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President’s Day Reflections: Lincoln, Big Government, NATO Expansion, Munich Security Theater & The New Global Order Debate · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning.
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  Welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You are listening to demradio.com forward slash
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  live.
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  Coming to you live from the Lake Ozark
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  real estate of the art studio.
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  It is Monday.
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  It is President's Day.
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  And I think my, maybe I'm on the
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  wrong day.
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  Who the hell knows?
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  No, I'm on, I'm on the right day.
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  It's January's MLK Day, right?
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  And February is, oh, I can't believe my
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  civics are that far off.
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  If you were listening, perhaps you heard the
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  new edition on Friday of our new radio
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  program.
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  It's probably not going to be just me.
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  There should be other participants and interviews and
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  stuff like that.
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  I still have my press credentials and an
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  interview little kit for my, it's pretty cool,
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  for my phone and whatnot, where I can
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  go out and interview people.
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  And I intend to do some of that
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  in a little bit, like I did when
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  I was in Russia.
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  It was pretty cool.
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  I might even have bought it there.
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  Can't remember, but it's pretty cool.
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  A little, a little get up at any
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  rate.
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  Friday, we put out the first episode of
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  our civic outlaws podcast, and you can find
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  that I'm trying to create a civic at
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  go to civic outlaws.com forward slash podcast.
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  I'm not sure the link is up there
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  yet.
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  So I copied it to my international flavor
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  site.
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  If you'd like to listen to the analysis,
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  basically it's a walkthrough of why civic outlaws
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  is there.
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  In my typical rambling style, sometimes I go
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  through and do some legal analysis for you.
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  And I put together the review of the
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  Chevron doctrine, why it was wrong, why it's
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  been overturned by this, well, the Supreme Court,
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  as it was in 2024.
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  And then why the state of Missouri has
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  codified those changes even more dramatically and why
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  civic outlaws exists.
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  We here in the United States do not
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  wish to be a, the Soviet union, even
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  though they had a pretty cool theme.
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  We had to learn that didn't have to,
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  but we learned it in a Russian school.
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  It was pretty cool.
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  At any rate, that's always been my favorite
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  version is the USSR army choir or military
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  choir.
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  And that's, I always liked it.
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  That was the one they always played at
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  parades and whatnot in there.
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  And anyway, but here we don't want to
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  be the Soviet union.
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  Hell, you know, I was listening to that
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  and there's been some great presidents in our
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  history.
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  We've had some, I meant to bring in
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  and forgot.
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  I'm going to put on a song for
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  you.
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  Maybe I'll let the hymn of the Soviet
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  union play because sometimes I feel like that's
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  the way we're headed, but I don't want
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  it.
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  I mean, it's unpatriotic and I'm a patriot.
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  You know, I believe in America.
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  I believe in our ideals.
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  I believe in what our founders intended.
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  And sometimes I look at our government and
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  they think that we're so far off from
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  where we began that I fear for our
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  children.
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  And, and, you know, the, uh, as a
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  generation, my generation living through the collapse of
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  Soviet union and all of that, um, to
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  watch the nanny state take over for many,
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  many people is really depressing to me.
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  Now I don't like it anyway.
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  Number one, I, I, you know, people talk
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  about the collapse of the Soviet union.
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  I'm one of them.
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  I could lecture on it.
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  People like to believe that Reagan toppled the,
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  uh, the Soviet union.
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  And I think he was the catalyst to
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  the final nail in the coffin, but they
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  were on their way out anyway, because the,
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  uh, the go back and study your systems
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  of government and, and democracy is supposed to
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  be the be all end all.
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  Okay.
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  There've been attempts at it before, you know,
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  they had Senate's and people like that.
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  And in prior, uh, eras, people that got
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  to have the, the speak, speaking of the
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  governor's place below what they did in Ukraine
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  is, uh, the, the, the imagine a world
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  where the U S president appointed each governor
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  where the, where Donald Trump would come into
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  office.
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  And at the same time, he'd get to
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  go, well, all right, well, here's the, they
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  have federal systems, right?
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  And these systems collapse on their own weight,
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  federal system.
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  That's just what they do.
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  You need to have independent.
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  I let the loosely held, uh, the loosely
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  held Republic is a much better option because
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  if, uh, in Ukraine, which is true, they,
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  uh, get to pick the governor when they
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  come into office, it's, uh, what kind of
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  world is that?
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  If all you are as an administrator of
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  the big ticket item, well, there that's, that's,
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  uh, in my view, it's not necessarily a
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  good view of democracy.
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  Now there are a lot of structures like
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  that.
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  So I'm not saying it cannot work.
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  And sometimes people want to have the will
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  of the people.
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  I'm not, I'm not here to tell you
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  which one is now I prefer democracy, but
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  I prefer a clean democracy.
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  I prefer a, a democracy that is legit,
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  that isn't corrupted by bureaucracy.
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  And if you want to hear about one
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  of the big corrections made by the Supreme
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  court in 2024, you should go back and
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  listen to my civic outlaws case.
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  It's a, it's a, a class on government
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  and how, you know, government is not supposed
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  to be driven by the bureaucrat.
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  And that's the problem is, is the bureaucracy.
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  It's not socialism.
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  It's not even communism, although communism, I believe
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  collapses of its own weight eventually, but there
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  there's a decent argument to be made that
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  any government that exceeds its mandate exceeds its
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  authority is going to collapse of its own
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  weight.
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  The trouble in a communist system is you
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  don't have the fight from below necessarily because
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  you have the people get, they always used
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  to make false statements that everybody got paid
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  the same in a Soviet system and all
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  that.
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  That's not how it worked.
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  And it's not how it works in communism.
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  Um, now it would be interesting to see
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  if there was ever a government and, and
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  properly communism truly could work.
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  Uh, I remember growing up, uh, um, Mormon
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  in fact, and going through the, the bishops
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  warehouses and stuff like that.
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  The, the Mormon church has a huge, uh,
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  uh, social presence as many churches do.
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  I don't know much about the rest of
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  them, but, uh, uh, they'd, uh, you'd have
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  to go, we would go to the canning
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  factories and, and, uh, what, what do you
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  call it?
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  Uh, donate our time, stuff like that.
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  And it could be a very good system
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  where everybody gets together and takes care of
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  those who can't take care of themselves.
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  The problem becomes is everybody, not everybody, you
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  know, a lot of people are true, uh,
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  true givers and have that giving spirit, but
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  a lot of people take advantage and the
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  more you give them, the more they take
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  and they don't just take, you know, each
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  according to his need.
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  Everybody produces according to their capacity and takes
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  only according to his need.
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  And democracy, that sure as hell isn't the
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  case.
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  It's capitalism.
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  I mean, in capitalism, it, mine, mine, mine.
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  Remember the, uh, what show is that finding
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  Nemo?
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  The, the, uh, I always used to love
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  watching that show because it was freaking hilarious.
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  And you would watch, uh, the, the seagulls
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  up there and, uh, one bird and start,
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  they'd see a little, I don't know, a
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  fish or worm, whatever and go mine.
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  And then all the rest of the seagulls
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  go mine.
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  And instead of, uh, uh, like bird sounds,
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  they'd go mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
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  It's freaking hilarious.
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  You'd hear him doing that everywhere.
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  Anyway, I'm really on a roll today.
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  I'm just rambling.
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  Sorry about that.
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  But we don't want the Soviet system.
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  The Soviet union collapsed because of equality because
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  of equality is not the right word, but,
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  but for lack of a, of a better
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  substitute, there it is.
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  Everybody gets to take, but, but, and it's,
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  and it shows up in some of their,
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  uh, their stories.
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  One of my favorite Russian movies is, uh,
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  is called Sluzhebny Roman, which is a, uh,
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  office romance is what it means.
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  And it two part three hour kind of
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  a comedy slash love story.
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  It's, it's a, it's a, it's a great
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  movie from, I want to say the early
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  seventies, but, uh, I could be wrong.
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  I really liked the actor in there.
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  He's the same actor that is in, uh,
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  Slyokin Potom, which is, uh, have a nice
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  bath.
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  And it's a traditionally, um, Christmas, uh, time
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  watching.
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  It's a great story.
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  Another, another great love story.
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  And, uh, they've even translated in English in
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  many respects.
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  It was, uh, so well received in one
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  of the best movies who's frigging hilarious.
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  And they had some great movies back in
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  the, uh, the, the good old days of
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  the Soviet union too.
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  And, uh, even there though that in Sluzhebny
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  Roman, they would, uh, make fun of the,
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  the director of the, of the, uh, economic,
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  economic, economic, um, studies business was concerned when
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  she hired a new manager that, um, people
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  were leaving their desks, uh, going shopping.
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  They were taking care of things because when,
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  uh, in a, in a market where it's
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  not, there's, it's not driven.
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  It wasn't driven by demand.
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  It was driven by supply.
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  And in those markets, you take what you
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  can get, you know, if they got, if
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  they're only, and then the jokes, the Americans
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  made about them in the eighties were like
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  your Wendy's commercials, uh, where uh, the, the,
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  the Wendy's commercial lady would, would, would be
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  laughing about how everything's the same and everybody's
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  in these gray, gray outfits.
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  And, uh, they, they would make fun of
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  it.
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  And, uh, but you bought what was available.
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  And so they would always have jokes that
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  if, you know, a truck pulled up, pull
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  of full of, uh, watermelons, everybody go out
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  and buy one.
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  That was one of the things in the
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  deal.
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  And they would leave their offices, everybody go
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  out and buy a watermelon because the system
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  was such that you couldn't, if you wanted
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  a watermelon, you couldn't go to the store
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  and get a watermelon always.
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  Now the Soviet had some strong Soviet system
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  at strong pluses too, but, uh, those are
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  historic things.
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  People like to think that Ronald Reagan toppled,
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  pushed over collapsed.
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  I think he, he was the final catalyst
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  by the threat of star Wars and all
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  of that.
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  But the system was on its own going
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  to collapse anyway, if you don't take care
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  of your internal, uh, production in, in your,
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  how you structure your society and what they
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  get and give them a mix of the
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  ability, you know, without it being through, uh,
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  the, the, the sucking up to power through
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  your local, uh, com party, communist parties and,
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  and kissing the ass of government.
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  You know, they did the same thing that
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  we have to do if we want to
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  get anywhere.
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  Anyway, as we ease into this, uh, morning
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  of, excuse me, president's day.
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  Uh, and if you're off work, great.
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  Um, I chose to work today.
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  Yesterday was a beautiful day.
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  I got some things done.
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  I didn't even leave the house except for
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  briefly to cart a load of trash to
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  the dumpster at the office.
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  That's all I did.
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  But the rest of it has at home
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  clean and sort.
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  I've been, I've been, uh, uh, living in
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  squalor for a little bit and I had
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  to, uh, uh, get some work done.
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  So, uh, I was not in eternally in
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  the office like normal.
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  Um, and so anyway, I want to get
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  to the big theme of big government, but
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  what I think I'm going to do is
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  get my, uh, quotes from Abraham Lincoln out
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  of my office because I do want to,
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  um, quote some of them to you.
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  In the meantime, I'm going to play for
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  you my favorite.
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  I won't play the hymn of the Soviet
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  Union, although some of you may like it.
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  It's, it's actually a very, I like the
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  rhythm of, of, uh, that kind of March
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  music in the, uh, and I really liked
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  the all male, uh, Soviet army choir that,
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  uh, does that.
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  I always have liked that version brings back
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  a lot of memories for me from my
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  Russian school days at the Defense Language Institute
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  in California.
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  So, but in the meantime, I'm kind of
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  a, um, I really like, uh, music.
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  I like going to, um, concerts.
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  I've told you about the one I went
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  to in, um, where was that?
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  Bishkek, uh, Kyrgyzstan.
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  And, and it cost me 10 bucks to
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  go see, um, what is his, uh, Paul,
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  Paul, uh, Paul Tiesto, Paul Vendetta, some really
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  cool people.
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  And I kind of liked the dance music,
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  the, uh, the, the club sort of things
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  that you, you see.
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  And so I'm going to play for you
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  whilst I go get my Abraham Lincoln quotes
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  for today.
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  And then we'll ease into the big, the
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  big topics that I have in store for
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  you.
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  I'm going to play my, uh, favorite version
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  of one night in Bangkok.
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  That could be a lot of fun.
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  And here is, uh, we was one night
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  in Bangkok.
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  Wasn't it taco?
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  I don't remember who did one night in
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  Bangkok, but, uh, we're going to play my
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  favorite version, which is more of a club
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  version of one night in Bangkok.
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  And there you have it.
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  Sam's a favorite version of one night in
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  Bangkok.
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  That's the vinyl shakers.
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  And, uh, would have loved to see them
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  in concert.
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  However, that is not occurred.
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  Um, and, uh, at any rate, I don't
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  know, maybe you don't like that here on
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  damn radio.
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  Who can tell what sort of, uh, customers
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  we have, uh, engaging in our custom here
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  at damn radio, but that is a music
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  Allah, Sam.
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  That would be me.
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  And I went to get for you my
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  book of, uh, my book of Abraham Lincoln.
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  And it's not here.
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  It's, uh, I must not have brought it
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  in, but I do have my presidential wit
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  and wisdom book, which covers many, many presidents,
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  each and every one.
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  We even have some, uh, Trumpster.
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  I don't think Biden's in this book.
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  Um, not only would he not have anything
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  intelligent to say he, uh, cause these are
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  mostly statements that they said, but I think
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  it ends with, uh, well, does it end
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  with Barack Hussein Obama?
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  Why do we have to add that?
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  I don't know.
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  I would have swore.
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  I had some Trump in here.
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  Well, that's no good.
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  Yep.
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  This book got because I bought it pre
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  the old Trumpster the first time I've had
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  this book a long time, but I want
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  to share with you some, uh, some, uh,
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  Abraham Lincoln.
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  And if, if Abraham was a girl, she'd
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  be paper ham Lincoln.
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  Remember that from a Wayne's world, Wade's world,
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  Wade's world, uh, born February 12 of 1809
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  died April 15th on tax day, 1865.
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  He was the, uh, 16th president.
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  He was a president from 1861 to 65
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  was a rest publican.
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  And, uh, what he said was one of
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  his key statements.
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  If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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  That's a very good comment.
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  Character is like a tree and reputation like
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  it's shadow.
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  The shadow is what we think of it.
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  The tree is the real thing.
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  Now that's deep.
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  I like that.
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  The best thing about the future is that
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  it only comes one day at a time.
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  That's a pretty good one from the old
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  Babe Abraham Lincoln.
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  The Lord prefers common looking people.
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  That is the reason he makes so many
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  of them.
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  I love it.
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  As I would not be a slave.
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  So I would not be a master.
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  This expresses my idea of democracy with malice
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  toward none with charity for all with firmness
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  in the right, as God gives us to
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  see the right.
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  Let us strive on to finish the work
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  we are in to bind up the nation's
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  wounds.
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  I claim not to have controlled events, but
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  confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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  Four score and seven years ago, our fathers
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  brought forth on this continent, a new nation
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  conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition
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  that all men are created equal.
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  Do you remember when Bill and Ted did
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  that in their final speech?
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  From these honored dead, we take increased devotion
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  to that cause for which they gave the
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  last full measure of devotion.
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  That we here highly resolve that these dead
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  shall not have died in vain, that this
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  nation under God shall have a new birth
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  of freedom and that government of the people
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  by the people for the people shall not
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  perish from the earth.
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  And on days like today, I think it
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  is important that people remember that, that people
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  have died for what we have.
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  People are dying even today.
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  There's always some action going on.
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  That is why I personally say such things
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  I do about the government.
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  It requires people like me to point out
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  stuff.
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  You may not agree with it all.
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  That's okay.
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  You don't have to.
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  That's the beauty of America.
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  I should be able to tell you what
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  I think is wrong.
• 21:26
  You should be able to say what you
• 21:28
  think is wrong.
• 21:29
  And we ought to be able to come
• 21:31
  up with a consensus.
• 21:34
  And consensus has been gone for at least
• 21:37
  the last little while.
• 21:39
  You know, the last, geez, picket since the
• 21:44
  collapse of Soviet Union is my argument.
• 21:46
  I'd say it's from the 90s.
• 21:47
  And so, you know, our mistakes, the biggest
• 21:51
  ones, have been created in the last 30
• 21:53
  years.
• 21:54
  Of course, I've been an adult during that
• 21:55
  time.
• 21:56
  And the other time, I only learned about
• 21:58
  them from history.
• 21:59
  And, you know, there's some sort of nostalgia
• 22:01
  in history, so that's not quite fair.
• 22:03
  But I've lived this.
• 22:04
  And I'm telling you that I still stand
• 22:07
  for the proposition that our government isn't supposed
• 22:10
  to be this way.
• 22:11
  And the government is supposed to be by
• 22:13
  the people for the people.
• 22:16
  You know, it's for the people, not for,
• 22:21
  you know, somebody else.
• 22:25
  You know, that's nonsense.
• 22:26
  It's not not for those that run it,
• 22:29
  not for those that run it.
• 22:33
  A government of the people, not the bureaucrats
• 22:38
  people.
• 22:40
  Bureaucrats are not people.
• 22:42
  You can't be saying, oh, bureaucrats are people
• 22:44
  too.
• 22:45
  No, they're not.
• 22:46
  If they were people, they'd understand other people.
• 22:50
  So I don't believe they're people.
• 22:52
  That might be harsh, but no, that's not
• 22:56
  nice, because that's what people say about Russians.
• 22:59
  You know, the Ukrainians calling them orcs and
• 23:02
  stuff like that, and all the bullshit that
• 23:05
  goes on about that.
• 23:06
  And we have turned into a world of
• 23:10
  name callers.
• 23:12
  And for my part, I know I do
• 23:14
  it sometimes, but I would, you know, strongly
• 23:16
  encourage people to, because if that's all you
• 23:20
  got is name calling, you got nothing.
• 23:22
  And so, you know, a bureaucrat, that is
• 23:25
  a real name.
• 23:26
  I have bad connotations with it, but that's
• 23:28
  a legitimate thing.
• 23:30
  You know, you can't, you know, call people,
• 23:33
  what is a person if he's an asshole?
• 23:37
  That's not a person, that's an asshole.
• 23:40
  And the connotation is exactly there.
• 23:44
  And it's the same thing.
• 23:45
  You know, he's a stupid.
• 23:47
  You know, he's just stupid.
• 23:48
  You know, these are offensive, and we should
• 23:52
  try not to do those kind of things,
• 23:53
  and I will try to be better about
• 23:55
  that.
• 23:55
  Because here's a well-spoken president who would
• 23:58
  say things like this.
• 24:02
  You have heard the story about the man
• 24:05
  who was tarred and feathered and carried out
• 24:09
  of town on a rail.
• 24:10
  A man in that crowd asked him how
• 24:13
  he liked it.
• 24:14
  His reply was, if it was not for
• 24:18
  the honor of the thing, he would much
• 24:20
  rather walk.
• 24:23
  I always like that one.
• 24:24
  So, you're the little woman who wrote the
• 24:27
  book that made this great war.
• 24:29
  He was talking about Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• 24:33
  Such will be a great lesson of peace.
• 24:37
  Teaching men what they cannot take by election,
• 24:41
  neither can they take it by war.
• 24:45
  That's a good one.
• 24:47
  The central idea of secession is the essence
• 24:51
  of anarchy.
• 24:54
  When you've got an elephant by the hind
• 24:57
  leg and he's trying to run away, it's
• 25:00
  best to let him run.
• 25:03
  That's a good idea.
• 25:05
  I think I would like that.
• 25:06
  I also cheated while the song was playing
• 25:08
  and made myself some coffee, so pardon.
• 25:14
  That's good coffee.
• 25:16
  Let's see.
• 25:17
  I wish some of you would tell me
• 25:19
  the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks.
• 25:23
  I would like to send a barrel of
• 25:25
  it to my other generals.
• 25:29
  I love it.
• 25:32
  We shall nobly save or meanly lose the
• 25:37
  best hope of earth.
• 25:39
  Now, that's a good one.
• 25:42
  When the hour comes for dealing with slavery,
• 25:46
  I trust I will be willing to do
• 25:49
  my duty, though it cost my life.
• 25:54
  And it did.
• 25:56
  To sin by silence when they should protest
• 25:59
  makes cowards of men.
• 26:03
  Speak up, in other words.
• 26:06
  I've been told I was on the road
• 26:08
  to hell, but I had no idea it
• 26:11
  was just a mile down the road with
• 26:14
  a dome on it.
• 26:16
  Now, that is awesome.
• 26:20
  I'm going to repeat that because everybody knew.
• 26:22
  This is today's statement.
• 26:24
  I've been told I was on the road
• 26:26
  to hell, but I had no idea it
• 26:28
  was just a mile down the road with
• 26:30
  a dome on it.
• 26:33
  Yes, that's sweet.
• 26:36
  If you once forfeit the confidence of your
• 26:40
  fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect
• 26:44
  and esteem.
• 26:46
  It is true that you may fool all
• 26:49
  of the people some of the time.
• 26:52
  You can even fool some of the people
• 26:54
  all of the time.
• 26:56
  But you can't fool all of the people
• 26:59
  all the time.
• 27:02
  And that is the last quote I have
• 27:04
  from Abraham.
• 27:05
  And I have other presidents, but you know
• 27:09
  what?
• 27:10
  His birthday was the nearest.
• 27:12
  And I remember back when it was President's
• 27:16
  Day.
• 27:17
  And I think Washington, what's Washington?
• 27:19
  And it was different when I was a
• 27:21
  kid in grade school.
• 27:22
  You'd get President's Day off for Washington's birthday,
• 27:26
  and then you'd get it for Lincoln's birthday.
• 27:33
  And they kept trying to create new holidays
• 27:36
  so that people wouldn't have to go to
• 27:38
  school.
• 27:39
  And everybody would get a holiday off.
• 27:44
  Well, George Washington was born February 22 of
• 27:49
  1732, and he died December 12 of 1799.
• 27:56
  First president from 1789 to 1797.
• 28:00
  He's a federalist.
• 28:02
  And I'll give you one quote from him
• 28:04
  just because.
• 28:06
  Labor to keep alive in your heart that
• 28:09
  little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
• 28:16
  And that is the name of that tune.
• 28:18
  Now, I brought with me too, I bought
• 28:20
  this at a Chinese festival that I went
• 28:23
  to.
• 28:23
  It was really cool.
• 28:24
  They used to at the St. Louis, I
• 28:28
  forget what it's called.
• 28:29
  Is it the St. Louis Botanical Garden?
• 28:32
  Does somebody Botanical Garden?
• 28:34
  I forget who the important people were that
• 28:36
  owned it, but I'm a member still at
• 28:39
  the Botanical Garden.
• 28:40
  It's one of my favorite things to do.
• 28:42
  I like to go there.
• 28:44
  And I used to be they would have
• 28:46
  this Chinese festival, and I went to it
• 28:51
  a couple of years.
• 28:52
  And then I went to it a third,
• 28:54
  fourth year, and it turned to some cosplay
• 28:56
  thing.
• 28:56
  And everybody's wandering around in like little kids
• 29:00
  dressed up as Pokemon.
• 29:02
  It was weird.
• 29:03
  It was totally different.
• 29:05
  But the first couple of times it was
• 29:06
  all art, all culture.
• 29:09
  It was really cool.
• 29:10
  And the Botanical Garden has some very good,
• 29:13
  good shows up there.
• 29:15
  Anyway, I bought some art, you know, some
• 29:18
  really cool embroidered stitch work that was of
• 29:23
  this huge stork rice patties.
• 29:27
  I mean, it was really cool.
• 29:28
  And I still have them somewhere.
• 29:30
  But I banged up to frame some and
• 29:32
  I've got to get them repaired.
• 29:33
  But those are probably worth some money.
• 29:35
  These days.
• 29:36
  There's a former state rep who stole my,
• 29:39
  my, well, I'm 90% certain it was
• 29:43
  him.
• 29:44
  You know, Sylvie's his name.
• 29:47
  He took my, he took a photo.
• 29:51
  I used to buy artwork.
• 29:53
  And this one magically disappeared when his wife
• 29:57
  stole everything in my office as well.
• 29:59
  And there was a picture of the signing
• 30:04
  of the capitulation between Grant and Lee.
• 30:07
  You know, the signing of the papers, surrender
• 30:09
  documents.
• 30:10
  And going forward, and it was one of,
• 30:13
  one of, it was an oil painting.
• 30:14
  It was really nice.
• 30:15
  It was original and it was nice.
• 30:17
  And I got the certificate of authenticity, bought
• 30:19
  it at some charity thing.
• 30:21
  And he coveted that thing every time he
• 30:23
  saw it in my office.
• 30:24
  And I left for a bit and the
• 30:26
  guy snatched it.
• 30:27
  I didn't know it was him.
• 30:28
  So if anybody knows Sylvie and he's got
• 30:31
  it hanging in his office, somebody snatch it
• 30:34
  and give it to me because it's mine.
• 30:36
  And, but anyway, I also had in my
• 30:38
  office, because I bought at the Chinese festival,
• 30:40
  as I got distracted by artwork at the,
• 30:43
  at the Chinese festival, I bought something that
• 30:47
  a little red book that the Chinese carried
• 30:50
  around with them for, you know, there are
• 30:52
  hundreds of millions of these things running around
• 30:54
  China and they still remake them.
• 30:57
  They sell them in, in shops.
• 31:00
  And it's the same thing and it's called
• 31:02
  quotations from chairman Mao Zedong.
• 31:05
  And here it is.
• 31:07
  I'm not going to read any quotes to
• 31:09
  it.
• 31:09
  It's president's day.
• 31:10
  You know, I'm not, that's a, but I
• 31:11
  forgot I had this cool little book.
• 31:13
  I've been setting up my office and had
• 31:17
  these crates of books and I had a
• 31:19
  couple.
• 31:20
  So I'll give you one more ridiculous story.
• 31:23
  I had a copy of a book in
• 31:26
  my office and I would, it was on
• 31:29
  my, I would leave it out while clients
• 31:32
  were waiting to come in and speak to
• 31:35
  me.
• 31:35
  I would have little books out on the
• 31:37
  table and, you know, like this presidential wit
• 31:41
  and wisdom and my, I wouldn't put the
• 31:44
  chairman Mao out there.
• 31:45
  It's probably a bad deal.
• 31:46
  I put my Soviet Union flags and stuff
• 31:50
  that I collected over the years out there.
• 31:52
  That's a bad plan in your American office.
• 31:54
  But, uh, I put out there a book
• 31:57
  called, uh, how to be a gentleman, how
• 32:02
  to be a gentleman and add little things
• 32:04
  like that, uh, that you would go to
• 32:06
  a different page and it'd say a gentleman
• 32:08
  does thusly, you know, and you'd put it,
• 32:10
  it was an old book.
• 32:11
  It was a cool book.
• 32:12
  It was a new version of an old
• 32:14
  book that how, how to train to be
• 32:17
  a gentleman knows a historic little book.
• 32:19
  So one day, um, I, I said, well,
• 32:22
  you know what I said, you know, one
• 32:24
  of my kids or somebody was in there.
• 32:25
  I was like, go get that book, how
• 32:27
  to be a gentleman in a, uh, you
• 32:29
  know, you need to study up on some
• 32:31
  of that because obviously I have failed you
• 32:35
  as a son and, uh, go get that
• 32:38
  book and read it.
• 32:39
  He goes out of the books, not there.
• 32:41
  And, uh, somebody stole my, how to be
• 32:44
  a gentleman book and you'd sit there and
• 32:46
  go now, how in the world can you
• 32:49
  steal a book about how to become a
• 32:53
  gentleman if it's based in theft of stealing
• 32:57
  the book?
• 32:57
  Yeah, that's going to work, isn't it?
• 33:00
  Anyway, I'm truly, uh, all over the map
• 33:03
  as usual.
• 33:03
  And it's only Monday, geez, what's going to
• 33:06
  happen.
• 33:06
  Um, with the rest of the week, well,
• 33:09
  the important news of the weekend of the
• 33:14
  last several days, in fact, is the Munich
• 33:18
  security conference.
• 33:20
  And this Munich security conference, uh, notably absent
• 33:24
  in my humble opinion was the old Trumpster.
• 33:27
  Um, but you could argue that he was
• 33:29
  at Davos and he gave that speech that,
• 33:32
  uh, pretty offensive to the rest of the
• 33:36
  world leaders.
• 33:37
  And in my humble opinion, you know, coming
• 33:39
  in these, he's looked at more and more
• 33:41
  as a domineering sort of, uh, you know,
• 33:46
  uh, emperor of the world.
• 33:47
  People are talking about how his new global
• 33:52
  order is one emperor.
• 33:55
  No longer is there even a consensus between,
• 33:58
  uh, NATO or the, or not even NATO,
• 34:04
  but the EU leaders and Trump who are,
• 34:08
  and the U S president who control the
• 34:10
  UN, they control the markets, they control the,
• 34:13
  uh, IMF, they control the world bank.
• 34:16
  They control all the flow of money.
• 34:18
  They decide, uh, you know, they all talk
• 34:20
  about the rules based order, but the rules
• 34:23
  never apply to them, that group.
• 34:26
  Okay.
• 34:26
  Now the big complaint is that instead of
• 34:29
  it being that group of ne'er do
• 34:32
  wells who, uh, just seize power and tell
• 34:35
  the rest of the world what to do,
• 34:36
  but at least it was dominated.
• 34:38
  It was dominated by the U S but
• 34:40
  they sometimes pretended to listen to other countries
• 34:45
  and the leaders of other countries.
• 34:46
  Now we don't even do that.
• 34:49
  And we have Marco Rubio go out on
• 34:52
  Trump's behalf and dictate to the world what
• 34:54
  the world is going to hear.
• 34:56
  We seize a Venezuela.
• 34:58
  We threatened to take, uh, take a Greenland.
• 35:02
  We tell Canada put up or shut up.
• 35:04
  And there is no longer the trouble with
• 35:08
  the corporate raider is he will always be
• 35:11
  a corporate raider.
• 35:13
  Now there's a great deal of respect I
• 35:15
  have for the corporate raider at capitalism, friends
• 35:18
  and neighbors and more power to them.
• 35:21
  But sometimes in the political world, it doesn't
• 35:24
  go the same.
• 35:24
  Do I think Trump will be seen as
• 35:26
  a great president in the future?
• 35:28
  Will people be reading quotes from the old
• 35:30
  Trumpster, uh, on a radio program?
• 35:32
  Uh, uh, how many years?
• 35:34
  Uh, it was 1865, 160 years after his
• 35:37
  death and say here, you know, here was
• 35:39
  a guy you can read a commentary from.
• 35:42
  I don't know.
• 35:43
  Um, I, I, I think that he's done
• 35:45
  some fantastic things.
• 35:47
  I, I truly wish he would stay looking
• 35:49
  inward and not try to take over the
• 35:52
  world.
• 35:52
  I don't like the methods.
• 35:55
  Some of the results are not so horrible.
• 35:57
  I despise what he has done in Venezuela.
• 36:00
  I think it was BS by any stretch.
• 36:03
  Uh, you know, and Rubio went and pushed
• 36:06
  that same sales sales, uh, button trying to
• 36:10
  float a narrative.
• 36:11
  It's only a narrative just because he's a,
• 36:14
  he's a Republican and it may have worked
• 36:17
  out well for the United States.
• 36:18
  Doesn't mean it's not a narrative.
• 36:20
  It is.
• 36:21
  And, uh, narco terrorism.
• 36:23
  Yeah.
• 36:23
  Uh-huh.
• 36:24
  That's why you did it.
• 36:26
  It was the drug you're trying to save
• 36:28
  the people of America.
• 36:29
  Yeah.
• 36:30
  Right.
• 36:31
  You're stealing oil.
• 36:33
  That's what you're doing.
• 36:35
  And you get it and you're stealing it
• 36:37
  from who?
• 36:37
  From China.
• 36:39
  Why?
• 36:40
  Because you're the big dog on the block
• 36:42
  and China put a hundred billion in there
• 36:45
  and you can steal it without really stealing
• 36:47
  it.
• 36:47
  And that's what we've done.
• 36:49
  And we being the United States, I think
• 36:52
  is wrong.
• 36:53
  It's improper.
• 36:54
  And if we do anything like that in
• 36:56
  Greenland, it's going to be the exact same
• 36:57
  wrong.
• 36:58
  Okay.
• 36:59
  And on this president's day, I think we
• 37:01
  should think about that.
• 37:02
  And what I wanted to do was go
• 37:04
  back to, so 1991.
• 37:10
  So the, the, I forget what year the
• 37:12
  Munich, uh, peace conference or peace Munich security
• 37:15
  conference began.
• 37:16
  I want to say like 62, 63, it
• 37:19
  came up and what was a big alleged
• 37:22
  threat at that time.
• 37:23
  So after world war two history in world
• 37:27
  war two was that after that, now Germany
• 37:30
  was the enemy Germany state.
• 37:34
  We like to say it was one man.
• 37:37
  It was only Hitler.
• 37:38
  That ain't true friends and neighbors.
• 37:40
  They supported him and they were all over
• 37:44
  it.
• 37:44
  And when it was done, they all wiped
• 37:46
  their head.
• 37:46
  Oh, no, it wasn't me.
• 37:48
  You know, the, the people who don't say
• 37:50
  anything, but go along to get along.
• 37:52
  Right.
• 37:53
  And they go along in a, in a
• 37:55
  serious way to take over the world.
• 37:57
  Don't tell me Hitler did it all by
• 37:59
  himself.
• 38:00
  Oh yeah.
• 38:01
  He did it all by himself.
• 38:02
  That's that it was a bad society, but
• 38:05
  what did they do immediately afterward?
• 38:08
  Immediately.
• 38:09
  They knew that Russia killed all, they wiped
• 38:14
  out the Soviet army, but what have we
• 38:17
  been pumping ever since if it wasn't for
• 38:20
  America, well, Hitler, you know, Hitler would have
• 38:24
  won.
• 38:25
  That's not true.
• 38:26
  Would it taken longer, but he was on
• 38:29
  the, he was on his heels anyway.
• 38:31
  And he was on his heels due to
• 38:33
  26 million Soviet losses.
• 38:37
  Okay.
• 38:38
  And he was on his heels.
• 38:39
  He was on, he was on, he was
• 38:41
  going to be overrun either way.
• 38:43
  And we came in at the end and
• 38:47
  help mop up and then took all of
• 38:50
  the credit and then realized that, Oh, by
• 38:54
  the way, the power in Europe is no
• 38:59
  longer Germany is no longer Spain, no longer
• 39:03
  France, not remotely England, it's Russia.
• 39:07
  And they are going to come in.
• 39:11
  So what did we do?
• 39:12
  We created an enemy out of them.
• 39:14
  And so the, the security conference in Munich
• 39:17
  came up and immediately began as had already
• 39:20
  been going on for nearly 20 years since
• 39:23
  the end of the second world war, a
• 39:28
  new enemy, the new enemy, Russia, the new
• 39:32
  enemy, the Soviet union.
• 39:34
  And the Soviet union didn't start that war,
• 39:36
  but that's what people like to think who
• 39:39
  is demonized after world war II, Russia, the
• 39:45
  USSR, their D they're the demons, right?
• 39:48
  They gave that.
• 39:49
  What did they do except defend themselves all
• 39:53
  the way and defeat the army.
• 39:55
  They took a stand and went and then
• 39:57
  defeated, defeated the Nazi army and all the
• 40:00
  way defeated the Germans.
• 40:02
  And we helped at the end.
• 40:03
  I'm not claiming we didn't have a big
• 40:05
  role in it, you know, creating a second
• 40:08
  front, but there was no front without the
• 40:11
  Americans.
• 40:11
  That's true.
• 40:12
  That front was long dead in the, in
• 40:15
  the Germans knew it, everybody knew it.
• 40:16
  And when we came in and took the
• 40:19
  slaughters that they took on the Normandy beaches
• 40:22
  and whatnot, that that was a, it was
• 40:26
  definitely a turning point, but it was a
• 40:29
  turning point in creating a second front, not
• 40:31
  in winning the war.
• 40:33
  So check your history.
• 40:35
  If you don't believe that anyway, the Munich
• 40:37
  security conference started as, as always been, this
• 40:42
  is going to sound terrible, but it's always
• 40:44
  been my history of listening to it began
• 40:46
  in the nineties.
• 40:48
  And, you know, I pay attention to it.
• 40:50
  I, um, I always, you know, see the
• 40:52
  notable speeches, stuff like that.
• 40:54
  It's easier these days because you can just
• 40:56
  watch the speeches.
• 40:57
  It was kind of hard to get them
• 40:59
  before you couldn't really do it.
• 41:01
  But now in today's, uh, fingertips, everything's at
• 41:04
  your disposal.
• 41:06
  You can listen to the full speech of
• 41:07
  Rubio without having to hunt for a week
• 41:09
  to find it.
• 41:10
  You can find 20 different versions or 20
• 41:13
  different people trying to get clicks online from
• 41:15
  it, you know, by uploading it, always go
• 41:18
  to the official one.
• 41:19
  If at all possible.
• 41:20
  I listened to the one from the, uh,
• 41:24
  secretary or secretary of state's a website is
• 41:27
  the one I'm at.
• 41:32
  So the backdrop of the Munich security conference
• 41:35
  has always been historically the exact same every
• 41:39
  year people get there and they talk about,
• 41:42
  you know, where we're going, what the big
• 41:44
  threat is, big threats, always Russia.
• 41:46
  And, and, and, you know, what are we
• 41:48
  going to do?
• 41:49
  Build more weapons, build more armies.
• 41:51
  We're going to take care of ourselves.
• 41:53
  US is going to dominate.
• 41:55
  We're going to take care of, you know,
• 41:56
  whoever's there that gets invited.
• 41:58
  They stopped inviting Russia.
• 42:00
  So now it is no conference on security.
• 42:04
  It's a place to get together in glad
• 42:07
  hand.
• 42:08
  And then to some, it respects, it's always
• 42:10
  been that way.
• 42:12
  And so the reason I wanted to talk
• 42:14
  about this is I very much enjoy on
• 42:19
  Sunday nights, uh, putting on in the background
• 42:22
  while doing whatever it is I'm doing last
• 42:24
  night, it was cleaning the kitchen, but, uh,
• 42:28
  I was listening to in the background, the
• 42:31
  TV, uh, and Vladimir Solovyov, his great political
• 42:36
  program that I really like to watch.
• 42:38
  And it's the format that they speak of.
• 42:41
  Um, and Solovyov is, uh, uh, obviously pro
• 42:44
  -Russia, but, uh, they got to talking about
• 42:47
  it.
• 42:47
  And so I had already heard Rubio's speech
• 42:50
  and was thinking of how crap it was.
• 42:54
  And I was like, man, that's it.
• 42:57
  That's your commentary.
• 43:00
  And I was less than impressed by that.
• 43:03
  It's like, all right, well, geez, why don't
• 43:05
  we just roll out George Bush and Dick
• 43:08
  Cheney, uh, 2.0 and call it Marco
• 43:11
  Rubio, you know, we're doing the same thing.
• 43:13
  And, uh, you know, and, and everybody got
• 43:15
  together.
• 43:16
  The focus this time in, uh, in, um,
• 43:20
  uh, Munich was, and Munich's a beautiful city,
• 43:24
  you know, Hofbrauhaus there.
• 43:25
  I had some good times there.
• 43:27
  And, uh, I just love Munich.
• 43:29
  I mean, I love Bavaria, you know, I'm
• 43:31
  Bavarian for God's sake, Austrian.
• 43:33
  And, uh, so is my family's German Austrian.
• 43:35
  And so, uh, from that area, in fact,
• 43:38
  and, uh, so I love that area and
• 43:41
  I love the culture.
• 43:41
  I love all of that.
• 43:43
  It'd be great if I got to go
• 43:44
  every year and, and, uh, you know, see
• 43:48
  some, uh, some Bavaria.
• 43:49
  And I think half of the time, that's
• 43:51
  all they're going for.
• 43:53
  They aren't doing anything legitimate except getting together
• 43:55
  and yanking each other's Johnsons.
• 43:59
  It's it, that's it.
• 44:00
  You know, they get together and oh, geez,
• 44:02
  life is great.
• 44:03
  Isn't it like what we're doing?
• 44:05
  We're here taking over the world, you know,
• 44:08
  Pinky, how's it going?
• 44:10
  And, uh, you, you just, it's, it's the
• 44:13
  same old crap every single year.
• 44:18
  It was only entertaining in two of the
• 44:21
  last 20, 30 years.
• 44:24
  The rest has all been the same platitudes,
• 44:26
  the same.
• 44:27
  Oh, geez.
• 44:28
  There were rules-based order.
• 44:30
  Oh, gee, globalism.
• 44:31
  Uh, Dick, Dick Cheney gets there.
• 44:33
  We're going to, we're going to, uh, take
• 44:35
  over the world.
• 44:36
  We're going to spend more money on weapons,
• 44:38
  on defense.
• 44:39
  We're going to, we're got the military in
• 44:42
  Europe, the same old crap.
• 44:43
  This is defense a la America, right?
• 44:46
  Running NATO, running, running the world in fact.
• 44:50
  And so they just don't invite the people
• 44:52
  they don't want to be there.
• 44:54
  So they didn't invite Russia.
• 44:55
  They didn't invite Iran this year.
• 44:58
  Uh, China was invited, but fringe, they're not,
• 45:03
  they're not put in.
• 45:04
  And I got a little bit to report
• 45:05
  on, on him.
• 45:06
  And, and it just, the, it's supposed to
• 45:11
  be a security conference and it's not.
• 45:15
  And who pointed that out?
• 45:16
  Seriously.
• 45:17
  Now we all knew it.
• 45:18
  Anyway, we knew it was where they, it's
• 45:20
  another political boondoggle where they get together and
• 45:22
  spend money and, and, uh, congratulate each other
• 45:26
  on being in charge.
• 45:27
  That's what they're doing.
• 45:28
  And they're, y'all, geez, we're in charge
• 45:30
  and it's great.
• 45:30
  And, uh, well, let's talk about, uh, you
• 45:34
  know, I watched afterward and before I do
• 45:37
  an analysis of two notable speeches, which I
• 45:40
  intend to do a quickly, I want to
• 45:43
  go through, uh, some commentary on that because
• 45:46
  like I said, uh, doing dishes, cleaning the
• 45:49
  kitchen, uh, putting away some crap finally, that
• 45:52
  has been sitting in a packing boxes for
• 45:55
  a long time, had to get rid of
• 45:57
  it.
• 45:58
  Uh, I was listening to Vladimir Solovyov and
• 46:01
  company and he, and his format, I've told
• 46:03
  you about it before, but the format I
• 46:05
  just love and I love the format.
• 46:07
  And I also love that he sometimes gets
• 46:10
  out of control.
• 46:11
  And he did this time he was yelling
• 46:12
  about, uh, you know, he calls them bad
• 46:16
  names in Russian.
• 46:19
  I get all my bad names from Solovyov
• 46:21
  where I get to learn, learn how to
• 46:23
  say certain evil things in Russian.
• 46:26
  And no, that's, that's not true.
• 46:28
  But, uh, some of it's from the movies
• 46:30
  and, but he, um, he's pretty brutal and
• 46:33
  he was pretty brutal about the, uh, security
• 46:36
  conference.
• 46:37
  And so when Solovyov opened his program, he
• 46:40
  wasn't improvising.
• 46:41
  The structure was, you know, he's like a
• 46:43
  prosecutor, right?
• 46:44
  He didn't begin with troop movements, you know,
• 46:47
  in Ukraine or the most recent battlefield.
• 46:50
  For me, I thought this was all self
• 46:52
  -congratulatory Ukraine, heavy stuff.
• 46:56
  Once again, we're right back in it.
• 46:59
  Rubio was right in the middle of it.
• 47:01
  All it is, is we're pumping more war
• 47:04
  this time in Ukraine, right?
• 47:07
  Uh, but Solovyov began with 1991 in his
• 47:12
  analysis.
• 47:12
  And that choice alone reveals the framework he
• 47:16
  wants the audience to listen to.
• 47:18
  The present cannot be understood according to him.
• 47:21
  And, and I agree with this without the
• 47:25
  collapse of the Soviet union and the geopolitical
• 47:27
  retreat that followed.
• 47:29
  He reminds viewers that Russia did not fight
• 47:32
  to preserve the Warsaw pact.
• 47:35
  And that's true too.
• 47:36
  They were told, well, we'll get, you know
• 47:39
  what?
• 47:39
  I'm only going to stay with what, what
• 47:41
  the summary of their argument on this political
• 47:44
  show in Russian, right?
• 47:47
  He reminded them, everyone that Eastern Europe didn't
• 47:53
  require liberation or war to detach itself from
• 47:58
  Moscow.
• 47:59
  He emphasized that Soviet forces withdrew from East
• 48:03
  Germany and Central Europe without demanding occupation zones,
• 48:10
  retaliatory alliances, anything like that.
• 48:14
  They allowed Hitler's Germany to reunify peacefully.
• 48:22
  Now think about that.
• 48:24
  Would it be the same if say the
• 48:28
  democratic order in Europe had, uh, had, uh,
• 48:34
  uh, collapsed, you know, uh, would it be
• 48:38
  that way?
• 48:39
  Would we, would, would West Germany have been
• 48:43
  allowed to unite with East Germany if the
• 48:46
  roles were reversed?
• 48:47
  Clearly?
• 48:48
  No.
• 48:50
  Oh, geez.
• 48:50
  No, no, no.
• 48:51
  You can't do that.
• 48:52
  You know, we're, we're, we're democracies and rules.
• 48:54
  Russians, they weren't democracies.
• 48:56
  That was a Soviet union, right?
• 48:58
  Germany was able, allowed by Russia with Russian
• 49:03
  and Warsaw pact consent.
• 49:05
  When George Bush one said, let this happen.
• 49:09
  And we in NATO won't expand an inch
• 49:12
  to the East that those, those are true
• 49:16
  events.
• 49:17
  They happened.
• 49:18
  And the Russian said, all right, we'll trust
• 49:21
  you.
• 49:21
  And can we be, you know, maybe we
• 49:24
  can economically push, right?
• 49:26
  Okay.
• 49:27
  The cold war ended without a continental bloodbath.
• 49:32
  There was no bloodbath.
• 49:33
  His argument is simple, but powerful.
• 49:36
  Russia stepped back.
• 49:38
  Now, Russia didn't necessarily have to, they still
• 49:41
  had a very strong military.
• 49:43
  They had 300,000 forces in East Germany
• 49:46
  for God's sake.
• 49:47
  And, uh, you know, we had this, the
• 49:49
  similar thing.
• 49:50
  They were deescalating.
• 49:51
  Nobody could afford that.
• 49:52
  We kept on going anyway and let Poland
• 49:55
  come in.
• 49:56
  Let, uh, I mean, think about this, who
• 49:58
  else was allowed to do whatever they wanted
• 50:01
  afterward.
• 50:04
  Is that capitulation?
• 50:06
  Are you going to say, oh, but they
• 50:07
  lost.
• 50:08
  They didn't have the ability.
• 50:09
  Maybe in the nineties, they didn't have the
• 50:10
  ability, but it doesn't just because we didn't
• 50:15
  act according to what we said, we would
• 50:17
  treaty or no treaty.
• 50:20
  Doesn't mean that it was justified.
• 50:22
  It doesn't mean we didn't do it because
• 50:25
  Putin asked, uh, uh, what do you call
• 50:30
  it?
• 50:30
  Clinton and several others, if they could join.
• 50:33
  And it was told, no, it could be
• 50:35
  part of NATO.
• 50:36
  They tried to be there.
• 50:38
  So there's, there's a lot of memory of
• 50:40
  this on the other side of the world.
• 50:43
  Trust me, they don't trust us nor should
• 50:46
  they, because everything we say is platitudes and
• 50:50
  stuff like that from Rubio at, uh, or,
• 50:52
  or, uh, similar at the Munich security conferences.
• 50:55
  And so the argument is simple.
• 50:57
  Russia stepped back.
• 50:59
  And from that premise flows, uh, uh, you
• 51:03
  know, a huge grievance, a huge root cause
• 51:08
  of Ukraine today, NATO stepping forward nine to
• 51:14
  13 times, depending on how you calculate it,
• 51:17
  they stepped forward and continued to trample on
• 51:20
  what we said we'd never do, but what
• 51:24
  they said they would never do.
• 51:26
  So later talks about encroachment collapse to enlargement
• 51:33
  reciprocity is denied.
• 51:36
  He frames the nineties, not as Russian aggression,
• 51:39
  but Russian accommodation.
• 51:41
  And that's true.
• 51:42
  You could argue, well, they couldn't do anything.
• 51:43
  So what did we do?
• 51:45
  We pressed our advantage that we took advantage
• 51:48
  for sure economically.
• 51:49
  And otherwise he suggests the Western alliance interpreted
• 51:53
  the Soviet collapse, not as an opportunity to
• 51:56
  design inclusive security architecture, but as an opening
• 52:00
  to extend its military block Eastward all true.
• 52:05
  Now historians can argue about what was promised
• 52:08
  in 1990.
• 52:09
  Some will say that informal assurances were made
• 52:11
  about NATO, not moving one inch Eastward.
• 52:14
  Others are insistent, no binding agreement existed, but
• 52:18
  the argument of the Russians bears certain repeating.
• 52:23
  You don't have to have a treaty to,
• 52:25
  for people to have an institutional memory of
• 52:27
  what was said and, and Bush one truly
• 52:31
  said not one inch Eastward.
• 52:33
  And he said that and our leaders, their
• 52:38
  words don't matter.
• 52:40
  They're lawyers afterward and go, well, geez, you
• 52:43
  know, we said that, but that was posturing.
• 52:45
  That was positioning.
• 52:47
  That was, what is Trump's the art of
• 52:51
  the deal?
• 52:52
  That's the art of the deal.
• 52:53
  It's the Russians that were stupid for not
• 52:55
  forcing that into a treaty.
• 52:57
  Why would you have to, if it's publicly
• 52:59
  stated by a member of the, uh, the,
• 53:05
  the chief member really of, uh, the Western
• 53:10
  alliance.
• 53:12
  So it's not about treaty language.
• 53:14
  It's about perception.
• 53:16
  Trust is not built on signed documents is
• 53:18
  built on expectations.
• 53:21
  And those expectations were definitely violated, um, enlargement
• 53:26
  NATO expanded in 1999 to include Poland, Hungary,
• 53:31
  Czech Republic in 2004, the Baltic States, Romania,
• 53:35
  Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, later expansions continue in each
• 53:40
  move represents the ratchet turning one direction only.
• 53:45
  He emphasizes geography.
• 53:47
  He references maps.
• 53:49
  He talks about, uh, the buffer territories.
• 53:51
  Now as an alliance, he talks about the
• 53:54
  polls putting air bases in, uh, Romania, India,
• 54:00
  all the crap that the Soviets did in,
• 54:02
  uh, the Eastern block Warsaw pact countries.
• 54:06
  The UN is doing in the other way
• 54:08
  to make sure that Russia stays an enemy.
• 54:12
  And then, and they're obviously in 2004, they're
• 54:15
  courting Georgia and Ukraine.
• 54:19
  They said they will be members.
• 54:21
  They are.
• 54:21
  They said it just, you know, screw you
• 54:23
  they're going to be.
• 54:24
  And so, uh, his first crew of panelists,
• 54:27
  the way the show goes is that it's
• 54:28
  three and a half hours long and they
• 54:30
  have two sets of panelists.
• 54:31
  And so six, eight guys get in the
• 54:33
  room and they each get to go around
• 54:35
  the room and say their piece.
• 54:37
  So the first panelist, they reinforced this interpretation.
• 54:41
  They referenced 2008 Bucharest.
• 54:44
  Oh, it was 2008.
• 54:45
  I'm sorry, not 2004 where NATO declared that
• 54:48
  Ukraine and Georgia will eventually become members.
• 54:51
  That declaration transformed what had been theoretical in
• 54:54
  expansion to a direct signal that Russia's immediate
• 54:58
  neighborhood was in play.
• 55:00
  They're trying to surround the old Soviet union,
• 55:02
  the old satellites of Soviet union with old
• 55:04
  members of this, of the Soviet union itself.
• 55:09
  Not, not Poland, not, not, uh, I don't
• 55:13
  know, Romania, but actually Georgia, which was part
• 55:17
  of the Soviet union, uh, Ukraine, part of
• 55:21
  the Soviet union, they signaled we're coming.
• 55:23
  We're taking those countries from you.
• 55:25
  And so Moscow interprets that membership promise as
• 55:28
  a warning rather than a gesture.
• 55:31
  Russia wasn't going to be invited.
• 55:33
  They've been told you're not invited, but we'll
• 55:35
  take everybody else.
• 55:37
  So it's important to understand this perspective.
• 55:39
  Uh, even if you disagree with its conclusion,
• 55:42
  it links expansion, declarations, reaction, and continuous chain
• 55:47
  of events.
• 55:48
  The continuity is, uh, what Solovyov was talking
• 55:52
  about.
• 55:53
  And so from, so the, then he pivots
• 55:55
  to 2014, but I want to pivot.
• 55:59
  He, he pivoted to, uh, uh, the facts
• 56:02
  surrounding Ukraine, which they lie about even today,
• 56:05
  even the NATO secretary general gets on there.
• 56:08
  Um, yesterday or, uh, over the, over the
• 56:12
  weekend at the Munich security conference says absolutely
• 56:15
  no reasons at all for the, uh, invasion.
• 56:19
  He calls it of the Don bass by
• 56:22
  Russia.
• 56:22
  No provocations of any kind is what he
• 56:25
  said.
• 56:26
  Nonsense.
• 56:27
  And, uh, uh, paraphrasing of course, but that's
• 56:30
  what he said.
• 56:31
  And I think I have the quote further
• 56:33
  in my materials here, but that is crap.
• 56:36
  People want to still forget that Ukraine itself
• 56:39
  was bombing its own two territories in the
• 56:43
  Don bass Lugansk and Donetsk.
• 56:45
  They were, it was bombing the crap out
• 56:48
  of them from 2014 after my Don, which
• 56:51
  was staged by the West to get rid
• 56:53
  of Yanukovych.
• 56:54
  And none of this would have happened if,
• 56:55
  if we hadn't interfered there.
• 56:57
  That's true.
• 56:58
  You know, uh, it's well, the likelihood is
• 57:01
  slim, slim that it would have happened because
• 57:04
  Yanukovych was, was more centrally, uh, not against
• 57:09
  Russia, not against NATO.
• 57:10
  He wanted to be more neutral and, uh,
• 57:14
  no, that can't be, we need Ukraine.
• 57:16
  Ukraine will be a part of NATO.
• 57:18
  They were just pressuring Russia.
• 57:20
  That's how it goes.
• 57:21
  So if one accepts these characterization, uh, you
• 57:24
  know, characterizations, the conflict was treated not as
• 57:29
  an insurgency as civil war, which it was
• 57:33
  Ukrainian artillery strikes in the East are described
• 57:37
  as Kiev bombing its own populations.
• 57:41
  Civilian casualties are, are constant.
• 57:44
  They're killing their own people.
• 57:46
  The Minsk accords that they put together for
• 57:49
  deescalation, they weren't implemented with the intent to
• 57:54
  honor them.
• 57:56
  They were put into delay and give them
• 57:59
  time to, um, build up with more Western
• 58:03
  weapons and defeat these, these republics who had
• 58:06
  already voted to, they were in succession trying
• 58:11
  to ease out of Ukraine.
• 58:14
  They've been trying to forever since 2014, they
• 58:17
  declared their own independence.
• 58:18
  They didn't want a governor from there.
• 58:20
  The Minsk agreement said that they could put
• 58:22
  in that a governor could be put in,
• 58:25
  it could be a government that was not
• 58:28
  appointed by the head of Ukraine, like all
• 58:32
  other governors that they could have some autonomy,
• 58:35
  kind of like Transnistria and Moldova, where that,
• 58:38
  that person's not appointed by the central government.
• 58:43
  Anyway, they, they, uh, you know, glad hand
• 58:46
  all of this and they beat up on
• 58:48
  it.
• 58:48
  So Munich this year was dominated by Ukraine
• 58:51
  again.
• 58:53
  So here we are, we're back to it.
• 58:54
  The panel revolved around support packages, air defense
• 58:58
  systems, sanctions, alliance, uh, you know, NATO unity.
• 59:03
  The language was again, moral, declarative, you know,
• 59:08
  there's, there's, there's no inclusiveness of any kind.
• 59:12
  There's no discussion of anything except Russia's an
• 59:15
  aggressor.
• 59:16
  This war started in 2022.
• 59:18
  It's all unilateral.
• 59:20
  Ukraine's defending itself only.
• 59:23
  And NATO is the guarantor of stability.
• 59:26
  Even Rubio gets on there.
• 59:28
  You're well, you guys got to take care
• 59:29
  of yourself.
• 59:30
  And, uh, but we're with you, you know,
• 59:32
  uh, and he talks about mistakes.
• 59:34
  So the NATO secretary general's remarks were clear
• 59:37
  and uncompromising too.
• 59:39
  He said there was absolutely no justification for
• 59:42
  Russia's invasion.
• 59:43
  He's nuts, but, uh, he emphasized deterrence sanctions
• 59:47
  and sustained military assistance.
• 59:49
  That's, that's what he wants deterrence sanctions and
• 59:54
  more military assistance for Ukraine.
• 59:58
  You know, let them all die.
• 59:59
  Basically he's he's, they're still talking, including Rubio
• 1:00:04
  about what rules based order.
• 1:00:07
  They're not rules based.
• 1:00:08
  It's really not even order, but, but it's
• 1:00:12
  certainly not rules based because rules apply to
• 1:00:14
  everyone and these don't.
• 1:00:16
  And then the necessity of resisting aggression, unless
• 1:00:20
  it's our aggression, Rubio talking about aggression resistance
• 1:00:25
  after just going in and slaughtering or stealing
• 1:00:29
  the, the King of Venezuela, the leader of
• 1:00:33
  Venezuela.
• 1:00:34
  So these, these, this were right back to
• 1:00:38
  political dog whistles.
• 1:00:40
  That's it.
• 1:00:40
  Uh, so the critique I'm much more for
• 1:00:43
  it.
• 1:00:43
  So I want to talk about two speeches
• 1:00:46
  or compare Rubio's.
• 1:00:48
  So, so I, I'm, I pay attention to
• 1:00:50
  this Munich security conference, right?
• 1:00:53
  And the security conference, uh, in 2007 is
• 1:00:56
  one of my favorites.
• 1:00:58
  And, uh, because the looks on the faces
• 1:01:01
  of Cheney and company when, uh, Vladimir Putin
• 1:01:06
  stood and Vladimir Putin has always been a
• 1:01:11
  well-spoken person and he's a former KGB
• 1:01:15
  speaks German fluently.
• 1:01:17
  He is not against, uh, saying some pretty
• 1:01:21
  snippy things on the stage.
• 1:01:23
  So he's always somebody worth watching.
• 1:01:25
  Uh, he's certainly no Trump.
• 1:01:27
  He isn't, uh, he isn't needlessly.
• 1:01:30
  Yeah.
• 1:01:33
  I don't know what demonizing and, and, you
• 1:01:36
  know, he doesn't, doesn't, uh, or offensive to
• 1:01:38
  people.
• 1:01:39
  He's not that, that, that, that's one thing
• 1:01:41
  I can't stand about Trump, at least be
• 1:01:43
  diplomatic in your takedowns of people.
• 1:01:46
  And he's just not, you're an idiot.
• 1:01:49
  You know, that's basically it.
• 1:01:51
  Well, you're just dumb.
• 1:01:53
  Yeah.
• 1:01:54
  That's helpful.
• 1:01:55
  Uh, so let's, let's talk about this.
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  Uh, Putin's 2007 speech at Munich was much
• 1:02:06
  different than the typical everybody body get together
• 1:02:10
  and yank each other's wieners.
• 1:02:12
  Uh, this is where, this is where the,
• 1:02:16
  the, the rails didn't hold the train.
• 1:02:22
  And I thought about that entire, you know,
• 1:02:26
  that entire speech.
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  It's a half an hour long.
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  There are English versions of it out there
• 1:02:30
  and you should go and watch it.
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  What he said, because everything he said has
• 1:02:34
  come to pass all of it and it's
• 1:02:39
  come to pass.
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  He talked about it all.
• 1:02:42
  He, he argued that the unipolar system, one
• 1:02:47
  center of power and decision-making is unstable.
• 1:02:52
  He warned that unilateral actions create insecurity.
• 1:02:58
  He asked against whom NATO expansion is directed
• 1:03:02
  straight up.
• 1:03:04
  He goes, who's the enemy?
• 1:03:06
  Where is this enemy?
• 1:03:08
  That's 2007 by the way.
• 1:03:11
  He said plainly that no one feels safe
• 1:03:14
  in a system where force is selectively applied,
• 1:03:19
  which it is.
• 1:03:21
  I, I gave us a, what do you
• 1:03:23
  call it?
• 1:03:23
  Show about the King of several different places
• 1:03:27
  in there.
• 1:03:28
  Go to Serbia.
• 1:03:29
  Tell me that's a well run, you know,
• 1:03:32
  by, and, and this is what was actually
• 1:03:34
  floated about Ukraine recently is NATO supervision.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, there's a good idea.
• 1:03:42
  Who's, who gets to run it?
• 1:03:44
  At the time in 2007, Western observers dismissed
• 1:03:48
  his warnings as rhetorical posturing.
• 1:03:51
  They assumed NATO expansion is defensive and welcomed
• 1:03:56
  by the new member states seeking security.
• 1:04:00
  And they viewed Russia's objections as residual imperialistic
• 1:04:06
  sentiment.
• 1:04:07
  But architecture doesn't exist in abstraction.
• 1:04:11
  It exists in what the perception is.
• 1:04:13
  If one side perceives expansion as defensive and
• 1:04:17
  the other perceives it as encirclement, that's obviously
• 1:04:20
  going to create a friction.
• 1:04:22
  If your goal is to take Georgia, Armenia,
• 1:04:27
  all the former Soviet Southern, Soviet republics, they,
• 1:04:31
  they approach Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, all of which
• 1:04:35
  I've, you know, seen and, and you still
• 1:04:38
  see it, that there's a lot of that.
• 1:04:41
  Try to get them into NATO.
• 1:04:43
  They're East Asia for God's sake.
• 1:04:45
  At North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
• 1:04:48
  Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  What's that for?
• 1:04:50
  Defeat of Russia.
• 1:04:51
  Period.
• 1:04:52
  The end.
• 1:04:53
  Uh, so that friction is really, in Russia's
• 1:04:59
  view, incremental provocation.
• 1:05:02
  Western leaders are of course forgetful.
• 1:05:05
  They only stick around four years at a
• 1:05:06
  time.
• 1:05:07
  Munich is unwilling to revisit 2007, not because
• 1:05:11
  the speech itself lacked merit, but because acknowledging
• 1:05:16
  its arguments about the structure itself would require
• 1:05:20
  reconsidering expansion and what they did, whether it
• 1:05:25
  was wrong or not, and whether continuing to
• 1:05:28
  do so is still wrong.
• 1:05:31
  It's a, it's a, it's a worldview that
• 1:05:34
  I do not support.
• 1:05:36
  Uh, I don't support the idea that the
• 1:05:39
  world is at war and all we need
• 1:05:41
  to do is continue military actions all over
• 1:05:43
  the planet in order to save the world.
• 1:05:46
  We start wars all over the place.
• 1:05:49
  Yeah, that's what we're doing.
• 1:05:51
  The, the, the, the war in Ukraine, we
• 1:05:53
  certainly helped that, didn't we?
• 1:05:55
  Million and a half guys dead or wounded
• 1:05:58
  in Ukraine.
• 1:06:00
  This, we're very helpful, right?
• 1:06:02
  And, and billions upon billions, hundreds of billions
• 1:06:06
  spent for nothing, for, for zip, just so
• 1:06:11
  Western arms manufacturers can get rich.
• 1:06:15
  So let's talk about historical memory because between
• 1:06:20
  1991 and 2022, the European security map, if
• 1:06:26
  you want to call NATO security, changed dramatically.
• 1:06:30
  Military alliances expanded, political unions were, were much
• 1:06:35
  deeper missile defense systems by the Polish have
• 1:06:41
  been put all over the place.
• 1:06:43
  Sanction regimes have become layered.
• 1:06:46
  Iran's been under sanctions forever, right?
• 1:06:49
  Energy dependency patterns, you know, were evolved and
• 1:06:53
  nobody liked the fact that they were paying
• 1:06:54
  Russia.
• 1:06:56
  Each of these developments have altered strategic calculation
• 1:06:59
  and Trump wants to own the energy infrastructure
• 1:07:03
  of the planet because he knows infrastructure is
• 1:07:07
  what keeps it all together years to come.
• 1:07:10
  So if Munich refuses to debate those cumulative
• 1:07:14
  changes, it reinforces the perception that it prefers
• 1:07:18
  affirmation, self-affirmation over introspective review of what
• 1:07:23
  really should happen.
• 1:07:25
  They never discuss any of that.
• 1:07:27
  It's just a bad, bad, you know, bad,
• 1:07:30
  bad Putin, bad, bad Russia, good, good Zelensky.
• 1:07:35
  And Zelensky was there, same old crap, hand
• 1:07:38
  out, you know, Oh geez, we need more
• 1:07:40
  money.
• 1:07:40
  We need it faster.
• 1:07:42
  We need more arms.
• 1:07:43
  We need it faster.
• 1:07:44
  Our people are dying, but you know, they're
• 1:07:46
  brave.
• 1:07:47
  Yeah.
• 1:07:48
  They're real brave as they die.
• 1:07:51
  Soloviev, you know, talks about the skepticism, not
• 1:07:55
  just of Russia, but of me.
• 1:07:57
  I'm not Russian.
• 1:07:59
  You know, I, I, I'm a realist.
• 1:08:01
  You know, I think that Russia has some,
• 1:08:03
  uh, some guilt here too.
• 1:08:06
  It doesn't mean we don't on the West,
• 1:08:09
  the Western, the Western, uh, globalists don't.
• 1:08:13
  I mean, Trump's still trying to extricate himself,
• 1:08:16
  not because of anything other than he cannot
• 1:08:20
  bring peace.
• 1:08:21
  I'll get peace in a day.
• 1:08:23
  He didn't get his, uh, Nobel prize.
• 1:08:27
  Now he doesn't care about it anymore.
• 1:08:29
  The old, uh, sour grapes theory right there.
• 1:08:34
  Well, you know, I didn't want that anyway.
• 1:08:36
  So let's start some more war.
• 1:08:38
  Let's take over.
• 1:08:40
  Let's take over Greenland.
• 1:08:41
  I know China and Russia are trying to
• 1:08:44
  take over Greenland, right?
• 1:08:45
  We got to go in there.
• 1:08:46
  So, uh, five European, uh, did you hear
• 1:08:50
  about this?
• 1:08:51
  Oh, no, I, I'm sorry.
• 1:08:52
  I don't want to jump through my, uh,
• 1:08:54
  to my next topic.
• 1:08:55
  I really need to get to the, uh,
• 1:08:58
  the two analysis of, um, the, the peace
• 1:09:03
  by force, you know, and, uh, that kind
• 1:09:07
  of thing, because I wanted to look at
• 1:09:11
  the two quotes between, uh, I, I, I
• 1:09:15
  had a comparison of quotes that, uh, I,
• 1:09:22
  and I, what I did was I, I
• 1:09:26
  re-listened to, uh, Vladimir Putin and I
• 1:09:33
  listened to, um, Rubio yesterday.
• 1:09:40
  And, uh, you know, it's, um, it's telling
• 1:09:46
  because this is the same old, same old
• 1:09:50
  on the West.
• 1:09:52
  We talk about rules based order.
• 1:09:55
  We talk about Ukraine being brave, just like,
• 1:09:59
  so, so last year was a bit different.
• 1:10:01
  You had, um, fans go out there and
• 1:10:04
  he had a pretty good appearance at the,
• 1:10:06
  the security conference beat up on a bunch
• 1:10:09
  of the Europeans at that time here.
• 1:10:12
  Rubio was a little bit lighter.
• 1:10:14
  Uh, Rubio was still saying you need to,
• 1:10:17
  um, do more, but he wasn't as well
• 1:10:25
  spoken as last year Vance was.
• 1:10:28
  And he did the same old thing talking
• 1:10:33
  about, uh, the evil party, but he did
• 1:10:36
  say that we had made all kinds of
• 1:10:39
  mistakes in the rules based order that we
• 1:10:44
  never really applied it just like Carney did
• 1:10:47
  at his, um, speech at Davos a month
• 1:10:51
  and a half ago, whenever that was.
• 1:10:53
  And, uh, I found that to be interesting
• 1:10:56
  that Rubio would admit it.
• 1:10:58
  And, uh, I think the fact that he
• 1:11:01
  is admitting it is more, uh, necessary at
• 1:11:07
  this point, because you can't hide the, uh,
• 1:11:10
  you can't hide the fact that we didn't,
• 1:11:12
  um, do what we said we were going
• 1:11:16
  to do.
• 1:11:17
  It just, it, it didn't happen.
• 1:11:19
  And it's funny because if you analyze, uh,
• 1:11:24
  what China said yesterday or not yesterday at
• 1:11:28
  the conference, it's funny because they are saying
• 1:11:33
  something similar to it and they're calm and
• 1:11:37
  they're diplomatic about it.
• 1:11:38
  And they're not pushing, uh, narratives that, uh,
• 1:11:43
  China's good and morally right.
• 1:11:46
  And they're not doing that.
• 1:11:48
  All this entire security conference was, was for
• 1:11:52
  a group of people to get around, around
• 1:11:55
  self congratulate themselves, uh, each other and yank
• 1:11:59
  each other's wieners and talk about how wonderful
• 1:12:02
  it is that, uh, rules based order.
• 1:12:05
  We need to get back to that, uh,
• 1:12:07
  you know, globalist tendency because we're the good
• 1:12:10
  guys.
• 1:12:13
  Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  Meanwhile, China's funding ports run by India in
• 1:12:21
  Iran, right?
• 1:12:25
  Bricks is settling.
• 1:12:26
  Do you know, there's a, uh, there was
• 1:12:28
  an allegation yesterday that, uh, China, the Yuan
• 1:12:32
  is now up to 10%.
• 1:12:35
  Now that's not accurate.
• 1:12:37
  It's really only about 5%.
• 1:12:39
  And if you go through in what the
• 1:12:43
  settlements are, but bricks, uh, trade, which is
• 1:12:47
  around 40% nationally, but they're smaller amounts
• 1:12:51
  because all of it goes, still goes through
• 1:12:53
  the West and Europe and Canada and the
• 1:12:57
  U S still control most of the markets.
• 1:12:59
  But the foreign systems, uh, uh, the other
• 1:13:03
  systems, the Yuan heavy, the rupee heavy, the
• 1:13:07
  ruble heavy are being traded in national currency
• 1:13:11
  directly between each other to the exclusion of
• 1:13:14
  the dollar.
• 1:13:15
  So it's, it's, it's definitely ongoing and it's
• 1:13:18
  definitely expanding.
• 1:13:20
  And it's the, the margins that are, that
• 1:13:23
  are going to take away the, the ability
• 1:13:25
  to the U S to dominate the way
• 1:13:27
  it is, as I talked about in one
• 1:13:29
  of the shows last week.
• 1:13:31
  So meanwhile, India is staying out of this,
• 1:13:35
  uh, unipolar world stuff.
• 1:13:38
  All of the other parts of the world,
• 1:13:41
  especially Southeast Asia are building logistics change chains
• 1:13:46
  with, and what do you think was the
• 1:13:48
  big deal in Venezuela?
• 1:13:49
  Logistics change infrastructure built by China, which Trump
• 1:13:56
  realizes is not, uh, in favor of hegemony
• 1:14:02
  of the U S and it's against the
• 1:14:04
  dollar.
• 1:14:05
  It's against the market.
• 1:14:06
  It's against all those things.
• 1:14:07
  That's why it's not narco terrorism, friends and
• 1:14:10
  neighbors.
• 1:14:11
  It's not blowing up a couple of boats
• 1:14:13
  on the water.
• 1:14:14
  It's, Oh my God, that's a hundred billion
• 1:14:16
  dollars.
• 1:14:17
  They put in Venezuela, we can't lose South
• 1:14:21
  America.
• 1:14:22
  We're supposed to dominate South America.
• 1:14:25
  And so we start a war.
• 1:14:27
  It's a short one, but we started it
• 1:14:30
  and we seized a member.
• 1:14:31
  Meanwhile, rest of the world is building ports.
• 1:14:35
  We can't build new ports.
• 1:14:37
  What do we got going on?
• 1:14:38
  They're expanding dignity, digital architecture.
• 1:14:41
  They're modernizing their rail systems, India, especially, you
• 1:14:47
  know, India isn't choosing sides.
• 1:14:49
  They're not doing it.
• 1:14:51
  They're doing what's best for them.
• 1:14:53
  They're choosing material leverage.
• 1:14:56
  That's what they're doing.
• 1:14:58
  And so these things are important.
• 1:15:02
  Meanwhile, in Munich, what's in Munich, unity, we're
• 1:15:06
  all in unity, beat up Putin, moral outrage.
• 1:15:09
  Oh my God.
• 1:15:10
  Putin invaded in 2022.
• 1:15:12
  They skipped the bombings and destruction of their
• 1:15:16
  own people from 2014 to 2022.
• 1:15:19
  And they skipped Minsk and all that other
• 1:15:21
  stuff.
• 1:15:21
  Say, we got to test Putin further.
• 1:15:23
  We got to put more sanctions out there.
• 1:15:26
  20 packages already.
• 1:15:27
  We need a 21st, more weapons.
• 1:15:30
  We got to modernize our weapons, get ready
• 1:15:32
  for war with Russia by 2030.
• 1:15:35
  And it's always democracy, democracy, democracy, very little
• 1:15:39
  about rebuilding the European manufacturing.
• 1:15:43
  It's been gone, sent to China, industrial energy
• 1:15:47
  competitiveness.
• 1:15:48
  They're paying, you know, according to sacks six
• 1:15:51
  times the amount that they ought to be
• 1:15:53
  for energy because they're buying it from the
• 1:15:56
  U S and not from Russia.
• 1:15:57
  They're blowing up pipelines and doing zero investigation.
• 1:16:02
  Although did you hear that Navalny was killed
• 1:16:05
  by a frog dart poison that came from
• 1:16:10
  Ecuador.
• 1:16:13
  I can't remember Ecuadorian, Ecuadorian frog dart poison
• 1:16:18
  is what killed Alexei Navalny.
• 1:16:21
  And who did it?
• 1:16:22
  Vladimir Putin.
• 1:16:23
  And who discovered it?
• 1:16:24
  A group of people who got it all
• 1:16:27
  wrong in several other cases, similar in England,
• 1:16:31
  an English research facility checked it out and
• 1:16:37
  said that Navalny was killed.
• 1:16:38
  And they said, well, you didn't have access
• 1:16:39
  to the body.
• 1:16:40
  He's buried.
• 1:16:41
  He got nothing.
• 1:16:43
  And what do you don't even have reports?
• 1:16:44
  You have no, well, samples of swabs that
• 1:16:49
  were taken from his cell after he died
• 1:16:52
  and smuggled out of Russia were sent to
• 1:16:55
  this lab in England and the lab in
• 1:16:58
  England determined that Navalny was killed by frog
• 1:17:01
  dart poison.
• 1:17:01
  Vladimir Putin imported somehow from Ecuador, wherever the
• 1:17:05
  hell it was in South America.
• 1:17:07
  And so, yeah, you can't in, in, in
• 1:17:11
  two, three years, you can figure out that
• 1:17:13
  a guy whose body you didn't examine was
• 1:17:15
  killed by frog dart poison, but you can't
• 1:17:17
  figure out who was involved in destroying the
• 1:17:22
  Severny Potok 2, Nord Stream 2.
• 1:17:27
  You can't, you can't tell me that.
• 1:17:29
  You have no idea, you know, who, who
• 1:17:32
  bombed the crocus.
• 1:17:41
  You on who's trying to kill generals in
• 1:17:45
  Russia.
• 1:17:45
  And if those are done by Ukraine, you
• 1:17:47
  can hide all of that crap.
• 1:17:49
  But by God, you can find out that
• 1:17:51
  Navalny, the Democrat, yeah, right.
• 1:17:54
  That Navalny, the Democrat was killed by Putin
• 1:17:57
  with frog dart poison.
• 1:18:00
  Yeah, that's unity, friends and neighbors.
• 1:18:04
  But, excuse me, you can't dominate geopolitics with
• 1:18:08
  think tanks, press conferences, and, you know, making
• 1:18:13
  crap up as you go along like Navalny
• 1:18:15
  was killed by frog dart poison.
• 1:18:18
  That's a joke, just thinking about it.
• 1:18:20
  You know, power is concrete, steel, semiconductors, and
• 1:18:24
  shipping lanes.
• 1:18:25
  And we get together and talk about moral
• 1:18:29
  right.
• 1:18:30
  You know, we're going to be sitting, we're
• 1:18:32
  a democracy, we're a democracy.
• 1:18:36
  Oh, crazy stuff.
• 1:18:38
  And we're winding down to the end of
• 1:18:39
  the show here.
• 1:18:41
  Munich talks about rules-based order.
• 1:18:44
  China, even at the Munich conference, nobody else
• 1:18:47
  talked about it.
• 1:18:49
  They talked about ports.
• 1:18:51
  Munich talking about unity, we got to stand
• 1:18:54
  with Ukraine.
• 1:18:55
  India's building rail systems.
• 1:18:57
  Munich talks about punishing Russia, more sanctions.
• 1:19:01
  Russia builds corridors to the east, with its
• 1:19:05
  allies.
• 1:19:06
  Munich talks about values.
• 1:19:09
  Half the world is talking about the loss
• 1:19:11
  of energy security.
• 1:19:14
  I'm not saying that because I'm anti-West.
• 1:19:16
  I'm not.
• 1:19:17
  That's a comparative reality.
• 1:19:21
  It's, I don't know.
• 1:19:24
  Why are we sitting around debating morality?
• 1:19:27
  Why don't we debate reality instead of who's
• 1:19:31
  who?
• 1:19:33
  We have diplomatic contrast, certainly, between India, Russia,
• 1:19:42
  China, Brazil, and anyone in the West.
• 1:19:46
  They talk about infrastructure.
• 1:19:50
  They talk about the system itself, and how
• 1:19:54
  the system of what they are, of the
• 1:19:59
  way it is run, needs to be revamped.
• 1:20:02
  Even Rubio said we need to rebuild the
• 1:20:04
  system.
• 1:20:06
  But he doesn't want to build it for
• 1:20:08
  anybody else.
• 1:20:09
  He wants to restructure it so it remains
• 1:20:11
  dominant the way it was before.
• 1:20:14
  And the more they push toward that, the
• 1:20:16
  more people are going to fight against it.
• 1:20:18
  Do you like being told what to do,
• 1:20:20
  or do you like being brought along?
• 1:20:22
  That's the question.
• 1:20:24
  So the structural critique, I suggest strongly that
• 1:20:28
  you go back and listen to their versions
• 1:20:31
  on YouTube where they'll translate it for you.
• 1:20:34
  Or you can follow along and read it.
• 1:20:36
  But you should watch his mannerisms.
• 1:20:38
  And he was pretty brutal in 2007.
• 1:20:43
  Eh, not brutal.
• 1:20:44
  He was, it wasn't even confrontational.
• 1:20:48
  It was more realistic.
• 1:20:50
  You know, here you are expanding NATO and
• 1:20:53
  acting as if there are no consequences to
• 1:20:56
  your one-size-fits-all category of rule.
• 1:21:04
  It's a good speech.
• 1:21:06
  And then you can listen to Rubio's yesterday.
• 1:21:13
  Same old platitudes.
• 1:21:15
  And I challenge you.
• 1:21:16
  What you could do is you could go
• 1:21:19
  out and take Rubio's speech and play it
• 1:21:27
  next to Cheney's speech in 2007, for example.
• 1:21:31
  Or any other notable speech by a U
• 1:21:35
  .S. foreign services guy.
• 1:21:39
  And see if there's any difference.
• 1:21:41
  I mean, we're just rephrasing the same old
• 1:21:46
  crap that we've been phrasing for years.
• 1:21:49
  And the rest of the world is talking
• 1:21:52
  about how that phrasing and framing of issues
• 1:21:56
  as being just rules-based order, which nobody
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  has to follow except people you dislike.
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  You know, we select it's like a judge
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  in a criminal court, you know, allowing money
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  to, well, maybe not a judge, but it's
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  a fact.
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  You know, money can buy you justice that
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  you're never going to get from the public
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  defender.
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  You know, that's reality.
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  It's unfortunate, but true.
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  And the system is what needs to be
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  fought.
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  Not the fact that any particular public defender
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  is bad or any particular judge.
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  They're not.
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  They're doing, they're in the system that they've
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  been presented.
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  And if the system you're presenting is a
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  domineering, alleged rules-based order, and all you
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  have is moral, the moral right, all you
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  can do is pump the moral right.
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  And that's all we've been doing for 30
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  years, 35, 34, whatever it was, since the
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  collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  That's it.
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  Moral theater.
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  Oh, we won.
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  We won.
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  And we look at us.
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  It's a rules-based order.
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  People are tired of it.
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  When are you going to fix a structure?
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  When are you going to propose something different
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  that isn't, we say, you do?
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  And that's that.
• 1:23:16
  Anyway, that's the show for today.
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  It's been International Flavor.
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  I got plenty to talk about this week
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  because it's a wealth of information from the
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  Munich Security Conference, once again, and from the
• 1:23:29
  nonsense that was spouted off in general there.
• 1:23:32
  I got some notable quotes this week.
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  The old Z Monster was there, you know,
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  hat in hand, begging for more crap.
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  And meanwhile, things are going poorly in Ukraine.
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  Samuel Trapp, International Flavor, internationalflavor.com.
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  All of our shows are available at damradio
• 1:23:53
  .com forward slash podcast as well.
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  And you can listen to me live here
• 1:23:58
  every morning from 730 to nine in central
• 1:24:02
  time.
• 1:24:03
  And you can now listen to civicoutlaws.com
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  come Friday.
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  Have a very nice day.
• 1:24:09
  Glad you joined in.