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AfD Stuns Germany, Bill Ackman Bets on Experimental Medicine and Malta Pays Drivers to Quit | TMI Ep 457 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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  Where am I? Hello. Hello. Good morning. Good
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  morning Happy Tuesday. It is Tuesday, right September
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  8th. It is Tuesday It is I like I like when we
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  start the week and it's almost the middle of
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  the week It's a good feeling yeah, that's good
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  It is a good feeling America should go to a four
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  -day work week for sure Considering that there's
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  not any jobs. It should be easy to do That's
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  true. There was, we've punted on this story,
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  but there was like a big study done about like
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  a four -day work week. I got to find it and we
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  should talk about that because this obviously
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  makes a lot of sense for us. So you were tuned
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  into the TMI show, the Ted Manila Information
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  Show. It's TMI for short because we bring you
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  Way too much information a big shout out to brings
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  true Thank you so much for rating the stream
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  and bringing your people here to or or you know,
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  you might get hate for it later, but But we appreciate
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  you guys. No, no, no, it'll it's all it's all
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  sweetness and light here on tmi show. Thanks
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  for coming over That's right. It is all light
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  and love and happiness. I'm Manila Chan. That's
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  Ted Raul producer Robbie lurking in the background
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  I'm gonna pop him on in a minute. He has some
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  housekeeping to do Please remember to hit the
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  like the share the subscribe button all that
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  good stuff So you can help our little show continue
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  to grow as we try to navigate whatever the hell
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  is happening with Rumble because I know Robbie's
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  really angry about this and he's had all weekend
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  all Long weekend ruminate I'm not happy about
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  it either But we still are here Monday through
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  Friday 10 a .m. Eastern time. We're trying to
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  make this work So I have a feeling that's what
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  the housekeeping is about but I also I'm gonna
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  put Robbie on later to talk about The German
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  elections anyway, but so with that producer Robbie
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  What is the housekeeping? housekeeping is we
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  are going to start making a intentional pivot
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  over to YouTube And we're not leaving Rumble.
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  We're not abandoning Rumble. It's just Rumble
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  is forcing us literally into the loving arms
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  of YouTube with the way that they're now doing
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  their economics, which if anyone watches, has
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  watched this for any length of time knows I despise
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  YouTube. Do you think, you know, Rumble is based
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  in, in Canada, home of the terrorist fires. Do
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  you think this is all part of Canada's Canada's
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  attack on the United States, which of course
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  is the u .s. Being pure and innocent noble of
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  heart not having started any of this with Canada
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  You know more I heard my carny this morning Talking
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  to the press and he did say Something about the
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  u .s. Throwing shade. I mean, that's a quote.
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  He said the u .s. Throwing shade on Canada No,
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  this isn't and they have more shape and up north.
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  They have a lot more shade than we have So it's
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  already they have too much shade. No, this is
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  the tilt of the planet Yeah, no, this is nothing
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  to do with that This is to do with the fact that
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  Rumble is making a pivot into the AI space like
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  a hard pivot They're trying to marry AI with
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  robotics, which that's gonna be the next generation.
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  That's what's coming I think they over I think
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  they overpaid for companies they couldn't afford
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  to and now they're broke Yeah, that's a big part
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  of it, because they bought a company that's called
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  Northern Data, and they did it by diluting their
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  shares. And so they've got to recoup that cost.
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  And so how do you do that? Well, the one cost
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  that you're able to really control, since Google
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  owns over 90 % of the ad space, is your Crater
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  payouts. So what Rumble is doing, if you're a
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  Rumble creator, your Rumble Crater payout is
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  a staggering 160 bucks. It does not matter if
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  you bring in 600 watch hours, it does not matter
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  if you bring in 6 ,000 watch hours. Yeah, on
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  deprogram, like at peak deprogram, Rumble, there
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  was a month when Rumble paid like four grand
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  and now we're down to like 160 bucks. And deprogram
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  is a bigger show than it was then. It's $160
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  across the board unless you're a contracted creator
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  with Rumble. So if you're Kim Iverson or Steven
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  Crowder, you're fine. You're taken care of. But
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  if you're an independent show, and by independent
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  I mean like what you're saying right here, then
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  you get sodomized. And so as a result, I'm not
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  taking a paycheck from Rumble because you can't
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  split 160 bucks three ways. So my gaming channel...
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  Well, you can. I mean, you'll be able to get
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  yourself maybe two meals of Chick -fil -A and
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  then you're done. But the point I'm trying to
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  make is like, you can't make a living that way.
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  My gaming channel is now exclusively over on
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  YouTube, which sucks. I hate it. Wow. But that's
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  where I am because, well, here's the thing. Rumble
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  has a way where you can become a paid channel
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  subscriber for five bucks. That's it. That's
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  the only tier. So if you want to donate more,
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  you have to do it through Rumble Rants, in which
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  case Rumble then takes 40%. Or you go through
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  PayPal or some place like that where you're able
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  to rely on third party donations or to make that
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  happen. YouTube makes it a lot easier. So you're
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  able to become a channel subscriber from two
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  bucks, which is what I do, up to 25 for a max.
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  Whereas with Rumble, you can't do that. And so
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  that's the pivot. What we're gonna be doing is
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  every day I'm gonna be putting up shorts, clips
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  and things over on YouTube in addition to here
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  on Rumble. We are still gonna be pushing the
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  creator program for TMI and the program here
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  on Rumble. But for my gaming channel, West Glacier
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  Gaming, I'm only on YouTube. I am done with them.
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  Yikes, man. I mean, I don't think we're that
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  far behind. We have to figure out a new strategy
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  with this new I mean, I don't know how to work
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  with this new rumble. I mean, you can't. I don't
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  know what they're. We just can't. That's the
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  thing. We can't. What we do is we can't even
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  pay the bills. We keep rumble going, but it's
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  just not our priority. It's like a side. It's
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  a side hustle. One of the things that rumble
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  is going to be doing is that and they've been
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  teasing this. Jeff Dornick, friend of the show,
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  he's in the beta where you can pay to boost a
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  stream so you can pay. You can pay an amount
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  of money. It's got pay to play. And then you
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  get a higher revenue ad share. And one of the
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  things I did over the weekend, because I'm a
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  nerd, I went in and I grabbed all of the data
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  from Putin by Gaming, dProgram, and TMI. Rumble
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  now directly competes with its creators for ad
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  revenue. And I brought the receipts. I'll drop
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  the link in the chat. Manila, I sent it to you.
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  It's a link. That's a article that I did on that
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  push over on pickaxe. Oh, I read directly. Yeah,
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  me too. How rumble rumble the the platform takes
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  the lion's share of ad revenue that they then
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  keep. And that's how rumble was going through.
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  That's how they're paying their creators always
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  are paying their creators. That is now completely
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  gone. And if you want access to that, when this
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  when this boosting system comes out, you have
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  to pay rumble. to boost your stream in addition
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  to paying them to be a member of the creator
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  program, because you're going to have a Rumble
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  premium in order to have access to that particular
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  market share. That's what they're doing. And
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  they're doing it because they're making a concerted
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  push into AI. They've got to reduce their debt.
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  They've got to buy back stock in order to make
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  that happen. They are deliberately fucking the
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  little guy. Yeah. So they basically flipped from
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  their business model being not even Oppositional
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  direct competitor to YouTube because they were
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  aiming for for live streaming. Whereas YouTube
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  is a video platform They were aiming for live
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  streaming and then suddenly here we are where
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  they've completely flipped into We want to be
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  an AI company like that's like saying Okay, we
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  are I hop we're competing against Waffle House.
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  But now they're like, yeah, but now we're gonna
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  be We're not gonna be I hop we're gonna be We're
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  going to be Ross, dress for less. What? That's
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  not what I came here for. I came here for pancakes.
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  To be fair, Rumble can't compete with YouTube
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  on the video ad space because YouTube has a monopoly.
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  I know. YouTube owes over 90 % of the market.
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  So the AI pivot makes sense. I get why they're
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  doing it. But it screws everyone that helped
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  build their platform to this point, including
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  creators like that. Well, everybody's going to
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  leave. I mean, that'll be it. I mean, this is
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  the beginning of the end. I mean, look, this
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  is something I saw in, you know, in print media
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  when it's just like when everybody was just,
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  you know, the payments would start shrinking
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  and getting slower and then, you know, you know,
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  they're going to be out of business. They will
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  be out of business. They don't know. I just dropped
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  that link in the chat again. I bring receipts,
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  everything that I do. I always document whatever
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  it is I'm working with. It's part of my job.
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  And so I went in, I used Rumble's own data, complete
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  with screenshots. So this is not some boring
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  white paper. Y 'all know me. I don't do boring.
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  It's not how I roll. But if you want to know
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  what I found, take a look at that. I think I
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  just shared yeah, if you're I mean if you're
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  a rumble creator, it's kind of essential to read
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  I don't know if everybody else has to read it,
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  but I do think Well, if everybody else will find
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  it like useful if it's a hobby to you It doesn't
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  matter. But if you're trying to build a business
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  rumble like what we were doing the economics
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  matter Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we've been at this what
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  what Ted to Two years as a by by next month.
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  It'll be two years. I believe it was right after
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  Joe Biden laid us all off And and there was a
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  big hubbub by oh gosh a hullabaloo as it were
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  was it NPR that was talking. No, not NPR. That's
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  talking shit about us who it voice of America
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  Mm -hmm was a voice of America that was giving
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  us all the original bad press Yep Especially
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  you they use I'm kind of insulted they decided
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  to go with you obviously because they you were
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  my plus one That's true. Maybe they were trying
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  to make sure I couldn't figure out if they thought
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  you were more if they just didn't like you or
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  if it was because you're the lady or because
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  they were like they can make you the yellow Mellow
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  the yellow menace or whether they can know you
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  were Yeah, that might be it well you were RT
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  as well as Yeah, I was never. Right. So I was
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  like double. I was never on staff. I've been
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  on RT a billion times, but not as a right. Not
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  as a host. So that's yeah. So I was thinking,
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  oh, this is going to be good. They're giving
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  us so much shade right at the launch. Like we're
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  about to launch TMI and these people are giving
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  us so much shade. So I thought, great. And then
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  rumble two years later, less than two years in.
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  They're like pulling the rug out from under us.
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  So it's like we have we keep the eyeballs there.
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  That's what rumble asked us to do we did it people
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  don't change the channel and This is the thanks
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  we get so I don't know what else a black spot
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  Thank you so much for the donation just a donation
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  for a donate for donation sake. Thank you black
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  Spock on on YouTube And Philip Blair on YouTube
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  says rumble is where cancelled youtubers went
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  where will you go now? Well, we're We're not...
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  Well, I'm afraid that... Believe it or not, YouTube
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  does seem to be... YouTube's cannily seems to
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  be well aware of the Rumble situation and seems
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  to be like, you know, being a little friendlier
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  than they used to be. Yeah, there's something
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  happening with YouTube like... I'm getting mixed
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  signals from them. I don't know, but I was one
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  of those cancelled reporters on YouTube for daring
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  to speak truth to power, but... You know, we'll
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  see what happens. So if we move completely over
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  to YouTube and if they cancel us there, it'll
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  be for a multitude of reasons. It could be for
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  our white nationalist Robbie. No, we're not leaving
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  rumble. It's just what we're having to do is
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  that we've got to build. If you are on rumble,
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  you like rumble. Nothing's going to change. We're
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  just going to. Yeah. We're just going to be thinking
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  more about YouTube, but we still love you Rumblers.
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  You know, that's not the issue. We love the Rumblers.
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  So we're going to, yeah, we're going to sort
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  it out. So, I mean, the only reason I'm moving
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  the gaming channel, the only reason I'm moving
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  the gaming channel completely over to YouTube
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  is because it doesn't make any sense to split
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  the audience for me because YouTube pays more,
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  pays more ad revenue. Also, if someone, because
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  I got bills, I got to pay too. And so if people
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  want to support me directly, It's easier to do
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  it on YouTube than it is on Rumble because you
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  can pay more. Or number two, on Rumble, you can
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  only become a paid channel subscriber during
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  a live stream. Whereas on YouTube, you can do
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  it whenever. It doesn't make a difference. So
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  for me, it's a different story. Now, to your
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  point, Ted, with YouTube, YouTube is not kinder
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  or gentler. They will drop the hammer on you
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  so freaking fast, it will make your head spin.
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  Out of the blue. Out of the blue. They'll drop
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  the anvil on you like Wile E. Coyote, right?
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  Like just bonk and you're gone. For no reason.
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  No warning. That's what happened to me. On Rumble,
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  I could post the spicy stuff, but over on YouTube
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  though, I got to be careful and curate what is
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  I put on there, especially if I go on a full
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  on tear. So like these, when I do that? Yeah,
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  those can't go on YouTube. Let's take a look
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  on YouTube. These spicy fiery Robbie rants have
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  to stay on Rumble. So that's where we know the
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  warning goes. And then Rumble will get paid for
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  it and we won't. So that's going to be the new
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  market. Read that article that I shared with
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  you all. It is eye -opening. Robbie has all the
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  numbers. Robbie's all data -rific. Data -tastic.
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  Data -tastic. So there you go. Thank you, Ray,
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  for the $10. Oh, thank you, Ray. Ray, you're
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  awesome. Thank you. We're very, very, very disappointed
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  with the changes that they made. Like it really
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  drastically cut into the earnings. And we were
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  just starting to build. We were just starting
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  to build and finally like pick up steam and being
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  able to pay our bills and stuff. And then the
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  rug gets pulled out. So I don't know. Well, don't
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  worry. You can always pay to play later on. Well,
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  let's move on. We are 22 minutes in. We have
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  stories to do. Kvetching must wait another time.
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  Yeah, Robbie's gonna pop back on anyways because
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  I know he has things to say about the German
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  election. So let's rock and roll. All right.
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  So I got a buddy out there. I need to ask him
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  what's going on now, now that the AFD has won
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  huge, bigly, bigly. They won bigly in Saxony
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  -Anhalt. So Germany's political establishment
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  just received a very loud message from the former
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  East Germany. The right -wing alternative for
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  Germany or AFD, because the D is Deutschland,
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  finished just short of an outright majority on
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  Sunday's state election in Saxony -Anhalt. The
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  result dealt a major defeat to Chancellor Friedrich
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  Mers and his Christian Democratic Union. Who
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  ted by the way, just promised to give them all
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  of their patriot missile batteries to ukraine
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  Today just right now well like Okay, yeah Okay,
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  like because getting your ass whooped by the
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  afd on sunday wasn't enough. You're like, you
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  know what? We're just gonna give All the patriots
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  to ukraine. Why not? Because well, I mean by
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  the way, did you see that report I put up in
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  the chat about how ukraine is? There was just
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  an audit basically all all the weapons that we
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  send them they just sell on the black market
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  I know because they some of them wound up like
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  some RPGs and stuff wound up south of the border
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  in Mexico some of the cartels have them like
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  this is the thing look it up a true story so
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  the the right -wing alternative for Germany AFD
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  finished we already said that so a staggering
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  87 percent of voters surveyed said they were
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  dissatisfied with Mertz's government. Another
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  poll found three quarters believed that the chancellor
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  had personally damaged his party's performance.
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  Mertz reportedly told CDU leaders the results
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  had shaken the party to its very foundations.
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  He nevertheless ruled out cooperating with AFD,
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  which hopes its Saxony -Anhalt victory will propel
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  it toward national power in Germany's 2029 election.
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  The vote centered heavily on the cost of living,
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  pensions and Germany's stagnant economy. Saxony
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  -Anhalt has an unemployment rate roughly around
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  8 % and has lost about one quarter of its population
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  since reunification in 1990. Business groups
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  warned that an AFD victory could discourage foreign
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  investment and make it harder to recruit skilled
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  workers. Voters appeared unmoved by that. Working
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  -class residents, young people, and men backed
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  the party in huge numbers. The AFD's 35 -year
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  -old candidate, one Ulrich Sigmund, built a strong
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  social media presence and promised to restore
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  a safer, more familiar Germany, he says. His
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  party prevailed despite being classified as right
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  -wing extremists by the state's domestic intelligence
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  agency. The final result is also rattling leaders
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  beyond Germany. France's finance minister called
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  it very, very worrying signals. As France faces
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  the possibility of its own right -wing populist
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  victory, Germany's establishment keeps warning
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  voters about the AFD. Voters keep warning the
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  establishment about everything else. Robbie's,
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  I know over there laughing and smiling. So one,
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  the guy I know who is like, I mean, this is not
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  a knock on him. He looks like a grownup kid from
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  Children of the Corn. You know what I mean, right?
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  Like super pale skin. Or Village of the Damned.
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  Or that yeah, like the palest blonde hair you'll
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  ever see the lightest But I would like yes, he's
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  East German he's in Saxony on hold But it's he's
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  not racist. He's my friend. He's not racist,
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  but he has a Racist friend, you know, it is possible.
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  That's true. It's probably possible. I don't
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  think he's racist though No, I could be a racist
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  friend if you want you But I don't think this
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  German guy that I know I don't think he is and
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  I think his concerns are legitimate Just like
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  many of the voters here in the US they are pissed
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  off about immigration They are pissed off of
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  like for example Volkswagen closing factories
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  for the first time since the founding by the
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  Fuhrer And if they've never closed up shop before
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  they are shutting shop like in multiple states
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  across Germany The German economy used to be
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  the economic powerhouse in Europe, and now it's
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  not. And France is struggling to chug along and
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  keep the whole EU idea going. But they're going
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  to be in trouble, too, because I think Marine
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  Le Pen is going to win. I think this is all a
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  sign that this whole global citizen scheme is
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  not working. It ain't gonna work. I think the
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  whole Soros backed idea of like no borders and
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  everybody can go everywhere because we are global
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  says global Except the thing here's the thing
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  Manila. It's not it's it's such a lie The vision
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  is that basically capital is fluid The capital
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  is a global citizen like the rich the powerful
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  the corporations They can they can like find
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  like, you know, we can get someone to build our
• 21:53
  we can we can get a 12 year old girl Chained
• 21:55
  to a sewing machine in malaysia To we can pay
• 21:59
  her. She's retired by then nine had 14 cents
• 22:03
  an hour to have her do it until she drops dead
• 22:06
  Um, and you know, but we the people the vast
• 22:11
  majority of the people of the world We don't
• 22:14
  have that fluidity. We are not able to say, oh,
• 22:18
  you know, the highest salaries in the world are
• 22:19
  paid in Qatar. So I'm going to go move there
• 22:22
  and make $180 ,000 a year doing political analysis.
• 22:26
  Like, no, that's not open. So it's all to their
• 22:30
  advantage. It's all to our disadvantage. That's
• 22:33
  why people are pissed off. Yes, Sierra Juliet
• 22:37
  Mike says my very close German friends are celebrating
• 22:40
  this when Germans want Germany back. Yeah, I
• 22:43
  agree I know a few Germans, but only one that
• 22:45
  I talked to with any regularity It's the the
• 22:48
  super blonde guy in Saxony on home and he supported
• 22:52
  the AFD and he he had pushed back and he's like
• 22:55
  Dude, do I seem racist to you? I mean he's I've
• 22:57
  known him for years and he's like we are not
• 23:00
  against like ethnic other people of ethnic minorities
• 23:05
  It's we don't want the mass immigration. We want
• 23:09
  our state back. We want our country back We want
• 23:11
  jobs for us. We we've heard this before Robbie
• 23:14
  like this is This is everywhere people are pissed
• 23:18
  Germany has a has a continuous history of about
• 23:21
  1800 years starting with the Holy Roman Empire
• 23:24
  up to today they have no obligation to commit
• 23:28
  national suicide because of a 13 year span of
• 23:31
  history and Don't come up with a Holocaust because
• 23:34
  the British Empire killed far more people than
• 23:37
  Nazi Germany did. Stalin's Russia killed far
• 23:41
  more people than Nazi Germany did. That's not
• 23:43
  actually numerically true, Robbie. The Nazis
• 23:49
  definitely hold the record. I mean, they're pushing
• 23:52
  a hundred million people. Okay, so how many people
• 23:55
  did Stalin kill that this purges? Not a hundred
• 23:58
  million. And then, well, how many? Give me the
• 24:00
  number. Well, it depends on how you count. So,
• 24:05
  you know, I mean ten to fifteen million. What's
• 24:07
  a hundred million Ted? What are you saying is
• 24:09
  a hundred million? What Stalin? No, no. Oh, you
• 24:13
  said Stalin. Okay, not not hit. No Hitler killed
• 24:16
  about a hundred million people. I'm talking about
• 24:18
  the Holocaust. I'm not talking about the total
• 24:19
  cost of World War two. Wait, wait, so wait, how
• 24:22
  come you're gonna carve out the Holocaust, which
• 24:25
  is really about 25 million people. We're talking
• 24:28
  about all the non -Jews, right? No, we're talking
• 24:31
  about within state borders. Yeah, the Holocaust
• 24:34
  is the hammer that's always used to smack the
• 24:38
  Germans like you don't know you don't deserve
• 24:39
  I mean, it's a pretty big fucking hammer. They
• 24:42
  have it coming Yeah, but do you but does the
• 24:45
  nation have to commit suicide as a result? I
• 24:48
  say no also the Japanese are defined suicidal
• 24:51
  defined suicide I don't believe in paying for
• 24:55
  sins of the father either like the the people
• 24:57
  alive today Weren't in the SS the people the
• 25:01
  young the people that are my age now that are
• 25:03
  suffering and can't afford to keep a roof over
• 25:06
  their heads and pay for You know heating over
• 25:09
  the winter sure families warm But if there was
• 25:12
  going to be if there was going to be an Israel
• 25:14
  it should have been taken from Bavaria not from
• 25:17
  Palestinians who had nothing to do with it If
• 25:20
  they and and like also is probably Germany lost
• 25:23
  its right to have a country because of the Holocaust,
• 25:27
  they should have been carved up into 26 zones
• 25:29
  like de Gaulle wanted. Okay, so then you're all
• 25:33
  about, okay, at least I know where you stand,
• 25:35
  at least you're consistent with your communist
• 25:37
  upbringing. Thank you. But to get back to the
• 25:41
  point about why this German party has won the
• 25:46
  election is because they Our team Robbie on this
• 25:50
  and they don't think that they have to commit
• 25:51
  national suicide on the altar of white guilt
• 25:54
  Define suicide. What do you mean? Like the migration
• 25:57
  or what? My migration plunging birth rates the
• 26:01
  economy collapsing the country being carved up
• 26:04
  being deindustrialized being turned into farmland
• 26:07
  and Then while you're doing that while your people
• 26:10
  are dying from opioids That shit's all happening
• 26:12
  all over the world including here in the u .s.
• 26:15
  And it doesn't have anything to do with the Holocaust,
• 26:17
  right? I understand that But also, if you point
• 26:20
  out, hey, maybe we should close the borders.
• 26:22
  Maybe we shouldn't be bringing in all these migrants
• 26:24
  because the economy sucks. It's getting worse.
• 26:28
  Volkswagen shut down, I think it was three new
• 26:30
  factories last week that no one's talking about.
• 26:35
  If the German state, if the German people can't
• 26:39
  get jobs, the why are you importing hundreds
• 26:42
  of thousands of people from all around the world
• 26:44
  and if you speak up about it you get sounded
• 26:46
  well yes the white supremacy you're one of those
• 26:48
  germans aren't you you're a german yeah i am
• 26:52
  i'm a german and i want to put germany first
• 26:54
  and also this current government, I'm pretty
• 26:56
  sure they're the ones that have tanks in Kursk.
• 26:59
  I'm pretty sure they're the ones that are funding
• 27:00
  actual Nazis in Ukraine. That's true. And I'm
• 27:04
  pretty sure also that they're the ones who opened
• 27:07
  the borders to massive, to huge numbers of Turkish
• 27:12
  and Arab gangs who are raping German girls in
• 27:16
  Berlin at New Year's Eve parties. So let's just
• 27:20
  call this thing what it is. The people of Europe
• 27:24
  have a right to have their homelands, too. And
• 27:28
  if that's racist, so be it. It's a word. Take
• 27:32
  your country back. Close your borders. Deport
• 27:34
  these fuckers. However, Robbie, can we stipulate
• 27:37
  that, guys, can we stipulate that when the far
• 27:41
  right takes over in Germany, that that can cause
• 27:46
  problems. I mean, it has in the past. You know
• 27:49
  what I mean? I don't even think they're that
• 27:52
  far right. They're populists. Listen, they're
• 27:55
  not Robbie level right wingers. These are people
• 27:58
  who are saying we want to be able to have jobs
• 28:03
  and have houses and maybe if we don't have these
• 28:06
  things, maybe we shouldn't be importing the whole
• 28:08
  freaking world. Let me say something about that.
• 28:12
  What they are espousing, believe it or not, many
• 28:15
  of the... a huge good number of things that they,
• 28:19
  the topics that they talk about. If you, if you
• 28:23
  erase the name AFD and quoted it and attributed
• 28:25
  it to George Galloway, it's indiscernible. They
• 28:31
  are saying many of the same things that George
• 28:33
  Galloway says. George Galloway is the right winger.
• 28:36
  I mean, he's one of those people that needs to
• 28:38
  be put to an education camp stall to style. And
• 28:42
  he's the head of the progressive workers party.
• 28:45
  I get that, I understand that. But that's what
• 28:48
  I mean. That's why these labels don't make any
• 28:50
  sense. You can't even tell what the AFD is actually
• 28:54
  like, you can't really call them right wing if
• 28:56
  they are saying some of the same exact things
• 28:59
  that George Galloway is saying. Come on, they
• 29:01
  are a right wing party. They're a right wing
• 29:04
  party. They're they're they're they're not no
• 29:09
  because no European party is is is anti -abortion
• 29:13
  They're you know, it's like are they anti climate
• 29:16
  change? No, because all countries except the
• 29:20
  u .s. Recognize that climate change is occurring
• 29:22
  and right wingers and and it's not a politicized
• 29:26
  issue in any country in the world except here
• 29:28
  in Tartistan and so they are the anti birth control
• 29:33
  Again, they're like not retards. So no, they're
• 29:36
  not the only and how are they right -wing? Because
• 29:40
  they're a national there by the way being right
• 29:42
  -wing is not an insult. It is just a definition
• 29:45
  of Where they stand they are Nationalistic and
• 29:49
  they are more interested in the glory of the
• 29:52
  state than in the rights of the individual That
• 29:55
  is the definition of a right -wing party. There's
• 29:58
  nothing wrong be with being right -wing, but
• 30:01
  that's not a right -wing party. What do you think
• 30:03
  they are? They're a populist party. You could
• 30:06
  say they have some neoliberal and some liberal.
• 30:09
  They don't have neoliberal, but they have some
• 30:11
  socially liberal aspects to them. Sure. They
• 30:14
  have some progressive aspects. Because it's in
• 30:17
  Europe. It's Europe. Europe is... That's the
• 30:21
  entire culture, especially of Western Europe
• 30:24
  and much of Central Europe too. You just made
• 30:27
  my argument. They are a populist party. They're
• 30:29
  not calling for the restoration of prussia I
• 30:31
  mean, that's not what they're doing. They're
• 30:33
  saying hey look over here's poland. Let's go.
• 30:34
  Let's go bitch slapping begin for supporting
• 30:36
  nazis That's like we are and to the point again.
• 30:39
  It is the current german government That is supporting
• 30:42
  funding and arming actual nazis in ukraine You're
• 30:47
  not getting any you're not getting any complaint
• 30:49
  from me i'm just annoyed that they're not going
• 30:51
  to the far left and going socialist or communist
• 30:53
  the way they should go Why would they do why
• 30:56
  would they Ted? Because socialism socialist and
• 31:00
  communist would also be opposed to financing
• 31:05
  the Nazis in and Russia Are the communists calling
• 31:11
  for mass deportations and closing the borders
• 31:13
  maybe getting rid of the Schengen zone. Not that
• 31:15
  I see Yeah, I don't even know If your concern
• 31:21
  is economic well, here's a question guys more
• 31:23
  to the point the future then Let's say we don't
• 31:28
  know look 2029 in politics is a long way away,
• 31:31
  but let's just say for the sake of argument Well,
• 31:33
  there's going to be more state elections, right?
• 31:35
  There's 13 states in germany This is just one
• 31:38
  but let's just say this trend continues and in
• 31:41
  and in five years both france and germany the
• 31:44
  founding nations of the eu Are now uh in the
• 31:48
  grips of these right -wing parties, right? are
• 31:51
  ruled by the right. Like Marine Le Pen as president.
• 31:54
  Yeah. What happens to the EU? I mean, will the
• 31:58
  EU, could the EU, I mean, if there's Frexit.
• 32:00
  I hope it breaks apart. And, I don't know, Jexit
• 32:03
  or Intermexit, would that be enough? I mean,
• 32:07
  considering that the, particularly the German
• 32:10
  former Deutschmark, which, you know, sort of
• 32:13
  floats. In sort of an ether. I don't know if
• 32:15
  you know about this, right? But like basically,
• 32:17
  it's not marks are not in circulation, but they
• 32:20
  still exist like in the banks and basically those
• 32:23
  are used to prop up the euro just like the French
• 32:25
  rank is would Could that lead to the collapse
• 32:30
  of the EU simply because there's no longer those
• 32:33
  two big European economies propping up the whole
• 32:36
  thing I hope so in in a manila in a In a perfect
• 32:41
  manila. I'm anti -eu in a big way. I'm a i'm
• 32:44
  a i'm a i'm a nationalist too. I mean I I think
• 32:47
  i'd love to see france get the frank back In
• 32:50
  a perfect manila world the afd sweeps germany
• 32:54
  in the next couple of years marine le pen is
• 32:56
  president in france They they break don't tell
• 33:00
  me you're not you're not a right winger then
• 33:02
  they break apart They break apart, but here's
• 33:06
  why it's not because I believe necessarily in
• 33:08
  everything they say but they Counterbalance the
• 33:11
  bullshit that we've the neoliberal bullshit that
• 33:13
  we've seen the past 25 years and they break apart
• 33:17
  NATO They break apart the EU and every country
• 33:21
  can then go back to having their own sovereignty
• 33:24
  I'm a sovereignty person. I lean libertarian.
• 33:27
  I'm not right -wing. I lean libertarian. I want
• 33:29
  I want like Robbie I want a small a small government
• 33:33
  I want that small government to leave me the
• 33:35
  fuck alone. But there are right libertarians
• 33:36
  and there are left libertarians. Sure. If you
• 33:40
  want to get an abortion, have at it. Have all
• 33:43
  the abortions that you want, ladies. That's your
• 33:45
  body. Whatever. The government should stay the
• 33:47
  fuck out of your uterus and out of your vagina.
• 33:50
  That is my view. The government has no place
• 33:52
  in my bedroom. Any of that and speaking of which
• 33:55
  I was just at the ron paul event this weekend.
• 33:57
  It was really great. Um So make you get pregnant
• 34:00
  now. So just because you have a uterus That's
• 34:02
  right. And if he wants if he wants to get an
• 34:05
  abortion and they can be milked too Yeah, and
• 34:07
  that's your far left party Robbie you and I can
• 34:11
  make more money by being milked now. We can sell
• 34:14
  our milk you can't oh god you can take those
• 34:18
  pills if you want to ted in in a manila perfect
• 34:20
  world that's what happens for france and germany
• 34:22
  you were worried about ultimately breaks apart
• 34:24
  ultimately breaks apart and then and you i think
• 34:29
  the the new fracture the newly fractured former
• 34:34
  eu will have to sort out its own little you know
• 34:40
  like not the mass Schengen agreement bullshit.
• 34:42
  They're gonna have to sort out with their immediate
• 34:44
  neighbors, like we sort out with Canada and sort
• 34:47
  out with Mexico, although it's not going great.
• 34:50
  But still, we have more stories. 19 minutes.
• 34:52
  We have our thing. That is that is what I would
• 34:55
  like to see happen in Europe, because I feel
• 34:57
  like all of these these European states have
• 35:00
  lost all their own identities. They've lost their
• 35:03
  sovereignty, and they cannot make any decisions
• 35:07
  without the fucking EU Parliament. Running roughshod
• 35:11
  over them. So you have no sovereignty. You have
• 35:13
  no country and all of those little little itty
• 35:16
  -bitty countries in the EU They're not countries.
• 35:19
  They're not countries anymore. They're just part
• 35:21
  of the mask flag Peter says the economic problems
• 35:30
  are so baked in that AFD and National Rally will
• 35:34
  come to be blamed for the economic collapse if
• 35:36
  they take power that's fair to That's fair. So
• 35:39
  but yeah, this is it's too fucked. Everything's
• 35:42
  fucked in Europe All right federal immigration
• 35:48
  officials and I should warn you this is very
• 35:50
  disturbing story in all seriousness federal immigration
• 35:54
  officials received court approval to force feed
• 35:57
  a Cuban detainee on hunger strike Including permission
• 36:01
  to surgically insert a feeding to through his
• 36:05
  abdomen without his consent. The unidentified
• 36:07
  man was arrested by ICE on July 22nd. He declared
• 36:12
  a hunger strike three days later. He's being
• 36:14
  held at one of those private gulags in Montgomery,
• 36:19
  the Montgomery ICE processing center near Houston.
• 36:22
  On August 19th, federal judge Andrew Hannon,
• 36:26
  who is, I guess he should have, You know ask
• 36:29
  Pete Hegseth where he got his swastika tattoo
• 36:32
  authorized ice to force feed the detainee The
• 36:36
  order normally allows guards to hold him down
• 36:40
  while medical personnel who I don't know how
• 36:43
  this the Hippocratic oath allows this Push a
• 36:47
  tube up through his nose and down in his throat
• 36:50
  into his stomach But this went even further the
• 36:54
  judge also authorized something called a PEG
• 36:57
  percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy tube. So in
• 37:02
  there they cut open his stomach and jammed this
• 37:08
  tube directly into his stomach and there it will
• 37:11
  remain until surgically removed. Obviously he
• 37:15
  was strapped down and tied down to do this. all
• 37:19
  international organizations in the world consider
• 37:22
  this to be a cruel and torture and it's officially
• 37:26
  torture. Anyway, the order was extended in early
• 37:30
  September and scheduled to remain active until
• 37:33
  the middle of the month. According to the UK
• 37:36
  Guardian, this is probably the 19th hunger striker
• 37:40
  since January of last year in which ICE got permission
• 37:44
  from Nazi judges to perform involuntary medical
• 37:47
  procedures. I mean, it's not a medical procedure.
• 37:51
  I mean, I don't know. It's a physical procedure,
• 37:53
  but it's not medicine Anyway, the dhs the department
• 37:56
  of homeland security said the dude has since
• 37:59
  resumed eating and drinking I mean can't blame
• 38:02
  him and is no longer being force -fed He also
• 38:05
  he they said he entered the country illegally
• 38:08
  back in 1980 Okay, so, you know he let's assume
• 38:13
  he was five um, you know, he's You know what
• 38:17
  I mean? He was five at the time. But that was
• 38:19
  a long fucking year time ago, right? I mean,
• 38:22
  that's 46 years ago. The dude's got to be at
• 38:25
  least in his 50s and probably in his 60s or 70s.
• 38:28
  He got a deportation order in 2004. Obviously
• 38:32
  they didn't get around to doing anything about
• 38:35
  it Under both republican and democratic administrations.
• 38:39
  He has convictions including aggravated assault
• 38:42
  battery and weapons offenses So he's obviously
• 38:45
  a fine law upstanding law abiding citizen civil
• 38:49
  rights advocates Basically were against this.
• 38:52
  So this is I mean look this is It's just another
• 38:57
  example of how the United States is an evil country.
• 38:59
  I mean, I can't believe I mean I can believe
• 39:02
  but it's it's disgusting that a judge signed
• 39:05
  off on this If the guy wants to have a I mean,
• 39:08
  I'm sure they went to the judge and said the
• 39:10
  dude's gonna die unless we do this They shouldn't
• 39:14
  you know hunger strikers at Guantanamo were subjected
• 39:17
  to the same foie gras approach They even did
• 39:21
  it like up their ass remember rectal feeding
• 39:24
  where they jammed it up their assholes, too Which
• 39:28
  by the way doesn't even that was fun Yeah, that's
• 39:31
  her fun Right exactly that that's just entertainment
• 39:36
  for the guards because that's post digestion
• 39:38
  I don't know it gets boring there and it gets
• 39:40
  boring at Guantanamo So it's like hey, hey guys,
• 39:44
  you know fill up the amphitheater. Let's like
• 39:45
  all shenanigans Ted. It's shenanigans It's all
• 39:49
  good. It's all good times when you're in the
• 39:51
  armed forces, uh, you know, make sure you tell
• 39:53
  your son, uh, you know Of all about all the good
• 39:57
  stuff they get to watch there in the armed services.
• 39:59
  Anyway, we got it We got to yesterday because
• 40:02
  he was saying that the united states is justified
• 40:03
  to fight in vietnam that we won the war and we
• 40:06
  locked Oh my god, we won we locked horns. He
• 40:09
  thought he thought we won He he argues that that
• 40:13
  south vietnam does not have to exist for us to
• 40:15
  have won that war I said, and what logic does
• 40:17
  that make any sense? Yeah. Yeah. I want to hear
• 40:19
  how, what did he say? Oh, nothing. Cause the
• 40:23
  kids, he intervened. He's like, no, we're not
• 40:25
  doing this because we're up on top of a mountain.
• 40:27
  So yesterday we were up, we were up at Holland
• 40:29
  Lake and it's just a little goat trail. So there's
• 40:32
  a thousand foot drop on the right -hand side.
• 40:33
  It was raining, it was muddy. It was just a mess.
• 40:36
  Actually our first snow yesterday too. It was
• 40:38
  wild. Oh my God. So we're going up there. We're
• 40:41
  just having this conversation. The kids are like,
• 40:43
  we're not doing this a thousand feet up with
• 40:45
  YouTube knuckleheads. We're not doing this. He's
• 40:47
  right. Yeah. So she is not wrong. But I don't
• 40:51
  know what, I don't know what alternative history
• 40:54
  book your son is reading about Vietnam. Yeah.
• 40:59
  I can introduce him to Jesse Ventura. Maybe Jesse
• 41:03
  can talk some, he was there. So maybe Jesse can
• 41:05
  talk. Well, that's like saying the Confederacy
• 41:07
  won the war of Northern aggression. Despite the
• 41:10
  fact that it no longer exists Right. Well, let
• 41:15
  me put it this way if that's winning winning
• 41:17
  is winning is a meaningless term First of all
• 41:23
  everybody involved in this force -feeding and
• 41:26
  jamming a tube into the dude's stomach Regardless
• 41:30
  of what criminal record the guy had is a torturer
• 41:34
  and belongs in prison. It's Manila Help me. I
• 41:41
  don't know. I mean like I Get I get I get that
• 41:46
  under the rule of law Whatever that means today,
• 41:51
  but if they are if you are in the custody of
• 41:56
  US officials and in this case For you know for
• 41:59
  right or wrong reasons. He's under ice custody
• 42:02
  They need to make sure you don't die They don't
• 42:07
  do a great job of that because migrants be dying.
• 42:10
  Um, that's true without their without their intervention
• 42:13
  all the time um, and why they're doing it to
• 42:16
  this guy obviously is just because he was Making
• 42:19
  a spectacle of it because it was a political,
• 42:22
  you know, he was he was so deliberate Yeah, he
• 42:25
  was doing a deliberate Stunt objectively. Seriously.
• 42:28
  They obviously didn't want the guy to die in
• 42:30
  their custody. It was gonna make them look bad
• 42:32
  They they don't want that. So what? Can you do
• 42:36
  what do you do? Like I I wouldn't know how to
• 42:40
  I wouldn't know how to respond to that as the
• 42:42
  judge I wouldn't know how to respond to that
• 42:43
  as what do you mean? You don't know how to judge
• 42:45
  How would you not know how to respond to it as
• 42:48
  a judge? You just feel like if the guy wants
• 42:50
  to die Let him die Yeah Yeah, yeah, it's his
• 42:56
  choice. He chose not to eat If he's choosing,
• 43:01
  if he'd rather die than be in image. And by the
• 43:04
  way, obviously he must be very angry and very
• 43:09
  desperate and must be thinking he's stuck there.
• 43:13
  And obviously, look, I'm going to be on team
• 43:15
  Robbie here. They need to quit dicking around.
• 43:17
  If they want to, they either should deport the
• 43:20
  dude or let him go. Right. No, I agree. I agree
• 43:22
  with that. And it's like, and just leaving people
• 43:24
  run. Like this is not right. That's why we're
• 43:27
  saying last week, if they can get fucking Milo
• 43:29
  Yiannopoulos out of here in 24 hours, then why
• 43:33
  are you holding these other people for months
• 43:36
  and months and months on end, and their families
• 43:39
  can't find them and whatever? Well, you know
• 43:41
  why. I get it. You know why. It's because of
• 43:44
  the deportation industrial complex. They get
• 43:47
  paid every night that guy fills a bed with his...
• 43:53
  It bleeds all over it from his stomach wound
• 43:56
  that we made Then yeah, so I'm saying is is that
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  you don't want the dude to die At all. I wouldn't
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  want the guy to die at all, but legally under
• 44:07
  my watch then like it's a legal issue Because
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  you can intervene how you intervene is No, but
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  you you I mean you can't intervene according
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  to according to human rights experts You can't
• 44:23
  intervene You have to like look handed to the
• 44:26
  brits. They let bobby sands die In the ira martyr
• 44:31
  Um, that's what they need to do. We have two
• 44:34
  more stories. We have we have nine minutes to
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  do. Let's do them All right, so here's a weird
• 44:44
  one, um so Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman
• 44:49
  is putting his money and influence behind an
• 44:51
  experimental treatment after a medical catastrophe
• 44:55
  I don't know if you call it a catastrophe his
• 44:58
  daughter 26 year old daughter Lucy Had some horrible
• 45:04
  brain thing happened to her in her apartment
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  in Brooklyn. It left her unable to move. So basically
• 45:12
  Paralyzed she can't speak or see Lucy collapsed
• 45:15
  in her Brooklyn apartment back in February after
• 45:18
  suffering a brain hemorrhage Atman quickly assembled
• 45:21
  a network of elite doctors and researchers as
• 45:24
  your you know billionaire father This notorious
• 45:27
  Zionist. Yes. He's the one that looks like Mitch
• 45:30
  And he's the one who's been like totally like
• 45:34
  team team genocide. I was just checking. Yeah
• 45:36
  Yeah, he's he's the one that looks like your
• 45:38
  buddy Mitch Rochelle He's an alumnus of Columbia
• 45:44
  University who leaned on Columbia to crack down
• 45:48
  and deport everyone and send the cops in to crush
• 45:52
  all the dangerous kids hanging out in their tents.
• 45:57
  He bought them clubs and was like, here, go back
• 45:58
  to 1980 and start beating people. He and Tucker
• 46:01
  Carlson hate each other with a passion. I've
• 46:06
  got to be on team Tucker here for sure. Ackman
• 46:09
  threatened to sue Tucker and Tucker's like, bring
• 46:11
  it. I'm not scared of you. He just went off on
• 46:15
  him. Yeah, he's great. But so his daughter, you
• 46:18
  know, his daughter, it's not, it's not her fault.
• 46:20
  This horrible thing happened. So Ackman assembled
• 46:23
  a network of all kinds of top tier scientists
• 46:26
  and doctors eventually helping secure emergency
• 46:29
  FDA authorization for a procedure never before
• 46:32
  attempted in human eyes. The authorization came
• 46:35
  through the agency's compassionate use pathway
• 46:38
  for investigational therapies. Doctors at Mount
• 46:42
  Sinai, where my son was actually hospitalized
• 46:44
  there when we were in New York a couple years
• 46:45
  ago, extracted mitochondria, the energy producing
• 46:51
  structures inside cells from muscle in Lucy's
• 46:55
  leg and then injected them into her eyeballs.
• 46:59
  The goal was to repair her damaged optic nerves
• 47:02
  and possibly restore some vision. The idea came
• 47:05
  from an April study showing that mitochondrial
• 47:08
  transplants helped mice recover from crushed
• 47:12
  optic nerves. Human evidence, however, remains
• 47:14
  extremely limited. The first reported transplant
• 47:17
  between body parts occurred in 2017, and scientists
• 47:20
  have since tried the approach on the heart and
• 47:23
  the brain. For Lucy the initial results offered
• 47:27
  a flicker of hope she regained the ability to
• 47:31
  Perceive light at least perceive light for several
• 47:35
  weeks according to a paper submitted to nature
• 47:38
  That's the magazine the scientific journal Not
• 47:42
  submitted to out in the nature To the birds and
• 47:46
  the bees But not yet peer -reviewed after roughly
• 47:50
  a month the improvement fated. Ackman says doctors
• 47:54
  are now exploring more frequent injections. Researchers
• 47:57
  reported no apparent damage to Lucy's eyes, an
• 48:01
  important finding for a first in human procedure.
• 48:04
  Still, some scientists question whether injected
• 48:07
  mitochondria can survive or make a meaningful
• 48:11
  difference. This is where we need JDC, our resident
• 48:14
  chief scientist, to tell us more about mitochondria.
• 48:17
  The crisis has also pushed Ackman into a much
• 48:20
  larger venture. He has now pledged more than
• 48:23
  $400 million to create the Ackman -Oxman Institute
• 48:27
  focused on brain recovery, rehabilitation, longevity,
• 48:31
  and human performance. It's a father's rescue
• 48:33
  mission backed by billionaire resources. But
• 48:36
  for now, the science remains a calculated gamble,
• 48:39
  not a cure. Hope is present. Proof is still catching
• 48:42
  up. So one, I feel really bad for Lucy to randomly
• 48:47
  have suffered. You're hanging out in your apartment
• 48:49
  in Brooklyn and you just have a freaking brain
• 48:53
  hemorrhage. That's horrible, obviously. I mean,
• 48:57
  like she didn't do anything. You know, she's
• 48:59
  a 26 year old girl and this just happened to
• 49:01
  her and like, God, poor girl. And then, I mean,
• 49:06
  her dad is a multi -billionaire hedge fund guy.
• 49:10
  So he's scrambling you would think when something
• 49:14
  horrible like this happens to your kid Ted that
• 49:16
  you would repent and understand the fragility
• 49:19
  of human life and that You would think that yeah.
• 49:24
  Yeah, you really would he's still he's still
• 49:26
  kind of unrepentant, but still okay cool He's
• 49:29
  investing like half a billion dollars into this
• 49:31
  new Institute to study like how mitochondria
• 49:34
  can work Science is a long ways away. I do think
• 49:38
  this is Cool one cool thing, you know the right
• 49:41
  to try that Donald Trump passed the first time
• 49:44
  Which I agree with a hundred percent. I mean,
• 49:47
  yeah, I think if you straight like it, what does
• 49:50
  she have to lose, right? I mean, why not? Yeah,
• 49:54
  this is all oh Ray says JD see left the chat
• 49:58
  he had to go somewhere. This is exactly right
• 50:00
  up his alley mitochondria stuff So this is like,
• 50:04
  you know the baseline of how cells function From
• 50:09
  your leg? Like that's... I guess cells be cells,
• 50:13
  Ted. It's actually very cool and interesting.
• 50:16
  Yeah, cells be cells. I don't know enough about
• 50:17
  that, but cells be cells, so I guess it doesn't
• 50:20
  matter where you harvest them? Well, I mean,
• 50:24
  we're finding out, right? Yeah, I guess we'll
• 50:27
  find out. So Bill Ackman, at least doing one
• 50:30
  good thing here, Ted, in humanity. One good thing.
• 50:34
  One good thing. All right, let's move on. And
• 50:41
  of course now my thing is not uploading. Oh here.
• 50:45
  No, here we go. Here we go All right, if traffic
• 50:48
  makes you want to quit driving Malta is prepared
• 50:50
  to pay you for it Malta is offering eligible
• 50:54
  drivers 25 ,000 euros That's about 29 grand to
• 50:58
  surrender their drivers licenses for five years
• 51:01
  Malta has a lot of cars some of the most highest
• 51:04
  concentration in Europe So congestion traffic
• 51:08
  jams are a huge national problem The new plan
• 51:11
  is to remove drivers from the roads to clear
• 51:15
  that up and encourage people to use buses and
• 51:18
  public transport. They're going after younger
• 51:20
  motorists. You have to be under 30, lived in
• 51:23
  Malta for at least seven years, and held a driver's
• 51:26
  license for at least 12 months. If your license
• 51:29
  was revoked or suspended, you don't qualify.
• 51:34
  Receive 5 000 europe euros annually for five
• 51:38
  years if you change your mind you have to pay
• 51:41
  back Whatever you already got once surrendered
• 51:44
  license is considered suspended After the five
• 51:48
  years are over. You must then complete 15 hours
• 51:51
  of driving lessons before you're getting a new
• 51:53
  one That last part is a problem Malta Malta So
• 51:58
  i'm gonna yeah, so I think that's a good place
• 52:00
  to end that story, but like that is Yeah, that's
• 52:03
  shitty, right? It's like you volunteer you haven't
• 52:06
  done anything wrong and then you're penalized
• 52:08
  And then you have to like you're treated like
• 52:10
  you're some kind of asshole at the end of five
• 52:12
  years Even though you were just trying to help
• 52:14
  out and let other people drive around That's
• 52:18
  wrong I didn't I didn't read carefully enough.
• 52:24
  So You they they give you a five thousand five
• 52:27
  thousand dollar a year whatever, it's not a stipend,
• 52:32
  right? Like they're just giving you a check for
• 52:33
  five grand a year, right? For really pushing
• 52:35
  your driver's license. You're voluntarily giving
• 52:38
  this up. It's not like you got it, like your
• 52:40
  Tiger Woods and getting a five -year suspension
• 52:42
  of your driver's license. Like, this is not that.
• 52:45
  These are like people with good driving records
• 52:48
  that are young, under 30. They're like, that's
• 52:51
  cool. I'm gonna ride a bike. I'm gonna ride,
• 52:53
  I don't know, one of these electric scooters,
• 52:55
  whatever. I'm gonna not drive my car. And then
• 52:59
  at the end of it, you're going to punish me and
• 53:03
  I need to redo my driver's ed all over again?
• 53:06
  Ridiculous. Totally insane. The idea was good
• 53:09
  up until that point. Yeah. Why young people,
• 53:12
  Ted? Do you have any ideas? Because it didn't
• 53:14
  explain. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
• 53:18
  they think young people would be more likely
• 53:19
  to bike or need a car or more likely to live
• 53:24
  in cities where they don't need a car. Or do
• 53:28
  you think or maybe they want maybe they need
• 53:30
  them? Maybe they you could they can use the 25
• 53:33
  ,000 euros more than an older person. Oh, that's
• 53:35
  true May or maybe young people will adapt and
• 53:38
  they'll make that part of their normal life.
• 53:40
  Oh, that's probably what it is They think like
• 53:43
  oh, they'll get used to never having a car and
• 53:45
  then they'll and then the generations just won't
• 53:48
  do it I guess that's not a bad idea. I mean,
• 53:52
  I gotta say it's a it's a It's a smart idea,
• 53:56
  but poorly conceived because of the 15 hours.
• 54:00
  The very end. Yeah, that's just ridiculous. I
• 54:04
  mean, I could see like if they said, oh, you
• 54:06
  have to take a one hour online refresher. Refresher.
• 54:11
  Right. Online. Fucking driver's ad all over again.
• 54:14
  15 hours is a long time. Manila, I had 25 hours
• 54:18
  of community service to do one time. And it took,
• 54:22
  it was like I wasn't allowed to do it all at
• 54:24
  once. And it took like months to get out from
• 54:27
  underneath it. It was like, it was just like,
• 54:29
  doesn't sound like that long. Like, oh, I could
• 54:31
  do it like three days, eight hours each. But
• 54:33
  like, no, it's just like, no, it's just like
• 54:36
  this huge pain in the ass. Yeah, this, the Maltese
• 54:40
  government, like you guys had a really good idea
• 54:43
  until that point. If you got rid of that sticking
• 54:46
  point, I think young people would do it. So anyway,
• 54:49
  there you go. If anyone has better ideas on how
• 54:51
  to get people to give up cars, I don't know.
• 54:55
  Let us know, because we don't know. Adios amigos.
• 54:58
  Happy Tuesday.