WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:05.360 Now what's happening here is you are beginning to hear 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:07.719 the whole music that gets played over on the phone 3 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:11.480 line system. There we go, it's gone. Okay, yeah, yeah, 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:15.839 we're live, Aaron, right live. We're live right this second. Okay, 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.000 So I'm just letting people know that. Yeah, thirty minutes 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.879 after I should have went live, I have been wrestling 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:31.760 with a technological problem here and basically the internet just 8 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.799 decided to do like a breakdance on me here for 9 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:36.439 some reason, and I have no idea why. 10 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:39.520 Okay. 11 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:43.280 Actually, I'm not saying I'm happy that this happened, Chuck, 12 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.920 but I think this is a good segue into what's 13 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:50.759 what I'd like the show to be, actually, and I 14 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.439 think it's awesome. I think I would also like to 15 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.039 keep this very short, maybe half of a show, and 16 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:59.159 then we'll get to uncle it near around the regular time. 17 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.119 Sounds good, Yeah, so we'll play it that. 18 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.519 Way, okay, And we're live right now. So this is 19 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:09.159 live recording all that. Okay, good, good, But I didn't 20 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.680 record all of the cursing and throwing and a couple 21 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.879 of things I broke during the time when I wasn't 22 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:15.680 live here. 23 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:17.280 But I finished my show. 24 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.359 My show was running, everything was fine. 25 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.000 Yeah. 26 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.040 So then Skype, because now it's not as stable as 27 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.480 it used to be because they don't care about me, 28 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:29.799 and it's did a weird thing. And without getting into 29 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.480 any geekdom, let me just tell you this, Skype started 30 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:38.000 unraveling and showing me code instead of stuff that I 31 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.079 should be able to interact with. Okay, And I said, well, 32 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.439 this just took a dump. All right, Let's reload it 33 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.400 and see what I can do. So I reloaded it. 34 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.799 It did the same thing. I got Skype code. I 35 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:53.079 should have screenshot it. I said, okay, I don't know 36 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.519 what I'm gonna do now, but I can't even call Aaron. Okay. 37 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:58.760 So I said, well, maybe it's time to switch the 38 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.959 teams like they keep trying to do. I whacked that 39 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.439 thing away. I pulled out the old download. I had 40 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:08.520 the ancient download of Skype because I actually have it 41 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.439 from when it was a full program. You know, they 42 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.520 don't offer that anymore. I put that down and unpacked 43 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.159 it and had to reinstall it. Did all that, tried 44 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:19.360 to use it, and then my internet said you don't 45 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.719 have an internet connection. So then instead of even looking 46 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:25.719 at my own stuff. I went around the house. Hey, 47 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.120 you guys got internet, because if you got wireless, I 48 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:33.280 should have hard wired internet. What the hell? Okay, this 49 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.680 is this is what took me a half hour. I'm 50 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.280 not gonna explain it all, but I'm gonna tell you that, 51 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.759 step by step, a bunch of anomalies took place here, 52 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.159 and I guess it's gonna have something to do with 53 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.479 what Aaron's gonna talk about on the Age of Transitions. 54 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:47.599 How late do you want to go on the Age 55 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:48.319 of Transitions. 56 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.560 Let's let's plan till eight or just after eight, and maybe, 57 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.360 if I'm really on a roll, will take it longer 58 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:54.800 than that. 59 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.400 Cool, So we'll look to end around eight o'clock. I'll 60 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.800 follow your lead and that'll be, of course eleven o'clock 61 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.400 my time, and then Uncle will begin like normal. So 62 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.960 here's your abbreviated Age of Transitions with an opening of 63 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.840 sloppy behind the scenes. What the hell Chuck having a 64 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.680 freak bout? So you ready to roll out? 65 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:13.439 Yeah? 66 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:15.280 Yeah, yeah, we'll start here. 67 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:19.000 Well, then, as they say in some businesses, awesome saus 68 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.599 but I just ran my show with no problems before. 69 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.560 You just just want you to know that all I 70 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.639 tried to do is hang up on my show, stop 71 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:33.400 broadcasting my show, and start broadcasting yours, and all hell 72 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:33.960 broke loose. 73 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.280 Okay, well, well I enjoy being a problem shut so 74 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:39.240 it's all fine by me. 75 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.360 This is beautiful. 76 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:43.039 This is performance artist one oh one. And I love 77 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.520 that about your man, I really do. I love that 78 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.439 because he's gonna roll with this, no problem. Matter of fact, 79 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.400 I had a weird idea, and now because I got 80 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.639 involved in all this mess, I totally forgot about it. 81 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:56.840 But I had what I thought would be a great idea, 82 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.840 performance artist wise, and now I totally lost it. I 83 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.639 had this cool idea I was going to try and 84 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:06.680 pitch to you, and it's totally out of my head 85 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:08.319 now that. 86 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.439 Yeah, you'll remember, It'll come back to yeah, I hope. 87 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.759 So all right with that, I'm gonna shut up. You 88 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:15.479 got a drink? You ready? You settled in? 89 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:16.360 Yeah? 90 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:17.639 Yeah, I'm good. Cool. 91 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.120 Then this is what we usually do behind the scenes, folks. 92 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.120 And also there are phone lines connected, so I guess 93 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.639 we're going to use those on the Uncle Show as 94 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.399 per usual. But anyway, the six or seven things that 95 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.439 I have to set up to make this all work. 96 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.279 None of them worked. Now they're working, and I'm going 97 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.240 to shut up and sit here and eat my food 98 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.279 and calm down now. So take a deep breath or 99 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.279 to Aaron and for those of you listening, smoke them 100 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.800 if you got them. 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So go back, lots 140 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.120 of with guests, lots of without guests, all sorts of 141 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:28.879 different topics focusing on technology, strange ideas having to do 142 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:36.000 with technological development, like transhumanism, the technological singularity. I've been 143 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:43.480 talking about these things, critiquing these things from a skeptics 144 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.560 point of view. I think that these ideas are terrifying 145 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:54.199 and mostly bad ideas, transhumanism, the singularity, and the folks 146 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.160 behind these ideas I have never trusted from day one, 147 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.279 and I sure don't today. They're growing in influence and 148 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:08.040 power by the moment, by the minute, which is incredibly 149 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:12.800 troubling and worrying. And we should all be aware of 150 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.959 what's happening. And that is what's happening. We should all 151 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:24.439 know that because the world story now has everything to 152 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:29.199 do we're talking about the international scale of things, is 153 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:35.600 that it's a technological war that we're already in. There's 154 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:40.799 a technological global war that has to do with development 155 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.679 of technology, has to do with international trade, it has 156 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.440 to do with the information space and yes, propaganda wars. 157 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:57.600 We are all playing our part in this mostly completely 158 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:06.399 unconsciously and certainly unconsciously no matter who's involved. Even those 159 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:11.960 who think that they're steering the ship of this thing, 160 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:16.759 I think are probably being fooled as well. Maybe we'll 161 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:21.519 get into that in a moment, I hope so. But yeah, 162 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:27.159 your local friendly social media platform is ground zero for 163 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:32.159 this global propaganda matrix. It is the global propaganda matrix. 164 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.360 If you were not aware of that, something that we 165 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.159 all need to be more cognizant of. Stop just taking 166 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.159 for granted that they're just toys, which I mean, they're 167 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:45.960 fun and I like goofing around with them as much 168 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:56.159 as anybody, But I got to remember that there's influence 169 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:02.159 operations everywhere to be found on those things, and anybody 170 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.039 who can spot them is in a much better position 171 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:07.360 than those that don't even. 172 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.759 Realize that's what's going on. That's all I'm saying. 173 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:15.879 First of all, so I think before we go any 174 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.519 further with all of this, I do want to get 175 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.440 right to an article and build some commentary off of this, because, 176 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.799 as I was saying, we're involved in a technological war. 177 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.879 The use of technology, yes, but also the development and 178 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:37.759 continued the hardware end of things. The developing the hardware 179 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.440 and the actual manufacturing capacity and things like this is 180 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:46.519 also an aspect of this conflict. So here is a 181 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.200 very interesting story. I found it from JP Siatilli's News 182 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.120 Vandal run down this week. It's always putting to anthro 183 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.440 good news that I read from all week long. This 184 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:03.240 is a Reuter story Reuters dot com headline exclusive Huawei 185 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.399 ready's new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks 186 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:12.559 Nvidia alternatives. Sources say this is by Fanny Potkin and 187 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:16.799 Chay Pan April twenty second, stated twenty twenty five. 188 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:18.320 Okay, this goes on. 189 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.639 I guess I'll read the first paragraph here and then 190 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:23.399 I want to jump down to the bottom as. 191 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:24.519 What interests me. 192 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:29.159 But let's see hear Singapore, Beijing, April twenty first, Huawei 193 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:33.440 Technologies plans to begin mass shipments of its Advanced nine 194 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:38.399 ten C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers as early 195 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.399 as next month. Two people familiar with the matter said 196 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.720 some shipments have already been made. They added, Okay, so 197 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:54.879 what this is about GPUs graphics processor graphics chips right, 198 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:59.480 are what all of these AI programs are being ruten 199 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.320 off of? Everybody is aware of this at this point, 200 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.600 all these popular lms and all that have been running 201 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.679 off of graphics processors microchips. 202 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:11.759 And so. 203 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.000 With these tariff wars, this international trade war between China 204 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:21.120 and the US going on, this is throwing a wrench 205 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:22.399 into things. 206 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:24.000 A bit. 207 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:33.080 So both sides of this conflict have to figure out 208 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.200 what they're going to do to produce the microchips. They 209 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:43.960 need the GPUs to not only run current AI systems, 210 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:48.639 but develop new ones and make more advanced ones, you know, 211 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.480 thus getting further ahead in this technological AI arms race thing, right, 212 00:12:55.879 --> 00:13:00.600 And so now that in Nvidia is not available in 213 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:07.960 China anymore. If America, the US would like everybody to 214 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:13.080 believe that China needs in Vidian, that there's no way 215 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.039 that they can do anything without it. 216 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.919 And in videos obviously. 217 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:21.519 The number one chip out there, there's good luck make 218 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:28.279 an AI to that without that. But what that overlooks 219 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:35.759 is the existence of the manufacture itself. In Taiwan TSMC, 220 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:44.039 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC is the premiere factory in 221 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:48.919 the world to produce micro chips. At the moment, everybody 222 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.799 uses them, all the big tech companies here, they will 223 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.960 develop their chips in the United States, but those chips, 224 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.399 the most advanced ones, all have to be produced by 225 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.799 TSMC because they're the only company that has the facilities 226 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:05.679 advanced enough to. 227 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:06.000 Do that. 228 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:13.480 Currently and for the foreseeable future. China same thing. 229 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.279 They kind of have to go through TSMC two and 230 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:21.440 thus well. Anyway, on that note, let's read this part 231 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.279 of the article from Reuters that I find very interesting. Okay, 232 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:30.200 so let's see here. Late last year, Huawei distributed samples 233 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:34.000 of the nine ten C to several technology firms and 234 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:35.600 started accepting orders. 235 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:36.639 This is their new chip. 236 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:41.440 Reuters was not able to ascertain which companies would be 237 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:48.120 primarily producing the nine ten C at China's SMIC is 238 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:54.440 manufacturing some main components of the GPUs using its process technology, 239 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.399 although it's chip yield rates are low. 240 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.440 A source has previously said, Okay, so that's. 241 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:05.360 China's interior fab that's their own microprocessor plant. 242 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.480 Is this s MIIC company? So but they're not able 243 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.960 to do this anyway, back to the article. I'm sorry. 244 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:18.559 At least some of Huawei's nine ten cgpus used semiconductors 245 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:24.879 that were made by TSMC, China based or for China 246 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.879 based soft Go. According to one of the sources and 247 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.399 a fourth person, the Commerce Department has been investigating work 248 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:38.919 done by the Taiwanese contract chip manufacturing giant TSMC for 249 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.320 soft Go after one of its TSMC made chips was 250 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.799 found in a nine to ten B processor. TSMC made 251 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:53.519 nearly three million ships in recent years that matched the design. 252 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:54.240 Ordered by soft Go. 253 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:59.240 According to Leonard him, a researcher at RANDS Technology and 254 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:03.960 Security and Policy Center in Arlington, Virginia who is tracking 255 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:09.639 Chinese developments in ai, Huawei reiterated that it has not 256 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.440 used TMC made soft Go chips. Soft Go did not 257 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:18.720 immediately respond to a request for comment. TSMC said it 258 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.240 complies with regulatory requirements and it has not supplied Huawei 259 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:29.519 since mid September twenty twenty. Okay, so what's going on here, 260 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:38.120 I believe is that China is having TSMC create these 261 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:44.120 GPUs for them, and they're doing it in a clandestine 262 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.639 way because TSMC is not supposed to be doing this, 263 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.120 thus the reference to the regulatory requirements. They're not supposed 264 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:58.679 to be doing that, but they are, so it seems. 265 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:05.920 And this article lays all this out, but it doesn't 266 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.759 say for sure anything that's happening, right, But it sure 267 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:14.839 seems like China is getting these TSMC chips because they 268 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.519 have to. They have to. 269 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.079 Everybody has to if you want to make these advanced ships, 270 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:21.359 keep making your ai better. 271 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:23.200 So they are. 272 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.079 And it's interesting that they reference this guy at RAND 273 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.279 that's watching this stuff. 274 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.400 He knows what's going on in reality. 275 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.119 And this, this little snippet in the article is probably 276 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.000 all they really can get away with saying publicly without 277 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:46.680 having it blow up into something bigger. Right, But yeah, 278 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:52.359 there's that. And why is it that China wants to 279 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:00.559 basically fold Taiwan into their country and you know, the 280 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.920 threats of invasion, all the talk that we've heard about 281 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.400 for a few years now, China is going to take Taiwan. 282 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.240 You don't think that this has something. 283 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.279 To do with it to me? 284 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:15.799 And I might be wrong about this, but to me, 285 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:21.119 I feel like it's probably the central reason is to 286 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.400 take TSMC as China's own and then shut it off 287 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:32.359 to us. Right, what if that were to happen, that 288 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:37.480 would be a problem because we would have to find 289 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:47.880 an alternative microprocessing microprocessor manufacturing outlet, which there is not 290 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:53.480 There is not one in the world and wouldn't you 291 00:18:53.599 --> 00:19:01.079 know it any attempts at domestic alternative is like that 292 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:08.119 Chips Act of Biden that got kneecapped by the current 293 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:13.039 administration because why well, because Joe Biden is in league 294 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:18.000 with Satan and he's against Jesus and everything that he 295 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:23.480 ever did was bad. And didn't you know that Joe 296 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.039 Biden was in league with China? So it was probably 297 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:34.079 something benefiting China. Right, So the propaganda narrative, what have 298 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:43.880 you believe? Right, that's what we're supposed to believe, do you? 299 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:51.400 I hope not? But anyway, interesting goings on, guess the 300 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.680 further production of technology, the further advancement of artificial intelligence, 301 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:02.480 has its central to this Internet national story. At the 302 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:07.200 Great Powers competition, as it has been called, there's back 303 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:08.480 and forth in. 304 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:11.200 Perceptions of this. 305 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.640 One day, we're deep in competition with China and we're 306 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.519 neck and neck and we're fighting each other, duking it out. 307 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:19.839 The next day you. 308 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:21.960 Read a story it says, eh, there is no Great 309 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.440 Powers competition, it's not even happening. I read an article 310 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.799 of that vein this week from the CFR. You have 311 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.640 one of their foreign policy I think it was, that's 312 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:36.279 their outlet that puts out essays and white papers and stuff. 313 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:41.440 There's an essay that some woman from there wrote where 314 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:44.480 she basically just claims that, oh, yeah, great competition, a 315 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:47.839 great powers competition. Yeah, everybody's making a big fuss out 316 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:50.519 of that for a couple of years now. But what's 317 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:55.119 really happening now is that it's just one big partnership 318 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.920 between all of these authoritarian strongman governments which are the 319 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.079 big great powers. They're all just making deals with each other, 320 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.559 and they're doing what they can with these deals, and 321 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:10.240 they're not really in competition with each other. 322 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:16.920 Which I get that take, and maybe that I want 323 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:17.680 to believe that. 324 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.519 I want to believe that, but I can't help but 325 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:26.440 think that the competition is real. The United States has 326 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:34.799 had a target on its back for decades, and that 327 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.559 this current great powers competition, Cold War two point zero 328 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:46.359 business is just the working out of that, and that 329 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.839 the US, Yes, I mean, as I see it, we 330 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:58.799 have been taken advantage of to a ludicrous extent, Like 331 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.880 look all around, do you think we got to where 332 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.519 we are just because you know, it was all just 333 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:13.519 such a good idea and that everybody was just everybody 334 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:17.200 was all looking out for everybody wanted to see America succeed, 335 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:24.559 and the best possible choices for the United States government 336 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:30.480 were always put into place. And you know, everything that 337 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.000 we ever asked for has been given to us, and 338 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.160 we're forging the right path. Do you think that's what's 339 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.359 going on? Do you think all the current insanity is 340 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.160 just coming out of nowhere and that is just like 341 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.279 this little blip on the radar. It's like, oh, yeah, well, 342 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:50.119 we got to go through these tough times, but that's 343 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.680 gonna be so much better because of what we're building. 344 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:57.880 We're building a new establishment that replaces the old corrupt one. 345 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:01.480 Right, that's what we're doing. We're place in corruption everywhere 346 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:05.039 that it was and the evil government that existed before. 347 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:08.880 We had to get rid of the old satanic government 348 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:14.240 and replace it with this new What is it? 349 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:19.200 Oh, it's a new business. It's a new business oriented government, 350 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:26.599 is what it is. And appropriately it's being steered and 351 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.200 it has been bought and paid for by big businessmen. 352 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.240 What business, the tech business, the business that matters in 353 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:38.759 this technological war, right, And absolutely those guys are the 354 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:42.279 ones that have a lot to do with putting this 355 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:48.880 into place. On every front, not just the political donations 356 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:54.880 which we know about and the political chicanery and the 357 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:58.319 complete creation of the vice president and just plopping them 358 00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:59.920 in there. He's like, well, our guys right in there. 359 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.720 Hopefully this old man dies off soon. We'll just have 360 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.119 our number one son right there that we have total 361 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:10.119 control of. I mean, we kind of have control of 362 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.160 that other demanded maniac, but not as much as we 363 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:20.839 will of this guy. So yeah, what I'd say, especially 364 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:24.319 in regards that CFR article and take of like, oh. 365 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:24.680 That's it. 366 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:29.599 There's no great powers competition. We're all just working together. 367 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.519 And yeah it's bad because it's a bunch of strong 368 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:36.279 band government, but they're just working with each other. 369 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:44.440 That's it. I think that's what I see. That is 370 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:49.440 as a symptom of the continued. 371 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:56.200 Delusion of what this maga takeover of the United States 372 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:58.079 government actually even is. 373 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:07.960 And just to complete ah, like there there is no. 374 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:13.480 Never will anybody allow themselves anybody who thinks that they 375 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:18.400 have credentials, But anybody who thinks that they have any 376 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:25.200 sort of authority whatsoever can bring themselves to admit that 377 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:28.079 the power that has pushed this into. 378 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:34.799 Place is is the use of us conspiracy culture and paranoia. 379 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:40.279 The exploitation of popular US conspiracy. Conspiracy culture is what 380 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:46.839 has put this thing into place. It has put the 381 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:53.960 mega system into place, and it's really perfect in so 382 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:58.279 many ways because it can be the true import of this. 383 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:01.640 Can can Can you really continue to. 384 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:07.920 Be obfuscated because you just brush aside the reality of it. Oh, 385 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.640 conspiracy culture, that's a bunch of hogwash, and it's never 386 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:15.079 meant anything. It's nonsense completely, So that I believe that's 387 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:23.000 what's happening. It's obvious, you know, the the philosophical ideological 388 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.799 underpinnings of the current regime, right, it's they lay it 389 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:29.680 all out there, they say it quite plainly. 390 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:32.799 So that much as obvious we see it now. 391 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:37.720 How much stock you put into the power of those ideas, 392 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:44.599 that's another thing. And how those ideas are just have 393 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:48.599 been portrayed for decades, I would say, has everything to 394 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.039 do with this. Yes, it's just conspiracy nonsense. There's nothing 395 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.160 to it, never has been that has now been weaponized 396 00:26:55.160 --> 00:27:04.839 against all of us. I hope I'm making this makes sense. Yeah, 397 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.039 And so the US media and the think tanks and 398 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.240 all these guys are just portraying Trump and the current 399 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:13.960 administration is just another president like and they're trying to 400 00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:16.920 see things through the same old lens when clearly this 401 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:25.720