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Democracy’s Hunger Games: Coffins, Courts & Corruption · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  Anyway, today's program, Where the Truth Just Tastes Better, is about...
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  I read an interesting article this morning, excuse me, in that article.
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  So there you have it.
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  But I will be live the rest of the week in studio and there you have it.
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  So I read this interesting article.
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  The article was talking about...
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  there were some insinuations and whatnot, but it kind of got me thinking a little bit and that's a dangerous
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  thing because then I go out and do a little bit of research and come up with something hopefully interesting
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  for people to talk about.
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  I live in a supposed democracy, United States of America, and I've always been a believer, I've always been a
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  believer in the way that we run our country and all of that.
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  Over the course of my adult lifetime, that's been, let's say, twisted a little bit.
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  For example, control elections, whether you believe it or not, the trust factor is definitely not what it was before.
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  And so there are people that believe, I am one of them, that there are efforts to impact elections.
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  There's always stuff about Russia, Russia, Russia.
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  There's always stuff about ballot box stuffing.
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  There's always been a history of Democrats being very good at that at the local level.
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  And I don't want to discount the Republicans, but the Democrats have always been far more famous for it.
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  It's a theme in many mafia sort of New York shows from a long time ago, where they control elections
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  and they control who gets elected and how.
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  And I do believe that there are forces that attempt to impact our elections.
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  And so when I read the one about the AFD in, I forget what that acronym means, I want to
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  say alles für Deutschland or something like that, all for Germany, but I don't remember specifically.
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  There was an article that seven candidates have died.
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  Excuse me.
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  Local candidates for office have died while running for office in Germany this year in a very short period, less
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  than a month.
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  And so there's some insinuation that it's dangerous to run for office.
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  Well, we've had our share of issues in the United States.
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  I remember that the Clintons and whether they're a conspiracy theory or truth, nobody knows.
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  I don't particularly care.
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  I just think it's a bit of an interesting situation, let's call it, that people are running for office.
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  Donald Trump and his lawfare, that people have attacked him for Jesus, criminally, for everything.
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  People get destroyed for various reasons by the government.
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  That I absolutely believe in, or by the deep state.
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  That I absolutely believe in.
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  Leveling the heavy weight of the government against a person happens.
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  This is for real.
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  They do that.
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  There are people who like to eliminate their enemies by using the political power that they have accumulated over the
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  years.
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  And I believe it's worse at the state level, but the longer that people stay in the federal level, the
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  more likely that's to become too.
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  And I do believe that those forces do exist and that I'm not strange to think that they do.
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  But there are people who would never believe that.
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  Oh, jeez, we're a democracy.
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  Now, there's also, and I'm going to look at several different countries as we go through this today, as we
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  put it up.
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  So tonight, we're not talking about missiles, budgets, trade agreements.
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  We're talking about survival, political survival.
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  And how do you survive?
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  I mean, what do you do if you're Donald Trump and the world is after you, the deep state people
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  are after you?
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  What do you do if you're in Ukraine, God forbid, and try to be democratic?
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  What about these people in Germany that are dying?
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  So we're going to start with the Germany people that are dying in Germany.
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  Seven opposition candidates.
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  I mean, think about this.
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  Would you put your name on a ballot and run for office?
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  Let's presume you're a good person and you want to get out and run for office.
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  And this is a good thing.
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  We want that.
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  We want good people in government, but they frighten people away from government in many ways.
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  And this is historic.
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  People have done it for forever.
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  Like I said, we have movies about it in America.
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  And there's, you know, what did they call it?
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  Manchurian candidate sort of things and all of that that are not necessarily disbelieved in America.
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  Let's put it that way.
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  We tend to believe that there are impacts upon our system.
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  So what would you put your name on the ballot if the outcome could be a smear campaign against you
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  or your family?
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  Maybe a subpoena to go to a hearing of some sort when the government comes after you, the people that
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  you're attempting to either replace in the government or have an influence upon in the government.
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  If they sent you a, you know, subpoena to appear or testify or arrest or whatever, or worse, a coffin.
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  You know, you get killed in the list.
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  There's been a lot of killing lately, and we'll get into some of that today.
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  But in Germany, seven opposition candidates, all from the AFD party, died in two weeks.
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  Just in two weeks, they died.
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  In Ukraine, opposition leaders are gunned down in the street.
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  Journalists are murdered or jailed.
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  Parties are dissolved.
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  Priests are arrested.
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  Judges are purged.
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  And, you know, nobody pays attention to that.
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  All we do is sit around in the West and wave these blue and yellow flags, and we don't, you
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  know, but what are we allegedly defending over there?
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  It sure as hell ain't democracy, friends and neighbors.
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  In America, we cloak our own eliminations of people from running for office, mostly not by killing them, but by
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  killing them politically.
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  Indictments, bankrupting bankrupting sorts of lawfare, you know, stuff that they got to pay but tons of money, and it's
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  politically horrible for them if they're running for office, like Donald Trump.
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  And then they always engage in reputational warfare.
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  So a lot of people don't want to put their hat in the ring.
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  But the outcome, the same of all of these methods, the opposition is silenced.
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  And tonight we're going to map a little bit of the methods that people have used over time to do
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  this.
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  We'll start with Germany's, what their government called or their investigators have called statistically conspicuous deaths.
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  That's what they have called them.
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  And I'm not sure what I believe, but you can believe whatever you want.
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  I don't care.
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  I just think it's an interesting topic to go through.
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  In America, our history of lawfare and campaign, you know, people dying on the campaign trail, we have a history
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  of that as well.
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  It's a horror story in Ukraine.
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  When I tell you about some of that, they have assassinations, they have bans on political parties, they have trials
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  of the clergy and trials of anybody that is in the opposition party they throw under the bus.
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  Ukraine's not alone, by the way, this is pretty popular, especially in Eastern Europe.
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  And then they have alleged corruption purges where they attack people, charge them with corruption and take them out of
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  the field in that way.
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  And then they escape to another country, but they don't impact anybody's ability to control the country of Ukraine anymore.
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  And don't think that the old monster is not engaging in any of this because I believe that he is.
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  I believe that he's deeply involved in it.
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  They're getting rid of journalists.
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  We'll go into a couple of those tonight, the people they're taking out.
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  Moldova and Georgia, they're jailing the opposition.
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  I've told you a little bit about them at the Moldova one in a previous episode.
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  And then the two, what I call the prime candidates, the cream of the crop, the very best.
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  And you call them what you like, but I call it the Clinton style of eliminating people.
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  This is called Clinton style lawfare democracy and running for office.
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  And then we're going to compare that to the extreme, which is the Stalinist purge model.
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  You just, well, here's how we get ready.
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  Welcome to the gulag.
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  And so let me ask you, after we look at all of those sorts of things, do you think there
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  are good people who are going to run for office in that sort of environment?
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  Will they?
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  And if so, why would they?
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  Or would you, put it very personally, would you run for office if the possibility included death?
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  Well, how about if the possibility was only, geez, they're going to destroy you politically.
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  They're going to file a lawsuit against you for taking down a camera.
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  They're going to arrest you and have the highway patrol come to your house and pick you up when you're
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  the chief political figure of a county.
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  And yes, I am talking about Ike Skelton in Osage, well, in Camden County, and who took down the camera.
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  I believe that was a targeting.
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  I believe that Rochelle Christensen had something to do with it, made sure that it happened.
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  I don't think, I don't know why she would, but whatever little victory she gets out of that, if any,
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  I don't even know.
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  I haven't unfortunately looked in a couple of weeks.
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  I've been out of the country, as you know, and I haven't followed up on where that stands right now.
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  Might be over by now, but this is what we do in America, and it is expected behavior anymore to
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  destroy your political enemies, and a lot of people don't want to be involved in it.
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  But in America, for the most part, people aren't being gunned down in the streets, although there's been suspicions about
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  it.
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  We'll get to that.
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  Now, not so in Ukraine, not so in some of Eastern Europe, certainly not so in the Stalinist gulag purges,
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  right?
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  So, let's talk about that.
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  In late August of 2025, just in the last couple of weeks, municipal elections in the North Rhine-Westphalia are
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  supposed to take place on September 14th, and leading up to that, seven candidates of Alternative for Deutschland, AFD, have
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  died all within days of each other.
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  They're just dying out, and there's been articles about it, conspiracy theory sort of things, because statistically, this shouldn't happen.
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  Yeah, everybody all in the same area is just dying off like flies, and there's nothing to it.
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  Officials say 16 candidates in total across all parties died in this cycle, which surprisingly, at least in Germany, they
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  say is not unusual compared to previous elections.
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  Are you kidding me?
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  That's terrible.
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  16 people are over there dying, but AFD accounts for nearly half of those 16, and that is statistically problematic.
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  There's seven of them.
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  What the AFD leaders called the pattern is statistically conspicuous.
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  There's something weird about statistics.
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  And me, having been an economics major and being very much interested in that sort of analysis in politics, especially
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  in politics, is, I don't want to say impossible, but it's certainly an intriguing set of statistics for you to
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  look at and compare to regular annual, or not annual, but irregular election statistics from regular elections.
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  So the police say there's no evidence of foul play in any of these.
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  The press reported ballot chaos, meaning because they all have to be reprinted over and over and over.
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  Every time somebody dies, they got to reprint all the ballots and do it again.
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  And if you got 16 people all dying, why the hell are you printing the ballots this far in advance
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  anyway?
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  If you have this many people dying before you get to election time, why in the world are we printing
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  ballots in the first place?
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  Why don't we print them when the election is a couple of days off?
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  Then you have the mere likelihood of having to reprint them all the time is far less.
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  Anyway, there's been a lot of press reporting about this chaos and reprints and voided mail-in votes and that
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  kind of thing, says that people have to have all of the election stuff.
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  Well, that kind of leads me to a question about the American system too.
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  What happens if you fill out your mail-in ballot, you're in the army and they give you this mail
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  -in ballot, and they were always pretty big when I was in the army.
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  People would come along, your sergeant would come along and go, hey, Chase, everybody needs a vote.
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  Have you voted in your state?
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  What's your mail-in process?
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  Go down to the legal department on the base headquarters and they will get you in touch.
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  I mean, if you need help, it will put back then there was no internet to freaking do it and
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  go down there and they will walk you through how to vote in your state from afar, from a distance,
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  mail-in ballots, things like that.
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  So maybe something should be done about waiting till the last minute.
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  I'm a fan.
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  I believe that voting, except in extreme circumstances, should be done in person on the day of election, period.
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  That nobody should work that day, that everybody, like in other countries, I believe that's the way it is in
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  Russia, is that nobody works on the election day and everybody goes and votes.
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  And you can say that they're influenced.
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  I don't know.
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  I haven't ever participated in one, but a lot of people say that, you know, here's what you do, or
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  that the ballots are twisted one way or the other.
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  There's only one candidate on the ballot or things like that.
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  That's what you used to hear in communism anyway, that one person is on the ballot and you go and
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  pick that.
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  But I don't know the truth to that.
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  I've never physically seen a personal ballot or personally seen a physical ballot from Russia.
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  So at any rate, this brings up a lot of questions when you're, when you talk about election procedures in
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  various countries.
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  Well, let's get to the seven people who died.
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  Okay.
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  The first one's a guy named Wolfgang Seitz.
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  He was 59 from Reinburg-Wessel district.
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  No details were published about who his family is.
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  Nobody knows.
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  And on what his family is, there's been no real updates.
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  And he died on Saturday, August the 16th of 2025.
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  And his platform, of course, was local AFD.
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  He's anti-tax, anti-migration, migrants from everywhere.
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  And there's a post on X about some of this that came out in the lead up to the elections.
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  Here's some of it.
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  At least four primary candidates died in late August that are said to be, and of these seven, seven of
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  them or four of them are described as sudden and unexpected.
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  And then two more, or two of those were also reserve substitute members that died as well.
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  And so they're up to seven now.
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  At the time of this one coming out, it was only six, but they talk about a guy named, where
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  is he?
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  Wolfgang Seitz, they say had a heart attack, rather odd.
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  And says it was a natural death.
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  Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wrong guy.
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  Heart attack, pre-existing conditions, natural death, confirmed is what they say.
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  Now I'm not saying anything different.
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  That's not my point, but that's how there's death one, sudden unexpected.
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  And, you know, in American movies, everybody always gives you some sort of pill that causes you to have a
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  heart attack.
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  Maybe Wolfgang Seitz, age 59, you know, was given something.
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  Yeah, maybe we got a U.S. movie on our hand here.
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  I don't think so.
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  You know, I'm not there.
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  I haven't looked at it, but they have discussed these, his own pre-existing conditions and how that, how that
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  came about.
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  Second one's a guy named Stefan Berendes, also 59 from Bad Lipspring in the Paderborn district.
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  His family is, he was a married man, he was a jiu-jitsu trainer, and he also died.
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  He collapsed and had a heart attack during martial arts training.
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  He was a jiu-jitsu guy.
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  And so he died, you know, probably no suspicion.
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  I mean, there is no suspicion of foul play in that.
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  He died like apparently right in his jiu-jitsu studio.
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  A guy named Ralph, Ralph Lange died.
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  He was age 66, and he had an unexpected death with pre-existing medical conditions.
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  They don't give any detail and no foul play.
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  He died on August 28th.
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  We have Wolfgang Klinger.
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  This guy was age 71, not detailed in the press what his family was or anything like that.
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  He was an AFD candidate.
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  Once law and order, you know, they say he died just a couple of days ago, natural death.
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  They had to reprint all the ballots.
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  You know, nobody's happy about that.
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  Another guy named Patrick Tietze.
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  He was only 42, and he was from Wipferfurth and Oberbergskircher Kreis, and he was family not disclosed.
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  He was on the reserve candidate list.
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  So he would, you know, not likely have been in office anyway.
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  And he committed suicide.
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  So, well, at least they say he committed suicide.
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  I mean, whatever you believe of your government, that's fine.
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  The next one is a guy named Rene Herford.
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  No idea what the family is.
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  He had kidney failure linked to liver disease, and so no effect there.
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  So we're looking at most of these as just natural causes, and the statistics are out.
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  But four of them were what they called sudden.
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  Last one is a guy who was 80.
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  Obviously, I don't believe there's any foul play suspected with an 80-year-old Dr. Hans Joachim Kind, who was
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  80.
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  Longtime resident, local community AFD, and he died of longstanding illnesses and a natural death.
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  Why, you know, why is he running for office?
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  Anyway, there's been a lot of speculation.
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  The story gained something on social media, post claims, statistically almost impossible odds.
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  They cited economist Stefan Homburg, Elon Musk, and AFD figures boosting the visibility of this, and there's all kinds of
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  conspiracy theories about political suppression.
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  I don't believe that to be the case myself after my quick look at each of the seven, but some
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  narratives say it's, you know, they always talk about this died suddenly thing.
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  You know, like during COVID, people dying suddenly, and there's lots of skepticism.
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  I'm a natural skeptic.
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  So I went and looked at each of the reasons why these guys passed away, and it appears to me
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  that that's not, you know, that is not the case.
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  Places like Der Spiegel, WR, White, or Welt, I mean, and the international outlets, BBC, report the deaths as coincidental.
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  There's a history of AFD facing some violence, especially among immigration proponents, but the deaths from other parties have also
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  occurred.
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  You know, no formal investigations are underway, blah, blah, blah, all of that.
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  So no matter how you slice it, though, we have seven coffins in elections in Germany this year.
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  Some of them are elderly people.
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  Some of them had sudden collapses.
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  One of them was suicide, but police say it's all a coincidence.
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  AFD says it's a bit suspicious.
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  Well, sure it is, but that suspicion doesn't mean you got anything more than that.
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  So regardless of whatever the cause, the impact is the same.
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  It's a chaos in the ballot systems.
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  It's a chaos in the election cycle.
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  It makes people talk like I'm talking.
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  It makes people suspicious.
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  Now, this is natural.
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  There's nothing you can do about it.
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  You know, people die, and that's the way it is.
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  And so, you know, chaos in ballots, chill and people, you know, who wants to run for office if, you
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  know, there's a perception out there that you're going to die or people are whispering in the street that, yeah,
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  that makes him a target or something like that.
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  You know, so what I thought was I would cross the ocean and see historically what goes on in America,
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  because we have our share of, you know, lawfare.
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  We've had our share of death, you know, most of which is not conspiracy theory related.
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  But my main point is what methods do those in power use aside from murder, you know, aside from killing,
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  which I believe has occurred even in a nation as pristine in their democracy as the United States.
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  I believe it's occurred in the past.
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  You know, I believe there's been killing of political opponents.
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  You know, I was really troubled recently.
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  Suspicion, of course, arose and not like you heard in grade school, middle school, high school, college, a life about
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  the Kennedy death experience.
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  But I'm telling you, people are 10,000 times more suspicious of those events now than they were before.
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  My worry was, could it really be true that Johnson was involved?
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  And some of the things that I heard after the release of all of these really were troubling to me.
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  And I don't know, you know, I wasn't around.
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  What the hell do I know?
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  You know, at the time, but boy, they certainly hid some things, don't you think?
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  And it just, it is definitely troubling.
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  So I thought this show would be a little bit of fun to go into.
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  Eh, fun, maybe enlightening to go into and discuss from there.
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  So let's go from statistically conspicuous of Germany to America.
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  Let's move on across the board and start with the law fair that occurred against Trump.
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  Trump has had, I mean, geez, what has he faced?
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  More simultaneous prosecutions, indictments, and lawsuits than any candidate in American history.
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  And so let's call this, not the death model, you know, that we've discovered didn't really occur in the opinion
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  of this show, this host, didn't occur in Germany.
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  Those are just statistical anomalies.
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  Statistical anomalies occur, but this did occur.
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  Let's see if this is a statistical anomaly on the Trump law fair.
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  So New York, people versus Trump, 34 felony counts of him falsifying business records.
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  I thought that story was BS from the very beginning and getting a prosecutor to create these ridiculous charges against
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  him are just nonsense.
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  And yet, guilty verdict May 30, 2024.
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  I think this is a very bad example of the American legal system in chaos.
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  And I've spoken about that before as an attorney targeted by the state of Missouri.
• 28:08
  And I don't practice, I'm a suspended attorney eternally until I agree to say that I stole from my clients,
• 28:17
  which I will never do.
• 28:19
  And which they have not even responded to my request.
• 28:25
  So we'll get to that in a different story.
• 28:28
  There's going to be an update on that as I continue to pursue, let's call it justice on that end
• 28:36
  against somebody, but they're a bunch of criminals that run the Missouri bar.
• 28:41
  Let's talk about what else happened to Trump aside from people of, people in New York versus Trump on these
• 28:48
  34 felony counts.
• 28:50
  He was sentenced, he was unconditionally discharged, no jail, no probation, and Trump still appealed it, which he should.
• 28:58
  Who cares anymore, really?
• 29:01
  But maybe he doesn't want to have that on his, if he could be a felon, they could have prevented
• 29:08
  him before from being on the ballot, apparently.
• 29:13
  So DC interference in federal election interference, charges were conspiracy to defraud the U.S. obstruction, all related to January
• 29:24
  6th, which I also would believe to be BS created.
• 29:29
  This was paused after the Supreme Court immunity ruling in July of 2024 and prosecution was narrowed to something else.
• 29:38
  No trial is set.
• 29:40
  JR's program, he's a far bigger expert on this than I am.
• 29:43
  I'm just passing them what happened to the old Trumpster.
• 29:48
  But if you listen to JR's show, he knows all the details and the status of each of these.
• 29:57
  Let's see, let's talk about the Florida classified documents when they attacked his house.
• 30:02
  That hasn't happened to any other president.
• 30:04
  They just don't do it.
• 30:06
  And the charges, espionage act, obstruction, going through his wife's underwear drawer, you know, whatever that is.
• 30:16
  This was dismissed in July the 24th on the grounds of special counsel being appointed in the DOJ.
• 30:23
  Of course, appeals are ongoing.
• 30:27
  This is nonsense case needs to be gotten rid of too, in my humble opinion and legal review.
• 30:33
  A case in Georgia, this Fulton County, you've got a creative prosecutor down there who was using that office for
• 30:41
  her own benefit.
• 30:42
  I believe, I believe she ought to be targeted with something to go after her for the way she ran
• 30:49
  this.
• 30:51
  Excuse me.
• 30:53
  And this case, racketeering, conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results.
• 31:02
  DA Fannie Willis was disqualified in December of 2024 and the case is in limbo.
• 31:08
  Really needs to be dismissed, but God knows what they'll do.
• 31:12
  Hold it out there forever.
• 31:14
  They had a civil fraud case, New York AG Letitia James in this $355 million judgment and appeals court vacated
• 31:24
  a large penalty and said it's excessive.
• 31:26
  There's appeals ongoing in that case.
• 31:30
  Gene Carroll defamation assault case.
• 31:34
  They had a verdict in 2023, which was upheld and then there's the 83 million is on appeal.
• 31:41
  This is what I referred to, excuse me, as Clinton style lawfare model.
• 31:49
  There's no bullets, no car crashes, no death at the end of a lonely road somewhere.
• 31:57
  There are people that tried to kill him too.
• 31:59
  Remember, we had assassination attempts against him and endless courtroom battles, billion dollar liability cases, headlines that attempt to bury
• 32:12
  you long before voters get to see a ballot.
• 32:18
  In America, it's very alive and well to have Clinton style lawfare attacks, destroying your political enemies, which for the
• 32:31
  course of my lifetime have been growing, not being reduced.
• 32:39
  You know, people used to talk about the effect of trade unions.
• 32:45
  You know, remember when I talk about the Missouri nonpartisan is what they like to call it, you have to
• 32:52
  throw that word in, but the Missouri nonpartisan judicial appointment plan, the reason they always list is that coming into
• 33:01
  play is corruption.
• 33:03
  They say it's corruption.
• 33:05
  It's because unions on either side of Missouri were corrupt and each were battling each other to get the say
• 33:13
  in who got appointed to important positions.
• 33:16
  And so instead they created this nonpartisan judicial plan to appoint judges for, you know, big cities for the appellate
• 33:25
  courts, for the Supreme Court, and that sort of thing.
• 33:28
  And that plan is still in use today from alleged corruption, but the corruption is now all in the Missouri
• 33:37
  bar.
• 33:37
  All they did was move corruption to a different place.
• 33:40
  If you think they're not controlled by something, by parties, by ideology, by something, and they get to make the
• 33:47
  choice of who gets to hold Supreme Court positions, you're definitely wrong.
• 33:51
  It's not a system that is based upon anything remotely similar to public, what would I call it, public need.
• 34:08
  The broader, anybody that's possibly looking out for the public, they are not.
• 34:14
  They are looking out for maintaining the power in the same old places where it's always been.
• 34:21
  And Missouri are the experts at keeping it controlled in the deep state and keeping it controlled by the same
• 34:28
  puppets, puppet masters I mean, that are behind the power of the Supreme Court and they are in the Missouri
• 34:36
  bar.
• 34:37
  So that is what our lawfare is like in Missouri.
• 34:42
  And I definitely believe that that exists.
• 34:46
  That is the Clinton style lawfare of destroying your enemies with the power accumulated by you and your cohorts in
• 34:55
  the state.
• 34:56
  And it's designed to one hand wash the other and keep that power in the same old places that it
• 35:03
  always was, in the same old clubs that it always is.
• 35:08
  Now, I also wanted to take at some well-known US candidate death.
• 35:16
  Remember, the point of this show is whether good people will ever run for office or not, or whether they
• 35:22
  want to have these things in the background.
• 35:26
  So the analysis would be, you know, I think I'm going to run for, I don't know, a county commissioner.
• 35:36
  I'm going to run for the county commissioner and be like Ike Skelton.
• 35:42
  You're going to run for it.
• 35:43
  But what do you get in return?
• 35:45
  You make a decision that you think is in the best interest of the county that elected you and another
• 35:52
  county official charges you with a crime, or ensures that you are charged with a crime in the form of
• 35:58
  Rochelle Christensen.
• 35:59
  Nonsense.
• 36:00
  What her activities were in that case, I think are BS, and she shouldn't have done it.
• 36:07
  But she's deep in there and she'll be one of those people that'll go, oh, geez, I was just doing
• 36:11
  my job and doing what I thought was right.
• 36:13
  No, you were targeting a person, and that is what is going on.
• 36:19
  If it was equal treatment for everyone, I'd feel different about it, but I do not.
• 36:25
  So let's go over to U.S. candidate deaths.
• 36:27
  Let's take the far extreme death of candidates running for office.
• 36:33
  One of the most famous, of course, is Robert F.
• 36:37
  Kennedy, who was 42, killed in 1968.
• 36:41
  He was a Democrat Party presidential candidate.
• 36:45
  He was married to a lady named Ethel and had 11 children.
• 36:50
  His platform, he was very much anti-Vietnam War.
• 36:53
  He was pro-civil rights and creating some sort of poverty programs.
• 36:58
  He was shot on June the 5th, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and he died on June
• 37:05
  the 6th.
• 37:08
  Now, people are much more likely to believe nowadays that this was, you know, the investigation gave us a convicted
• 37:21
  guy.
• 37:21
  Sirhan Sirhan was convicted, and his parole was repeatedly denied.
• 37:26
  I don't know the status of where he is.
• 37:28
  He probably passed away in court or in prison, I mean, by this time.
• 37:33
  But this is a famous case.
• 37:35
  And if you don't believe that there were some deep state activity in there, to me, it seems a little
• 37:43
  bit iffy.
• 37:46
  One from, and I lived in Missouri, later, while his wife was running, had gotten the position because he was
• 37:57
  elected posthumously, guy named Mel Carnahan, age 66.
• 38:03
  He was the Missouri governor.
• 38:05
  And he was married to Jean, who became the person that held office in his stead.
• 38:15
  Had three children, Rob and Russ Randy.
• 38:18
  Platform, he's a moderate Democrat, believed in healthcare and education.
• 38:22
  His death was October 16 of 2000.
• 38:29
  He crashed in his Piper Aerostar with his son Randy, and an aide named Chris Sifford.
• 38:37
  The NTSB blamed pilot disorientation on the death.
• 38:41
  Carnahan was elected posthumously, and his wife Jean was appointed to serve in his position.
• 38:47
  So you can think what you want.
• 38:49
  I'm only giving you the statistics on this.
• 38:52
  We had Kennedy, Robert, shot.
• 38:55
  We had Mel Carnahan died, you know, this 32 years later, I suppose.
• 39:00
  Another famous one, guy named Paul Wellstone, who was age 58.
• 39:04
  He was a US Senator from Minnesota, died in 2002.
• 39:10
  He was married, had a bunch of kids.
• 39:13
  He was a progressive populist, believed in labor healthcare.
• 39:16
  He opposed the Iraq War, and he died on October 25, 2022.
• 39:21
  Again, in a plane crash.
• 39:23
  King Air, A-100, crash near Eveleth, Minnesota.
• 39:28
  NTSB cites pilot error.
• 39:31
  Now, these plane crashes get to be a little bit worrying, right?
• 39:36
  Here's Hale Boggs, for example, age 58, House Majority Leader from Louisiana, and Nick Begich, age 40.
• 39:48
  He represented Alaska.
• 39:49
  They both died in 1972.
• 39:52
  And the family, you know, Boggs was married to Linda, Begich was married, six children, including a future Senator named
• 40:00
  Mark Begich, and he died again on October 16, 1972.
• 40:09
  His 310 Cessna disappeared in Alaska and was never found, okay?
• 40:15
  It'd be interesting to go back and talk just about this.
• 40:19
  It was a massive search.
• 40:21
  Everybody presumes that they're all dead, you know, that were on the plane, but there's two people.
• 40:28
  Here's another Missouri case, guy named Jerry Litton in 1976, who was a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
• 40:36
  He's married to somebody named Sharon.
• 40:38
  Everybody died in a crash.
• 40:41
  He was a Reform Democrat.
• 40:45
  August 3, 1976, his plane crashed after his primary victory speech, and here they cite aircraft failure.
• 40:57
  Tell you what, if you're somebody running for office, you're probably better off not riding in a plane, right?
• 41:06
  You probably don't want that.
• 41:08
  We've had Mel Carnahan, plane crash.
• 41:11
  Wellstone, plane crash.
• 41:13
  Boggs, plane crash.
• 41:15
  Litton, plane crash.
• 41:18
  Richard Obenschrein, age 43, a Virginia GOP Senate nominee in 78, married with three children, a conservative Republican, died August
• 41:28
  2, and a plane crash in 1978.
• 41:35
  So, crazy stuff.
• 41:38
  Now, here's one that is statistically probably irrelevant, but somebody named Stephanie Tubbs, so here's your leveling theory that says,
• 41:51
  well, statistics, here's a statistic for you.
• 41:57
  A widow with one son, platform was Democrat, judiciary committee member though, died on August 20, 2008 of a cerebral
• 42:08
  aneurysm.
• 42:10
  Now, that isn't something you can point out and say, hey, gee, somebody offed them, but all the plane crashes,
• 42:18
  it just seems a bit suspicious to me.
• 42:21
  And here's a person named Jackie Wolorski, age 58, Indiana Republican.
• 42:27
  This one occurred in 2022, married, no children, Republican, conservative, died on August 3, 2022, in a head-on crash.
• 42:36
  The investigation showed that her vehicle crossed the center line during a passing, you know, an attempt to pass someone.
• 42:47
  So, probably, you know, just an unfortunate accident.
• 42:52
  So, a guy named, here's the last one we'll talk about, a guy from Iowa named Doug Butzier, who is
• 43:01
  age 59, he was a Libertarian Senate candidate from Iowa, married with three children, died, well, his fiscal discipline, he
• 43:14
  wanted, you know, to control, you know, people's money and talk about civil liberties, very libertarian approach, and he died
• 43:21
  on October 13.
• 43:22
  A lot of people dying in October, leading up to elections in plane crashes, don't you think?
• 43:28
  And he died again in a plane crash, single pilot aircraft, small plane, in other words, and he died in
• 43:36
  a crash at Dubuque.
• 43:38
  So, plane crashes, mostly, assassinations, you know, Kennedy, aneurysms are rare, you know, but real.
• 43:49
  Plane crashes are supposed to be rare, but it makes you wonder, you know, when people are dying on these.
• 43:56
  I suppose you could take the point of view that if you're a candidate and you have, call it six
• 44:04
  months, leading up to an election, which is usually in November, so you got what, April to November would be
• 44:13
  a six-month period, and suppose you fly daily, once or twice during that period, you have the opportunity for,
• 44:22
  call it, two to 300 flights during that time period, if you're busy campaigning and flying from one place to
• 44:31
  the next.
• 44:31
  Maybe, if you look at it in that point of view, the statistical impact of 300 flights is worse, but
• 44:41
  if we ask our GROC or our chat GPT, what is the statistical likelihood of a plane crash?
• 44:55
  In fact, let's ask that question.
• 44:58
  What is the statistical likelihood of a plane crash per 1,000 flights, let's say?
• 45:16
  And so, GROC is thinking for me, even now, and this could be interesting.
• 45:22
  Ready?
• 45:23
  To determine the statistical, I'm going to read it because I don't know, it just came up, right?
• 45:28
  To determine the statistical likelihood of a plane crash per 1,000 flights, we can draw on available data from
• 45:34
  provided reference focusing on relevant and recent statistics in commercial and general aviation.
• 45:40
  The likelihood varies significantly depending on whether you're considering a commercial flight or general aviation, which includes private recreational charter.
• 45:49
  So, we're going to say not commercial, but for commercial, the data suggests that plane crashes are extremely rare.
• 45:56
  In a 2024 report, there were 46 aviation incidents out of 40.6 million flights and only seven resulted in
• 46:07
  death.
• 46:07
  That means one accident per 883,000 flights, and for fatal, it's one fatal accident in 5.8 million flights.
• 46:22
  So, basically, to express this as 1,000, what did they come up with?
• 46:27
  It's a very small number, which I don't really care about.
• 46:30
  I prefer the one per this amount, right?
• 46:33
  And that is what it is for commercial.
• 46:36
  If you go to general aviation, and these are not my numbers, these are GROC numbers that come up.
• 46:42
  And here it says, in general aviation, which includes private and recreational, there's a higher accident rate, of course.
• 46:51
  According to the National Transportation Safety Board from 2007, there were 6.84 accidents per 1,000, I'm sorry, 100
• 47:03
  ,000 flight hours, with 1.9 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours.
• 47:11
  More recent data from 2023 indicates general aviation had a fatal accident rate of 0.762 per 100,000 flight
• 47:22
  hours.
• 47:23
  So, converting flight hours is challenging without precise data, but they say accidents per flight, which is how I wanted
• 47:29
  it.
• 47:30
  If you assume one flight equals one and a half hours on average, 100,000 flight hours equals 600, well,
• 47:39
  this is pretty cool what they've done for me, 66,667 flights.
• 47:44
  Thus, 6.84 accidents per 100 flight hours equals, and then they go through the part.
• 47:52
  And so, your chances per 1,000 flights is 0.1026 accidents per 1,000 flights, or a 10.26
• 48:07
  chance of an accident.
• 48:11
  That sounds extremely high in a small aircraft, does it not?
• 48:17
  So, if it's a 10.26 chance of an accident, these numbers can't be accurate.
• 48:26
  Now, a fatal accident is quite a bit less.
• 48:30
  Fatal accident per 1,000 flights, blah, blah, blah, equals per 1,000 flights, a 1% chance of a
• 48:41
  fatal crash in 1,000 flights.
• 48:44
  That's the number I wanted to get.
• 48:47
  So, if you assume that these estimates suggest general aviation has a significantly higher crash rate, obviously, and the likelihood
• 48:55
  of dying on a small aircraft is a hell of a lot higher than dying on a commercial craft, but
• 49:00
  it's still pretty slow.
• 49:02
  So, if you look at the primary data, of course, is there.
• 49:07
  The final answer down below, Grok gives the final answer.
• 49:10
  It says the likelihood of a plane crash.
• 49:12
  Maybe we should ask Gabby Hayes on this.
• 49:16
  He's always talking about aircraft and what all that is.
• 49:18
  Maybe he has a show on DAM Radio, too.
• 49:21
  Maybe we should get him on here and talk to him about it, because he worked as an air traffic
• 49:26
  controller for a long time and knows some of these things, and he always wants to talk about it.
• 49:31
  He's been talking about the significant increase in that on quite a few of the shows that I have listened
• 49:36
  to that Gabby puts on on a weekly basis.
• 49:39
  By the way, if you want to go back and listen to Gabby Hayes' shows, you can find them at
• 49:42
  damradio.com forward slash podcasts, and all of our prior shows from DAM Radio are listed out there.
• 49:48
  Mine on International Flavor are also listed out there, but they are also listed on internationalflavor.com, because I saved
• 49:56
  them all as podcasts later.
• 49:57
  The final answer that Grok came up with for people that are dying in aircraft crashes seems to be, if
• 50:07
  you looked at those that are dying, what would be really interesting would be to go back and find the
• 50:12
  number of candidates, and see if there's a statistical correlation between being a candidate and your plane crashing, or being
• 50:24
  a famous person and your plane crashing.
• 50:26
  Because if you're looking at this 1,000 flights, and the average flight being one and a half hours, obviously
• 50:34
  there's a lot of play that you could play around with some of these numbers.
• 50:38
  If you're all in state, the likelihood is not that it's going to be an hour and a half flight,
• 50:45
  that it'll be a much less flight.
• 50:46
  When I had a friend that used to fly me places in his small plane, we would go from Jefferson
• 50:53
  City, or Columbia, or wherever to other places generally in Missouri.
• 51:02
  Once we flew to Florida, if I can, you know, for a case that we had down there, but most
• 51:07
  of the time it was flying very local.
• 51:10
  The flight from Jefferson City to St. Louis took less than 40 minutes, so maybe the hour and a half
• 51:18
  is off a little bit, and the numbers are actually lower, because there are more flights that are taking less,
• 51:24
  especially if these candidates are flying around the state of Iowa, like one of them was doing, or any of
• 51:30
  the other ones, the two that were flying together from different states, the senators that died in Alaska, or their
• 51:36
  plane disappeared in Alaska, who knows.
• 51:39
  But these would be interesting statistics for Gabby to explain to us, perhaps.
• 51:45
  But the final answer that Grok gives is that the likelihood of a plane crash per 1,000 flights is
• 51:52
  pretty tiny, with fatal crashes as even more tiny, 0.172 or lower, and that's the commercial side.
• 52:00
  In general aviation, it's quite a bit higher, and a 1.785 chance at a fatal accident per 1,000
• 52:10
  flights.
• 52:12
  So call it two out of a thousand, or one in 500 flights.
• 52:17
  And so if you compare that to the people who have been eliminated from running for office that we were
• 52:27
  going through before, with all of these people that died in plane crashes, like I said, Robert Kennedy was assassinated,
• 52:37
  Mel Carnahan, the Missouri governor running for U.S. Senate, died in a plane crash, Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senate,
• 52:47
  ran 2002, died in a plane crash, Hale Boggs, running for, he was a House Majority Leader, rerunning or campaigning
• 52:58
  with Nick Begich, who was a plane crash, Jerry Lytton, died in a crash.
• 53:09
  His whole family died with him on that one, and that happened in 1976 after his primary victory speech, and
• 53:18
  everybody died in what they claim is aircraft failure.
• 53:22
  I don't say that it's not, I'm just stating statistically, this is odd.
• 53:27
  Richard Obensheim, 43, Virginia, GOP Senator, died in a plane crash.
• 53:35
  Jackie Wolorski in Indiana, that was a car crash, you know, and that one probably nothing to it.
• 53:42
  But finally, another plane crash, single pilot, Dubuque, Iowa, Doug Butts here, I don't know, those are interesting for us,
• 53:53
  whether you find that statistically relevant or not.
• 53:58
  So the two things that we have discussed so far are that, you know, well, all of this is related
• 54:07
  to the dangers of running for office in various countries.
• 54:11
  And in Germany, we had probably an anomaly that nothing conspiracy should be generated from paying attention to those sorts
• 54:23
  of reviews, if you want to call them that, of statistics based upon people dying.
• 54:32
  Those, none of them seem too out of the ordinary, except four of the seven were sudden death, people who
• 54:40
  died, all four of them, of heart attack or extreme, you know, death.
• 54:46
  If you believe in the US form of movie where they give somebody a pill in their drink or inject
• 54:51
  them with something and it blows up their heart lining or something like that, and they die, perhaps you could
• 54:58
  come up with a theory on that.
• 55:00
  But no doctor has supported anything like that, calling each of these a natural death or a death by natural
• 55:09
  causes just happened to be sudden of the four.
• 55:13
  The other three not so, there was an old man who died of a long standing condition, there was a
• 55:19
  liver issue and then suicide.
• 55:21
  So that is probably not statistically relevant.
• 55:25
  Then we talked about the Trump lawfare issues.
• 55:28
  And then we went to people dying in plane crashes, these, whether they're statistically relevant or not, it is dangerous
• 55:36
  to run for office sometimes, don't you think?
• 55:40
  And so it is quite interesting to me to go through all of the numbers and then you personalize it,
• 55:48
  because that's what we do.
• 55:49
  We always personalize it.
• 55:51
  And before I get to the Ukraine segment, which is frankly, alarming, no matter how you slice it, when you
• 55:58
  get to the section of the Ukraine style democracy, if you want to call it that is death to everyone.
• 56:06
  And everybody gets to yell Slava Ukraini and death Astalnim, and Smert Astalnim is how that would translate.
• 56:14
  And everybody always forgets to add that part when they say it, but that's how the saying goes.
• 56:22
  When these people are running around, I saw it in an Uber car, I saw it on somebody's window.
• 56:28
  Last week in Lithuania in Vilnius, I saw something that said Slava Ukraini.
• 56:36
  And that is, to me, I'm a person who knows what goes after that.
• 56:42
  And I think posting that is more of a threat than saying anything positive.
• 56:49
  I don't like it.
• 56:51
  And I don't like to hear that because I actually know the next statement that goes along with it.
• 57:00
  And Slava Ukraini, if people are saying it, you know that they are thinking the next part, which is death
• 57:08
  to everyone else.
• 57:09
  Grace to Ukraine, death to everybody else.
• 57:12
  And I don't like it.
• 57:14
  But historically, that has been how it is reviewed.
• 57:18
  They are a brutal bunch over there.
• 57:21
  And I'm not saying Ukrainians are alone.
• 57:24
  I think Eastern Europeans think differently than the rest of us.
• 57:28
  They're somewhat extreme.
• 57:30
  So when we get into that, which is going to be here in a minute, I think you need to
• 57:35
  take it from that point of view.
• 57:36
  I'm not sure I'd ever run for office in Ukraine or any country like it.
• 57:41
  And Ukraine, there's a reason they haven't been allowed into NATO historically.
• 57:48
  There's a, you know, corruption is rampant.
• 57:50
  Death of political members is rampant.
• 57:54
  Control of the state is presumed by certain actors.
• 58:01
  And whether you believe in, you know, calling it democracy or not, more power to you.
• 58:08
  But don't make the mistake of thinking that democracy is alive and well in Ukraine, and that that is what
• 58:15
  people are trying to defend against the big bad wolf of Russia, because that is not the case.
• 58:25
  Sorry, sip of coffee there.
• 58:28
  The interesting part, I think is, I mean, not that I'm not interested in what we've covered so far.
• 58:37
  I think it's been very interesting all the way through to check out statistics, to check out.
• 58:43
  And remember, these questions are democracy related.
• 58:47
  Are you going to run for office?
• 58:49
  Are you going to put your hat in the ring if your plane's going to crash?
• 58:55
  Are you going to put your hat in the ring if they attack you like they attack Donald Trump?
• 59:00
  Are you going to put your hat in the ring anywhere related to Ukraine?
• 59:06
  Probably a mistake.
• 59:08
  You better have some pretty big defense capabilities if you're in Ukraine and you're wanting to proceed and go and
• 59:18
  get into the big political world.
• 59:22
  Not sure I'd want to there.
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  So let's talk about Ukraine.
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  And I'm going to call this this part of it bullets, bands, benches, judges, and billions of dollars, because this
• 59:37
  place is corrupt as the day is long.
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  There's been talks all over America.
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  Do you remember Burisma?
• 59:46
  Do you remember Joe Biden going over in 2014?
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  Do you remember the Maidan replacement of government?
• 59:57
  Do you remember these uprisings?
• 1:00:00
  Do you remember what happened?
• 1:00:01
  Did we even know?
• 1:00:03
  Nobody knew.
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  And in February of 2022, when the Russians had had enough, and I'm not saying they aren't guilty of certain
• 1:00:15
  things in the Donbass area as well, but I don't believe that they are anywhere near as bad of activities
• 1:00:24
  as there were on the Ukrainian side in attempting to control those areas that didn't want to stay part of
• 1:00:32
  Ukraine.
• 1:00:33
  I still believe that the separatism and wanting the referendum to exit the country east of the Donbass is a
• 1:00:43
  very likely scenario.
• 1:00:46
  Most of the people on the east side of the Donbass are Russian nationality, Russian speaking, not Ukrainian.
• 1:00:54
  And I believe that's true all the way through Nikolaev and through Odessa regions as well.
• 1:01:01
  So there's been a lot of talk in the last week or so, and last two weeks or so, including
• 1:01:08
  a picture that showed those two regions highlighted similar to all the eastern ones in the office of a very
• 1:01:22
  high ranking Russian general staff, military, that showed those two regions shaded as well, as this is what we're doing.
• 1:01:33
  I've said for at least three years now, quite a bit longer probably, that I believe that Russia would be,
• 1:01:41
  I don't want to use the word justified, but it wouldn't surprise me.
• 1:01:46
  It wouldn't be unreasonable for them to say that no, Odessa's Russian, Odessa's been Russian, Odessa will always be Russian.
• 1:01:56
  And same with Nikolaev.
• 1:01:59
  And then attach, as I've said quite a few times, all the way to Transnistria, which is the eastern half
• 1:02:08
  of Ukraine that got the ability to be a separate political organization as well.
• 1:02:14
  And if Russia could connect with Transnistria, then the part that becomes Russia, I mean, even if it's a corridor
• 1:02:23
  that goes through, you know, something like that, because Russia has two sorts of, how would we call it, brotherhood
• 1:02:36
  states, if you want to call it that, or brotherhood territories, territories that very strong in Russia and want to
• 1:02:42
  be part of Russia and have military ties to Russia.
• 1:02:46
  Kaliningrad up on the Baltic Sea and Transnistria, which is attached to Moldova and wants to be part of Russia
• 1:02:54
  from the times of the USSR collapsing.
• 1:03:00
  And so these are things that we in the West, as I talked about in one of my shows last
• 1:03:10
  week, we have zero control over these sorts of nationalist or let's call them European shifting borders, because their borders
• 1:03:21
  have shifted all over the freaking place for hundreds of years.
• 1:03:26
  And we're never going to change that.
• 1:03:28
  The borders and US has nothing or should have nothing to do with any of that.
• 1:03:34
  We should let Europe handle its own BS.
• 1:03:37
  It has nothing to do with us.
• 1:03:40
  And there's no way in hell that we should be funding it, but we do.
• 1:03:45
  And why?
• 1:03:46
  Because we like our corruption.
• 1:03:48
  We like it when Joe Biden goes over and his son owns one of the largest shares of one of
• 1:03:53
  the largest corporations in Ukraine that is set to be used in 2014 for exactly all these things before Joe
• 1:04:03
  Biden was even president.
• 1:04:05
  His son is traveling with him.
• 1:04:07
  That is completely wrong and BS for him to go to Ukraine and create little things on the sidelines of
• 1:04:15
  meetings that are occurring with Biden and then get up and say, well, we're going to withhold billions if you
• 1:04:21
  don't prosecute or get rid of this prosecutor who's targeting people that we like.
• 1:04:26
  He's very proud of it.
• 1:04:28
  And this is what we have in Ukraine.
• 1:04:31
  We have corruption and government that is perfectly willing to sign up to be rich oligarchs on their own, whether
• 1:04:41
  it's funded by the Biden administration, by US Agency for International Development, by National Endowment for Democracy or any of
• 1:04:48
  these other NGO sorts of things that are pushed by people like Joe Biden and his son toward Burisma or
• 1:05:00
  anywhere else in Ukraine.
• 1:05:01
  So it's very, very political and death is far more likely.
• 1:05:10
  I don't mean to laugh about it, but death is far more likely in Ukraine if you're going to interfere
• 1:05:17
  with the standard corrupt government practices that occur in Ukraine.
• 1:05:25
  Okay.
• 1:05:26
  So let's have a look at just for fun.
• 1:05:29
  It's not fun.
• 1:05:30
  It's depressing.
• 1:05:31
  Let's look at political related killing and death in this next segment of Ukraine.
• 1:05:41
  Bullets, bands, benches and billions.
• 1:05:44
  Here we go.
• 1:05:46
  The political killings and death.
• 1:05:48
  Let's start with 1996.
• 1:05:51
  An MP from Donetsk named Yevshin Shcherban was shot dead at the airport with his wife and bodyguard.
• 1:06:03
  Everybody killed in a contract style hit linked to gas industry war.
• 1:06:12
  So killed politically.
• 1:06:14
  That's definitely one of them.
• 1:06:16
  And just shot at the airport.
• 1:06:18
  Not a plane crash, but heck, you know, maybe we couldn't sabotage the plane and have him die.
• 1:06:23
  So there wouldn't be any question.
• 1:06:24
  We just gunned him down.
• 1:06:26
  So it's not unlikely in Ukraine.
• 1:06:29
  Let's put it that way.
• 1:06:30
  And it occurs if we do a search through Grok or chat GPT or any of those related to this
• 1:06:40
  guy and try to find the story.
• 1:06:45
  I ran that a little bit earlier.
• 1:06:50
  Let's see if I can find the page where it is listed for me, because I did a quick search
• 1:06:58
  in Google of him and it shows.
• 1:07:04
  Oops, wrong one.
• 1:07:08
  Where is he?
• 1:07:09
  We want this Yevshin Shcherban in Donetsk killed at the airport.
• 1:07:16
  That's the one we want.
• 1:07:19
  And let's get the news on that.
• 1:07:22
  And him and his wife, Nadezhda.
• 1:07:27
  Let's see.
• 1:07:30
  He was a Ukrainian businessman and politician, a member of the Liberal Party of Ukraine.
• 1:07:35
  He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Volnovaka electoral district in Donetsk.
• 1:07:43
  And served as the people's deputy of Ukraine from 94 till he was assassinated in 96.
• 1:07:51
  And his death, him and his wife, Nadezhda, were shot dead on the runway at Donetsk airport on the 3rd
• 1:08:00
  of November 1996.
• 1:08:02
  Several men posing as public officers.
• 1:08:07
  The killers among them were a guy named Vadim Bolotsky, Gennady Zangalidy and others.
• 1:08:14
  Prosecutors have stated the murder was intended to eliminate competition for the control of the natural gas industry.
• 1:08:22
  In 2002, eight men were arrested and tried for this murder.
• 1:08:26
  All of them were found guilty.
• 1:08:28
  Three are serving life sentences.
• 1:08:32
  The event took place soon after replacement of the governor of Donetsk Oblast, Volodymyr Shcherbyan, with the former minister of
• 1:08:43
  coal industry, Sergey Polyakov, and the appointment of Viktor Yanukovych to the position of deputy chairman.
• 1:08:51
  So all of these are connected.
• 1:08:54
  Former Ukraine prime minister, Pavel Lazarenka, was implicated in the murder by the prosecutor general of Ukraine later.
• 1:09:04
  And then he was fired from office.
• 1:09:05
  I mean, this is all clear politics.
• 1:09:08
  And so people are dying because of that.
• 1:09:11
  And so when you talk about the start of Ukraine, it was what, 1991, when they were granted independence from
• 1:09:27
  Russia or Commonwealth of Independent States or however you want to put it.
• 1:09:34
  And this one, you know, I don't want to say he's the start.
• 1:09:41
  Other people died, you know, as well.
• 1:09:43
  But he's the first one, because it seems to get worse as you go along.
• 1:09:48
  Next one's a guy named Vadim Hitman, who's a former member of the Ukraine parliament, first chairman of the National
• 1:09:54
  Bank of Ukraine.
• 1:09:55
  And he was assassinated in Kiev in April 1998.
• 1:09:59
  He was shot and killed by professional hitmen in the elevator of his apartment building.
• 1:10:05
  This is movie crap, people.
• 1:10:06
  This is movie-related stuff.
• 1:10:09
  And in 2003, five years later, the assassin, Sergei Kuliov, was sentenced to life in prison.
• 1:10:17
  And then according to the prosecutor general of Ukraine, the assassination was ordered and paid for by former prime minister,
• 1:10:26
  Pavel Lazarenka.
• 1:10:27
  Remember him?
• 1:10:28
  Because people were saying that he was also attached to this Yevgeny Shcherban death before.
• 1:10:34
  And of course, he denies responsibility.
• 1:10:36
  You know, if you're in power, you don't have to worry about that.
• 1:10:39
  Some observers at the time believed the murder was a contract killing intended to defer or deter foreign investment in
• 1:10:46
  Ukraine.
• 1:10:47
  You know, they don't want that.
• 1:10:49
  They want Ukrainians to be able to keep it for themselves.
• 1:10:51
  And so it's not really, I don't know, but he was a top banker and he was killed off contract
• 1:10:57
  killing.
• 1:10:58
  And that is unbelievable, you know.
• 1:11:03
  And this is Ukraine.
• 1:11:08
  You know, don't go thinking that these are individuals because we haven't even gotten through anything on this list.
• 1:11:18
  And there was a guy, a journalist, okay, that, his name, let's get started with him.
• 1:11:28
  Journalists are being killed off.
• 1:11:30
  Remember, there are journalists, there are priests, there are political activists, there are industry leaders.
• 1:11:38
  This is Ukraine for you, okay?
• 1:11:41
  And this is Ukraine for you.
• 1:11:48
  And then let us get involved.
• 1:11:51
  We sure as hell shouldn't be involved in this.
• 1:11:54
  Let's talk about Georgi Gangadze.
• 1:11:59
  And he is, or was, a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
• 1:12:09
  He founded the online newspaper called Ukrainskaya Pravda, along with Alena Pritula in 2000.
• 1:12:18
  He was born in Tbilisi to a Ukrainian, that's Georgia, to a Ukrainian mother and a Georgian father.
• 1:12:26
  The circumstance of a death became a national scandal and a focus for protest against the president of Ukraine at
• 1:12:35
  the time, who was Leonid Kuchma.
• 1:12:37
  And during the cassette scandal, audiotapes were released on which Kuchma, a guy named Volodymyr Litvin, remember that name, and
• 1:12:49
  other top administration officials are heard discussing the need to silence Gangadze for his online news reports about high-level
• 1:12:59
  corruption.
• 1:13:00
  Former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko died with two gunshot wounds to the head on March 4, 2005, just hours before
• 1:13:09
  he was to begin providing testimony as a witness in this case.
• 1:13:15
  Kravchenko was the superior of the four policemen who were charged with Gangadze's murder soon after Kravchenko's death.
• 1:13:24
  The ruling of suicide was doubted by media reports.
• 1:13:30
  Three former officials of Ukraine Interior Minister's Foreign Surveillance Department and Criminal Intelligence accused of his murder were arrested in
• 1:13:38
  March 2005.
• 1:13:41
  And a fourth one, Alexei Pukach, the former chief of the unit in 2009, was also charged.
• 1:13:49
  A court in Ukraine sentenced Protasov to a sentence of 13 years and Kostenko and Popovich to 12-year terms
• 1:13:56
  in March 2008 for the murder of Gangadze's family.
• 1:14:01
  I'm sorry, for the murder of Gangadze.
• 1:14:05
  His family believes the trial had failed to bring the masterminds of the killings to justice.
• 1:14:16
  So this is journalists, you know, but convictions may become a little bit later, you know, but this is how,
• 1:14:23
  this is business as usual in Ukraine, friends and neighbors, this is, they're used to it.
• 1:14:32
  This is how things occur.
• 1:14:35
  Let's look at a guy named Mykola Shkriblyak.
• 1:14:41
  Some of these names are great.
• 1:14:43
  He was shot in a stairwell.
• 1:14:45
  He was the deputy governor of Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine, shot and killed in the stairwell of his apartment
• 1:14:51
  building on the evening of March of 2002 parliamentary election.
• 1:14:57
  And he was a candidate for parliament in Verkhovna Rada at the time of his murder.
• 1:15:02
  The assassination took place March 29th.
• 1:15:05
  He was shot at least nine bullets, he was shot in the stairwell of his apartment building.
• 1:15:12
  The political context, he was a candidate for the Social Democrat Party of Ukraine.
• 1:15:17
  His murder occurred during a contentious election marred by allegations of fraud, corruption and intimidation.
• 1:15:24
  Well, what better way to intimidate than to just kill somebody?
• 1:15:28
  News reports at the time suggest his death was politically motivated.
• 1:15:32
  The Jamestown Foundation noted that he supervised the energy sector in his region, an area with significant competition between various
• 1:15:44
  companies and political interests.
• 1:15:48
  His position was as a broker in that pipeline, if you want to call it that, was inherently dangerous, according
• 1:15:58
  to investigators.
• 1:16:00
  Following his murder, President Leonid Kuchma, again, instructed an investigation by prosecutors, police and secret, and nothing has really come
• 1:16:13
  of that.
• 1:16:14
  They've never found anybody to be guilty.
• 1:16:17
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:16:18
  So there's another candidate.
• 1:16:20
  Let's go talk about another journalist that, you know, they, they, this is, this is how you take care of
• 1:16:28
  things in Ukraine.
• 1:16:31
  You, tell you what, you're running for office in Ukraine, maybe you do have a death wish, or maybe you're
• 1:16:38
  on the side of the people who, who aren't there.
• 1:16:41
  But my, my thought process would be, if you got to join the, the Antichrist in order to participate in
• 1:16:51
  the, what do you call it, administration of your country's government, perhaps you're better off not doing that, because if
• 1:16:58
  they're with you now, there's nothing that says they can't be against you tomorrow.
• 1:17:02
  Isn't that right?
• 1:17:04
  That's a, that's a, a true possibility.
• 1:17:09
  And so running for office is a, is a dangerous proposition in Ukraine, or even being a journalist, you know,
• 1:17:19
  it's nonsense.
• 1:17:20
  This one guy named Oles Buzina, Ukrainian, he was born, well, in Ukraine, and he's a Ukrainian journalist and writer,
• 1:17:31
  well known for his criticism of Ukrainian politics and for supporting closer ties between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
• 1:17:42
  Being pro-Russia is a very bad thing in Ukraine.
• 1:17:47
  He was found killed by gunshot on the 16th of April, 2015, near his residence in Kiev, and his murder
• 1:17:54
  remains unsolved.
• 1:17:57
  That's how it is.
• 1:17:59
  You know, these people, if you're pro-Russia, you die, and, or they cut you off some other way.
• 1:18:07
  They figure out how to silence your voice.
• 1:18:13
  Let's talk about a guy named Pavel Sheremet, who's a Belarusian-born investigative journalist, known for his critical reporting.
• 1:18:22
  He was killed by a car bomb in Kiev on July 20th of 2016.
• 1:18:29
  Multiple suspects were charged, their trials were suspended due to their service in the Ukrainian military, and the case remains
• 1:18:37
  officially unsolved.
• 1:18:39
  How about that?
• 1:18:40
  Concerns about failures in the investigation and a huge threat to freedom of press in Ukraine.
• 1:18:46
  There is no freedom of press in Ukraine, by the way.
• 1:18:50
  He was known for investigating corruption, violence by volunteer battalions, those high-level nationalists, and other topics considered uncomfortable for
• 1:19:01
  authorities, and nothing is completely unresolved.
• 1:19:06
  You know, the investigation has been criticized for no transparency, no progress.
• 1:19:13
  Some rights groups and international organizations want a full and effective investigation.
• 1:19:17
  They're never going to get it, and this case highlights how business is really conducted in Ukraine.
• 1:19:28
  Again, what business does the United States have defending this type of democracy, if you want to call it that?
• 1:19:41
  And, you know, if you're pro-Russian, forget it.
• 1:19:44
  You will die, or you'll be taken out in other ways, which we'll get into in a little bit, because
• 1:19:51
  they have party bans, and they have other stuff as well.
• 1:19:54
  So, there's a guy, Ilya Kiva.
• 1:20:01
  On December 6, 2023, former Ukrainian MP Ilya Kiva was shot and killed in a park in Odintsovo region, a
• 1:20:11
  suburb southwest of Moscow.
• 1:20:13
  Kiva, who fled Ukraine before Russia upped the ante in the Donbass, he was considered a traitor by Ukrainian authorities
• 1:20:24
  for his pro-Kremlin stance, and what they called his propaganda.
• 1:20:30
  The State Security Service, SBU of Ukraine, was reported by anonymous sources to have orchestrated this assassination, and, you know,
• 1:20:42
  that they are involved.
• 1:20:44
  A Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson publicly stated that Kiva was done, and hinted that other traitors are going to face
• 1:20:52
  a similar fate.
• 1:20:54
  At the time of his death, Kiva was wanted by Ukraine on charges of high treason, and he'd been sentenced
• 1:21:00
  in absentia to 14 years in prison.
• 1:21:03
  So, this incident is part of a series of events targeting Russian and pro-Russian figures, suggesting that Ukrainian security
• 1:21:12
  services always have assets operating within Russia, and basically everywhere else, too.
• 1:21:18
  These are serious players, you know, the Ukrainians.
• 1:21:22
  They are serious, and, you know, death is a possibility if you disagree with their, or even if you say
• 1:21:33
  anything, you know, pro-Russia, right?
• 1:21:35
  But don't go claiming that we in America are defending democracy in Ukraine.
• 1:21:41
  You don't know crap about what you're talking about if you truly believe that, because they are corrupt mofos, corrupt
• 1:21:50
  people.
• 1:21:50
  So, let's go on to the next one.
• 1:21:52
  In December 2023, Ukrainian lawmaker Kiva, which we discussed, he was done.
• 1:21:59
  And then, right after him, there was somebody, this one, another, I believe this is another journalist, let's get into
• 1:22:07
  it for here in a second.
• 1:22:09
  Nope, ex-MP.
• 1:22:12
  And reports from 2023, no, hold on, we got the wrong dude here.
• 1:22:20
  That's still Ilya Kiva.
• 1:22:21
  I have to get to the right page for Irina, because what have we done so far?
• 1:22:26
  We've done how many?
• 1:22:27
  How many deaths to Ukrainian journalists, MPs, and spokespersons?
• 1:22:35
  What have we got here?
• 1:22:36
  Nine so far.
• 1:22:38
  And here's the next one.
• 1:22:39
  Here's this one, is an Ukrainian nationalist ex-MP who got shot in Lvov, right?
• 1:22:47
  This one, a former Ukrainian nationalist died after being shot on the street.
• 1:22:52
  Once again, this is Irina Farion, who caused controversy in 2023, said that true patriots of Ukraine should not speak
• 1:23:02
  Russian under any circumstances.
• 1:23:05
  So, I think it's nonsense, you know, and I've talked about that on some of my shows, you know, speaking
• 1:23:10
  Russian.
• 1:23:11
  It'd be like saying in America, you can't speak, don't speak Mexican, you can't speak Spanish, right?
• 1:23:17
  That's nonsense.
• 1:23:18
  And there's a lot of people who believe that when I was growing up and would say that, you come
• 1:23:22
  to America, you better speak English.
• 1:23:24
  I think, you know, I don't never cared then, don't care now what language you want to use.
• 1:23:29
  It'd be nice if I could talk to you, that would be nice.
• 1:23:32
  And so, I dislike this, you can't speak Russian, you can't watch Russian TV, you can't believe, you can't, nothing
• 1:23:41
  in Russia can be good because the countries have a dispute with Ukraine.
• 1:23:48
  Bullshit.
• 1:23:49
  And that's just completely wrong.
• 1:23:50
  But this 60-year-old linguistic professor was killed and it was being investigated.
• 1:23:56
  Police say it was targeted.
• 1:23:57
  She's a former MP.
• 1:23:59
  Her attacker was not identified.
• 1:24:02
  She died in the hospital.
• 1:24:04
  On Telegram, the region head, Maxim Kotsitsky said that she died in a hospital after the shooting.
• 1:24:13
  This was not a spontaneous killing.
• 1:24:15
  Police are looking for motive.
• 1:24:16
  Well, the main one I can say are her social and political activities and personal dislikes.
• 1:24:22
  He said in a statement, we do not rule out that the murder has a commissioned character, meaning somebody hired
• 1:24:26
  it on.
• 1:24:27
  These are people who are dying in Ukraine.
• 1:24:30
  And what is she, number nine or 10?
• 1:24:34
  We had some more recent, what do you call them, assassinations that occurred, which we'll get to in just a
• 1:24:43
  second.
• 1:24:45
  But that is political life in Ukraine.
• 1:24:51
  And let's talk about August 30, 2025.
• 1:24:56
  This one was just, just occurred here.
• 1:24:59
  And he was a former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, right?
• 1:25:06
  And he was assassinated, a guy named Andre Peruby was assassinated at noon on August 30.
• 1:25:13
  A gunman disguised as a delivery courier shot him multiple times in the street, in Lvov, and then fled the
• 1:25:21
  scene on an electric bicycle.
• 1:25:24
  He died at the scene from his injuries, you know, did our esteemed Andre Peruby.
• 1:25:34
  A suspect was, has been identified as 52-year-old resident Mikhail Selnikov, Selnikov, there you go, Selnikov, who was
• 1:25:47
  arrested in Khmelnitsky region on September 1st.
• 1:25:50
  He admitted to the murder, but claimed it was an act of personal revenge against Ukrainian authorities because his son
• 1:25:58
  went missing at the front.
• 1:26:01
  He stated he wanted to be included in a prison exchange with Russia to find his son's body, but Ukrainian
• 1:26:06
  officials, including national police, suggest instead Russian involvement in the assassination.
• 1:26:12
  It's compared to the killing of another nationalist, the one I just talked about, Irina Faryon in Lvov in July
• 1:26:18
  of 2024.
• 1:26:20
  Some experts view these murders as part of Russian strategy to destabilize Ukraine.
• 1:26:27
  So if you're involved in politics in Ukraine, your likelihood of death is up because, first of all, all the
• 1:26:36
  corrupt people running Ukraine are killing people that are against them.
• 1:26:42
  And then allegedly now we have people from the Russian deep services killing off people that are pro-Ukrainian.
• 1:26:50
  Allegedly they all are pointing fingers at each other.
• 1:26:53
  The point is you don't want to be running for office in what they call a democratic Ukraine.
• 1:26:59
  You certainly sure as hell don't want to be a journalist over there.
• 1:27:03
  These people are targeted like crazy.
• 1:27:05
  How many did I view for you so far that we've come to?
• 1:27:10
  And I want to get to another one who died in custody in Ukraine.
• 1:27:18
  And this was a U.S. and Chilean citizen.
• 1:27:24
  He wasn't even a Ukrainian citizen.
• 1:27:26
  All he was was a journalist, a vocal journalist saying things that they didn't like to hear.
• 1:27:33
  And the guy's a blogger.
• 1:27:35
  He was pretty famous.
• 1:27:37
  And his name was Gonzalo Lira.
• 1:27:40
  And he had U.S. and Chilean.
• 1:27:43
  I believe he had both.
• 1:27:44
  He was a dual passport holder, if I remember.
• 1:27:46
  But he was a blogger and he was pretty much a pro-Russian commentator.
• 1:27:54
  I suppose, like me, he speaks what he believes to be the truth about this entire affair and says what
• 1:28:04
  he believes the truth.
• 1:28:05
  Well, if words hurt you and you got to kill people to shut up words, that means those people are
• 1:28:12
  right.
• 1:28:12
  So whatever you believe about the service or about what happened with Lira, the fact that he was a pro
• 1:28:20
  -Russian commentator, we have at least in that list of 1, 2, 3, 10, 12 people that we put out,
• 1:28:28
  Gonzalo Lira is a real E.
• 1:28:34
  I mean, this guy was offed for sure.
• 1:28:37
  And his political stance, he had been living in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
• 1:28:40
  He talked pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian view.
• 1:28:46
  And he was accused of, everybody says he was accused of, if you're pro-Russian, you're supplying what they call
• 1:28:55
  Russian disinformation, meaning information that you disagree with.
• 1:29:00
  Anything that you disagree with worldwide, you can tie to Russian disinformation.
• 1:29:07
  If it's anything that isn't negative or defamatory of Russia or anyone associated with Russia, then it is Russian disinformation.
• 1:29:18
  That is the world in which we live, right?
• 1:29:21
  He was arrested and detained by the Security Service of Ukraine in April 2022.
• 1:29:27
  And again, in May of 2023, he was charged with, here are the charges, producing and publishing materials justifying Russia's
• 1:29:37
  armed aggression against Ukraine, which is a crime.
• 1:29:42
  So if you say anything that justifies Russia's position in coming after them, it is a crime in Ukrainian law,
• 1:29:52
  okay?
• 1:29:53
  So you say, wait a minute, this war is because of the West pumping Ukraine full of military materials, or
• 1:30:05
  perhaps even having bio labs put in Ukraine, or talking to senators like I did several years ago, talking to
• 1:30:17
  US senators, or I'm sorry, US House of Representative people on the radio and going, wait a minute, NATO doesn't
• 1:30:24
  have anything in Ukraine, they say.
• 1:30:26
  She goes, no, no, no, I've been to those bases since 2014, where we denied that NATO was expanding, but
• 1:30:33
  then the US has put mini bases up there for senators and representatives to visit, and they're talking about it
• 1:30:39
  on the radio with me.
• 1:30:42
  This is nonsense.
• 1:30:44
  And so now that is a crime, and that's the crime that Gonzalo Lira was accused of.
• 1:30:52
  He produced and published materials justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, a crime under Ukrainian law.
• 1:31:02
  Let's talk about the allegations of death and neglect.
• 1:31:06
  His cause of death, he died in a Kharkiv hospital on January 12th, 2024, he was 55.
• 1:31:12
  A letter he wrote from prison detailed severe health issues that he had, double pneumonia, pneumothorax, and edema, which he
• 1:31:20
  claimed are being neglected.
• 1:31:22
  And he died as a result of these things.
• 1:31:25
  And Lira's father, Gonzalo Lira Sr. said his son's death was unjustified, and he accused Ukraine of torture and neglect,
• 1:31:34
  holds Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden responsible because the State Department did nothing but confirm his
• 1:31:43
  death and later said he died of illness that could have resulted from neglect or improper treatment.
• 1:31:48
  That's it for the US.
• 1:31:50
  Russian officials, including Maria Zakharova and Sergei Lavrov, who I like to listen to both, maybe that makes me a
• 1:31:57
  Russian puppet, they echoed the accusations of torture and neglect for this guy died in prison.
• 1:32:04
  You shouldn't die of pneumonia in a Ukrainian prison when you have views that aren't even necessarily against Ukraine.
• 1:32:13
  Maybe they're just not enough anti-Russia, which is what you have to do in Ukraine in order to be
• 1:32:21
  successful.
• 1:32:22
  Some Ukrainian officials and commentators deny torture.
• 1:32:27
  One former journalist turned Ukrainian sergeant says that Lira's claims were an attempt to gain sympathy.
• 1:32:36
  Maybe I should be allowed to say things that are pro-Russia.
• 1:32:42
  Either way, there is no freedom of speech in Ukraine.
• 1:32:46
  Don't go think that there is because there isn't.
• 1:32:48
  You say anything anti-Ukraine or even pro-Russia, then you're definitely a target.
• 1:32:56
  Don't go to Ukraine.
• 1:32:58
  Lira's death has been used.
• 1:33:01
  Now they say that the Russian side of Ukraine and a lot of Google say that Russian officials are using
• 1:33:07
  these commentators, including Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and now me to promote anti-Ukraine narratives and allege politically motivated murder.
• 1:33:17
  Now, I say that you have a better duty or a stronger duty to take care of the people that
• 1:33:23
  you have taken into custody and cannot care for themselves.
• 1:33:26
  I've believed that since I went after the Missouri governor's office, the executive office for many, many times for neglect
• 1:33:37
  of inmates or for the rape of women in jail by their guards.
• 1:33:44
  I did that type of law for many years going after those types of people.
• 1:33:50
  When Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, or anybody else says that these are politically motivated, it's more, you should have a
• 1:33:59
  higher duty to care for somebody who's, what do you call it, under your care and custody and take care
• 1:34:07
  of him more than you would, not less.
• 1:34:12
  You should be protecting what he says to keep his rights.
• 1:34:15
  That is what alleged democracy is supposed to be.
• 1:34:18
  At the least of those people, you take them into custody, you bought whatever problems they have, and you need
• 1:34:24
  to make sure that they are taken care of because they can't take care of them themselves.
• 1:34:29
  If the guy's got pneumonia, you need to know about it and get him treated for it.
• 1:34:33
  You can agree to or disagree on that topic.
• 1:34:37
  You could say, well, they're inmates and screw them.
• 1:34:39
  They committed a crime.
• 1:34:41
  They committed a crime.
• 1:34:42
  He wasn't even charged.
• 1:34:44
  He was charged, but that's all.
• 1:34:46
  He was in pre-trial detention, which is different than an inmate who's finally been found guilty.
• 1:34:51
  He wasn't found guilty of any of this.
• 1:34:53
  Now he's dead and it's presumed that he was guilty of all of these things and he died rightly so.
• 1:34:57
  These people, including Google, say that it's used by Western commentators like Carlson and Elon Musk to say that Ukraine
• 1:35:07
  are bad people.
• 1:35:08
  I don't say they're bad people.
• 1:35:09
  I said they had a stronger duty to take care of this guy.
• 1:35:13
  Lear's family and supporters want an independent investigation, but as of today, no such animal.
• 1:35:20
  That's not happening.
• 1:35:21
  I wanted to make sure that we talked about those sorts of things, but there's another part that, again, still
• 1:35:29
  in Ukraine with party bands.
• 1:35:33
  Ukraine is not the place where you believe that where democracy exists.
• 1:35:36
  Remember, the thrust of this broadcast, the thrust of my three-hour deep dive, which will appear live, well, not
• 1:35:47
  live, but this pre-recorded show will be on mydamnradio.com forward slash live on Sunday night because I'll be
• 1:35:57
  traveling.
• 1:35:58
  I'm doing this show a little bit early, also live, but through my Podbean, but it's going to be again
• 1:36:04
  broadcast on Sunday night in my deep dive.
• 1:36:08
  And the thrust of this is, remember, clearing the field, the political field, and death and lawfare in political campaigns,
• 1:36:20
  which occur all over the place.
• 1:36:23
  Ukraine is just the worst offender right now, in my opinion, or the most known or most obvious offender in
• 1:36:32
  my mind right now.
• 1:36:34
  This is a way of life for them in politics and democracy.
• 1:36:39
  That's a joke over there.
• 1:36:41
  Don't go believing that any of this is democracy-related remotely.
• 1:36:45
  So we've covered the death of candidates dying in Germany, which I don't believe anything, that's just a statistical anomaly,
• 1:36:52
  most likely.
• 1:36:53
  We talked about Trump being beaten up by lawfare.
• 1:36:56
  And now we've gone through Ukraine's journalist silence, parties banned, leaders jailed.
• 1:37:05
  And I want to go further into that even now.
• 1:37:08
  So parties that get banned under Ukrainian law is still going on.
• 1:37:14
  How many parties have they banned under martial law?
• 1:37:18
  It's illegal to have a party of this type.
• 1:37:21
  So you got to clear the field so that Zelensky or his cohorts or any of them can stay in
• 1:37:28
  office.
• 1:37:29
  And how do you do that?
• 1:37:30
  You ban political parties and make it a crime to have this party.
• 1:37:34
  And so there's an opposition platform for life, which is the largest opposition block, has 44 MPs.
• 1:37:41
  And now the party's been dissolved.
• 1:37:44
  I mean, that's rich, isn't it?
• 1:37:47
  That's what democracy is all about.
• 1:37:50
  Let's go out and that'd be, here we are in America, right?
• 1:37:54
  And what do you call it?
• 1:37:56
  The libertarians get a very small percentage.
• 1:38:00
  I think the most a third party candidate has ever got is still under 10%, nothing major.
• 1:38:06
  And that was like Ross Perot or something.
• 1:38:08
  I don't remember the specific numbers.
• 1:38:11
  I haven't looked them up, but let's take a small but rising party.
• 1:38:17
  If Elon Musk ever created a party and it really did address just people that are middle of the road
• 1:38:22
  and hate all politicians or what they stand for and hate the two-party system, I'd be all about it.
• 1:38:29
  I'd jump in and hell, why not throw your hat in the ring for something like that?
• 1:38:34
  Why wouldn't you?
• 1:38:36
  Because we have a corrupt two-party system, but everywhere else in the world, they have corrupt multi-party systems.
• 1:38:44
  And that is what they're dealing with.
• 1:38:45
  Well, under Ukrainian law, especially under martial law, here's who they've banned since 2022 under martial law.
• 1:38:56
  This is Zelensky, in other words.
• 1:38:58
  This is them getting rid of these parties and making it a crime to belong to these parties and say
• 1:39:04
  that these parties cannot exist in Ukraine and where are they?
• 1:39:08
  And so this is what we're fighting for if we're supporting Ukraine as Americans or as Westerners, right?
• 1:39:15
  The opposition platform for life is the biggest, 44 MPs already.
• 1:39:21
  That was blocked.
• 1:39:23
  The party of Sharii, Nashi, which means ours, that is our party, that has been banned and dissolved.
• 1:39:32
  There's something called the opposition block.
• 1:39:34
  There's something called left opposition.
• 1:39:36
  The union of leftist forces, Derzhava, has been liquidated or dissolved as well.
• 1:39:45
  The progressive socialist party of Ukraine, dissolved.
• 1:39:50
  Socialist party of Ukraine, dissolved.
• 1:39:54
  The socialists are dissolved and the Vladimir Saldo block has been dissolved.
• 1:40:00
  Those are 11 opposition parties that have been banned just since 2022.
• 1:40:08
  It's a big deal, people.
• 1:40:09
  This is not democracy, okay?
• 1:40:13
  And so again, don't go believe in that.
• 1:40:15
  And this show is overall talking about what it means to be a candidate for any country in the world.
• 1:40:22
  The attacks against Trump, BS.
• 1:40:25
  The current attacks that people are using for lawfare against others and publications are wrong.
• 1:40:31
  My friend, Ike Skelton, people targeting him for a BS charge and creating something that isn't what the intent was
• 1:40:39
  of any of it in an effort to destroy him politically, which is the only justification you can believe for
• 1:40:45
  that, is wrong.
• 1:40:48
  I don't like these things.
• 1:40:50
  Now let's talk about leaders in Ukraine again, we're still on Ukraine, that have been jailed or exiled, okay?
• 1:40:58
  And some of them killed, as we've already described.
• 1:41:00
  You know, they would flee the country and then end up dead in a Moscow suburb on the street, shot.
• 1:41:06
  So the opposition leaders that have been jailed or exiled in Ukraine, let's talk about Viktor Medvedchuk, who was arrested
• 1:41:14
  in 2021, charged with treason, stripped of his citizenship, and then swapped to Russia in a prisoner exchange in 2022.
• 1:41:23
  They definitely disagree with his stance on the democracy or running of Ukraine.
• 1:41:33
  They definitely disagree with that.
• 1:41:36
  A little bit of a, they like to call him an oligarch, and maybe he is, but he was a
• 1:41:43
  pro-Moscow, Ukrainian oligarch, charged with collaborating with Russia and with treason, okay?
• 1:41:55
  Former MP though, charged along with 12 others of working with Russia and treason, said Ukrainian intelligence.
• 1:42:03
  He was Vladimir Putin's right-hand man, they accuse him of being, in Ukrainian politics, said the Kyiv Independent newspaper.
• 1:42:13
  Yeah, right, that paper is really independent.
• 1:42:18
  He was sent to Russia under prisoner swap, but the Ukrainian Security Service, SBU, said that he had been charged
• 1:42:25
  in absentia with furthering Russia's interests to the detriment of Ukraine, and he is accused of collaboration and treason, as
• 1:42:36
  well as calling for state powers to be usurped, and he denies Russia as being the aggressor against Ukraine.
• 1:42:44
  Well, frankly, I do too.
• 1:42:48
  You either believe in the referendum or you don't, and if only referenda that are going to be justified are
• 1:42:57
  those that the US carries out in places that it wishes to influence, or Maidan-style government overthrows orchestrated by
• 1:43:09
  the US, then we've got a serious problem.
• 1:43:15
  And I think that looking at people like Viktor Medvedchuk, looking at the next one, Yulia Tymoshenko, who was sentenced
• 1:43:25
  in 2011 to seven years for abuse of her office, another person who, you know, this is how you silence
• 1:43:35
  people in Ukraine.
• 1:43:37
  And again, this is how the system works in Ukraine.
• 1:43:43
  Now, I truly believe there's other, there's, in the US, it doesn't always result in murder or arrest of people,
• 1:43:50
  but they certainly tried to with Donald Trump.
• 1:43:52
  But Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of her office related to the 2009 Russia
• 1:44:00
  -Ukraine gas dispute.
• 1:44:03
  She was found guilty of signing, this is crazy, guilty of signing a disadvantageous gas contract with Russia while serving
• 1:44:13
  as prime minister, which the court said is an abuse of power.
• 1:44:18
  So she was sentenced to abuse of office, sentenced to seven years in prison.
• 1:44:23
  She was convicted on October 11th of 2011.
• 1:44:26
  And now she was released later, you know, Ukrainian parliament passed legislation to release her, which led to her release
• 1:44:34
  and the conviction was later annulled by the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
• 1:44:37
  But politically, she's destroyed.
• 1:44:39
  She's gone.
• 1:44:40
  She's no longer a worry, right?
• 1:44:42
  That's Yulia Tymoshenko.
• 1:44:43
  This is how we deal with opposition in Ukraine and the US.
• 1:44:49
  This is what we support, because we allegedly don't do such things in America.
• 1:44:55
  You know, we in America, you know, don't assassinate Robert Kennedy while he's running for office.
• 1:45:02
  We don't attack Trump for lawfare.
• 1:45:06
  We don't go after and destroy people as the Clintons did.
• 1:45:10
  I thought I'd do a whole segment about them as well, but I don't think we're going to get to
• 1:45:15
  it.
• 1:45:15
  So there's one more guy, Oleg Kulinich, who was arrested in 2022.
• 1:45:22
  He was accused of collaborating with Russian FSB, right?
• 1:45:27
  And he was arrested in 2022 on charge of treason and collaboration with Russia.
• 1:45:36
  And the allegations, they allege that he collaborated and was being overseen by Ukrainian officials who fled.
• 1:45:47
  Kulinich was allegedly involved in espionage and in influencing Ukrainian law enforcement and inciting treason.
• 1:45:56
  Prosecutors claim he knew of plans for the invasion of Crimea, but prevented the information from reaching Kiev.
• 1:46:02
  And he blocked communication to SBU leadership about situation in the Donbass and Crimea regions.
• 1:46:10
  Following his arrest, evidences collected include hundreds of documents received from an FSB computer in Moscow, and that he is
• 1:46:21
  a known Russian agent, right?
• 1:46:25
  This is considered one of the most significant spy cases between Russia and Ukraine.
• 1:46:32
  And so they charged this former official with treason because he has pro-Russian tendencies.
• 1:46:42
  We're not going to go into too many more because we have several other topics, and we only have two
• 1:46:46
  hours to get this done, and we're about 15 minutes left is all.
• 1:46:49
  So we've got some more.
• 1:46:50
  Let's talk a little bit about the purging of judges in Ukraine, which also occurs.
• 1:46:57
  The constitutional court in 2021, Zelensky suspended or dismissed multiple justices after rulings that were against his anti-corruption measures.
• 1:47:07
  So you get dismissed.
• 1:47:08
  EU observers say that these dismissals are illegal.
• 1:47:12
  That doesn't mean they don't happen.
• 1:47:14
  If you don't like judges' decisions in Ukraine, you just get rid of the because you are under martial law,
• 1:47:21
  and you can put whoever you want.
• 1:47:22
  So dozens are being investigated.
• 1:47:25
  Multiple arrests of judges have occurred because they're making decisions that are anti-Ukraine, especially under martial law.
• 1:47:33
  Talk about clear in the field.
• 1:47:34
  So you clear the field not only legislatively by getting rid of people that could be part of the Verkhovna
• 1:47:41
  Rada, but you also get rid of anybody that could rule against you in any of these activities.
• 1:47:50
  Then we have also the clergy being targeted.
• 1:47:53
  One of the biggest cases of all is this Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which they say has a Moscow Patriarchate.
• 1:48:02
  Now, that's because until they forced it to change its name several years ago from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it
• 1:48:10
  was the Russian Orthodox Church and has always been a subordinate or a subunit of the Russian Orthodox Church, led
• 1:48:20
  by whatever patriarchy they have in Moscow.
• 1:48:25
  So first they alleged that they were working with the Russians a few years ago and said they had to
• 1:48:30
  change the title from the Russian Orthodox to Ukrainian Orthodox.
• 1:48:34
  So under pressure they did.
• 1:48:37
  And then now a law was passed last year that said the ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church can go
• 1:48:45
  forward because they are led by somebody out of Russia and not somebody out of Ukraine.
• 1:48:52
  So priests have been arrested for collaboration.
• 1:48:56
  Monasteries have been seized by the Ukrainian government, and they are definitely targeting religious outlets.
• 1:49:05
  And think about that.
• 1:49:08
  Journalists are suppressed.
• 1:49:10
  I've told you a few times about the disappearance on YouTube of Diana Panchenko, who had two million subscribers on
• 1:49:21
  her YouTube channel, and it was a very good show.
• 1:49:24
  I watched it every once in a while.
• 1:49:25
  I thought she put together some pretty good stuff.
• 1:49:28
  And it wasn't that she was anti-Ukraine, she wasn't anti-Russia.
• 1:49:31
  And, you know, she's Ukrainian, and she always spoke reasonably well about the desire for Ukraine to be something other
• 1:49:40
  than it is, which is just a corrupt hellhole that is run by people who are certainly not democratic in
• 1:49:48
  any stretch of the imagination.
• 1:49:51
  So the former TV host with News1, who was later very independent and had a great YouTube channel with two
• 1:49:58
  million subscribers, that was deleted when?
• 1:50:01
  August 2025, less than a month ago, after she's a treason suspect.
• 1:50:07
  She got notices of that and celebrated by Kiev all over the place in the information ministry.
• 1:50:12
  Oh, geez, we got rid of her.
• 1:50:14
  Why?
• 1:50:15
  Because her opinion differs from something that you would like the world to know.
• 1:50:20
  Y'all remember Scott Ritter and my interview with him a couple of months ago?
• 1:50:25
  And he was an ex-weapons inspector.
• 1:50:28
  He's a critic of what's going on in Ukraine.
• 1:50:30
  He was pulled off a freaking flight in the United States under the Biden administration at JFK en route to
• 1:50:38
  Russia.
• 1:50:39
  They took his passport.
• 1:50:41
  That whole story is on my, what do you call it?
• 1:50:47
  Internationalflavor.com website.
• 1:50:48
  Go back and look for the Ritter interview.
• 1:50:51
  The video of it is out on YouTube as well.
• 1:50:54
  I got to speak with him for an hour about that and got that entire story about how his passport
• 1:50:59
  was returned to him after Trump took office.
• 1:51:02
  It wasn't returned officially.
• 1:51:04
  He was able to apply again and re-get it because they made him outline that it was lost or
• 1:51:11
  stolen.
• 1:51:13
  Funny story.
• 1:51:14
  If you haven't heard it, get on my program and let's do it again.
• 1:51:18
  Money and corruption.
• 1:51:20
  This is still in Ukraine.
• 1:51:22
  U.S. appropriations, $113 billion to Ukraine by the end of 2023.
• 1:51:27
  Supposed to be by the end of 2025, $174 billion.
• 1:51:32
  Pentagon errors have been rampant.
• 1:51:35
  Misvalued equipment, creating billions of headroom for this.
• 1:51:38
  The Biden family's been involved, according to the Senate report in 2020, documenting Hunter Biden's Burisma conflict of interest, which
• 1:51:45
  never should have occurred.
• 1:51:47
  Oversight memo showing suspicious payments to family members in between.
• 1:51:51
  Everything is called Project Ukraine.
• 1:51:56
  It's nonsense.
• 1:51:57
  In Ukraine, opposition isn't about competing.
• 1:52:00
  It's about survival.
• 1:52:02
  Political are real.
• 1:52:04
  Parties are banned.
• 1:52:05
  Leaders are jailed or shot.
• 1:52:06
  Priests are arrested.
• 1:52:07
  Judges are sacked.
• 1:52:08
  Journalists are silenced.
• 1:52:10
  Critics in the U.S. pulled from flights.
• 1:52:14
  Scott Ritter.
• 1:52:15
  Billions flow like a business model of taking care of the political elite and the corrupt people of, you know,
• 1:52:26
  what do you call it?
• 1:52:28
  The leadership, if you want to call it that, of Ukraine.
• 1:52:31
  This is not democracy in trouble.
• 1:52:33
  It's a managed mafia operation.
• 1:52:37
  That's what this is.
• 1:52:38
  And Ukraine isn't alone.
• 1:52:40
  I mean, look at Moldova.
• 1:52:41
  Look at Georgia, right?
• 1:52:43
  In Eastern Europe, Moldova and Georgia.
• 1:52:47
  The party is banned.
• 1:52:48
  The SOR party, I forget, in Moldova is banned in 2023.
• 1:52:52
  Leader was sentenced to 15 years in absentia, Yevgenia Gutsal.
• 1:52:58
  In Georgia, she was sentenced just recently to seven years in prison.
• 1:53:03
  The opposition media has been shut down.
• 1:53:07
  Moldova is not free either.
• 1:53:11
  And in the West, especially the U.S., we are all over that.
• 1:53:15
  This is what I hope that people are listening to when they consider whether or not they should be supporting
• 1:53:20
  Ukraine, supporting Moldova.
• 1:53:23
  And I don't mean supporting Ukraine.
• 1:53:25
  I mean, supporting U.S. interest in Ukraine.
• 1:53:28
  Ukraine is not our problem.
• 1:53:30
  Never has been.
• 1:53:31
  We're not going to solve these issues.
• 1:53:33
  They need to solve them on their own.
• 1:53:35
  And our attempts to solve them have obviously failed because what do we send over?
• 1:53:40
  We send up over a corrupt Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, right?
• 1:53:47
  That doesn't solve the problem.
• 1:53:49
  I mean, heck, before that, why don't we send over Hillary Clinton?
• 1:53:51
  Why don't we send over, what was her name?
• 1:53:54
  The lady who helped pick the leadership after the Maidan.
• 1:54:01
  Man, why can't I remember her name?
• 1:54:02
  Victoria Nuland.
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  We send over people like that.
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  That's what we do.
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  We send over our own corrupt individuals to try to get this resolved.
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  And corrupt, probably not the right word.
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  Corrupt or certainly leaning one way, wanting a replacement of leadership in the country.
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  There's no question that that's occurred on the U.S. side and no question that the money that we send
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  over there isn't being all used for valuable purposes.
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  That it's being used to grease the wheels in certain respects too.
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  So look at Georgia.
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  Mikhail Saakashvili, who's the ex-president, he's been jailed since 2021.
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  And his sentence was extended in 2025.
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  His health collapsed.
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  Opposition leaders are selectively prosecuted or pardoned all over Georgia.
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  Same thing as in Moldova.
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  These are not areas where the U.S. needs to be involved.
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  But we always have been.
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  Through our U.S. Agency for International Development.
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  Remember, I was in Moldova passing out medical supplies, if you want to call it that, in 1994.
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  I forget.
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  But it was corrupt as hell even then.
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  Everything we supplied ended up on the markets that you would see on the weekend.
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  And I reported that.
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  Well, that happens.
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  We're not in charge, basically, when I report it.
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  We don't really control that.
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  All we have to do is give it out.
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  Oh, and then why are we doing it?
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  Would be my question.
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  But of course, who was I?
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  I was a lowly interpreter who did nothing.
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  But I saw the starts of this.
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  And all it's doing is continuing.
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  Well, in closing, let's talk about the Clinton versus the Stalinist model.
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  The Clinton model is a little lighter, of course.
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  And so I like to refer to this Clinton as a little bit of what goes on in the U
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  .S. The targeting of Trump, the use of the government to attack opposition leadership that are running against you, or
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  anything like that.
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  It's the Clinton model.
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  Lawfare, creating scandal, well-placed leaking of information, or the ruining of your reputation.
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  Like in a movie, you take a picture of some politician having sex with a prostitute.
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  You say, well, you do this.
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  Or we released a photo.
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  This is what I refer to as more of the soft kill model of destroying people that the Clinton body
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  count seems to epitomize and always be present.
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  So this sort of meme always persists in American politics, not necessarily the death, although we've had our share of
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  some death as well.
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  And in the Stalinist model of a gulag and sending opposition or people who protest or broadcast their opposition to
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  the gulag, they have bans on people.
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  That's what's going on in Ukraine right now, is the Stalinist model.
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  This is where they learned, I guess, or think that this is how it's supposed to be.
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  But I disagree.
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  So they have bans, they have prison, they got bullets, people dying.
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  Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia echo this theory even today.
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  And as Americans, we should not, we just should not be part of this.
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  So again, in closing, this entire show has been about running for office, getting good people to engage and want
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  to be a part of a system.
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  And that's hard to do in America.
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  Under the Clintonist models, it's even harder to do in the Stalinist sorts of models of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and
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  the destruction, and other places in Eastern Europe.
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  I believe we've covered it well enough to get there.
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  But if you knew seven of your colleagues died this month, like the AFD in Germany, would you want to
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  run for office over there?
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  If you knew your party could be dissolved, like in Ukraine, would you run for office?
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  If you knew subpoenas and bankrupting trials, you got to hire a lawyer to defend yourself, would you run for
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  office?
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  If you knew your priest or your judge or your journalist are next, would you want to be any of
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  those people?
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  Democracy and dictatorship have converged, and both of them clear the field.
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  The only difference is whether they use lawyers or bullets.
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  I wish to leave you with that and tell you that this is International Flavor.
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  The truth always tastes better here.
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  You can follow me at internationalflavor.com.
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  You can listen to me live at damradio.com forward slash live Sunday through Thursday night, Chicago time, US.
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  But that show goes for usually an hour and a half.
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  This show has been a prerecorded deep dive into corruption in politics and running for office and will be played
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  on Sunday on my Dam Radio show whilst I travel.
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  The rest of the week will be live at that time.
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  Send me an email, Samuel T.
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