Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome to the first ever of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six edition of The Cajun Night Live. I am
Speaker 1: your host, the Cajun Knight, Jacob Mook. Y'all, I do
Speaker 1: want to thank everybody for giving me the grace to
Speaker 1: take a two week break, because on one week it
Speaker 1: was New year Christmas Eve and on the next week
Speaker 1: it was New Year's Eve, both of which I was,
Speaker 1: you know, out of pocket, honestly, but I want to
Speaker 1: thank everybody for sticking with the Cajun Night and making
Speaker 1: this show what it has become. I thoroughly enjoy our
Speaker 1: Wednesday night chit chats, you know, and boy oh boy,
Speaker 1: what a time to take a little break ski you know,
Speaker 1: I honestly did not if you would have asked me
Speaker 1: what my BEINGO card looked like for the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had on there that America was going
Speaker 1: to remove a person in power from a country and
Speaker 1: have had the fact that America acknowledges that it's all
Speaker 1: about the oil. That's all it's ever been about, which
Speaker 1: props for the honesty, but also it's not the best look.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I get it. I get it, and
Speaker 1: depending on who you ask, the whole situation in Venezuela
Speaker 1: is actually more of a connection to Russia in China,
Speaker 1: and or they'll say it's a connection to the illegal
Speaker 1: drug trafficking. It depends on the source, depends on who
Speaker 1: you ask to be honest with you. I do find
Speaker 1: it interesting that they had Chinese officials in Venezuela who
Speaker 1: just had a meeting with Maduro while this situation unfolded,
Speaker 1: like they're having the weirdest work trip ever. Real shit,
Speaker 1: they went there to go meet with the leader of
Speaker 1: this nation. Dude's not even there anymore. And I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of people have a lot of different opinions
Speaker 1: about the snatch and grab, if you will. Some say
Speaker 1: America had no right, he had no con congressional approval.
Speaker 1: Yet no presidents had congressional approval to do pretty much
Speaker 1: anything since World War Two, so that that right off
Speaker 1: the rip. That's a really that's a silly argument to make.
Speaker 1: I've heard people say that they had no right to
Speaker 1: do this because he wasn't actually hurting anybody. And typically
Speaker 1: this argument is coming from the bleeding heart liberals. If
Speaker 1: you look at Venezuela days after the snatch and grab.
Speaker 1: There was hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people
Speaker 1: in the streets celebrating. There was I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: that was a one hundred percent rule. There was obviously
Speaker 1: some people who were big fans of Maduro, and there's
Speaker 1: also people that were huge fans of Hugo Chavez. But
Speaker 1: you gotta understand, this is the minority of the country.
Speaker 1: The vast majority of the country were not fans of Chavez.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much anybody who's ever lived under a communist
Speaker 1: or socialist regime are typically not fans of the regime
Speaker 1: unless they had some family member high at the top
Speaker 1: and they were getting hooked up on the back end.
Speaker 1: What I didn't know up until recently was that Maduro
Speaker 1: actually had no background in politics. He had no background
Speaker 1: as a military executive or general or anything like that.
Speaker 1: He was Hugo Chavez's bus driver. That Maduro's real only
Speaker 1: connection to the tippy top of all of this. So
Speaker 1: Hugo Chavez got elected in three oh four two. Maybe
Speaker 1: I forget the years on this, but he ran for
Speaker 1: a bit and at first it seemed like perhaps he
Speaker 1: might do well for Venezuela. They had a booming economy,
Speaker 1: they used to be a food exporter. For the last
Speaker 1: over a decade they have been a food importer because
Speaker 1: they started having state sponsors and state run farms and
Speaker 1: state run mines and state run oil, and like, that's
Speaker 1: never gonna work. Socialism and communism simply don't work. The
Speaker 1: math is the math on this. It doesn't work. So
Speaker 1: Chavez did everything in his power to run the country
Speaker 1: into the ground and make as much money on the
Speaker 1: back and as he could. Then he died, which fair, okay.
Speaker 1: Then Maduro came into power, and at least the people
Speaker 1: were they had hope that perhaps this guy who was
Speaker 1: kind of outside of the system but was still inside
Speaker 1: the system, perhaps he was going to do well for them.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people have friends in Venezuela
Speaker 1: or who have lived in Venezuela in the last decade.
Speaker 1: The people did not get down on Maduro. I know
Speaker 1: multiple people who had to wait in line for hours
Speaker 1: for half a loaf of moldy bread and that was
Speaker 1: the only food ration they were getting from the government
Speaker 1: that week, or they were waiting to get these food
Speaker 1: deliveries to their front door, and all but maybe one
Speaker 1: or two can goods would all be expired, and like
Speaker 1: that was just it. You were left to deal with it.
Speaker 1: They have been in a starvation crisis, they have been
Speaker 1: in a humanitarian crisis for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: So the people, the people in Venezuela are not exactly
Speaker 1: crying over the loss of Maduro the bus driver turned Presidente.
Speaker 1: That being said, I also think it's funny that, as
Speaker 1: we have all these other conflicts going on around the
Speaker 1: world right thirty five minutes is all it took to
Speaker 1: shut down all of their air defense systems, which are
Speaker 1: the same air defense systems used by both Russia and
Speaker 1: Ukraine right now. Both of them are using these air
Speaker 1: defense systems, and a basic growler was able to take
Speaker 1: all of that out and bypass it. I also think
Speaker 1: it's really funny that we were petty enough to bomb
Speaker 1: the resting place and museum of Hugo Chavez. I thought
Speaker 1: that was beautiful. That's a little extra, little extra insult
Speaker 1: to injury just to be a dick. I like that.
Speaker 1: That's cost that's good things. But then thirty five minutes
Speaker 1: is all it took to go in grab him and
Speaker 1: his wife, Which that's gonna be interesting. We could talk
Speaker 1: about that as well, and then get out of Dodge
Speaker 1: in Land in New York. Now, the fact that they
Speaker 1: took the wife, this is something that's very interesting to me. Typically,
Speaker 1: when there is a coup, a regime change, something along
Speaker 1: these lines, they would not take the wife with him.
Speaker 1: She might be seen as a innocent casualty or quote
Speaker 1: unquote something along these lines. When it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: they don't take her with the guy. That's never happened.
Speaker 1: Some are speculating, and I'm leaning more this direction. As
Speaker 1: of this moment, maduro knew what the time was. He
Speaker 1: knew that this was gonna be coming here in the net.
Speaker 1: He may not have known the day or the hour,
Speaker 1: but he knew that his time was up. And I
Speaker 1: think that he low key tried cutting a deal with America,
Speaker 1: not to the terms of witness protection or something like that,
Speaker 1: but I think that he knew that they were coming
Speaker 1: to get him, so he tried to get ahead of
Speaker 1: it and make himself the best deal possible for when
Speaker 1: he got to the US. Now, also keep in mind,
Speaker 1: he's been under indictment in the US since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: He's under indictment under a handful of countries. It was
Speaker 1: on the FBI's most wanted list, Like the whole thing.
Speaker 1: You can't just take a president yet we could, we could,
Speaker 1: We did, We totally did that. But he keep in mind,
Speaker 1: if they would have just been going after a bag
Speaker 1: and tag of this guy himself. Could you imagine if
Speaker 1: we did this with Saddam? Could you imagine if we
Speaker 1: just sidestep twenty years of conflict in thousands of view
Speaker 1: offs lives and just came and snatched him up. This
Speaker 1: potentially is what just took place in Venezuela. Now now
Speaker 1: goes to the next part. Regime changes are not kind,
Speaker 1: they're not fun, they're not pretty. The opposition leader, let's
Speaker 1: just call it the opposition in totality in Venezuela. They
Speaker 1: have been ran very similarly to the Democratic Party in
Speaker 1: America for the last few years. It's incompetence. They don't
Speaker 1: have anybody that's a really strong candidate that could take
Speaker 1: the reins and run with it. Yeah, you've got the
Speaker 1: woman that just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and she's great.
Speaker 1: I did some digging into her. She's awesome as a
Speaker 1: brilliant mind, not as a state leader. Right, there's different
Speaker 1: levels to this. It's like Einstein was a brilliant mind.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have done well as a
Speaker 1: prime minister of a nation. This is different levels of
Speaker 1: different calibers of mental capacity if you catch them a drift.
Speaker 1: So for the opposition to Maduro their force chav as
Speaker 1: a regime to take over in Venezuela right now, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be very, very very difficult. Now cut two. Venezuela
Speaker 1: has used to have a thriving agriculture. They no longer do.
Speaker 1: They used to have a thriving industry. They can they
Speaker 1: can produce oil. They have refineries, they have you know,
Speaker 1: facilities to be able to get them back up and running.
Speaker 1: These have fallen mainly into disrepair. There's a few refineries
Speaker 1: that are still operating, but it is not what it
Speaker 1: once was. Right and now I've also heard people say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if America is going in for the oil. We talked
Speaker 1: about this last night on The Cult Live. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, that's that's called like sour crude. You know,
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the refineries in America are capable of
Speaker 1: refining sour crude. That's not that big of a deal. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's a lot more difficult than it
Speaker 1: actually is. It's no big deal. We can handle that.
Speaker 1: We got the facilities, we got the manufacturing capabilities, we
Speaker 1: got it. That being said, Venezuela is primarily jungle, right,
Speaker 1: It's primarily some some deep wilderness which is solid. It's
Speaker 1: good for them, love it to death all the things.
Speaker 1: There is two main railways in and out of the country,
Speaker 1: two main tunnels, and long story short, this is prime
Speaker 1: real estate for some guerrilla warfare to take place. Now,
Speaker 1: I am not saying that this is absolutely going to
Speaker 1: play out this way, but if history is going to
Speaker 1: be teaching us anything, it would lead us to assume
Speaker 1: that where there's a power vacuum, someone's going to step up.
Speaker 1: And America if we wanted to really get involved, if
Speaker 1: we really we really wanted to get involved in Venezuela
Speaker 1: and try to get it back to its former glory
Speaker 1: or something that we can play ball with. The estimates
Speaker 1: that I've looked at are saying that it will take
Speaker 1: at least twenty years and at least two hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollars worth of infrastructure for us to like make them
Speaker 1: a quote unquote first world nation that we could play
Speaker 1: ball with. We're not really interested in doing that. I
Speaker 1: don't think so anyway, God, I hope not so. I
Speaker 1: think what we're gonna try to do is bankroll the
Speaker 1: whoever the new leader is and just kind of hope
Speaker 1: for the best. But turmoil is also good for business
Speaker 1: and as long as it keeps our adversaries out of
Speaker 1: that area. And by adversaries, it's sure China rush I'm
Speaker 1: saying adversaries, and a very broad term here. It could
Speaker 1: be any bricks nation, it could be it could be China.
Speaker 1: Who cares. Who cares, doesn't matter. As long as the
Speaker 1: turmoil is so bad that it keeps our adversaries out
Speaker 1: of Venezuela, then I think we call that an inherent win,
Speaker 1: and they'll take it. They'll take the lowercase W even
Speaker 1: if it's not the upper case that they wanted. A
Speaker 1: neutral is still a dub in the American books as
Speaker 1: of this moment. That being said, this is very tumultuous
Speaker 1: times for Venezuela in the short term future. If we
Speaker 1: could bankroll, even if it's just their agricultural right, even
Speaker 1: just to get their farms back up and running, to
Speaker 1: produce enough food to feed their own people. Strictly, I'll
Speaker 1: take that as a win. Yeah, there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: cartels that take over certain areas. Yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some gorilla fighting that takes place in some jungles cut too.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many. If you ever saw the
Speaker 1: Avatar movie, the James Cameron Avatar, the Blue People, all
Speaker 1: the things, if you remember Jake Sully lost his ability
Speaker 1: to walk in Venezuela during a resource war, take that
Speaker 1: to whatever level of conspiratorial thoughts you need to go to.
Speaker 1: But my point is, yeah, this is a This is
Speaker 1: gonna be some thick bush. This is gonna be some real,
Speaker 1: true blue gorilla fighting. I don't think America wants to
Speaker 1: get involved in it, could we? Or are we? Are we? Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But I don't think we would see that as an
Speaker 1: inherent benefit to get involved in that way, especially if
Speaker 1: what we could do is prop up a government, give
Speaker 1: it some bankroll, give it some funding, give them some
Speaker 1: agricultural help, maybe some militarily help whenever they need it
Speaker 1: from time to time. Possibly we'll see, and then just
Speaker 1: kind of let the chips fall where they may. That's
Speaker 1: a whole lot better than a twenty year failed occupation
Speaker 1: like we had in the Middle East. Then again, Venezuela
Speaker 1: and South America as a whole is very different from
Speaker 1: the Middle East for so many different reasons culturally and
Speaker 1: everything else. But all right, let's as I've gone on
Speaker 1: this long diet, try we're gonna get to everything and
Speaker 1: break it down even further. But first, Sam, the spirit
Speaker 1: animal hand, raise what you got, big dog.
Speaker 2: Not to get in callduty Ghosts of the capital of
Speaker 2: the Federation is parts of Venezuela. And you actually and
Speaker 2: in that mission, you actually go after a high value
Speaker 2: target and you you So we're officially on the call
Speaker 2: of Duty ghost timeline.
Speaker 1: And I'm here, is that call of Duty Ghosts? Is
Speaker 1: that supposed to be futuristic or is that supposed to
Speaker 1: be modern day?
Speaker 2: So at the time it came out, like twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen or whatever, it takes place in the twenty
Speaker 2: point in the twenty twenties America America and goes to
Speaker 2: war with the Federation, which is all of Latin America,
Speaker 2: and the head of it is Venezuela.
Speaker 3: And it's it's a really good.
Speaker 2: Gang though what it was set up for a sequel,
Speaker 2: though it never got the sequel that it should. But
Speaker 2: the campaign was really good because like it's not America
Speaker 2: getst Russia or like you're in the sandbox anymore.
Speaker 3: It's you're on the home front.
Speaker 4: America got invaded, and we actually had the LOCI system,
Speaker 4: which the.
Speaker 3: Bottom of God actually we built it in again. And
Speaker 3: the first mission is you're in space.
Speaker 4: You're ahead of that that space station and it gets
Speaker 4: attacked by the Federation and they use it and they
Speaker 4: attack they use it in Clipple, California, and then that's
Speaker 4: a full on invasion.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, Hey, maybe there's a little bit of some
Speaker 1: predictive programming. Maybe they had some insider knowledge. Maybe they
Speaker 1: just knew that eventually Venezuela was gonna fall and we
Speaker 1: were going to be there in the first I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's interesting.
Speaker 5: But as interesting as you go after like the second
Speaker 5: most important guy of the Federation in the castle as
Speaker 5: the t A r a Caracas, Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't they're capital city, Caracas. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just fascinating how we just went to Venezuela.
Speaker 2: But yet we took the high value targeting goes like
Speaker 2: twelve years ago.
Speaker 4: Ships.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is very wild times and once
Speaker 1: again here I was just taking a little Chris Smith's
Speaker 1: New Year's break from doing Cajun Night on Wednesday nights
Speaker 1: because like, they fell on holidays and I was out
Speaker 1: of town and all of these things. Boy oh boy,
Speaker 1: I really really really did not expect this to go
Speaker 1: off in the way that it did. But here we are,
Speaker 1: here we are you know what, Let's go ahead and
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Speaker 1: We try to grow this thing to become the information
Speaker 1: sharing Wednesday Nights sit down that it has become. I
Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoy it. I think all the members of the
Speaker 1: retinue do as well. And as you know, we post
Speaker 1: these episodes on the Cult of Conspiracy on every Thursday,
Speaker 1: So if you'd like to be a part of the conversation,
Speaker 1: come check us out there. Yoked Yd shared a video
Speaker 1: We're gonna pull that up in a bit talking about
Speaker 1: the Minnesota ice agent situation. Tony says ice agent in
Speaker 1: the wrong and Okay, so I haven't seen the video yet.
Speaker 1: I saw one where it looks like the one was
Speaker 1: clearly trying to run the dude over, But we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to that towards the end of the episode for sure,
Speaker 1: So I would love to hear everybody's take on that
Speaker 1: when the time comes. Tony also says poly Market is
Speaker 1: betting an attack on Iran. Same for the record. Some
Speaker 1: guy recently assassinated in Iran. I don't know which guy.
Speaker 1: I heard things, but it's like the sources that I
Speaker 1: heard it from, I don't know how verified they are,
Speaker 1: so like, was this just a dude or was this
Speaker 1: a high ranking government official? I don't know.
Speaker 6: It seemed like a lower ranking guy. But he was
Speaker 6: driving a BMW and there's video of the assassin pulling
Speaker 6: up on the left of him and shooting into the
Speaker 6: end of the driver and then he just kind of
Speaker 6: floors it and goes off the road and then the
Speaker 6: video ends. I forget the name of the guy, I'll
Speaker 6: find it for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Iran's in a little bit of some turmoil right now,
Speaker 1: and it's not against the Ayatola and it's not against
Speaker 1: the government. It depends on which which protest you talk to,
Speaker 1: They have very different reasons as to why they're protesting,
Speaker 1: but they're not too thrilled with the leadership structure as
Speaker 1: of this moment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's water crisis, there's lots of different ethnic groups.
Speaker 6: There's a city called Obdenan that's allegedly seceding, but I
Speaker 6: don't believe it. I give it like ninety percent chance
Speaker 6: the regime survives. But yeah, there's an in polymarket. There
Speaker 6: was one guy who made four hundred thousand dollars from
Speaker 6: betting that Maduro would be abducted, and he made four
Speaker 6: hundred thousand dollars. And there's another account that bet on
Speaker 6: the exact day that Israel would strike Iran back in June.
Speaker 6: That's now betting that Israel will strike Iran by January thirty. First.
Speaker 6: Then they've put like tens of thousands of dollars on it,
Speaker 6: and everyone's noticed, and the account has changed its name too,
Speaker 6: but too late people already noticed.
Speaker 1: I mean, it checks out if you were going to
Speaker 1: strike Iran, right, not for the nuclear capabilities, the strikes
Speaker 1: into the bunkers and things like that. At least that
Speaker 1: made sense as of this moment. If you're trying to
Speaker 1: cripple the country, right now would be the moment, like
Speaker 1: that window is going to be closing here in the
Speaker 1: next few weeks. But right now is that golden window
Speaker 1: where if you're really trying to cripple Iran, you would
Speaker 1: move now. Now, I'm not saying Israel will, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying America will. Will it be a co op who's
Speaker 1: to say, But now I think I think there's a
Speaker 1: pretty strong claim to be made as far as somebody
Speaker 1: attacking Iran as of this moment. Hell, if this is
Speaker 1: the year of the yoinkining, if America is gonna start
Speaker 1: yoinking leaders they don't like, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: it would be the smartest decision to yank the Ayahtola.
Speaker 1: That would start a religious situation that I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody really wants. But at the same time, I'm also
Speaker 1: on board with it. I'm not the biggest fan of
Speaker 1: him as a person, the Prime Minister of Iran, he's
Speaker 1: you know, every few years they get a new one,
Speaker 1: and it's it seems like they are. It varies. Some
Speaker 1: of them seem to be rather competent, some of them
Speaker 1: seem to be family members with somebody, the same as
Speaker 1: American politics. It depends on the administration. Some are okay,
Speaker 1: some aren't. It is what it is. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I who's to say, honestly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, by the way, marry Christmas to Russian Orthodox and
Speaker 6: Greek Orthodox. It's December twenty fifth over there. Their calendar
Speaker 6: is way behind behind us. You covered a couple of
Speaker 6: weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember hearing about that last now in the
Speaker 1: live January sixth is the Russian Christmas And that's not Russia,
Speaker 1: the country that's Russian Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox.
Speaker 6: Correct, Yeah, they're the liturgical calendar. It's December twenty fifth
Speaker 6: over there as far as they're concerned.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, So yeah, marry Merry Christmas to any of
Speaker 1: the people listening to the Cajun Night in Russia or
Speaker 1: any of the countries that celebrate Eastern Orthodoxy. Mary, Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas to y'all. Fuck yeah, let's see just an episode
Speaker 1: over DIEGLOCKI Sam. We are gonna be doing one on
Speaker 1: the cult here soon. We were going to, but then
Speaker 1: so many things got booked up in the in the
Speaker 1: median of that. But yes, Raven Lee and I am
Speaker 1: going to be doing a DIGLOCKI episode here soon.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Like, I just did my first episode ever, a recording
Speaker 2: of Zoom of my own on my new laptop. It's
Speaker 2: not a long episode, but I it's something that I've
Speaker 2: been obsessed.
Speaker 4: With since I was like between the ages of ten
Speaker 4: and twelve. I love wonder Wattin's I love the insanity
Speaker 4: of it all and the fact that they actually tested it,
Speaker 4: like the design and anything.
Speaker 2: It is actually and fundamentally a very fucking aerodynamic like
Speaker 2: it's one of the best desigest yeah and everything.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be dropping an episode one it probably in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks for sure. So superstoked.
Speaker 4: Please, because I really would like your y'all the thought
Speaker 4: process and actually was gonna have y'all come on and
Speaker 4: do an episode over with me. What was my idea?
Speaker 4: I just did a small one today.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, we'll schedule that out man. Also, not to
Speaker 1: sidestep Tony your comment about Venezuela and Russian ships stolen
Speaker 1: by the US and the North Atlanta, I have an
Speaker 1: article pulled up on that. We will be talking about
Speaker 1: that here in a minute, for sure, for sure. Also,
Speaker 1: Tony says Madua was popular enough, and attack only tends
Speaker 1: to make people support their leader. More of these poum
Speaker 1: potumpkin celebrations don't prove anything. Ah, when you say this,
Speaker 1: you don't have to break this one down for me, dude.
Speaker 1: The most generous polls that I could find say that
Speaker 1: he had twenty percent support in the country, and there
Speaker 1: is huh oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't heard that, but I am aware that
Speaker 6: a lot of these videos being posted are of protests
Speaker 6: or celebrations that happened months and months ago, or they're
Speaker 6: from different countries like Chile. Maybe some of them are
Speaker 6: in Venezuela. But also if somebody removed Trump or Biden,
Speaker 6: whoever's president, half of this country would celebrate, So you
Speaker 6: would see the celebration. You're not going to see the
Speaker 6: people staying home quite so much. So I personally don't
Speaker 6: believe that Madua was super unpopular and we've really liberated
Speaker 6: the people. I think we're seeing the minority come out.
Speaker 1: That may be true, but the majority of the country
Speaker 1: is starving and has been for a decade. Like that's
Speaker 1: not like a hot take. There's real statistics to back
Speaker 1: that claim. And you could put that all towards the
Speaker 1: state because there is a socialist nation, So whatever the
Speaker 1: figurehead of the socialist nation would be, they'd be the
Speaker 1: one that where the buck stops. Sure you can blame
Speaker 1: different members of the administration or whatever, but it all
Speaker 1: falls to Maduro essentially. Right now. That being said, the
Speaker 1: celebrations that I'm seeing are from content creators in Venezuela
Speaker 1: that are doing live footage, not from months ago or
Speaker 1: weeks ago, there at the protests and at the celebrations
Speaker 1: as they're playing out, and it's I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: a million people. I will say realistically, hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people are celebrating in Venezuela and still are right now,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying that. Absolutely propaganda is a thing,
Speaker 1: and there's tons of videos that are circulating right now
Speaker 1: that are old and all these things. But you gotta
Speaker 1: know where to look. And I'm not saying that I
Speaker 1: have some of an inside scoop, No, it's just you
Speaker 1: can find content creators in Venezuela that are posting them
Speaker 1: like going live at the protests and at the celebrations
Speaker 1: and things, and it's it is wild Meanwhile, the only
Speaker 1: people that I can really see protesting this are around
Speaker 1: New York City, these bleeding heart communist folks that like
Speaker 1: don't actually understand what it's like to live under a
Speaker 1: communist regime. It's like talking to a Cuban that lived
Speaker 1: under Castro who made it to America. None of them
Speaker 1: are fans of communism. Any human being that's ever lived
Speaker 1: under communism and then makes it to a capitalist nation
Speaker 1: never has one positive thing to say about communism or socialism,
Speaker 1: or Marxism or any of these things. But to that point,
Speaker 1: Venezuela does have a lot of resources. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of manpower. They can get themselves back on track,
Speaker 1: and the people want to be there. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Venezuelan people are lazy and they only
Speaker 1: want to make an eight hour work week and they
Speaker 1: want someone else to handle their problems for them. None
Speaker 1: of the Venezuelan people are some hard workers. They have
Speaker 1: no problem reading building their country in the correct way.
Speaker 1: They need somebody to lead them and to give them
Speaker 1: the direction. I don't know of any as of this
Speaker 1: moment that are ready to step into that role. They
Speaker 1: may have them, they may have a solid group of
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen people that could be the front runner
Speaker 1: in the next election. I just if you were to
Speaker 1: say one of the names, I don't feel like any
Speaker 1: of us would know about them because they have been
Speaker 1: so repressed and by the former administrations. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, when you said Potumpkin celebrations, is that
Speaker 1: that's a new word for me?
Speaker 6: What is this, oh, Potempkin. It has to do with
Speaker 6: these tours that would be given to tourists in the
Speaker 6: Soviet Union in the thirties and the twenties, and they
Speaker 6: would be shown a village, and the village would be
Speaker 6: called a Potempkin village. Potempkin is a last name in Russian.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's referring to a twentieth century
Speaker 6: Potempkin or there was a famous one under Catherine the Great.
Speaker 6: But the Potempkin village was just basically a theater that
Speaker 6: made everything look prosperous, whereas if you looked at real
Speaker 6: life anywhere else in ninety nine percent of the country,
Speaker 6: it was much more impoverished. So Potempkin kind of became
Speaker 6: an adjective for any pr propaganda, you know, surface level
Speaker 6: appearance that's contrived okay, and yeah, just so you don't
Speaker 6: need to read my other comments, I was saying, this
Speaker 6: is a little like there were celebrations when the US
Speaker 6: overthrew SADDAMU saying in two thousand and three, and I
Speaker 6: remember pulling down a statue and that was all over TV.
Speaker 6: But it's hard to capture what everyone's thinking. And in
Speaker 6: World War Two, whenever the Germans or the Americans or
Speaker 6: the Russians would invade a town or city, there would
Speaker 6: there would always be a parade because the people there
Speaker 6: just saying, look, please don't hurt us. And you're only
Speaker 6: seeing supporters come out and the people who are not
Speaker 6: in support are staying home. There's that, and one other
Speaker 6: one last comment. I'm amazed that the helicopters didn't get
Speaker 6: shot down. There must have been stand down orders or something.
Speaker 6: And I'm not ruling out the probability that there were
Speaker 6: people around Maduro who wanted him gone, within the communist
Speaker 6: allegedly Venezuelan government, and otherwise, it doesn't really take that
Speaker 6: much technology to shoot down a helicopter. Afghans were doing
Speaker 6: it forty years ago. I'm sure they got the weapons,
Speaker 6: but there must have been stand down orders. So I'm
Speaker 6: looking forward to learning about those conspiracies. I think their
Speaker 6: vice president, Delsi Rodriguez is kind of in charge or
Speaker 6: pretending to be in charge, and pretend nobody's making in
Speaker 6: drastic moves right now. But yeah, that's all I gotta Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 1: So let's break all this down. As far as the
Speaker 1: when Saddam was removed from power and the people were
Speaker 1: celebrating in the streets, I personally know marines that were
Speaker 1: on the block of the statue being pulled down. That
Speaker 1: was genuine celebration. However, it's not like a hot take
Speaker 1: that Saddam was a ruthless dictators. That's a very act statement.
Speaker 1: I mean, the torture sites, the rape sites, all these
Speaker 1: things his sons had, like these prisons where they were
Speaker 1: doing horrible shit like that. That's a real thing. That's
Speaker 1: not like a crazy conspiracy. That being said, it's not
Speaker 1: like we had somebody in the wing that we were
Speaker 1: willing to put into power over there and like boom boom,
Speaker 1: y'all got democracy. Now we're out. The people there don't
Speaker 1: want democracy. They it's not they're not smart enough to
Speaker 1: understand it. They don't want it. They they've for generations,
Speaker 1: they have never seen it as a positive thing. So like, fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: But the people were happy that Sam was out of
Speaker 1: power as of that moment. Now cutting to the situation Venezuela,
Speaker 1: I see what you mean. The people that did support
Speaker 1: him were staying home and it's you know, the oh,
Speaker 1: don't shoot us, we're just celebrating. Whoever the guy with
Speaker 1: the gun currently is. I could see where you're going
Speaker 1: with that. I see that for sure. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the situation with Venezuela, however, the VP, like you
Speaker 1: had mentioned, she's there and she is claiming that she's
Speaker 1: gonna like launch a war against America. Good fucking luck.
Speaker 1: First off, and second off, there were no stand down orders.
Speaker 1: I've looked deeply into this. All of the anti air
Speaker 1: systems that Venezuela had were all jammed because we were
Speaker 1: using growlers, right, and not to mention the S two
Speaker 1: hundreds and the shit what was the other one, the
Speaker 1: buck buck twos I think they were called the buck ones.
Speaker 1: These anti air systems they have all been using in
Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. So what does that mean for America?
Speaker 1: That means that we know every frequency every system, every
Speaker 1: thing that needs to be done to jam these radar
Speaker 1: systems and these anti air systems we have in our
Speaker 1: database because we've been getting the battlefield data from Ukraine.
Speaker 1: So when we flew in and we just shut down
Speaker 1: their systems, we just had to tune the growler to
Speaker 1: that frequency, and that's it. The anti air systems are
Speaker 1: basically null and void, and you could actually watch the
Speaker 1: radars at this time. I forget what it's called. The
Speaker 1: system that Venezuela was using as far as there to
Speaker 1: see which planes were in the sky or whatever is
Speaker 1: essentially the same ones that the Weather Channel uses, and
Speaker 1: that was like their prem improper and all the things.
Speaker 1: But fine, fine, maybe that was just for the cameras.
Speaker 1: Maybe they had something secret under the table that we
Speaker 1: didn't know about. Okay, sure, but even still you could
Speaker 1: watch real time footage. Is how like eleven thirty all
Speaker 1: the planes are in the sky, eleven thirty five pm.
Speaker 1: The skies were empty because we had shut down all
Speaker 1: of their radar systems, all their anti air systems strictly
Speaker 1: from our own growler systems, which is solid, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but yeah, there was no stand doown orders
Speaker 1: and As a matter of fact, there was multiple iglas
Speaker 1: that were fired up at these helicopters. There was one
Speaker 1: helicopter in particular that was shot. At least some fragmentation
Speaker 1: hit it, and a couple of the Delta Force operators
Speaker 1: got some shrapnel in them. Nothing critical. They're all fine,
Speaker 1: a little patchwork, and they're all good to go. But
Speaker 1: to say that the military had a whole stand down
Speaker 1: order all evidence to the contrary. It's not that they
Speaker 1: had a stando order. It's that they're that incompetent and
Speaker 1: that incapable to actually stand up against a proper military.
Speaker 1: Venezuela doesn't have a proper military. They're ranked or they
Speaker 1: were ranked what nineteenth on Earth or something like that,
Speaker 1: and we were able to take out their main leader
Speaker 1: in thirty five minutes, like you could have watched the
Speaker 1: entire Stranger Things finale in more time than it took
Speaker 1: for US to remove a seated position of power from
Speaker 1: a sovereign nation. It's that's the American military. That's how
Speaker 1: a proper special military operation goes down, not four years
Speaker 1: of the meat wall tactics. But that's a conversation for later,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. But yeah, so I can't find any evidence
Speaker 1: to say that there was any stand down orders given
Speaker 1: I can't find any evidence to say that the generals
Speaker 1: were cool with him leaving power because as long as
Speaker 1: he was in power, they maintained their positions. They wanted
Speaker 1: the generals, especially wanted Maduro to stay in power. They
Speaker 1: now are out of a job, or at least they're
Speaker 1: terrified of losing it now at the VP, who that
Speaker 1: woman is? Keep in mind if the bus driver was
Speaker 1: the president, who do you think the VP is? Real?
Speaker 1: Talk here? It's not pretty, but it's not like Venezuela
Speaker 1: was like the shithole of the world by any means.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of countries that are doing far worse
Speaker 1: in Venezuela. Real shit. But again, I don't believe that
Speaker 1: this was done because of and I even made the
Speaker 1: joke about how Maduro was talking that shit. You cannot
Speaker 1: have that much oil and that week of a military
Speaker 1: and talk the level of shit that you were talking.
Speaker 1: That's a joke, that's ingest, right. I actually think that
Speaker 1: it was a lot more connected to China, which later
Speaker 1: in this episode when we talk about the drill that
Speaker 1: was done around Taiwan. I think China is getting ready
Speaker 1: to make their move, and I think America knows that,
Speaker 1: and I think that America understands that we tentatively will
Speaker 1: not be able to stop it once it happens, so
Speaker 1: we realize that we need to start trying to choke
Speaker 1: out China for economic points. That being said, if we
Speaker 1: look at Venezuela having more oil than Saudi Arabia by
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds, and more gold than the minds of Africa,
Speaker 1: not every country, but the minds that are producing the
Speaker 1: most gold in Africa, Venezuela's got more of that on
Speaker 1: mass I think it stands to reason why America wanted
Speaker 1: China to not have any kind of business interests in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Cut too. These Chinese foreign dignitaries were in Caracas when
Speaker 1: we took Maduro in the middle of the night. They
Speaker 1: had just finished up their meeting. So I think this
Speaker 1: all ties in more towards China, and I think it
Speaker 1: all ties in more towards trying to choke out Russia
Speaker 1: even further with the sanctions because we sanction them, But
Speaker 1: that only applies to countries that acknowledge the sanctions. If
Speaker 1: we make it to where they can't do much in
Speaker 1: the oil field, then maybe possibly they would be a
Speaker 1: little more willing to come to the negotiating table and
Speaker 1: play ball. I don't know if this is gonna make
Speaker 1: a fart in the winds difference as far as Putin's
Speaker 1: concerned with the situation in Ukraine. But at least I
Speaker 1: could see on paper how this would this would be
Speaker 1: what the administration, the current Trump administration, what their end
Speaker 1: goal was as far as the abduction of a dureau,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We will see how it plays out
Speaker 1: in the next few weeks. And I have an article
Speaker 1: talking about how the oil tankers that they took. One
Speaker 1: was off the coast of Iceland, and then one we
Speaker 1: took like what three Venezuelan tankers. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: at least America's not being coy about the fact that
Speaker 1: this is obviously about oil. They're not telling you these
Speaker 1: poor Venezuelan people they needed the freedom. They you know,
Speaker 1: he's a bad man. No, No, Trump's being straight up.
Speaker 1: This is about the oil. Yeah, yeah, the people needed
Speaker 1: the freedom. Yeah yeah. This is about oil and resources.
Speaker 1: And I at least can appreciate the transparency on that front.
Speaker 1: That's not a good look to be saying it in
Speaker 1: that manner, but I appreciate the fact that he's being
Speaker 1: straight up. So again, we'll get to all these things
Speaker 1: more in here in a moment. Going back to the
Speaker 1: chat here, spirarit animal says had complications during surgery today,
Speaker 1: have two stents in now and the tubing then forced down. Like,
Speaker 1: oh Jesus, whoa Sam, how you feeling? Brother?
Speaker 3: I got hit by a fucking truck. I showed wards.
Speaker 7: But my uh u, look, I can't spell it, but
Speaker 7: it was when I was coming out of the anesthesia.
Speaker 7: It was it was so swollen it was actually keeping
Speaker 7: me from breathing that it choked me. So the anesthesia
Speaker 7: was not working on me like how it should have.
Speaker 7: So they had to force a tube to sit down
Speaker 7: my throat and everything, and when they did, they completely
Speaker 7: cut my ve look and it fucking hurts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh the.
Speaker 7: I was supposed to go in the day to get
Speaker 7: the stint removed, but the stint was calcified and starting to,
Speaker 7: uh like attach itself to my kidney, you know.
Speaker 3: Uh No, I don't know what they did.
Speaker 7: All I know is I woke up they told me, hey,
Speaker 7: can glad you have two stints in you're coming back
Speaker 7: next in two weeks, and I'm like, that's.
Speaker 3: What the fuck else said last time?
Speaker 1: Sam, you are gonna stay firmly in my prayers. Brother,
Speaker 1: good God of money, thank you.
Speaker 3: I would prefer to stay the fuck out in the hospital, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be that would be ideal for sure. Love.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see getting back to the chat Royce,
Speaker 1: what is this picture you shared? Hold on here, I
Speaker 1: just put oil in my pan and this happened. Ah ha, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just put oil on my pan in the US
Speaker 1: invaded because that's that's what it does. And I do
Speaker 1: love the Gordon Ramsey equip that he said to that
Speaker 1: person on Hell's kitchen that time. There's so much fucking
Speaker 1: oil in this pan America is getting ready to invade it.
Speaker 1: It's like, yes, yes, I wish all bosses spoke to
Speaker 1: their employees the way Gordon Ramsey speaks to his chefs.
Speaker 1: That's that's correct in my opinion. Let's see another picture
Speaker 1: that Royce shared here. And eleven year old girl with
Speaker 1: Down syndrome was bullied at her school in North Massa
Speaker 1: after parents and other students complained about her being in
Speaker 1: the same class this week, the president walked her to
Speaker 1: school himself. Shout out. Shout out to the President of
Speaker 1: North Macedonia for not putting up with that dumb shit.
Speaker 1: Good things. Oh yeah, let's see, I'm good. I figured
Speaker 1: that I would just said. I figured I would just
Speaker 1: share something of a positive nature, that there is a
Speaker 1: president out there that actually gives a shit about a Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good things. At least, there's that that little bit
Speaker 1: of a silver lining, if you will. And there's a
Speaker 1: silver lining in Minnesota right now. Tim Walls is not
Speaker 1: going for reelection because of all the situation there. Elan
Speaker 1: Omar was removed from her position. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: all that here in a bit, but yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: some silver linings happening. And honestly, I'll be I think
Speaker 1: Maduro being removed is also quite a silver lining. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a big fan of the guy, but anyway. Tony
Speaker 1: also said Maduro's bodyguards all being Cuban instead of Venezuela
Speaker 1: in may mean he didn't trust his own security, but
Speaker 1: you're probably right that there wasn't a standown order. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I found that interesting. Most of his bodyguards were Cuban.
Speaker 1: By birth. That's you wouldn't expect that, right as much
Speaker 1: as and I remember, dude, I remember talking about this
Speaker 1: on the Cult to Conspiracy.
Speaker 6: This was.
Speaker 1: Three years ago, four years ago, years ago, and this
Speaker 1: was during the Biden administration. Maduro had made some statement
Speaker 1: that like, we're ready for the Marines to invade America.
Speaker 1: Can't touch Venezuela. And it was like, wait, this would
Speaker 1: this would literally be the same as the leader of
Speaker 1: Chile reaching our Chile reaching out and saying that like,
Speaker 1: we're ready for the United States Marines. You can't touch us.
Speaker 1: And it's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Who has we?
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 1: We have beef? I was unaware we had beef, but like, okay,
Speaker 1: So apparently he saw the writing on the walls years ago,
Speaker 1: before the Ukraine Russia situation, before the Trump administration two
Speaker 1: point zero or whatever else. He's been waiting for this
Speaker 1: time to come. And we talked about this. I want
Speaker 1: to say, shoot, it might have been one of the
Speaker 1: first Cajun nine episodes. As a matter of fact, Venezuela
Speaker 1: was getting ready to invade Guyana, right they had all
Speaker 1: those troops of masts on the border. They were talking
Speaker 1: about how they were gonna go in, and for whatever
Speaker 1: reason they were, they were making the same claims that
Speaker 1: Russian made as far as Ukraine. These people are speaking
Speaker 1: that language, their natural Russians. Why are they on this
Speaker 1: side of the border whatever. Venezuela is making these very
Speaker 1: similar claims to the north and westernmost portions of Guyana.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, that's also the areas of Guyana where there's oil. Shocker,
Speaker 1: I know. But then out of nowhere, that just kind
Speaker 1: of went outside because Trump stepped in and said, listen,
Speaker 1: we stand with Guyana on this one. If Venezuela steps
Speaker 1: a move into the country, then we're gonna attack Venezuela.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden they just went on by
Speaker 1: the wayside. So I don't know, Maduro's kind of been
Speaker 1: on one for a few years here, and yeah, every
Speaker 1: leader's got their shit. I'm not saying that any leader
Speaker 1: of any nation is just like the Golden standard by
Speaker 1: any stretch, but it seems like Madurou in the last
Speaker 1: few years has been really willing to kick the hornets nest.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what particular act or what particular
Speaker 1: statement it was that got this particular hornets nest to
Speaker 1: get kicked to the tune of US sending Delta Force
Speaker 1: in after his ass, but apparently he stepped one too
Speaker 1: many feet over the line. I don't know, Sam, once
Speaker 1: you got big dog.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm just a dumb ass from Georgia, I'll admit that.
Speaker 3: But I ain't Guyana in Africa.
Speaker 7: How the fuck are they going from South America to Africa?
Speaker 1: Not Ghana? Guyana, but is a different country. Ghana is
Speaker 1: a country in Africa. Guyana is a South American country
Speaker 1: just to the south of Venezuela.
Speaker 3: Okay, then apparently I'm a walk stereotype. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like, no, you're good, brother, And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: the only reason I even knew that is because I
Speaker 1: saw so I got buddies of mom that are from
Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands. If you ever see me wearing this bracelet,
Speaker 1: this silver one, this is from the Virgin Islands. And
Speaker 1: so as Maria fat TONI knows some of my buddies
Speaker 1: that are from the v I right. And so there
Speaker 1: was a clip that I saw this dude who was
Speaker 1: speaking with a thick Islander accent. He was talking about
Speaker 1: the difference between like Trinidadian woman and a Guyanese woman
Speaker 1: and all these things, and it was it was very
Speaker 1: very funny. It was very very dirty jokes to be made.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking, like, yeah, what is that at?
Speaker 1: That is a that's a Caribbean island nation.
Speaker 3: Wait, isn't that where we'reanna from? Trinidad?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to go to Trinidad.
Speaker 1: Same same. But also it's honestly for the Trinity food
Speaker 1: that I I do love Caribbean food. That if if
Speaker 1: anybody doesn't know anything about me, I am a bit
Speaker 1: of a foodie. And if you find me a decent
Speaker 1: and when I say a Jamaican joint, fuck the jerk chicken, Okay,
Speaker 1: Like I hear that, Give me some good curry goat,
Speaker 1: give me some conk meat, give me some oxtail stew,
Speaker 1: like bro that I will sit there and fuck it
Speaker 1: up with the rest of anybody. I love. I love
Speaker 1: cultural foods the Caribbean. They they have made a art
Speaker 1: form out of cooking what some would consider scraps. I
Speaker 1: do not consider it that, but some would consider it
Speaker 1: the scraps and turning it into fine dining. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Triiny food is on a level all its own. But anyway,
Speaker 1: beside the point this clip made fun of or not
Speaker 1: made fun of. He was telling how the Guyanese women
Speaker 1: they you know, they they gonna, they gonna, they gonna
Speaker 1: get you, right, And I was like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: is this? And so I didn't even know where this was.
Speaker 1: I searched a little bit and was like, oh, Guyana
Speaker 1: is a nation in South America, which is it's not
Speaker 1: a Caribbean nation. It's on the mainland continent of South America.
Speaker 1: So I was like, what the fuck is this. Apparently
Speaker 1: it's close enough. The cultural you know, transitions are there,
Speaker 1: so whatever, cool cool, cool, cool cool. But so yeah,
Speaker 1: Venezuela was talking about invading them not too terribly long ago,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as Trump said no, no, we're
Speaker 1: gonna side with these people if you fuck around and
Speaker 1: find out, Maduro was like, hey, never mind, all right.
Speaker 1: And this was after he had made the statement about
Speaker 1: we're ready for the US Marines to invade, and it
Speaker 1: was like, why would the Marines invade Venezuela, bro, this
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Now I am happy, I'm very happy,
Speaker 1: and we've been making the jokes for a while now.
Speaker 1: If the Marines were to invade Venezuela, they would have
Speaker 1: a ball, and I agree with that statement. However, just
Speaker 1: speaking on behalf of myself, I am very very very
Speaker 1: happy that this took place with zero American casualties. I
Speaker 1: think there's only like what thirty Venezuelan casualties as something.
Speaker 1: It's very low numbers, very very low numbers. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it was thirty two, and they were all Cuban.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And as far as a regime swap goes and
Speaker 1: a snatch and grab goes, thirty two casualties overall, y'all,
Speaker 1: that's that's impressive. And then I'm not just saying that
Speaker 1: to stroke the American military egos, Dick here Dean, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like to say that we successfully had a
Speaker 1: snatch and grab take place. We lost nobody. They only
Speaker 1: lost a platoon sized element of dudes. And that's it.
Speaker 1: It's over, y'all. That's that's phenomenal. That is surgical execution,
Speaker 1: to be completely honest. So I'm happiest. I'm tickled to
Speaker 1: death about it. But anyway, let's see Sam says, I
Speaker 1: hate comedies, but I love women with more red flags
Speaker 1: than a Soviet parade. Sam, I know you do I
Speaker 1: know you love your toxic women. I see you, I
Speaker 1: see you, brother. All right, without further ado, let us
Speaker 1: get to the articles for this evening. We have a
Speaker 1: few to go over here, and let's just let's just
Speaker 1: have some fun with it, you know, let's just see
Speaker 1: where it goes. Let's start it off here. I also
Speaker 1: wanted to make the mention of this the Pentagon Pizza Index.
Speaker 1: For anybody who does not know about this website, they
Speaker 1: have never missed, they have never missed. The night before
Speaker 1: this operation took place, at eleven forty, the Pentagon Pizza
Speaker 1: Index said, Shit's about to go down. Less than three
Speaker 1: hours later, Maduro was on us soil. And for anybody
Speaker 1: who doesn't know what the Pentagon Pizza Index is, this guy, this,
Speaker 1: this beautiful person or group of people, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They have started a tracking system of every pizza joint
Speaker 1: in and around the Pentagon. And without fail, without fail,
Speaker 1: when you see a mass influx of pizza orders being
Speaker 1: made way late or way early in the morning in
Speaker 1: and around the Pentagon, some shit somewhere is about to
Speaker 1: hit the fan. Typically, this means that people are working
Speaker 1: late there and they're ordering pizza for the whole office,
Speaker 1: if you will. This dude predicted that, not necessarily that
Speaker 1: Maduro was gonna be snatched, but that something was hitting
Speaker 1: the fan and it's going down all right now, homeboy
Speaker 1: has not missed. So if anybody is out there and
Speaker 1: would like to check this out for yourself, the Pentagon
Speaker 1: Pizza Index, I highly recommend it ten out of ten
Speaker 1: as far as true investigative journalism goes over pizza joints.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. This is the American way. But anyway, let's
Speaker 1: get into it here. The US has seized a Russian
Speaker 1: flagged tanker that broke its blockade of Venezuela. Now I
Speaker 1: also find this to be interesting. The Venezuela tanker was
Speaker 1: flying a Venezuelan flag, then threw up a Russian flag
Speaker 1: and acted like that weren't about to get snatched. It's like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not how it goes. Either way it goes. It's sanctioned,
Speaker 1: it's a sanctioned tanker, or it's a sanctioned tanker, So
Speaker 1: swapping your flags to another sanctioned nation was a really
Speaker 1: silly move. But like, here we are, but let's read
Speaker 1: into it together. Good Retinue members, of the Cajun Night.
Speaker 1: The ship seizure comes more than a week after its
Speaker 1: maneuvered through a US Navy blockade of sanctioned tankers leaving
Speaker 1: from a port in South America. In the South American country,
Speaker 1: the United States seized a Russian flagged oil tanker in
Speaker 1: the North Atlantic on Wednesday, American officials said after chasing
Speaker 1: the vessel across the ocean as it headed towards Europe
Speaker 1: from Venezuela, a significant escalation in the administration's campaign to
Speaker 1: capture sanctioned ships. The seizure of the tanker, originally known
Speaker 1: as the Bella I, comes more than a week after
Speaker 1: it maneuvered through a US Navy blockade of sanctioned tankers
Speaker 1: leaving the port in Venezuela. The ship switched its registration
Speaker 1: to a Russian flagged vessel during the chase, setting up
Speaker 1: a possible diplomatic row with Moscow. Politico confirmed the seizure
Speaker 1: earlier on Wednesday. This is a Politico article for the record.
Speaker 1: American helicopters and a Coastguard vessel were used to board
Speaker 1: the tanker under law enforcement authority granted to the Coast Guard,
Speaker 1: while American and British submarine hunting p eight surveillance planes
Speaker 1: at least and at least three smaller American surveillance aircraft
Speaker 1: circled the area near British waters, according to plane tracking websites.
Speaker 1: The US sanctioned the Bella one in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: after the American officials alleged it was carrying back a
Speaker 1: black market Iranian oil. Iranian Homeland Security Secretary Christinome, not
Speaker 1: the hugest fan of heard but okay, set on social
Speaker 1: media Wednesday that Bella had been trying to evade Coastguard
Speaker 1: for weeks, as operators changed the ship's flags and painted
Speaker 1: a new name, the Marinera Marianera. Wait, I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: changed it from the Bella one to the Marinera. That's hilarious, okay,
Speaker 1: on the whole in an attempt to avoid capture. It's
Speaker 1: also came as the Navy and Coast Guard seized a
Speaker 1: second tanker in the Caribbean on Wednesday morning, targeting a
Speaker 1: vessel that the US military characterized as quote a stateless,
Speaker 1: sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker conducting quote a list activities
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean sea end quote. Trump Administration official set
Speaker 1: on Wednesday that the US had seized the vessels as
Speaker 1: part of the nation's expansive counter drug mission that has
Speaker 1: now moved beyond the waters of the Caribbean, where the
Speaker 1: Pentagon has parked an aircraft carrier and destroyers. While the
Speaker 1: administration has ordered the capture of several sanctioned vessels before,
Speaker 1: the seizure of the Russian flagship could create a new
Speaker 1: point of tension between Washington and Moscow, as President Trump's
Speaker 1: envoys are engaged in intense diploma diplomacy with their Russian
Speaker 1: counterparts over a peace deal in Ukraine. Now, I also
Speaker 1: I'm glad that it's said that in this article. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the deal, just because the Maduro's out of power.
Speaker 1: I don't think America's done as far as Venezuela's concerned.
Speaker 1: We have way too many naval assets and way too
Speaker 1: much manpower floating off the coast of Venezuela to take
Speaker 1: the one guy and everybody's satisfied and goes home. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they're getting ready to do a full
Speaker 1: land invasion. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying one
Speaker 1: way or another. What I'm saying is that wasn't as
Speaker 1: much of a victory to justify an entire fleet posted
Speaker 1: up off the coast of Venezuela. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: gonna need to be a little more. We're gonna need
Speaker 1: a little more ass in the game, if you catch
Speaker 1: my drift now. I don't know to what level that's
Speaker 1: going to be, But I also don't believe that the
Speaker 1: American forces are just gonna lead the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Oh so willy nilly, so stand by for more things
Speaker 1: to be going down in that area of the world
Speaker 1: moving on. It says the administration has been looking for
Speaker 1: avenues to pressure Venezuela and Iran to close Russian allies.
Speaker 1: After the capture of Venezuela and leader Nicholas mnduro in
Speaker 1: a US military operation last week. Trump's had said that
Speaker 1: he would hit Tehran's clerical regime very hard if more
Speaker 1: protesters are harmed after days of unrest in economic protests
Speaker 1: the clerical regime. So is he suggesting that the Ayatola
Speaker 1: might get joint next. I don't know. I'm hopeful. I'm
Speaker 1: hopeful for my own selfish reasons, but like that would
Speaker 1: be dope anyway. UK Defense Secretary John Healey confirmed that
Speaker 1: British bases were used for staging for the operation, and
Speaker 1: said in a statement that the ship with a nefarious
Speaker 1: history is part of a Russian Iranian axis of sanctions evasion,
Speaker 1: which is fueling terrorism, conflict and misery from the Middle
Speaker 1: East to Ukraine. Of course he's gonna say this, he
Speaker 1: pledged the UK quote, We'll continue to step up our
Speaker 1: action against shadow fleet activity to protect our national security,
Speaker 1: our economy and global stability. Okay, listen, hey, UK, maybe
Speaker 1: you should worry about your own national security on your
Speaker 1: own soil. I appreciate you letting the Americans use your
Speaker 1: area as a staging ground. Perhaps you should get out
Speaker 1: the insurrection that's already in your nation, But you know,
Speaker 1: I digress. The Russian for Ministry on Tuesday told THASS,
Speaker 1: the Russian state media agency, that quote, for reasons unknown
Speaker 1: to us, the Russian vessel is getting excessive attention from
Speaker 1: the US and NATO militaries, clearly disproportionate to its peaceful status.
Speaker 1: The Venezuelan flagship that swapped over to a Russian flagship
Speaker 1: is getting unnecessary your disproportionate attention and its peaceful status
Speaker 1: as it's sanctioned from most of the Western world. That's
Speaker 1: a claim that that is one of the most claims.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration continued to strike a defiant tone after
Speaker 1: the seizure on Wednesday. Quote, the blockade of sanctioned and
Speaker 1: illicit Venezuelan oil remains in full effect. That part's in
Speaker 1: bold anywhere in the world. War Secretary Pete Hexeth posted
Speaker 1: on social media just as US European Command conducted the operation,
Speaker 1: which was coordinated with the Justice and Homeland Security Departments.
Speaker 1: It is unclear where the Russian tanker will head next
Speaker 1: now that American law enforcement is in control of the
Speaker 1: ship Russian Transportation. The Russian Transport Ministry issued a terse
Speaker 1: statement after Wednesday's seizure, pointing out that under the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty two says before the Soviet Union fell,
Speaker 1: So that's interesting they would cite that law. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it went away. But all right, Quote,
Speaker 1: the high seas are governed by the principle of freedom
Speaker 1: of navigation, and no state has the right to use
Speaker 1: force against vessels duly registered under the jurisdiction of other states. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's cute. That's cute. That's a real cute statement
Speaker 1: that was just made. But the seizure was received well
Speaker 1: by some in Europe, I would assume, so who were
Speaker 1: glad to see the US make moves against Russia. This
Speaker 1: sends a clear message to Russia and their use of
Speaker 1: black fleets to move sanctioned oil around the world. To
Speaker 1: one European official who was granted anonymity to speak about
Speaker 1: the national security issues, it's very welcome news. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't how do we know it's a Russian ship? How
Speaker 1: do we know it's not a Venezuelan ship crewed by
Speaker 1: Venezuelan people that tried throwing a Russian flag when it
Speaker 1: to try to get some sort of immunity. Do we
Speaker 1: know this for a fact? Is it definitely a Russian ship?
Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, then this goes even further.
Speaker 1: It's a sanctioned country to a sanctioned country. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the US is gonna seize that shit. Like I I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm missing a connection that they're making here.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Tony. I know you have your finger
Speaker 1: more on the pulse of these things. Help me understand this.
Speaker 6: Please, Sorry, there's probably not much I can do to
Speaker 6: help understand. It's just I think there's obvious motivations to
Speaker 6: do anything to knock Venezuela and Russia down a peg
Speaker 6: by a lot of people. This Law of the Sea, though,
Speaker 6: it's kind of weird that the US has not ratified
Speaker 6: it formally but signed some nineteen ninety four agreement to
Speaker 6: abide by most of it. And I guess we just
Speaker 6: kind of pick and choose when we want to abide
Speaker 6: by it. But this Law of the Sea would make
Speaker 6: it more permissible for these sanctioned ships to kind of
Speaker 6: go wherever they want, and the US doesn't want that.
Speaker 6: I don't think Britain really had that kind of policy
Speaker 6: back when they had an empire either, they really controlled
Speaker 6: who can go where on the high seas. And the
Speaker 6: US inherited that war right after World War Two. That
Speaker 6: was a big part in my opinion of why the
Speaker 6: Marshall Plan happened and why Britain was the number one
Speaker 6: recipient of it. Yeah, but that's maybe a little bit
Speaker 6: of a tangent.
Speaker 1: No no.
Speaker 6: That also kind of reminds me of U boat activity
Speaker 6: in World War One and two. Well, I did, well,
Speaker 6: it's a peaceful boat. Well, it's supplying our enemies, so
Speaker 6: we're gonna, you know, either take it over or sink it.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely, And I'm not I am not equating Russia
Speaker 1: to the Nazis, not equating Venezuela to the Oh you are,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, No.
Speaker 6: I actually I'm kind of joking. I'm equating us to
Speaker 6: the to the Nazis.
Speaker 1: Oh shut up, Tony got You always got to make
Speaker 1: the weirdest takes happen here. But no, no, I see
Speaker 1: your point though. It's like, if you're supplying the enemy,
Speaker 1: then we're going to seize it. But you know it
Speaker 1: may not be full on destroying it and killing everybody
Speaker 1: on board, but seizing it absolutely, I see that. But
Speaker 1: to your point you made about how the British Empire,
Speaker 1: I mean, the rule has always been and even uh
Speaker 1: Alfred Tayler Mahan, the father of the modern navy, he
Speaker 1: even said in his book, the country that has the
Speaker 1: largest navy will run the world. Now this was also
Speaker 1: before you know, aviation was a thing, so we didn't
Speaker 1: have the capability to fly resources from country to country
Speaker 1: at this time. But even still, whatever country has the
Speaker 1: largest and most powerful navy is going to be the
Speaker 1: one to run the world. At one point in time,
Speaker 1: it was a Spanish empire. After that point it was
Speaker 1: the British Empire. It is currently us. Yes, I understand
Speaker 1: by the numbers China has a large navy, but if
Speaker 1: you also look at what they consider a naval vessel,
Speaker 1: it's not We're not having the same conversation here. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so currently America's got the largest and most powerful navy
Speaker 1: on Earth. Therefore, we are the police of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Now does that mean that that gives us the right
Speaker 1: to just take over whatever boat we want? No, not necessarily,
Speaker 1: but if it's also an enemy of an enemy, or
Speaker 1: an enemy of a friend, or whatever the case is,
Speaker 1: where we decide that, Yeah, this is a seizure that
Speaker 1: needs to happen. No one's gonna come at us like that.
Speaker 1: The international courts are not gonna start trying American admirals
Speaker 1: or our American administration for this. So it's like it's
Speaker 1: they can They can cry and bitch all they want,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna change anything. The one plus one still
Speaker 1: equals to here, So I see it moving on here.
Speaker 1: The seizure of the Bella is a clear sign that
Speaker 1: the administration plans to keep the pressure on Venezuela. The
Speaker 1: administration has been working to impose an embargo on sanctioned
Speaker 1: vessels as a central part of the pressure campaign since
Speaker 1: the US Coast Guard boarded the Russian flagged Skipper last month.
Speaker 1: It took place as Trump has taken a far more
Speaker 1: active role in South America in recent months. The administration's
Speaker 1: greatest show of force to date came on Saturday, when
Speaker 1: the US military Apprehendo Maduro in his palace in Caracas
Speaker 1: to stand trial on narco trafficking and corruption charges. Yeah,
Speaker 1: once again, these charges. I'm hearing a lot of the
Speaker 1: the naysayers say that, like they had no right to
Speaker 1: take him. He has been under indictment in multiple countries
Speaker 1: for years. Like it's it's that's how this goes, you know, nobody.
Speaker 1: It seems it's very bold. It's a very bold strategy
Speaker 1: to actually take him in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: to stand trial for these charges. Some would say unprecedented
Speaker 1: even but it's not like it's without warrant. So will
Speaker 1: he be acquitted possibly. I am still as of this moment,
Speaker 1: and this is very subject to change as new information
Speaker 1: comes out. I am currently of the belief that he
Speaker 1: cut a deal with the US to get either a
Speaker 1: lesser sentence or to be extradited to another country where
Speaker 1: he can live out the rest of his days basically
Speaker 1: in peace, with tons of money. I don't know how
Speaker 1: this is gonna shake out. I do not believe that
Speaker 1: this dude is gonna see the inside of a prison
Speaker 1: self with the rest of his life, the same way
Speaker 1: that Trump just released a Honduran leader who was indicted
Speaker 1: and arrested in charge for being a drug smuggler for
Speaker 1: forty years, and Trump just pardoned him and released him
Speaker 1: just a few months ago. So again, I don't see this.
Speaker 1: This is more for the show. I think Maduro is
Speaker 1: absolutely gonna be walking free here in a few months,
Speaker 1: probably not allowed to go back to Venezuela. He might go,
Speaker 1: you know, to a cause. This could have gone one
Speaker 1: of two ways. It could have gone the way of Saddam,
Speaker 1: or it could have gone the way of Oh shit,
Speaker 1: help me out, Tony, the Syrian president. He's in Russia now,
Speaker 1: not Sayid, oh Asad, I was saying, Sayid, it's Asad.
Speaker 1: I see the regime change is going. It could have
Speaker 1: gone one of two ways. It could have gone Asade,
Speaker 1: it could have gone Saddam. This seems more of a
Speaker 1: intermediate there. But I also feel like it's going to
Speaker 1: go more towards the realm of Asad. I think that
Speaker 1: he'll get put to another country who keeps him in
Speaker 1: prison quote unquote. In reality, he's like, you know, living
Speaker 1: in a gilded cage kind of thing. I could see
Speaker 1: that being how the shakes out. But anyway, let's see
Speaker 1: when Maduro now sideline. The administration is planning to take
Speaker 1: a more direct role in selling Venezuelan oil for an
Speaker 1: indefinite period, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday, speaking
Speaker 1: before briefing lawmakers about the operation in Venezuela. Secretary of
Speaker 1: State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio confirmed the seizures
Speaker 1: and said the US is quote about to execute on
Speaker 1: a deal to take all the oil and sell it
Speaker 1: to generate revenue that will be used to the benefit
Speaker 1: of the Venezuelan people. Now could hypothetically they flood the
Speaker 1: market and tank the oil industry as a way to
Speaker 1: further the American means of trying to in certain conflicts
Speaker 1: and put ourselves back in the proper foothold. As being
Speaker 1: the one superpower on Earth. It's possible. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the smartest plan ever. I could see. It has
Speaker 1: some merits to it, but I think it would go
Speaker 1: a lot further and a lot better to win the
Speaker 1: hearts and minds of Venezuela if you would actually start
Speaker 1: the refineries back up, give the people their jobs back,
Speaker 1: let them earn a livable waves, let them rebuild their
Speaker 1: country in their image. America is really bad. Like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, we're really bad at nation building. Traditionally, historically,
Speaker 1: we suck at it. So I'm hoping that perhaps perhaps
Speaker 1: we have learned our lesson from past mistakes, and this
Speaker 1: time we're gonna let Venezuela will help them stand on
Speaker 1: their own two feet. But we're not gonna fall on takeover.
Speaker 1: In that regard, however, Trump has said that until an
Speaker 1: elected official quote unquote can take over Venezuela, America is
Speaker 1: gonna be running the administration side of the country. And
Speaker 1: it's like e we are. We are tiptoeing into that
Speaker 1: line of nation building. It's not a good look. Although
Speaker 1: I also think it's worth noting you gotta look at
Speaker 1: the raw materials you're working with. When you're talking about
Speaker 1: nation building, like what are you putting into the machine? Right? So, like,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at other nations that we have tried
Speaker 1: to rebuild in the past, they didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: going for them. Then cut too, Japan, we didn't really
Speaker 1: have to do a lot of nation rebuilding. They had
Speaker 1: some really good raw materials as far as their workforce
Speaker 1: and their culture and all these things to where it
Speaker 1: was like a turnkey they were ready to go. Venezuela's
Speaker 1: got some solid raw materials as far as manpower, as
Speaker 1: far as brains, as far as industry infrastructure. They need
Speaker 1: a little work. Sure, some things need to be revitalized,
Speaker 1: some things need to be retooled, but it's not like
Speaker 1: we're trying to build a nation in Afghanistan. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying here. There's a little bit more to
Speaker 1: work with in Venezuela than there ever was in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: So perhaps this could go a different direction. But again,
Speaker 1: I really hope that we let them stand on their
Speaker 1: own two feet instead of trying to rebuild them in
Speaker 1: an American image. That hasn't worked ever. Actually, But anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on here, no other details have been released about
Speaker 1: how this word work in practice. Trump has also suggested
Speaker 1: that Columbia could be next on his Agendafa Regime change.
Speaker 1: Cuba two is on the president's mind, said Rubio, as
Speaker 1: a long push for the overthrow of the communist government
Speaker 1: in Havana. So listen, they don't exactly know that the
Speaker 1: leaders of these Central American nations, now that it's understood
Speaker 1: that we absolutely will come and join somebody in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night, perhaps they'll be a little more
Speaker 1: willing to play ball. Perhaps they'll be a little more
Speaker 1: willing to take their illegals back with open arms rather
Speaker 1: than trying to fight it out and say you can't
Speaker 1: send them back. Perhaps they'll be a little.
Speaker 6: Bit more agreeable.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I remember Columbia was talking some shit
Speaker 1: the week that we took Maduro. They were saying that
Speaker 1: they were going to do something, and then we joined
Speaker 1: Maduro and Colombia has been real quiet ever since then.
Speaker 1: They haven't recanted any of their statements. They also are
Speaker 1: not saying anything else ever since we yanked him. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like this was to
Speaker 1: send a message, and I, for one can see that
Speaker 1: that message was received. So I'm taking that at least
Speaker 1: as a lowercase w if nothing else. The president's interest
Speaker 1: in South American affairs comes despite muted support from the
Speaker 1: American public, which overwhelmingly opposes military intervention against the country.
Speaker 1: In December Quinnipiac poll quinnop. Yeah, that's a word. A
Speaker 1: poll that was done in December overwhelming the America does
Speaker 1: not the American public does not want to get involved
Speaker 1: in a military intervention, and I think that's very accurate.
Speaker 1: Just one third of Americans told a Reuters and Ipsauce
Speaker 1: poll released Monday that they supported the operation to AlSi Maduro,
Speaker 1: with a majority concern that the US would become too
Speaker 1: entrenched in the affairs of the country and the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the attack. Again, I think that's a that's a
Speaker 1: pretty solid poll to be talked about here. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, who's to say. Now that it's done, we'll
Speaker 1: see how Americans feel about it. As far as I
Speaker 1: can tell, it's kind of a it's kind of a wash.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of Americans that are very much against it,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Americans who are pretty neutral towards it,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of Americans that are kind of
Speaker 1: for it. I would. Obviously I'm more of the neutral
Speaker 1: leaning more towards the for it side of things, but
Speaker 1: I understand the talking points of people that are against
Speaker 1: it for sure. I get it's just, you know, pretty
Speaker 1: much anything that we could do to shut down a
Speaker 1: communist or socialist regime. I'm just all four. That's I know.
Speaker 1: I have my own biases on that one. I'm good
Speaker 1: with dying on that hill. But anyway, moving on, there's
Speaker 1: an ABC article talking about the US seizing the Russian
Speaker 1: flag oil tanker in the North Atlantic and the second tanker.
Speaker 1: Continue on. It says the US on Wednesday sees two
Speaker 1: oil tankers linked of Venezuela, including the Russian flag Mari
Speaker 1: and Naro Oil formerly known as the bell of One
Speaker 1: that had evaded US block ad in December. Actually, most
Speaker 1: of that we already read a little bit the post
Speaker 1: on x US European Command confirmed the seizure of the
Speaker 1: tanker in the North Atlantic the US, and Wednesday also
Speaker 1: sees another tanker in the Caribbean, according to Homeland Security
Speaker 1: CHRISTI Nome in two pre dawn operations day. That is
Speaker 1: a direct quote from hold on Where's it at? Gnome.
Speaker 1: This is from Christy, Nome. In two pre dawn operations. Today,
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard conducted back to back meticulously coordinated boarding
Speaker 1: of two quote unquote ghost fleet tanker ships, one in
Speaker 1: the North Atlantic Sea and one at air National Waters
Speaker 1: near the Caribbean. No, I'm said in a post on
Speaker 1: x Both vessels, the motor tanker Bella one and the
Speaker 1: motor tanker Sofia, were either last docked in Venezuela or
Speaker 1: en route to it. So there you going on screen
Speaker 1: right now we have two pictures from videos released by
Speaker 1: Homeland Security of the dudes dropping in and taking over
Speaker 1: these ships, which is dope. The US Coast Guard has
Speaker 1: been tracking the Marinia tanker for the last two weeks
Speaker 1: after it attempted to seize it on December twentieth, when
Speaker 1: the empty ship was in the Caribbean and apparently headed
Speaker 1: to Venezuela. On December thirty first, the Russian Maritime Register
Speaker 1: of Shipping listed the ship with the new name Marinera
Speaker 1: as a Russian vessel. The ship's crew also painted a
Speaker 1: Russian flag on the ship's side. The Bella one previously
Speaker 1: flew a false Panamanian flag and is suspected to be
Speaker 1: part of Russia's so called quote unquote shadow fleet, which
Speaker 1: Moscow is accused of using to evade air national sanctions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's also a massive red flag. For a ship to
Speaker 1: be flying a Panamanian flag, that's a pretty pretty decent
Speaker 1: red flag. There's some funck shit going on there. For
Speaker 1: anybody that doesn't know. To register a ship with a
Speaker 1: nation takes a solid amount of paperwork. Panama notoriously, it
Speaker 1: takes a bribe. It literally takes a bribe. Then you
Speaker 1: can fly the Panamanian flag. So whenever there's a ship
Speaker 1: out there that's doing something they shouldn't be doing, they'll
Speaker 1: more often than not be flying a Panamanian flag. So
Speaker 1: there you have that. The ship recently activated as transponder,
Speaker 1: allowing open source maritime tracking websites to locate the ship
Speaker 1: as being in the North Atlantic Ocean, close to Iceland
Speaker 1: and the United Kingdom. The UK issued a statement saying
Speaker 1: it supported the US seizure of the Russian flagged tanker.
Speaker 1: The Russian Ministry of Transportation condemned the seizure of the
Speaker 1: oil tanker in the North Atlantic in a statement direct
Speaker 1: quote here, and I think it's yeah, it's what we
Speaker 1: said earlier US naval forces bordered the vessel and international
Speaker 1: waters outside the territorial waters of any state, and contact
Speaker 1: with the vessel was lost, the statement read. The ministry added,
Speaker 1: no state has the right to force against vessels duly
Speaker 1: registered in the jurisdiction of other states. Yeah, but also
Speaker 1: it's against international law to swap flags mid mid sail.
Speaker 1: So take that with whatever grain of salt you need.
Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt feel how you want
Speaker 1: to feel about her. I get it. Was asked at
Speaker 1: a press briefing on Wednesday, at the tanker seizure risked
Speaker 1: a larger conflict with Russia. She said, the tanker was
Speaker 1: a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel and deemed stateless. Again, you'll
Speaker 1: have that when you swap flags. This was a Venezuelan
Speaker 1: shadow fleet vessel that had transported sanctioned oil. The vessel
Speaker 1: was deemed stateless after flying a false flag, and it
Speaker 1: had a jurisdiction seizure order, which also it did, and
Speaker 1: that's why the crew will be subject to prosecution, she
Speaker 1: told reporters. Continuing on, President Trump and Decemmar announced what
Speaker 1: he called a blockade of sanctioned oil in and out
Speaker 1: of Venezuela Defend Secretary Pete Hexeth on Wednesday posted the
Speaker 1: blockade of sanction and illicted Venezuelan oil remains in full
Speaker 1: effect anywhere in the world. The United States continue to
Speaker 1: enforce a blockade against all dark fleet vessels illegally transporting
Speaker 1: Venezuelan oil to finance illicit activity stealing from the Venezuelan people.
Speaker 1: Only legitimate and lawful energy commerce as determined by the
Speaker 1: US will be permitted. Exceth posted on x Trump announced
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night that Venezuela will turn over thirty to
Speaker 1: fifty million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US sources
Speaker 1: or to the US sources told ABC News those barrels
Speaker 1: represent the first trench to be handed over to US control.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration intends to oversee the sale of Venezuelan
Speaker 1: oil indefinitely, and some sanctions against Venezuela will be lifted.
Speaker 1: Two sources familiar with the plan told ABC News, So
Speaker 1: they're talking about running the oil in Venezuela indefinitely. This
Speaker 1: is new age imperialism. This is and I understand if
Speaker 1: people feel some type of way about that, they probably
Speaker 1: have a leg to stand on. On this one, but
Speaker 1: also gas prices go down. I mean, I'm just saying anyway, So,
Speaker 1: the Secretary of State Mark Or Rubio touted the quote
Speaker 1: tremendous leverage and control the United States now exerts over
Speaker 1: Venezuelan and oil industry, and suggests that Venezuela wants the
Speaker 1: oil captured in the Caribbean on Wednesday by US forces
Speaker 1: to be part of its export deal with the administration
Speaker 1: direct quote, here we are in the mist right now
Speaker 1: and in fact about to execute on a deal to
Speaker 1: take all the oil. They have oil that is stuck
Speaker 1: in Venezuela. They can't move it because of our quarantine
Speaker 1: and because it's sanctioned. We are going to take between
Speaker 1: thirty and fifty million barrels of oil. Rubio toll reporters
Speaker 1: after a classified briefing with senators on Capitol Hill. They
Speaker 1: want that oil that was seized to be part of
Speaker 1: the deal. They understand that the only way they can
Speaker 1: move oil and generate revenue and not have an economic
Speaker 1: collapse is that they cooperate and work with the United States.
Speaker 1: And that's what we see, and that's what we see
Speaker 1: are going to happen. Rubio said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's how you worried or if that's how it was
Speaker 1: typed up, but yeah, it was a weird, weird typing
Speaker 1: on that one. Anyway, there's another talking about the UK.
Speaker 1: Let me to go to this article. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that one here in a moment, but before I do,
Speaker 1: I wanted to read the chat and see if anything
Speaker 1: new had been dropped in there. Let's see here do uh?
Speaker 1: They It says I think I'm just attracted to women
Speaker 1: who aren't meant for me. I need a matchmaker. If
Speaker 1: you're talking about the red flags Royce. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. That's fair enough. Pizza and poly Market for
Speaker 1: insider information. Tony agreed. Agreed, dude, absolutely Uh. Sam says
Speaker 1: if it was the Marines who went in, the DNA
Speaker 1: pool will be altered and the guy will have to
Speaker 1: redraw the topographical map of the country.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that's gonna happen. But yeah, here we go.
Speaker 7: You telling me that if the Marines went in there,
Speaker 7: they wouldn't have a DNA uh alteration of the country.
Speaker 1: They could. I'm not saying there's a zero percent chance.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that I don't believe that the Marines are
Speaker 1: going to be making their way into the country. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying as of this moment.
Speaker 7: Which I understand, I was just saying, like it it's
Speaker 7: probably better that they sent Delta Force because the population
Speaker 7: is still somewhat breathing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I do.
Speaker 7: If it was the Mindes modall would have been woking
Speaker 7: up with a fortunate son. But instead it was Delta
Speaker 7: So I'm pretty sure they were playing love so SOA.
Speaker 1: And I'm also really happy that it was Delta Force
Speaker 1: because if it was Navy Seals, we would have gotten
Speaker 1: like eighteen podcasts in about thirty books to be written
Speaker 1: about the operation, and Sean Ryan and Dan Crenshaw would
Speaker 1: have even added that to their beef they're currently having.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy they didn't use Navy Seals that, you know, Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 7: He also like, didn't he throw one of his Navy
Speaker 7: Seals brothers under the fucking rug to bother his political career?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Eddie Griffin, We've talked about it before, but I
Speaker 1: will quickly rehash it here. Eddie Griffin, Navy Seal served honorably.
Speaker 1: There was a situation where they were saying that he
Speaker 1: was going to be tried for war crimes, even though
Speaker 1: everybody who was on the operation with him said that
Speaker 1: no war crimes are committed, and there's there's nuances to that,
Speaker 1: and you can look into the details if you'd like.
Speaker 1: When he was about to be indicted for this, he
Speaker 1: reached out to a seal brother, Dan Crenshaw, for some
Speaker 1: political help. Instead of helping his brother, Dan Crenshaw actually
Speaker 1: led the charge against him and formed an entire well
Speaker 1: it's a call, not a not a campaign. When a
Speaker 1: bunch of politicians get a committee. He formed a committee
Speaker 1: to go against Eddie Griffin, knowing that he was innocent,
Speaker 1: speaking to seals who were there that said that he
Speaker 1: didn't do anything that would qualify or quantitate war crimes,
Speaker 1: and he still went against him. So I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge fan Dan Crenshaw. But then to see two former seals,
Speaker 1: Sean Ryan and Dan Crenshaw duke it out online over
Speaker 1: the headiness and shit, Yeah, if seals would have been
Speaker 1: a part of this operation, you know they would have
Speaker 1: weighed in on it in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: So I for one, am very happy that the Delta
Speaker 1: Force got to stretch the war legs for a little minute,
Speaker 1: and in thirty five minutes in and.
Speaker 7: Out, didn't we see send the kid the F twenty
Speaker 7: two down there?
Speaker 1: Also, the F twenty two was in the air just
Speaker 1: in case Venezuela was able to get any air assets
Speaker 1: off the ground. However, first order business, the F thirty five,
Speaker 1: they had the growler fuck up the radars. The F
Speaker 1: thirty five dropped a bunch of ordnance to destroy their airfields.
Speaker 1: They had Blackhawks and apaches that also destroyed some land
Speaker 1: air ground systems, And so the F twenty two is
Speaker 1: basically hovering just in case. But he did not get
Speaker 1: his first intercepts, not yet, so he got cooked. He
Speaker 1: got a little war cuked. But that's the thing. The
Speaker 1: F twenty two has never actually had the reason to
Speaker 1: stretch its war legs just yet or spread its war wings,
Speaker 1: if you will. The day that that happens, the entire
Speaker 1: game is shifted. Every country that is claiming that they
Speaker 1: have a fifth or sixth gen fighter will be forced
Speaker 1: to shut the fuck up on the day the F
Speaker 1: twenty two is able to show its actual capabilities. So,
Speaker 1: as of this moment, I'm cool with that being the
Speaker 1: secret weapon. If you will, it's like the mouse coutool.
Speaker 3: So why didn't we send a grandpap buff down there?
Speaker 1: Because the B two bomber or the beefifty two, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, the bomber is a sledgehammer where this required
Speaker 1: a scalpel.
Speaker 7: What Sledgehammers get the job done just as good as
Speaker 7: a scalpel.
Speaker 1: They do. But keep in mind, this whole operation only
Speaker 1: had thirty two casualties. If we would have sent a
Speaker 1: bomber into the mix, we'd be having a whole different
Speaker 1: conversation about what was or was not a war crime
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's not every situation the same reason
Speaker 1: why the Marines weren't sent in because the Marines are
Speaker 1: a bit of a sledgehammer in reality, like a flathead
Speaker 1: screwdriver is what you needed for the job. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying here?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just I personally love the B fifty twos.
Speaker 7: I also love the B seventeens pretty much. Any bombers
Speaker 7: from like World War Two and the fifties, they I
Speaker 7: don't know why, but they just get my heart like
Speaker 7: thumping and it gives my brain an itch that I
Speaker 7: just can't scratch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you for anybody who's hearing the references
Speaker 1: to the Kid or Grandpa Buff. If you're not watching
Speaker 1: Habitual Line Crosser on YouTube or on Pepperbox, I cannot
Speaker 1: recommend his content enough. He is hilarious, and he's got
Speaker 1: these whole character arcs for these different air platforms, and
Speaker 1: he's also a missile nerd, so he'll break down a
Speaker 1: lot of the systems way better than I ever could,
Speaker 1: because that's what we did professionally in the army. So yeah,
Speaker 1: HLC Habitual Line Crosser shouts out to him. Cannot give
Speaker 1: him enough props.
Speaker 7: Just out of curiosity. Which of his characters do you
Speaker 7: like the best?
Speaker 1: It's kind of it's ass up. I like the F eighteen,
Speaker 1: I like Grandpa Buff, I like the Kid, I like
Speaker 1: the Nerd in certain regards. I also just love the
Speaker 1: level of shit talking all around the board. I think
Speaker 1: it's great. Honestly.
Speaker 7: I love it when Grandpa Buff like roast the fuck
Speaker 7: out of us, like, yeah, I I should just call
Speaker 7: Rusha's mom. And it's just like that that makes me
Speaker 7: so happy.
Speaker 1: It's not even just Russia, although the Russian character gets
Speaker 1: roasted alive non stop. So does England, so does the
Speaker 1: Middle East. Everybody gets if you notice, he's not Grandpa
Speaker 1: buff isn't racist against anyone. He's racist against everyone. He's
Speaker 1: fueled off of hatred and and I support that.
Speaker 7: You know, dude was built to in everything. I'm pretty
Speaker 7: sure he was the one that that dropped the A bombs.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong. I don't actually know what plane
Speaker 1: or what air platform the bombs are dropped out of,
Speaker 1: now that you mention it.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty Oh, Eleanor I think was the name.
Speaker 7: It was like either Eleanor or eluis whatever that was
Speaker 7: the name of the plane.
Speaker 1: I knew the name of it, but I do not
Speaker 1: know if that was A B fifty two or what
Speaker 1: I think. Ane. Yeah, I know they had to modify
Speaker 1: the bay doors to fit that fat bitch out of there.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, it was. It was.
Speaker 3: It was a thing, which is funny. It was the
Speaker 3: Marine Corps.
Speaker 7: It was the Marine Corps that invented the the gender
Speaker 7: Reville party. And yet so far America it's a weird,
Speaker 7: fucking drend. We have Generaville parties in California and it
Speaker 7: burns half the state down.
Speaker 3: But when we introduced the biggest.
Speaker 7: General Ville party in the entirety of the world, Nagasaki
Speaker 7: in Hiroshima, goat adamized so which was funny enough.
Speaker 1: Funny enough that wasn't because of the gender reveals. Sergeant Reckless,
Speaker 1: a foal had nothing to do with the A bombs
Speaker 1: being dropped.
Speaker 7: Hip note, but it wasn't a genua villa when we
Speaker 7: introduced Japan to our little boy. And on top of that,
Speaker 7: we actually did more damage with the singdiary bombing ones
Speaker 7: than we actually did with the atomic bomb. There's a
Speaker 7: guy that survived both bombings and his awful boss said,
Speaker 7: there's no fucking way that happened. Yo.
Speaker 1: I also wish that we would have invested more in
Speaker 1: the bat bombs. The Marine Corps general that saw that
Speaker 1: and like really wanted to throw some weight behind it.
Speaker 1: I thought that was solid. Just put a bunch of
Speaker 1: like phosphorus vests on bats and let them roos in
Speaker 1: all the houses in Japan and just set them off
Speaker 1: at once. I thought that was brilliant.
Speaker 3: But he wanted to pull the the olga.
Speaker 1: Yeah, basically he wanted to pull the olga, but this
Speaker 1: time it would have been uh with bats rather than birds.
Speaker 1: It's it's a whole thing, and if anybody's curious about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were like suicide vests for bats. It was a
Speaker 1: crazy concept that a dentist came up with. Who happened
Speaker 1: his wife was friends with the first Lady at the time,
Speaker 1: So somehow this dude's designs got to FDR's desk, and
Speaker 1: then he sent it to the War Department and was like, listen,
Speaker 1: I know this sounds crazy, but I think this guy's
Speaker 1: got a good idea here. Let's look into it. And
Speaker 1: then somewhere in the mix you're like, uh, or or
Speaker 1: we have this Manhattan Project thing that we could do,
Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, never mind, we're gonna do that instead.
Speaker 1: That'd be that'd be a lot more feasible. Yes, Sam,
Speaker 1: sorry you you brought up the president.
Speaker 3: But FDR married his first cousin.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Teddy Roosevelt, as I like to call him
Speaker 7: Teddy Roosevelt, was that he was the one who actually
Speaker 7: gave uh what what what's the bard's name? Yeah, it
Speaker 7: was Ellanor funny enough, while she his.
Speaker 1: Like fifth cousin too. The Roosevelts be marrying their cousins,
Speaker 1: that's like a whole thing.
Speaker 7: That and he was he was crippled, but it was
Speaker 7: purely a political thing to keep the money in the
Speaker 7: family and whatever. She was notoriously she was in the closet,
Speaker 7: but she was banging up her favorite reporter though, the
Speaker 7: chick that she was with. I'm not trying to be main,
Speaker 7: but she looked like a bulldog in the face. She
Speaker 7: could have done so much better.
Speaker 1: I mean, you like what you like, I suppose. I mean,
Speaker 1: who am I to judge, you know whatever. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: as we're talking about the military things, and we did
Speaker 1: bring up the UK and a couple of those articles.
Speaker 1: I also found it interesting that in the last two
Speaker 1: weeks that I haven't been on this and reporting about things,
Speaker 1: the UK has now started to offer a military gap
Speaker 1: year to boost recruitment. The UK has been suffering as
Speaker 1: far as there are military recruitment numbers go. So basically
Speaker 1: they're offering a one year trial run. Of course, BBC
Speaker 1: is going to do this to me a that's what
Speaker 1: she said. They're offering a one year gap year, like
Speaker 1: a trial run to their young people to basically, you
Speaker 1: get one year in the military and if you decide
Speaker 1: the military is not for you, you get out free
Speaker 1: and clear, no harm, no foul. Thank you for your
Speaker 1: one year of service, and they're doing this instead of
Speaker 1: conscript as a way to try to boost their numbers.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been passing the law just yet, but they are.
Speaker 1: They're leaning more heavily towards that being the way they're
Speaker 1: going to do things moving forward. I could see that
Speaker 1: working out relatively well for them. However, you're talking about
Speaker 1: getting the youngsters of your country to put down whatever
Speaker 1: substance is their preferred method of choice and get into
Speaker 1: a strict, regimented lifestyle for one year. Maybe yes, maybe no,
Speaker 1: who's to say. So, we'll see how it goes. But
Speaker 1: as far as everything the UK, the gap year, we'll
Speaker 1: see if it boosts their recruitment. Anyway, moving on here,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some China and Taiwan. Because as much
Speaker 1: as everybody's talking about Venezuela being a push against Russia,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that it's not, I also think
Speaker 1: this was a multi pronged situation here. I also think
Speaker 1: that this had something to do with China and Taiwan,
Speaker 1: especially because of the China Chinese diplomats that were in
Speaker 1: Venezuela in Caracas when Maduro was snatched. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about it here the PLA, which is a silly name
Speaker 1: for the Chinese Communist Party's Army, the People's Liberation Army.
Speaker 1: They're Justice Mission twenty twenty five exercise around Taiwan. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about it here, and I have another article pulled
Speaker 1: up from the actual Ministry of National Defense of the
Speaker 1: People's Republic of China, so we're gonna hear both sides
Speaker 1: of this situation here. On December twenty ninth and thirtieth,
Speaker 1: the People's Republic of China just just west Taiwan military
Speaker 1: forces carried out large scale exercises in the air and
Speaker 1: ocean areas around Taiwan titled Justice Mission twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: As announced at the outset of the exercise by the
Speaker 1: PLA's Eastern Theater Command, the drills would focus on sea
Speaker 1: and air combat readiness, patrols, seizing comprehensive superiority, blockading key
Speaker 1: ports and territory, and three dimensional external giant deterrence ER
Speaker 1: line rather than smudge on my thing, the maritime regent
Speaker 1: around Taiwan. This represents the second major maritime exercise in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, after April's Straight Thunder twenty twenty five exercise.
Speaker 1: Conducted by forces of the PRC's People Liberation Army and
Speaker 1: PLA around Taiwan. It continued and encirclement and blockade theme,
Speaker 1: and that first emerged clearly in the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Joint Sword Exercises quote unquote. It also
Speaker 1: demonstrated a continuing propaganda propaganda come political warfare. I feel
Speaker 1: like that might be a translation issue, to be honest.
Speaker 7: The way they.
Speaker 1: Spelled come on that is is wow, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a thing. Propaganda come political warfare, emphasis on PRC military
Speaker 1: operations related to Taiwan, as well as intended deterrent message
Speaker 1: directed against foreign powers that might render a to Taiwan
Speaker 1: in the event of a major crisis. On screen, they
Speaker 1: have an actual article that's written in Cantonese. I don't speak,
Speaker 1: but you could see right here on the map this
Speaker 1: is how the blockade went down. And they also had
Speaker 1: air assets doing basically hot laps around the island nation
Speaker 1: for this situation here, so getting back to it here.
Speaker 1: Publicly available information on the specific operations conducted in the
Speaker 1: course of Justice Mission twenty twenty five exercise is limited. However,
Speaker 1: the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense provided a
Speaker 1: press briefing that provided some specifics on exercise activity in
Speaker 1: seven identified exercise areas around Taiwan. On December twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: the first day of the exercise saw the heaviest tactical
Speaker 1: air activity. There were a total of one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty sorties by PLA aircraft directed towards Taiwan. Of these
Speaker 1: ninety sorties crossed the Taiwan straight center line, so ninety
Speaker 1: of these one hundred and thirty absolutely crossed into another
Speaker 1: nation's airspace. A total of fourteen PLA Navy ships conducted
Speaker 1: operations in the vicinity of Taiwan. Of these, eleven ships
Speaker 1: entered the adjoining zon, a phrase that was not further
Speaker 1: defined by MND Shocker I know A total of fourteen
Speaker 1: PRC Coast Guard ships conducted operations around Taiwan or its
Speaker 1: outlying islands. Of these eight ships entered the adjoining zone.
Speaker 1: The adjoining zone is in quotes by the way. A
Speaker 1: total of four ships from the Western Pacific Amphibious Assault
Speaker 1: Naval Formation operated together in an area approximately eighty five
Speaker 1: kilometers east southeast of Taiwan. These ships were not further identified.
Speaker 1: The PLA publicly public publicity article excuse Me, dated December
Speaker 1: twenty six appeared to indicate that the Yushian or Yushian
Speaker 1: class type zero seventy five amphibious assault ship hubi QB
Speaker 1: I don't know the whole thirty four, the latest ship
Speaker 1: of the plan's newest and largest class of landing helicopter
Speaker 1: assault or LAHA vessels, was involved in the exercise. The
Speaker 1: article stated that that a certain amphibious vessel detachment composed
Speaker 1: of the Hubai and other ships had deployed for the
Speaker 1: disciplinary combat training. WOW. So here we have another image
Speaker 1: of these ships, the blockade, the air assets of how
Speaker 1: they were circling up around Taiwan in the final week
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Now in December thirtieth. Per the
Speaker 1: MND the Ministry of National Defense, the PLA exercise activity
Speaker 1: on the second day was broadly divided into three phases.
Speaker 1: The first of these occurred at zero eight hundred local time,
Speaker 1: with live fire drills conducted by naval and air assets
Speaker 1: in sea areas to both the north and south of Taiwan.
Speaker 1: The second phase, conducted from zero nine to thirteen hundred hours,
Speaker 1: consisted of a series of long range rocket firings from
Speaker 1: locations in ping Tan and shishi Okay or Jiji, I
Speaker 1: don't know, in Fujian province, seventeen rockets that impacted in
Speaker 1: Exercise Zone number one north of Taiwan, and ten ex
Speaker 1: rockets into Exercise Zone number three, which is west southwest
Speaker 1: of Taiwan and the port of Koshi. I'm horrible at
Speaker 1: these pronunciations.
Speaker 6: Forgive me people, Yes, how shown you got it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah. The specific firing platforms were not identified, but
Speaker 1: likely were PHL sixteen PCL one ninety one multiple rocket
Speaker 1: launcher systems batteries operated by the PLA ground Force capable
Speaker 1: of firing guide to rockets up to two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty kilometers. The Ministry of National Defense indicated that a
Speaker 1: total of ten rockets landed within the waters of Taiwan's
Speaker 1: contiguous Zone, making them to date the closest PLA projectiles
Speaker 1: to land near Taiwan's coast. The third third phase here
Speaker 1: commencing in the fifteen hundred hours or three PM, consisted
Speaker 1: of tactical air activity and continued naval drills. PLA air
Speaker 1: activity was significantly reduced on the second day, with a
Speaker 1: total of seventy one sorties by the PLA aircraft not
Speaker 1: further delineated by type, directed toward Taiwan. Of these, thirty
Speaker 1: five sorties crossed the Taiwan Straight center line. A total
Speaker 1: of thirteen plan and fifteen Coast Guard vessels conducted operations
Speaker 1: in the vicinity of Taiwan. Of these, eleven PLA and
Speaker 1: eight Coast Guard vessels entered the adjoining zone. The four
Speaker 1: amphibious ships continued operations in the east southeast of Taiwan.
Speaker 1: Per video on PRC State medium. Some of the personnel
Speaker 1: on these ships conducted drills involving infantry possibly PLA, Navy,
Speaker 1: Marine Corps or Special Forces personnel boarding helicopters for possible
Speaker 1: simulated raids and door facility seizure drills. So here is
Speaker 1: a clip or at least a picture of the footage
Speaker 1: of one of these projectiles impacting the waters, and this
Speaker 1: is the dudes getting onto these helicopters. Political and propaganda
Speaker 1: elements of the exercise, As is always the case of
Speaker 1: the PLA military exercise around Taiwan, the intended psychological and
Speaker 1: political warfare component is a primary factor, one that trumps
Speaker 1: even the practical military value and the exercise training evolutions. Accordingly,
Speaker 1: propaganda played a key role in the PRC government messaging
Speaker 1: surrounding the exercise, although in a less strident tone than
Speaker 1: the observed earlier in twenty twenty five. At the outset
Speaker 1: of the exercise, the PLA Eastern Theater Command issued a
Speaker 1: statement that it represented a stern warning against Taiwan independence,
Speaker 1: separatist forces and foreign interference forces, and is a legitimate
Speaker 1: and necessary action to defend national sovereignty and uphold national unification.
Speaker 1: At the December twenty ninth PRC Foreign Ministry Press Conference,
Speaker 1: spoke person Lin Jian linked the exercise with alleged separatist
Speaker 1: actions by the administration of Taiwan President la Chi te
Speaker 1: Ling ching tey Yeah, as well as mid December announcement
Speaker 1: of the US government approval of an eleven point one
Speaker 1: billion United States dollar package of arm sales to Taiwan.
Speaker 1: Lynn stated, there is a quote here. The drills are
Speaker 1: a punitive and deterrent action against separatist forces who seek
Speaker 1: Taiwan independence through milli military build up in a necessary
Speaker 1: mood to safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let
Speaker 1: me stress that to advance their separatist's agenda. The DPP
Speaker 1: authorities are turning Taiwan into a powder keg. Their massive
Speaker 1: and desperate arms purchase further revealed their and true nature
Speaker 1: as provocateurs, saboteurs of peace, and warmongerers. Anyone who tries
Speaker 1: to arm Taiwan to contain China will only embolden the
Speaker 1: separatists and push Taiwan straight closer to the peril of
Speaker 1: armed conflict. I know I'm gonna sound crazy for this,
Speaker 1: but when is the last time Taiwan tried to invade
Speaker 1: China or tried to make some sort of a claim
Speaker 1: into sovereign Chinese territory. I know that China acknowledges Taiwan
Speaker 1: to be theirs, That's just not the case. They can
Speaker 1: acknowledge it all they want. That's the math is still
Speaker 1: the math here. Taiwan is rammed by people who like democracy.
Speaker 1: China's ramm by people that are like communism. They had
Speaker 1: their big they're big separation way back in the day,
Speaker 1: and it seems as though Taiwan just wants to do
Speaker 1: them so of all of that, China is doing this
Speaker 1: whole circle song and dance thing. It seems like one
Speaker 1: of these Nations is more of an aggressor than the other.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, Tony way.
Speaker 6: In, I was gonna say, you're wondering, when's the last
Speaker 6: time Taiwan was thinking of taking over China. It was
Speaker 6: around nineteen sixty because that's when the Great Famine happened,
Speaker 6: and they thought they could get US support to go
Speaker 6: back and they'd be greeted as liberators. And the US
Speaker 6: told him, whoa pipe down there. We don't think you
Speaker 6: can do it.
Speaker 1: So sixty years ago, yeah, sixty years ago. We were
Speaker 1: in Vietnam at that point. Like it's been a hop
Speaker 1: and a skip of time here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like not even so much in Vietnam quite yet,
Speaker 6: but we'd gotten done with Korea, and basically Nixon went
Speaker 6: over in nineteen seventy two and he recognized mainland China's
Speaker 6: the one China. Now both China and Taiwan believe in
Speaker 6: one China, but they can't agree on what it means.
Speaker 6: That's the status.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean that's fair, But I have a
Speaker 1: hard time believing right now that Taiwan would try to
Speaker 1: make a push in the mainland China, especially as China
Speaker 1: has got border disputes with every one of their neighbors aside.
Speaker 1: Actually no, and I think about it. Russia even has
Speaker 1: some border disputes with China. They I don't know if
Speaker 1: they've settled them or not. Last I heard it was
Speaker 1: still kind of They pretty much acknowledge it's the thing,
Speaker 1: but they're just kind of kicking the can down the
Speaker 1: road a bit. So, I mean that's been China's jim
Speaker 1: for a few years now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Taiwan's definitely not going to invade. In fact, the
Speaker 6: KMT the gwoman TOG is more pro unification now than
Speaker 6: some of the other parties whose names I can't remember.
Speaker 6: Fair and that's the opposite of the way they used
Speaker 6: to be sixty years ago. And I would say China
Speaker 6: and Russia have really buried the hatchet and they seem
Speaker 6: very friendly with each other right now. That's all I
Speaker 6: gotta say about that.
Speaker 1: No, no doubt, no doubt, Sam, But you got a
Speaker 1: big dog.
Speaker 3: It's so it's a two parter.
Speaker 7: First off, where's the Mongolian Horde when you need them?
Speaker 7: And second off, all is China trying to start another
Speaker 7: Sino Asian war because they've ever been in a se
Speaker 7: like the first U Sino Japanese war was was actually
Speaker 7: over Korea. And then it's funny I have Asian family
Speaker 7: for majority of the Asian Peninsula and all. So the
Speaker 7: way I say it is, I got family killing family
Speaker 7: in all the wars. But I personally believe that China
Speaker 7: they should they should have just kept the emperor, and
Speaker 7: because it seems like when they were when they had
Speaker 7: the the Emperor, things was going a whole lot better
Speaker 7: than they are now. Also, I China, China has been
Speaker 7: trying to they want to be the they they so
Speaker 7: each faction of like the Asians, I say faction because
Speaker 7: they're scat. They they are all racists, like ultra extremely
Speaker 7: racist to each other. China, China and Japan they fucking
Speaker 7: hate each other even though like the first people on
Speaker 7: the Japanese mainland and everything immigrated from like they came
Speaker 7: on little small ass boats from China.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if we're gonna go that route, Japan,
Speaker 1: they're racist against other Japanese people, light skin versus bark
Speaker 1: skin Japanese.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 7: Like if you're froming the city, the more quote unquote
Speaker 7: whiter you are, the more beautiful you are. But yet
Speaker 7: they fucking hate Gaijin's which is their world for foreigners
Speaker 7: because and that's the thing that Japan was isolated for
Speaker 7: over five hundred years. The only way that they could
Speaker 7: do business with other people is if they left mainland
Speaker 7: Japan went to a boarding a little island and did
Speaker 7: the market that way.
Speaker 3: But if you were a Japanese and you got you.
Speaker 7: Got sent off, whatever, your boat got lost while fishing,
Speaker 7: and you try to come back, they'd kill you that you.
Speaker 3: Now an xil. Do you know who else does that?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: Even today still does that? The North the North Sentinel Island.
Speaker 1: Well Island, they're pretty much uncontacted right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: And the reason why I say that is because I've
Speaker 7: been do I've been watching videos of them. There was
Speaker 7: a fissure of theirs that got injured or whatever, he got
Speaker 7: picked up, like his boat sailed to a neighboring island
Speaker 7: and he tried to come back.
Speaker 3: They immediately filled him full of arrows. Even though they
Speaker 3: know who he was.
Speaker 7: They the way they saw was that you left, you're unclean,
Speaker 7: You're gonna die.
Speaker 1: And we don't really know what the culture of them
Speaker 1: of that island is. We don't know if they think
Speaker 1: that once you're gone, you come back, you're like possessed
Speaker 1: by a demon or if you're uncle. So like we
Speaker 1: don't actually know.
Speaker 7: It's because that at the point in time, there was
Speaker 7: neighboring tribes around them, like on other islands that they've
Speaker 7: watched when the big ass ships came Europeans, Indians and what.
Speaker 3: The fuck ever have you?
Speaker 7: When they came over, they saw their neighbors, whose numbers
Speaker 7: were like tens of thousands, get completely wiped out. Now
Speaker 7: the the North of Centilyese tribe there's only sixty.
Speaker 3: Of them left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I mean.
Speaker 3: Like they they even like.
Speaker 1: They're in bringing themselves to extinction at this point.
Speaker 3: There's that.
Speaker 7: But you can ask, are they a human zoo or
Speaker 7: do they see us as the human zoo? It's a
Speaker 7: philosophical questions, fair human zoos. The last one we that
Speaker 7: America had was in the Bronx in the early nineteen
Speaker 7: hundreds where the the dwarf pygmy dude.
Speaker 1: So yeah, But to your point, as far as the
Speaker 1: Asian countries are concerned, h I don't think China is
Speaker 1: trying to restart Chinese Sino war Sino war. I think
Speaker 1: that they are trying to push into every nation right now,
Speaker 1: they have border disputes with India, Mongolia, Nepal to bet
Speaker 1: I would say Pakistan, but not exactly. They've kind of
Speaker 1: like struck a deal with them instead. Every one of
Speaker 1: their neighboring countries, with the exception of Russia and North Korea,
Speaker 1: they are pretty much slowly but surely trying to push
Speaker 1: in to expand their territories. And they've been doing that
Speaker 1: for quite some time now. To your point about where
Speaker 1: they better off when the emperor was in charge, a
Speaker 1: little yes, a little no, right whenever it was still
Speaker 1: under some sort of a monarchical rule, and I'll just
Speaker 1: use that term very loosely here. Yeah, they had more food,
Speaker 1: they have more farms and things like that. When the
Speaker 1: Communist revolution took over, they became an industrial powerhouse, which
Speaker 1: is why they have. Everything we have is made in
Speaker 1: China for the cheap labor. However, that also led to
Speaker 1: farms being abandoned, and now China has food shortages, which
Speaker 1: is why they have such an issue with America sanctioning them.
Speaker 1: And they're no longer allowed to or they weren't at
Speaker 1: a time allowed or able to buy American food stores.
Speaker 1: So that they were not starving by any means, but
Speaker 1: also they were. Things are looking pretty tumultuous there for
Speaker 1: a little minute. Now the deal is back on where
Speaker 1: we have, you know, the soy farmers are back in
Speaker 1: action and they're selling soy back to China and all
Speaker 1: the stuff. But China had a thriving agricultural industry until
Speaker 1: the Industrial revolution. Therefore, the communist revolution took over in
Speaker 1: that country. So, on one hand, where they better off?
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on perspective, right, because now they
Speaker 1: have first world amenities, but they also may or may
Speaker 1: not have food security.
Speaker 7: But they have often lost a lot of their cultural identity,
Speaker 7: and yet they own a million agricultural acres here in America.
Speaker 7: I personal believe no country should own not even a
Speaker 7: parcel of land in ours.
Speaker 1: Oh, I fully agree with that, And I I don't hate.
Speaker 7: I don't hate any of my fellow Asians or whatever, like,
Speaker 7: I don't hate anyone really, but I do say that
Speaker 7: they need to go from the communistic ideals and back
Speaker 7: into loving themselves but not fucking killing off their the
Speaker 7: unborn daughter because they can't have another one.
Speaker 1: Well, the one child policy went away, that the one
Speaker 1: child policy went away a couple of years back, but
Speaker 1: even still, they they screwed themselves out of their biggest
Speaker 1: Their biggest asset was their manpower, and for give or
Speaker 1: take twenty years, they screwed themselves out of it. And
Speaker 1: now they realize what that's gonna look like in another
Speaker 1: twenty years when these kids are entering the middle aged
Speaker 1: workforce and they're not gonna have enough people to back
Speaker 1: the jobs that they need. And I think that's also
Speaker 1: why China is leaning so heavily into AI and robotics
Speaker 1: right now to try to replace the workforce and manpower
Speaker 1: that they screwed themselves out of.
Speaker 7: Also, do you see how those two engineers quote unquote
Speaker 7: they destroyed a part of the Jing dynasty's wall, the
Speaker 7: part that the Jing dynasty made.
Speaker 3: They mysteriously disappeared after that. Funny how that works.
Speaker 7: Think I think they got put inside the wall, cause
Speaker 7: China they'd be putting people in the wall.
Speaker 1: I mean back in the day they did. But that
Speaker 1: was also with a lot of slave labor. So I mean,
Speaker 1: what was it, you know, nothing else?
Speaker 7: Wow, twenty twenty six, and yet China Steel ones off
Speaker 7: off of slave labor.
Speaker 1: This is a fair point. It's a very fair point,
Speaker 1: so getting back to it here, it says Taiwan's Mainland
Speaker 1: Affairs Council issued a December twenty nine statement that put
Speaker 1: the exercise in the context of the Chinese Communist parties
Speaker 1: provocative and coercive military actions against Taiwan and stated that
Speaker 1: their exercise quote not only seriously threatened the stability of
Speaker 1: the status quot across the Taiwan Strait, but also posed
Speaker 1: a significant challenge to regional security, once again demonstrating that
Speaker 1: the Sea DC is the troublemaker undermining peace across the
Speaker 1: Taiwan Straight. The CCP seeks to closer or speaks of
Speaker 1: closer ties, yet on the other resorts to military intimidation.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, it proclaims that people on both
Speaker 1: sides of the Taiwan Straight belonged to one family, yet
Speaker 1: on the other turns its military might against Taiwan. This
Speaker 1: once again demonstrates that the people of Taiwan must harbor
Speaker 1: no illusions about the CCP. To that point, I actually
Speaker 1: have to agree with them. Regional governments have expressed concerns
Speaker 1: over the exercise and measured terms. For example, Japan's government,
Speaker 1: which has been on the receiving end of hospital PRC
Speaker 1: diplomatic campaign since early November, made a statement December thirty
Speaker 1: first that the military drills quote constitute actions that increase
Speaker 1: tensions across the Taiwan Straight and that quote peace and
Speaker 1: stability across the Taiwan Straight are important for the international
Speaker 1: community as a whole end quote. US President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: downplayed the significance of the exercise and comments that emphasized
Speaker 1: a personal relationship with CCP General Secretary Jijiping. This direct
Speaker 1: quote from Trump here, well, I have a great relationship
Speaker 1: with President g He hasn't told me anything about it.
Speaker 1: I certainly haven't seen it, but he hasn't told me
Speaker 1: anything about it, And I don't believe he's going to
Speaker 1: be doing it, even though they literally just did this
Speaker 1: massive operation. Here, what we see right now on screen
Speaker 1: is a picture of a PRC propaganda graphic showing the
Speaker 1: location of the PRC's coastcar patrols around Taiwan during the exercise,
Speaker 1: depicting them as a traditional Chinese marriage not This continues
Speaker 1: a longer term trend in the PRC's stalker propaganda directed
Speaker 1: towards Taiwan, which attempts to depict menacing PRC actions as
Speaker 1: being affectionate in nature. Yeah, that's not creepy. No, that's
Speaker 1: not creepy at all. But like, okay, yeah, to say
Speaker 1: that's stalker propaganda, that's funny. I like that. That checks
Speaker 1: out to me personally, But all right. The customary New
Speaker 1: Year's Address for twenty twenty six, the Xijuping, released December
Speaker 1: thirty first, made no mention of the exercise. However, she
Speaker 1: did extol the PRC's move in twenty twenty five to
Speaker 1: create the quote Commemoration Day of Taiwan's Restoration, a further
Speaker 1: narrative effort to link China's asserted sovereignty over Taiwan with
Speaker 1: victory in World War II. He also made a standard
Speaker 1: exhortation that for crosstrate compatriots, blood is thicker than water,
Speaker 1: and the historical trend of reunification of that fatherland cannot
Speaker 1: be stopped. You know, it's very interesting that he would
Speaker 1: use that quote, because for those that don't know blood
Speaker 1: is thicker than water. That's actually a part of a
Speaker 1: longer quote. The blood of the covenant is thicker than
Speaker 1: the water of shit, the water of the water of
Speaker 1: the womb.
Speaker 7: Thank you, the blood of the coment is thicker than
Speaker 7: the waters of the mom of the room, Meaning the
Speaker 7: allegiance or the comments of the funds or whatever you
Speaker 7: make is more important in only then the blood ties
Speaker 7: that you're born into agreed.
Speaker 1: So for him to say that the blood is thicker
Speaker 1: than the water here, he's basically, whether he realizes it
Speaker 1: or not, he's acknowledging that, Hey, even if they are relatives,
Speaker 1: if they're trying to do their own thing, that is
Speaker 1: stronger than them being our relatives. I think it's very funny.
Speaker 1: A lot of people use that not knowing the actual
Speaker 1: quote is more or less turning from family ties for
Speaker 1: those that you call family rather than those that are
Speaker 1: your family. But I digress. Anyway, Now we've heard from
Speaker 1: the Taiwan side of things. This is the China statement
Speaker 1: on it. It's very quick, it's very small. Here a
Speaker 1: Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China.
Speaker 1: This is their homepage. Here. Chinese PLA Eastern Theater Command
Speaker 1: completes quote Justice Mission twenty twenty five in quote military Drills.
Speaker 1: Senior Captain Li Ji, spokesperson of the Chinese PLA Eastern
Speaker 1: Theater Command. The Chinese PLA Eastern Theater Command has successfully
Speaker 1: completed Justice Mission twenty twenty five military drills and fully
Speaker 1: tested the integrated joint operation capabilities of its troops. The
Speaker 1: troops of the PLA Eastern Theater Command will remain on
Speaker 1: high alert at all times, keeping strengthening combat readiness through
Speaker 1: arduous training, resolutely thwart the attempts of Taiwan independence, separatists
Speaker 1: and external intervention, and firmly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Speaker 1: So as taiwan Is like listing out their feelings on this,
Speaker 1: that was China's real statement to the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: thought that was. That was pretty hilarious, honestly. Anyway, Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about some some homeward things as far as
Speaker 1: the United States is concerned. Actually, before I do, let
Speaker 1: me go ahead and check the chat and see if
Speaker 1: there's anything else a bruin over here. Uh, let's see
Speaker 1: here by Papa, hold on, y'all, y'all done posted a
Speaker 1: few things here. Roy soft asleep appreciates you. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the UK. Sam had mentioned beans on falaffel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're no longer beans on too, the beans on falafel now,
Speaker 1: uh speared animal will also post it. What is this
Speaker 1: Walls urges Americans to take to the streets. Yeah, Walls
Speaker 1: is also not seeking reelection because of all the corruption
Speaker 1: charges that he knew about and turned a blind eye to.
Speaker 7: So that's good, isn't he isn't he also being uh
Speaker 7: not not it's not treason.
Speaker 3: But isn't he being a charged with a sedition?
Speaker 1: Yeah? There, Well, at least there's there's a possibility of
Speaker 1: that going through. They're they're in the work of that
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 7: So I know for treason you can leave the preferred
Speaker 7: the Founding Father's preferred method to deal with treason is hanging.
Speaker 1: Though they're not going to hang anybody these days. But
Speaker 1: and honestly don't even think they'll give him the death
Speaker 1: penalty for it. They'll just probably remove him and he'll
Speaker 1: serve some prison sentence or something.
Speaker 7: I believe if you, if you do sedition, espionage, or
Speaker 7: in treason of any sort of any kind, you should
Speaker 7: get the death penalty.
Speaker 3: And I say that, and.
Speaker 7: Like I understand my views are kind of a are
Speaker 7: not typical, but I feel like you should hold God
Speaker 7: and the country that you were born into above more
Speaker 7: than money and if you, if you can, I do
Speaker 7: understand every man has his price, but you shouldn't sell
Speaker 7: out your fellow countrymen and your morals just for cheddar
Speaker 7: and agree.
Speaker 1: But tell that to all the politicians in DC. I
Speaker 1: agree with your statement, just so we're clear. I think
Speaker 1: that you are on the money here, but also pretty
Speaker 1: much every elected offical ninety ninety five percent of all
Speaker 1: elected officials would would go the opposite way of what
Speaker 1: you're saying.
Speaker 3: I think we should bring back decimation.
Speaker 1: I think we should bring back what they do. Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen how Taiwan's parliament goes down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they will cane their their politicians.
Speaker 1: They and fart out of each other on national television
Speaker 1: when they get a little too uppity. I think we
Speaker 1: should bring that back.
Speaker 7: I don't I don't understand Mannarin or Cantonese or whatever
Speaker 7: the hell they speak over there, but I would watch
Speaker 7: the parliament because it's funny as hell.
Speaker 3: But I also think that.
Speaker 7: I believe there's too many people in politics and politics
Speaker 7: that's that never served their country, and that is a
Speaker 7: detriment because it's the fucking politicians that got more of
Speaker 7: our boys killed in Vietnam than the fucking enemy did.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm I'm a firm believer that. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean just uh, serving in the military, even serving
Speaker 1: your community in any regard right as our first responder.
Speaker 1: I'll even give a credence to teachers and medical staffers,
Speaker 1: like there's there's more than one way to serve your
Speaker 1: community and serve your satan, serve your country. I agree
Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent, But unfortunately most of the politicians,
Speaker 1: like I can't tell you how many of these dudes
Speaker 1: I've looked into and they were from a well to
Speaker 1: do family. They were going to law school so that
Speaker 1: they could be a lawyer for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and then they were gonna make their way into a
Speaker 1: local political realm, then work their way to the state level,
Speaker 1: and then work their way to the federal level. And
Speaker 1: they knew they were going to be in DC by
Speaker 1: the time they were forty and that was their plan
Speaker 1: and it was charted out before them. But from the
Speaker 1: time they were five years old, regardless of what their
Speaker 1: feelings were on it that I have a real issue with.
Speaker 1: But that's also a thing that has happened. This is
Speaker 1: not a Republican or Democrat. This is all. It is
Speaker 1: all the above on this one.
Speaker 7: So yeah, personally, I believe like if you get charged
Speaker 7: with trason, that moment they say guilty, you're getting strung
Speaker 7: up off of the White House balcony and the front
Speaker 7: and lawn.
Speaker 1: That's not a good optic. Though. Now, I like where
Speaker 1: your head's at. As far as like sending a message
Speaker 1: to everybody else, I get that. Hell, even in Vietnam,
Speaker 1: if you get caught with corruption, you get publicly executed
Speaker 1: on national television. But like, here's the deal, America, we
Speaker 1: would like to believe we're a little more civilized than that.
Speaker 1: So what I would rather is, Okay, if you are
Speaker 1: going to sign your name on a bill, you need
Speaker 1: to be willing to fight for it. And I do
Speaker 1: mean actually put gloves on and like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, every time there's a vote, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fucking UFC fight in Congress. What I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: if somebody challenges you to this bill and you're like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that, Yeah, well I think you're stupid. Well,
Speaker 1: like cool, we can glove up. And if you're not
Speaker 1: willing to actually glove up for your signature, then your
Speaker 1: signature goes off, there's gotta be some kind of skin
Speaker 1: in the game.
Speaker 7: I agree with that, But I'm also for the point
Speaker 7: that I believe that there should be dueling should be
Speaker 7: legalized again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all about that.
Speaker 3: A whole lot of less offended motherfuckers in the world.
Speaker 1: I wish if you would bring back was it not
Speaker 1: martial combat laws, mutual mutual dude, I wish. I wish
Speaker 1: we would bring back mutual combat laws in all fifty states.
Speaker 1: That would be phenomenal and traditional dueling. But that's the problem.
Speaker 1: People these days have no respect. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: it would be a one shot pistol. You take your
Speaker 1: paces and once the shot was fired, that was it done.
Speaker 1: We're not We're not bringing this back. We're not having
Speaker 1: this conversation tomorrow. It's done. After these shots are fire,
Speaker 1: whether we miss, whether we hit, whatever the case now.
Speaker 7: They missed, they would be, it's each person would shoot
Speaker 7: and whoever if they both miss, they'll take they'll go
Speaker 7: in a step.
Speaker 3: We load fire.
Speaker 1: I posed be not necessarily. Not necessarily. There's multiple cases
Speaker 1: where they only took their one shot and it was
Speaker 1: about about the honor of it. Like you, you called
Speaker 1: me out. So I'm here and I don't actually want
Speaker 1: to kill you. You don't actually want to kill me.
Speaker 1: We both were talking mad shit, but like you called
Speaker 1: me out, it's a show up. We're gonna take our
Speaker 1: one shot, and even if we both turn and fire
Speaker 1: into the sky, all right, Well I may not like you,
Speaker 1: but there's a level of respect here and we go
Speaker 1: on about our way. Very rarely was it a a
Speaker 1: shoot to the death as far as the early American
Speaker 1: political realm was concerned.
Speaker 7: Andrew Jackson had over one hundred and twenty rounds in
Speaker 7: that man, to the point they said when he was
Speaker 7: being buried, he sounded like a coin purse.
Speaker 1: And Cassius Clay also killed like from dueling over one
Speaker 1: hundred guys.
Speaker 7: In DREE And I love both of them. I might
Speaker 7: not always agree with some of their personal stuff, but I.
Speaker 1: Do mean hear me out though. Cassius Clay, because of that,
Speaker 1: was so hated in d C that they sent him
Speaker 1: to Russia to be the ambassador to Russia because they
Speaker 1: hated him in DC because he he took things too far.
Speaker 7: The father of the United States Navy, John Paul Jones,
Speaker 7: he was He went from to Russia and helped helped
Speaker 7: him with in the Black Sea against the Coach.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a glorified pirate with John Paul Jones,
Speaker 1: And once again we're talking about different different day and
Speaker 1: ages here. No, no, I'm not doing disrespect on him.
Speaker 1: He was solid, But I'm also saying if you look
Speaker 1: at his style of being the first, you know, top
Speaker 1: naval officer in the United States.
Speaker 7: He rated the main land of Britain, So right, right,
Speaker 7: he might be a pirate, I personally say privateer, but
Speaker 7: the dude was the straight gangster.
Speaker 1: Also, I really hope that they passed the letter of
Speaker 1: Mark in the United States. Oh my god, that's going
Speaker 1: to be so fun.
Speaker 3: I already fixed my John boat.
Speaker 1: Dude. I don't know if you're John, but we'll make
Speaker 1: it out to the old rage. You're talking about making
Speaker 1: it across the Gulf of America, big dog son.
Speaker 7: If there's a will, there's a way in God really,
Speaker 7: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: All right, getting back the chat here, Tony says, remember
Speaker 1: how Taiwan still thinks it owns Mongolia. I'm missing the
Speaker 1: context on that one. Uh since when is that a statement?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you interviewed this guy. Sally who died are
Speaker 6: a year area.
Speaker 1: Oh that was easy Turkstan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but he was. He brought up Mongolia for a
Speaker 6: second and said that the Republic of China government in
Speaker 6: Taiwan still thinks it owns Mongolia, but uh, mainland China
Speaker 6: let Mongolia be independent because China used to own Mongolia
Speaker 6: during the Qing dynasty kind of sort.
Speaker 1: Of yeah, yeah, but East Turkistan was never a part
Speaker 1: of mainland China.
Speaker 6: I don't know when that happened. Maybe seventeen hundreds. I
Speaker 6: think that's when China tried to take to bet too.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. He told us the dates, but
Speaker 1: he went over a whole lot of things in a
Speaker 1: very short amount of time. The dude was a solid interview.
Speaker 1: He seems like a really good dude. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember that part about Taiwan believing
Speaker 1: they still own Mongolia. That's that's also a pretty wild claim.
Speaker 1: But also I don't believe Taiwan's gonna be making it's
Speaker 1: a it's an invasion to Mongolia anytime soon either.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're going to be quiet about that for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, no more Asian brother wars. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with that Sam says, I don't want Asians killing each
Speaker 1: other first blunt of the day. Oh look at you, Sam,
Speaker 1: you're finally sparking up. Death is too much. I don't
Speaker 1: want politicians put in a position where they need to
Speaker 1: raise the stakes to avoid dying. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: This is also why the Nuremberg executions very bad. President
Speaker 1: shameful resignation is better. It depends on the crime. It
Speaker 1: depends on the crime. If you're somebody who was like
Speaker 1: one of the top dogs of a concentration camp, yeah,
Speaker 1: I see death as being okay. If you were just
Speaker 1: like a political pundit, then like, perhaps death might not
Speaker 1: be the correct course of action. I don't want American
Speaker 1: politicians to be strung up for their viewpoints by any means,
Speaker 1: but I do want them to understand there's consequences for
Speaker 1: their actions, and there's consequences for their words, and if
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about it, you need to actually be
Speaker 1: about it. Now I've made the suggestion about gloving up,
Speaker 1: I also think that would take care of a lot
Speaker 1: of this age bracket issue that we're having, because, like,
Speaker 1: could you imagine Dan Crenshaw going up against like Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi like, all right, let's let's let them glove up.
Speaker 1: And if you're unwilling to glove up for your statement,
Speaker 1: perhaps it's time for you to go to the House.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, that would also lead to
Speaker 1: its own own issues. We'll have a bunch of UFC
Speaker 1: fighters trying to make their way in politics, not like
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor's doing it, but like in America. That would God,
Speaker 1: Dana White would be sponsoring Congress. That would that would
Speaker 1: be a wild That would be a wild pay per
Speaker 1: view c SPAN.
Speaker 6: But anyway, I got more to say about this subject,
Speaker 6: and I'm super educated, but this checks out with what
Speaker 6: livel I know. Before the Nuremberg Trials, it was considered
Speaker 6: in Christian civilization wrong to kill enemy leadership. It happened
Speaker 6: a couple of times. It happened to Charles the First
Speaker 6: of England in sixteen forty nine, and Louis the sixteenth
Speaker 6: of France.
Speaker 1: Would say otherwise, they murdered the entire French Roll family.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you could say the French revolutionaries were definitely
Speaker 6: very anti Christian for their time. But the reason for
Speaker 6: this was you wanted to give enemy leadership the incentive
Speaker 6: to negotiate with you, or to surrender and resign and shame,
Speaker 6: rather than just raise the stakes and go, Okay, screw it,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna lay waste to this entire territory. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: sacrifice my entire army because I'm dead anyway, because they're
Speaker 6: gonna kill me if I lose. You want to give
Speaker 6: the enemy the incentive by letting him know we're not
Speaker 6: gonna kill you. If you lose, you're not gonna be
Speaker 6: in charge, but you'll be sort of comfortable for the
Speaker 6: rest of your life. Like Kaiser, Wilhelm the Second or Napoleon,
Speaker 6: these guys were not executed. They were treated with a
Speaker 6: lot more respect.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Even in the American Revolution, that was that way, right.
Speaker 1: It was understood that officers weren't to be killed in battle.
Speaker 1: It was for the lower enlisted to be killed the officers.
Speaker 1: You could you know, prison, ransom, these types of things
Speaker 1: that was offered to the nobility class.
Speaker 7: The Lincoln gave gave the Southern the Southern rebels that
Speaker 7: pardons after the Civil War. And you know who he pardoned.
Speaker 7: One of the names that he pardoned, John Hoolks Booth.
Speaker 7: And if he did not if he would have not
Speaker 7: pardoned John Wilkes Booth. Booth would have been either imprisoned.
Speaker 1: Booth wasn't a part of the Confederacy. He was an actor.
Speaker 7: No, yes, he wasn't actor, but he also was a propagandaist,
Speaker 7: a propagandist.
Speaker 3: And he did he did fund the UH.
Speaker 7: He funded some of the militias, like the money he made,
Speaker 7: he actively funded it.
Speaker 3: And he he even would go to UH like.
Speaker 7: The up and coming, like whatever the actors would do,
Speaker 7: like the Actors Guild. And he was he was a
Speaker 7: diehard uh uh Confederate idea idealist h.
Speaker 1: Lincoln.
Speaker 3: Lincoln Lincoln was the one that parted him.
Speaker 7: And it's funny enough, Uh John Wipes Booth, his brother,
Speaker 7: his older brother, was a far more successful UH actor.
Speaker 7: He actually saved Lincoln's only kid, uh from getting hit
Speaker 7: by a train. And when I say his only kid
Speaker 7: was the only one that actually survived to adulthood. And
Speaker 7: you saw and even at he even was even at
Speaker 7: Lincoln's funeral that when he was out in the back
Speaker 7: with his head down.
Speaker 6: Wow, well well Booth, John Woods Booth was executed along
Speaker 6: with several other relatives. And that was that was that
Speaker 6: was acceptable at the time, Well.
Speaker 1: He assassinated the president. Yeah, you're gonna get God on
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 7: There's an actual theory that he that the guy that
Speaker 7: they the crippled that they shot in the boning Bond
Speaker 7: was not Booth.
Speaker 3: That because Booth was also a Mason.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so was as much as my research has shown
Speaker 7: that he was a Mason and you know else who was.
Speaker 7: Who are free Masons that were on opposite sides of
Speaker 7: the war of a war?
Speaker 6: A lot of them, I don't know a lot of them, Dude.
Speaker 3: Baby Crockett and.
Speaker 7: Santa Santa Anna them also.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, I just went to the Alamo this past
Speaker 1: for New Year's me and my family, the bro It
Speaker 1: was pretty sick. I love history, Like as we're talking
Speaker 1: about this obviously, but it's in the middle of downtown
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Like it stands out and it's like, if
Speaker 1: you didn't know it was there, you'd be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's the album, You're just kind of going about your way.
Speaker 1: But like I thought, it was cool as shit.
Speaker 7: Honestly, did you know that the entire Texas Revolution was
Speaker 7: it was planned out? Sam Houston went down there for
Speaker 7: that exact reason. He was best friends with what President
Speaker 7: Jack's the President Johnson. They were such a good funds
Speaker 7: and everything that Johnson is seeing him. My letter said,
Speaker 7: what the fuck's going on? Because he thought Houston was
Speaker 7: going to try to you suffer. He said, no, idiot,
Speaker 7: I'm doing it this so we could get more funding
Speaker 7: and more people on our side. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've also heard that he was one of Andrew Jackson
Speaker 1: was like his mentor or one of them or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was phenomenal military leader in my opinion in
Speaker 7: eighteen fourteen and all and everything.
Speaker 3: Terrible person to the indigenous.
Speaker 7: Yeah, one of my favorite founding fathers because I am
Speaker 7: patriotic and I actually love my country, and I drank
Speaker 7: too much of the propaganda as a kid.
Speaker 1: Heard that that's fair. That's fair, which I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of history to be proud of as far
Speaker 1: as America's concern. But that's the same way that you
Speaker 1: just acknowledged, excuse me, that Andrew Jackson was really really
Speaker 1: cruel to the natives. We can be proud of our
Speaker 1: history and acknowledge the ugly parts as well. That's that's
Speaker 1: also part of the modern American way, you know, without
Speaker 1: being ashamed of it. But acknowledging it and moving forward
Speaker 1: and learning from it. For sure.
Speaker 7: My daddy's father, my grandfather, both of his biological grandmothers,
Speaker 7: so my great great grandmothers.
Speaker 3: I learned this.
Speaker 7: They actually come they both come from one comes from
Speaker 7: the Blackfoot tribe and the other one comes from the Cherokee.
Speaker 3: But there's also an interplay of the Chalk Tall through
Speaker 3: one of their bloodlines. So I am. I'm very proud
Speaker 3: of that heritage too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk talk got a little bit of that in
Speaker 1: me a little.
Speaker 7: My uncle Dewey, he went to Vietnam. He ended up
Speaker 7: getting murdered in Texas and thrown out the back of
Speaker 7: the truck. And the guys that did it they got disappeared,
Speaker 7: uh and everything. That's why my family got right from Texas.
Speaker 7: But he he actually got from Kills with a Cherokee
Speaker 7: Tomahawk in while he was over in Vietnam, he actually
Speaker 7: took scalps.
Speaker 1: And that I wish they would allow the military members
Speaker 1: to bring home war trophies. I think we're missing out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: did you know.
Speaker 7: In two thousand and like it was, I want to say,
Speaker 7: he was doing the Battle for Lojah. My staff sergeant
Speaker 7: told us about how he was a new recruitment, everything
Speaker 7: fresh over there, not a cup, but.
Speaker 3: You know, a new boot.
Speaker 7: And he knew a corporal that took a his n
Speaker 7: c O sword into a battlefield. He wasn't a credit
Speaker 7: with the kill because he finished the dude off with
Speaker 7: the sixteen.
Speaker 3: He stabbed the dude in the neck with his NCO.
Speaker 1: That's highly ill advised, but also it's only dumb if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work.
Speaker 3: So there, the Sabers are still getting kills in the
Speaker 3: two thousands.
Speaker 1: Which is dope. Which is dope. Speaking of Sabers getting kills,
Speaker 1: that leads me to think about the Islamic nations. They'll
Speaker 1: still be head people and shit, which is a weird segue,
Speaker 1: but let's get into it here. This is from the
Speaker 1: Muslim Advocates. Muslim Advocates condemn Representative elan Omar removal from
Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs Committee. Ilan Omar for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: is it representative from Minnesota, the same place where they've
Speaker 1: got all the corruption from the Somalis and all these
Speaker 1: things that are going on Tim wallas estate where he
Speaker 1: is no longer going to be going for re election,
Speaker 1: all these things. She just got removed from her position
Speaker 1: in the Foreign Affairs Committee. Let's talk about it here DC. Today,
Speaker 1: members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to remove
Speaker 1: Representative Elan Omar, Yes, the same woman that married her
Speaker 1: blood brother to get you know, citizenship into the United
Speaker 1: States and not just on paper. They it was yep
Speaker 1: from the committee. Representative Omar is the first Muslim and
Speaker 1: African born member of Congress who served as a member
Speaker 1: of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Ah. Okay, maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we definitely know that Obama was not American born.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was a part of the
Speaker 1: Foreign Afairs Committee when he was in Congress, but neither
Speaker 1: here nor there. Previously, Muslim Advocates and ben the Arc
Speaker 1: Jewish Action sent a letter asking for an ethics investigation
Speaker 1: of Representative Lauren Bobert, Republican from Colorado Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: Republican from Georgia for their anti Muslim rhetoric directed at
Speaker 1: Representative Omar and other Muslim members of Congress. The following
Speaker 1: is a statement from the Muslim Advocates Senior Policy Council,
Speaker 1: not going to try to pronounce that name the hypocritical
Speaker 1: sen Senecal and meritless decision to remove Representative Omar from
Speaker 1: the House Foreig Affairs Committee is purely about cheap politics
Speaker 1: of attacking a black Muslim woman and a refugee for
Speaker 1: professional gain. This action sends a chilling message to Muslims
Speaker 1: and other marginalized people that we are not welcome in
Speaker 1: the hills of power and our identities are fair game
Speaker 1: for political attacks. But we have always been here, we
Speaker 1: will always We will not be silenced, and neither will
Speaker 1: Representative Omar. Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and say
Speaker 1: it's nothing to do with her religion. It has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the color of her skin. It has
Speaker 1: everything to do with her being complicit in the fraud
Speaker 1: of over a billion dollars to fund terrorist organizations in
Speaker 1: Somalia from government nonprofits. But okay, yes, it's it's clearly
Speaker 1: because DC is so racist and so xenophobic against Muslims.
Speaker 1: You got me on that one. I guess whatever. Talking
Speaker 1: about Minnesota driver killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis identified
Speaker 1: as thirty seven year old mom Renee Nicole Goods. Shooting
Speaker 1: death occurred just days after ICE launched large scale raids
Speaker 1: in the city amid ramped up rhetoric from President Trump
Speaker 1: about Somali immigrants. It's not just rhetoric. That's a real problem.
Speaker 1: But okay, need to know. A Minneapolis driver who was
Speaker 1: killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been
Speaker 1: identified as Renee Nicole Good. Her shooting death occurred just
Speaker 1: days after ICE launched large scale immigration raids in the city.
Speaker 1: A mid ramped up. We just read that one Minneapolis mayor,
Speaker 1: Jacob Fras, slammed the federal agency, warning them to get
Speaker 1: the fuck out. Wow, that's a statement from a mayor.
Speaker 1: Definitely the Minneapolis driver we talked about that Good's mother,
Speaker 1: Donna Ganger. Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she
Speaker 1: was notified of her daughter's death in the morning of Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January seventh. Renee was the kindest people I've ever known,
Speaker 1: Gager said, per the Star Tribune. She was extremely compassionate.
Speaker 1: She's taking care of people her life. She was loving, forgiving,
Speaker 1: and affectionate. She was an amazing human being. Go was
Speaker 1: fatally shot by an agent after a group of people
Speaker 1: allegedly started blocking all officials during an immigration enforcement operation
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. City Council members Jason Chavez described you thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old mother as a US citizen who is
Speaker 1: an observer watching out for immigrant neighbors. Wow, goods shooting
Speaker 1: death the courage just days after we talked about that already.
Speaker 1: We've dedicated this moment since the early stages of the
Speaker 1: ICE presence in Minneapolis, said Mayor Jacob Frey at a
Speaker 1: press conference on Wednesday. This was a federal agent recklessly
Speaker 1: using power that resulted in somebody dying. Later, he slammed them,
Speaker 1: saying to get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do
Speaker 1: not want you here. Frey said, your stated purpose for
Speaker 1: being in this city is to create some kind of safety,
Speaker 1: but you are doing exactly the opposite. Wow. So actually,
Speaker 1: we have a video of the situation, and from what
Speaker 1: I heard, and I've only seen a quick clip of
Speaker 1: this video before we press play, allegedly she was driving
Speaker 1: forward and almost ran an ICE agent over and that's
Speaker 1: when they opened fire. I do not know if that
Speaker 1: is what took place. We're gonna watch this together and
Speaker 1: y'all tell me what y'all think about it. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: all slowed down, so I'm gonna lower the volume on this.
Speaker 1: So she backed up, There's an ICE agent directly in
Speaker 1: front of her car. And an ice agent talking to
Speaker 1: her through the window. So you just so we're all
Speaker 1: clear here, you have a law enforcement official with a
Speaker 1: weapon telling you to stop and trying to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with you through the window, and you decide to
Speaker 1: drive off highly ill advised, regardless of race, regardless of
Speaker 1: whatever whatever. The dude with the gun and the badge
Speaker 1: is telling you stop. I know that compliance is a
Speaker 1: weird thing for some people, but maybe maybe it would
Speaker 1: be a good time to put your car in park,
Speaker 1: turn off the engine, keep your hands on the wheel,
Speaker 1: and do as you're told. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So she tries driving forward. There's a clearly a cop
Speaker 1: in front of her, and the wheels are straight. It's
Speaker 1: not like she's about to make a hard right turn
Speaker 1: out of there. She's driving forward. The dude jumped out
Speaker 1: of the way, then she turned and they opened fire. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know from what I can tell here, I'm
Speaker 1: turning the volume all the way off on that one.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, that's I don't know what you would
Speaker 1: expect to have happen on this one. A dude standing
Speaker 1: in front of your car to prevent you from driving
Speaker 1: off a dude standing in the window, You try driving
Speaker 1: forward and you get lit up. Am I missing something here?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is pretty clear cut.
Speaker 6: Well I'm on the other side. I think they shouldn't
Speaker 6: have shot at her. I think they got in the way,
Speaker 6: And well, she wasn't trying to drive into them. She
Speaker 6: was revers saying she was making a y turn. This
Speaker 6: is gonna be like it or not another George Floyd
Speaker 6: kind of situation.
Speaker 1: But the dude with the gun in the badge was
Speaker 1: not telling her to please drive forward. You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to take it upon yourself when a cop is talking
Speaker 1: to you and be like, you know what I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: Fuck you. Like, even if even if the dude in
Speaker 1: front of her wasn't in the line of fire, which
Speaker 1: from what I could tell from her tire treads, he
Speaker 1: definitely was. He jumped out of the way and then
Speaker 1: she turned. But even still, like best case scenario for
Speaker 1: her was that they got her license plate number and
Speaker 1: she got a ticket for evading arrest at that point
Speaker 1: and like probably had cops come knock on her door later.
Speaker 1: Best case scenario. This was worst case scenario, But like
Speaker 1: if she just would have done as she was told
Speaker 1: she'd still be alive here today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think she should have stopped, but I don't
Speaker 6: think this is a clear cut case of self defense
Speaker 6: for the cop. And yeah, I think he was wrong
Speaker 6: to shoot her.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna say self defense, but especially
Speaker 1: if you could see a DUDEHS standing in front of
Speaker 1: your car, perhaps not putting it in drive. Because at
Speaker 1: that point, like the cops, I guarantee he's going to
Speaker 1: be exonerated for this. There's no way he's going to
Speaker 1: get like removed from from his position or anything like that.
Speaker 6: I give it like fifty to fifty chance because, like
Speaker 6: Derek Chauvin, kind of an ass But I think that
Speaker 6: they unjustly ruled against him a little too harshly because
Speaker 6: he didn't have any intent to kill. But this guy,
Speaker 6: what everyone's arguing about on X for the last few
Speaker 6: hours is well, he could see that the tires were
Speaker 6: pointed away from him, so you know, he chose to
Speaker 6: get in the way of the car, and he shouldn't
Speaker 6: have been there, and he should have known he could
Speaker 6: get out of the way, and she wasn't trying to
Speaker 6: kill him, and he knew it.
Speaker 1: So so when the cops are running when the cops
Speaker 1: are running a speed check point and they hit me
Speaker 1: with the radar and then they stand in the mill
Speaker 1: street and point if I don't stop, Like what, what
Speaker 1: is what is the most likely course of action that
Speaker 1: he's going to do?
Speaker 6: I haven't run into that situation before, so oh that
Speaker 6: happens to me. So they stand in the middle of
Speaker 6: the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, once they get you with the radar and
Speaker 1: they see you coming, I have a there's a two
Speaker 1: lane road that leads into the backside of my neighborhood,
Speaker 1: and they will sit there and set up speed traps.
Speaker 1: Fucking today they did. As a matter of fact, little
Speaker 1: did they know. I was on my p's and Q
Speaker 1: so I went and speed in so ha. But beside
Speaker 1: the point, you know that when they get you, they
Speaker 1: will literally stand in the middle of the road and
Speaker 1: point when they still got about thirty feet of distance
Speaker 1: on you, and you got to if you're speeding, you're
Speaker 1: slamming on your brakes, and that they got you, like
Speaker 1: that's it. If you try to just go pass them, well,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have been in the road. You explain that
Speaker 1: to a judge. Why you hit a cop who got
Speaker 1: you for speeding or whatever the case was, because you
Speaker 1: didn't like, yeah, that's there's no.
Speaker 6: Stand in the way and you can't like go around
Speaker 6: them and pull over to the shoulder. I've honestly never
Speaker 6: been in that situation.
Speaker 1: Dude. They sit in a person's driveway. This person has
Speaker 1: given the cops permission to set up speed traps and
Speaker 1: set up in their driveway. And no, there's no shoulder
Speaker 1: to this road. There's ditches on either side. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they stand in the middle of the road to stop
Speaker 1: you and then direct you into this person's driveway so
Speaker 1: they could write your citation.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm assuming that they're pulling over people going like
Speaker 6: eighty miles an hour. They probably wouldn't stand in front.
Speaker 1: Of No, this is this is all somewhere else.
Speaker 6: I'm having a hard time imagining, like where this is.
Speaker 1: The speed limit on this road is twenty five and
Speaker 1: if you're speed they'll stand in the middle of the road.
Speaker 1: But this is my point. They were standing in front
Speaker 1: of a car that was supposed to be stopped. Homeboys
Speaker 1: talking to her.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, this is also kind of like those climate
Speaker 6: protesters that try to sit in front of cars on
Speaker 6: the road and say, well, I'm daring you to menace
Speaker 6: me and threaten me by coming at me. Run them over.
Speaker 1: They play these stupid games. You're gonna sit in the
Speaker 1: middle of traffic like, I don't know, what else do
Speaker 1: you expected to happen. That used to be a joke
Speaker 1: when you hate somebody, like you know, why don't you
Speaker 1: go play in traffic like that used to be a joke.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the climate protesters or the cops, they're just raising
Speaker 6: the stakes. They're kind of daring you to do it,
Speaker 6: daring you to get close to do it. And I
Speaker 6: don't think she was trying to hit him at all.
Speaker 6: She was She was going backwards. She was barely moving
Speaker 6: a couple miles an hour, and her wheels were turned.
Speaker 6: She was making a y turn trying to get away
Speaker 6: from heaven. Uh.
Speaker 1: When he jumped out of the way, her wheels were
Speaker 1: not turned.
Speaker 6: Brother, he jumped out, the wheels were turned out of
Speaker 6: the way.
Speaker 1: Look, the wheels are straight. He's standing in front. She
Speaker 1: starts to go forward. He jumps out of the way,
Speaker 1: and now her wheels turn after he had jumped out
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 6: I think it's obvious to me. It seems obvious. She
Speaker 6: was trying to turn and I think the cops in
Speaker 6: the wrong here.
Speaker 1: I think she tried no balls in him, honestly, I
Speaker 1: think she tried no ballsing him and he said that
Speaker 1: he's I'm your Huckleburr. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Minneapolis is in turmoil right now.
Speaker 1: Minnesota's in turmoil for all of these things that are
Speaker 1: going on in the city. Yeah, it's a bad time
Speaker 1: to be an ICE agent, honestly.
Speaker 7: But yeah, to mention, people have already started shooting at
Speaker 7: ICE agents.
Speaker 3: One down in Texas. It happened once already.
Speaker 7: Then there's the FBI had just stopped a plot here
Speaker 7: recently where they were doing a New Year's they were
Speaker 7: gonna try to uh fuck up a bunch of the
Speaker 7: New Year's parties. So over in Britain they had they
Speaker 7: couldn't even do the New Year's and Christmas thing over
Speaker 7: in Britain because they didn't want to offend the Muslims.
Speaker 1: Like the Muslims celebrate New Year's probably on a different day,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming, But still what that why why is that offensive?
Speaker 7: Well, it was the I know they had they couldn't
Speaker 7: do their Christmas day ship because over there all the
Speaker 7: Muslims that they were destroying every Christmas tree, cutting it down,
Speaker 7: and when people would try to say, hey, don't do that,
Speaker 7: they pulled machetes on them.
Speaker 1: Which is against the law to have you remember the environment,
Speaker 1: have those knife amnesty boxes, which yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: Go form being a world conquering superpower to being a
Speaker 7: little bitch Britain balls.
Speaker 1: I don't blame the British people, honestly, I blame the
Speaker 1: British I blame the British government. Y'all took over a
Speaker 1: third of the world for their spices, learn how to
Speaker 1: use none of them, and you left your people to
Speaker 1: rot and have consistently done so for the past few decades.
Speaker 7: It's you know, and still eat as if the fucking
Speaker 7: blitz cig is going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And I mean even if you look at
Speaker 1: like what's good British food right now, very few traditional
Speaker 1: British meals go down there, however, Like they have a
Speaker 1: really good Indian cuisine that's popping off over there, but
Speaker 1: it's not the Indians that are making the issues.
Speaker 7: So I mean, if I could go to Britain, I've
Speaker 7: always wanted to see Westminster the bass Castle thing, and
Speaker 7: I wanted to see the bloody twer well, the uncle
Speaker 7: you set up the throne by killing the two little
Speaker 7: twin princes and had their body stuffed in a chest,
Speaker 7: which funny enough, that place is haunted. One of Henry's
Speaker 7: uh King Henry's wives UH that that was the capitator
Speaker 7: that it said that uh in multiple security guards UH
Speaker 7: said that they've seen the chick walking down her calling
Speaker 7: from her cell and when they go to see and
Speaker 7: if they do seer, she'll like, I'm I can't cut
Speaker 7: my chemon, but she'll like till take her head when
Speaker 7: she got decapitated and put take it off and hold
Speaker 7: it in a like in her hands.
Speaker 3: And there's even one said that she took.
Speaker 7: The form of a bear or something and it slashed
Speaker 7: him and killed him. Like I've I've read this in UH.
Speaker 7: I was reading these in like the books when I
Speaker 7: was in middle school. I was reading history and and
Speaker 7: UH and mysteries and everything in middle school and high school.
Speaker 7: So I've always been inquisitive, and I've always liked the
Speaker 7: occult and the supernatural.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I've never heard that before, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to go explore pretty much all of
Speaker 1: your's old castles. I think they're super dope. But but anyway.
Speaker 3: Is my is the one I want to visit the most.
Speaker 3: Which one was that castle? Drackler the one?
Speaker 7: And he did that he tortured he he did he
Speaker 7: had an entire torture dungeon. And it's the the the
Speaker 7: one where his wife flung herself from the window.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeahor's castle, no doubt, to the point it was built.
Speaker 7: He used slave labor to build it. But the engineering
Speaker 7: of it was so great that the foundation was made
Speaker 7: out of limestone. So when the like the way it
Speaker 7: was made, so if it had earthquakes, everything else for tumble,
Speaker 7: but that the that castle would stand straight up.
Speaker 3: I'm if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 7: I think, Uh, what's the Uh the senior douche from
Speaker 7: a Ghost Adventures.
Speaker 3: Uh, he's been.
Speaker 7: There a couple of times. Dude, Dude, Like, if I'm
Speaker 7: not mistaken, he tried to buy the castle.
Speaker 1: Was it for sale?
Speaker 3: It was up until like twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Dope.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I could, I'd buy the castle.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna knock him for trying. Hell yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: all the good members of the retinue. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for joining me this evening and as we
Speaker 1: took a little two week break from everything, boy oh
Speaker 1: boy did things pop off. We only touched on a
Speaker 1: few big items, but there are so many more things
Speaker 1: that happened. I'm gonna try to find some more things
Speaker 1: to talk about next week, but I also feel like
Speaker 1: within the next week there's gonna be way more things
Speaker 1: popping off, so we'll just see how it goes. Again.
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