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Livestream: Hegseth Should Probably Just Not Open His Mouth · Combat Veteran News

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  That's right. New new week, new pack.
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  That's
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  That's what I say. I I burn them more
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  than a pack a week because everybody's
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  addicted to it.
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  like in my family,
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  not my kids, basically my wife, my
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  in-laws
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  and to a lesser extent my
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  brother-in-law.
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  How you guys? Where's everybody tuning
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  in from?
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  Let's see. Let's see.
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  Minneapolis,
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  your bed. I like it.
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  Man, I have so many European viewers. I
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  They all trade with each other, but they
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  all are subject to some really stringent
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  rules,
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  which is not a bad thing.
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  Except for to me.
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  Strike gums hitting today.
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  I'm kidding. Of course, my son is super
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  sick. Yeah. I'd love to be able to tune
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  in and are like, "Whoa, you're chewing
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  gum."
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  Could someone in chat enlighten the guy?
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  Hell yeah. Seattle.
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  Oh, I got wear my sticker. I took three
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  of them because I'm going to wear it for
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  the next three live streams.
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  But it's it's
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  the most American award,
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  right? the I voted sticker.
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  The problem is the VAT tax on Amazon. We
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  We'd consider like a distributor, you
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  think that's probably the way to do it.
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  Yeah, we consider working like a
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  distributor and then they can price it
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  at whatever they want. I would do that
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  for sure.
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  But
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  I'll figure it out.
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  I wonder.
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  I shouldn't say Europe. I should say EU.
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  Manchester.
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  H. Yeah.
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  Yeah, the VA tax labeling compliance
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  seems really hard.
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  Strike comes on Amazon in the US.
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  Yeah, we we are only in the United
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  States. The reason is because you have
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  to have a VAT tax registration number in
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  Europe and you have to meet European
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  labeling requirements which are very
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  different from US labeling requirements.
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  So that makes it pretty tough.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  All right. Should we talk about
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  what's going on with old Pete?
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  Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. I love when
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  people like this show is an express
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  train to board them. Yeah, exactly.
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  We're taking you there fast. Okay,
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  that's fine. Let's rip it and grip it,
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  baby. Or rip it and something it.
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  Okay,
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  let's
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  President Trump has repeatedly claimed
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  over the last week that Ukraine isn't
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  interested in peace and has rejected
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  tons of peace overtures. But the
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  reality, as we're going to expose today,
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  is exactly the opposite. that it's been
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  Russia who has actually repeatedly
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  rejected peace overtures and will that
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  impact the coming negotiations? No, of
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  course not because Russia has already
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  dismissed those. Take a look. So,
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  Zalinsky has met Trump envoy Steve
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  Wickoff uh who again is notable because
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  he is financially connected to Russia in
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  numerous ways and is not a US government
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  employee. He's a personal envoy of of
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  Trump himself. Uh but nonetheless, they
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  are meeting before Wickoff, of course,
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  jets off to Russia to share everything
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  he's learned with Vladimir Putin. And
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  coming along with them are Norwegian
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  Prime Minister Johannes Gar and Finnish
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  President Alexander Stub taking part in
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  these talks. Now, one of the problems is
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  that Wickoff and Kushner are
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  transparent. They are businessmen. They
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  are literally not government employees.
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  That is how not interested in serving
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  the US government or the US people's
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  interests that they are. And the issue
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  is that Vladimir Putin because he runs a
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  a dictatorship,
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  he can offer them things that the Finns
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  and the Swedes and the Norwegians simply
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  can't. And it would be illegal for
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  Alexander Stub, president of Finland, to
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  say transfer a billion dollars into
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  Steve Wickoff's bank account because he
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  would go to jail. He'd be robbing the
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  Finnish people.
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  Putin can't rob the Russian people
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  because he is the law. The law in Russia
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  is whatever Putin says it is. And if you
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  beg to differ, there's a window with a
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  with a there's a window on a high-rise
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  with your name on it. And so that's a
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  huge problem actually for the rest of
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  Europe because as we've seen literally
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  from Trump's ambassador Kimberly Gilfoil
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  that the Trump administration is not
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  ever trying to conceal the fact that
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  they are in these positions to elicit
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  the maximum personal enrichment that
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  they can possibly achieve
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  and democracies simply cannot offer them
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  that kind of enrichment.
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  And so the fact that they don't
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  understand this is is not a shocker. But
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  I think the real story is that at this
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  point you should regard everything
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  coming from President Trump's mouth as a
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  lie. As a lie to cons to attempt to
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  mildly obscure the fact that he is
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  simply siding with Russia. And let me
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  break down exactly how we know this. But
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  first, I want to mention guys that
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  obviously uh if you've tuned in to the
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  live stream, you know that I am a
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  fanatical user of Strike Gum. Why?
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  Because it is my own company. I'm tired
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  of energy drinks. So, I This was my This
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  last week's display pack. I keep chewing
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  it. It's got 90 milligrams of caffeine,
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  100 milligrams alpha GPC. This one
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  little piece contains the caffeine of an
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  entire energy drink. That's why we've
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  given it to Ukrainian drone pilots
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  fighting on the front lines. We've given
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  it to athletes, uh, my in-laws, uh, one
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  very tired dad is a huge fan of it and
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  So, I want to show you guys just how
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  little we should be trusting Russia.
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  Trump has these statements about a peace
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  process, about Russia being interested
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  in peace, but this is obviously not
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  true, right? Lavrov, for example, has
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  claimed that a peace deal would mean the
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  end of Zalinsk's regime. regime is the
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  term that Russia uses for the
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  democratically elected government in
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  Ukraine because obviously for Russia uh
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  they uh they have they're they assume
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  that they they know their elections are
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  fake. Most Russians know their elections
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  are fake and so but is important for the
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  Russian public in order to plate them
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  that they lie and say all democracies
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  elections are fake. Right? Now, that's
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  obviously not true because as you can
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  see, even in America, right, our
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  elections matter. And if you're not
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  sure, look at how much effort is spent
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  to stop Americans from voting. Uh, if
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  voting didn't matter, trust me, Russia,
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  Russia, you can vote online, dude.
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  Literally, Putin voted online in his
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  last election. Right now, obviously, you
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  go, "Man, that seems pretty suspicious."
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  But it's not suspicious when you're not
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  a democracy, right? Voting, when voting
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  is a dumb performance, then it doesn't
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  matter. It can't. It doesn't matter if
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  it can be hacked or not. Now, Lavrov has
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  accused Zalinsky of repeatedly
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  sabotaging peace negotiations, but
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  offered no evidence to support his claim
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  that Ukraine was responsible for the
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  breakdown of successive diplomatic
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  efforts. And
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  we point out that again he claims that
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  the Minsk Accords which happened before
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  the full-scale invasion, Istanbul
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  negotiations also which happened like
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  within weeks of the full-scale invasion
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  purportedly and trilateral meetings in
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  Abu Dhabi all ended uh without Russian
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  initiative. You might recall in Abu
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  Dhabi actually um Russia sent a
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  low-level minister, the equivalent
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  roughly to our deputy secretary of
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  interior um to meet with the with
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  Zalinsky himself. And the um deputy
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  minister actually just threatened the
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  lives of the diplomat saying that we're
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  going to kill you, which is of course
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  what you do when you're interested in
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  peace. And
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  again, Lavrov just repeats these kind of
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  insane lies. you know, he he alleged
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  that US backed diplomacy produced an
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  understanding between Moscow and and
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  Keev. Uh Ukraine would undermine it by
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  taking actions he described as
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  unacceptable, including strikes on
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  civilian facilities. Right? Again, it's
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  not clear what he's talking about. And
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  the
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  the he said it's apparently quote
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  because he understands any agreement
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  acceptable to Russia and the US would
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  spell the end of his regime and him
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  personally. Uh which is crazy. It says
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  that we're going which is a wild thing.
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  states, "You may be the elected
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  president of Ukraine. We're going to
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  kill you." Like, killing you is a
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  requisite of any peace deal. Which is
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  crazy that he would just say it. Like,
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  and the US would be down for that. Like,
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  one, this is actually, believe it or
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  not, I think this is the truest thing
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  I've heard Sergey Lavrov say because
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  that's exactly what Russia's stance has
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  repeatedly been, is that they want to
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  obtain a veto vote over any government
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  that is elected in Ukraine. Now, you may
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  think to yourself, "Huh, that seems sort
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  of suspicious." And it is, right? You
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  know, like my house is a democracy. My
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  kids can vote to eat anything they want,
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  but dad has veto authority. So, at
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  dinner, if you're if you don't pick a
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  vegetable, then guess what?
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  You're not getting like like I'm vetoing
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  all the candy, candy and popsicles and
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  ice cream, dad gets to veto them. So,
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  who's really in charge? Obviously, my
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  kids don't run the household. My kids
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  don't decide what we eat for dinner. I
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  decide what we eat for dinner. and they
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  get like, "Do you want kiwis or
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  blueberries?" Okay, it's great when
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  you're a parent, but it is not great
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  when you're a sovereign country because
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  believe it or not, in a democracy,
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  Sergey Lavrov doesn't get to decide who
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  is in charge of Ukraine.
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  And so, the fact that Lavrov says any
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  peace deal requires us to say, "Listen,
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  you need to give us the authority to
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  you need to give us Russia the authority
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  to decide who leads you is not
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  acceptable to Ukrainians.
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  Because as you might recall in Ukrainian
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  history, whenever people in Moscow have
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  gotten to decide, have gotten a veto
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  authority over who's in charge of
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  Ukraine, it's ended pretty badly for the
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  Ukrainians. You might recall the
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  hoodomore, which is considered a
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  genocide perpetrated by the Soviet Union
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  and bureaucrats in Moscow against the
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  Ukrainian people. Something like 15 to
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  20 million Ukrainians were starved to
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  death by Soviet policies. And that is
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  again a function of the fact that the
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  Ukrainians gave up their right to choose
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  who is in charge of them.
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  So for once, Lavrov is spot on. But
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  here's the insane part. Russia claims
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  that Ukraine is always sabotaging peace
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  deals. But but take a look. This is an
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  article from 6 months ago, guys. This
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  isn't this is from June of this year,
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  okay? This is how badly brained the
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  administration is and Trump personally
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  is about policies. Putin, not Zillinsky,
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  not a third party. Putin himself has
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  stated that he has rejected Kev's
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  proposals to limit the use of long-range
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  missiles and stop hostilities. In an
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  interview with Russian state television,
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  he televised it on Sunday in mid June.
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  Putin said Ukraine had proposed a mutual
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  halt to long-range attacks and a step
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  towards peace. But the Russian president
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  said this proposal was made because K's
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  forces were under pressure on the front
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  lines. quote, "It's clearly why this
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  proposal is being made. Because our
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  counter-strikes deep in Ukrainian
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  territory are much stronger, have
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  greater impact, and are more
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  destructive." That's a direct quote from
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  Vladimir Putin to on Russian TV. Quote,
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  "Given their catastrophic shortage of
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  personnel, Ukrainian armed forces
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  apparently believe this could be their
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  salvation. But saving the KE regime is
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  not part of our plans," he added.
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  This is insane. Again, not even six
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  months ago. This this is 3 months ago,
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  90 days ago. Ukraine Russia was bragging
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  about rejecting Ukrainian peace
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  proposals about how they are not
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  interested in moving towards peace. He
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  he put it on [ __ ] TV. This is one of
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  the reasons why this whole idiotic
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  theater only works if it is if it is
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  conducted by someone like Steve Wickoff
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  and Jared Kushner. Because these guys go
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  to Russia with no State Department
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  officials, with no State Department
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  translators.
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  And because if they had any State
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  Department Russia expert, anyone who
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  even speaks Russian, they would say to
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  them, "Hey, Steve,
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  I watched Putin give a speech where he
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  said the exact opposite."
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  Here's here's another article from
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  December of 2025, 6 months prior to
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  that. Putin rejected compromise for
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  peace. Vladimir Putin gave clear
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  indication Wednesday he will not
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  compromise his demands for Ukraine to
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  seed territory despite US President
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  Trump's intensifying push for peace. In
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  a combative speech delivered uh Putin
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  lashed out Ukraine's European allies and
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  said Russia would take the territory by
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  force if necessary. Quote we'd prefer to
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  do this and eliminate the root cause of
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  the conflict through diplomacy. Putin
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  said quote if the opposing country and
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  its foreign patrons refuse to engage in
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  substantive discussion, Russia will
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  achieve the liberation of its historic
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  lands through military means. This is
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  transparent. This is not about NATO.
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  Remember at the start of the war, many
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  of the right-wing shill community,
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  my favorite of course being
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  self-proclaimed geopolitical expert
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  David Sachs, who is also the Trump
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  administration's cryptos are. Obviously,
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  crypto is totally not a scam, also said
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  that it was because NATO had surrounded
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  Putin on one side, which is how
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  surrounding works. But Putin doesn't
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  even pretend like that was ever the
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  case. He says this is about liberation
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  of Russia's historic lands, i.e. The
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  Ukrainians need to be colonially
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  dominated. The Ukrainians need to have a
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  colonial power rule over them. And that
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  colonial power should be Moscow. This is
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  of course unhinged. And the fact that
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  Zalinsky is treated like a maniac for
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  being like, "Hey, hey, we'll stop
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  fighting, but like
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  I you can't take over my country." This
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  is like being like I mean this is some
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  stop resisting energy. Okay, this is
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  like being a protester getting just
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  blasted by ICE in the with a [ __ ] in
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  the face with a pistol and they're like,
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  "Uh, why are you so mad, bro? Uh, I
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  don't know. Cuz you [ __ ] blow me up."
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  Right? It's like being mad at someone
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  for robbing your your kitchen. And they
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  go, "Bro, aren't you interested in
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  peace? The only way to peacefully
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  resolve this robbery is for you to give
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  me all your valuables." And you go, "No,
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  no, you can't rob me."
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  So, this is the kind of [ __ ] that again,
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  this is why you you can't trust what the
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  administration says when they pretend
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  these events that they didn't happen 10
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  years ago. I'm not citing some ancient
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  history. We're talking about events from
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  90 days ago, 120 days ago, and these
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  events, they've like vanished into the
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  ether. Even news reports that are that
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  are like have a more pro- Ukrainian bend
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  don't talk about this and acknowledge it
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  as fact. They won't even quote they
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  won't even tell you that Putin said the
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  opposite on Russian TV.
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  The fact that Putin sits there and goes,
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  "Yeah, those Ukrainians asked for peace,
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  but [ __ ] them." Right, guys? Am I right,
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  Russia? Like what? And then Trump goes,
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  "I just want peace to happen." Listen,
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  there's one way to get someone to
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  rethink their warfare, especially
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  someone like Vladimir Putin. He has to
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  believe that continued aggression is
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  going to cost more than he stands to
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  gain. Putin does not sit at the top of
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  the Russian
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  world, the Russian pyramid by being
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  someone who can't do a risk benefit
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  calculation. He is not President Trump.
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  He is he is probably a raging narcissist
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  but he is also very brilliant
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  and the only way right making his victim
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  weaker does not help him.
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  Again this is like this is like thinking
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  telling thinking that a bully will stop
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  if the person does even le puts in even
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  less effort to defend their lunch money.
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  They say, you know, the best way to get
• 20:52
  the bully to stop is actually to to to
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  throw your lunch money at him and curl
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  up into a ball. Nobody, you'd get
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  laughed at if you gave a person that
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  advice. But when Ukraine is given that
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  advice, it's absurd. Again, this is like
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  a teacher like giving the student a
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  wedgie and being like, "Now go deal with
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  the bully." Like, what? It's a
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  It's It has me flabbergasted, truly.
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  Like I don't know what else to do. We're
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  talking about and this is a deeper
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  problem here. We're talking about like
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  the fabric of reality, right? Like like
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  what is Putin
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  moving trying to achieve peace? No. Is
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  Ukraine sabotaging peace deals? No. And
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  this is obvious. It is not something
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  that is open to interpretation. It is
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  not a question. It is not a debate. It
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  is not a if this then that. Like these
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  are basic facts of reality about what
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  happened, right? Like am I a YouTuber or
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  am I a heart surgeon? There's not a this
• 21:59
  isn't this isn't there's not like two
• 22:00
  sides to this debate. There's a real one
• 22:02
  and fake [ __ ] That is the level of
• 22:05
  reality that we are in where you go
• 22:08
  listen. So, the thing to take away here
• 22:11
  is that we're seeing this this this I
• 22:14
  don't know what else to call it, like a
• 22:16
  ripping apart of reality, and you're
• 22:18
  seeing it in the election. I mean,
• 22:20
  things
• 22:22
  that are absolutely insane to me. Um, I
• 22:25
  read a story recently that in Texas, I
• 22:28
  haven't personally seen it, but a
• 22:31
  Republican group has produced a bunch of
• 22:33
  flyers pretending to be an LGBTQ
• 22:36
  advocacy organization, but the flyers
• 22:38
  contain like inflammatory claims about
• 22:41
  about stealing kids and stuff. And like
• 22:45
  multiple Texas trans rights groups have
• 22:47
  been like, "We never made this.
• 22:50
  We're talking about like like
• 22:53
  you know there are ads being run on
• 22:55
  national TV stating that that candidates
• 22:58
  for Senate again here in Texas are are
• 23:00
  communists. I
• 23:03
  that's just not true. The American
• 23:04
  Communist Party exists and none of their
• 23:08
  candidates are even on the ballot.
• 23:12
  It's more important than ever to try to
• 23:14
  comport yourself, try to understand what
• 23:16
  is reality and to use a little bit of
• 23:20
  looking into the past to see these
• 23:21
  things, to look into the past for
• 23:23
  evidence.
• 23:25
  And until we can learn to do that, we're
• 23:28
  going to continue to get tricked by
• 23:30
  these these these ghouls in the White
• 23:33
  House and around the world that rely on
• 23:36
  the fact that they can lie and some
• 23:37
  people will believe them because they
• 23:39
  vibe it to be true. Anyway guys, hit
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  you guys got some value out of it. Um,
• 23:48
  and I'll catch you guys. Uh, well, we're
• 23:52
  still going. Sorry. The idiots have
• 23:55
  taken over. Don't call your reps. Just
• 23:57
  work. Just Just vote. Just vote, guys.
• 23:59
  Just vote. It's that easy. It's that
• 24:01
  easy.
• 24:29
  Yeah,
• 24:36
  fuket. I see you. Putin is a nons. I I I
• 24:38
  don't think that's true. Like, he's a
• 24:40
  bad person. He's in he's someone who is
• 24:43
  who has a medieval conception of power
• 24:47
  and like to him the donbas is worth a
• 24:52
  million Russian lives. He won't think
• 24:54
  twice about it. But
• 24:58
  I I point these things out because the
• 25:03
  but he is not stupid.
• 25:30
  Yeah.
• 25:37
  Yeah. And you know ultimately like
• 25:41
  I don't care if people have different
• 25:43
  stances.
• 25:44
  Uh
• 25:46
  but the
• 25:52
  but like you have to traffic in truth.
• 25:54
  like you can't I like there's they're
• 25:57
  stretching the truth and stretching
• 25:58
  policies and speculating, but there's
• 26:01
  just a really fundamental
• 26:04
  um
• 26:07
  problem in like once you start to sit
• 26:10
  there and just go we're just going to
• 26:10
  lie to people
• 26:14
  I don't it's really really hard. Uh
• 26:20
  like you can't
• 26:23
  like there's just a a
• 26:28
  I don't know what to tell you. Like you
• 26:32
  like you can't have a democracy if
• 26:33
  people don't have b aren't able to
• 26:37
  operate
• 26:39
  with just like basic information. You
• 26:41
  know what I mean? Like how can you
• 26:43
  discern candidates if you don't if if
• 26:45
  you don't know like
• 26:48
  fundamental facts? Does that make sense?
• 26:57
  Okay, man. I'm trying to find this Trump
• 26:59
  tweet from yesterday and it looks like
• 27:00
  he's Trump appears to have tweeted
• 27:02
  literally thousands of times. Pete
• 27:04
  forgetting it's democracy not dictator.
• 27:06
  Uh Pete knows he just is mad about
• 27:09
  voters.
• 27:14
  He's just mad.
• 27:29
  Okay.
• 27:48
  I'm trying to find here.
• 27:54
  Sorry. when I had a uh
• 28:01
  there was a story here. Uh
• 28:10
  oh, weird. Okay, they changed the title.
• 28:15
  Weird.
• 28:17
  Okay, let's talk about it.
• 28:39
  All right.
• 28:42
  All right. Let's talk about it.
• 28:49
  The best news I get on call sheet. Yeah,
• 28:51
  that's that's a fact. Okay. Want to talk
• 28:53
  about Crazy Pete?
• 28:55
  Or actually, no, we're gonna do Pete
• 28:57
  last. I want to do this video next.
• 29:07
  Facing an absolute disaster in the
• 29:09
  midterm elections, President Trump seems
• 29:11
  to be flailing pretty hard. And there's
• 29:14
  nothing quite like a loser offering to
• 29:17
  help out one of his friends. And that
• 29:20
  seems to be the Trump plan at this
• 29:22
  point. And uh it might spell something
• 29:24
  actually even worse for the United
• 29:26
  States. Let's take a look. So, President
• 29:28
  Trump uh despite his own party uh
• 29:32
  gearing up for what appears to be an
• 29:34
  absolute like disaster, I mean an almost
• 29:36
  preposterous disaster in the coming the
• 29:39
  midterms. By the way, voting is
• 29:41
  happening right now. uh he's gone out of
• 29:44
  his way to endorse a foreign government
• 29:47
  a candidate in a foreign government's
• 29:49
  election stating to the great people of
• 29:51
  Israel essentially endors not
• 29:54
  essentially he is he endorses uh
• 29:56
  Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections now
• 29:59
  it's worth noting that that
• 30:02
  as a other than the Trump administration
• 30:05
  they have never once uh the American
• 30:07
  government does not weigh in on
• 30:09
  candidates in other countries elections
• 30:11
  at least not explicitly like this.
• 30:13
  Obviously, in historically in the Cold
• 30:16
  War, I get it. The CIA did the did did
• 30:18
  did did some shady stuff in Guatemala. I
• 30:21
  I I feel you. But almost overwhelmingly
• 30:25
  in OECD countries, um, in allies
• 30:30
  especially, the United States strictly
• 30:32
  stays away from who wins elections. And
• 30:34
  that's not an accident. It's because you
• 30:38
  can't be the leader of the free world
• 30:40
  but then do that play that the same game
• 30:42
  that Putin wants to play which is
• 30:44
  kingmaker where Putin again he doesn't
• 30:46
  the countries in the Russian orbit they
• 30:49
  don't have free and fair elections and
• 30:51
  so Putin has no problem sitting there
• 30:53
  and going hey man Bellar Russians if you
• 30:55
  know what's good for you you better
• 30:56
  elect Lucenko right that's a pretty
• 31:00
  typical uh Trump move uh and it's a
• 31:03
  pretty typical Putin move again most of
• 31:06
  Those countries in Putin's orbit don't
• 31:07
  have free or fair elections at baseline.
• 31:09
  But Putin uses his sway to influence the
• 31:13
  internal politics because he doesn't
• 31:15
  view himself as the leader of any kind
• 31:17
  of ideological block. Whereas the United
• 31:19
  States says, listen, as a free world,
• 31:21
  we're all democracies and that means we
• 31:23
  choose our own leaders without the
• 31:25
  interference from others. Trump
• 31:26
  obviously not someone who believes in
• 31:28
  democracy. what with the whole, you
• 31:30
  know, trying to overturn the election in
• 31:31
  2020 thing. Uh it makes sense then that
• 31:35
  he is going to throw that norm out the
• 31:37
  window and say, "Actually, Israel, if
• 31:39
  you love Netanyahu, I love him, too. You
• 31:42
  should absolutely vote for him. Uh
• 31:44
  because we both are totally destroying
• 31:47
  Iran." Now, we haven't done it yet, and
• 31:49
  we're actually not winning at all. Um
• 31:51
  but but but don't worry, we'll soon
• 31:53
  finish the job. Four more weeks, guys.
• 31:55
  four more weeks of the special military
• 31:57
  operation and we'll be a-ok okay right
• 32:00
  and he also says literally explicitly
• 32:02
  quote if Israel has the wrong leader
• 32:04
  which would be anyone other than BB
• 32:05
  Netanyahu America will have to do the
• 32:07
  work ourselves and I am not inclined to
• 32:09
  do so uh what so
• 32:14
  so again Trump just sort of saying the
• 32:16
  quiet part out loud which is yeah we
• 32:17
  totally went to war for Israel and if
• 32:19
  Israel doesn't want this war we'll just
• 32:20
  go home too I don't really want to be
• 32:22
  here at all which is child. Uh
• 32:27
  now again he also classic says he's he
• 32:31
  has tre BB Netanyahu has faced
• 32:33
  tremendous opposition including coming
• 32:34
  from Israel itself which is wild to be a
• 32:38
  foreign leader and sit there and go hey
• 32:40
  Israeli opposition. I hate you. Right? I
• 32:43
  thought Israel was like hated foreign
• 32:45
  interference. I thought Israel went
• 32:47
  after people who tried to interfere with
• 32:49
  their internal politics. But again this
• 32:51
  is a different Israel. Uh, this is
• 32:54
  Netanyahu's Israel. And apparently that
• 32:56
  [ __ ] is now cool and dope and pretty
• 32:58
  sick. Uh, I guess this is this is
• 33:01
  absolute [ __ ] madness. But the
• 33:03
  question is why? Why are these guys
• 33:05
  putting their arm around each other and
• 33:06
  acting like besties? I think it's
• 33:08
  because they got some serious serious uh
• 33:13
  disaster plans coming up. Now, before we
• 33:15
  talk about it, I want to mention, guys,
• 33:16
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  States. So,
• 34:01
  what I think is kind of wild is that
• 34:04
  speaking of saying the quiet part out
• 34:05
  loud, Netanyahu also
• 34:08
  uh
• 34:11
  this is crazy because when I pulled up
• 34:13
  this story, the headline was very
• 34:15
  different. The headline was actually
• 34:16
  this little asterisk here. They've
• 34:18
  removed it, which is crazy. Netanyahu
• 34:20
  says he told Trump of the importance of
• 34:22
  eliminating Iran's terrorist regime,
• 34:24
  which is crazy because you might recall
• 34:26
  that that
• 34:29
  one officially
• 34:32
  the operation Iran had nothing to do
• 34:34
  with regime change. Remember that?
• 34:36
  Remember that was a whole controversy
• 34:37
  and they were like, "We're not going to
• 34:38
  do regime change wars." And now they're
• 34:40
  like, "Actually, this is a regime change
• 34:41
  war. JK, haha, what a we pulled a fast
• 34:45
  one." And then they said, "No, no, no,
• 34:46
  no. Remember the chairman of the joint
• 34:48
  chiefs released objectives of epic fury
• 34:50
  and regime change wasn't one of them.
• 34:52
  Netanyahu is saying the quiet part out
• 34:54
  loud again. He's saying listen I told
• 34:55
  Trump we're eliminating this regime baby
• 34:58
  get in.
• 35:00
  Now you may note that the only way to
• 35:02
  eliminate the regime is actually with
• 35:05
  ground troops. A lot of ground troops.
• 35:08
  Like probably like a million would be my
• 35:10
  guess was what it would would take and
• 35:12
  probably 20 years if it ever worked. Uh
• 35:15
  you obviously the Israelis don't have a
• 35:17
  million ground troops. Um you know
• 35:20
  they're already committed to their three
• 35:22
  different other regional wars. Uh that
• 35:25
  would mean of course that we need to
• 35:28
  eliminate the terrorist regime means
• 35:30
  you're going to eliminate the terrorist
• 35:31
  regime. Obviously it's kind of like when
• 35:34
  my wife says we need to dig some holes
• 35:36
  in the garden. I'm kidding. Of course
• 35:38
  she actually loves gardening. She loves
• 35:40
  digging those holes. I just
• 35:42
  I'm just like, whoa, that hole looks
• 35:44
  deep. But you know what I mean? Um, when
• 35:47
  we do the dishes, I don't know. We My
• 35:50
  wife isn't like that. But you know, you
• 35:51
  know the joke. The takeaway. The thing
• 35:55
  that's not a joke is that I really worry
• 35:59
  what happens if these guys win because
• 36:01
  Axios is reporting that Pete Hegath made
• 36:04
  a mystery unannounced visit to Israel
• 36:07
  and met with Netanyahu. Now, nobody has
• 36:10
  said what the details of the meeting
• 36:12
  were or why going into these contentious
• 36:15
  midterms that President Trump is
• 36:17
  absolutely belleaguered on and totally
• 36:19
  losing in this foreign war and it's one
• 36:21
  of the most unpopular wars. In fact, you
• 36:23
  can literally see on Poly Market, right,
• 36:25
  the midterms uh that you can watch as
• 36:29
  the as the war went took underway, it
• 36:33
  actually
• 36:35
  annihilated the odds of the Republicans
• 36:38
  having any kind of success in the
• 36:40
  midterms. Here we go. You can see that
• 36:42
  in January, as the war started, the odds
• 36:45
  of a Democrat sweep were just 35%.
• 36:49
  Now you can see the odds of the
• 36:52
  Democrats sweeping the House and Senate
• 36:54
  have doubled to 65%.
• 36:58
  This is crazy. These are crazy numbers.
• 37:02
  And the takeaway is that this is someone
• 37:06
  who is absolutely being cooked by this
• 37:08
  war. And so the fact that Pete Hexath is
• 37:12
  going and being seen holding hands and
• 37:15
  slapping backs planning some big scheme
• 37:18
  with Netanyahu
• 37:20
  is crazy. It is a crazy bad idea, but it
• 37:25
  is also a really really uh troubling.
• 37:32
  And
• 37:34
  I point these things out because
• 37:38
  I think there's might be a little bit of
• 37:40
  Putin calculus here. Remember Putin who
• 37:42
  holds uh symbolic elections, right? He
• 37:45
  never will leave power and his uh state
• 37:48
  deputies are always chosen by him uh as
• 37:51
  as the eventual winners of the election.
• 37:54
  But Putin likes to have the stamp of an
• 37:57
  election and uh before embarking on
• 38:00
  major policy shifts. We noted that he
• 38:02
  has prepared a mobilization um and begun
• 38:05
  to basically um antagonize Europe in the
• 38:09
  hopes that an EU country will uh more
• 38:12
  explicitly
• 38:14
  uh and openly antagonize Russia or or
• 38:17
  respond to Russian aggression. And then
• 38:19
  Putin will go, "We're at war with NATO.
• 38:21
  Sudden mobilization. Alert alert. alert
• 38:24
  and he can do that. He can do his his
• 38:26
  mobilization, his draft. That's a draft.
• 38:28
  Um because he won his election. My fear
• 38:32
  is that President Trump is operating
• 38:34
  with a similar set of calculus. That as
• 38:36
  a commander-in-chief, he can do anything
• 38:37
  he wants. We've demonstrated that
• 38:38
  Congress, this Congress at least, has no
• 38:41
  intention of holding President Trump
• 38:43
  accountable in any substantive way for
• 38:46
  these actions. Right? He he can go to
• 38:47
  war and it doesn't matter that the
• 38:49
  Constitution says that Congress has to
• 38:51
  declare war. Um,
• 38:54
  Congress just says, "Well, they the
• 38:55
  founding fathers were just joking
• 38:57
  around. They were just sort of playing
• 39:00
  my fear that President Trump says,
• 39:02
  "Listen, I'm gonna win this election. He
• 39:03
  won't, but you know, the Republicans
• 39:05
  will win this election and he's going to
• 39:08
  take that W and he's going to go and
• 39:10
  he's going to say that they must want me
• 39:12
  to do this Iran war and I have two years
• 39:14
  before I have to worry about any new
• 39:15
  elections and that he's going to go
• 39:18
  bananas. He's going to throw the US
• 39:20
  military into ground combat in Iran.
• 39:21
  That is my fear whether there's going to
• 39:23
  be renewed strikes that are going to
• 39:25
  close the straight even further. Again
• 39:28
  this this set of policies is just
• 39:32
  backfiring. I mean I mean you can see
• 39:34
  literally in the leadup to the midterm
• 39:37
  September 29th you can see that this
• 39:39
  this the price of oil has gone up again.
• 39:42
  It's floating around 109 108. Absolutely
• 39:46
  crazy numbers. Again, it's only been
• 39:48
  this high like in the last five years.
• 39:51
  Oil briefly touched these heights during
• 39:55
  Putin's invasion of Ukraine and that
• 39:57
  lasted just just 4 months. So, you can
• 39:59
  see that already we're seeing these
• 40:01
  these extremely elevated oil prices um
• 40:05
  be last be more persistent and last
• 40:08
  longer. It's been six months now since
• 40:10
  this war started and they these oil
• 40:12
  prices have been persistently very very
• 40:14
  high. Um,
• 40:18
  and they're going to stay high. They're
• 40:19
  going to stay high as long as this war
• 40:20
  is going on because the the the reality
• 40:24
  is that the Iranians have shown that
• 40:27
  they can and do destroy presidential
• 40:29
  administrations, right? The Iran Contra
• 40:31
  scandal took down Reagan. The Iran
• 40:34
  hostage crisis took down Jimmy Carter.
• 40:37
  The Iranianbacked insurgencies in Iraq
• 40:41
  destroyed Bush. So somehow, again, I'm
• 40:45
  not like the Iranians are good guys, but
• 40:48
  you have to engage the Iranians with
• 40:50
  strategy. The only president who wasn't
• 40:54
  totally destroyed by some Iran scandal,
• 40:57
  you could argue, is Obama, and he's the
• 40:59
  only one that sat there and said, "Hey
• 41:00
  man, I think the Iranians are going to
• 41:02
  we're going to do better cutting a deal,
• 41:05
  figuring out a way to survive with this
• 41:08
  kooky regime instead of treating them
• 41:10
  like prias." As discussed, guys,
• 41:13
  Secretary of the Treasury Scott Ascent
• 41:14
  claims that this is the D-Day of
• 41:16
  economic sanctions have already hit
• 41:18
  Iran. Well, where's the collapse?
• 41:20
  Where's the where's the fireworks, man?
• 41:22
  Where's the D-Day invasion? It's not
• 41:23
  there because they're just making [ __ ]
• 41:26
  up at this point. Again, they're just
• 41:28
  living in fictional la land where they
• 41:30
  can say stuff or tweet stuff and that's
• 41:32
  the same thing as doing stuff. But the
• 41:35
  fear is that at some point they're going
• 41:37
  to realize that, hey man, we actually
• 41:38
  can do stuff. We still have options on
• 41:40
  the table. The fear is that all those
• 41:42
  options are too extreme, too risky, too
• 41:45
  dangerous to even consider pursuing
• 41:47
  while American voters might be able to
• 41:50
  express their anger.
• 41:52
  Anyway, guys, thanks to John, Kevin,
• 41:54
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• 41:56
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• 42:01
  channel.
• 42:10
  I love I love Okay, Susie Bach, I love
• 42:11
  it. JPCOA funded the IRGC.
• 42:15
  Um
• 42:16
  kind that that's stretching truth a lot,
• 42:19
  man. Because the JPCOA lifted sanctions
• 42:23
  in Iran in exchange for Iran complying
• 42:26
  with nuclear safeguards
• 42:30
  and
• 42:32
  like I I don't know what to tell you. Um
• 42:35
  and you say Obama was gunrunning to the
• 42:38
  cartels. I know what you're talking
• 42:39
  about. And I believe the total number,
• 42:43
  right?
• 42:45
  The total number of firearms
• 42:49
  uh from Fast and Furious to the cartels.
• 42:54
  So, how many guns actually ended up in
• 42:56
  the hands of the cartels? Let's see. Oh,
• 42:59
  they said approximately 2,000 firearms
• 43:02
  uh fast allowed 2,000 firearms to be
• 43:05
  illegally purchased by straw buyers and
• 43:06
  flow to Mexican drug cartels. Um, okay,
• 43:09
  that was kind of [ __ ] up actually. I
• 43:11
  didn't realize it was that many. I
• 43:12
  thought it was like far fewer. Oh, no,
• 43:14
  sorry. Approximately 300 were found
• 43:16
  seizing US borders.
• 43:18
  Approximately 200 were recovered in
• 43:20
  Mexico and 1400 were never recovered.
• 43:26
  I think it's a stretch to say that this
• 43:28
  was this was the ATF
• 43:30
  doing something called letting guns
• 43:32
  walk, which is basically saying that
• 43:34
  listen, we're going to let the guns
• 43:36
  we're going to let somebody buy the guns
• 43:37
  illegally. And by the way, it started in
• 43:39
  2006 to 2011. So Obama was, believe it
• 43:43
  or not, not president. Actually started
• 43:44
  under Bush. Um again, purposely allowed
• 43:47
  licensed firearm dealers to sell weapons
• 43:49
  to illegal straw buyers hoping to track
• 43:50
  the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders
• 43:52
  and arrest them.
• 43:55
  So again, uh, a program that sort of
• 43:58
  started under Bush
• 44:01
  for three years and then continued under
• 44:02
  Obama for another four,
• 44:05
  you know, and each weapon was equipped
• 44:07
  with a GPS unit installed by Epic
• 44:11
  um,
• 44:12
  purchased at local electronic shops. GPS
• 44:15
  battery life was only a few days and the
• 44:16
  GPS weapons tracker signal was lost in
• 44:18
  car trunks.
• 44:21
  Truly brilliant.
• 44:24
  So again, uh it's difficult to say. I
• 44:26
  don't think it's fair to say that um
• 44:29
  Obama was running guns to cartels
• 44:32
  because by that metric, both Bush and
• 44:34
  Obama were running guns to the cartels.
• 44:36
  And again, I'm not like the ATF,
• 44:38
  Keystone Cops operation. Completely
• 44:40
  believable. The A USA and maybe even the
• 44:44
  uh um attorney general should lose their
• 44:47
  job for it. Yeah, for sure. But again,
• 44:50
  this is like this is like playing games
• 44:53
  with the truth. IO, thanks oligarchs in
• 44:55
  the United States and US and EU cannot
• 44:57
  understand that democracy also protects
• 44:59
  them.
• 45:00
  Yeah.
• 45:02
  Yeah. Oligarchs. Yeah. The ability of
• 45:06
  American oligarchs to look at the
• 45:08
  oligarchs in Russia and be like,
• 45:10
  "That'll never happen to me, you
• 45:11
  morons," is pretty stupid. And by that I
• 45:15
  mean the fact that Putin every quarter
• 45:16
  seizes uh seizes the property of these
• 45:20
  oligarchs and like democracy and rule of
• 45:23
  law um is good and worth protecting like
• 45:27
  for its own sake as a moral good, you
• 45:30
  know, but it's it's also just good. Like
• 45:33
  do you think Putin would allow Elon Musk
• 45:35
  to continue to run a Starlink or SpaceX
• 45:39
  company in this environment? No, of
• 45:41
  course not. and a US government that's
• 45:43
  running out of money, they're not going
• 45:45
  to get money from the poor people.
• 45:47
  They're probably going to get their
• 45:48
  money when they when push comes to shove
• 45:50
  and the US is going broke. They're going
• 45:52
  to get their money from rich people. So,
• 45:53
  you probably want to live in a democracy
• 45:56
  with strong individual rights and
• 45:57
  liberties protected. But here's the
• 46:00
  thing, rich people don't CEOs don't
• 46:02
  think that way. They are committed,
• 46:05
  their boards mandate them to increase
• 46:07
  the share price every quarter. And that
• 46:09
  means doing deals with the worst doing
• 46:12
  deals with literal Epstein clients. Ace
• 46:15
  Cams, what can Trump and Israel do right
• 46:16
  now that could help them win the
• 46:17
  midterms? The clock is ticking the
• 46:18
  administration out of the time. Well, I
• 46:19
  actually it feels I mean Trump here's
• 46:21
  what I want to point out. Trump has gone
• 46:23
  his Truth Social is [ __ ] going nuts.
• 46:27
  He appears to be actually losing his
• 46:29
  mind. I mean, look at all these tweets
• 46:30
  in the last This is this is it's October
• 46:32
  20th, right? All these [ __ ] alerty
• 46:36
  tweets. He's just trying to tweet his
• 46:38
  way to reality. He's like, "Stocks are
• 46:39
  up, guys. Stocks are up." If you use
• 46:44
  Biden December to now, now the the the
• 46:50
  stock surge under Trump is one of my
• 46:52
  favorite stories because if you look uh
• 46:56
  stock surge under Trump, stock surge
• 46:58
  under Biden, you can actually see here
• 47:00
  Biden uh you know, Trump loses 2020. So
• 47:03
  Biden takes office January of 2021. The
• 47:06
  S&P 500 is 382. Biden leaves office in
• 47:11
  um December. Or here we go. Here we go.
• 47:13
  He's leaving office. The S&P 500 uh
• 47:16
  nearly doubles. It's actually up like
• 47:17
  40%. So to sit there and say, "Oh, uh uh
• 47:22
  only Trump owns a thriving economy uh is
• 47:25
  is patently absurd." And like, yeah, I I
• 47:28
  I get it. the S&P 500 move it at a nice
• 47:32
  smooth uh kind of exponential increase
• 47:35
  here. I I I get that. But it's sort of
• 47:38
  absurd to sit there and be like when
• 47:39
  Biden stock market go up that was bad.
• 47:43
  The stock was going up in a bad way, but
• 47:46
  now when it goes up under Trump, it's a
• 47:47
  good way. It's a good one, right? And
• 47:50
  then Trump posts a bunch of images of
• 47:53
  things that I don't really understand.
• 47:55
  Um, a bunch of like damaged. Looks like
• 47:58
  things are maybe been damaged by a
• 47:59
  storm. He says trash island.
• 48:03
  Here's pictures from trash island.
• 48:07
  He says a collapsing seaw wall very
• 48:09
  dangerous to one's health. I I have no
• 48:12
  idea what this is in reference to.
• 48:14
  Again, he keeps saying something about
• 48:16
  trash island,
• 48:18
  but look, we the trash island pictures
• 48:22
  still today. I mean, he's right. the
• 48:25
  hundreds, dozens and dozens of pictures
• 48:26
  of trash island.
• 48:29
  Then he posts a book
• 48:32
  uh
• 48:34
  says a top-selling book by a boomer
• 48:39
  uh again the president of the United
• 48:41
  States endorsing his friend's book. Very
• 48:43
  cool. Then he posts a series of
• 48:47
  of small newspapers
• 48:51
  uh
• 48:53
  like
• 48:56
  saying big crowd turns out for rally in
• 48:58
  GOP stronghold. Right. I'm not sure.
• 49:01
  Right. The Dalton uh Daily Citizen
• 49:06
  uh bunch of random newspapers retweets a
• 49:10
  Republican account. Uh
• 49:15
  uh
• 49:17
  says, "The last time radical Democrats
• 49:19
  had power, they gave us the worst
• 49:20
  inflation, high energy prices, worst
• 49:23
  trade deficit in American history." Uh
• 49:26
  uh 25 million people poor across our
• 49:28
  borders. That's just a madeup. That's
• 49:30
  total fiction.
• 49:32
  By by the way, Joe Biden expelled more
• 49:35
  more people at the border than any
• 49:38
  president ever. uh mostly because of CO
• 49:42
  stuff, but you can see he's he appears
• 49:43
  to be like losing his mind. Um
• 49:46
  retweeting somebody named Eric Dotry.
• 49:48
  But look, we're still on today. This is
• 49:51
  he's tweeting I mean dozens maybe
• 49:53
  hundreds of times. It almost it it it is
• 49:57
  the
• 49:59
  it's the social media version of a total
• 50:01
  [ __ ] meltdown crash out. This is like
• 50:04
  if someone if my dad did this, I would
• 50:06
  legitimately
• 50:08
  uh try to 5150 him. I'd be like, "Dude,
• 50:12
  you have to you have to get a screen."
• 50:14
  Here we go. We're finally to yesterday.
• 50:17
  And by the way, by yesterday, I mean,
• 50:20
  here he is tweeting at midnight. So, he
• 50:22
  he just keeps tweeting. This is at
• 50:25
  midnight. So, he he tweets This is all
• 50:27
  taking place, by the way, around
• 50:28
  midnight last night.
• 50:31
  So again, it's a it's a stream. This is
• 50:33
  11:43 technically yesterday. Uh more
• 50:36
  stuff about Trash Island. Uh
• 50:42
  uh just a random picture, I guess, of a
• 50:45
  rally.
• 50:47
  Uh
• 50:49
  endorsements. I mean, you can see this
• 50:51
  is like a really unhinged bunch of
• 50:53
  tweet. We're still into the night of the
• 50:55
  19th, right?
• 51:02
  Yeah, here's the original tweet that he
• 51:04
  retweeted
• 51:06
  of himself.
• 51:09
  He says, "Two years ago, the Democrats
• 51:11
  handed us the dark age of America." Uh,
• 51:14
  okay, dudes. All right, boss.
• 51:17
  Sure it was. If you elect the Democrats
• 51:20
  will be Here we go. uh will turn into
• 51:24
  France, a once great nation conquered,
• 51:27
  looted, burned down by migrants,
• 51:29
  jihadists, and communist who
• 51:31
  Christianity and western civilization
• 51:33
  itself. I want to point out that one
• 51:38
  uh
• 51:41
  I mean this is
• 51:46
  the percentage the population that is
• 51:48
  foreign born.
• 51:50
  Yeah. GG. How long is he on his phone?
• 51:52
  brother. I don't even know.
• 51:55
  So, actually the French and the United
• 51:56
  States, believe it or not, we have
• 51:57
  similar foreignb born populations. About
• 51:59
  14% in France and about 14.8% in the
• 52:02
  United States. So, really um
• 52:07
  the the the
• 52:12
  interesting part is this is actually
• 52:13
  apples to apples. So, do you feel like
• 52:15
  today today do you feel like America is
• 52:18
  being destroyed by jihadist, Islamists,
• 52:21
  and third world migrants? Like, it's a
• 52:24
  simple question. I feel like the answer
• 52:25
  is probably no. But maybe you say,
• 52:27
  "Well, crime is really up, right?" Like,
• 52:30
  maybe maybe uh
• 52:35
  but here's the problem.
• 52:39
  uh
• 52:42
  the outofc control border or whatever.
• 52:45
  Uh
• 52:48
  you can see that violent crime rates
• 52:50
  have actually plummeted since the 1990s.
• 52:53
  Uh let's see if we can find an actual
• 52:55
  chart. Uh here we go. August 24th, 2026.
• 52:58
  Uh violent crime rate is indeed at a
• 53:01
  historic low. But uh let's see if we can
• 53:03
  find the actual chart here because when
• 53:06
  you find the chart, you're going to see
• 53:07
  that um here's the US violent crime
• 53:10
  rate. You can see these are all
• 53:11
  basically the same chart.
• 53:14
  Here is the homicide rate uh over time.
• 53:18
  You can see that essentially overall
• 53:19
  violent crime rate since 1979 has peaked
• 53:23
  in about 1992 and then just dropped off
• 53:25
  a cliff. Overall violent crime has been
• 53:29
  getting low lower every year. And in
• 53:32
  fact, if you zoomed it out, um, it's
• 53:34
  currently at the same level it was in
• 53:35
  1950s. So, it's fair to say that that
• 53:38
  the large foreignb born population in
• 53:39
  the United States has not made it has
• 53:42
  not increased the crime rate. Uh,
• 53:44
  homicide is again uh sort of teasing
• 53:47
  right around an all-time low. Uh, right
• 53:50
  around the same level it was during the
• 53:51
  Great Recession. Um, robbery again has
• 53:54
  been steadily declining over time.
• 53:56
  aggravated assault um has again been on
• 53:59
  a steady decline. And I point these
• 54:02
  things out because okay, you say, all
• 54:04
  right, well migrants haven't made the US
• 54:06
  more criminal, but maybe they've
• 54:07
  collapsed the economy. Um but
• 54:14
  uh when you compare the GDP per capita
• 54:17
  of the United States,
• 54:20
  uh let's see if we can find it here.
• 54:21
  This is the GDP per capita of France and
• 54:24
  the United States by year. Uh you can
• 54:27
  see here that America is absolutely
• 54:30
  destroying France in terms of GDP per
• 54:32
  capita. So again two countries both with
• 54:35
  15% foreignb born populations. Um but
• 54:38
  the United States has a comically low
• 54:40
  crime rate actually historically low
• 54:42
  crime rate. Um a historically high GDP
• 54:45
  and GDP per capita. Um, so the question
• 54:49
  is again, if migrants are going to
• 54:51
  destroy our civilization, why does by
• 54:53
  every objective measure our civilization
• 54:56
  appear to be thriving? We we're crushing
• 54:58
  it actually.
• 55:02
  This isn't me being like riers are cool
• 55:04
  and good. This is my argument that's
• 55:06
  saying whatever is causing the riots in
• 55:08
  France
• 55:10
  it it it it can't be foreignb born
• 55:13
  migrants because if that were the causal
• 55:16
  thing then like
• 55:20
  like it obviously isn't because the US
• 55:22
  has the same number of foreignb born
• 55:24
  people but we are [ __ ] have been on a
• 55:29
  multi-deade un impossible tear
• 55:33
  and
• 55:36
  like French France uh to put it nicely
• 55:40
  hasn't. This is the GDP per capita of
• 55:41
  France, USA and the UK. And you can see
• 55:44
  here this has started 1960, right? And
• 55:47
  steadily the United States has again
• 55:49
  experienced unprecedented growth. I'll
• 55:51
  tell you when we get to 1990.
• 55:59
  So you can see France in 1983 having a
• 56:01
  some kind of GDP per capita collapse
• 56:03
  which is terrifying. Uh rips back,
• 56:06
  right? But the US never had that
• 56:08
  collapse. In fact, US GDP per capita, we
• 56:10
  just keep getting better and better and
• 56:12
  better. And no matter how hard France
• 56:14
  and the UK try, they just can't catch
• 56:16
  us. Right? Remember there's there's the
• 56:18
  1990s. You can see that we're on a per
• 56:21
  capita basis becoming an even more
• 56:23
  productive country. You can see the UK
• 56:24
  briefly in 2009 briefly overtaken the
• 56:27
  United States mostly because of we had
• 56:28
  the great financial crash and it just
• 56:30
  briefly paused and you can see since
• 56:33
  then the UK and France unable to achieve
• 56:35
  economic growth on a per capita basis.
• 56:38
  United States absolutely ripping
• 56:40
  absolutely ripping the UK and France to
• 56:42
  shred. So again if you sit there and go
• 56:47
  yeah people are like oh yeah I'm good
• 56:48
  with illegal not illegal. Uh well,
• 56:50
  here's the problem, guys, is that
• 56:54
  almost no one comes to the US illegally.
• 56:56
  I wouldn't say almost no one. Very few
• 56:58
  are visa overstays.
• 57:00
  Most people come, they request asylum,
• 57:04
  they're either granted asylum or they
• 57:06
  enter, most of them come, they enter the
• 57:08
  asylum court system pipeline and they
• 57:11
  sit in that pipeline for 5 to seven
• 57:13
  years because that's how backlogged and
• 57:14
  underfunded it is. And in those 5 to
• 57:16
  seven years, they work hard, they get
• 57:18
  married, they have families, they have
• 57:19
  children, they earn money, they start
• 57:21
  businesses. Um, you know, and then it
• 57:24
  gets resolved. Either they're granted
• 57:25
  asylum and allowed to stay, or their
• 57:27
  asylum case is denied and they receive a
• 57:29
  final order of deportation and they're
• 57:31
  deported. That's it. That's how it
• 57:33
  works. And so the administration has
• 57:36
  lied and said that many of the people
• 57:38
  who have entered and filed asylum claims
• 57:40
  as the law requires them to do that they
• 57:43
  are actually here illegally. They have
• 57:45
  redefined illegal to mean not in
• 57:47
  violation of law but as something else
• 57:50
  as we don't want you here or you weren't
• 57:53
  invited or something.
• 58:03
  And again, President Trump doesn't talk
• 58:05
  about legal and illegal. As you can see,
• 58:07
  he doesn't mention it. He just says, in
• 58:09
  fact, he acknowledges that many of the
• 58:10
  people that arrive to the United States
• 58:13
  are legally here. He says global he
• 58:15
  frames as globalist leftwing politicians
• 58:17
  i.e. the governments of these countries
• 58:19
  have he frame he says treasonously
• 58:21
  imported human beings can't be imported.
• 58:24
  You might recall the last time we
• 58:25
  imported people it was bad but he claims
• 58:27
  that they've they've somehow authorized
• 58:29
  the arrival of millions of third world
• 58:31
  migrants is how he frames them. Says
• 58:33
  totally incompatible with western
• 58:35
  values. This is by the way guys this is
• 58:37
  these aren't dog whistles. This is just
• 58:39
  uh uh straight up racism. Um I don't
• 58:41
  know what else to tell you. Um, again,
• 58:46
  which values which values do American
• 58:51
  like foreignb born people that live in
• 58:53
  this country, which ones which which
• 58:55
  values do they not adhere to? We just
• 58:57
  established it's it's not rule of law
• 58:59
  because they comply with the law.
• 59:02
  We haven't really seen our our monuments
• 59:04
  destroyed, our flags defaced. Um,
• 59:08
  we haven't really seen any of it.
• 59:11
  Uh again, in fact, the the biggest and
• 59:14
  most egregious attack on western values
• 59:16
  like our democracy and our constitution
• 59:18
  and our free and fair elections was
• 59:19
  perpetrated by President Trump. So which
• 59:22
  which value which western value are they
• 59:24
  not adhering to?
• 59:30
  They've surrendered the country to
• 59:31
  vandals who could never have built it
• 59:33
  themselves, who refused to assimilate
• 59:34
  into their society and only want to
• 59:36
  enter the welfare state fa paid for by
• 59:38
  the hardworking citizens of France while
• 59:39
  desecrating the culture makes it
• 59:40
  possible. This is I think Steven Miller
• 59:43
  wrote this. This is notice how many of
• 59:45
  these the capitalization is a little
• 59:47
  iffy, but a lot of these are a lot of
• 59:50
  this is is capitalized too correctly to
• 59:54
  be Trump's own writing. Again,
• 1:00:02
  uh I'm not like it's good. Uh close your
• 1:00:06
  border or it will be the end of France.
• 1:00:08
  Again, he says, "We stand with Europe
• 1:00:11
  despite its flaws, weaknesses, and
• 1:00:12
  temporary loss of direction."
• 1:00:15
  Very funny. No, you don't.
• 1:00:18
  When you see steeples burning and fires
• 1:00:20
  raging in France, just remember that is
• 1:00:22
  what the radical Democrats want to do to
• 1:00:24
  America. This is obviously not true
• 1:00:26
  because again, did it happen when Joe
• 1:00:29
  Biden was in charge? Not really. Again,
• 1:00:32
  the largest attack on American values
• 1:00:34
  like our democracy and our rule of law
• 1:00:37
  and our free and fair elections was was
• 1:00:39
  was again perpetrated by President Trump
• 1:00:42
  in the January 6th crew.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah. So, I mean, but the see and cope
• 1:00:56
  and rage is is is
• 1:00:58
  honestly kind of [ __ ] wild. All
• 1:01:00
  right, you guys want to talk about Pete
• 1:01:02
  Hegsth? Because he's he's he's driving
• 1:01:04
  me [ __ ] crazy.
• 1:01:07
  Once again, he's really
• 1:01:22
  Yeah, Chef here's all Yeah, January 6
• 1:01:24
  was a good reminder of of like
• 1:01:29
  Western values, Western values being
• 1:01:32
  attacked.
• 1:01:48
  Yeah.
• 1:02:00
  All right. Yeah, I love being
• 1:02:01
  disappointed.
• 1:02:06
  I love being disappointed. Pete Hexath
• 1:02:08
  is about to disappoint us.
• 1:02:11
  Let's Let's crack into it.
• 1:02:17
  Pete Hegsath. It seems like every day
• 1:02:19
  this guy just can't keep his foot out of
• 1:02:21
  his mouth. Maybe he needs to cut back on
• 1:02:24
  the drinking a little bit or just learn
• 1:02:26
  to shut the [ __ ] up. I can't say that. I
• 1:02:29
  can't say that.
• 1:02:33
  YouTube. I can't clip that because
• 1:02:35
  YouTube will demonetize it because I
• 1:02:37
  said [ __ ] too early. I think
• 1:02:39
  Wait, I think they changed it.
• 1:02:44
  How really can I say [ __ ] on YouTube?
• 1:02:47
  God, I love AI that I can ask it like a
• 1:02:49
  question like a person. Oh, I to be you
• 1:02:51
  can say [ __ ] right the radio on YouTube
• 1:02:53
  including the first second se seven
• 1:02:54
  seconds.
• 1:02:57
  Just can't use it in titles or
• 1:02:59
  thumbnails. Hell yeah. Okay. So, I I
• 1:03:01
  stopped that video for no reason.
• 1:03:05
  Okay.
• 1:03:10
  It seems like every day Pete Seth is
• 1:03:12
  saying something that is fundamentally
• 1:03:14
  stupid. And don't get me wrong, I would
• 1:03:16
  also be crashing out if I launched a war
• 1:03:19
  that we were losing to the Iranians. But
• 1:03:22
  maybe Pete Hagsath could stand to maybe
• 1:03:24
  cut back on his drinking or just learn
• 1:03:26
  to shut the [ __ ] up because now he has
• 1:03:30
  gone and actually fired proverbial shots
• 1:03:33
  at our NATO allies. You know, the ones
• 1:03:37
  we just begged for help in Iran. Yeah, I
• 1:03:39
  can't imagine why they turned us down.
• 1:03:42
  Hegs,
• 1:03:44
  I mean, just just buckle up for this
• 1:03:45
  one. People are mad at Hegsth because he
• 1:03:47
  spoke to ROC cadets and military
• 1:03:50
  recruits that said, quote, "Only one or
• 1:03:52
  two allies were part of the NATOled
• 1:03:54
  coalition for the mission that were
• 1:03:55
  actively involved in combat toward the
• 1:03:57
  end of the conflict." He said, quote, "I
• 1:03:58
  was a captain in Afghanistan. We would
• 1:04:00
  go to headquarters in Kabool and there
• 1:04:01
  would be 50 flags." He Hegath said,
• 1:04:03
  quote, it was a beautiful thing except
• 1:04:05
  there were maybe like five that
• 1:04:06
  contributed. He said, quote, it was
• 1:04:08
  actually closer to one or two that by
• 1:04:10
  the end were actually involved in
• 1:04:11
  kinetic operation. Uh he said poked fun
• 1:04:14
  at the abbreviation patch worn by troops
• 1:04:16
  from dozens of nations deployed under
• 1:04:18
  ISAF. We joked that it meant quote I saw
• 1:04:20
  Americans fighting. Heath said now um
• 1:04:23
  retired General Ben Hajes, former
• 1:04:25
  commander of US Army Europe, called
• 1:04:26
  these comments quote shameful and uh
• 1:04:30
  more than and and we're going to talk
• 1:04:32
  about why this is disgusting um but also
• 1:04:35
  just wrong. And I want to mention guys
• 1:04:39
  that
• 1:04:41
  Pete Hegsth is is is just a piece of
• 1:04:44
  [ __ ] And actually the fact that he's
• 1:04:45
  even going to talk to RTC cadets is also
• 1:04:47
  sort of offensive to me because he just
• 1:04:48
  signed an executive order taking
• 1:04:50
  America's uh saying that American
• 1:04:53
  civilian institutions are no longer
• 1:04:55
  considered uh priority or desirable for
• 1:04:58
  inclusion in the military's officer
• 1:04:59
  corps. Remember, institutions that are
• 1:05:02
  terrible and woke according to Pete
• 1:05:04
  Hexath include Princeton, MIT, Harvard,
• 1:05:07
  Yale, uh, uh, Dartmouth, right? Uh,
• 1:05:10
  obviously Carnegie Melon, all of these
• 1:05:12
  institutions that obviously don't
• 1:05:14
  produce any kind of of of high caliber
• 1:05:17
  intelligent person and certainly would
• 1:05:20
  never make good military officers. Um he
• 1:05:22
  has actually taken all those
• 1:05:24
  universities by policy and put them
• 1:05:26
  below uh cadetses from those
• 1:05:30
  universities will be given last priority
• 1:05:32
  uh for army commissioning jobs on active
• 1:05:34
  duty. Obviously, the first slots will
• 1:05:36
  always go to servicemies, but then Pete
• 1:05:38
  Hegsathth ordered the priority to go to
• 1:05:41
  a uh tranch of these uh right-wing fly
• 1:05:47
  by night shady universities, including
• 1:05:49
  Liberty University, Southern Methodist
• 1:05:51
  University. Um again, universities that
• 1:05:53
  just simply aren't very competitive. And
• 1:05:56
  this is not just offensive to the
• 1:06:00
  generations and generations of RTC
• 1:06:01
  cadets who make up the overwhelming
• 1:06:03
  majority of America's officer corps and
• 1:06:06
  frankly have a sterling reputation of
• 1:06:09
  service. Uh but also it's also just
• 1:06:12
  stupid. And so the fact that he's going
• 1:06:13
  to go there to these cadets, talk to
• 1:06:16
  them, gas them up like he didn't just
• 1:06:18
  [ __ ] their careers is the most Pete
• 1:06:21
  Hexet thing. like to have no idea how
• 1:06:23
  you're being perceived by people. Um,
• 1:06:26
  and is is is just total Pete Hexath
• 1:06:29
  energy. Now, before we talk though about
• 1:06:31
  why insulting your coalition troops is
• 1:06:34
  not just wrong, but kind of [ __ ] up, I
• 1:06:35
  want to mention, guys, that obviously
• 1:06:37
  um, you know, I don't exactly have a ton
• 1:06:40
  of corporate sponsors beaten down my
• 1:06:42
  door. You can imagine why. Nobody wants
• 1:06:44
  to have their ads run on a video where I
• 1:06:47
  call Pete Hegsth a drunk [ __ ] loser.
• 1:06:49
  Um, but you know who does absolutely
• 1:06:51
  endorse Pete Hegsth as a drunk [ __ ]
• 1:06:53
  loser? Strike Gum. That's right. Don't
• 1:06:56
  be like Pete, right? Alcohol is a
• 1:06:58
  downer. Makes you stupider, right? You
• 1:07:01
  can't even drive a car while on it. But
• 1:07:03
  you know what? You can fly a [ __ ]
• 1:07:04
  combat drone while on Strike Gum. I
• 1:07:06
  know. I went to Ukraine. I gave one to
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  the drone pilot Strike Gum. They love
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  that [ __ ] because they can operate their
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  drone and not have to sip an energy
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  So, let's talk about why Pete Hexf makes
• 1:07:54
  me want to have a stroke because this,
• 1:07:57
  ladies and gentlemen, is coalition
• 1:07:58
  casualties in Afghanistan.
• 1:08:00
  Now, you may notice here it's helpful
• 1:08:02
  chart the part where the casualties
• 1:08:04
  suddenly spike. That's when I was
• 1:08:06
  deployed. Lucky me. And uh you may note
• 1:08:11
  though where he says ah by the end by
• 1:08:14
  the end almost no one was involved in
• 1:08:17
  kinetic operations. Guys that's because
• 1:08:19
  by the end no one was involved in
• 1:08:20
  kinetic operations. And the reason he
• 1:08:23
  seems to be so clueless is because when
• 1:08:25
  he was deployed to Kabul he was a a
• 1:08:29
  counterinsurgency instructor teaching
• 1:08:31
  Afghan officers how to fight
• 1:08:33
  counterinsurgency in a training academy
• 1:08:35
  in Kabool. You could not be in a more
• 1:08:38
  pogue [ __ ] rear area job. And and and
• 1:08:42
  I want to be clear. I I'm dunking on
• 1:08:44
  Pete. Anyone who put on the uniform,
• 1:08:47
  raised their right hand, went to that
• 1:08:48
  country, did their job, took extreme
• 1:08:50
  personal risk. Kabul was not safe.
• 1:08:53
  Right. But
• 1:08:56
  the problem is when you sit there and
• 1:08:58
  you come back and you act like you were
• 1:09:00
  Mr. kinetic tough guy, buddy. You were
• 1:09:03
  running through the same five PowerPoint
• 1:09:04
  slides to a bunch of Afghan army
• 1:09:06
  officers who were probably high on cot.
• 1:09:09
  And
• 1:09:11
  so seeing him talk [ __ ] when he himself
• 1:09:15
  went on approximately zero combat
• 1:09:17
  patrols in Afghanistan
• 1:09:19
  is is like personally offensive to me.
• 1:09:22
  Okay. And I want to point out that this
• 1:09:25
  helpful chart here, number of foreign
• 1:09:27
  soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
• 1:09:30
  Now here is the total number of deaths.
• 1:09:32
  You can see United States shouldering
• 1:09:34
  about twothirds of the deaths but fully
• 1:09:37
  almost a quarter of all coalition deaths
• 1:09:40
  or 15% rather were from the UK. 200 were
• 1:09:43
  from Canada. France lost 90 troops in
• 1:09:46
  Afghanistan. But when you when you
• 1:09:48
  calibrate
• 1:09:50
  this by the population size, you realize
• 1:09:53
  that the US wasn't even one of the top
• 1:09:56
  two countries in terms of deaths per
• 1:09:59
  million population. Georgia, the country
• 1:10:02
  of Georgia re had one death for every
• 1:10:06
  eight deaths, excuse me, for every
• 1:10:08
  million people in the country of
• 1:10:09
  Georgia. They took more losses in that
• 1:10:12
  fight, which by the way, the country of
• 1:10:13
  Georgia had no fight in Afghanistan.
• 1:10:15
  they fought harder or took more
• 1:10:18
  casualties I should say uh on a per
• 1:10:22
  capita basis than any other country. And
• 1:10:26
  here's the thing that's super [ __ ] up.
• 1:10:28
  When the when Georgia's best brigade
• 1:10:32
  deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, they
• 1:10:35
  were equipped and trained by the United
• 1:10:37
  States. And when they landed in
• 1:10:40
  Afghanistan,
• 1:10:42
  they deployed. Their country was invaded
• 1:10:44
  by Russia. Russia waited until the
• 1:10:47
  Georgian army had its best unit helping
• 1:10:51
  us, fighting for us to invade Georgia
• 1:10:56
  and depose the government. And to this
• 1:10:58
  day, a huge portion of Georgia is under
• 1:11:02
  Russian occupation.
• 1:11:04
  like it's the reason is called uh
• 1:11:08
  abacazia
• 1:11:10
  and it's the Georgian version of the
• 1:11:12
  donbis. Okay, but I want you to
• 1:11:14
  understand that Georgia sacrificed a
• 1:11:17
  part of its territory
• 1:11:20
  in order this is wait this is a this is
• 1:11:23
  like Georgiaian Empire. I want to find
• 1:11:24
  abac abazia. Here we go. Yeah, this is
• 1:11:29
  south ofia. This is abacasia. These are
• 1:11:32
  regions that are that are
• 1:11:35
  effectively Russian puppet states. They
• 1:11:38
  are breakaway regions. A huge portion of
• 1:11:40
  Georgia is under occupation because
• 1:11:42
  Georgian troops fought and died with the
• 1:11:44
  United States. So, how do you think it
• 1:11:45
  feels when you see Trump kiss Russia's
• 1:11:47
  ass?
• 1:11:50
  I mean, Russia didn't face any
• 1:11:51
  consequences for for for
• 1:11:54
  conquering a US ally. It's absurd. It's
• 1:11:58
  unreal. Again, imagine the US military
• 1:12:00
  goes and defends Israel and while we're
• 1:12:02
  there, China invades and conquers like
• 1:12:06
  Oregon, Alaska, and and uh Northern
• 1:12:09
  California. That's that's what happened
• 1:12:11
  to Georgia. Okay.
• 1:12:14
  To say nothing of Denmark, who also has
• 1:12:16
  no dog in that fight, but still had 44
• 1:12:19
  soldiers killed. Again, eight soldiers
• 1:12:23
  for every million Danes. Unreal, guys.
• 1:12:26
  Unreal. the UK again on a population
• 1:12:29
  adjusted basis.
• 1:12:31
  But here's the thing, the US, we sat
• 1:12:34
  there and said, "Hey man, the guys that
• 1:12:35
  did 911, we're going after them." The US
• 1:12:37
  had a dog in that fight.
• 1:12:39
  The French, the French showed up because
• 1:12:41
  we asked them to. Because we said, "Yo,
• 1:12:43
  you got to help us. These terrorists,
• 1:12:44
  they're going to come for you next.
• 1:12:46
  Germany showed up because we asked them
• 1:12:48
  to. Italy
• 1:12:50
  like
• 1:12:52
  the polls.
• 1:12:55
  This is
• 1:12:56
  the these are like real this is real
• 1:12:58
  fighting, right?
• 1:13:02
  Again, Robert Gates's last policy speech
• 1:13:03
  in 2011 said, quote, "More more than 850
• 1:13:07
  troops from non-NATO members have made
• 1:13:08
  the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan.
• 1:13:10
  For many of these allied nations, these
• 1:13:11
  were the first military casualties since
• 1:13:13
  the end of the Second World War.
• 1:13:16
  Georgia, Australia, Sweden, New Zealand,
• 1:13:18
  Finland, Jordan, South Korea, and
• 1:13:19
  Albania.
• 1:13:21
  I mean, guys, the South Koreans
• 1:13:24
  fought with us. I mean, think about
• 1:13:26
  that. Two South Koreans were killed.
• 1:13:32
  And
• 1:13:33
  this is this is the kind of thing that
• 1:13:36
  really really bothers me, right?
• 1:13:46
  Yeah, I mean the Danes fought with the
• 1:13:48
  British in southern Helman province. 37
• 1:13:51
  soldiers killed in hostile fire
• 1:13:52
  engagements or as a result of friendly
• 1:13:54
  fire. Seven were killed in non-combat
• 1:13:55
  incidents. Total of 44 casualties.
• 1:14:03
  So again, this is like not just
• 1:14:05
  offensive to me, but it also again
• 1:14:07
  reflects the fact that that the United
• 1:14:11
  States is demonstrating something that's
• 1:14:12
  really troubling, right? This is really
• 1:14:14
  bad. Why? Because you may note that one
• 1:14:18
  of the deals, one of the reasons these
• 1:14:20
  countries sent troops to the United
• 1:14:21
  States is to say, listen,
• 1:14:24
  NATO, listen, there is no an a treaty is
• 1:14:27
  not a contract. It sounds weird, but
• 1:14:30
  like let's say I sign a contract with a
• 1:14:32
  house painter and he takes my money and
• 1:14:33
  he never paints my house. I get to go to
• 1:14:36
  a judge and that judge says, "Listen,
• 1:14:38
  here's his signature. Here's my
• 1:14:39
  signature. Here's the contract." Judge
• 1:14:41
  read the contract and the judge goes,
• 1:14:43
  "You're right. I order you to pay him
• 1:14:45
  back or paint his house." So, a judge
• 1:14:48
  comes in and arbitrates the contract.
• 1:14:50
  There is no international arbiter.
• 1:14:52
  There's no there's there's no judge.
• 1:14:53
  There's no alien sitting on the moon
• 1:14:55
  who's going to decide whether or not
• 1:14:56
  you've you've honored your NATO treaty
• 1:14:59
  contract. We honor it because we all
• 1:15:02
  agree it it needs to be honored. A
• 1:15:04
  treaty is more like codifying a
• 1:15:07
  friendship.
• 1:15:09
  It's like an agreement between your
• 1:15:10
  neighbors where you say, "Hey, let's
• 1:15:12
  just agree that we're going to snowblow
• 1:15:14
  each other's driveways."
• 1:15:16
  Yeah, maybe we write it down. Maybe we
• 1:15:18
  do it as a text, you know, something
• 1:15:20
  like that. But ultimately, the thing
• 1:15:22
  that enforces your agreement is your
• 1:15:24
  friendship. And that's why these NATO
• 1:15:26
  countries showed up for us because they
• 1:15:28
  said, "It's not about whether or not you
• 1:15:30
  formally activated Article 5. It's about
• 1:15:32
  the fact that you asked for help and
• 1:15:34
  we're NATO countries and we fight and
• 1:15:36
  die with you. We fight and die
• 1:15:37
  together."
• 1:15:40
  And that is why it is such a [ __ ]
• 1:15:42
  infuriating because when Russia invades
• 1:15:46
  a sovereign country in Europe for the
• 1:15:48
  third time again Georgia in 2008 then
• 1:15:53
  Ukraine in the caucuses and now Ukraine
• 1:15:55
  a second time in 2022 and NATO goes
• 1:15:58
  listen we got to fight together. We have
• 1:16:01
  to fight this. Russia is an existential
• 1:16:03
  threat. We are gonna chip in. We need
• 1:16:05
  the United States to chip in. And the
• 1:16:08
  United States
• 1:16:10
  has said, "Uh, [ __ ] you guys. Good luck
• 1:16:12
  out there."
• 1:16:14
  It's like, it's like your neighbor
• 1:16:15
  texting you, "Hey man, you got the
• 1:16:16
  snowblower. It's a storm of the century.
• 1:16:17
  My wife, she's pregnant. I need my
• 1:16:19
  driveway clear." And you go, "lol. Good
• 1:16:23
  luck, fucker."
• 1:16:25
  Right? That's a friendship ending event.
• 1:16:27
  And that's the problem is that when it
• 1:16:30
  comes to agreements among friends, the
• 1:16:33
  problem with no enforcement mechanism is
• 1:16:35
  that you don't need a judge to break it
• 1:16:38
  up. You don't need a judge to sit there
• 1:16:40
  and be like, "Okay, contracts null and
• 1:16:42
  void." It's void because the friends
• 1:16:45
  stop hanging out. It's void because, you
• 1:16:46
  know, you can't trust your friend
• 1:16:47
  anymore. And that's the fear here. Pete
• 1:16:50
  Hagath sits there and he thinks he's
• 1:16:51
  being tough guy [ __ ] Oh, we did all the
• 1:16:53
  work. We did all the work. It was all
• 1:16:56
  us, bro. One,
• 1:16:59
  I wouldn't brag about doing all the work
• 1:17:01
  in Afghanistan because the Taliban
• 1:17:02
  [ __ ] won. Okay. I would I would own
• 1:17:06
  that. I'd say, "Yeah, that was our
• 1:17:08
  mission. We were the lead country and we
• 1:17:11
  [ __ ] that thing. I would That's what I
• 1:17:13
  would say. And we owed our NATO allies
• 1:17:16
  better." And a different government
• 1:17:19
  would say, "They showed up for us. We
• 1:17:23
  led them astray by pulling them into
• 1:17:24
  that pointless war and losing it. But
• 1:17:27
  we're going to make good. We're going to
• 1:17:28
  make sure we don't lose to Russia. But
• 1:17:30
  that's not what's happening. Again, the
• 1:17:32
  United States as a policy is [ __ ] our
• 1:17:36
  NATO allies. And when we need them,
• 1:17:38
  they're going to noshow because again,
• 1:17:42
  you don't realize how much you need
• 1:17:43
  friends till the chips are down, right?
• 1:17:46
  Everybody feels like they can do it.
• 1:17:47
  It's like
• 1:17:49
  it's like every libertarian boomer. I
• 1:17:52
  don't need the government to tell me
• 1:17:54
  what to do. I don't need it until until
• 1:17:57
  somebody's prowling around their house
• 1:17:58
  at night and then all of a sudden they
• 1:18:00
  can't wait for the government to get
• 1:18:02
  there with a gun. The [ __ ] I don't
• 1:18:04
  need any help
• 1:18:06
  crew. Sure [ __ ] loves help. Sure gets
• 1:18:09
  mad when the government doesn't pave the
• 1:18:11
  roads or have a cop to patrol their
• 1:18:13
  streets or have a firefighter when their
• 1:18:15
  roof is burning.
• 1:18:17
  You don't need friends when things are
• 1:18:19
  going good. You need friends when things
• 1:18:21
  are going bad. And the insane part is if
• 1:18:23
  Pete Exath wasn't drunk, he'd realize
• 1:18:25
  things are going bad. He does need his
• 1:18:27
  friends. And because he launched this
• 1:18:29
  war without them because he spent the
• 1:18:31
  last year telling them what pieces of
• 1:18:32
  [ __ ] they were and how he they're not
• 1:18:34
  going to get helped by the United States
• 1:18:35
  to fight Russia and how the US isn't
• 1:18:37
  going to be helping Ukraine anymore
• 1:18:41
  because he spent a year doing that.
• 1:18:44
  when we need when we asked for the
• 1:18:46
  NATO's help, they told us.
• 1:18:49
  Good luck out there, guys. It's a the
• 1:18:51
  Middle East is a rough place.
• 1:18:54
  We'll stay here. Thanks. Anyway, thank
• 1:18:57
  you to Colin, Dan, Deborah, Don,
• 1:18:58
  Douglas, Gabriel, GMAT, and all
• 1:18:59
  lieutenants here. Folks, be sure to hit
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  subscribe. YouTube's been kind of
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  unsubscribing people from my channel.
• 1:19:08
  Griffin Winkl, thanks. Thank you from a
• 1:19:09
  Kuck in Denmark. Love the Danish croner.
• 1:19:13
  You know, I love I love seeing I love
• 1:19:15
  seeing all the different currencies,
• 1:19:16
  especially on our fundraisers. Uh, which
• 1:19:19
  by the way, guys, the reason I'm talking
• 1:19:20
  about the fundraisers because we nailed
• 1:19:22
  that [ __ ] Six figures raised for Third
• 1:19:25
  Assault, guys.
• 1:19:29
  Putting we're we're doing more for the
• 1:19:33
  uh we're contributing more financially
• 1:19:35
  to Ukrainian operations than to the US
• 1:19:37
  government at this point. Ace Cams,
• 1:19:39
  thanks for the 10. Bon Paul dispute with
• 1:19:41
  the Debbie Downer say I think the US
• 1:19:42
  will quickly restore relations with our
• 1:19:43
  allies in the future. Donald Trump is a
• 1:19:45
  weird phrase like Drubstep, emo kids and
• 1:19:47
  fidget spinners. I hope you're right. I
• 1:19:49
  actually think one of the things that I
• 1:19:51
  have noticed personally is that um uh
• 1:19:55
  chat bots have actually helped people
• 1:19:56
  push back on misinformation.
• 1:19:58
  I've noticed that. Um, I have friends
• 1:20:01
  that believe things that are like have
• 1:20:02
  no basis in reality and the number of
• 1:20:05
  times where I have told them, "Hey man,
• 1:20:07
  trust check with your trusted chatbot."
• 1:20:09
  And the trusted chatbot will actually
• 1:20:12
  tell them, "Hey man, um, like the
• 1:20:13
  violent crime thing, classic example."
• 1:20:16
  really he really believed that crime was
• 1:20:18
  at a multi-deade high that the country
• 1:20:22
  was like like that basically uh police
• 1:20:27
  and law enforcement were like not keep
• 1:20:29
  like crime was out of control that there
• 1:20:32
  were alltime murder records right like
• 1:20:36
  um
• 1:20:38
  like let's see
• 1:20:44
  and he asked the chatbot And I told him
• 1:20:46
  what exactly we just saw. Hey man, the
• 1:20:48
  reality is overall crime violent crime
• 1:20:50
  has dropped by 34 to 75% since a peak in
• 1:20:54
  the early '90s. Major drops in homicides
• 1:20:57
  and violent crime after a temporary
• 1:20:58
  pandemic spike in 2020. But 60 to 80% of
• 1:21:02
  Americans consistently believe that
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  national crime is higher than it was the
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  previous year. A trend that's persisted
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  across decades of falling or stable
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  official statistics. 35% of Americans
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  report being afraid to walk alone within
• 1:21:12
  a mile of their home. the same record
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  shared in ' 68, which is crazy. 68 it
• 1:21:17
  was very bad. Uh again, this is media,
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  right?
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  Um economic and political sentiment. Uh
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  again, it tracks dramatic homicide
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  instances or small localized spikes.
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  But I think this is really interesting
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  again
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  like Americans
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  are more afraid but have less to be
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  afraid less less cr more afraid of crime
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  but less to be afraid of from a criminal
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  perspective.
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  Again, people actually in surveys have
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  said basically, yeah, 69% of respondents
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  said crime was higher than the year
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  before thing and it's escalating every
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  year.
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  So, I point these things out because
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  again, I think that
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  that being able to get trusted,
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  synthesized data from something you
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  really think is like a good source of it
• 1:22:34
  that isn't social media is really
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  helpful. So, like, so like here's
• 1:22:39
  another example, right? We've seen a lot
• 1:22:41
  a a disturbing amount of Republican um
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  of Republican propaganda saying um
• 1:22:51
  like like
• 1:22:54
  that the Democratic party are communist.
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  So I'm going to ask him what sounds like
• 1:23:02
  something that a boomer might ask here.
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  Let me show you. Going to pull up
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  Gemini. Are the Democrats communists? Do
• 1:23:07
  they want to implement communism?
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  So, this is this is the the okay, this
• 1:23:15
  is accidentally Gemini's highest
• 1:23:16
  powerful model, but this is an example
• 1:23:18
  of what I think might be the thought
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  process of um someone who is um who
• 1:23:24
  would otherwise be taken by
• 1:23:26
  misinformation. For example,
• 1:23:28
  you know, if I'm the kind of person who
• 1:23:29
  would respond to vaccine misinformation
• 1:23:32
  or misinformation about the election
• 1:23:33
  integrity, right? Uh, US Democratic
• 1:23:36
  Party is not communist nor does the
• 1:23:37
  platform seek to implement communism. In
• 1:23:39
  political science and economic terms,
• 1:23:40
  the Democratic Party is a center-left
• 1:23:41
  party that operates within a regulated
• 1:23:42
  capitalist framework often referred to
• 1:23:44
  as a mixed economy. Communism abolishes
• 1:23:47
  private property. US Democratic Party
• 1:23:49
  platform protects private ownership of
• 1:23:50
  property, businesses, and investment. In
• 1:23:53
  communism, means of production owned by
• 1:23:55
  the public or the state, owned by
• 1:23:56
  private individuals and corporation
• 1:23:58
  traded on stock markets. The economic
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  engine is centrally planned whereas the
• 1:24:02
  Democrats want free market capitalism.
• 1:24:04
  Ultimately,
• 1:24:06
  taxation is unnecessary in under
• 1:24:09
  communism as the state controls all
• 1:24:10
  resources and a profitable private
• 1:24:12
  sector generates tax revenue to fund
• 1:24:14
  public infrastructure and social
• 1:24:15
  programs. Right?
• 1:24:19
  And they talk about democratic socialist
• 1:24:20
  identifying with social democracy or
• 1:24:22
  democratic socialism rather than looking
• 1:24:23
  to Soviet style communism. This movement
• 1:24:25
  looks to the Nordic model like Denmark,
• 1:24:27
  Sweden and Norway. countries have
• 1:24:28
  thriving competitive capitalist
• 1:24:29
  economies paired with a robust tax
• 1:24:30
  funded universal healthcare, tuitionfree
• 1:24:32
  public universities, and strong labor
• 1:24:33
  unions.
• 1:24:35
  Right? Republican opponents use the term
• 1:24:37
  socialist and communist interchangeably
• 1:24:38
  to describe democratic policies.
• 1:24:41
  Note, there is an actual Communist Party
• 1:24:43
  USA founded in 1919 calling for the
• 1:24:44
  dismantle of capitalism. It's a tiny
• 1:24:46
  fringe organization that operates
• 1:24:47
  independently of the Democratic Party.
• 1:24:48
  No open communist candidate has ever
• 1:24:50
  been elected to state or federal office
• 1:24:51
  in the United States. Right? So, I think
• 1:24:55
  the fact that boomers have the
• 1:24:56
  opportunity, like I say boomers, people
• 1:24:59
  who might be otherwise taken with
• 1:25:01
  misinformation, the fact that they have
• 1:25:03
  something they trust to give them
• 1:25:05
  objective reality,
• 1:25:09
  I think, is really helpful. I think it
• 1:25:10
  it it gives people the opportunity to to
• 1:25:14
  not get taken. It's like an
• 1:25:15
  anti-misinformation machine. Doesn't
• 1:25:17
  mean it's perfect. doesn't mean LLMs
• 1:25:19
  don't get it wrong, but it gives you a
• 1:25:21
  chance to distill the data, the
• 1:25:24
  information, the facts into a narrower
• 1:25:28
  into a into a comprehensible
• 1:25:31
  format that an average person can read
• 1:25:33
  and understand.
• 1:25:53
  All right, let's see.
• 1:25:58
  All right, so this one should be
• 1:26:10
  all right. I'm gonna get out of here
• 1:26:16
  and let me know guys if there is I'll
• 1:26:20
  see you guys tomorrow actually. All
• 1:26:21
  right, I got to get out of here. Yeah, I
• 1:26:23
  got to like fix a bunch of stuff. I
• 1:26:24
  really appreciate you coming on board,
• 1:26:25
  hanging out, chitchatting. I really like
• 1:26:27
  it. Um I'll see you guys tomorrow. I'll
• 1:26:31
  be on tomorrow. All right, peace out.
• 1:26:32
  Cheers.