WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:12.439 Well, whiskey coming gay, Oh, why don't you? From Powerline 2 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:16.839 blog dot com and produced by Ricochet dot Com. This 3 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:22.679 is the three Whiskey Happy Hour with your bartenders Steve Hayward, 4 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.359 John You, and power Lines International Woman of Mystery Lucretia. 5 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:33.399 Got you gotta giving? Let that whiskey float where you're 6 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:38.359 being in love down he loon? All right, I am back, baby, 7 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:40.799 I'm back in the US. I'm back in the. 8 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:43.320 Chair for this podcast because when I let Lucretian John 9 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.600 all on their own, they just run a mock and 10 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.640 so I'm gonna bring order back to this podcast. I 11 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.359 have got my Lefroy twenty five because I've been drinking 12 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.159 acavit and Dutch jin geneva jenee vera however you pronounce 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.159 it uh, And so I'm glad to be back. 14 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.159 How are you John? How are you? Lucretia? What are 15 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:01.359 you drinking? How are you feeling? 16 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.840 I'm feeling joy. I'm feeling joy because, as we all know, 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.079 Kamalama ding Dong visited my state. Not only did she 18 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.400 visit my state, she visited the town where my best 19 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:12.040 friend lives. 20 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:16.640 And right, well, I thought, right, I mean so right, 21 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:18.439 I mean she was in your hood, and now John, 22 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.319 she's like literally across the street. 23 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.439 From you, and she was it was five o'clock Pacific 24 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.680 where when she was in Douglas. So she got on 25 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.799 a quick ass airplane and flew to Fairmont and got 26 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.400 a helicopter. I mean flew to San Francisco and got 27 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.040 a helicopter to the Fairmont. Because I've barely had one 28 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.840 drink since her I kmitted more since her speet. 29 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:39.640 That's not enough. 30 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.840 And when she's in San Francisco, she mixes with the 31 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:46.159 people by barricading herself inside the Fairmont Hotel at the 32 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.519 top of what is deservedly called knob Hill, where all 33 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.159 the snobs live. And you can't get a close off 34 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:56.680 all the streets around this gigantic hotel with police and 35 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.959 sniffer dogs and everything. All I want to do is 36 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.519 go hang around at the University Club across the street. 37 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.879 Are a little old, run down. It's so run down 38 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.120 old that Winston Churchill would look at home, look at 39 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:08.599 home here. 40 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:10.919 Oh, I used to go to the Universe. 41 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:12.639 This is thirty years ago now, John, But I used 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.879 to go have lunch with William Rusher at the University 43 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:15.800 Club and smoke. 44 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.560 Cigars, which yeah they because yeah, people still smoke cigars 45 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:25.240 here drink they have excellent bourbon and Scotch selection. If 46 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:30.280 any loyal listeners who can identify Lucretia by voice, which 47 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.000 has happened to me only once in the freaking Flyer 48 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.319 Lounge and Frankfurt with a weird guy from Norway. But 49 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.360 if anybody wants that can do that, I will offer 50 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:42.759 them as much bourbon and Scotch as they can drink 51 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:45.000 on my tab at the University Club in one night. 52 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.159 Actually it's good. I won't go into why now. If 53 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.080 they have even the tiniest, slightest detective skills, it should 54 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.400 be very very very easy to figure out if you 55 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.759 don't already know who I am. All of our listeners 56 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.840 are very smart. They knew who I am, and I'm 57 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:05.159 okay with that. It's just plausible deniability when I get 58 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.000 called in front of the provost and you know, blah 59 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.400 blah blah. Anyway, let me talk for just a moment 60 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.439 about my So you're talking about you know, Kam Lama 61 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:14.919 ding dong. 62 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.639 Well, yeah, but just one sentence, Lucretia, you should take 63 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.080 a bow or we give you a prize because commentary magazine, 64 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.039 and you know, you're not always a huge fan of 65 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.719 that gang there. They're a podcast this week used Kami 66 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.319 Lama ding Dong as their title. 67 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.240 So you get the prize and royalties, and. 68 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.240 They get that. They give full credit in citation to 69 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.840 Lucretia they did. I'm okay with that. Oh see, that's 70 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:42.439 the kind of conduct we expect from the people a 71 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.199 commentary exactly. 72 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.879 But I'm okay with it because you know, I'm not 73 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.240 a selfish person. I share my joy with the world. 74 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:56.560 I'm also very joyful about so I really spend an 75 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:00.919 extraordinary amount of time in Douglas. It is a it 76 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:02.039 is a border town. 77 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:03.439 It is now. 78 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:07.120 It used to be a huge mining town, copper mining town, 79 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.000 and the place is still you know, but it's now, 80 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.520 of course, a human trafficking town. That's its and they 81 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.680 passed through. It's got one of the second largest border 82 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:19.959 crossing in Arizona, I believe it is, and it's about 83 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.079 to be made bigger. That was a big deal. But 84 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.360 here's the point. Douglas is a small town and it's 85 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.879 a poor town. It's a very poor, mostly Mexican immigrant town. 86 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.759 There's not any there's not a lot of wealth there 87 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:38.399 anymore at all, and it doesn't have any large venues. 88 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.720 So my understanding, I cannot confirm this absolutely reliably, but 89 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.240 my understanding is that she went to Coache's Community College 90 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.759 has a campus in Douglas and was at the theater. 91 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.680 The theater holds one hundred and forty persons max. And 92 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.920 the interesting thing was, if you watched her speech li 93 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.639 I watched it on Fox, there was only one camera. 94 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:07.360 You know, the troll what's his name, Mark Kelly spoke 95 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.160 and but the camera they only ever trained one camera 96 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.360 on any of the speakers up at the front, and 97 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.519 there's you know, a teleprompter. Her speech was a teleprompter speech. 98 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:24.160 And my thought was did they actually force Fox News 99 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.399 before they would let them in that venue or did 100 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:31.439 Fox get their their film from someone else that not 101 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.240 to look at the crowd, I mean, they were very loud. 102 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.439 The crowd was very loud, but not loud because there 103 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.959 were literally thousands of people speaking out. They were just 104 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.480 loud mouthed people, you know, very excited and joyful about 105 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.680 being there with the troll and Kamala and Ding Dong. 106 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.800 So anyway, that was my first comment about it. She 107 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:59.360 was more articulate because she had a teleprompter and she 108 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.920 sounded like, except for a few comments, she sounded like 109 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.720 she could be Trump. Quite frankly. She talked about, you know, 110 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.879 that it was important to close the border to refugees 111 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:16.399 except at border crossings. It was important to stop fentanyl. 112 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.240 She bragged about how she shut down cartels in California 113 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.560 operating in San Francisco. I'm sure you guys remember that 114 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.079 when she shut down the fentanyl trade and the cartels 115 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:31.319 in San Francisco when she was Attorney general. Excuse me, 116 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.839 it was just lie after lie after lie. Other than 117 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.199 she wanted a path for dreamers. It's about the only 118 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.680 honest thing she said. And of course then she turned 119 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.439 to Trump, and you know, you want to ask if 120 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.519 you've got all these great ideas for how we're going 121 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.040 to close the border and make, you know, take away 122 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.480 all these families that are suffering from the effects of 123 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.120 illegal immigration and fentanyl and guns, and tell them why 124 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:58.319 isn't she doing it herself? Because in case she didn't forget, 125 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.240 she could go back to the White House and start 126 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.920 doing it right away. But no she can't, because you 127 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.879 know why, it's Trump's fault. And you know why it's 128 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.879 Trump's fault because somehow, even though Trump is not in 129 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.720 any position of power in the legislature or otherwise, he 130 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.480 stopped the bipartisan immigration reform bill, which is what every 131 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:21.680 stupid Democratic politician from Arizona says every time the subject 132 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.800 comes up, and they have to make an answer for 133 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:29.639 their pathetic excuse for policies only on immigration anyway. So 134 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.160 I want to know, how is it that she being 135 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.560 part of the administration and this was such a bipartisan 136 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.040 bill and all these conservatives even wanted it. She said, 137 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.480 all these the most conservative people in the Congress wanted 138 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.839 this by partisan reform bill, but Trump stopped it. Do 139 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.160 you guys know how that happened? 140 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.399 No, I remember hearing all that that was all nonsense, 141 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.160 And okay, you're back. You froze up for a second there, Lucretia. 142 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:59.920 But yeah, all right. 143 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.040 But my theme for the week, by the way, is 144 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.240 Israel strikes, but camel of bombs. I mean, you know, 145 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:10.120 a couple of catastrophic interviews. We saw that, and I 146 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.360 don't think we need to do all on that for 147 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:11.839 too much. 148 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:14.639 I don't think I think we should holistically look at 149 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:20.079 how she holistically addressed all of the holistic problems of 150 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.160 this country and how we holistically can bring our aspirations 151 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.480 and our dreams together so that we all holistically can 152 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:28.720 find the American dream. 153 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:33.000 Well, you just took my new sign out for this episode. 154 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:33.720 But you can still do it. 155 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.840 Well, Audio, I'm going to add being inspired, because that's 156 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.840 the other thing. We need to inspire people so we 157 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.639 can be inspired. That was a rather alright, sol. 158 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.039 Because the spirit of inspiration will cause us to be 159 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:49.080 inspired so that we can dream the dreams that inspire 160 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:49.840 us to dream. 161 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.279 You know, I thought, by the way, John, a little 162 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:54.639 bit of a sidebarb, but not entirely. 163 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.120 I heard you talking last week how you once taught 164 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.919 briefly here for a month at the Free Universe of Amsterdam, 165 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.679 and say, my impression of Amsterdam from being there a 166 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.759 week was they need they need a certain statute. We 167 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:12.600 can't mention here because of the unbelievable amount of marijuana smoke. 168 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:19.080 Right, you did not tell what you're talking about that's 169 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.799 not governed by the Clean Air Act. 170 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.519 Yeah, well it should be, and then that should be. 171 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.120 They need they need OSHA at least, because you know, 172 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.519 all the the buildings are just incredible safety nightmares, the 173 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.200 stairways and stuff. And then finally, you know, I noticed 174 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.600 that the bicycle riders are out of control in Amsterdam 175 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:36.840 and none of them were helmets. 176 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.559 You know, in California helmets are mandatory, as we know, 177 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.679 and in probably other places in any way. 178 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.240 Did you notice here was one interesting thing about the bicycles, 179 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.080 which I fear is going to happen to all of 180 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.639 us with the rise and crime in our in our cities. 181 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:54.000 Because you notice almost all the bicycles in Amsterdam where ugly, old, 182 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.240 beat up bicycles. That's because anyone who has a nice 183 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:01.200 bicycle has it immediately stolen. So the idea in the Dutchess, 184 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.279 just have a terrible bicycle and like blended in with 185 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.200 all the other ugly, terrible bicycles and no one will attack, 186 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.240 you know, choose yours and steal that. That's what's gonna 187 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.360 happen to us in these inner cities these days. I mean, 188 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.840 like with the rise to crime in places like San Francisco. 189 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.960 You know, I've seen recently the comeback from the seventies, 190 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.360 signs in people's car saying this car is unlocked, right, 191 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.919 please don't break the glass and you can take anything 192 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.799 you can find in it because crime was so bad 193 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:29.399 back in the seventies, remember. 194 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:32.600 Right, right, Yeah, I do remember that. Unfortunately. 195 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.440 All right, let's take a very quick break here for 196 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.320 a message from a sponsor, and then I'll bring up 197 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.720 another topic for the week that is one that's divided us. 198 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:50.159 So after this, So I think I didn't prepare you 199 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.320 guys for this, but I think the other interesting story 200 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.080 of the week, and I said, it's something that has 201 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.000 divided us a bit in for the last year and 202 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:58.720 a half or more longer is Zelenski came to the 203 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.960 US and I think had it to disastrous visit because 204 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.720 he essentially, I don't know if he was foolish or 205 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:07.840 it was on purpose, but he essentially lent himself to 206 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.000 be an adjunct to the Democratic campaign for president by 207 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.840 going to Pennsylvania and appearing with all the Democratic and 208 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.159 by the way, giving an interview to The New Yorker 209 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:21.000 where he criticized Trump and attacked JD. Vance directly. What 210 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:22.519 a foolish thing to do. 211 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:24.960 And then I guess they should prosecute him. 212 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:29.000 Steve Well, I you know somebody you know it's it's here. 213 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.399 Sounds like more of election interference than Trump signing a 214 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:32.840 couple of. 215 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.639 Checks or or calling Linsky on the phone. 216 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.960 And he did lately have a meeting with Trump, and 217 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.679 Trump immediately released the text the Lensky scent that made 218 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:44.320 him look like a total supplicant. 219 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.480 But I don't know, I mean, what what John? 220 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.960 I mean you you've generally been in favor of our 221 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.200 policy of uh of supporting Ukraine, and you know we've 222 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.200 argued with you about that from different directions. 223 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.960 But what say you now? That seems to be a 224 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:00.679 catastrophic blow during his part. 225 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.600 Yeah, I think it's a mistake for foreign leaders to 226 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:08.879 try to manipulate our domestic politics and their advantage. Although 227 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.080 people say that Yahu does that, and if he does 228 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.600 do it, he does it I think successfully. But I 229 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.799 think I think Zelenski made a major mistake by trying 230 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.840 to in some way interfere with our elections or try 231 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.200 it now. Obviously, I think a lot of you know, 232 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.440 other countries have their hopes for who might win our election, 233 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.080 like bagging Minds a twenty twenty that guy in Brazil, Bolsonaro, 234 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.320 he wanted Trump to win because a very similar outlook, 235 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:40.840 very similar of support. They're both conservative populous, and Zelenski's 236 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.159 an idiot if he doesn't realize that there's a fifty 237 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.519 to fifty chance at least that Trump's going to win, 238 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:51.000 and he's placing his all his bets on you know, Harris, 239 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:56.120 what a mistake. There's a terrible mistake. But that doesn't 240 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:59.679 take away from whether it's strategically a good idea to 241 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.639 op Russian from winning in Ukraine despite the inadequacies and 242 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.320 incompetence of the Ukrainians and US. 243 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.519 Can I ask an honest question, how does anybody in 244 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.120 this day and age, And this is not referring to you, John, 245 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.879 because you've never been guilty of this, but how does 246 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:23.039 one actually demand a cease fire from Israel ah and 247 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.240 not demand a ceasefire from Ukraine? 248 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:28.759 Yeah? 249 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.600 Oh yeah, I mean I agree. I mean I think 250 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.840 people saying there should be a ceasefire in Israel are crazy. 251 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.639 By the way, We're not a breaking news show, but 252 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:38.799 there is breaking news right now. 253 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:39.519 It appears. 254 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.480 I mean, there's reports apparently coming out of the Middle 255 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.799 East now that Israel killed the head of Hezbola Justine. Yeah. 256 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.399 I was going to ask you if you which is true? 257 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.480 So apparently, well, I just went and looked, and so 258 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:56.320 apparently Israeli sources in Israel and Israeli media are starting 259 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.679 to report this. So it sounds like it might come 260 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:07.000 out in American press like within we know, well, well, 261 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.159 all these rallies did is they just targeted with their 262 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.639 missiles where they saw ten pagers exploded once last time. 263 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:17.559 That must mean where the head of the leader is. 264 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:23.600 Well that's a big that's a big deal for you know, 265 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.799 there's not going to be any cease fire now in 266 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.080 the millies with Israel. I mean, if you're Israel, right, 267 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.279 you should press the advantage now and wipe out the 268 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.759 rest of the Hezbolah leadership. You already used the pagers 269 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:40.000 to you know, get into you know, destroy the communications 270 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.240 network and kill a lot of the top leadership. They 271 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.799 just killed the head of Hesbela. They killed the military 272 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.039 military leader of Hesbola last week. I think this is 273 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:49.799 the time if you were there, they should press the 274 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.080 advantage now. The last thing they should do is listen 275 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.720 to any kind of leads from the Biden administration to 276 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.799 stop I heard it. 277 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.240 I was just gonna say I heard that hes blow 278 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:06.799 is put on a adds on LinkedIn forzation no there. 279 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.440 Your question is one that's been on my mind too, 280 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.919 is this is but I. 281 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.240 Don't mean it to be Steven merely what I mean. 282 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:19.320 But the LinkedIn answer or no no actually is a joke. 283 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.799 No no, I I know I'm right with you on this. 284 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.080 Is that this exposes, if we needed it again, the 285 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:29.519 hypocrisy of you know, the Biden administration and our foreign policy. 286 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.080 Lite just stupidity. Let's let's give them a little bit 287 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.720 of credit for being absolutely abjectly stupid. 288 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.200 Well, you can be both stupid and malicious or mendation 289 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:41.360 at the same time. Right, embrace the power of Anne 290 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.759 because you're demanding a cease fire from Israel, not just 291 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.000 for gose of but now for Hesbola. And of course 292 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.679 the real reason is they're panicked that an escalating war 293 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.399 we might get involved. But I think also they're really 294 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:55.360 worried about the political fallout for the Harris campaign. But 295 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.559 you'll notice that when Biden went on the View, or 296 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.000 maybe you did notice, because I'll bet you watch Biden 297 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:01.600 on the View. 298 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.279 But I but I did get a lot of responses 299 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.759 to my tweet that said Biden's going on the View, 300 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.120 so that for once he could be the smartest person 301 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:09.639 in the room. 302 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.960 Well, Biden was wearing a flag pin that was the 303 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.120 American flag and the Ukrainian flag, and I thought, okay, uh, 304 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.399 when is he has he ever worn an American flag 305 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:31.320 and an Israeli flag or any Democrats wearing except for 306 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.519 maybe Fetterman wearing an American flag in an Israeli flag. 307 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:38.080 After all, what Israel done here in the last two weeks. 308 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.240 They've killed a lot of people that we've had a 309 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.399 bounty on. I mean, they killed the guy who was 310 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.080 behind the bombing of the marine barracks forty years ago. 311 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.879 I think I think Biden should send him a check 312 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:49.480 for the seven million dollars bounty. 313 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.600 And the second thing just took Just give them some 314 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:58.480 give them some Howard rund bombs. 315 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.559 And just to round off this about Zelensky's blunder and 316 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.599 you know Trump's meeting, you know, Trump has actually although 317 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.759 Trump has said some things like and this week you said, 318 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.200 by the way, you know, Zelensky's blunder led Trump to 319 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:11.319 say Ukraine is lost. 320 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:12.160 Now. 321 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.119 I don't know if Trump thinks that or not, but 322 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.759 up to this point, Trump has actually maintained a fairly 323 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.480 discreete silence about the Ukraine business. 324 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.079 He has fair right. And the point is, and I 325 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.880 think what's behind all that is is Trump. 326 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.240 Assume Trump wins, the current appropriations of money in the 327 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.720 Ukraine runs out. Who knows if Trump has some idea 328 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:37.079 of pulling up, booting and scaring. 329 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:37.759 The crap, I don't know. 330 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.160 The point is I don't think Trump wants to be 331 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.160 the person who is blamed for losing Ukraine. 332 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.920 I think there's a possibility that Trump would want to 333 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:46.920 find some way. 334 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.279 To back up Ukraine if he can't he and our 335 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.160 European allies can't broke or some kind of ceasefire and solution. 336 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:56.880 But when Zelensky comes and says I'm I'm for Harris, Well, 337 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.200 that kind of gives Trump a free pass to say 338 00:17:59.279 --> 00:17:59.720 screw you. 339 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.920 But at the same time, what does lose Ukraine actually mean? 340 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.160 And the reason I say that, Steve is I think 341 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.640 that in this particular case, losing Ukraine a negotiated settlement 342 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.720 where any territory is lost for the Biden administration is 343 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:21.680 a disaster. However, losing some of the territory that probably 344 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:26.519 rightfully belongs to Russia anyway in a negotiated settlement Russian 345 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:31.000 speaking territories and so on. That's a different story for Trump, right, 346 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:34.920 That's a totally different story for Trump. And a promise 347 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:39.000 that Ukraine will never ever join NATO. He can do that, 348 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.559 and I think that that he can actually negotiate a 349 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:46.880 settlement that the Biden administration just simply can't get away with. 350 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.960 And I'm not even being my usual snarky self against 351 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.680 a Biden administration. I mean, it's just what they've painted 352 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.920 themselves into in this particular case. So my only point 353 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:59.839 is the options for Trump are more open than they 354 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.559 are for the Biden administration at this point, in part 355 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.920 because of what you said, but also in part because 356 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:10.599 it's one thing to have a negotiated settlement and all 357 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:15.039 those lives lost and billions wasted on both sides, if 358 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:17.839 you just kind of go with the status quo. It's 359 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.279 another thing if you say, Okay, well this is the 360 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:24.240 deal and my previous the previous administration really screwed this up. 361 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:25.920 We got to take things away they are and this 362 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.119 is what we're going to do. That's my thought on it. 363 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:29.960 I don't know if that makes any sense. 364 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:32.000 But John, I'll give you the last word on this 365 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.119 before we press on. If you want a last time. 366 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.880 Actually, you know, I mean, Lukrutia made us start out 367 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.480 with a good point, which is trying to reveal the 368 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:45.160 hypocrisy what's going on in Ukraine versus Israel. But actually 369 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.319 it got me thinking there there is a commonality in it, 370 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.039 which is in both cases, the Biden administration shrinks from 371 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.079 the bully in the neighborhood, whether it's with Russia, you know, 372 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.759 not letting Ukraine pursue the war across the order, or 373 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.160 with Iran letting Iran have billions of dollars in revenue 374 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.519 from oil sales and then trying to restrain Israel because 375 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.759 they're afraid that Israel will escalate it and draw Iran 376 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:16.240 into a war. But in both cases it's a Biden 377 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:21.119 administration being spineless before either Russia or before Iran. They're 378 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:25.000 so afraid of these allies of ours, Ukraine or Israel 379 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:29.000 escalating things that they're actually I mean, that's that is 380 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:32.359 the commonality, which I think explains why our foreign policy 381 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:35.599 is such a mess. And you know, this is one 382 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:37.920 where I don't think Harris is going to do much better, 383 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:40.000 like at least Trump I think he you know, I 384 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.640 think foreign policy was far more successful under him than 385 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.559 under Biden and Harris, even though Biden and Harris are 386 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.079 the ones who are kind of supported by and are 387 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:53.599 favored by the foreign policy elite in Washingtons. 388 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:57.240 We won't even go into how all those foreign policy 389 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.799 elite are are itching for war with a rant. I'll 390 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.359 just leave that aside. Oh, I agree with you, John, 391 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.200 but I also think that the further point that needs 392 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.920 to be made is that not only is their weakness 393 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.079 and their spinelessness an explanation for what's happening right now 394 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.279 and the demand the weird that what seems to be 395 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:21.000 the inequitable demand for a ceasefire. Your your explanation is 396 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:23.319 absolutely right, but it's also the explanation for how we 397 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.200 got to where we are and why it is that 398 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:32.359 Trump can actually negotiate a settlement where the terms of 399 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:35.720 the settlement might be identical for the Biden Harris administration 400 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:38.640 and the Trump administration. But Trump could get away with it, 401 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.279