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The news keeps coming and it don't stop
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coming.
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That's that's the lesson. If there's a
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theme to this channel, it's that.
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So, yeah, we'll we'll talk about it
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because we got some crazy stories for
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you guys.
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We got Pete Haggath who appears
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to be financially illiterate.
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We've got
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a potential terror attack or maybe just
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a military attack.
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Uh
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or
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again
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just a
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uh or just an attack. And of course the
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craziness of Operation Vivaldi just
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ramps up.
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has battle droids. Now, I don't know if
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I would say it's they're battle droids,
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but
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So yeah,
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All
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right, South Australia. Nice to see you
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guys. The video isn't matching my audio.
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Huh? Is that true? Is that for everybody
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or just for you?
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All right.
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Yeah, like that robot kicking that dude
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way off. Interesting.
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Is it Is it way off for everybody else?
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Test test test.
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Huh.
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Interesting.
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Okay. Some people are saying it's still
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off. Let me let me check. Let me make
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sure I don't have anything else like
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running. My internet has been janky.
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Okay. Some people are saying it's it's
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perfectly synced up and some are saying
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it's a little off. Okay.
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Okay. It seems like everybody's
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reporting slightly different things with
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the audio
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like that. It's well well I'm we're
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talking about desync like you see my
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lips move and then you hear audio after
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the fact.
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Okay. H.
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Okay. All right. We'll do it. We'll see
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if YouTube kind of syncs it up over
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time.
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It's like I'm dubbed from Japanese.
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Yeah, like an old Godzilla movie.
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Yeah, maybe maybe try to re restart.
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Oh, yeah. The old school 70s kung fu
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movie. I love it.
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I mean, if you're going to look like
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something, you might as well look like a
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vintage Bruce Lee movie.
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Second anime dub. Yeah, without the face
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edits. Wamp wamp.
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Okay, let's let's talk about it.
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Let's see. We'll see if it syncs up.
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Pete Hexath is definitely the kind of
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guy I would turn to for drinking advice.
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the best whiskey, the best place to get
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a stiff drink, where I can find a
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well-mixed cocktail. I'm confident our
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Secretary of Defense, or War, as he
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started calling himself, uh, would know
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exactly where to find the best stiff
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drink in Foggy Bottom. However, I
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wouldn't exactly turn to the guy for
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financial advice. And the reason is,
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well, pretty obvious because he seems to
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be financially illiterate. We're going
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to take a look at his required financial
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disclosures and talk about some things
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that even the media seems to have
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totally missed despite being really
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weird. Let's crack into this one. So,
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one, take a look. Make sure you're still
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subscribed. Uh you YouTube has been
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unsubscribing people again, but this is
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the latest round of Pete Hagath's annual
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financial disclosure for 2026.
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So, I want to show you guys this because
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again, this reportedly is again
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something that's been revised uh up to
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about July of this year, which I think
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is kind of interesting. And
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here's what I want to point out is that
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he's got some weird stuff. First off, he
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has of course his own LLC, which I think
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is actually pretty standard for a public
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figure to be like, yeah, there's Pete
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Hegsth, but then there is Peter Hegsth
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LLC. Uh, you know, that is probably what
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receives speaking fees, for example. Can
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also allow you and appearance fees.
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That's actually the least controversial
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thing here. But what's kind of bizarre
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is starting right here is that he has a
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bunch of retirement accounts with like
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almost no money in them. So he has a SE
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IRA that has literally less than $1,000
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in it, which is weird because again, as
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discussed, a SE IRA, that's what you
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want to use to bank plus up a retirement
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account. And when you run Peter Hexathth
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LLC, that's something you can do. But
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where things get weirder is that he has
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an IRA and then he has a bunch of these
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these uh he he has some really
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questionable investment choices. I don't
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know what else to tell you because he
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has uh a QQQ which is all tech stocks
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and
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then he has uh an an income ETF which is
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like
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doesn't really make any sense in this
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context because again Pete Hexath is a
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man in his 40s. He's 20 years away from
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retirement and he's 15 at least from
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being able to access this IRA. So, what
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does he need an income producing vehicle
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for? It literally doesn't make any
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sense. And then he has an S&P 500, which
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makes sense. But here's the thing. You
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already have triple TQ. Like, this is
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all big tech stocks. And the S&P 500
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also all big tech stocks. And then you
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have the JP Morgan income equity EPF,
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Jeppy. And Jeepy is weird because guys,
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this is also all tech stocks. Uh, let me
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see if I can pull it up here because
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like it is it is actually kind of a
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headscratcher to see this uh
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to see these these choices. They're
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almost like chosen almost at random or
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like based on like Wall Street Bets
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posts. It's incredibly incredibly
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bizarre. Uh, here we go. Here is here is
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what this Jeepy is. And you can see
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Jeppy basically generates income by
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selling options and investing in large
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US cap stocks which are the large US cap
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stocks are Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia,
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Mastercard, Apple, Johnson, Johnson,
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Google, Train Technologies, Abby, and
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Next Era Energy. So you should
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understand that he's still holding like
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he's hold invested in the same thing six
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times under different random vehicles.
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It's very bizarre. Then he has an entire
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second IRA, but it's structured
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differently for absolutely no reason.
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and his second IRA just has again double
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dips into QQQ and the S&P 500.
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It's just a weird choice to be like I
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want to I want to own the S&P but more
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of the same thing twice, right? His wife
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has actually been very consistent with
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these weird like this is this makes
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slightly more sense but again it's the
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same thing. She has a total US equity
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ETF and a US small cap value ETF. Okay,
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but then she has tech stocks, S&P 500.
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This still doesn't make a ton of sense
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since US equity ETF and an S&P 500 ETF
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are almost the same thing.
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Then she has another like she has uh
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real estate, right, which is which is
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good for her. Get exposure to real
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estate. That's that's the most
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financially literate thing we've seen
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here.
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And then you have a bunch of weird
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things like she's made income from the
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America First Policy Institute. This is
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an extreme right-wing policy institute.
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Uh something called Watchtower. Uh and
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then Morrison Cohen LLC, but it it she
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doesn't give us the income that she's
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making. She just says she's doing
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consulting, but she's telling you,
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"Yeah, there's an income, but it's it's
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consulting income." But what why does
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that mean you can't disclose it, lady?
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Now things get even more financially
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illiterate. This is actually the doozy.
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Okay. Yeah, he's invested in Bitcoin,
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but he sold Bitcoin apparently because
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he's received capital gains from
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Bitcoin. Now, this is bizarre because he
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in terms when you look at the
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transactions, he doesn't actually report
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having sold any cryptocurrency in his
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transaction list. So, somehow he
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received capital gains for Bitcoin. uh
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but he didn't sell the Bitcoin. So right
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there he's outed himself as having
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failed to disclose key financial
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transactions in this thing. But if
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you're looking for failure to disclose,
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guys, and a sign of total financial
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literacy, this is the big kahuna. This
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is US Bank account 3. It just says cash
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and
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it is over $1 million. They don't tell
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us how much over. It just says more than
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a million dollars has suddenly appeared
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in a new bank account. Now, this is
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insane. I say a new bank account because
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we can look at his 2025
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disclosure and one he had a whole bunch
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of different He had this SE IRA,
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but he just said he was it was cash. He
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hadn't actually ever bought any S&P 500
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stuff at the time. He had uh again he
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had this Jeeppy this is a Fox News
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retirement plan but then it also
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includes royalties on his book which
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somehow despite becoming Secretary of
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Defense now suddenly magically no one's
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bought his book. It's pretty bizarre
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actually. Um again a sign that this
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isn't really complete in any meaningful
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way. Like there's no way that he in 2024
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was making over $2,000 from his American
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Crusade book, but somehow no one has
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bought it and he's received no
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royalties.
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Okay, sure, dude. Not really possible.
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Uh
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so you can see that from 2025 to, you
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know, there's no bank accounts here. No
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bank accounts appear. It's incredibly
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bizarre. And you can see also in his
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spouse's assets, she had a ton of random
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stocks, like individual individual
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stocks. And then again, bank account
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two, you can see has the highest bank
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account has 100 grand in it. So somehow
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one of these bank accounts more than
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10xed the amount of cash in them. And
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this one, by the way, has over might
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have over $200,000 in it. Now, here's
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why this is a sign of total financial
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literacy and is actually really sus.
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First is because the FDIC, the Federal
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Deposit Insurance Corporation, only
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insures US bank accounts for up to 100
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or $200,000, which means that in the
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event of say a bank run or some kind of
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of unstable uh uh banking environment or
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the bank itself would have some kind of
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issue,
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the federal government would only pay
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him back 200 grand for his losses. That
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is something almost no one does.
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He also claims that somehow this million
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dollars has earned less than $200 of
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interest, which is incredibly weird as
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well because we know that if you have
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even even 1% of interest on a million
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dollars, guys, you're still making
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$10,000 absolutely more than you should
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disclose. Even if you had that that
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million dollar,
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like if you had that million dollars in
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your bank account for just 30 days, you
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would still earn $833.
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Meaning that is more than $21. And guess
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what? Even in a US bank account, there
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is still going to be some level of
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interest generated. So there is no
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scenario unless of course this million
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dollars was wired to a US bank all at
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once basically on
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the week of the uh July of 2026 which is
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extremely
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extremely suspicious. I can't emphasize
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this enough.
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like someone deposited over a million
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dollars in your US bank and it's been
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there so soon that it generated no
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interest income, none, not $200.
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And no one has any sort of questions
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about this because again you can see he
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has sold a bunch of his individual stock
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holdings which we he never told us about
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in the first one, right? You can see
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he's I'm sorry. He he in the 2025
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agreement said he had sold all these,
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right? Oh, sorry. This is a repeat
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disclosure. Okay. This is a repeat
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disclosure of these 2025 sales. He's
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saying the same thing twice. I sold all
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my individual stocks, which is actually
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a good move. Solid. Sell your individual
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stocks. Don't hold individual stocks.
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And you can see he's traded them for
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these uh S&P 500 index funds. Sure. Uh,
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again, financially smart, not really,
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but
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a a integ a a a move that you would do
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if you were someone with integrity.
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Credit where credit's due. But again,
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here's the other here's the weird part.
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If you one, we know that he sold a bunch
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of these, right? He sold all this
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and
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we know that he then turned around. he
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didn't actually purchase it. This is
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where things also get kind of weird is
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that some of these sales make sense,
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right? They're the per like he bought he
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sold and then used the proceeds to buy,
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but in some cases he didn't, right? Look
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at his Microsoft. He sold Microsoft
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in at the end of March this year. But he
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completed all of his purchases
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except for one Invesco purchase or and
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one S&P 500 purchase after like or or or
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like like be like the order doesn't make
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sense. He purchased some of these before
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he sold the stock. It's a little sus,
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but the point is is that there should be
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no cash from these transactions. Like
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you should have sold the individual
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stocks clearly purchased these new ones.
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The grand total of these purchases never
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comes close to a million dollars. But
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we're left with this question. Who gave
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you a million dollars? Pete, who wired
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you a million dollars to your bank
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account? For those of you keeping score
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at at home, he also has two homes, a
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regular home and a vacation home.
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and
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someone just kind of like that's enough
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to pay off this vacation home, which by
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the way, he has a 7-year loan at 8 12%.
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Guys, that's a lot. So, again, it could
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be as simple as an inheritance, but but
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what don't don't we as the public
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deserve to know that? Isn't this a
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little suspicious?
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It's incredibly suspicious. And when you
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look at his previous disclosure, it
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actually raises even deeper questions.
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And and before I dig into the the
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somehow even more problematic
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disclosure relationship relationship he
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has with some really suspicious figures,
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Here's where things get kind of weird.
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So, it's no secret that when he was a
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Fox News host, right, he had a lot of
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speaking gigs, right? Within a certain
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ecosystem, a Fox News host is a really
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good speaker to have. And his fees were
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pretty consistent. I think the lowest he
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ever did was one in which he spoke at
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Trip Scott, which I think would have
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been a politician or uh and you can see
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that basically the lowest he would
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charge is about 10,000 and the highest
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he would charge uh would be again
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usually about 25,000. Pretty
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straightforward stuff just depending on
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kind of what he was doing, right? But
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here's where things get weird.
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Everything is about, I don't know,
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$20,000 a pop for a speaking engagement,
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except randomly he spoke at the American
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Legislative Exchange Council in
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Arlington, Virginia, and they paid him
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$150,000.
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Like, is that weird to you? Again, this
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is like imagine someone giving you a a
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paycheck and randomly saying, "Hey,
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listen, that last shift, uh, we really
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appreciate you. Here's 10 times your nor
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normal amount. Like if you make $300 a
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shift, imagine randomly getting a check
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for $3,000. Okay? You would be like,
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"Yo, something is up." And when you look
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at who these guys are, the American
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Legislative Exchange Council, they are a
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uh organization that is ostensibly a
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nonprofit, but they bring conservative
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state lawmakers together with private
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sector representatives who then
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pre-write their legislation for them.
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They call it model legislation. They
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then hand these state legislators this
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these model legislation, model laws, and
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then the state legislators go and
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implement them. Now, almost all of these
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laws that they implement are pretty
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ghoulish, right? Uh right, you have the
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stand your ground laws. Um
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you also have, interestingly enough, uh
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the uh American Legislative Exchange
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Council after Obama's victory in 2008,
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the ALEC internal publication asserted
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without evidence that voter fraud got
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Obama elected and that groups like ACORN
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had engaged in voter registration fraud
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with fake voter registration submitted.
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Now again, how you got fake voter
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registrations but didn't get the real
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voters is is a different story. But
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prior to 2012, legislation based on
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these uh uh model bills was introduced
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in many states to mandate or strengthen
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requirements of voters produced
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stateisssued photographic
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identification. Bills were passed and
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signed in law in six different states.
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Voter ID law was introduced in 34 states
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would have made it more difficult for
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students, the elderly and the poor to
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vote. And again, one scient one
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political scientist said, quote, of the
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62 ID laws considered in the 2011 2012
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legislative session, more than half were
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proposed by lawmakers who participated
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in the American Legislative Exchange
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Council. In exchange for their payments
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of $50 per year in membership dues,
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these legislators had access to a draft
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proposal for strict voter ID
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requirements. There was also, of course,
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uh killing any kind of organized labor,
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which they call, of course, worker
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freedom, but the freedom to join a
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union, lads. uh right classifying uh any
23:06
kind of ecological protest as terrorism
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uh even simple civil disobedience by
23:11
America environmental rights and animal
23:13
rights groups is now classified as
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terrorism in some in some states uh
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tough on crime bills uh again and on
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Israel Palestine following the October
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7th attacks Alec began pushing model
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legislation to quote support for is
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support for Israel's right to pursue
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without interference or condemnation the
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elimmit ation of Hamas, which is really
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weird actually because again in October
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8th the official Israeli stance was that
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we're just going to be targeting
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individual Hamas members. Uh the idea
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that that the follow on to the October
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7th attacks would include widespread
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infrastructure targeting, significant
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targeting of civilians, uh blocking food
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and water and medicine um from getting
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into Gaza. All of that is things that
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officially the Israelis claim was never
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planned. It was simply in response to
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what they claim were uh Hamas actions.
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So the fact that before it even started,
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American legislations were saying,
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"Listen, listen, it's illegal to say
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things like stop bombing water treatment
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plants. Uh you know, don't annihilate a
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hospital in Gaza." uh uh you know it's
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really this is I can't emphasize this
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enough this is an extremely conservative
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extremely suspicious uh payment again
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it's no shocker that Pete Hexath is an
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arch conservative but it's very
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suspicious that they really paid this
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dude out the ass for this speech
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now
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again a lot of the mainstream coverage
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of this has been weird uh namely because
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a lot of these writers don't have the
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like even basic ability to do audits. I
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understand it's pretty overwhelming. And
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again, the fact that none of them,
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right, they acknowledge uh yeah, there
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could be between two and $4 million, but
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Pete Haggath and his wife, who bear in
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mind, guys, Pete Hexath went through a
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pretty brutal divorce because his
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current wife was a um producer on his
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show that he had an affair with. So, he
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likely made a bunch of money and then
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lost a bunch of money in the divorce.
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Uh, but his producer, again, Pete Hexa's
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three retirement accounts have just
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500,000 to 1.25 million. That's kind of
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weird. And then again, to get basically
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his entire net worth wired into an
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account just days before he has to
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disclose it is so is so suspicious,
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guys. I I can't emphasize this enough.
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um
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like
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the
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you know he's got his mortgages but
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again these the the mainstream reporting
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just doesn't seem to capture how
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bizarre his his financial choices are.
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Now, I want to compare this to
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Lloyd Austin, the previous Secretary of
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Defense. And I want to be clear, Lloyd
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Austin is also has a bunch of ties to
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some uh what we'll call kind of well
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some like defense contractors. You can
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see for example that he has a bunch of
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board positions, Tenant Healthcare
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Group, United Technologies Group, Guest
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Services, Inc., New Corpor, Carnegie
26:22
Corporation, West Point Association of
26:24
Graduates, Auburn University, BAH, Pine
26:27
Island Capital Partners, Rathon. He sat
26:29
on the board of all of these, right?
26:31
Member of board, member of board, member
26:33
of board of trustees. This is not
26:35
terribly uncommon for a retired general.
26:37
Um, sometimes these boards that don't
26:39
have a lot have more symbolic authority
26:41
than real authority, they want guys like
26:43
Lloyd Austin as kind of like a an
26:46
adviser, right? and and probably to sort
26:50
of bring them into the fold and use
26:51
their their network and their their
26:54
knowledge to help the company. Um, which
26:58
again if you're retired is is is not
27:00
illegal, but you don't love it. And you
27:02
can see Lloyd Austin doesn't have Lloyd
27:04
Austin the person, but he does have the
27:06
Austin Strategy Group, which is his
27:07
consulting business. He is the sole
27:09
owner and president. So already you've
27:12
got some some some things that are
27:14
similar but when you look at assets you
27:16
can see that things are very different.
27:18
You can see he receives some restrict
27:20
some RSUs from Newor but look he talks
27:23
openly about the fact that yes there is
27:24
significant d cash dividends he again as
27:29
director of new core uh made $218,000
27:33
right he got a bunch of director fees
27:35
trustee fees um again a gift made on his
27:39
behalf he's disclosing he made about
27:42
$50,000 no I'm sorry he he his strategy
27:46
group made nothing Uh, no, I'm sorry.
27:48
His strategy group got one speaking fee
27:50
at JP Morgan for 10,000. Uh, and again
27:53
sat on the advisory committee of
27:55
Fidelity. Like you can see he's sitting
27:56
on a lot of boards and stuff, which is
27:59
interesting. You can also see he made a
28:01
personal loan to Pine Island Capital
28:04
Partners, which is sort of weird given
28:06
that it was a spa. Kind of kind of
28:10
weird.
28:11
He has a bunch of BAH stock, right, that
28:14
he receives, but you see he discloses
28:16
the dividends. So, I mean, he's also
28:17
deeply tied into a lot of these
28:20
individual companies in a way that's
28:22
probably ethically a little sus. Uh,
28:25
again, Rathon, uh, Carrier Global, uh,
28:29
Otus Worldwide, some of these are kind
28:31
of sus. Uh, and then he has almost no
28:33
money in some of these actual tradable
28:35
funds in his IRA. Uh, literally like
28:38
nothing. Retail shares,
28:41
Black Rockck,
28:43
just nothing. nothing interesting and
28:45
almost no money at all. Just a couple of
28:47
$10,000 random positions. So, he's also
28:49
financially illiterate, just staking out
28:51
a bunch of like rando slop positions. Uh
28:54
probably getting farmed for for fees by
28:57
a financial adviser. But
29:01
again, just a really really much more
29:05
like much less suspicious
29:08
uh disclosure. Again, source of
29:11
compensating exceeding $5,000 a year.
29:14
And I mean you can see spouse's
29:17
employment. Her sp this is the only
29:19
normal account. You can see his spouse
29:22
has a US bank account with a also too
29:24
much. But look see she they report the
29:26
interest on the money. They have a
29:29
residential rental property where they
29:32
make whoa $50,000 a year but value of
29:35
none. Okay. Sus C and note money market
29:39
account.
29:40
Again, like there's also some sus stuff
29:43
here, but that doesn't but like the
29:48
there's no million-dollar bank account
29:50
here. In fact, even more bizarre is
29:52
there appears to be no bank account
29:53
disclosed at all other than his wife's,
29:55
which is actually weirder. Like, I'm
29:57
sorry, how does he pay his mortgage?
30:01
Unless it's all out of his wife's
30:03
account. They're just like, "Yeah, it's
30:04
his It could be his wife's. That would
30:06
be a reasonable amount if for someone
30:07
with two million dollar properties.
30:10
Wait, he has a rental property that Oh.
30:13
Oh. Oh, he has a 40-year mortgage on a
30:14
rental property they bought in 1979 for
30:17
7.5%. Okay, that's funny. Uh
30:25
but yeah, this is just
30:31
so much less suspicious except for the
30:33
fact that we don't know where his actual
30:35
like bank account is.
30:38
Anyway, I hope you guys got some value
30:39
out of this to see how like kind of the
30:41
MAGA verse like thinks about things. And
30:43
of course, a huge thank you to our
30:44
Colonel team members, John, Kevin,
30:46
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30:49
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30:59
Okay.
31:16
Okay. Uh
31:19
yeah.
31:24
Yeah. Had I mean it's like it's just
31:28
dumb. Like I don't know what else to
31:29
tell you. It is just regular type dumb.
31:46
It's also a reminder though of just how
31:48
little prestige Pete Hegs has in kind of
31:51
the the the media sphere, right?
31:54
Because, you know, you look at someone,
31:57
look at how many of these companies
31:58
wanted Lloyd Austin in their world,
32:01
right? In their in their universe. You
32:04
know, they wanted to be associated with
32:05
him. But you notice that that other than
32:07
a few of these these guys
32:11
uh other than a few of these like
32:13
speaking engagements,
32:15
almost nobody
32:17
uh like almost nobody
32:21
wanted Pete Hex to actually like run
32:22
their organization. In fact, again,
32:25
like Lloyd Austin is somebody who
32:27
admittedly on the board, you're not
32:28
exactly running the organization, but
32:30
it's still
32:32
it's still significantly more
32:34
prestigious and more leadership focused
32:36
than Hegsth, who like really it's really
32:39
kind of weird that he's never supervised
32:43
anyone.
33:02
Oh, you guys want to talk about
33:07
third AC's crazy drone behind the front
33:10
lines? And that's actually one of the
33:11
least craziest things about Operation
33:14
Vivaldi. Let's let's talk about this.
33:21
Third Assault Operation Vivaldi has been
33:24
absolutely crushing it. And the more
33:26
we've learned, the more we realize just
33:29
how outmatched the Russians, at least
33:31
the Russians north of Lyman were by
33:34
Third Assault. And the latest story is
33:37
actually like almost a parody, almost
33:40
like trolling, something you would do in
33:41
a video game to mess with the other team
33:43
because a ground drone was actually air
33:47
dropped behind Russian lines. But I
33:49
think the more interesting story here is
33:51
the why because the why I think is the
33:54
most interesting and illustrative part.
33:57
So, this is a story that Third Assault
33:59
themselves has put out, but it was
34:03
acknowledged at least on earlier this
34:06
week that Ukraine air dropped a a what
34:08
they call a kamicazi ground robot behind
34:11
Russian lines as part of Operation
34:13
Vivaldi. And reportedly, this explosive
34:16
carrying ground robot was inserted more
34:18
than six miles or 10 km behind Russian
34:21
lines using one of the heavy lift
34:23
drones. And uh the core said this was
34:26
actually the first time this has been
34:27
used in combat. And we're gonna show
34:30
their actual video. We're going to do a
34:31
breakdown of their actual video of the
34:33
operation. But before we do that, I want
34:35
to mention guys that if you're like,
34:36
"Huh, those ground drones sound
34:38
familiar." That's because ground drones
34:39
are also something that we have been
34:42
raising funds for for third assault,
34:44
right? We're partnered with Ukraine aid
34:46
operations, a US501c3
34:48
charity that so your donations are
34:50
taxdeductible and we are getting units
34:52
within the third assault um ground drone
34:55
components and spare parts so that they
34:56
can conduct more resupply right and
34:59
casualty evacuation. Uh we we don't
35:01
raise the combat ground drones. Uh we're
35:04
also getting components for those heavy
35:05
lift drones because when they're not
35:07
fing ground drones apparently they f
35:09
supplies to remote positions keeping
35:11
them in the fight. thermal, night
35:13
optics, Starlinks, terminals, and more.
35:14
Actually, Starlinks, one of the units,
35:16
actually made a video being like, "Yo,
35:17
we really need Starlink, Starlinks right
35:20
now." So, literally, that is how fast
35:23
the turnaround time is for this and how
35:25
dire the need is that units are actually
35:27
out here recording videos in positions
35:29
being like, "Hey, if if you're on
35:30
Ukraine Ops YouTube channel, you know
35:32
what I'm talking about." But these guys
35:33
are out here being like, "Yo, please uh
35:36
we need some Starlink minis uh to fight
35:38
tonight." So again, units uh have
35:41
pledged patches for for donors of
35:43
different tiers. Huge thank you to uh uh
35:46
Michael Whoa for donating 350. That's
35:48
badass. Um Alexandra uh Saurin uh
35:53
Michael uh to Jill Tori, all these guys
35:56
from across the globe. You see euros,
35:59
USD, great British pounds, Australian
36:01
dollars, Czech croner, uh uh it's a sign
36:05
of just how international this support
36:07
is. So, I'm going to put the link to
36:08
that down in the description. So, I want
36:12
to point out two other uh fun little
36:14
facts. One is that right now we can see
36:16
that Operation Vivaldi has disclosed a
36:18
whole bunch of additional uh rollbacks
36:21
of Russian territory. You can see that
36:23
this entire northern pinser has been
36:25
disclosed now. And we're starting to see
36:28
more and more of the kind of operation
36:31
Vivaldi um Pinsir movement that we
36:33
talked about that had kind of been
36:34
leaked. But again, we're seeing really
36:37
significant um movements by the
36:39
standards of this war, right? We're
36:41
talking about an air an area of
36:42
liberation that at its deepest is about
36:44
is about 3 and a half kilometers, right?
36:47
We'll say maybe maybe 3 km wide, but 13
36:51
km long. And that is pretty significant,
36:54
right? Again, you're talking about about
36:57
nearly 40 square kilm just in the second
37:00
phase, right? With another probably uh
37:02
35 in this first phase. So you're
37:04
talking about 75 plus square kilometers
37:06
just that we know about so far. And
37:08
again, there's rumors. This is a kind of
37:11
a rumor map from a Russian blogger that
37:14
is reporting that the actual Ukrainian
37:17
forces have actually rolled back the
37:19
entire LMAN axis and are now crossing
37:21
the uh uh Oscill River, which would be
37:24
crazy if true, but I'm really skeptical.
37:27
I think this might be over like over
37:30
panic from some of these uh Russian mill
37:34
bloggers. Uh but again they're saying
37:36
the south situation south of Coupiance
37:37
remains deadlock for the Russian army
37:39
unable to eliminate what they call the
37:40
last pockets of Ukrainian resistance.
37:42
East the Oscill Ukrainian forces are
37:44
attempting to regain the initiative.
37:45
Ukrainian army has managed to capture
37:46
positions outside of Kupansk. So again,
37:51
we're seeing increasingly these kind of
37:53
of uh for lack of a better term um
37:57
offensives from the Ukrainians. So I
37:59
want to take a look. This is actually uh
38:01
one of their videos about this ground
38:04
operation.
38:10
>> Okay. Wow, this is really bad. Okay. So
38:13
you can see here
38:22
And he makes a, you know, he says, "Oh,
38:23
paratroopers used to be dropped from
38:25
planes. Now UGVs are dropped from heavy
38:26
bombers." But this is a this is a a a
38:30
natural and predictable outcome because
38:32
it is so advantageous.
38:37
[music]
38:44
>> Okay. Okay, I love the aftermarket
38:45
explosion added in.
38:50
All right, again, first time in history,
38:52
ground robots behind lines using UAVs.
38:56
Uh, named after Oh, interesting. The
38:58
tactic was called Griffins. Named after
39:00
call sign Griffin, a machine gunner and
39:01
an assault position, the NC13 unit
39:03
missing an action during the battle for
39:05
Andreka.
39:07
That's really interesting.
39:12
And again, as we've talked about guys,
39:14
one of the reasons Third Assault, I
39:15
think, was able to preserve their
39:16
operational security of this, keep this
39:18
operation a secret for so long, was
39:20
because Third Assault is ex is is like a
39:23
cult. They are extremely
39:27
um supportive of each other. They have a
39:31
like one of the most concrete examples
39:32
that I give people is that an average
39:34
Ukrainian infantryman, a typical the
39:36
sort of standard trained by the National
39:38
Army infantryman will receive basic
39:41
first aid and one tourniquet uh in their
39:44
first aid kit. A third assault
39:46
infantryman will receive a full combat
39:49
lifesaver training. Every single one of
39:51
them, right? Their combat lifesaver is a
39:54
fully trained medic, right? So they get
39:55
a medic per squad and um their IFAC,
40:00
their individual first aid kit uh
40:02
contains five tourniquets, enough for
40:04
every wound, every limb plus one more to
40:07
do a tourniquet exchange. Um that's not
40:09
an accident. That is a policy that they
40:12
have because they have a a culture of
40:17
looking out for each other. They say,
40:18
"Listen, we always look out for each
40:19
other, right? We always if we can get
40:22
you back, we never do a costbenefit
40:23
analysis of like is it worth it to try
40:25
to bring you home? If we have the
40:26
resources to try to do it, we're going
40:28
to do it. And for the guys that they
40:31
can't bring home, you can see they carry
40:33
their memory and they honor them. They
40:35
say, listen, this is part of what makes
40:37
a good unit is the the sincere belief
40:40
that it's like, hey, one day I could be
40:42
that guy lying in a field and and
40:45
somebody saying, hey, how do we get this
40:46
dude out? And and I want people to to
40:51
take to really give it their all to do
40:54
it. Uh to get us back, right? Um and
40:58
that's part of the third assault
40:59
culture, right? Because one day one day
41:01
it could be me, right? So today I got to
41:02
do it for the other guy because one day
41:04
I want my guy these guys to do it for
41:05
me.
41:12
Lexington
41:44
Yeah, one of the things we've heard,
41:45
Starlink minis, dude. I mean, that that
41:47
was what the other units within Third
41:49
Assault were requesting from us. They're
41:50
like, "Listen, these Starlink minis are
41:52
the secret sauce because they are
41:53
extremely lightweight and they are able
41:56
to push into um they're able to get give
42:00
these drones a stable connection that
42:02
can bypass conventional jamming." And
42:06
one of the things I think is unique and
42:07
I think it's interesting to me is that I
42:10
have a strong suspicion that the
42:13
Ukrainian market for Starlinks and
42:16
Starlink minis is probably massive. And
42:21
because you got to think like if I
42:24
bought a Starlink,
42:26
I'm never going to blow the thing up.
42:27
I'm going to have it for years. Be
42:30
honest. How long do you think this
42:32
Starlink Mini lasted? a month, maybe two
42:36
months, right? So, in terms of your
42:39
market share, the Ukrainian government
42:41
is probably
42:43
representing in terms of actual Starlink
42:46
units, the the overwhelming majority.
42:56
[music]
42:59
Okay, I actually have to turn off the
43:00
sound. I'm sorry because um the music
43:04
the background music I don't know if
43:06
it's licensable or not and so I may get
43:08
copyright claimed
43:11
again they this is interesting he's like
43:13
listen we have ground air okay so this
43:16
is what looks like one of the ground
43:18
robots you can see it finds a vehicle
43:20
actually on the road and then oh
43:24
interesting does scouting
43:29
that's so interesting How do
43:31
how do you figure the enemy can figure
43:33
out what exactly was hitting them and
43:35
where it was coming from? And that's an
43:37
interesting point because remember one
43:39
of the things that happens if those guys
43:41
say, "Listen, we saw a ground drone and
43:43
we're 10 km back." What are they going
43:44
to say? Well, the Russians are going to
43:46
say, "Listen, we think there could be a
43:48
Ukrainian ground position near us." Now,
43:51
what do they have to do? Now, they have
43:53
to have a infantry unit go in, do a big
43:56
clearing operation, right? It could, you
43:58
know, their their logistics are going to
44:00
have to conduct a bunch of additional
44:02
security. like creating the perception
44:04
of a threat in an environment is really
44:07
really um
44:10
can be as valuable because remember
44:13
let's say the Russians take five
44:16
soldiers that would have gone forward
44:18
into a position and diverts them to
44:20
guard against the Ukrainian infantry
44:23
deploying ground drones way behind the
44:25
front lines to
44:28
if those guys are doing a timewasting
44:30
mission it is the same thing as having
44:32
wounded them and taken them out of the
44:34
battlefield
44:36
because they're not performing a real
44:38
battlefield mission. They're performing
44:40
they're looking for a non-existent
44:41
enemy. They're performing a fictional
44:42
battlefield mission.
44:46
So
44:48
again, they talk about these ground.
44:51
Okay, that was really interesting. So
44:53
there's a ground combat drone, but you
44:55
can also see uh
44:59
that there's some level of like
45:06
yeah, you can see these ground drones
45:08
are doing more and more kind of
45:08
innovation. Talk about right here they
45:11
are getting kind of stuck on each other,
45:13
but you can see they are just RC cars
45:15
that have a special connection. Look at
45:17
him playing again. UBL uh headphones
45:21
playing with a gaming controller. Uh
45:23
this looks like a nice RC car. And
45:25
that's what these things are. They're RC
45:26
cars. Like obviously with a with a more
45:29
powerful battery. Obviously with a um
45:34
uh a better internet connection. What I
45:36
actually think is probably the case is
45:38
they may have a relay dropped off with
45:39
them like a Starlink mini that's
45:41
actually performing the relay and these
45:42
things might just be radioing back
45:44
because you can see this connection's
45:46
really good
45:51
again still music.
45:59
So they talk about again trying to
46:01
develop what is the doctrine of UGVs on
46:03
the battlefield and I think he says okay
46:07
by the end of 2026 we'll carry out a
46:10
number of number of crazy operations the
46:11
world's never seen or heard of. [snorts]
46:13
I completely believe that um we have
46:15
heard some wild stuff already. Um
46:19
and okay this also think is really
46:21
interesting like listen the first time
46:22
we tried this it wasn't successful.
46:25
We did it with the unmanned systems
46:27
battalion of the third assault brigade
46:29
and their pilots responsible for
46:30
delivering and airdropping our UGVs in
46:33
the area where we needed them to. And I
46:36
point out this because
46:39
failure, this is one of the things that
46:41
really really bothers me about US
46:45
military culture is that if you up,
46:48
the punishment is so severe. It is a
46:50
career killer to things up. And the
46:53
difference is that in successful units
46:55
in Ukraine,
46:57
they try new and even when it
47:00
fails, not because you got to think this
47:01
failed and they said, "Listen, we still
47:03
think there's something here. We're
47:04
going to fix our problems and go back at
47:06
it."
47:08
The US military would almost never
47:09
stomach that. They would never stomach
47:12
you having something screw up. Say,
47:13
"Listen, we think there's still
47:14
something here. Give us another crack at
47:16
it. Give us a few more bites at the
47:17
apple." And for us, the US military go,
47:20
"Yeah, that's fine. I'm okay if you lose
47:22
equipment. Um because you have to
47:24
understand for rank and file soldiers,
47:27
not not for the generals, the generals
47:28
that left the Taliban, all that
47:30
equipment, they got promoted. Um for the
47:33
the rank and file soldiers that lost,
47:35
say a pair of NVGs in combat, uh they
47:39
would face a huge investigation.
47:43
It almost certainly would ensnare their
47:45
officers, their senior NCOs. um they
47:48
would be charged significant amounts of
47:49
money, tens of thousands of dollars that
47:51
obviously no private has. Um so you
47:54
would always sit there and go, listen,
47:55
what are the odds that this operation
47:57
that I want to do, what are the odds
47:58
it's going to result in the loss of some
48:00
sensitive equipment. And unless you want
48:03
to be on the hook for it, uh you said,
48:05
you know what, I'm just going to do the
48:06
nice, safe, normal, triedand- trueue
48:09
thing that no one will ask a lot of
48:10
questions about. And that way if
48:12
something gets lost, I'll say, "Well, it
48:15
was because I was doing a a
48:16
pre-approved, pre-formatted,
48:18
everything is the same operation." And
48:21
again, you hear these guys saying the
48:23
just totally different universe.
48:38
Interesting. So he says, "Yeah, the
48:40
enemy found it. Immediately opened fire
48:42
on the UGVs." He says, "We quickly
48:44
brought in two more UGVs the same day.
48:48
Air dropped them into the same general
48:50
area again, taking time into account the
48:52
issues we encountered before."
48:55
And they're like, "Damn, we made it
48:56
there. We been dropped in. We're already
48:58
on our way."
49:04
Yep. Say drive through a tree line
49:06
again. I mean, the wild part, these are
49:08
just remote control cars with explosives
49:10
strapped to them. But again, the
49:12
execution and the connection and the
49:15
battery life that those are the
49:17
innovations here.
49:22
Yeah, these guys are also young, dude.
49:24
Like again, this is somebody who would
49:26
maybe be a captain or maybe a major in
49:30
the US military. Now again once they
49:33
successfully did it they said listen how
49:34
do we turn this into a into a protocol
49:37
right and
49:41
I think
49:44
yeah he's getting really into some of
49:45
the details here but you see they have
49:47
these labs that are doing the actual
49:49
nitty-gritty work of adapting these
49:51
vehicles uh getting them all spray
49:53
painted which is interesting uh you got
49:55
to be camouflaged right and I think the
49:58
tactical advantage okay wait this may
50:00
actually capture Right. Uh,
50:04
okay. This is paratroopers.
50:07
Whoa. Success rate 80%. So, what do
50:09
these ground drones do? Well, as he
50:11
said, they are targeting logistics,
50:13
logistics, logistics, logistics. And and
50:15
and you know, being able to strike,
50:18
again, small explosives at small
50:21
targets. But that's not the only thing
50:23
we've seen. And here's what I want to
50:24
point out. This was actually recently
50:26
released by Third Assault yesterday.
50:28
This is, guys, not a small ground drone.
50:30
This is a Soviet BTR, an armored
50:33
personnel carrier. And what this thing
50:35
has done is been loaded with explosives
50:37
and loaded with a drone. And you can see
50:40
it is automated. It has been turned into
50:43
a drone. And that thing has the size to
50:46
take out an entire building. So I mean,
50:48
we can see this thing hit an entire
50:50
building here
50:52
and basically take something that was
50:55
sheltering a Russian platoon and scrap
50:58
it.
51:00
And I think that the the real story here
51:02
though is is the price of innovation. I
51:05
think that's the story here is like you
51:07
have to be able to innovate and you have
51:08
to be able innovating means failing.
51:11
Like failing it's like you'll never
51:14
become good at jiu-jitsu if you beat
51:16
every opponent you roll with because by
51:18
definition all you'll do is reinforce
51:22
bad to mediocre skills. Does that make
51:24
sense? Like you'll never get pushed.
51:26
You'll never be forced to grow your
51:27
skills, right? It'll be like claiming
51:29
that you're an undefeated boxer, but
51:31
you've only ever fought 12 year olds.
51:33
It's like, yeah, that's technically
51:34
true, but like it doesn't mean you're
51:38
good. It just means you have this like
51:43
it means you've never changed anything
51:44
and you've never really been tested.
51:46
Anyway guys, huge thank you to Alfred,
51:48
Allan, Andreas, Bastion, Brent, Brendan,
51:50
Charles, Christine, all Lieutenant
51:52
folks. again. Check to make sure you are
51:54
still subscribed and of course donate to
51:56
support the third assault.
52:31
Thanks, guys.
52:37
That's true. Nobody made Cat Williams
52:39
Nobody made fun of Cat Williams for
52:41
fighting a 12-year-old. They should
52:42
have, though. I I I I actually think
52:43
they probably should have.
52:49
But again, I I think the story is less
52:50
about like they proved a point, they
52:53
proved they could do something. I think
52:54
the story is
52:58
that
53:00
like you got to evolve.
53:03
Like the battlefield is just so evolve
53:05
or die, right?
53:20
Thanks guys. Hit that like, baby.
53:26
And then we're going to talk about the
53:27
terror attack at the UK air base.
53:35
Andrew Ryan, how do I protect my
53:36
portfolio from these rising treasury
53:38
yields? Buddy, you don't. You just buy
53:41
you buy buy these companies, you know,
53:44
you buy good profitable companies
53:48
like by definition equities
53:52
like like
53:55
the treasury the you know like a 30-year
53:59
Treasury is a risk-free rate.
54:03
Sorry, guys. I know. I'm so tired. I got
54:05
to Yeah, that's right. I couldn't take
54:09
my strike gum because I I I had a dental
54:11
cleaning today and they said like wait
54:14
30 minutes before you eat. I don't know
54:16
if strike gum counts but in case it did
54:20
I like okay I'll wait.
54:42
Don't buy gold. If you're really worried
54:44
about treasury yields, buy foreign
54:46
companies. Like
54:48
I personally
54:51
I'm putting more into a um
54:54
like a like the S&P 500 but non- US
54:57
companies
54:59
and big profitable enterprises
55:04
they aren't going anywhere.
55:09
That's my opinion. I'm not a financial
55:12
adviser. You shouldn't take my advice.
55:17
A zen strike gum. I bet that would slap.
55:54
All right.
56:02
Yeah, I wouldn't buy an unprofitable
56:04
company, but that's me.
56:15
Monster Lab. I need a vacation, buddy. I
56:17
have put out content seven days a week
56:22
for the last four years, including the
56:24
birth of both of my kids. Actually, no,
56:26
my second kid. I missed one day. I
56:28
missed one day.
57:09
All right.
57:17
Thanks, General Consensus. I appreciate
57:19
it.
57:21
I have a very understanding life.
57:22
Listen,
57:24
I basically do two things. I do three
57:26
things with my life. I
57:29
I parent my kids.
57:32
I make YouTube videos and I run a lot.
57:36
And that's basically it.
57:40
I'm like, what are the three things I
57:41
can do? Well, I'm like, I can focus on
57:43
my family, I can run a lot, and I can
57:46
make YouTube videos.
57:49
I don't do much else.
57:53
Like for the past six months or so, I've
57:55
stopped drinking. Not as like a wasn't
57:58
like a plant a flag in the ground. And
57:59
it was just like every time I drank I
58:00
was like, "Man, I'm so tired the next
58:02
day. This is not worth it."
58:12
I mention why don't the other mill
58:14
bloggers wil into the fold.
58:18
What makes you think I'm not friends
58:19
with them? I'm not friends with anybody.
58:20
I don't hang out with anyone. Um but if
58:22
I did, I Those guys are really cool.
58:24
They've been really chill.
58:34
And any re prepare for hikes? No. No. I
58:37
don't do any camping. I love it. I love
58:39
it. And and one day in the future, like
58:41
I'll return to my camping and outdoors.
58:43
And I I love it. I love it. But this is
58:46
not the phase of life I'm in.
58:49
And once you start being like, "Oh, I
58:51
just want to go camping. I want to sit
58:53
outside under the stars." And you're
58:55
just like, "No." Cuz doing that, right,
58:58
if I want to do it, I got to pawn my
59:00
kids onto my wife. And if I'm going to
59:02
do that, again, I already do it two
59:04
weeks a year to go hopefully not get
59:07
blown up in Ukraine.
59:10
So, like, you know,
59:13
President's mad cool. Preston is very
59:15
cool. I I very respect him.
59:22
[snorts]
59:26
Zach, marathon runners are happy people
59:28
causing release. I like to think it's
59:30
more of an offset. Like people that
59:32
consume the news and report on it like
59:35
me.
59:36
We're miserable people. So we have to
59:38
offset ourselves back to normal by
59:40
running a lot.
59:50
And by the way, there's almost no
59:51
discernable endorphin rush when I have
59:53
to run at like 5:30 a.m.,
59:56
which I cannot. It drives me crazy.
1:00:08
Yeah. Right now, my kids are two and
1:00:11
one, so they're not camping. Though, you
1:00:14
know what? The younger one, the younger
1:00:15
one wants to live outside. Unironically,
1:00:19
he was banging at the door being like,
1:00:21
"Daddy, out
1:00:23
at
1:00:26
5:40 this morning. I took him out."
1:00:30
Listen, park no one no one up to no good
1:00:34
is out at 5:30 a.m. It's not possible.
1:00:41
Oh, today is a ride day. General
1:00:42
consensus. Yikes.
1:00:49
Oh yeah, bike rides are so much fun,
1:00:50
dude. I mean, I did like like last year
1:00:54
was like a triathlon year and I really
1:00:55
like I really liked riding. I was
1:00:57
surprised how much I enjoyed riding.
1:01:00
really surprised like long long rides
1:01:03
but ultimately
1:01:05
um
1:01:08
the the like the it takes too it's too
1:01:11
timeconuming
1:01:13
and like I I was like I completed a half
1:01:16
iron man I completed two half iron mans
1:01:19
and I was like okay I want to get faster
1:01:22
like I was almost to the minute had the
1:01:25
same time on both of them and it was not
1:01:27
good. I mean it was f it was fine for
1:01:29
someone who
1:01:32
was like new to the sport. I completed
1:01:35
it you know I met all the cut offs which
1:01:37
was my goal but now I'm like
1:01:41
I want to laser lock in. I want to get
1:01:44
laser locked on for me the half marathon
1:01:46
distance right now. Hey scams. Do you
1:01:49
think Iran can easily close this trade
1:01:50
in the near future or would tech be
1:01:51
there to counter their drones and
1:01:52
ballistic missiles? Uh no.
1:01:56
They could close it easily in the future
1:01:57
if they wanted. I wonder what the Brent
1:01:59
crude price is right now. Yaoza 105,
1:02:02
guys.
1:02:04
More Brent crude.
1:02:08
Ouch.
1:02:10
Gasoline
1:02:12
coming down though. Gasoline price
1:02:14
coming down.
1:02:17
Let's see what diesel prices are like.
1:02:28
Uh,
1:02:33
I don't want fuel prices.
1:02:37
Let's see. What do you got?
1:02:39
No, we're coming. Diesel. Diesel slowly
1:02:42
creeping back down.
1:02:58
Yeah, these oil prices motivate me to
1:02:59
bike too, right?
1:03:02
Okay.
1:03:03
All right, I'm strike gummed up. Let's
1:03:06
talk about the even more insane news.
1:03:11
Potential terror attack on US Air Force
1:03:12
base in the UK. Let's talk about it.
1:03:17
Oh, actually, I want to do one more. I
1:03:19
want to see if there's any updated news
1:03:20
from when I looked at this a little bit
1:03:23
ago.
1:03:48
Okay.
1:03:55
All right. Absolutely wild. Okay. We got
1:03:57
we got to talk about this one because
1:03:58
this is this is this is crazy.
1:04:02
All right.
1:04:18
In a pretty shocking story, a small
1:04:22
squad of terrorists attempted to storm
1:04:26
or attack a Royal Air Force and US Air
1:04:29
Force joint base in the UK. But what's
1:04:32
truly insane is just how close they came
1:04:36
to succeeding. Literally arrested within
1:04:39
feet of the gate. And even more insane
1:04:43
is the seemingly complete lack of
1:04:46
response from the UK. I mean, take a
1:04:48
look at this. So, what they call terror
1:04:51
suspects were arrested near a British
1:04:53
air base that was used by the United
1:04:55
States, the Royal Air Force Base, Fair
1:04:57
Farford. But it's also home to a
1:05:00
significant US Air Force presence,
1:05:02
including a base for large US bomber
1:05:06
operations like B1 and B2s. Now, police
1:05:09
arrested five British nationals in
1:05:11
connected with a what they called a
1:05:13
massive security operation near a base
1:05:15
that was used to facilitate strikes on
1:05:17
Iran. All five men were all from London
1:05:19
and early to mid20s were arrested on
1:05:21
Sunday of suspicion of terrorism and
1:05:23
explosives related offensives offenses
1:05:26
after three suspicious vehicles were
1:05:27
seen moving toward Royal Air Force
1:05:30
Raphford.
1:05:32
But dozens of homes had to be evacuated
1:05:34
uh and a large emergency presence was
1:05:36
around the installation.
1:05:38
Now,
1:05:40
uh, this is actually kind of insane
1:05:44
because a this was not these this group
1:05:47
of five men who again were arrested.
1:05:50
Presumably, an explosives offensive
1:05:53
means that you probably had some
1:05:55
explosives at least. Earlier, a local
1:05:58
farmer said she had seen quote a large
1:06:00
group of hooded and masked men early on
1:06:03
Sunday. Quote, "When they saw me, they
1:06:05
ran ahead of me, some into the field and
1:06:07
some toward the neighboring village,"
1:06:09
the farmer said, speaking on condition
1:06:11
of anonymity. Quote, "I then realized
1:06:12
that something highly unusual was taking
1:06:14
place."
1:06:16
And the farmer said explicitly, right,
1:06:20
this is one of the videos, for example,
1:06:21
of an image circulating on social media,
1:06:23
unconfirmed if this is really the men,
1:06:25
but you can see five men uh with their
1:06:28
shirts removed, right? Obviously a a
1:06:30
good practice if you think there's a
1:06:32
risk of of having a um a uh explosive
1:06:35
vest on, but
1:06:39
uh another image showed three white vans
1:06:41
near the base that had circulated
1:06:42
online. Uh one bearing the logo of a
1:06:45
fuel delivery company. Uh the fuel
1:06:48
delivery company was like, "This was not
1:06:49
us." Uh now the
1:06:53
uh there were some rumors that this
1:06:56
might have been an attack linked to
1:06:58
Iran, but the Iranians themselves said
1:07:00
they categorically reject and strongly
1:07:02
condemn the unfounded and malicious
1:07:04
speculations uh link linking Iran to the
1:07:08
arrest of five suspects in the vicinity
1:07:10
of the Royal Air Force base. And I'm
1:07:12
actually inclined to believe them
1:07:13
because if there's one thing that has
1:07:16
been key to the larger Iranian strategy
1:07:18
here, it has been the isolation of the
1:07:21
US from its traditional allies. And the
1:07:24
fact that so many of the U that the US
1:07:26
is isolated globally with the exception
1:07:28
of the Gulf states um is a central theme
1:07:31
actually to the Iranian strategy. It
1:07:33
prevents uh for example the the lowering
1:07:36
of of um coordinated sanctions even like
1:07:41
you know limits the US ability to use
1:07:43
NATO logistics and
1:07:46
staging an attack like this wouldn't
1:07:48
benefit Iran because it would risk
1:07:50
radicalizing and bringing the UK into
1:07:53
the fight as a belligerent and that
1:07:55
would be a huge uh uh risky play not
1:07:59
when the Iranians would probably prefer
1:08:01
to target US bases. And again, they can
1:08:04
target US bases in places like Saudi
1:08:06
Arabia, right, where they are much more
1:08:07
likely to have established agents and
1:08:10
supporters. This is much more likely, in
1:08:12
my opinion, to be a a
1:08:15
um a sort of self-radicalizing event,
1:08:19
right? Individuals who simply were like,
1:08:20
"Oh, the US is here. The US is at war
1:08:22
with Islam or are or or this the the
1:08:25
Iranians, and we are going to take it
1:08:27
upon ourselves to do this thing." Um
1:08:30
now
1:08:32
a President Trump has said quote they
1:08:35
the terrorists were looking to do big
1:08:36
damage to our fort which it's not. It's
1:08:38
a Royal Air Force Base Fair Ford.
1:08:42
They said working with the British
1:08:43
worked out great. We had them under view
1:08:45
for a long time and we got them. But
1:08:46
that's literally not true because
1:08:50
embarrassingly enough. We're going to
1:08:52
talk about how this was actually uh how
1:08:55
the UK police actually got these
1:08:58
suspects. But before I do, I want to
1:08:59
mention guys that if you if you need the
1:09:02
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1:09:05
do. I got two young kids and I'm trying
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1:09:12
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1:09:49
yeah, insanely enough uh
1:09:53
according to Reuters, who has a pretty
1:09:56
good seems to have a pretty good source
1:09:58
inside the UK, uh the these these
1:10:03
individuals may have been sort of
1:10:05
vaguely known to British or US
1:10:09
intelligence, but it seems like someone
1:10:12
was asleep at the wheel when they
1:10:14
actually moved to actually conduct their
1:10:16
terror attack because reportedly uh the
1:10:20
reason these guys were arrested was that
1:10:22
farmer
1:10:23
uh
1:10:25
the random farmer that bumped into them
1:10:28
in a field. She called the cops. The
1:10:31
farmer who alerted police told the
1:10:32
reporter she had seen a group of hooded
1:10:33
and masked men running into fields. The
1:10:36
farmer said she believed it was her
1:10:38
phone call to the UK's 999 emergency
1:10:40
hotline that foiled the plot that she
1:10:42
and that she thought she had seen up to
1:10:44
10 people at the scene. The farmer now
1:10:48
the defense minister claimed the farmer
1:10:49
had only a partial picture of the
1:10:51
investigation which is duh. But uh he
1:10:55
also continued saying quote we know Iran
1:10:57
and their proxies wish to do us harm. We
1:10:59
know they hate our democracy and we know
1:11:01
we have regular have to thwart Iranian
1:11:02
attempts to threaten our interests and
1:11:03
our allies. But that's not the same
1:11:06
thing as saying this was an Iranian
1:11:08
attack. Uh
1:11:11
and I think
1:11:14
though according to at least
1:11:18
uh one source, the investigation said
1:11:21
the arrests were quote not
1:11:23
intelligenceled, although security had
1:11:25
been heightened at the base. which means
1:11:26
not intelligenceled, means that this was
1:11:29
a reactive arrest, implying that the
1:11:31
farmer who called 911 actually did stop
1:11:35
this this attack. And things get even
1:11:37
more insane because, guys, those people
1:11:41
that were clearly trying to perpetrate
1:11:43
this attack,
1:11:45
they got released on bail.
1:11:48
The UK just let them go.
1:11:52
And in addition to being kind of insane,
1:11:55
uh
1:11:58
I I don't know what else to tell you. I
1:12:00
you can't keep terrorists in jail. Is
1:12:03
the UK stupid? I mean, Ozen Defender, to
1:12:06
their credit, right, you know, saying
1:12:08
counterterrorism police in the UK
1:12:09
announced that five men arrested near
1:12:11
Roth Fairford on Sunday will be released
1:12:12
on bail this afternoon,
1:12:17
right? They were arrested after police
1:12:18
received a call about three suspicious
1:12:20
individual vehicles traveling toward it.
1:12:22
They were first held under the
1:12:23
explosives act and then further arrested
1:12:25
on suspicion of preparing a terrorist
1:12:26
act. Raphael Fairford Hurst rate a hub
1:12:29
for B1 and B52 bombers.
1:12:33
But you can see they literally comment
1:12:35
what to
1:12:37
the initial reports that they are going
1:12:40
to be released on bail.
1:12:43
And I I here's the thing. If they were
1:12:45
doing this on behalf of the Iranian
1:12:48
government,
1:12:49
um they would
1:12:52
uh the Iranian government would probably
1:12:55
try to get them out. Why? Because it
1:12:57
would embolden other attackers to say,
1:13:00
"Listen, if I can survive the attack and
1:13:02
I can evade authorities, I might have a
1:13:04
chance to make it out of the country."
1:13:06
And again, will that be will that be the
1:13:08
the the path the Iranians take? I don't
1:13:10
know. But letting these guys out on bail
1:13:12
is a crazy decision for someone who is
1:13:15
so transparently a harm, not just to the
1:13:18
public, but to the actual state itself.
1:13:20
And again, I'm not somebody who's like
1:13:22
one of those like online chuds who's
1:13:24
like, "The UK will never punish
1:13:26
anybody." But now I'm just like, damn,
1:13:28
bro. The UK really won't punish anybody.
1:13:31
Like Like
1:13:35
I mean it
1:13:38
I I don't know what to tell you. like
1:13:40
unless you're
1:13:44
unless you're an anti-Israel protester.
1:13:46
Uh again,
1:13:49
you can see in June, uh activists are
1:13:51
jailed over what they called a raid
1:13:53
causing $1.2 million worth of damage on
1:13:56
a base that housed an Israeli defense
1:13:58
firm. Uh those people those people were
1:14:02
arrested. Okay. Crazy. Yeah. Public
1:14:03
police in the UK arrested over 20 people
1:14:05
based on anti-terror laws because they
1:14:07
protested in support of the activist
1:14:09
group Palestine Action,
1:14:13
right? And pro Palestinian activists
1:14:15
were sentenced as terrorists over damage
1:14:18
at an Israeli arms factory. So the the
1:14:20
reason they got away with it, guys, four
1:14:22
activists, right, found guilty of
1:14:24
criminal damage to an Elbit systems
1:14:26
factory.
1:14:27
And these individuals ran smashed up
1:14:29
drones and other equipment at Israeli
1:14:30
arms manufacturers UK facility after
1:14:33
ruling that there was a terrorist
1:14:34
connection to their offenses. Each
1:14:37
person jailed for 5 years and four years
1:14:39
8 months for damage in relation to a
1:14:40
2024 break-in at the Elbert Systems UK
1:14:43
site in Glchester.
1:14:49
Oh well, somebody the only one that
1:14:51
makes sense. Sam McCorm additionally
1:14:52
convicted of grievous bod harm without
1:14:53
intent for striking a sergeant with a
1:14:55
sledgehammer. Okay, you shouldn't hit
1:14:56
someone with a sledgehammer.
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But again, the point is is that you were
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stupid. You target you struck someone
1:15:03
with a sledgehammer and you destroyed a
1:15:05
drone. That was your problem. You should
1:15:06
have tried to kill UK soldiers, dummy.
1:15:10
Get it together, guys.
1:15:23
I love this. terrorist connection,
1:15:25
right? Sending the judge in this in the
1:15:27
Elbbit systems case said, quote, "I'm
1:15:29
sure that each defendant's offense of
1:15:30
criminal damage involved serious damage
1:15:32
to property, was designed to intimidate
1:15:33
the UK government and a section of the
1:15:35
public, uh, and was for the purpose of
1:15:38
advancing a political or ideological
1:15:40
cause.
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But of course,
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these guys just get out on bail. They're
1:15:46
just a couple of friends having a having
1:15:48
a having a laugh.
1:15:51
Anyway, guys, be sure to hit subscribe.
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Thanks to Colin, Dan, Deborah, Don,
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Douglas, Gabriel, GMAT, James, as well
1:15:58
as all the tenants here folks. Again,
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make make sure you're subscribed and go
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pick up some Strike Gum before before
1:16:06
the UK law enforcement gets even more
1:16:08
bizarre.
1:16:10
Platinum, thanks for the five. Wouldn't
1:16:11
be surprised if this was a Russian
1:16:12
hybrid plot and the terrorists got bail
1:16:14
for ratting out their handlers. Uh, I
1:16:16
don't think they would get bail for
1:16:17
ratting out their handlers. I think they
1:16:18
would get lighter sentences. Uh however
1:16:21
um that would not shock me at all
1:16:23
because remember this is they also fit
1:16:25
the demographic squarely
1:16:28
of people Russia recruits because
1:16:30
remember Russia loves recruiting young
1:16:33
men sort of removed from the economy
1:16:37
right with poor economic prospects and
1:16:40
offering them small sums of money for
1:16:45
relatively benign activities. And these
1:16:47
guys may have been people who have been
1:16:48
open to uh more aggressive activities.
1:16:51
So it would absolutely not shock me at
1:16:53
all if you told me that, hey, the
1:16:54
Russians just had this goal. They said,
1:16:56
listen, this is a Royal Air Force base.
1:16:58
We want to strike it. We want to um and
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and it would serve it would fit the
1:17:02
Russian playbook to be like, listen, we
1:17:05
are going to recruit Muslim men a stage
1:17:08
of terror attack because that is an
1:17:10
existing political thought line within
1:17:11
the UK, right? Very controversial right
1:17:13
now. again the number of of um u Muslim
1:17:17
migrants in the UK uh really a huge
1:17:20
political and cultural fault line and
1:17:23
having them commit an act of violence on
1:17:25
behalf of the Iranian regime on the
1:17:27
Iranian regime or on behalf of Muslims
1:17:28
or whatever their justification is right
1:17:31
uh it would it would especially if they
1:17:32
said like the the it would hit every
1:17:35
major fault line and while it doesn't
1:17:37
necessarily serve Iranian objectives
1:17:39
that would absolutely serve Russian
1:17:40
objectives or at least Russia's
1:17:42
perception of an effective tank acting
1:17:43
on its own objectives.
1:17:48
Anyway, guys, uh that's pretty much all
1:17:50
I got for you for today. Um
1:17:55
pretty elaborate job for just having a
1:17:57
laugh. Yeah, that's a fact.
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And where are the other three to five
1:18:02
people seen by the farmer? Who knows,
1:18:04
guys? Don't ask too many questions.
1:18:05
Don't don't ask questions.
1:18:09
I'm sure those guys were just having a
1:18:10
pint. Actually, unironically, sometimes
1:18:13
uh it's easy to miscount or mis things
1:18:15
like that.
1:18:22
All right, peace out, guys. I'll catch
1:18:24
you in the next