800 it's not gonna change anything. The one plus one still 1051 00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:48.000 equals to here, So I see it moving on here. 1052 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:50.400 The seizure of the Bella is a clear sign that 1053 00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:54.000 the administration plans to keep the pressure on Venezuela. The 1054 00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:57.199 administration has been working to impose an embargo on sanctioned 1055 00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:59.599 vessels as a central part of the pressure campaign since 1056 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:03.000 the US Coast Guard boarded the Russian flagged Skipper last month. 1057 00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:05.960 It took place as Trump has taken a far more 1058 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:09.440 active role in South America in recent months. The administration's 1059 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:12.360 greatest show of force to date came on Saturday, when 1060 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:16.079 the US military Apprehendo Maduro in his palace in Caracas 1061 00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:20.239 to stand trial on narco trafficking and corruption charges. Yeah, 1062 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:24.400 once again, these charges. I'm hearing a lot of the 1063 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:26.719 the naysayers say that, like they had no right to 1064 00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:30.960 take him. He has been under indictment in multiple countries 1065 00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:36.679 for years. Like it's it's that's how this goes, you know, nobody. 1066 00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:40.480 It seems it's very bold. It's a very bold strategy 1067 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:43.199 to actually take him in the middle of the night 1068 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:48.000 to stand trial for these charges. Some would say unprecedented 1069 00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:53.599 even but it's not like it's without warrant. So will 1070 00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:57.320 he be acquitted possibly. I am still as of this moment, 1071 00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.480 and this is very subject to change as new information 1072 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:03.639 comes out. I am currently of the belief that he 1073 00:58:03.760 --> 00:58:06.920 cut a deal with the US to get either a 1074 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:10.480 lesser sentence or to be extradited to another country where 1075 00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:12.440 he can live out the rest of his days basically 1076 00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.360 in peace, with tons of money. I don't know how 1077 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:17.880 this is gonna shake out. I do not believe that 1078 00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:19.679 this dude is gonna see the inside of a prison 1079 00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:21.800 self with the rest of his life, the same way 1080 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:26.960 that Trump just released a Honduran leader who was indicted 1081 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.199 and arrested in charge for being a drug smuggler for 1082 00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:33.880 forty years, and Trump just pardoned him and released him 1083 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:37.480 just a few months ago. So again, I don't see this. 1084 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.360 This is more for the show. I think Maduro is 1085 00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:42.960 absolutely gonna be walking free here in a few months, 1086 00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:46.119 probably not allowed to go back to Venezuela. He might go, 1087 00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:49.639 you know, to a cause. This could have gone one 1088 00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:51.639 of two ways. It could have gone the way of Saddam, 1089 00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:56.079 or it could have gone the way of Oh shit, 1090 00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:58.920 help me out, Tony, the Syrian president. He's in Russia now, 1091 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:05.199 not Sayid, oh Asad, I was saying, Sayid, it's Asad. 1092 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:07.880 I see the regime change is going. It could have 1093 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.239 gone one of two ways. It could have gone Asade, 1094 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:13.760 it could have gone Saddam. This seems more of a 1095 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:16.800 intermediate there. But I also feel like it's going to 1096 00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.360 go more towards the realm of Asad. I think that 1097 00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:23.719 he'll get put to another country who keeps him in 1098 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:27.159 prison quote unquote. In reality, he's like, you know, living 1099 00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:29.599 in a gilded cage kind of thing. I could see 1100 00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:33.920 that being how the shakes out. But anyway, let's see 1101 00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:36.960 when Maduro now sideline. The administration is planning to take 1102 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:40.280 a more direct role in selling Venezuelan oil for an 1103 00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:45.119 indefinite period, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday, speaking 1104 00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:49.639 before briefing lawmakers about the operation in Venezuela. Secretary of 1105 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:53.119 State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio confirmed the seizures 1106 00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:56.039 and said the US is quote about to execute on 1107 00:59:56.159 --> 00:59:59.679 a deal to take all the oil and sell it 1108 01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:02.800 to generate revenue that will be used to the benefit 1109 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:09.719 of the Venezuelan people. Now could hypothetically they flood the 1110 01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:13.480 market and tank the oil industry as a way to 1111 01:00:13.719 --> 01:00:17.239 further the American means of trying to in certain conflicts 1112 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:20.880 and put ourselves back in the proper foothold. As being 1113 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:24.559 the one superpower on Earth. It's possible. I don't think 1114 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:28.079 that's the smartest plan ever. I could see. It has 1115 01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.480 some merits to it, but I think it would go 1116 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:33.159 a lot further and a lot better to win the 1117 01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:36.920 hearts and minds of Venezuela if you would actually start 1118 01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:40.119 the refineries back up, give the people their jobs back, 1119 01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:43.440 let them earn a livable waves, let them rebuild their 1120 01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:47.360 country in their image. America is really bad. Like I 1121 01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:51.199 said earlier, we're really bad at nation building. Traditionally, historically, 1122 01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:56.519 we suck at it. So I'm hoping that perhaps perhaps 1123 01:00:56.639 --> 01:00:59.719 we have learned our lesson from past mistakes, and this 1124 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:02.400 time we're gonna let Venezuela will help them stand on 1125 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:05.320 their own two feet. But we're not gonna fall on takeover. 1126 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:12.639 In that regard, however, Trump has said that until an 1127 01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:16.960 elected official quote unquote can take over Venezuela, America is 1128 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:19.039 gonna be running the administration side of the country. And 1129 01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:22.079 it's like e we are. We are tiptoeing into that 1130 01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:26.719 line of nation building. It's not a good look. Although 1131 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:29.920 I also think it's worth noting you gotta look at 1132 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.760 the raw materials you're working with. When you're talking about 1133 01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:37.559 nation building, like what are you putting into the machine? Right? So, like, 1134 01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:41.119 if you're looking at other nations that we have tried 1135 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:43.960 to rebuild in the past, they didn't have a lot 1136 01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:47.960 going for them. Then cut too, Japan, we didn't really 1137 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.079 have to do a lot of nation rebuilding. They had 1138 01:01:50.159 --> 01:01:52.719 some really good raw materials as far as their workforce 1139 01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:54.519 and their culture and all these things to where it 1140 01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:58.119 was like a turnkey they were ready to go. Venezuela's 1141 01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:01.079 got some solid raw materials as far as manpower, as 1142 01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:06.599 far as brains, as far as industry infrastructure. They need 1143 01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.400 a little work. Sure, some things need to be revitalized, 1144 01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:12.519 some things need to be retooled, but it's not like 1145 01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:16.800 we're trying to build a nation in Afghanistan. You see 1146 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:18.880 what I'm saying here. There's a little bit more to 1147 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:21.880 work with in Venezuela than there ever was in Afghanistan. 1148 01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:26.199 So perhaps this could go a different direction. But again, 1149 01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:29.039 I really hope that we let them stand on their 1150 01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:32.159 own two feet instead of trying to rebuild them in 1151 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:37.239 an American image. That hasn't worked ever. Actually, But anyway, 1152 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:41.000 moving on here, no other details have been released about 1153 01:02:41.039 --> 01:02:44.719 how this word work in practice. Trump has also suggested 1154 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.480 that Columbia could be next on his Agendafa Regime change. 1155 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:50.880 Cuba two is on the president's mind, said Rubio, as 1156 01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:53.480 a long push for the overthrow of the communist government 1157 01:02:53.559 --> 01:02:58.480 in Havana. So listen, they don't exactly know that the 1158 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:02.679 leaders of these Central American nations, now that it's understood 1159 01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.079 that we absolutely will come and join somebody in the 1160 01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:08.239 middle of the night, perhaps they'll be a little more 1161 01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:10.760 willing to play ball. Perhaps they'll be a little more 1162 01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:13.519 willing to take their illegals back with open arms rather 1163 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:15.360 than trying to fight it out and say you can't 1164 01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:17.880 send them back. Perhaps they'll be a little. 1165 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:18.800 Bit more agreeable. 1166 01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:21.920 I don't know. I remember Columbia was talking some shit 1167 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.079 the week that we took Maduro. They were saying that 1168 01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:26.840 they were going to do something, and then we joined 1169 01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:32.639 Maduro and Colombia has been real quiet ever since then. 1170 01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:35.760 They haven't recanted any of their statements. They also are 1171 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.320 not saying anything else ever since we yanked him. So 1172 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:40.960 I don't know, but it seems like this was to 1173 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:44.719 send a message, and I, for one can see that 1174 01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:47.320 that message was received. So I'm taking that at least 1175 01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:50.480 as a lowercase w if nothing else. The president's interest 1176 01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.559 in South American affairs comes despite muted support from the 1177 01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:58.599 American public, which overwhelmingly opposes military intervention against the country. 1178 01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:06.559 In December Quinnipiac poll quinnop. Yeah, that's a word. A 1179 01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.280 poll that was done in December overwhelming the America does 1180 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:11.360 not the American public does not want to get involved 1181 01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:13.960 in a military intervention, and I think that's very accurate. 1182 01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:17.960 Just one third of Americans told a Reuters and Ipsauce 1183 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.639 poll released Monday that they supported the operation to AlSi Maduro, 1184 01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:23.960 with a majority concern that the US would become too 1185 01:04:24.119 --> 01:04:26.719 entrenched in the affairs of the country and the aftermath 1186 01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:30.159 of the attack. Again, I think that's a that's a 1187 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:34.320 pretty solid poll to be talked about here. But yeah, 1188 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:38.199 I mean, who's to say. Now that it's done, we'll 1189 01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:40.239 see how Americans feel about it. As far as I 1190 01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:42.840 can tell, it's kind of a it's kind of a wash. 1191 01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:45.159 There's a lot of Americans that are very much against it, 1192 01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:48.320 there's a lot of Americans who are pretty neutral towards it, 1193 01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:49.760 and there's a lot of Americans that are kind of 1194 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:53.440 for it. I would. Obviously I'm more of the neutral 1195 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:56.239 leaning more towards the for it side of things, but 1196 01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.079 I understand the talking points of people that are against 1197 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:03.000 it for sure. I get it's just, you know, pretty 1198 01:05:03.079 --> 01:05:05.159 much anything that we could do to shut down a 1199 01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:10.000 communist or socialist regime. I'm just all four. That's I know. 1200 01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:12.719 I have my own biases on that one. I'm good 1201 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.840 with dying on that hill. But anyway, moving on, there's 1202 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.360 an ABC article talking about the US seizing the Russian 1203 01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:23.360 flag oil tanker in the North Atlantic and the second tanker. 1204 01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:26.840 Continue on. It says the US on Wednesday sees two 1205 01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:29.480 oil tankers linked of Venezuela, including the Russian flag Mari 1206 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:31.800 and Naro Oil formerly known as the bell of One 1207 01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:35.320 that had evaded US block ad in December. Actually, most 1208 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:37.039 of that we already read a little bit the post 1209 01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:39.760 on x US European Command confirmed the seizure of the 1210 01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:42.760 tanker in the North Atlantic the US, and Wednesday also 1211 01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:45.880 sees another tanker in the Caribbean, according to Homeland Security 1212 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:49.320 CHRISTI Nome in two pre dawn operations day. That is 1213 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:54.199 a direct quote from hold on Where's it at? Gnome. 1214 01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:57.480 This is from Christy, Nome. In two pre dawn operations. Today, 1215 01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:01.039 the Coast Guard conducted back to back meticulously coordinated boarding 1216 01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:05.400 of two quote unquote ghost fleet tanker ships, one in 1217 01:06:05.400 --> 01:06:07.840 the North Atlantic Sea and one at air National Waters 1218 01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:10.000 near the Caribbean. No, I'm said in a post on 1219 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:13.000 x Both vessels, the motor tanker Bella one and the 1220 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:16.760 motor tanker Sofia, were either last docked in Venezuela or 1221 01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:19.679 en route to it. So there you going on screen 1222 01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:22.960 right now we have two pictures from videos released by 1223 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:26.840 Homeland Security of the dudes dropping in and taking over 1224 01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:29.440 these ships, which is dope. The US Coast Guard has 1225 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:31.679 been tracking the Marinia tanker for the last two weeks 1226 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:35.000 after it attempted to seize it on December twentieth, when 1227 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.679 the empty ship was in the Caribbean and apparently headed 1228 01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:41.199 to Venezuela. On December thirty first, the Russian Maritime Register 1229 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:44.360 of Shipping listed the ship with the new name Marinera 1230 01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:47.320 as a Russian vessel. The ship's crew also painted a 1231 01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:50.840 Russian flag on the ship's side. The Bella one previously 1232 01:06:51.119 --> 01:06:54.400 flew a false Panamanian flag and is suspected to be 1233 01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:57.199 part of Russia's so called quote unquote shadow fleet, which 1234 01:06:57.239 --> 01:07:01.000 Moscow is accused of using to evade air national sanctions. Yeah, 1235 01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.800 that's also a massive red flag. For a ship to 1236 01:07:03.840 --> 01:07:08.920 be flying a Panamanian flag, that's a pretty pretty decent 1237 01:07:08.960 --> 01:07:11.639 red flag. There's some funck shit going on there. For 1238 01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:14.519 anybody that doesn't know. To register a ship with a 1239 01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:19.239 nation takes a solid amount of paperwork. Panama notoriously, it 1240 01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.960 takes a bribe. It literally takes a bribe. Then you 1241 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:25.599 can fly the Panamanian flag. So whenever there's a ship 1242 01:07:25.639 --> 01:07:28.039 out there that's doing something they shouldn't be doing, they'll 1243 01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:32.280 more often than not be flying a Panamanian flag. So 1244 01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:36.840 there you have that. The ship recently activated as transponder, 1245 01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.880 allowing open source maritime tracking websites to locate the ship 1246 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:42.519 as being in the North Atlantic Ocean, close to Iceland 1247 01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:45.880 and the United Kingdom. The UK issued a statement saying 1248 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.440 it supported the US seizure of the Russian flagged tanker. 1249 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:52.320 The Russian Ministry of Transportation condemned the seizure of the 1250 01:07:52.320 --> 01:07:55.079 oil tanker in the North Atlantic in a statement direct 1251 01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:56.840 quote here, and I think it's yeah, it's what we 1252 01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:00.519 said earlier US naval forces bordered the vessel and international 1253 01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:04.239 waters outside the territorial waters of any state, and contact 1254 01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:07.480 with the vessel was lost, the statement read. The ministry added, 1255 01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:10.960 no state has the right to force against vessels duly 1256 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:14.559 registered in the jurisdiction of other states. Yeah, but also 1257 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:19.359 it's against international law to swap flags mid mid sail. 1258 01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:22.199 So take that with whatever grain of salt you need. 1259 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:26.479 White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt feel how you want 1260 01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:29.279 to feel about her. I get it. Was asked at 1261 01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:31.479 a press briefing on Wednesday, at the tanker seizure risked 1262 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:34.000 a larger conflict with Russia. She said, the tanker was 1263 01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:38.159 a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel and deemed stateless. Again, you'll 1264 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:40.960 have that when you swap flags. This was a Venezuelan 1265 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.479 shadow fleet vessel that had transported sanctioned oil. The vessel 1266 01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:47.199 was deemed stateless after flying a false flag, and it 1267 01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:51.039 had a jurisdiction seizure order, which also it did, and 1268 01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.640 that's why the crew will be subject to prosecution, she 1269 01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:57.840 told reporters. Continuing on, President Trump and Decemmar announced what 1270 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.840 he called a blockade of sanctioned oil in and out 1271 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.560 of Venezuela Defend Secretary Pete Hexeth on Wednesday posted the 1272 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:07.720 blockade of sanction and illicted Venezuelan oil remains in full 1273 01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:10.520 effect anywhere in the world. The United States continue to 1274 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.239 enforce a blockade against all dark fleet vessels illegally transporting 1275 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:18.439 Venezuelan oil to finance illicit activity stealing from the Venezuelan people. 1276 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.800 Only legitimate and lawful energy commerce as determined by the 1277 01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:25.359 US will be permitted. Exceth posted on x Trump announced 1278 01:09:25.399 --> 01:09:29.000 on Tuesday night that Venezuela will turn over thirty to 1279 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:33.199 fifty million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US sources 1280 01:09:33.319 --> 01:09:36.439 or to the US sources told ABC News those barrels 1281 01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:41.159 represent the first trench to be handed over to US control. 1282 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:45.439 The Trump administration intends to oversee the sale of Venezuelan 1283 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:49.039 oil indefinitely, and some sanctions against Venezuela will be lifted. 1284 01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:51.960 Two sources familiar with the plan told ABC News, So 1285 01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:55.720 they're talking about running the oil in Venezuela indefinitely. This 1286 01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:59.680 is new age imperialism. This is and I understand if 1287 01:09:59.720 --> 01:10:02.800 people feel some type of way about that, they probably 1288 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:04.279 have a leg to stand on. On this one, but 1289 01:10:04.359 --> 01:10:08.760 also gas prices go down. I mean, I'm just saying anyway, So, 1290 01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:11.640 the Secretary of State Mark Or Rubio touted the quote 1291 01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:15.319 tremendous leverage and control the United States now exerts over 1292 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:18.880 Venezuelan and oil industry, and suggests that Venezuela wants the 1293 01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:22.359 oil captured in the Caribbean on Wednesday by US forces 1294 01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:25.000 to be part of its export deal with the administration 1295 01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:28.520 direct quote, here we are in the mist right now 1296 01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:30.760 and in fact about to execute on a deal to 1297 01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:33.600 take all the oil. They have oil that is stuck 1298 01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:36.560 in Venezuela. They can't move it because of our quarantine 1299 01:10:36.600 --> 01:10:39.520 and because it's sanctioned. We are going to take between 1300 01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:42.399 thirty and fifty million barrels of oil. Rubio toll reporters 1301 01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:46.319 after a classified briefing with senators on Capitol Hill. They 1302 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:49.279 want that oil that was seized to be part of 1303 01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:51.640 the deal. They understand that the only way they can 1304 01:10:51.680 --> 01:10:54.840 move oil and generate revenue and not have an economic 1305 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:57.880 collapse is that they cooperate and work with the United States. 1306 01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:01.000 And that's what we see, and that's what we see 1307 01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:03.560 are going to happen. Rubio said, I don't know if 1308 01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:04.960 that's how you worried or if that's how it was 1309 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:07.399 typed up, but yeah, it was a weird, weird typing 1310 01:11:07.439 --> 01:11:11.760 on that one. Anyway, there's another talking about the UK. 1311 01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:14.239 Let me to go to this article. We'll talk about 1312 01:11:14.239 --> 01:11:15.720 that one here in a moment, but before I do, 1313 01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:18.199 I wanted to read the chat and see if anything 1314 01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:25.079 new had been dropped in there. Let's see here do uh? 1315 01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:27.399 They It says I think I'm just attracted to women 1316 01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:29.319 who aren't meant for me. I need a matchmaker. If 1317 01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:32.319 you're talking about the red flags Royce. Yeah, yeah, I 1318 01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:35.520 get it. That's fair enough. Pizza and poly Market for 1319 01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:42.159 insider information. Tony agreed. Agreed, dude, absolutely Uh. Sam says 1320 01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:44.079 if it was the Marines who went in, the DNA 1321 01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:46.239 pool will be altered and the guy will have to 1322 01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:48.399 redraw the topographical map of the country. 1323 01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:48.720 Yeah. 1324 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:53.000 I don't believe that's gonna happen. But yeah, here we go. 1325 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:56.359 You telling me that if the Marines went in there, 1326 01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.720 they wouldn't have a DNA uh alteration of the country. 1327 01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:05.479 They could. I'm not saying there's a zero percent chance. 1328 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:07.439 I'm saying that I don't believe that the Marines are 1329 01:12:07.479 --> 01:12:09.800 going to be making their way into the country. That's all. 1330 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:11.800 That's all I'm saying as of this moment. 1331 01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:14.520 Which I understand, I was just saying, like it it's 1332 01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:17.640 probably better that they sent Delta Force because the population 1333 01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:19.640 is still somewhat breathing. 1334 01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:22.800 Yeah, well I do. 1335 01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:25.359 If it was the Mindes modall would have been woking 1336 01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:28.199 up with a fortunate son. But instead it was Delta 1337 01:12:28.239 --> 01:12:30.079 So I'm pretty sure they were playing love so SOA. 1338 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:32.800 And I'm also really happy that it was Delta Force 1339 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:34.920 because if it was Navy Seals, we would have gotten 1340 01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:38.319 like eighteen podcasts in about thirty books to be written 1341 01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:42.439 about the operation, and Sean Ryan and Dan Crenshaw would 1342 01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:44.680 have even added that to their beef they're currently having. 1343 01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:52.119 I'm very happy they didn't use Navy Seals that, you know, Yeah, didn't. 1344 01:12:51.800 --> 01:12:54.119 He also like, didn't he throw one of his Navy 1345 01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:57.720 Seals brothers under the fucking rug to bother his political career? 1346 01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:01.359 Yeah. Eddie Griffin, We've talked about it before, but I 1347 01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:05.319 will quickly rehash it here. Eddie Griffin, Navy Seal served honorably. 1348 01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:08.439 There was a situation where they were saying that he 1349 01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:10.359 was going to be tried for war crimes, even though 1350 01:13:10.399 --> 01:13:12.520 everybody who was on the operation with him said that 1351 01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:16.199 no war crimes are committed, and there's there's nuances to that, 1352 01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:17.920 and you can look into the details if you'd like. 1353 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:21.119 When he was about to be indicted for this, he 1354 01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:25.119 reached out to a seal brother, Dan Crenshaw, for some 1355 01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:29.800 political help. Instead of helping his brother, Dan Crenshaw actually 1356 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:33.760 led the charge against him and formed an entire well 1357 01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:36.720 it's a call, not a not a campaign. When a 1358 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:39.920 bunch of politicians get a committee. He formed a committee 1359 01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:43.439 to go against Eddie Griffin, knowing that he was innocent, 1360 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:45.680 speaking to seals who were there that said that he 1361 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.439 didn't do anything that would qualify or quantitate war crimes, 1362 01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:51.119 and he still went against him. So I'm not a 1363 01:13:51.159 --> 01:13:54.880 huge fan Dan Crenshaw. But then to see two former seals, 1364 01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:58.920 Sean Ryan and Dan Crenshaw duke it out online over 1365 01:13:59.800 --> 01:14:02.880 the headiness and shit, Yeah, if seals would have been 1366 01:14:02.920 --> 01:14:05.199 a part of this operation, you know they would have 1367 01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:07.039 weighed in on it in some way, shape or form. 1368 01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:09.760 So I for one, am very happy that the Delta 1369 01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:11.920 Force got to stretch the war legs for a little minute, 1370 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:14.279 and in thirty five minutes in and. 1371 01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:17.560 Out, didn't we see send the kid the F twenty 1372 01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:18.159 two down there? 1373 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:21.760 Also, the F twenty two was in the air just 1374 01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:24.880 in case Venezuela was able to get any air assets 1375 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:28.399 off the ground. However, first order business, the F thirty five, 1376 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:30.880 they had the growler fuck up the radars. The F 1377 01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:34.920 thirty five dropped a bunch of ordnance to destroy their airfields. 1378 01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:39.159 They had Blackhawks and apaches that also destroyed some land 1379 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:43.159 air ground systems, And so the F twenty two is 1380 01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:46.399 basically hovering just in case. But he did not get 1381 01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:51.600 his first intercepts, not yet, so he got cooked. He 1382 01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:54.319 got a little war cuked. But that's the thing. The 1383 01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:58.600 F twenty two has never actually had the reason to 1384 01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:01.479 stretch its war legs just yet or spread its war wings, 1385 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:04.359 if you will. The day that that happens, the entire 1386 01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:07.159 game is shifted. Every country that is claiming that they 1387 01:15:07.199 --> 01:15:10.399 have a fifth or sixth gen fighter will be forced 1388 01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:12.479 to shut the fuck up on the day the F 1389 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.760 twenty two is able to show its actual capabilities. So, 1390 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:17.960 as of this moment, I'm cool with that being the 1391 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:21.039 secret weapon. If you will, it's like the mouse coutool. 1392 01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:24.960 So why didn't we send a grandpap buff down there? 1393 01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:30.640 Because the B two bomber or the beefifty two, whatever 1394 01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:34.319 it is, the bomber is a sledgehammer where this required 1395 01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:34.920 a scalpel. 1396 01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:39.000 What Sledgehammers get the job done just as good as 1397 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:40.039 a scalpel. 1398 01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:42.479 They do. But keep in mind, this whole operation only 1399 01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:46.399 had thirty two casualties. If we would have sent a 1400 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:49.479 bomber into the mix, we'd be having a whole different 1401 01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:52.279 conversation about what was or was not a war crime 1402 01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:55.039 kind of thing. It's not every situation the same reason 1403 01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:58.560 why the Marines weren't sent in because the Marines are 1404 01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:02.239 a bit of a sledgehammer in reality, like a flathead 1405 01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:04.640 screwdriver is what you needed for the job. You see 1406 01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:05.319 what I'm saying here? 1407 01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:10.880 Yeah, I just I personally love the B fifty twos. 1408 01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:14.159 I also love the B seventeens pretty much. Any bombers 1409 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:17.039 from like World War Two and the fifties, they I 1410 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:19.920 don't know why, but they just get my heart like 1411 01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:22.239 thumping and it gives my brain an itch that I 1412 01:16:22.279 --> 01:16:23.000 just can't scratch. 1413 01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:26.119 Yeah, and if you for anybody who's hearing the references 1414 01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:28.600 to the Kid or Grandpa Buff. If you're not watching 1415 01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:32.720 Habitual Line Crosser on YouTube or on Pepperbox, I cannot 1416 01:16:32.720 --> 01:16:35.920 recommend his content enough. He is hilarious, and he's got 1417 01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:40.520 these whole character arcs for these different air platforms, and 1418 01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:42.760 he's also a missile nerd, so he'll break down a 1419 01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:45.239 lot of the systems way better than I ever could, 1420 01:16:45.239 --> 01:16:47.239 because that's what we did professionally in the army. So yeah, 1421 01:16:47.439 --> 01:16:50.800 HLC Habitual Line Crosser shouts out to him. Cannot give 1422 01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:52.560 him enough props. 1423 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:56.319 Just out of curiosity. Which of his characters do you 1424 01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:57.239 like the best? 1425 01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:02.039 It's kind of it's ass up. I like the F eighteen, 1426 01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:05.239 I like Grandpa Buff, I like the Kid, I like 1427 01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:08.800 the Nerd in certain regards. I also just love the 1428 01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:11.359 level of shit talking all around the board. I think 1429 01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:12.680 it's great. Honestly. 1430 01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:16.119 I love it when Grandpa Buff like roast the fuck 1431 01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:18.520 out of us, like, yeah, I I should just call 1432 01:17:18.560 --> 01:17:22.239 Rusha's mom. And it's just like that that makes me 1433 01:17:22.319 --> 01:17:22.880 so happy. 1434 01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:26.920 It's not even just Russia, although the Russian character gets 1435 01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:31.640 roasted alive non stop. So does England, so does the 1436 01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:35.279 Middle East. Everybody gets if you notice, he's not Grandpa 1437 01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:38.960 buff isn't racist against anyone. He's racist against everyone. He's 1438 01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.319 fueled off of hatred and and I support that. 1439 01:17:41.479 --> 01:17:46.239 You know, dude was built to in everything. I'm pretty 1440 01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:48.920 sure he was the one that that dropped the A bombs. 1441 01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:52.520 I might be wrong. I don't actually know what plane 1442 01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:54.880 or what air platform the bombs are dropped out of, 1443 01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:55.880 now that you mention it. 1444 01:17:56.520 --> 01:18:02.039 I'm pretty Oh, Eleanor I think was the name. 1445 01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:05.239 It was like either Eleanor or eluis whatever that was 1446 01:18:05.239 --> 01:18:09.399 the name of the plane. 1447 01:18:10.479 --> 01:18:11.800 I knew the name of it, but I do not 1448 01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:14.399 know if that was A B fifty two or what 1449 01:18:14.560 --> 01:18:20.239 I think. Ane. Yeah, I know they had to modify 1450 01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:22.439 the bay doors to fit that fat bitch out of there. 1451 01:18:22.479 --> 01:18:23.880 But like, yeah, it was. It was. 1452 01:18:23.960 --> 01:18:26.319 It was a thing, which is funny. It was the 1453 01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:26.960 Marine Corps. 1454 01:18:27.039 --> 01:18:29.920 It was the Marine Corps that invented the the gender 1455 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:35.000 Reville party. And yet so far America it's a weird, 1456 01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:38.720 fucking drend. We have Generaville parties in California and it 1457 01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:40.039 burns half the state down. 1458 01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:43.279 But when we introduced the biggest. 1459 01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:48.159 General Ville party in the entirety of the world, Nagasaki 1460 01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:52.159 in Hiroshima, goat adamized so which was funny enough. 1461 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:56.199 Funny enough that wasn't because of the gender reveals. Sergeant Reckless, 1462 01:18:56.239 --> 01:18:58.520 a foal had nothing to do with the A bombs 1463 01:18:58.560 --> 01:18:59.239 being dropped. 1464 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:02.039 Hip note, but it wasn't a genua villa when we 1465 01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:05.520 introduced Japan to our little boy. And on top of that, 1466 01:19:06.159 --> 01:19:10.359 we actually did more damage with the singdiary bombing ones 1467 01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:12.520 than we actually did with the atomic bomb. There's a 1468 01:19:12.600 --> 01:19:16.319 guy that survived both bombings and his awful boss said, 1469 01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:18.600 there's no fucking way that happened. Yo. 1470 01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:20.840 I also wish that we would have invested more in 1471 01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:23.520 the bat bombs. The Marine Corps general that saw that 1472 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:25.479 and like really wanted to throw some weight behind it. 1473 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:27.640 I thought that was solid. Just put a bunch of 1474 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:31.079 like phosphorus vests on bats and let them roos in 1475 01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:33.159 all the houses in Japan and just set them off 1476 01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:34.960 at once. I thought that was brilliant. 1477 01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:39.920 But he wanted to pull the the olga. 1478 01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:42.600 Yeah, basically he wanted to pull the olga, but this 1479 01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:45.720 time it would have been uh with bats rather than birds. 1480 01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:49.119 It's it's a whole thing, and if anybody's curious about that. Yeah, 1481 01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:51.359 they were like suicide vests for bats. It was a 1482 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:54.760 crazy concept that a dentist came up with. Who happened 1483 01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:57.479 his wife was friends with the first Lady at the time, 1484 01:19:57.880 --> 01:20:01.760 So somehow this dude's designs got to FDR's desk, and 1485 01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:04.319 then he sent it to the War Department and was like, listen, 1486 01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:06.760 I know this sounds crazy, but I think this guy's 1487 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:08.960 got a good idea here. Let's look into it. And 1488 01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:11.880 then somewhere in the mix you're like, uh, or or 1489 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:14.520 we have this Manhattan Project thing that we could do, 1490 01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:16.399 and they're like, yeah, never mind, we're gonna do that instead. 1491 01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:21.000 That'd be that'd be a lot more feasible. Yes, Sam, 1492 01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:23.359 sorry you you brought up the president. 1493 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:26.279 But FDR married his first cousin. 1494 01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:29.920 Yeah, and Teddy Roosevelt, as I like to call him 1495 01:20:29.960 --> 01:20:33.119 Teddy Roosevelt, was that he was the one who actually 1496 01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:39.880 gave uh what what what's the bard's name? Yeah, it 1497 01:20:39.920 --> 01:20:42.239 was Ellanor funny enough, while she his. 1498 01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:44.840 Like fifth cousin too. The Roosevelts be marrying their cousins, 1499 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:45.720 that's like a whole thing. 1500 01:20:46.319 --> 01:20:48.920 That and he was he was crippled, but it was 1501 01:20:49.079 --> 01:20:51.920 purely a political thing to keep the money in the 1502 01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:57.920 family and whatever. She was notoriously she was in the closet, 1503 01:20:57.960 --> 01:21:04.199 but she was banging up her favorite reporter though, the 1504 01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:06.680 chick that she was with. I'm not trying to be main, 1505 01:21:06.800 --> 01:21:09.000 but she looked like a bulldog in the face. She 1506 01:21:09.039 --> 01:21:10.199 could have done so much better. 1507 01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:13.079 I mean, you like what you like, I suppose. I mean, 1508 01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:17.359 who am I to judge, you know whatever. Yeah, anyway, 1509 01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:19.399 as we're talking about the military things, and we did 1510 01:21:19.439 --> 01:21:21.239 bring up the UK and a couple of those articles. 1511 01:21:21.720 --> 01:21:23.479 I also found it interesting that in the last two 1512 01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:26.119 weeks that I haven't been on this and reporting about things, 1513 01:21:26.119 --> 01:21:29.279 the UK has now started to offer a military gap 1514 01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:32.880 year to boost recruitment. The UK has been suffering as 1515 01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:36.000 far as there are military recruitment numbers go. So basically 1516 01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:39.359 they're offering a one year trial run. Of course, BBC 1517 01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:41.520 is going to do this to me a that's what 1518 01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:45.640 she said. They're offering a one year gap year, like 1519 01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:49.079 a trial run to their young people to basically, you 1520 01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:51.720 get one year in the military and if you decide 1521 01:21:51.720 --> 01:21:54.399 the military is not for you, you get out free 1522 01:21:54.439 --> 01:21:56.479 and clear, no harm, no foul. Thank you for your 1523 01:21:56.520 --> 01:21:59.439 one year of service, and they're doing this instead of 1524 01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:02.439 conscript as a way to try to boost their numbers. 1525 01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:06.239 It hasn't been passing the law just yet, but they are. 1526 01:22:06.399 --> 01:22:08.760 They're leaning more heavily towards that being the way they're 1527 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:12.680 going to do things moving forward. I could see that 1528 01:22:12.800 --> 01:22:17.800 working out relatively well for them. However, you're talking about 1529 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:21.560 getting the youngsters of your country to put down whatever 1530 01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:25.520 substance is their preferred method of choice and get into 1531 01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:30.840 a strict, regimented lifestyle for one year. Maybe yes, maybe no, 1532 01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:34.399 who's to say. So, we'll see how it goes. But 1533 01:22:34.520 --> 01:22:37.720 as far as everything the UK, the gap year, we'll 1534 01:22:37.720 --> 01:22:41.119 see if it boosts their recruitment. Anyway, moving on here, 1535 01:22:41.279 --> 01:22:44.920 let's talk about some China and Taiwan. Because as much 1536 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:49.600 as everybody's talking about Venezuela being a push against Russia, 1537 01:22:49.640 --> 01:22:52.119 and I'm not saying that it's not, I also think 1538 01:22:52.159 --> 01:22:55.199 this was a multi pronged situation here. I also think 1539 01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:57.800 that this had something to do with China and Taiwan, 1540 01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:01.720 especially because of the China Chinese diplomats that were in 1541 01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:05.960 Venezuela in Caracas when Maduro was snatched. But let's talk 1542 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:08.720 about it here the PLA, which is a silly name 1543 01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:12.239 for the Chinese Communist Party's Army, the People's Liberation Army. 1544 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:16.760 They're Justice Mission twenty twenty five exercise around Taiwan. Let's 1545 01:23:16.760 --> 01:23:18.760 talk about it here, and I have another article pulled 1546 01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:22.319 up from the actual Ministry of National Defense of the 1547 01:23:22.319 --> 01:23:24.800 People's Republic of China, so we're gonna hear both sides 1548 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:28.199 of this situation here. On December twenty ninth and thirtieth, 1549 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:33.159 the People's Republic of China just just west Taiwan military 1550 01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:36.079 forces carried out large scale exercises in the air and 1551 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:40.479 ocean areas around Taiwan titled Justice Mission twenty twenty five. 1552 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:43.840 As announced at the outset of the exercise by the 1553 01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:47.199 PLA's Eastern Theater Command, the drills would focus on sea 1554 01:23:47.279 --> 01:23:52.520 and air combat readiness, patrols, seizing comprehensive superiority, blockading key 1555 01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:57.359 ports and territory, and three dimensional external giant deterrence ER 1556 01:23:57.479 --> 01:24:00.920 line rather than smudge on my thing, the maritime regent 1557 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:05.239 around Taiwan. This represents the second major maritime exercise in 1558 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:10.039 twenty twenty five, after April's Straight Thunder twenty twenty five exercise. 1559 01:24:10.319 --> 01:24:13.439 Conducted by forces of the PRC's People Liberation Army and 1560 01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:18.439 PLA around Taiwan. It continued and encirclement and blockade theme, 1561 01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:21.840 and that first emerged clearly in the twenty twenty three 1562 01:24:21.960 --> 01:24:26.319 twenty twenty four Joint Sword Exercises quote unquote. It also 1563 01:24:26.359 --> 01:24:33.000 demonstrated a continuing propaganda propaganda come political warfare. I feel 1564 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:35.000 like that might be a translation issue, to be honest. 1565 01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:35.439 The way they. 1566 01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:39.039 Spelled come on that is is wow, that's a that's 1567 01:24:39.079 --> 01:24:44.520 a thing. Propaganda come political warfare, emphasis on PRC military 1568 01:24:44.520 --> 01:24:48.960 operations related to Taiwan, as well as intended deterrent message 1569 01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:52.720 directed against foreign powers that might render a to Taiwan 1570 01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:55.560 in the event of a major crisis. On screen, they 1571 01:24:55.600 --> 01:25:00.119 have an actual article that's written in Cantonese. I don't speak, 1572 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:02.880 but you could see right here on the map this 1573 01:25:03.079 --> 01:25:05.640 is how the blockade went down. And they also had 1574 01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:09.479 air assets doing basically hot laps around the island nation 1575 01:25:10.159 --> 01:25:13.520 for this situation here, so getting back to it here. 1576 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:17.279 Publicly available information on the specific operations conducted in the 1577 01:25:17.279 --> 01:25:22.000 course of Justice Mission twenty twenty five exercise is limited. However, 1578 01:25:22.079 --> 01:25:25.760 the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense provided a 1579 01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:29.319 press briefing that provided some specifics on exercise activity in 1580 01:25:29.399 --> 01:25:33.840 seven identified exercise areas around Taiwan. On December twenty ninth, 1581 01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:36.479 the first day of the exercise saw the heaviest tactical 1582 01:25:36.520 --> 01:25:38.760 air activity. There were a total of one hundred and 1583 01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:43.319 thirty sorties by PLA aircraft directed towards Taiwan. Of these 1584 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.479 ninety sorties crossed the Taiwan straight center line, so ninety 1585 01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:50.159 of these one hundred and thirty absolutely crossed into another 1586 01:25:50.239 --> 01:25:55.000 nation's airspace. A total of fourteen PLA Navy ships conducted 1587 01:25:55.039 --> 01:25:58.800 operations in the vicinity of Taiwan. Of these, eleven ships 1588 01:25:58.960 --> 01:26:02.079 entered the adjoining zon, a phrase that was not further 1589 01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:06.439 defined by MND Shocker I know A total of fourteen 1590 01:26:06.479 --> 01:26:10.920 PRC Coast Guard ships conducted operations around Taiwan or its 1591 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:15.000 outlying islands. Of these eight ships entered the adjoining zone. 1592 01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:17.680 The adjoining zone is in quotes by the way. A 1593 01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:21.079 total of four ships from the Western Pacific Amphibious Assault 1594 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:24.600 Naval Formation operated together in an area approximately eighty five 1595 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:29.439 kilometers east southeast of Taiwan. These ships were not further identified. 1596 01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:34.239 The PLA publicly public publicity article excuse Me, dated December 1597 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:38.159 twenty six appeared to indicate that the Yushian or Yushian 1598 01:26:38.319 --> 01:26:42.760 class type zero seventy five amphibious assault ship hubi QB 1599 01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:45.600 I don't know the whole thirty four, the latest ship 1600 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:48.800 of the plan's newest and largest class of landing helicopter 1601 01:26:48.800 --> 01:26:52.279 assault or LAHA vessels, was involved in the exercise. The 1602 01:26:52.399 --> 01:26:56.840 article stated that that a certain amphibious vessel detachment composed 1603 01:26:56.840 --> 01:26:59.359 of the Hubai and other ships had deployed for the 1604 01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:04.800 disciplinary combat training. WOW. So here we have another image 1605 01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:09.359 of these ships, the blockade, the air assets of how 1606 01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.159 they were circling up around Taiwan in the final week 1607 01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.640 of twenty twenty five. Now in December thirtieth. Per the 1608 01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:19.600 MND the Ministry of National Defense, the PLA exercise activity 1609 01:27:19.640 --> 01:27:22.479 on the second day was broadly divided into three phases. 1610 01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:25.720 The first of these occurred at zero eight hundred local time, 1611 01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:29.279 with live fire drills conducted by naval and air assets 1612 01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:32.479 in sea areas to both the north and south of Taiwan. 1613 01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:36.680 The second phase, conducted from zero nine to thirteen hundred hours, 1614 01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:39.439 consisted of a series of long range rocket firings from 1615 01:27:39.560 --> 01:27:44.359 locations in ping Tan and shishi Okay or Jiji, I 1616 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:48.760 don't know, in Fujian province, seventeen rockets that impacted in 1617 01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:52.720 Exercise Zone number one north of Taiwan, and ten ex 1618 01:27:53.199 --> 01:27:57.399 rockets into Exercise Zone number three, which is west southwest 1619 01:27:57.399 --> 01:28:01.359 of Taiwan and the port of Koshi. I'm horrible at 1620 01:28:01.399 --> 01:28:02.319 these pronunciations. 1621 01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:05.840 Forgive me people, Yes, how shown you got it? Oh? 1622 01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:09.560 Hell yeah. The specific firing platforms were not identified, but 1623 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:13.880 likely were PHL sixteen PCL one ninety one multiple rocket 1624 01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:18.159 launcher systems batteries operated by the PLA ground Force capable 1625 01:28:18.199 --> 01:28:20.359 of firing guide to rockets up to two hundred and 1626 01:28:20.399 --> 01:28:23.680 eighty kilometers. The Ministry of National Defense indicated that a 1627 01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:26.600 total of ten rockets landed within the waters of Taiwan's 1628 01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:30.600 contiguous Zone, making them to date the closest PLA projectiles 1629 01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:34.800 to land near Taiwan's coast. The third third phase here 1630 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:39.880 commencing in the fifteen hundred hours or three PM, consisted 1631 01:28:39.920 --> 01:28:43.680 of tactical air activity and continued naval drills. PLA air 1632 01:28:43.720 --> 01:28:46.600 activity was significantly reduced on the second day, with a 1633 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:49.720 total of seventy one sorties by the PLA aircraft not 1634 01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:54.319 further delineated by type, directed toward Taiwan. Of these, thirty 1635 01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:57.680 five sorties crossed the Taiwan Straight center line. A total 1636 01:28:57.720 --> 01:29:02.359 of thirteen plan and fifteen Coast Guard vessels conducted operations 1637 01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:05.520 in the vicinity of Taiwan. Of these, eleven PLA and 1638 01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:09.600 eight Coast Guard vessels entered the adjoining zone. The four 1639 01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:13.600 amphibious ships continued operations in the east southeast of Taiwan. 1640 01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:17.359 Per video on PRC State medium. Some of the personnel 1641 01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:21.560 on these ships conducted drills involving infantry possibly PLA, Navy, 1642 01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:25.840 Marine Corps or Special Forces personnel boarding helicopters for possible 1643 01:29:25.960 --> 01:29:30.199 simulated raids and door facility seizure drills. So here is 1644 01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:33.319 a clip or at least a picture of the footage 1645 01:29:33.319 --> 01:29:37.359 of one of these projectiles impacting the waters, and this 1646 01:29:37.479 --> 01:29:41.960 is the dudes getting onto these helicopters. Political and propaganda 1647 01:29:41.960 --> 01:29:45.760 elements of the exercise, As is always the case of 1648 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:49.880 the PLA military exercise around Taiwan, the intended psychological and 1649 01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:53.640 political warfare component is a primary factor, one that trumps 1650 01:29:53.680 --> 01:29:58.880 even the practical military value and the exercise training evolutions. Accordingly, 1651 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:01.600 propaganda played a key role in the PRC government messaging 1652 01:30:01.720 --> 01:30:07.800 surrounding the exercise, although in a less strident tone than 1653 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:11.000 the observed earlier in twenty twenty five. At the outset 1654 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.000 of the exercise, the PLA Eastern Theater Command issued a 1655 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:17.840 statement that it represented a stern warning against Taiwan independence, 1656 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:22.199 separatist forces and foreign interference forces, and is a legitimate 1657 01:30:22.199 --> 01:30:27.079 and necessary action to defend national sovereignty and uphold national unification. 1658 01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:31.119 At the December twenty ninth PRC Foreign Ministry Press Conference, 1659 01:30:31.159 --> 01:30:36.199 spoke person Lin Jian linked the exercise with alleged separatist 1660 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:40.079 actions by the administration of Taiwan President la Chi te 1661 01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:44.640 Ling ching tey Yeah, as well as mid December announcement 1662 01:30:44.680 --> 01:30:47.640 of the US government approval of an eleven point one 1663 01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:51.359 billion United States dollar package of arm sales to Taiwan. 1664 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:55.000 Lynn stated, there is a quote here. The drills are 1665 01:30:55.039 --> 01:30:58.520 a punitive and deterrent action against separatist forces who seek 1666 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:01.920 Taiwan independence through milli military build up in a necessary 1667 01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:05.800 mood to safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let 1668 01:31:05.840 --> 01:31:09.199 me stress that to advance their separatist's agenda. The DPP 1669 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:12.960 authorities are turning Taiwan into a powder keg. Their massive 1670 01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:16.239 and desperate arms purchase further revealed their and true nature 1671 01:31:16.279 --> 01:31:22.119 as provocateurs, saboteurs of peace, and warmongerers. Anyone who tries 1672 01:31:22.159 --> 01:31:26.279 to arm Taiwan to contain China will only embolden the 1673 01:31:26.279 --> 01:31:29.199 separatists and push Taiwan straight closer to the peril of 1674 01:31:29.359 --> 01:31:36.079 armed conflict. I know I'm gonna sound crazy for this, 1675 01:31:36.199 --> 01:31:40.640 but when is the last time Taiwan tried to invade 1676 01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:43.800 China or tried to make some sort of a claim 1677 01:31:43.960 --> 01:31:48.479 into sovereign Chinese territory. I know that China acknowledges Taiwan 1678 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:50.680 to be theirs, That's just not the case. They can 1679 01:31:50.760 --> 01:31:53.359 acknowledge it all they want. That's the math is still 1680 01:31:53.399 --> 01:31:56.640 the math here. Taiwan is rammed by people who like democracy. 1681 01:31:57.039 --> 01:31:59.600 China's ramm by people that are like communism. They had 1682 01:31:59.640 --> 01:32:02.199 their big they're big separation way back in the day, 1683 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:05.800 and it seems as though Taiwan just wants to do 1684 01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:09.279 them so of all of that, China is doing this 1685 01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:12.199 whole circle song and dance thing. It seems like one 1686 01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:14.399 of these Nations is more of an aggressor than the other. 1687 01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:16.880 I could be wrong, Tony way. 1688 01:32:16.760 --> 01:32:20.760 In, I was gonna say, you're wondering, when's the last 1689 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:23.720 time Taiwan was thinking of taking over China. It was 1690 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:27.439 around nineteen sixty because that's when the Great Famine happened, 1691 01:32:27.880 --> 01:32:30.720 and they thought they could get US support to go 1692 01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:33.520 back and they'd be greeted as liberators. And the US 1693 01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:36.560 told him, whoa pipe down there. We don't think you 1694 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:37.159 can do it. 1695 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:42.439 So sixty years ago, yeah, sixty years ago. We were 1696 01:32:42.439 --> 01:32:45.359 in Vietnam at that point. Like it's been a hop 1697 01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:46.520 and a skip of time here. 1698 01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:49.680 Yeah, like not even so much in Vietnam quite yet, 1699 01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:54.680 but we'd gotten done with Korea, and basically Nixon went 1700 01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:59.920 over in nineteen seventy two and he recognized mainland China's 1701 01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:04.439 the one China. Now both China and Taiwan believe in 1702 01:33:04.479 --> 01:33:06.600 one China, but they can't agree on what it means. 1703 01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:08.479 That's the status. 1704 01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:11.920 Yeah, and I mean that's fair, But I have a 1705 01:33:12.039 --> 01:33:14.680 hard time believing right now that Taiwan would try to 1706 01:33:14.680 --> 01:33:17.319 make a push in the mainland China, especially as China 1707 01:33:17.319 --> 01:33:21.439 has got border disputes with every one of their neighbors aside. 1708 01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:23.479 Actually no, and I think about it. Russia even has 1709 01:33:23.479 --> 01:33:25.720 some border disputes with China. They I don't know if 1710 01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:27.399 they've settled them or not. Last I heard it was 1711 01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:29.880 still kind of They pretty much acknowledge it's the thing, 1712 01:33:29.880 --> 01:33:31.319 but they're just kind of kicking the can down the 1713 01:33:31.399 --> 01:33:34.439 road a bit. So, I mean that's been China's jim 1714 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:35.520 for a few years now. 1715 01:33:36.439 --> 01:33:39.680 Yeah, Taiwan's definitely not going to invade. In fact, the 1716 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:45.439 KMT the gwoman TOG is more pro unification now than 1717 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:47.920 some of the other parties whose names I can't remember. 1718 01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:51.239 Fair and that's the opposite of the way they used 1719 01:33:51.239 --> 01:33:53.920 to be sixty years ago. And I would say China 1720 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:56.800 and Russia have really buried the hatchet and they seem 1721 01:33:57.199 --> 01:33:59.399 very friendly with each other right now. That's all I 1722 01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:00.239 gotta say about that. 1723 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.640 No, no doubt, no doubt, Sam, But you got a 1724 01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:04.000 big dog. 1725 01:34:06.079 --> 01:34:07.239 It's so it's a two parter. 1726 01:34:08.359 --> 01:34:12.279 First off, where's the Mongolian Horde when you need them? 1727 01:34:12.520 --> 01:34:16.920 And second off, all is China trying to start another 1728 01:34:17.079 --> 01:34:19.840 Sino Asian war because they've ever been in a se 1729 01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:23.319 like the first U Sino Japanese war was was actually 1730 01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:27.840 over Korea. And then it's funny I have Asian family 1731 01:34:28.560 --> 01:34:32.279 for majority of the Asian Peninsula and all. So the 1732 01:34:32.279 --> 01:34:34.600 way I say it is, I got family killing family 1733 01:34:34.640 --> 01:34:38.760 in all the wars. But I personally believe that China 1734 01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:42.399 they should they should have just kept the emperor, and 1735 01:34:42.720 --> 01:34:44.960 because it seems like when they were when they had 1736 01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:47.840 the the Emperor, things was going a whole lot better 1737 01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:52.880 than they are now. Also, I China, China has been 1738 01:34:52.880 --> 01:34:55.600 trying to they want to be the they they so 1739 01:34:56.680 --> 01:34:59.199 each faction of like the Asians, I say faction because 1740 01:34:59.239 --> 01:35:04.439 they're scat. They they are all racists, like ultra extremely 1741 01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:08.840 racist to each other. China, China and Japan they fucking 1742 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:12.560 hate each other even though like the first people on 1743 01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:17.119 the Japanese mainland and everything immigrated from like they came 1744 01:35:17.119 --> 01:35:19.520 on little small ass boats from China. 1745 01:35:20.640 --> 01:35:22.720 So I mean, if we're gonna go that route, Japan, 1746 01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:26.479 they're racist against other Japanese people, light skin versus bark 1747 01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:27.239 skin Japanese. 1748 01:35:27.640 --> 01:35:28.920 That's what I'm trying to say. 1749 01:35:29.039 --> 01:35:31.960 Like if you're froming the city, the more quote unquote 1750 01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:34.920 whiter you are, the more beautiful you are. But yet 1751 01:35:35.119 --> 01:35:39.760 they fucking hate Gaijin's which is their world for foreigners 1752 01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:43.159 because and that's the thing that Japan was isolated for 1753 01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.560 over five hundred years. The only way that they could 1754 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:49.039 do business with other people is if they left mainland 1755 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:52.520 Japan went to a boarding a little island and did 1756 01:35:52.560 --> 01:35:53.680 the market that way. 1757 01:35:53.880 --> 01:35:57.399 But if you were a Japanese and you got you. 1758 01:35:57.439 --> 01:36:00.800 Got sent off, whatever, your boat got lost while fishing, 1759 01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:04.279 and you try to come back, they'd kill you that you. 1760 01:36:04.439 --> 01:36:06.880 Now an xil. Do you know who else does that? 1761 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:07.640 Like? 1762 01:36:07.760 --> 01:36:13.520 Even today still does that? The North the North Sentinel Island. 1763 01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:17.840 Well Island, they're pretty much uncontacted right exactly. 1764 01:36:18.119 --> 01:36:18.399 Yes. 1765 01:36:18.880 --> 01:36:21.239 And the reason why I say that is because I've 1766 01:36:21.279 --> 01:36:24.399 been do I've been watching videos of them. There was 1767 01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:28.399 a fissure of theirs that got injured or whatever, he got 1768 01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:32.760 picked up, like his boat sailed to a neighboring island 1769 01:36:32.880 --> 01:36:33.920 and he tried to come back. 1770 01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:36.119 They immediately filled him full of arrows. Even though they 1771 01:36:36.199 --> 01:36:36.880 know who he was. 1772 01:36:36.960 --> 01:36:40.000 They the way they saw was that you left, you're unclean, 1773 01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:41.000 You're gonna die. 1774 01:36:42.239 --> 01:36:44.760 And we don't really know what the culture of them 1775 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:47.319 of that island is. We don't know if they think 1776 01:36:47.319 --> 01:36:49.520 that once you're gone, you come back, you're like possessed 1777 01:36:49.560 --> 01:36:52.319 by a demon or if you're uncle. So like we 1778 01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:53.439 don't actually know. 1779 01:36:54.720 --> 01:36:57.119 It's because that at the point in time, there was 1780 01:36:57.159 --> 01:36:59.920 neighboring tribes around them, like on other islands that they've 1781 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:04.479 watched when the big ass ships came Europeans, Indians and what. 1782 01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:05.479 The fuck ever have you? 1783 01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:09.119 When they came over, they saw their neighbors, whose numbers 1784 01:37:09.119 --> 01:37:12.279 were like tens of thousands, get completely wiped out. Now 1785 01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:17.680 the the North of Centilyese tribe there's only sixty. 1786 01:37:17.279 --> 01:37:17.880 Of them left. 1787 01:37:18.600 --> 01:37:21.399 Yeah, yeah, So I mean. 1788 01:37:22.439 --> 01:37:24.239 Like they they even like. 1789 01:37:24.680 --> 01:37:27.119 They're in bringing themselves to extinction at this point. 1790 01:37:27.840 --> 01:37:28.279 There's that. 1791 01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:31.560 But you can ask, are they a human zoo or 1792 01:37:31.560 --> 01:37:34.159 do they see us as the human zoo? It's a 1793 01:37:34.199 --> 01:37:38.720 philosophical questions, fair human zoos. The last one we that 1794 01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:43.079 America had was in the Bronx in the early nineteen 1795 01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:47.880 hundreds where the the dwarf pygmy dude. 1796 01:37:48.199 --> 01:37:51.439 So yeah, But to your point, as far as the 1797 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:55.119 Asian countries are concerned, h I don't think China is 1798 01:37:55.159 --> 01:38:00.359 trying to restart Chinese Sino war Sino war. I think 1799 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:04.920 that they are trying to push into every nation right now, 1800 01:38:04.920 --> 01:38:11.239 they have border disputes with India, Mongolia, Nepal to bet 1801 01:38:12.199 --> 01:38:14.600 I would say Pakistan, but not exactly. They've kind of 1802 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:18.640 like struck a deal with them instead. Every one of 1803 01:38:18.640 --> 01:38:23.159 their neighboring countries, with the exception of Russia and North Korea, 1804 01:38:23.399 --> 01:38:25.479 they are pretty much slowly but surely trying to push 1805 01:38:25.479 --> 01:38:28.039 in to expand their territories. And they've been doing that 1806 01:38:28.119 --> 01:38:30.560 for quite some time now. To your point about where 1807 01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.600 they better off when the emperor was in charge, a 1808 01:38:33.640 --> 01:38:36.720 little yes, a little no, right whenever it was still 1809 01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:39.239 under some sort of a monarchical rule, and I'll just 1810 01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:42.159 use that term very loosely here. Yeah, they had more food, 1811 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:44.039 they have more farms and things like that. When the 1812 01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:48.479 Communist revolution took over, they became an industrial powerhouse, which 1813 01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:50.960 is why they have. Everything we have is made in 1814 01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:53.880 China for the cheap labor. However, that also led to 1815 01:38:53.960 --> 01:38:57.399 farms being abandoned, and now China has food shortages, which 1816 01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:00.359 is why they have such an issue with America sanctioning them. 1817 01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:03.199 And they're no longer allowed to or they weren't at 1818 01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:07.239 a time allowed or able to buy American food stores. 1819 01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:09.560 So that they were not starving by any means, but 1820 01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:13.239 also they were. Things are looking pretty tumultuous there for 1821 01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:15.920 a little minute. Now the deal is back on where 1822 01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:18.000 we have, you know, the soy farmers are back in 1823 01:39:18.079 --> 01:39:20.079 action and they're selling soy back to China and all 1824 01:39:20.119 --> 01:39:25.359 the stuff. But China had a thriving agricultural industry until 1825 01:39:25.439 --> 01:39:29.520 the Industrial revolution. Therefore, the communist revolution took over in 1826 01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:32.920 that country. So, on one hand, where they better off? 1827 01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:36.000 I guess it depends on perspective, right, because now they 1828 01:39:36.039 --> 01:39:39.159 have first world amenities, but they also may or may 1829 01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:40.479 not have food security. 1830 01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:45.079 But they have often lost a lot of their cultural identity, 1831 01:39:45.239 --> 01:39:51.279 and yet they own a million agricultural acres here in America. 1832 01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:55.600 I personal believe no country should own not even a 1833 01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:57.239 parcel of land in ours. 1834 01:39:57.600 --> 01:40:03.439 Oh, I fully agree with that, And I I don't hate. 1835 01:40:03.600 --> 01:40:08.279 I don't hate any of my fellow Asians or whatever, like, 1836 01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:11.840 I don't hate anyone really, but I do say that 1837 01:40:12.520 --> 01:40:16.479 they need to go from the communistic ideals and back 1838 01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:21.319 into loving themselves but not fucking killing off their the 1839 01:40:21.439 --> 01:40:23.439 unborn daughter because they can't have another one. 1840 01:40:23.680 --> 01:40:26.199 Well, the one child policy went away, that the one 1841 01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:28.359 child policy went away a couple of years back, but 1842 01:40:28.439 --> 01:40:31.520 even still, they they screwed themselves out of their biggest 1843 01:40:32.159 --> 01:40:35.880 Their biggest asset was their manpower, and for give or 1844 01:40:35.960 --> 01:40:39.039 take twenty years, they screwed themselves out of it. And 1845 01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:41.640 now they realize what that's gonna look like in another 1846 01:40:41.720 --> 01:40:45.399 twenty years when these kids are entering the middle aged 1847 01:40:45.439 --> 01:40:47.920 workforce and they're not gonna have enough people to back 1848 01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:50.239 the jobs that they need. And I think that's also 1849 01:40:50.279 --> 01:40:53.920 why China is leaning so heavily into AI and robotics 1850 01:40:53.960 --> 01:40:56.920 right now to try to replace the workforce and manpower 1851 01:40:56.920 --> 01:40:58.479 that they screwed themselves out of. 1852 01:40:59.319 --> 01:41:03.960 Also, do you see how those two engineers quote unquote 1853 01:41:04.199 --> 01:41:08.279 they destroyed a part of the Jing dynasty's wall, the 1854 01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:10.279 part that the Jing dynasty made. 1855 01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:17.159 They mysteriously disappeared after that. Funny how that works. 1856 01:41:16.880 --> 01:41:19.920 Think I think they got put inside the wall, cause 1857 01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:22.640 China they'd be putting people in the wall. 1858 01:41:22.920 --> 01:41:24.319 I mean back in the day they did. But that 1859 01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:26.319 was also with a lot of slave labor. So I mean, 1860 01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:28.319 what was it, you know, nothing else? 1861 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:31.239 Wow, twenty twenty six, and yet China Steel ones off 1862 01:41:31.239 --> 01:41:33.079 off of slave labor. 1863 01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:35.960 This is a fair point. It's a very fair point, 1864 01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:38.600 so getting back to it here, it says Taiwan's Mainland 1865 01:41:38.600 --> 01:41:41.920 Affairs Council issued a December twenty nine statement that put 1866 01:41:41.960 --> 01:41:44.880 the exercise in the context of the Chinese Communist parties 1867 01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:49.319 provocative and coercive military actions against Taiwan and stated that 1868 01:41:49.399 --> 01:41:53.439 their exercise quote not only seriously threatened the stability of 1869 01:41:53.479 --> 01:41:56.359 the status quot across the Taiwan Strait, but also posed 1870 01:41:56.359 --> 01:41:59.720 a significant challenge to regional security, once again demonstrating that 1871 01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:03.319 the Sea DC is the troublemaker undermining peace across the 1872 01:42:03.359 --> 01:42:07.800 Taiwan Straight. The CCP seeks to closer or speaks of 1873 01:42:07.920 --> 01:42:12.000 closer ties, yet on the other resorts to military intimidation. 1874 01:42:12.279 --> 01:42:15.039 On the one hand, it proclaims that people on both 1875 01:42:15.039 --> 01:42:18.199 sides of the Taiwan Straight belonged to one family, yet 1876 01:42:18.319 --> 01:42:21.640 on the other turns its military might against Taiwan. This 1877 01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:24.319 once again demonstrates that the people of Taiwan must harbor 1878 01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:27.279 no illusions about the CCP. To that point, I actually 1879 01:42:27.319 --> 01:42:30.159 have to agree with them. Regional governments have expressed concerns 1880 01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:33.319 over the exercise and measured terms. For example, Japan's government, 1881 01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:37.000 which has been on the receiving end of hospital PRC 1882 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:41.039 diplomatic campaign since early November, made a statement December thirty 1883 01:42:41.079 --> 01:42:44.399 first that the military drills quote constitute actions that increase 1884 01:42:44.479 --> 01:42:47.920 tensions across the Taiwan Straight and that quote peace and 1885 01:42:47.960 --> 01:42:51.039 stability across the Taiwan Straight are important for the international 1886 01:42:51.039 --> 01:42:54.840 community as a whole end quote. US President Donald Trump 1887 01:42:55.079 --> 01:42:58.920 downplayed the significance of the exercise and comments that emphasized 1888 01:42:59.119 --> 01:43:03.399 a personal relationship with CCP General Secretary Jijiping. This direct 1889 01:43:03.479 --> 01:43:06.039 quote from Trump here, well, I have a great relationship 1890 01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:08.279 with President g He hasn't told me anything about it. 1891 01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:10.520 I certainly haven't seen it, but he hasn't told me 1892 01:43:10.520 --> 01:43:12.520 anything about it, And I don't believe he's going to 1893 01:43:12.520 --> 01:43:14.960 be doing it, even though they literally just did this 1894 01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:18.600 massive operation. Here, what we see right now on screen 1895 01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:22.279 is a picture of a PRC propaganda graphic showing the 1896 01:43:22.319 --> 01:43:26.800 location of the PRC's coastcar patrols around Taiwan during the exercise, 1897 01:43:27.119 --> 01:43:31.680 depicting them as a traditional Chinese marriage not This continues 1898 01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:35.960 a longer term trend in the PRC's stalker propaganda directed 1899 01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:40.239 towards Taiwan, which attempts to depict menacing PRC actions as 1900 01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:44.680 being affectionate in nature. Yeah, that's not creepy. No, that's 1901 01:43:44.720 --> 01:43:49.000 not creepy at all. But like, okay, yeah, to say 1902 01:43:49.079 --> 01:43:53.720 that's stalker propaganda, that's funny. I like that. That checks 1903 01:43:53.720 --> 01:43:56.800 out to me personally, But all right. The customary New 1904 01:43:56.840 --> 01:44:00.920 Year's Address for twenty twenty six, the Xijuping, released December 1905 01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:03.560 thirty first, made no mention of the exercise. However, she 1906 01:44:03.800 --> 01:44:06.520 did extol the PRC's move in twenty twenty five to 1907 01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:11.520 create the quote Commemoration Day of Taiwan's Restoration, a further 1908 01:44:11.640 --> 01:44:15.640 narrative effort to link China's asserted sovereignty over Taiwan with 1909 01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:18.520 victory in World War II. He also made a standard 1910 01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:23.680 exhortation that for crosstrate compatriots, blood is thicker than water, 1911 01:44:24.119 --> 01:44:27.840 and the historical trend of reunification of that fatherland cannot 1912 01:44:27.880 --> 01:44:31.960 be stopped. You know, it's very interesting that he would 1913 01:44:32.039 --> 01:44:35.239 use that quote, because for those that don't know blood 1914 01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:38.159 is thicker than water. That's actually a part of a 1915 01:44:38.239 --> 01:44:42.000 longer quote. The blood of the covenant is thicker than 1916 01:44:42.039 --> 01:44:48.560 the water of shit, the water of the water of 1917 01:44:48.600 --> 01:44:48.960 the womb. 1918 01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:52.039 Thank you, the blood of the coment is thicker than 1919 01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:54.119 the waters of the mom of the room, Meaning the 1920 01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:58.039 allegiance or the comments of the funds or whatever you 1921 01:44:58.159 --> 01:45:01.079 make is more important in only then the blood ties 1922 01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:02.960 that you're born into agreed. 1923 01:45:03.439 --> 01:45:05.159 So for him to say that the blood is thicker 1924 01:45:05.199 --> 01:45:08.439 than the water here, he's basically, whether he realizes it 1925 01:45:08.560 --> 01:45:12.000 or not, he's acknowledging that, Hey, even if they are relatives, 1926 01:45:12.119 --> 01:45:14.680 if they're trying to do their own thing, that is 1927 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:18.600 stronger than them being our relatives. I think it's very funny. 1928 01:45:18.640 --> 01:45:22.159 A lot of people use that not knowing the actual 1929 01:45:22.239 --> 01:45:26.039 quote is more or less turning from family ties for 1930 01:45:26.199 --> 01:45:28.479 those that you call family rather than those that are 1931 01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:33.640 your family. But I digress. Anyway, Now we've heard from 1932 01:45:33.640 --> 01:45:38.079 the Taiwan side of things. This is the China statement 1933 01:45:38.119 --> 01:45:40.159 on it. It's very quick, it's very small. Here a 1934 01:45:40.199 --> 01:45:42.960 Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China. 1935 01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:46.760 This is their homepage. Here. Chinese PLA Eastern Theater Command 1936 01:45:46.840 --> 01:45:51.239 completes quote Justice Mission twenty twenty five in quote military Drills. 1937 01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.520 Senior Captain Li Ji, spokesperson of the Chinese PLA Eastern 1938 01:45:55.560 --> 01:45:58.960 Theater Command. The Chinese PLA Eastern Theater Command has successfully 1939 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:02.760 completed Justice Mission twenty twenty five military drills and fully 1940 01:46:02.800 --> 01:46:06.760 tested the integrated joint operation capabilities of its troops. The 1941 01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:09.399 troops of the PLA Eastern Theater Command will remain on 1942 01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:12.880 high alert at all times, keeping strengthening combat readiness through 1943 01:46:13.000 --> 01:46:18.279 arduous training, resolutely thwart the attempts of Taiwan independence, separatists 1944 01:46:18.279 --> 01:46:23.439 and external intervention, and firmly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. 1945 01:46:24.520 --> 01:46:27.399 So as taiwan Is like listing out their feelings on this, 1946 01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:31.439 that was China's real statement to the whole thing. I 1947 01:46:31.479 --> 01:46:36.319 thought that was. That was pretty hilarious, honestly. Anyway, Now 1948 01:46:36.520 --> 01:46:40.359 let's talk about some some homeward things as far as 1949 01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:42.680 the United States is concerned. Actually, before I do, let 1950 01:46:42.680 --> 01:46:44.600 me go ahead and check the chat and see if 1951 01:46:44.600 --> 01:46:47.800 there's anything else a bruin over here. Uh, let's see 1952 01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:51.159 here by Papa, hold on, y'all, y'all done posted a 1953 01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:56.079 few things here. Roy soft asleep appreciates you. We're talking 1954 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:58.960 about the UK. Sam had mentioned beans on falaffel. Yeah, 1955 01:46:58.960 --> 01:47:01.159 they're no longer beans on too, the beans on falafel now, 1956 01:47:01.760 --> 01:47:04.119 uh speared animal will also post it. What is this 1957 01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:09.079 Walls urges Americans to take to the streets. Yeah, Walls 1958 01:47:09.119 --> 01:47:11.680 is also not seeking reelection because of all the corruption 1959 01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:14.199 charges that he knew about and turned a blind eye to. 1960 01:47:14.439 --> 01:47:16.920 So that's good, isn't he isn't he also being uh 1961 01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:18.640 not not it's not treason. 1962 01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:21.199 But isn't he being a charged with a sedition? 1963 01:47:21.800 --> 01:47:24.840 Yeah? There, Well, at least there's there's a possibility of 1964 01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:26.920 that going through. They're they're in the work of that 1965 01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:27.479 right now. 1966 01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:33.079 So I know for treason you can leave the preferred 1967 01:47:33.399 --> 01:47:36.800 the Founding Father's preferred method to deal with treason is hanging. 1968 01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:40.439 Though they're not going to hang anybody these days. But 1969 01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:42.319 and honestly don't even think they'll give him the death 1970 01:47:42.319 --> 01:47:44.760 penalty for it. They'll just probably remove him and he'll 1971 01:47:44.920 --> 01:47:46.560 serve some prison sentence or something. 1972 01:47:47.159 --> 01:47:50.640 I believe if you, if you do sedition, espionage, or 1973 01:47:50.680 --> 01:47:53.520 in treason of any sort of any kind, you should 1974 01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:54.640 get the death penalty. 1975 01:47:55.199 --> 01:47:57.239 And I say that, and. 1976 01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:02.880 Like I understand my views are kind of a are 1977 01:48:02.920 --> 01:48:07.880 not typical, but I feel like you should hold God 1978 01:48:07.960 --> 01:48:11.239 and the country that you were born into above more 1979 01:48:11.279 --> 01:48:14.159 than money and if you, if you can, I do 1980 01:48:14.319 --> 01:48:17.479 understand every man has his price, but you shouldn't sell 1981 01:48:17.520 --> 01:48:20.800 out your fellow countrymen and your morals just for cheddar 1982 01:48:21.119 --> 01:48:22.000 and agree. 1983 01:48:22.279 --> 01:48:25.840 But tell that to all the politicians in DC. I 1984 01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:27.960 agree with your statement, just so we're clear. I think 1985 01:48:28.000 --> 01:48:30.920 that you are on the money here, but also pretty 1986 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:34.880 much every elected offical ninety ninety five percent of all 1987 01:48:34.920 --> 01:48:37.720 elected officials would would go the opposite way of what 1988 01:48:37.760 --> 01:48:38.239 you're saying. 1989 01:48:38.760 --> 01:48:40.479 I think we should bring back decimation. 1990 01:48:41.800 --> 01:48:43.560 I think we should bring back what they do. Have 1991 01:48:43.600 --> 01:48:46.119 you ever seen how Taiwan's parliament goes down? 1992 01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:49.640 Yeah, they will cane their their politicians. 1993 01:48:49.960 --> 01:48:53.000 They and fart out of each other on national television 1994 01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:55.039 when they get a little too uppity. I think we 1995 01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:56.279 should bring that back. 1996 01:48:57.079 --> 01:48:59.920 I don't I don't understand Mannarin or Cantonese or whatever 1997 01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.000 the hell they speak over there, but I would watch 1998 01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:03.600 the parliament because it's funny as hell. 1999 01:49:04.279 --> 01:49:07.079 But I also think that. 2000 01:49:08.800 --> 01:49:11.520 I believe there's too many people in politics and politics 2001 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:15.000 that's that never served their country, and that is a 2002 01:49:15.039 --> 01:49:18.359 detriment because it's the fucking politicians that got more of 2003 01:49:18.359 --> 01:49:21.760 our boys killed in Vietnam than the fucking enemy did. 2004 01:49:22.039 --> 01:49:24.039 Oh no, I'm I'm a firm believer that. And I 2005 01:49:24.079 --> 01:49:27.560 don't mean just uh, serving in the military, even serving 2006 01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:31.800 your community in any regard right as our first responder. 2007 01:49:32.039 --> 01:49:34.960 I'll even give a credence to teachers and medical staffers, 2008 01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:37.399 like there's there's more than one way to serve your 2009 01:49:37.399 --> 01:49:40.000 community and serve your satan, serve your country. I agree 2010 01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:43.720 with you one hundred percent, But unfortunately most of the politicians, 2011 01:49:43.920 --> 01:49:47.039 like I can't tell you how many of these dudes 2012 01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:50.199 I've looked into and they were from a well to 2013 01:49:50.239 --> 01:49:53.079 do family. They were going to law school so that 2014 01:49:53.119 --> 01:49:55.039 they could be a lawyer for a couple of years, 2015 01:49:55.359 --> 01:49:57.079 and then they were gonna make their way into a 2016 01:49:57.159 --> 01:49:59.720 local political realm, then work their way to the state level, 2017 01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:01.319 and then work their way to the federal level. And 2018 01:50:01.319 --> 01:50:02.800 they knew they were going to be in DC by 2019 01:50:02.800 --> 01:50:04.880 the time they were forty and that was their plan 2020 01:50:04.960 --> 01:50:08.239 and it was charted out before them. But from the 2021 01:50:08.239 --> 01:50:10.159 time they were five years old, regardless of what their 2022 01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:13.560 feelings were on it that I have a real issue with. 2023 01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:16.119 But that's also a thing that has happened. This is 2024 01:50:16.119 --> 01:50:18.600 not a Republican or Democrat. This is all. It is 2025 01:50:18.640 --> 01:50:20.479 all the above on this one. 2026 01:50:20.319 --> 01:50:24.039 So yeah, personally, I believe like if you get charged 2027 01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:28.560 with trason, that moment they say guilty, you're getting strung 2028 01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:30.720 up off of the White House balcony and the front 2029 01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:31.159 and lawn. 2030 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:33.840 That's not a good optic. Though. Now, I like where 2031 01:50:33.880 --> 01:50:35.840 your head's at. As far as like sending a message 2032 01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:38.239 to everybody else, I get that. Hell, even in Vietnam, 2033 01:50:38.279 --> 01:50:41.720 if you get caught with corruption, you get publicly executed 2034 01:50:41.760 --> 01:50:45.680 on national television. But like, here's the deal, America, we 2035 01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:48.520 would like to believe we're a little more civilized than that. 2036 01:50:48.800 --> 01:50:53.680 So what I would rather is, Okay, if you are 2037 01:50:53.720 --> 01:50:55.880 going to sign your name on a bill, you need 2038 01:50:55.920 --> 01:50:58.239 to be willing to fight for it. And I do 2039 01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:01.279 mean actually put gloves on and like you know what 2040 01:51:01.279 --> 01:51:03.079 I mean, every time there's a vote, there's gonna be 2041 01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:06.079 a fucking UFC fight in Congress. What I'm saying is, 2042 01:51:06.239 --> 01:51:09.359 if somebody challenges you to this bill and you're like, no, 2043 01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:11.960 I don't agree with that, Yeah, well I think you're stupid. Well, 2044 01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:14.640 like cool, we can glove up. And if you're not 2045 01:51:14.760 --> 01:51:18.640 willing to actually glove up for your signature, then your 2046 01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:22.199 signature goes off, there's gotta be some kind of skin 2047 01:51:22.239 --> 01:51:22.680 in the game. 2048 01:51:23.319 --> 01:51:25.479 I agree with that, But I'm also for the point 2049 01:51:25.479 --> 01:51:28.199 that I believe that there should be dueling should be 2050 01:51:28.279 --> 01:51:29.199 legalized again. 2051 01:51:29.359 --> 01:51:31.000 Yeah, I'm all about that. 2052 01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:34.000 A whole lot of less offended motherfuckers in the world. 2053 01:51:34.199 --> 01:51:36.520 I wish if you would bring back was it not 2054 01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:43.680 martial combat laws, mutual mutual dude, I wish. I wish 2055 01:51:43.680 --> 01:51:47.399 we would bring back mutual combat laws in all fifty states. 2056 01:51:47.479 --> 01:51:51.880 That would be phenomenal and traditional dueling. But that's the problem. 2057 01:51:52.119 --> 01:51:54.840 People these days have no respect. Back in the day, 2058 01:51:55.159 --> 01:51:57.159 it would be a one shot pistol. You take your 2059 01:51:57.159 --> 01:52:00.600 paces and once the shot was fired, that was it done. 2060 01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:02.800 We're not We're not bringing this back. We're not having 2061 01:52:02.840 --> 01:52:06.119 this conversation tomorrow. It's done. After these shots are fire, 2062 01:52:06.159 --> 01:52:09.199 whether we miss, whether we hit, whatever the case now. 2063 01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:13.520 They missed, they would be, it's each person would shoot 2064 01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:16.319 and whoever if they both miss, they'll take they'll go 2065 01:52:16.359 --> 01:52:16.960 in a step. 2066 01:52:17.239 --> 01:52:18.079 We load fire. 2067 01:52:18.399 --> 01:52:22.239 I posed be not necessarily. Not necessarily. There's multiple cases 2068 01:52:22.279 --> 01:52:23.920 where they only took their one shot and it was 2069 01:52:23.960 --> 01:52:27.119 about about the honor of it. Like you, you called 2070 01:52:27.159 --> 01:52:31.000 me out. So I'm here and I don't actually want 2071 01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:32.840 to kill you. You don't actually want to kill me. 2072 01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.720 We both were talking mad shit, but like you called 2073 01:52:35.720 --> 01:52:37.640 me out, it's a show up. We're gonna take our 2074 01:52:37.680 --> 01:52:39.560 one shot, and even if we both turn and fire 2075 01:52:39.600 --> 01:52:42.319 into the sky, all right, Well I may not like you, 2076 01:52:42.760 --> 01:52:44.279 but there's a level of respect here and we go 2077 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:46.840 on about our way. Very rarely was it a a 2078 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:48.960 shoot to the death as far as the early American 2079 01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:50.279 political realm was concerned. 2080 01:52:50.560 --> 01:52:53.800 Andrew Jackson had over one hundred and twenty rounds in 2081 01:52:53.840 --> 01:52:55.720 that man, to the point they said when he was 2082 01:52:55.760 --> 01:52:57.720 being buried, he sounded like a coin purse. 2083 01:52:58.119 --> 01:53:02.399 And Cassius Clay also killed like from dueling over one 2084 01:53:02.439 --> 01:53:03.560 hundred guys. 2085 01:53:03.319 --> 01:53:07.960 In DREE And I love both of them. I might 2086 01:53:08.039 --> 01:53:11.439 not always agree with some of their personal stuff, but I. 2087 01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:15.479 Do mean hear me out though. Cassius Clay, because of that, 2088 01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:18.680 was so hated in d C that they sent him 2089 01:53:18.680 --> 01:53:22.199 to Russia to be the ambassador to Russia because they 2090 01:53:22.199 --> 01:53:24.960 hated him in DC because he he took things too far. 2091 01:53:26.159 --> 01:53:30.600 The father of the United States Navy, John Paul Jones, 2092 01:53:31.399 --> 01:53:34.399 he was He went from to Russia and helped helped 2093 01:53:34.520 --> 01:53:38.000 him with in the Black Sea against the Coach. 2094 01:53:38.279 --> 01:53:41.079 We're talking about a glorified pirate with John Paul Jones, 2095 01:53:41.079 --> 01:53:43.520 And once again we're talking about different different day and 2096 01:53:43.600 --> 01:53:46.039 ages here. No, no, I'm not doing disrespect on him. 2097 01:53:46.199 --> 01:53:48.520 He was solid, But I'm also saying if you look 2098 01:53:48.560 --> 01:53:52.600 at his style of being the first, you know, top 2099 01:53:52.720 --> 01:53:56.159 naval officer in the United States. 2100 01:53:55.920 --> 01:54:00.000 He rated the main land of Britain, So right, right, 2101 01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:04.399 he might be a pirate, I personally say privateer, but 2102 01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:06.239 the dude was the straight gangster. 2103 01:54:06.640 --> 01:54:08.720 Also, I really hope that they passed the letter of 2104 01:54:08.760 --> 01:54:10.920 Mark in the United States. Oh my god, that's going 2105 01:54:10.960 --> 01:54:11.680 to be so fun. 2106 01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:13.680 I already fixed my John boat. 2107 01:54:14.560 --> 01:54:16.720 Dude. I don't know if you're John, but we'll make 2108 01:54:16.760 --> 01:54:18.479 it out to the old rage. You're talking about making 2109 01:54:18.520 --> 01:54:21.520 it across the Gulf of America, big dog son. 2110 01:54:21.640 --> 01:54:23.880 If there's a will, there's a way in God really, 2111 01:54:26.520 --> 01:54:27.159 Oh my god. 2112 01:54:27.159 --> 01:54:29.800 All right, getting back the chat here, Tony says, remember 2113 01:54:29.840 --> 01:54:33.479 how Taiwan still thinks it owns Mongolia. I'm missing the 2114 01:54:33.520 --> 01:54:37.239 context on that one. Uh since when is that a statement? 2115 01:54:37.760 --> 01:54:40.600 Oh yeah, you interviewed this guy. Sally who died are 2116 01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:41.720 a year area. 2117 01:54:42.079 --> 01:54:43.439 Oh that was easy Turkstan. 2118 01:54:44.119 --> 01:54:46.279 Yeah, but he was. He brought up Mongolia for a 2119 01:54:46.359 --> 01:54:50.159 second and said that the Republic of China government in 2120 01:54:50.159 --> 01:54:54.600 Taiwan still thinks it owns Mongolia, but uh, mainland China 2121 01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:58.720 let Mongolia be independent because China used to own Mongolia 2122 01:54:58.800 --> 01:55:01.239 during the Qing dynasty kind of sort. 2123 01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:04.319 Of yeah, yeah, but East Turkistan was never a part 2124 01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:07.720 of mainland China. 2125 01:55:07.840 --> 01:55:11.960 I don't know when that happened. Maybe seventeen hundreds. I 2126 01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:14.079 think that's when China tried to take to bet too. 2127 01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:16.479 I'm trying to remember. He told us the dates, but 2128 01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:18.319 he went over a whole lot of things in a 2129 01:55:18.399 --> 01:55:20.800 very short amount of time. The dude was a solid interview. 2130 01:55:21.039 --> 01:55:23.960 He seems like a really good dude. But uh, yeah, 2131 01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:26.359 I don't I don't remember that part about Taiwan believing 2132 01:55:26.399 --> 01:55:29.760 they still own Mongolia. That's that's also a pretty wild claim. 2133 01:55:29.800 --> 01:55:31.840 But also I don't believe Taiwan's gonna be making it's 2134 01:55:31.880 --> 01:55:35.399 a it's an invasion to Mongolia anytime soon either. 2135 01:55:36.159 --> 01:55:38.279 Yeah, they're going to be quiet about that for sure. 2136 01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:43.720 Yeah, absolutely, no more Asian brother wars. Yeah, I agree 2137 01:55:43.760 --> 01:55:46.239 with that Sam says, I don't want Asians killing each 2138 01:55:46.239 --> 01:55:48.359 other first blunt of the day. Oh look at you, Sam, 2139 01:55:48.359 --> 01:55:51.760 you're finally sparking up. Death is too much. I don't 2140 01:55:51.760 --> 01:55:53.880 want politicians put in a position where they need to 2141 01:55:53.960 --> 01:55:56.520 raise the stakes to avoid dying. I would agree with that. 2142 01:55:57.560 --> 01:56:00.399 This is also why the Nuremberg executions very bad. President 2143 01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:05.479 shameful resignation is better. It depends on the crime. It 2144 01:56:05.560 --> 01:56:07.800 depends on the crime. If you're somebody who was like 2145 01:56:08.520 --> 01:56:11.000 one of the top dogs of a concentration camp, yeah, 2146 01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:13.000 I see death as being okay. If you were just 2147 01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:15.960 like a political pundit, then like, perhaps death might not 2148 01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:18.720 be the correct course of action. I don't want American 2149 01:56:18.760 --> 01:56:23.239 politicians to be strung up for their viewpoints by any means, 2150 01:56:23.760 --> 01:56:26.359 but I do want them to understand there's consequences for 2151 01:56:26.399 --> 01:56:29.359 their actions, and there's consequences for their words, and if 2152 01:56:29.399 --> 01:56:31.319 you're gonna talk about it, you need to actually be 2153 01:56:31.399 --> 01:56:33.960 about it. Now I've made the suggestion about gloving up, 2154 01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:36.159 I also think that would take care of a lot 2155 01:56:36.159 --> 01:56:38.840 of this age bracket issue that we're having, because, like, 2156 01:56:38.880 --> 01:56:42.800 could you imagine Dan Crenshaw going up against like Nancy 2157 01:56:42.840 --> 01:56:46.239 Pelosi like, all right, let's let's let them glove up. 2158 01:56:46.279 --> 01:56:48.479 And if you're unwilling to glove up for your statement, 2159 01:56:48.800 --> 01:56:50.520 perhaps it's time for you to go to the House. 2160 01:56:50.960 --> 01:56:53.640 But at the same time, that would also lead to 2161 01:56:53.680 --> 01:56:56.479 its own own issues. We'll have a bunch of UFC 2162 01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:58.760 fighters trying to make their way in politics, not like 2163 01:56:58.800 --> 01:57:02.439 Connor McGregor's doing it, but like in America. That would God, 2164 01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:06.239 Dana White would be sponsoring Congress. That would that would 2165 01:57:06.239 --> 01:57:07.960 be a wild That would be a wild pay per 2166 01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:08.600 view c SPAN. 2167 01:57:09.399 --> 01:57:12.920 But anyway, I got more to say about this subject, 2168 01:57:13.000 --> 01:57:17.039 and I'm super educated, but this checks out with what 2169 01:57:17.119 --> 01:57:21.199 livel I know. Before the Nuremberg Trials, it was considered 2170 01:57:21.199 --> 01:57:25.880 in Christian civilization wrong to kill enemy leadership. It happened 2171 01:57:25.880 --> 01:57:28.239 a couple of times. It happened to Charles the First 2172 01:57:28.239 --> 01:57:34.680 of England in sixteen forty nine, and Louis the sixteenth 2173 01:57:34.680 --> 01:57:35.399 of France. 2174 01:57:36.680 --> 01:57:39.560 Would say otherwise, they murdered the entire French Roll family. 2175 01:57:40.600 --> 01:57:44.399 Yeah, well, you could say the French revolutionaries were definitely 2176 01:57:45.119 --> 01:57:48.439 very anti Christian for their time. But the reason for 2177 01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:54.000 this was you wanted to give enemy leadership the incentive 2178 01:57:54.039 --> 01:57:58.680 to negotiate with you, or to surrender and resign and shame, 2179 01:57:59.119 --> 01:58:02.000 rather than just raise the stakes and go, Okay, screw it, 2180 01:58:02.119 --> 01:58:06.039 I'm gonna lay waste to this entire territory. I'm gonna 2181 01:58:06.039 --> 01:58:09.680 sacrifice my entire army because I'm dead anyway, because they're 2182 01:58:09.680 --> 01:58:12.039 gonna kill me if I lose. You want to give 2183 01:58:12.039 --> 01:58:15.720 the enemy the incentive by letting him know we're not 2184 01:58:15.760 --> 01:58:18.720 gonna kill you. If you lose, you're not gonna be 2185 01:58:18.720 --> 01:58:21.079 in charge, but you'll be sort of comfortable for the 2186 01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:24.600 rest of your life. Like Kaiser, Wilhelm the Second or Napoleon, 2187 01:58:25.000 --> 01:58:27.560 these guys were not executed. They were treated with a 2188 01:58:27.560 --> 01:58:28.560 lot more respect. 2189 01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:29.319 Yeah. 2190 01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:32.279 Even in the American Revolution, that was that way, right. 2191 01:58:32.319 --> 01:58:35.199 It was understood that officers weren't to be killed in battle. 2192 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:37.720 It was for the lower enlisted to be killed the officers. 2193 01:58:37.760 --> 01:58:40.479 You could you know, prison, ransom, these types of things 2194 01:58:40.479 --> 01:58:42.279 that was offered to the nobility class. 2195 01:58:42.800 --> 01:58:46.600 The Lincoln gave gave the Southern the Southern rebels that 2196 01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:50.640 pardons after the Civil War. And you know who he pardoned. 2197 01:58:51.159 --> 01:58:55.159 One of the names that he pardoned, John Hoolks Booth. 2198 01:58:56.680 --> 01:58:58.560 And if he did not if he would have not 2199 01:58:58.640 --> 01:59:01.920 pardoned John Wilkes Booth. Booth would have been either imprisoned. 2200 01:59:03.800 --> 01:59:06.600 Booth wasn't a part of the Confederacy. He was an actor. 2201 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:11.199 No, yes, he wasn't actor, but he also was a propagandaist, 2202 01:59:11.199 --> 01:59:13.119 a propagandist. 2203 01:59:12.640 --> 01:59:15.680 And he did he did fund the UH. 2204 01:59:15.800 --> 01:59:18.720 He funded some of the militias, like the money he made, 2205 01:59:19.000 --> 01:59:20.239 he actively funded it. 2206 01:59:20.279 --> 01:59:23.560 And he he even would go to UH like. 2207 01:59:23.640 --> 01:59:25.840 The up and coming, like whatever the actors would do, 2208 01:59:25.920 --> 01:59:27.880 like the Actors Guild. And he was he was a 2209 01:59:27.920 --> 01:59:32.720 diehard uh uh Confederate idea idealist h. 2210 01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:36.560 Lincoln. 2211 01:59:36.720 --> 01:59:38.680 Lincoln Lincoln was the one that parted him. 2212 01:59:38.800 --> 01:59:42.199 And it's funny enough, Uh John Wipes Booth, his brother, 2213 01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:46.319 his older brother, was a far more successful UH actor. 2214 01:59:46.439 --> 01:59:50.479 He actually saved Lincoln's only kid, uh from getting hit 2215 01:59:50.520 --> 01:59:52.079 by a train. And when I say his only kid 2216 01:59:52.159 --> 01:59:55.239 was the only one that actually survived to adulthood. And 2217 01:59:55.279 --> 01:59:57.920 you saw and even at he even was even at 2218 01:59:57.960 --> 02:00:00.279 Lincoln's funeral that when he was out in the back 2219 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:01.399 with his head down. 2220 02:00:02.479 --> 02:00:08.960 Wow, well well Booth, John Woods Booth was executed along 2221 02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:13.279 with several other relatives. And that was that was that 2222 02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:15.439 was acceptable at the time, Well. 2223 02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:17.920 He assassinated the president. Yeah, you're gonna get God on 2224 02:00:17.960 --> 02:00:18.279 that one. 2225 02:00:18.880 --> 02:00:21.680 There's an actual theory that he that the guy that 2226 02:00:21.720 --> 02:00:24.439 they the crippled that they shot in the boning Bond 2227 02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:25.840 was not Booth. 2228 02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:28.600 That because Booth was also a Mason. 2229 02:00:29.439 --> 02:00:33.359 Yeah, so was as much as my research has shown 2230 02:00:33.399 --> 02:00:35.840 that he was a Mason and you know else who was. 2231 02:00:36.039 --> 02:00:38.439 Who are free Masons that were on opposite sides of 2232 02:00:38.439 --> 02:00:39.720 the war of a war? 2233 02:00:39.880 --> 02:00:42.479 A lot of them, I don't know a lot of them, Dude. 2234 02:00:42.439 --> 02:00:44.520 Baby Crockett and. 2235 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:49.439 Santa Santa Anna them also. 2236 02:00:49.560 --> 02:00:53.279 Interestingly enough, I just went to the Alamo this past 2237 02:00:53.399 --> 02:00:56.479 for New Year's me and my family, the bro It 2238 02:00:56.520 --> 02:01:00.159 was pretty sick. I love history, Like as we're talking 2239 02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:03.239 about this obviously, but it's in the middle of downtown 2240 02:01:03.279 --> 02:01:06.760 San Antonio, Like it stands out and it's like, if 2241 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:08.680 you didn't know it was there, you'd be like, oh, well, 2242 02:01:08.680 --> 02:01:10.520 that's the album, You're just kind of going about your way. 2243 02:01:10.560 --> 02:01:12.680 But like I thought, it was cool as shit. 2244 02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:17.439 Honestly, did you know that the entire Texas Revolution was 2245 02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:22.039 it was planned out? Sam Houston went down there for 2246 02:01:22.079 --> 02:01:25.319 that exact reason. He was best friends with what President 2247 02:01:27.239 --> 02:01:31.079 Jack's the President Johnson. They were such a good funds 2248 02:01:31.079 --> 02:01:34.439 and everything that Johnson is seeing him. My letter said, 2249 02:01:34.479 --> 02:01:37.079 what the fuck's going on? Because he thought Houston was 2250 02:01:37.079 --> 02:01:39.600 going to try to you suffer. He said, no, idiot, 2251 02:01:39.640 --> 02:01:42.600 I'm doing it this so we could get more funding 2252 02:01:42.600 --> 02:01:45.119 and more people on our side. Yeah. 2253 02:01:45.159 --> 02:01:47.720 I've also heard that he was one of Andrew Jackson 2254 02:01:47.840 --> 02:01:49.960 was like his mentor or one of them or something 2255 02:01:50.000 --> 02:01:50.159 like that. 2256 02:01:50.880 --> 02:01:56.239 Yeah, he was phenomenal military leader in my opinion in 2257 02:01:56.319 --> 02:01:59.039 eighteen fourteen and all and everything. 2258 02:01:59.560 --> 02:02:02.439 Terrible person to the indigenous. 2259 02:02:02.880 --> 02:02:07.000 Yeah, one of my favorite founding fathers because I am 2260 02:02:07.159 --> 02:02:10.359 patriotic and I actually love my country, and I drank 2261 02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:11.960 too much of the propaganda as a kid. 2262 02:02:12.520 --> 02:02:15.800 Heard that that's fair. That's fair, which I mean, there's 2263 02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:17.279 a lot of history to be proud of as far 2264 02:02:17.279 --> 02:02:19.920 as America's concern. But that's the same way that you 2265 02:02:20.000 --> 02:02:24.720 just acknowledged, excuse me, that Andrew Jackson was really really 2266 02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:26.920 cruel to the natives. We can be proud of our 2267 02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:29.880 history and acknowledge the ugly parts as well. That's that's 2268 02:02:29.920 --> 02:02:32.800 also part of the modern American way, you know, without 2269 02:02:32.800 --> 02:02:35.560 being ashamed of it. But acknowledging it and moving forward 2270 02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:36.680 and learning from it. For sure. 2271 02:02:37.479 --> 02:02:43.319 My daddy's father, my grandfather, both of his biological grandmothers, 2272 02:02:43.560 --> 02:02:45.319 so my great great grandmothers. 2273 02:02:45.439 --> 02:02:46.920 I learned this. 2274 02:02:47.399 --> 02:02:50.520 They actually come they both come from one comes from 2275 02:02:50.560 --> 02:02:53.800 the Blackfoot tribe and the other one comes from the Cherokee. 2276 02:02:53.960 --> 02:02:56.600 But there's also an interplay of the Chalk Tall through 2277 02:02:56.880 --> 02:03:01.960 one of their bloodlines. So I am. I'm very proud 2278 02:03:01.960 --> 02:03:03.119 of that heritage too. 2279 02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:05.119 Yeah, talk talk got a little bit of that in 2280 02:03:05.239 --> 02:03:06.000 me a little. 2281 02:03:06.159 --> 02:03:10.319 My uncle Dewey, he went to Vietnam. He ended up 2282 02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:12.800 getting murdered in Texas and thrown out the back of 2283 02:03:12.840 --> 02:03:16.359 the truck. And the guys that did it they got disappeared, 2284 02:03:17.479 --> 02:03:21.760 uh and everything. That's why my family got right from Texas. 2285 02:03:21.840 --> 02:03:25.920 But he he actually got from Kills with a Cherokee 2286 02:03:26.439 --> 02:03:29.479 Tomahawk in while he was over in Vietnam, he actually 2287 02:03:29.520 --> 02:03:31.199 took scalps. 2288 02:03:30.720 --> 02:03:34.760 And that I wish they would allow the military members 2289 02:03:34.800 --> 02:03:38.119 to bring home war trophies. I think we're missing out. Honestly, 2290 02:03:38.840 --> 02:03:39.279 did you know. 2291 02:03:39.239 --> 02:03:42.199 In two thousand and like it was, I want to say, 2292 02:03:42.199 --> 02:03:45.399 he was doing the Battle for Lojah. My staff sergeant 2293 02:03:46.159 --> 02:03:50.239 told us about how he was a new recruitment, everything 2294 02:03:50.279 --> 02:03:52.279 fresh over there, not a cup, but. 2295 02:03:52.279 --> 02:03:53.039 You know, a new boot. 2296 02:03:53.880 --> 02:03:57.399 And he knew a corporal that took a his n 2297 02:03:57.399 --> 02:03:59.960 c O sword into a battlefield. He wasn't a credit 2298 02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:03.199 with the kill because he finished the dude off with 2299 02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:04.079 the sixteen. 2300 02:04:05.279 --> 02:04:07.439 He stabbed the dude in the neck with his NCO. 2301 02:04:08.920 --> 02:04:12.800 That's highly ill advised, but also it's only dumb if 2302 02:04:12.800 --> 02:04:13.399 it doesn't work. 2303 02:04:13.960 --> 02:04:20.239 So there, the Sabers are still getting kills in the 2304 02:04:20.279 --> 02:04:21.920 two thousands. 2305 02:04:21.520 --> 02:04:24.880 Which is dope. Which is dope. Speaking of Sabers getting kills, 2306 02:04:25.119 --> 02:04:28.159 that leads me to think about the Islamic nations. They'll 2307 02:04:28.199 --> 02:04:31.079 still be head people and shit, which is a weird segue, 2308 02:04:31.119 --> 02:04:33.399 but let's get into it here. This is from the 2309 02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:39.760 Muslim Advocates. Muslim Advocates condemn Representative elan Omar removal from 2310 02:04:39.880 --> 02:04:43.199 Foreign Affairs Committee. Ilan Omar for those that don't know, 2311 02:04:43.319 --> 02:04:45.960 is it representative from Minnesota, the same place where they've 2312 02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:48.720 got all the corruption from the Somalis and all these 2313 02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:51.560 things that are going on Tim wallas estate where he 2314 02:04:51.680 --> 02:04:53.279 is no longer going to be going for re election, 2315 02:04:53.399 --> 02:04:56.640 all these things. She just got removed from her position 2316 02:04:56.840 --> 02:05:00.880 in the Foreign Affairs Committee. Let's talk about it here DC. Today, 2317 02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:03.239 members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to remove 2318 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:06.279 Representative Elan Omar, Yes, the same woman that married her 2319 02:05:06.319 --> 02:05:09.479 blood brother to get you know, citizenship into the United 2320 02:05:09.520 --> 02:05:13.039 States and not just on paper. They it was yep 2321 02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:17.000 from the committee. Representative Omar is the first Muslim and 2322 02:05:17.159 --> 02:05:19.960 African born member of Congress who served as a member 2323 02:05:19.960 --> 02:05:23.960 of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Ah. Okay, maybe I don't know, 2324 02:05:24.000 --> 02:05:26.680 but we definitely know that Obama was not American born. 2325 02:05:26.800 --> 02:05:27.680 I don't know if he was a part of the 2326 02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:29.520 Foreign Afairs Committee when he was in Congress, but neither 2327 02:05:29.520 --> 02:05:33.000 here nor there. Previously, Muslim Advocates and ben the Arc 2328 02:05:33.199 --> 02:05:36.880 Jewish Action sent a letter asking for an ethics investigation 2329 02:05:37.039 --> 02:05:42.680 of Representative Lauren Bobert, Republican from Colorado Marjorie Taylor Green, 2330 02:05:42.880 --> 02:05:46.720 Republican from Georgia for their anti Muslim rhetoric directed at 2331 02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:50.880 Representative Omar and other Muslim members of Congress. The following 2332 02:05:51.000 --> 02:05:53.560 is a statement from the Muslim Advocates Senior Policy Council, 2333 02:05:54.079 --> 02:05:56.760 not going to try to pronounce that name the hypocritical 2334 02:05:56.840 --> 02:06:01.039 sen Senecal and meritless decision to remove Representative Omar from 2335 02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:04.279 the House Foreig Affairs Committee is purely about cheap politics 2336 02:06:04.319 --> 02:06:07.600 of attacking a black Muslim woman and a refugee for 2337 02:06:07.720 --> 02:06:11.399 professional gain. This action sends a chilling message to Muslims 2338 02:06:11.399 --> 02:06:14.319 and other marginalized people that we are not welcome in 2339 02:06:14.359 --> 02:06:16.880 the hills of power and our identities are fair game 2340 02:06:16.920 --> 02:06:19.640 for political attacks. But we have always been here, we 2341 02:06:19.680 --> 02:06:22.119 will always We will not be silenced, and neither will 2342 02:06:22.239 --> 02:06:26.560 Representative Omar. Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and say 2343 02:06:26.760 --> 02:06:30.279 it's nothing to do with her religion. It has nothing 2344 02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:32.399 to do with the color of her skin. It has 2345 02:06:32.439 --> 02:06:35.800 everything to do with her being complicit in the fraud 2346 02:06:36.439 --> 02:06:40.760 of over a billion dollars to fund terrorist organizations in 2347 02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:48.319 Somalia from government nonprofits. But okay, yes, it's it's clearly 2348 02:06:48.359 --> 02:06:53.319 because DC is so racist and so xenophobic against Muslims. 2349 02:06:53.399 --> 02:06:57.319 You got me on that one. I guess whatever. Talking 2350 02:06:57.359 --> 02:07:01.600 about Minnesota driver killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis identified 2351 02:07:01.600 --> 02:07:05.800 as thirty seven year old mom Renee Nicole Goods. Shooting 2352 02:07:05.800 --> 02:07:09.399 death occurred just days after ICE launched large scale raids 2353 02:07:09.439 --> 02:07:11.960 in the city amid ramped up rhetoric from President Trump 2354 02:07:11.960 --> 02:07:16.119 about Somali immigrants. It's not just rhetoric. That's a real problem. 2355 02:07:16.319 --> 02:07:20.119 But okay, need to know. A Minneapolis driver who was 2356 02:07:20.199 --> 02:07:23.159 killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been 2357 02:07:23.159 --> 02:07:26.640 identified as Renee Nicole Good. Her shooting death occurred just 2358 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:29.159 days after ICE launched large scale immigration raids in the city. 2359 02:07:29.159 --> 02:07:31.640 A mid ramped up. We just read that one Minneapolis mayor, 2360 02:07:31.720 --> 02:07:34.760 Jacob Fras, slammed the federal agency, warning them to get 2361 02:07:34.800 --> 02:07:38.560 the fuck out. Wow, that's a statement from a mayor. 2362 02:07:39.000 --> 02:07:43.720 Definitely the Minneapolis driver we talked about that Good's mother, 2363 02:07:43.960 --> 02:07:48.199 Donna Ganger. Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she 2364 02:07:48.359 --> 02:07:51.079 was notified of her daughter's death in the morning of Wednesday, 2365 02:07:51.199 --> 02:07:54.720 January seventh. Renee was the kindest people I've ever known, 2366 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:58.800 Gager said, per the Star Tribune. She was extremely compassionate. 2367 02:07:58.880 --> 02:08:01.560 She's taking care of people her life. She was loving, forgiving, 2368 02:08:01.560 --> 02:08:04.239 and affectionate. She was an amazing human being. Go was 2369 02:08:04.279 --> 02:08:06.560 fatally shot by an agent after a group of people 2370 02:08:06.640 --> 02:08:11.000 allegedly started blocking all officials during an immigration enforcement operation 2371 02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:14.680 in Minneapolis. City Council members Jason Chavez described you thirty 2372 02:08:14.680 --> 02:08:16.840 seven year old mother as a US citizen who is 2373 02:08:16.880 --> 02:08:22.159 an observer watching out for immigrant neighbors. Wow, goods shooting 2374 02:08:22.199 --> 02:08:24.119 death the courage just days after we talked about that already. 2375 02:08:25.159 --> 02:08:28.439 We've dedicated this moment since the early stages of the 2376 02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:31.239 ICE presence in Minneapolis, said Mayor Jacob Frey at a 2377 02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:34.800 press conference on Wednesday. This was a federal agent recklessly 2378 02:08:34.960 --> 02:08:38.960 using power that resulted in somebody dying. Later, he slammed them, 2379 02:08:38.960 --> 02:08:41.479 saying to get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do 2380 02:08:41.600 --> 02:08:44.279 not want you here. Frey said, your stated purpose for 2381 02:08:44.359 --> 02:08:46.840 being in this city is to create some kind of safety, 2382 02:08:47.039 --> 02:08:51.279 but you are doing exactly the opposite. Wow. So actually, 2383 02:08:51.319 --> 02:08:56.359 we have a video of the situation, and from what 2384 02:08:56.600 --> 02:08:59.439 I heard, and I've only seen a quick clip of 2385 02:08:59.439 --> 02:09:03.640 this video before we press play, allegedly she was driving 2386 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:06.920 forward and almost ran an ICE agent over and that's 2387 02:09:06.920 --> 02:09:09.439 when they opened fire. I do not know if that 2388 02:09:09.520 --> 02:09:11.439 is what took place. We're gonna watch this together and 2389 02:09:11.520 --> 02:09:15.960 y'all tell me what y'all think about it. Oh, it's 2390 02:09:15.960 --> 02:09:18.239 all slowed down, so I'm gonna lower the volume on this. 2391 02:09:18.319 --> 02:09:21.479 So she backed up, There's an ICE agent directly in 2392 02:09:21.479 --> 02:09:23.680 front of her car. And an ice agent talking to 2393 02:09:23.720 --> 02:09:26.199 her through the window. So you just so we're all 2394 02:09:26.199 --> 02:09:30.359 clear here, you have a law enforcement official with a 2395 02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:33.600 weapon telling you to stop and trying to have a 2396 02:09:33.640 --> 02:09:35.960 conversation with you through the window, and you decide to 2397 02:09:36.119 --> 02:09:41.079 drive off highly ill advised, regardless of race, regardless of 2398 02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:43.960 whatever whatever. The dude with the gun and the badge 2399 02:09:44.000 --> 02:09:48.159 is telling you stop. I know that compliance is a 2400 02:09:48.199 --> 02:09:53.439 weird thing for some people, but maybe maybe it would 2401 02:09:53.439 --> 02:09:55.880 be a good time to put your car in park, 2402 02:09:56.479 --> 02:09:59.039 turn off the engine, keep your hands on the wheel, 2403 02:09:59.079 --> 02:10:01.319 and do as you're told. I don't know, I don't know. 2404 02:10:01.680 --> 02:10:04.640 So she tries driving forward. There's a clearly a cop 2405 02:10:04.720 --> 02:10:06.399 in front of her, and the wheels are straight. It's 2406 02:10:06.439 --> 02:10:08.039 not like she's about to make a hard right turn 2407 02:10:08.079 --> 02:10:12.319 out of there. She's driving forward. The dude jumped out 2408 02:10:12.359 --> 02:10:20.840 of the way, then she turned and they opened fire. Yeah, yeah, 2409 02:10:21.279 --> 02:10:23.000 I don't know from what I can tell here, I'm 2410 02:10:23.319 --> 02:10:24.920 turning the volume all the way off on that one. 2411 02:10:25.439 --> 02:10:28.880 But uh yeah, that's I don't know what you would 2412 02:10:28.920 --> 02:10:31.680 expect to have happen on this one. A dude standing 2413 02:10:31.720 --> 02:10:33.560 in front of your car to prevent you from driving 2414 02:10:33.600 --> 02:10:35.920 off a dude standing in the window, You try driving 2415 02:10:35.920 --> 02:10:40.920 forward and you get lit up. Am I missing something here? 2416 02:10:42.640 --> 02:10:44.039 I feel like this is pretty clear cut. 2417 02:10:46.199 --> 02:10:48.600 Well I'm on the other side. I think they shouldn't 2418 02:10:48.640 --> 02:10:50.439 have shot at her. I think they got in the way, 2419 02:10:50.479 --> 02:10:53.680 And well, she wasn't trying to drive into them. She 2420 02:10:53.760 --> 02:10:56.920 was revers saying she was making a y turn. This 2421 02:10:56.960 --> 02:10:59.720 is gonna be like it or not another George Floyd 2422 02:10:59.800 --> 02:11:00.760 kind of situation. 2423 02:11:01.239 --> 02:11:03.039 But the dude with the gun in the badge was 2424 02:11:03.079 --> 02:11:06.640 not telling her to please drive forward. You're not supposed 2425 02:11:06.680 --> 02:11:08.520 to take it upon yourself when a cop is talking 2426 02:11:08.560 --> 02:11:10.159 to you and be like, you know what I'm leaving. 2427 02:11:10.239 --> 02:11:12.439 Fuck you. Like, even if even if the dude in 2428 02:11:12.479 --> 02:11:15.039 front of her wasn't in the line of fire, which 2429 02:11:15.039 --> 02:11:16.760 from what I could tell from her tire treads, he 2430 02:11:16.840 --> 02:11:19.159 definitely was. He jumped out of the way and then 2431 02:11:19.199 --> 02:11:23.800 she turned. But even still, like best case scenario for 2432 02:11:23.840 --> 02:11:25.880 her was that they got her license plate number and 2433 02:11:25.920 --> 02:11:28.680 she got a ticket for evading arrest at that point 2434 02:11:29.479 --> 02:11:31.560 and like probably had cops come knock on her door later. 2435 02:11:32.079 --> 02:11:35.119 Best case scenario. This was worst case scenario, But like 2436 02:11:35.760 --> 02:11:37.319 if she just would have done as she was told 2437 02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:38.640 she'd still be alive here today. 2438 02:11:39.800 --> 02:11:43.640 Yeah, I think she should have stopped, but I don't 2439 02:11:43.680 --> 02:11:46.079 think this is a clear cut case of self defense 2440 02:11:46.079 --> 02:11:49.479 for the cop. And yeah, I think he was wrong 2441 02:11:49.520 --> 02:11:50.119 to shoot her. 2442 02:11:51.039 --> 02:11:54.880 I mean, I'm not gonna say self defense, but especially 2443 02:11:54.920 --> 02:11:56.840 if you could see a DUDEHS standing in front of 2444 02:11:56.880 --> 02:12:00.279 your car, perhaps not putting it in drive. Because at 2445 02:12:00.279 --> 02:12:02.960 that point, like the cops, I guarantee he's going to 2446 02:12:03.039 --> 02:12:05.479 be exonerated for this. There's no way he's going to 2447 02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:09.000 get like removed from from his position or anything like that. 2448 02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:12.760 I give it like fifty to fifty chance because, like 2449 02:12:13.199 --> 02:12:16.880 Derek Chauvin, kind of an ass But I think that 2450 02:12:17.159 --> 02:12:20.000 they unjustly ruled against him a little too harshly because 2451 02:12:20.000 --> 02:12:22.680 he didn't have any intent to kill. But this guy, 2452 02:12:22.840 --> 02:12:26.279 what everyone's arguing about on X for the last few 2453 02:12:26.279 --> 02:12:28.760 hours is well, he could see that the tires were 2454 02:12:28.800 --> 02:12:33.039 pointed away from him, so you know, he chose to 2455 02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:34.800 get in the way of the car, and he shouldn't 2456 02:12:34.800 --> 02:12:36.279 have been there, and he should have known he could 2457 02:12:36.319 --> 02:12:38.279 get out of the way, and she wasn't trying to 2458 02:12:38.319 --> 02:12:39.640 kill him, and he knew it. 2459 02:12:39.760 --> 02:12:42.520 So so when the cops are running when the cops 2460 02:12:42.560 --> 02:12:44.760 are running a speed check point and they hit me 2461 02:12:44.800 --> 02:12:46.359 with the radar and then they stand in the mill 2462 02:12:46.439 --> 02:12:50.960 street and point if I don't stop, Like what, what 2463 02:12:51.079 --> 02:12:53.000 is what is the most likely course of action that 2464 02:12:53.039 --> 02:12:53.600 he's going to do? 2465 02:12:55.560 --> 02:12:58.359 I haven't run into that situation before, so oh that 2466 02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:00.960 happens to me. So they stand in the middle of 2467 02:13:00.960 --> 02:13:01.359 the road. 2468 02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:04.560 Yeah, hey, once they get you with the radar and 2469 02:13:04.600 --> 02:13:06.199 they see you coming, I have a there's a two 2470 02:13:06.279 --> 02:13:08.880 lane road that leads into the backside of my neighborhood, 2471 02:13:08.880 --> 02:13:10.560 and they will sit there and set up speed traps. 2472 02:13:10.560 --> 02:13:12.880 Fucking today they did. As a matter of fact, little 2473 02:13:12.920 --> 02:13:14.680 did they know. I was on my p's and Q 2474 02:13:14.760 --> 02:13:16.399 so I went and speed in so ha. But beside 2475 02:13:16.399 --> 02:13:18.640 the point, you know that when they get you, they 2476 02:13:18.680 --> 02:13:20.760 will literally stand in the middle of the road and 2477 02:13:20.840 --> 02:13:24.960 point when they still got about thirty feet of distance 2478 02:13:25.000 --> 02:13:26.520 on you, and you got to if you're speeding, you're 2479 02:13:26.520 --> 02:13:28.760 slamming on your brakes, and that they got you, like 2480 02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:31.279 that's it. If you try to just go pass them, well, 2481 02:13:31.279 --> 02:13:33.199 you shouldn't have been in the road. You explain that 2482 02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:36.439 to a judge. Why you hit a cop who got 2483 02:13:36.479 --> 02:13:38.760 you for speeding or whatever the case was, because you 2484 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:41.840 didn't like, yeah, that's there's no. 2485 02:13:41.920 --> 02:13:44.359 Stand in the way and you can't like go around 2486 02:13:44.399 --> 02:13:47.319 them and pull over to the shoulder. I've honestly never 2487 02:13:47.720 --> 02:13:48.840 been in that situation. 2488 02:13:49.239 --> 02:13:51.640 Dude. They sit in a person's driveway. This person has 2489 02:13:51.640 --> 02:13:53.760 given the cops permission to set up speed traps and 2490 02:13:53.800 --> 02:13:57.199 set up in their driveway. And no, there's no shoulder 2491 02:13:57.199 --> 02:14:00.399 to this road. There's ditches on either side. Oh yeah, 2492 02:14:00.399 --> 02:14:02.520 they stand in the middle of the road to stop 2493 02:14:02.560 --> 02:14:04.760 you and then direct you into this person's driveway so 2494 02:14:04.760 --> 02:14:05.880 they could write your citation. 2495 02:14:06.960 --> 02:14:09.600 Okay, I'm assuming that they're pulling over people going like 2496 02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:12.039 eighty miles an hour. They probably wouldn't stand in front. 2497 02:14:11.880 --> 02:14:14.399 Of No, this is this is all somewhere else. 2498 02:14:14.439 --> 02:14:17.000 I'm having a hard time imagining, like where this is. 2499 02:14:17.279 --> 02:14:21.119 The speed limit on this road is twenty five and 2500 02:14:21.159 --> 02:14:23.199 if you're speed they'll stand in the middle of the road. 2501 02:14:23.199 --> 02:14:24.760 But this is my point. They were standing in front 2502 02:14:24.760 --> 02:14:27.319 of a car that was supposed to be stopped. Homeboys 2503 02:14:27.359 --> 02:14:28.680 talking to her. 2504 02:14:29.279 --> 02:14:31.399 Okay, well, this is also kind of like those climate 2505 02:14:31.439 --> 02:14:33.880 protesters that try to sit in front of cars on 2506 02:14:33.960 --> 02:14:36.560 the road and say, well, I'm daring you to menace 2507 02:14:36.640 --> 02:14:39.680 me and threaten me by coming at me. Run them over. 2508 02:14:40.319 --> 02:14:42.279 They play these stupid games. You're gonna sit in the 2509 02:14:42.359 --> 02:14:44.920 middle of traffic like, I don't know, what else do 2510 02:14:44.960 --> 02:14:46.760 you expected to happen. That used to be a joke 2511 02:14:47.000 --> 02:14:48.520 when you hate somebody, like you know, why don't you 2512 02:14:48.520 --> 02:14:50.239 go play in traffic like that used to be a joke. 2513 02:14:51.439 --> 02:14:54.119 Yeah, the climate protesters or the cops, they're just raising 2514 02:14:54.159 --> 02:14:56.039 the stakes. They're kind of daring you to do it, 2515 02:14:56.119 --> 02:14:58.680 daring you to get close to do it. And I 2516 02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:00.279 don't think she was trying to hit him at all. 2517 02:15:00.359 --> 02:15:03.000 She was She was going backwards. She was barely moving 2518 02:15:03.039 --> 02:15:05.079 a couple miles an hour, and her wheels were turned. 2519 02:15:05.239 --> 02:15:07.600 She was making a y turn trying to get away 2520 02:15:07.600 --> 02:15:08.840 from heaven. Uh. 2521 02:15:09.359 --> 02:15:11.079 When he jumped out of the way, her wheels were 2522 02:15:11.119 --> 02:15:11.560 not turned. 2523 02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:15.079 Brother, he jumped out, the wheels were turned out of 2524 02:15:15.079 --> 02:15:15.359 the way. 2525 02:15:16.119 --> 02:15:18.600 Look, the wheels are straight. He's standing in front. She 2526 02:15:18.680 --> 02:15:22.279 starts to go forward. He jumps out of the way, 2527 02:15:22.399 --> 02:15:25.960 and now her wheels turn after he had jumped out 2528 02:15:25.960 --> 02:15:26.239 the way. 2529 02:15:26.920 --> 02:15:29.479 I think it's obvious to me. It seems obvious. She 2530 02:15:29.640 --> 02:15:33.439 was trying to turn and I think the cops in 2531 02:15:33.520 --> 02:15:34.199 the wrong here. 2532 02:15:34.600 --> 02:15:38.039 I think she tried no balls in him, honestly, I 2533 02:15:38.039 --> 02:15:40.039 think she tried no ballsing him and he said that 2534 02:15:40.079 --> 02:15:43.199 he's I'm your Huckleburr. I don't know, I don't know. 2535 02:15:43.279 --> 02:15:47.079 We'll see what happens. Minneapolis is in turmoil right now. 2536 02:15:47.239 --> 02:15:49.600 Minnesota's in turmoil for all of these things that are 2537 02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:53.039 going on in the city. Yeah, it's a bad time 2538 02:15:53.039 --> 02:15:54.560 to be an ICE agent, honestly. 2539 02:15:55.800 --> 02:15:59.199 But yeah, to mention, people have already started shooting at 2540 02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:00.000 ICE agents. 2541 02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:03.680 One down in Texas. It happened once already. 2542 02:16:04.119 --> 02:16:08.760 Then there's the FBI had just stopped a plot here 2543 02:16:08.800 --> 02:16:11.359 recently where they were doing a New Year's they were 2544 02:16:11.359 --> 02:16:14.680 gonna try to uh fuck up a bunch of the 2545 02:16:14.720 --> 02:16:17.960 New Year's parties. So over in Britain they had they 2546 02:16:17.960 --> 02:16:20.760 couldn't even do the New Year's and Christmas thing over 2547 02:16:20.800 --> 02:16:25.680 in Britain because they didn't want to offend the Muslims. 2548 02:16:25.039 --> 02:16:28.119 Like the Muslims celebrate New Year's probably on a different day, 2549 02:16:28.119 --> 02:16:31.680 I'm assuming, But still what that why why is that offensive? 2550 02:16:33.159 --> 02:16:35.440 Well, it was the I know they had they couldn't 2551 02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:38.319 do their Christmas day ship because over there all the 2552 02:16:38.360 --> 02:16:41.799 Muslims that they were destroying every Christmas tree, cutting it down, 2553 02:16:41.840 --> 02:16:44.120 and when people would try to say, hey, don't do that, 2554 02:16:44.239 --> 02:16:46.040 they pulled machetes on them. 2555 02:16:47.040 --> 02:16:51.120 Which is against the law to have you remember the environment, 2556 02:16:51.239 --> 02:16:55.719 have those knife amnesty boxes, which yeah, that's right. 2557 02:16:57.680 --> 02:17:00.959 Go form being a world conquering superpower to being a 2558 02:17:01.079 --> 02:17:04.120 little bitch Britain balls. 2559 02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:08.040 I don't blame the British people, honestly, I blame the 2560 02:17:08.079 --> 02:17:11.200 British I blame the British government. Y'all took over a 2561 02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:14.479 third of the world for their spices, learn how to 2562 02:17:14.639 --> 02:17:18.000 use none of them, and you left your people to 2563 02:17:18.120 --> 02:17:21.520 rot and have consistently done so for the past few decades. 2564 02:17:21.680 --> 02:17:25.760 It's you know, and still eat as if the fucking 2565 02:17:25.760 --> 02:17:27.079 blitz cig is going on. 2566 02:17:28.200 --> 02:17:31.600 Yeah yeah, And I mean even if you look at 2567 02:17:31.639 --> 02:17:35.639 like what's good British food right now, very few traditional 2568 02:17:35.680 --> 02:17:38.479 British meals go down there, however, Like they have a 2569 02:17:38.559 --> 02:17:41.840 really good Indian cuisine that's popping off over there, but 2570 02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:43.639 it's not the Indians that are making the issues. 2571 02:17:44.000 --> 02:17:48.959 So I mean, if I could go to Britain, I've 2572 02:17:49.000 --> 02:17:52.280 always wanted to see Westminster the bass Castle thing, and 2573 02:17:52.360 --> 02:17:55.280 I wanted to see the bloody twer well, the uncle 2574 02:17:55.760 --> 02:17:57.559 you set up the throne by killing the two little 2575 02:17:57.600 --> 02:18:02.120 twin princes and had their body stuffed in a chest, 2576 02:18:02.399 --> 02:18:05.639 which funny enough, that place is haunted. One of Henry's 2577 02:18:05.840 --> 02:18:09.200 uh King Henry's wives UH that that was the capitator 2578 02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:13.600 that it said that uh in multiple security guards UH 2579 02:18:13.719 --> 02:18:18.200 said that they've seen the chick walking down her calling 2580 02:18:18.239 --> 02:18:20.319 from her cell and when they go to see and 2581 02:18:20.360 --> 02:18:23.440 if they do seer, she'll like, I'm I can't cut 2582 02:18:23.440 --> 02:18:25.600 my chemon, but she'll like till take her head when 2583 02:18:25.639 --> 02:18:28.239 she got decapitated and put take it off and hold 2584 02:18:28.239 --> 02:18:29.959 it in a like in her hands. 2585 02:18:30.319 --> 02:18:33.360 And there's even one said that she took. 2586 02:18:33.200 --> 02:18:35.319 The form of a bear or something and it slashed 2587 02:18:35.360 --> 02:18:38.600 him and killed him. Like I've I've read this in UH. 2588 02:18:38.840 --> 02:18:41.479 I was reading these in like the books when I 2589 02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:44.200 was in middle school. I was reading history and and 2590 02:18:44.319 --> 02:18:47.680 UH and mysteries and everything in middle school and high school. 2591 02:18:48.040 --> 02:18:50.040 So I've always been inquisitive, and I've always liked the 2592 02:18:50.040 --> 02:18:51.239 occult and the supernatural. 2593 02:18:51.600 --> 02:18:54.639 So I mean, I've never heard that before, but yeah, 2594 02:18:54.760 --> 02:18:56.719 I would love to go explore pretty much all of 2595 02:18:56.760 --> 02:19:00.760 your's old castles. I think they're super dope. But but anyway. 2596 02:19:01.639 --> 02:19:03.680 Is my is the one I want to visit the most. 2597 02:19:04.040 --> 02:19:06.639 Which one was that castle? Drackler the one? 2598 02:19:06.639 --> 02:19:11.879 And he did that he tortured he he did he 2599 02:19:12.000 --> 02:19:16.360 had an entire torture dungeon. And it's the the the 2600 02:19:16.399 --> 02:19:19.479 one where his wife flung herself from the window. 2601 02:19:20.040 --> 02:19:27.040 Yeah. Yeahor's castle, no doubt, to the point it was built. 2602 02:19:27.159 --> 02:19:29.639 He used slave labor to build it. But the engineering 2603 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:31.799 of it was so great that the foundation was made 2604 02:19:31.799 --> 02:19:34.600 out of limestone. So when the like the way it 2605 02:19:34.639 --> 02:19:37.879 was made, so if it had earthquakes, everything else for tumble, 2606 02:19:37.920 --> 02:19:40.760 but that the that castle would stand straight up. 2607 02:19:41.520 --> 02:19:43.399 I'm if I'm not mistaken. 2608 02:19:43.000 --> 02:19:47.719 I think, Uh, what's the Uh the senior douche from 2609 02:19:47.760 --> 02:19:49.479 a Ghost Adventures. 2610 02:19:49.920 --> 02:19:52.520 Uh, he's been. 2611 02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:55.239 There a couple of times. Dude, Dude, Like, if I'm 2612 02:19:55.239 --> 02:19:57.200 not mistaken, he tried to buy the castle. 2613 02:19:58.959 --> 02:19:59.680 Was it for sale? 2614 02:20:00.920 --> 02:20:03.920 It was up until like twenty fourteen. 2615 02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:05.399 Dope. 2616 02:20:06.280 --> 02:20:08.959 I mean, if I could, I'd buy the castle. 2617 02:20:09.479 --> 02:20:12.799 I'm not gonna knock him for trying. Hell yeah, anyway, 2618 02:20:12.840 --> 02:20:14.680 all the good members of the retinue. I want to 2619 02:20:14.680 --> 02:20:16.639 thank you for joining me this evening and as we 2620 02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:19.280 took a little two week break from everything, boy oh 2621 02:20:19.319 --> 02:20:22.200 boy did things pop off. We only touched on a 2622 02:20:22.200 --> 02:20:24.719 few big items, but there are so many more things 2623 02:20:24.719 --> 02:20:27.200 that happened. I'm gonna try to find some more things 2624 02:20:27.200 --> 02:20:28.879 to talk about next week, but I also feel like 2625 02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:30.600 within the next week there's gonna be way more things 2626 02:20:30.680 --> 02:20:33.000 popping off, so we'll just see how it goes. Again. 2627 02:20:33.040 --> 02:20:35.479 For anybody who is listening on the Cult of Conspiracy 2628 02:20:35.479 --> 02:20:37.440 and we would like to join The Cajun Night Live, 2629 02:20:37.559 --> 02:20:39.520 please go to link in the description to patreon dot 2630 02:20:39.520 --> 02:20:41.520 com slash Cajun Night as the only place to get 2631 02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:43.879 the video of this, to get the show's commercial free 2632 02:20:44.040 --> 02:20:46.200 and to be a part of the conversation every Wednesday 2633 02:20:46.239 --> 02:20:47.959 night at nine pm Central. I thank all of you 2634 02:20:48.000 --> 02:20:50.040 for joining me this evening. Once again, I am the 2635 02:20:50.079 --> 02:21:22.159 Cajun Night and as always, everybody, God bless