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When Chevrons Collide: Chevron Doctrine Buried, Chevron Oil Unleashed; Venezuela Without Pretense · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  Hello, good morning, and welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You happen to be listening to DAM Radio.
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  damradio.com forward slash live is where you
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  are.
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  And if you're listening later, not between 7
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  .30 a.m. and 9 a.m. central
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  standard time, seems like you're probably on my
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  website, internationalflavor.com and listening to me there,
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  which I'm also not against, but I prefer
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  when people listen live just because I do.
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  So there's been a lot of, you know,
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  I'm not alone in my trashing of the
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  moves in Venezuela.
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  I don't want to spend a lot of
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  time on that today or this week, but
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  I did want to share something.
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  I watched an interesting one last night, and
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  I don't usually watch very often because, you
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  know, most of the, even the, what do
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  you call it, the right-leaning media is
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  unbelievable these days.
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  You can't believe it.
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  You got to get your news from elsewhere
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  because the national news, I suppose I could
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  be taught something or someone could push me
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  in the right direction of a national news
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  program that isn't completely full of crap that
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  I might be willing to listen to.
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  But I've started going to just independent shows
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  and stuff, and I just, I used to
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  be a pretty big fan of O'Reilly
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  long ago.
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  I'd listen to the O'Reilly Factor, and
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  every once in a while I'll watch him
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  on his independent on whatever that is, YouTube
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  or however he puts it out.
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  I am not a fan, and many, many
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  years ago I was a fan of the
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  other guy that was on Fox News at
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  nights, Hannity, and I just, now he's, he's
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  just a neocon cheerleader, you know, that's, that's
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  all he is, and so I quit watching
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  him long ago.
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  Maybe he's changed his tune these days, but
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  I don't think so.
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  But I still like to go out and
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  find people in America that actually will speak
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  the truth, that'll speak things that, that matter,
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  that won't just blanket, God bless you, Donald
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  Trump, you're saving the country, and I don't
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  like that, because I think he's saving the
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  country.
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  But I also think one of his big
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  goals, and I found somebody who said something
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  similar, and I've been talking about this, maybe
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  not in as, as, maybe not as well
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  or with some sort of thesis as I
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  should have been doing, but I know, I
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  know what I meant.
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  A guy tell me something was like, what
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  the hell are you talking about?
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  He'd go, well, I know what I meant.
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  It's like, well, that's good, because nobody else
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  does.
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  So I just want to make sure that
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  everybody knows what I meant and what I
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  mean.
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  And, you know, I never wanted to be,
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  because I take the point of view from
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  traveling, from being outside of the country.
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  And if you've gone around in as many
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  places as I have, and I'm only at
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  57, I'm trying to figure out the next
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  place to go.
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  And I'm thinking, you know, I said something
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  the other day about going through Qatar to
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  St. Petersburg.
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  I really want to get to Russia in
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  a winter month.
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  And I really wanted to do the, the
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  Christmas holidays.
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  You do realize that tomorrow in the Pravoslavianskaya
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  Tserkva, Russian Orthodox Church, Christmas is celebrated tomorrow,
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  the 7th.
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  And so that's a holiday for them.
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  They're a bit the opposite.
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  So I wanted to be over there for
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  this season in particular.
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  And it looks like I'm going to have
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  to figure that out for next year.
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  Yesterday, I spoke with Anna Cherkasova.
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  She's from Ukraina.ru. It's the news agency
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  that publishes my papers, my articles.
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  And only through telegram, we had a discussion.
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  We didn't do anything formally, but we did
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  a telegram sort of following.
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  And she put my comments out there.
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  And I'm telling you, I truly am not
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  alone in what I believe regarding this Venezuela
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  deal.
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  And I wanted to share with you, because
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  I watched, anyway, she put some of my
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  questions, she basically answered questions, and I answered
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  them, asked questions, and I answered them.
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  And I got a little article published out
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  there again yesterday about this Venezuela travesty, this
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  nonsensical.
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  Now, I heard somebody yesterday, I watched a
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  little bit more of the because it's really
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  troubling to me to watch the decline.
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  And I haven't put it the way that
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  it needs to be put, obviously.
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  I haven't done so.
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  And I really kind of need to, because
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  I talk a lot about the end of
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  the global order, the end of US dominance.
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  Multipolarity is something I've spoken about.
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  And I recognized it long ago and kind
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  of culminated in my desire to go to
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  that BRICS conference in Kazan in October 2024.
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  And it was an eye opener for me.
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  It was a big one.
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  And it's stuff like this that just kicks
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  you right in the nuts, right?
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  Right in the doodads, if you want to
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  call them that.
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  That you're going, you know, we speak about
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  America as, you know, oh, gee, you know,
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  let's pull some Bill Clinton or some Hillary
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  out of the shining city on the hill
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  or something like that, you know, but we
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  all love America.
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  And we all love what it's doing.
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  And what I love is the fact that
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  we're supposedly the good guys.
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  Well, we aren't the good guys.
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  We're the bad guys for the last 30
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  years.
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  Easy.
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  And it's because of the reality, the world
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  reality of multipolarity.
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  And I saw somebody agree with me yesterday
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  and say something much, much better formulated than
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  the way I do it.
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  America, we're not declining.
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  We're still powerful.
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  We're still whatever.
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  And I don't want anybody to say that
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  we're declining, but everybody else is coming up
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  to our level.
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  You know, a rising tide raises all ships
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  and all that.
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  And the rest of the world are rising.
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  OK.
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  And I don't mean anything bad about America.
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  We we started it, if you want to
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  put it that way.
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  We're supposed to be the good guys.
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  But now we're making no bones about it.
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  We're stealing people's resources and we are.
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  I don't know what we're we're threatening.
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  Well, I mean, watch that Trump thing again.
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  The guy's becoming a neocon blowhard.
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  And he threw he threw Lindsey Graham in
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  there.
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  And Lindsey Graham is a freaking nightmare.
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  And that guy makes no bones about it.
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  Yeah, we're coming.
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  We're taking everything.
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  You know, we're we're we're screw everybody.
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  We got war, America.
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  And he ain't losing anything.
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  That guy's not losing a damn thing.
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  And he never will.
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  And it's it's it's it's nonsense because this
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  is who's running our foreign policy now.
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  It is the neocon and always Marco Rubio
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  has been a neocon.
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  I mean, he's hidden it some.
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  I thought he hid it for the first
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  year, but oh, no, he is deep involved
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  in this.
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  Him and Lindsey, they're joined at the freaking
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  hip.
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  And, you know, having Lindsey Graham on Air
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  Force One was like, it just made me
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  want to throw up knowing that that a
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  hole is there and guiding our foreign policy.
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  And who's Trump listening to?
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  I think he's finally figured out that the
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  only way to prolong the decline, if you
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  want to call it that, but it's not
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  a decline.
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  Everybody else is coming up.
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  But to force the issue and maybe keep
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  all the subjugated, you know, masses in Venezuela
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  or anywhere else, keep them in their proper
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  places is to go on the offensive and
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  attack people and get into and go into
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  stealing Greenland.
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  You know, I mean, he was pretty blunt
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  about that.
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  Yeah.
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  Greenland's coming.
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  We'll talk about that in a couple of
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  months.
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  You know, Cuba, you know, maybe we'll take
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  them to it.
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  This is nonsense.
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  This is why people don't like Americans.
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  And when you travel, you got to be
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  careful about, you know, broadcasting the fact that
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  you're an American.
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  And that's terrible.
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  And, you know, it's terrible that we can't
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  be proud of who we are.
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  And being proud doesn't mean that, oh, gee,
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  we get to go be condescending to the
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  rest of the world.
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  The rest of the world are people, too.
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  We're all people on a common planet.
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  And just because we happen to be born
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  in what I believe to be the greatest
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  country on Earth, although my conviction of that,
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  you know, with these terrible people like Lindsey
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  Graham, he's not even a good person.
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  It's nonsense.
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  He wants to destroy other people.
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  The fact that nearly a hundred people got
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  killed in seizing a criminal and bringing him
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  to justice in New York is beside the
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  point.
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  You know, the hundred people dead, the Venezuelans
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  dead, or the Cuban guards dead, that means
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  nothing.
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  We're supposed to jump for joy for that.
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  We're supposed to go, oh, yeah, we got
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  the greatest armed forces on the planet, which
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  we do.
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  But so what?
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  Walk softly, carry a big stick, don't go
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  killing people needlessly.
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  And this was needless.
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  And so now what are we doing?
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  We're broadcasting to the world that we are
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  a bunch of assholes and that we are
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  a bunch of domineering, colonializing imperialists.
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  That's what we are.
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  And that is disgusting to me that we
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  have to admit that to people.
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  I don't want to.
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  So but I did want to share with
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  you, if you haven't seen it yourself.
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  So McGregor, Ritter, and Johnson were all on,
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  I think it was Judge Napolitano was there.
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  And I think there was a group of
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  people there.
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  And unfortunately, when you transcribe these shows, they
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  only say speaker this, speaker that.
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  It doesn't tell you which one's which.
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  So I'm not positive which one said that.
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  And here's here's the very first question that
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  they that he gave, said, how can President
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  Trump possibly justify the invasion and takeover of
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  the government in Venezuela in terms of American
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  national security?
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  Because we all know that's shit.
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  That is that is not remotely what he's
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  doing here.
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  This is a narco terrorism.
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  This is nothing but a resource grab and
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  a domineering stuff.
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  And here's how he put it.
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  He said, well, Judge, that's a question that
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  I think is irrelevant because he's already done
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  it.
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  And we have to accept the fact that
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  he's now committed the United States Armed Forces
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  and the wealth and power of the United
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  States to intervention in Venezuela.
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  I mean, we could sit here and pick
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  apart the drug allegations or the presence of
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  Hamas, Hezbollah and all this other nonsense, but
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  it doesn't make any difference.
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  He's already acting.
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  That's why he didn't.
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  That's why he had to get Lindsey Graham
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  in on it.
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  Right.
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  And Marco Rubio had to be in on
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  it.
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  This is this is the neocon strategy.
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  This is the people destroying Donald Trump.
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  Trump is no Trump can no longer claim
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  to be an outsider.
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  He is hip deep in the shit and
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  getting deeper.
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  And and right now, as far as I
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  can tell, the Senate Armed Service Committee has
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  signed on for the operation characterizing it as
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  law enforcement, which is horseshit because you can't
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  engage in law enforcement outside of the country.
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  And that is presumably because the DEA was
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  part of the team that went in with
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  Delta Force to seize Maduro and his wife.
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  And so the question continues.
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  So I guess the neocons have triumphed, notwithstanding
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  everything Donald Trump and his accolades said during
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  the campaign.
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  And the guy says this is the important
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  part that I wanted to get to you.
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  I think that what we're learning here is
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  that Washington, led by President Trump, is ready
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  to use whatever means it has at its
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  disposal, including military power to stop the diminishment
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  of U.S. national influence in its bid
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  to manage the sort of decline and dissolution
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  of the so-called postwar liberal order.
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  That's what it all seems to be about.
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  Remember, the rules based order is effectively gone
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  and rules based, meaning whatever Washington wants to
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  impose.
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  And President Trump simply stated very, very categorically,
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  we can do it again because nobody can
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  stop us.
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  There's nothing with the capability that we have.
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  You know, somebody said, well, Team America is
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  back.
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  If you ever saw the funny puppet show,
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  I think that's where we are right now.
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  And lots of people are saying, fine, this
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  is great.
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  The question is, what happens now?
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  That's, you know, difficult to answer, but we
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  need to talk about that.
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  And, you know.
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  Here you go, he says, and you got
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  to see this, he said, because they were
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  showing some of the things that I'm complaining
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  about, and I'm on the radio, so I'm
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  not even going to play it for you.
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  But before we get into what happens now,
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  I just can't resist showing you RFK Jr.
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  and President Trump together at the Republican National
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  Convention two summers ago.
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  Watch the look of glee on President Trump's
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  face when Bobby, whom you and I both
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  know, says Trump will end the grip of
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  the neocons on the government.
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  And he said, play this cut.
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  Then he said, he also told me he
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  wanted to end the grip of the neocons
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  on U.S. foreign policy.
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  And don't you want a president who's going
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  to get us out of wars and who's
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  going to rebuild the middle class in this
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  country?
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  He said, we don't have that.
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  We have a president who wants to start
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  wars.
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  So the question is, who's really in charge?
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  I'm not convinced that President Trump is, because
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  remember, during the convention, you had this giant
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  Israeli flag suddenly appear in the middle of
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  the Republican convention.
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  And certainly in my lifetime, perhaps you can
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  remember an example, but I don't know of
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  a single instance where either the Democrat or
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  Republican parties held a convention and hoisted a
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  giant foreign flag at the convention talking about,
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  quote, unquote, Israel first.
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  I've never heard of that before.
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  And I tell you what, these are frightening
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  times, people.
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  This is, I mean, if we are going
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  to be starting wars, there's some people are
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  going to have some things to say about
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  that.
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  There really are.
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  And I told you yesterday in my rant
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  that people are certainly watching us.
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  And for all those of you who think
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  that Trump is the answer, he's the greatest
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  thing since sliced bread.
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  I tell you what, I have always thought
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  positively of this guy, always.
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  But he is certainly in the pocket of
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  the Lindsey Grahams of the world right now.
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  And if that Air Force One bullshit didn't
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  show that to you, you better look again,
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  because who's running that show?
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  It ain't Trump.
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  And Trump has bought on to this whole
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  thing.
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  And if this is how he thinks, so
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  and I've thought about this.
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  It's been a couple of days now.
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  Now, similarly, I don't believe there's crap you
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  can do about it, except bitch about it,
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  which I'm doing now because that's what I'm
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  good at.
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  But there's not much you can do about
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  it.
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  Who are we?
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  We're nobody.
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  And frankly, we're the people that Lindsey Graham
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  will send off to slaughter without thinking twice
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  of it.
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  You don't care.
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  We're nothing but little red risk pieces in
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  denominations of one, five, or ten.
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  That's it.
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  And that's all we are to that guy.
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  And he cares about money.
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  He cares about power.
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  And he cares about whether he gets reelected.
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  That is it.
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  And he don't care about a damn thing
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  else.
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  He cares about destroying Ukraine.
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  Why?
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  Because that might weaken Russia.
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  But in the meantime, we'll just destroy Ukraine
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  and it doesn't matter because they're dying for
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  it.
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  He was pretty upfront about that, where none
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  of our guys are dying.
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  That's not true either.
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  We've had some people dying over there, but
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  our guys aren't dying.
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  What do we care?
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  We'll just keep funding it.
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  We'll keep funding it until Ukraine is gone
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  and hopefully we can come in and make
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  a deal with Russia and get half of
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  the resources.
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  But they lost that resource battle.
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  Russia took the Donbass, which is in the
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  eastern side.
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  Why do you think Ukraine doesn't want to
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  give it up?
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  We can't give up our territorial integrity.
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  They're all talking about territorial integrity.
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  It's talking about the UN charter and how
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  that works and territorial integrity and no other
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  country can do it.
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  And what does the US do?
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  We go replace leaders.
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  You can't.
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  Everything in the UN charter, we ignore it.
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  But by God, we won't enforce it against
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  everybody else.
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  What's wrong with Xi Jinping wandering into Taiwan
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  now?
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  Anything?
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  What's wrong with North Korea taking over South
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  Korea?
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  Anything at all?
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  And what is wrong with wandering into Greenland
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  and saying, Jesus, if you guys really wanted
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  this, you'd put more than 70,000 people
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  here.
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  And we need this.
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  Like Trump said on Air Force One the
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  other day, we need this because strategically, we
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  need it.
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  Denmark, you know, I think most of Europe
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  wants it anyway.
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  So screw it.
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  Me and Lindsey, we're just going to put
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  a fleet up there.
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  We'll put a fleet up there.
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  And, you know, if Iceland had anything to
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  offer, we'd have taken that long ago.
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  They don't have anything to offer.
• 20:18
  So we'll just stick with taking all of
• 20:20
  Greenland.
• 20:20
  So we have a seat in the Arctic.
• 20:23
  Well, Jesus Christ, why don't you take over?
• 20:25
  Sorry, I shouldn't talk like that.
• 20:27
  Why don't you take over Canada, too?
• 20:29
  I mean, Canada's run poorly.
• 20:31
  We could knock them over.
• 20:32
  The only reason they don't have an army
• 20:34
  or military is because we do.
• 20:36
  And they know we'll get their back.
• 20:38
  They don't have to have defense.
• 20:39
  A huge chunk of their money doesn't have
• 20:42
  to go to defense.
• 20:43
  Meanwhile, we're a trillion bucks in and we're
• 20:45
  38 million on the world debt or trillion.
• 20:49
  I'm sorry, million.
• 20:50
  Yeah, Jesus.
• 20:51
  God, that'd be awesome.
• 20:53
  But 38 trillion and counting and rising every
• 20:58
  day and the crap ain't going down.
• 21:00
  Anyway, I've ranted on that long enough and
• 21:02
  I said I wasn't going to do that,
• 21:04
  but I have.
• 21:06
  I was playing for you a little bit
• 21:09
  of that song when I just happened to
• 21:12
  hear it on the car coming in, and
• 21:14
  it was the Stonebridge radio edit of a
• 21:18
  song called The Fear.
• 21:20
  And and I like it.
• 21:22
  Now, where is it?
• 21:23
  How come we're not hearing it?
• 21:24
  I don't know.
• 21:25
  We're going to.
• 21:26
  We're going to maybe play it some more,
• 21:28
  but I doubt it because I don't want
• 21:31
  to go through and cut it.
• 21:32
  And when I upload it to my to
• 21:34
  my podcast site, I got to take it
• 21:38
  out so they don't bitch about having a
• 21:40
  license and we have a license on the
• 21:43
  radio show.
• 21:44
  But somehow I paid for a license ages
• 21:47
  ago, but I can't figure out how to
• 21:49
  transfer it over there.
• 21:50
  So anyway, I'm bitching about nothing.
• 21:52
  I wanted to continue with the with the
• 21:57
  the latest news regarding Venezuela.
• 22:02
  And I heard yesterday on.
• 22:06
  Let's see, who was I watching?
• 22:08
  I can't remember Christopher.
• 22:10
  One of the two Alex's I listened to
• 22:13
  and in in in English and they were
• 22:19
  saying that this turns out that there's further
• 22:23
  information.
• 22:24
  They're saying that the New York Times was
• 22:25
  reporting that this was a coup, that they
• 22:29
  were supported on the way in.
• 22:31
  Well, if it was a coup, why in
• 22:32
  the world are they killing 100 people?
• 22:34
  Why is it?
• 22:35
  And I saw something very interesting on Telegram
• 22:39
  last night in in Russian, and I needed
• 22:42
  to translate it to English.
• 22:45
  And I wonder and it's hard.
• 22:47
  I see if I can do it on
• 22:48
  the fly.
• 22:49
  I think I can, because it wasn't that
• 22:51
  difficult if I can just provide it to
• 22:53
  you on the fly, because they were showing.
• 23:00
  Apache helicopters attacking inside of.
• 23:05
  Inside of.
• 23:09
  What do you call it?
• 23:13
  Venezuela.
• 23:15
  And I forgot my glasses.
• 23:16
  No, I didn't.
• 23:17
  They're here hanging on my shirt and hard
• 23:19
  to read my phone in my old age.
• 23:22
  But I'm going to save this or tell
• 23:24
  this for you.
• 23:25
  This is something I saved, and this was
• 23:27
  from Venezuela sent to Russian on my Telegram
• 23:32
  channel.
• 23:33
  And it shows a video and the video
• 23:35
  is this Apache helicopter bombing the crap out
• 23:38
  of places inside of Venezuela.
• 23:42
  And it says a team of attack helicopter
• 23:47
  Apaches with appeared over targets in the region
• 23:51
  of Caracas.
• 23:52
  If these pictures can be supported, this is
• 23:58
  a serious escalation, strikes not from drones and
• 24:08
  not one time drones and not divert.
• 24:12
  What do you call it?
• 24:12
  Diversity are protesters.
• 24:15
  They're not really protesters, but rebels, rebels, a
• 24:20
  full scale strike of but a full scale
• 24:27
  strike of a machine of American aviation.
• 24:31
  The Apache is not a the weapon of
• 24:37
  Venezuela.
• 24:38
  It's a symbol of the direct participation of
• 24:42
  the U.S. and its allies.
• 24:45
  All of Latin American history of the last
• 24:49
  decades was built on a simple proposition.
• 24:58
  Whoever talks the loudest about sovereignty and independent
• 25:04
  politics, that person sooner or later will receive
• 25:09
  a colorful resolution, a color resolution, or a
• 25:15
  serious pressure.
• 25:16
  Venezuela is in the list, was on that
• 25:20
  list long ago and quite seriously.
• 25:23
  And now, judging from everything that has happened,
• 25:27
  the pressure has the pressure and the revolution
• 25:33
  or the change to a military sphere is
• 25:40
  a great pinch that shows how far you
• 25:45
  can go without formally declaring war.
• 25:49
  How far can U.S. go without formally
• 25:51
  declaring war?
• 25:54
  On the whole, we see a very similar,
• 25:59
  a very familiar underline.
• 26:03
  Well, a podchork is emphasis.
• 26:06
  We see this emphasis.
• 26:08
  Strikes on infrastructure, work on capital objects in
• 26:12
  the capital, and maximum bringing up of chaos.
• 26:20
  The logic is simple.
• 26:22
  Show everyone around that any country deciding to
• 26:27
  play, to not play by the rules of
• 26:30
  Washington risks sooner or later seeing in their
• 26:36
  own territory, above their heads, the helicopter of
• 26:43
  democracy.
• 26:44
  And I didn't, that's not a, that was
• 26:47
  on the fly, not a great interpretation, but
• 26:50
  that I thought was very telling.
• 26:54
  And I'm sitting there reading it and going,
• 26:55
  you know, I get the feeling completely.
• 26:58
  So now, we're bringing, so Venezuela was working
• 27:04
  with, very seriously with China.
• 27:06
  Like I told you yesterday, $100 billion committed,
• 27:10
  paying off loans, funding their governments, giving a
• 27:13
  lot of things, and they made no bones
• 27:15
  about it.
• 27:16
  The oil is coming to the U.S.
• 27:18
  It's not going to be developed and infrastructure
• 27:22
  developed by China.
• 27:24
  Nope, we're not doing it.
• 27:26
  Now, you can agree with that, but why
• 27:29
  in the world freaking lie to me about
• 27:31
  it?
• 27:32
  And I'll say, I'm much more likely to
• 27:34
  be on your side if you don't freaking
• 27:37
  lie and do what's called fraud in the
• 27:41
  inducement.
• 27:42
  Fraud in the inducement is a legal term
• 27:45
  that means somebody's trying to get you to
• 27:47
  go into a contract.
• 27:49
  And if you lie to get him into
• 27:52
  this contract, it's called fraud in the inducement.
• 27:54
  And it's a way to void the contract.
• 27:56
  If you say, geez, I need to get
• 27:58
  a loan so that I can get a
• 28:00
  loan to, you know, build a house and
• 28:03
  then your nephew can live in that house
• 28:06
  with me.
• 28:06
  And then you get the loan, they give
• 28:08
  you the loan to build the house.
• 28:10
  And instead of building the house so the
• 28:11
  nephew can live in it, you go on
• 28:13
  a world trip and you take a cruise
• 28:15
  around the planet for 365 days with the
• 28:18
  money.
• 28:19
  So the loan was a valid loan.
• 28:21
  It's a valid contract, but it was fraud
• 28:24
  in the inducement.
• 28:25
  You induced him with a fake thing.
• 28:27
  Well, that's exactly what they've done to us.
• 28:30
  They sell it to us and then slap
• 28:32
  the truth upon us at the end, which
• 28:35
  is bullshit.
• 28:36
  And they take this and they say, you
• 28:38
  know, oh, gee, it's narco-terrorism.
• 28:42
  They're killing us in the homeland, which is
• 28:44
  bullshit anyway.
• 28:46
  It's nonsense.
• 28:47
  It's not Venezuela doing that.
• 28:50
  If they are, it's very minimal.
• 28:53
  And he certainly isn't a narco-terrorist.
• 28:55
  Jesus, they're charging him with having machine guns.
• 28:59
  This is nonsense.
• 29:00
  And then we find out what the real
• 29:02
  deal is.
• 29:03
  Oh, you know what?
• 29:04
  This is anti-China.
• 29:06
  We're taking over the oil so China don't
• 29:08
  get it.
• 29:08
  And now they're coming out of the closet
• 29:10
  and telling us this.
• 29:12
  Why didn't you say that before?
• 29:14
  You know why?
• 29:15
  Because then you can't go and use the
• 29:17
  use of force.
• 29:18
  And by the way, that's another topic altogether
• 29:21
  is the use of force be declaring war.
• 29:26
  Basically, they've just done it.
• 29:28
  And Lindsey Graham helped get away with it.
• 29:30
  They structured how we did this in Iraq.
• 29:33
  It's been going on ever since.
• 29:35
  We don't declare war in Afghanistan.
• 29:37
  We don't declare war in Iraq.
• 29:39
  We don't declare war in Venezuela.
• 29:42
  We certainly don't talk about the buildup that
• 29:44
  we did inside of Ukraine.
• 29:46
  But in the end, it's all the same.
• 29:49
  Congress Lindsey Graham is funding it, and he's
• 29:52
  making sure that your dollars are going to
• 29:55
  pay for the continued dominance of the elite
• 29:59
  oil company owners.
• 30:00
  We're certainly not doing this to protect Venezuela.
• 30:03
  This has nothing to do with democracy, nothing
• 30:08
  to do with taking care of or fixing
• 30:11
  Venezuela.
• 30:13
  All it is is a satellite.
• 30:18
  That's it.
• 30:20
  And we're going, but Trump, oh, now we,
• 30:22
  this sure as hell ain't me.
• 30:23
  We are going to force them.
• 30:25
  Who is the guy that moved out of
• 30:26
  the country with his wife?
• 30:27
  And everybody's going, oh, good riddance, try to
• 30:30
  fix it from within.
• 30:31
  I think it's too far gone to fix
• 30:33
  from within.
• 30:34
  It's too far gone.
• 30:35
  What's going to happen the next time?
• 30:37
  Some Democrat's going to come in, and his
• 30:38
  favorite place is going to be France, and
• 30:40
  he'll just go take over France.
• 30:42
  Declare war without declaring war, by the way.
• 30:46
  You don't have to.
• 30:46
  Who needs congressional approval for that?
• 30:49
  This is a slight military, this is a
• 30:51
  law enforcement action.
• 30:52
  Oh, really?
• 30:53
  Why don't you send in 10 cops then?
• 30:54
  Why are you sending the military?
• 30:59
  A small coffee break whilst I yell at
• 31:02
  people.
• 31:02
  Anyway, that really isn't what I wanted to
• 31:04
  talk about today, but I'm glad I have.
• 31:06
  And so that is my thought on that,
• 31:09
  and I think you should follow along, and
• 31:12
  I think that was a Judge Napolitano show
• 31:15
  that they were talking on the one that
• 31:18
  I told you about with these various speakers.
• 31:21
  You know, I think we have to understand
• 31:28
  we had all these allegations about Hamas, Hezbollah,
• 31:32
  training camps, not that anybody in the intelligence
• 31:35
  business believes that, but because that's how we
• 31:39
  sell it to the American people.
• 31:40
  I don't think anybody in the intelligence business
• 31:44
  believes the bit about Maduro is a drug
• 31:46
  kingpin either.
• 31:48
  We're interested in the most significant exporter of
• 31:52
  cocaine in modern history.
• 31:54
  Well, let's set aside for a moment that,
• 31:56
  and chalk it up to one of money
• 31:58
  justifications for what's going on.
• 32:01
  But none of them are the correct, you
• 32:04
  know, they are, you know, only in the
• 32:07
  top five.
• 32:07
  But what you do have in Venezuela, oil
• 32:10
  reserves, natural gas, nickel, rare earth, and massive
• 32:16
  endowed gold, lots of gold, and one of
• 32:20
  the largest iron ore deposits in the western
• 32:24
  hemisphere.
• 32:25
  So all of those things are what's wrapped
• 32:27
  up in this, and now he's telling everybody,
• 32:30
  we're going to rebuild everything, we're going to
• 32:33
  restore the health of oil's structure, infrastructure.
• 32:38
  And he admits it's going to take a
• 32:41
  long time, and American corporations are going to
• 32:44
  march into the country, and everybody's going to
• 32:47
  get rich.
• 32:48
  No.
• 32:50
  No, no, no, no.
• 32:53
  Will Washington provide an economic package to lift
• 32:57
  Venezuela out of poverty?
• 32:59
  No.
• 33:00
  I don't think they're going to do crap
• 33:02
  about that.
• 33:04
  And, you know, they've taken it over.
• 33:06
  Now what?
• 33:07
  So we just bought Venezuela, or stole Venezuela,
• 33:12
  and I just want to go on the
• 33:14
  record of being against how this happened.
• 33:17
  If you wanted to fix it, then you
• 33:21
  support some kind of other person.
• 33:23
  And not through our shady CIA BS either.
• 33:28
  People have to, I mean, who supported us
• 33:31
  on the way up?
• 33:33
  I mean, seriously, what happened when we wanted
• 33:36
  to depart from England?
• 33:38
  And I know it was 250 years ago.
• 33:39
  It was a different world.
• 33:40
  Now it's, oh, gee, America just comes in
• 33:43
  and bombs the crap out of people using
• 33:45
  Apache helicopters, and then takes a leader under
• 33:49
  false pretenses.
• 33:51
  We all know that's not what this is
• 33:53
  about.
• 33:53
  And they're saying it.
• 33:55
  They keep saying it.
• 33:56
  Well, just take the package we gave you,
• 33:58
  and we'll send you off to, you know,
• 34:00
  an island somewhere where you and your wife
• 34:04
  can retire.
• 34:05
  That's why they brought the wife along.
• 34:07
  They don't believe their wife was a narco
• 34:09
  -terrorist.
• 34:10
  They want them to be together.
• 34:11
  Take them out of the picture, pay them
• 34:13
  off, make a display.
• 34:15
  They perp-walked.
• 34:15
  They drove the guy in a van through
• 34:17
  the streets of New York so everybody could
• 34:20
  have a look at him.
• 34:22
  They did that on purpose.
• 34:24
  This was a victory lap.
• 34:27
  And it's bullshit.
• 34:28
  That's not how you treat even an arrested
• 34:31
  head of a foreign state.
• 34:33
  These people have no idea what they're doing,
• 34:35
  and all they are is selling crap to
• 34:38
  the masses who will clap loudly and go,
• 34:42
  yeah, yeah.
• 34:43
  This is a guy at a football team
• 34:45
  cheering his team.
• 34:46
  That's it.
• 34:48
  And I think it's nonsense.
• 34:50
  A real thinking population would be thinking far
• 34:54
  ahead of this.
• 34:55
  What do we look like to the rest
• 34:57
  of the world?
• 34:57
  We look like a bunch of clowns.
• 34:59
  And I know most of you don't care
• 35:02
  because you don't travel.
• 35:03
  But if you go to other countries and
• 35:05
  you find out, you know, it's pretty funny
• 35:07
  because you meet people, and then you're sitting
• 35:10
  there, you're having a good conversation with them,
• 35:12
  and they go, where are you from?
• 35:13
  And you go, America.
• 35:14
  And you know how many times I get
• 35:16
  the, you don't seem like the typical American
• 35:18
  to me?
• 35:19
  Even in Europe, I get that.
• 35:22
  You're not the typical American.
• 35:23
  Well, it's because, you know, a lot of
• 35:25
  Americans have no perspective other than the tiny
• 35:31
  bit of news they get from America.
• 35:34
  It doesn't make me a better person.
• 35:36
  I don't claim that at all.
• 35:37
  I'm a piece of crap in a lot
• 35:39
  of regards, you know what I mean?
• 35:41
  But at least I have a different perspective.
• 35:44
  You know, I've gone through some crap in
• 35:46
  my life, and that number one has given
• 35:48
  me a little bit of a different perspective.
• 35:49
  But I've also been other places and seen
• 35:53
  other things and tried to learn how other
• 35:56
  people live and how they think.
• 35:58
  Our government doesn't do that at all.
• 36:02
  They didn't do this for Venezuela, not remotely.
• 36:05
  This was not for Venezuela.
• 36:07
  Will they have a few that will go,
• 36:10
  oh, yeah, great.
• 36:11
  Same thing, cheering their football team, waving the
• 36:14
  flag.
• 36:14
  Sure they will.
• 36:16
  Will they have a whole bunch that are
• 36:17
  plunged into poverty that you'll never hear anything
• 36:20
  about?
• 36:21
  People that are killed on the sidelines, you'll
• 36:24
  never hear anything about that.
• 36:25
  The 100 or so that were killed in
• 36:28
  this quest to advertise that we are doing
• 36:34
  the right thing and we're stealing your oil.
• 36:39
  That's not the right thing, by the way.
• 36:41
  You know, taking things that don't belong to
• 36:44
  you are never the right thing, and they
• 36:47
  don't belong to us, but we've just stolen
• 36:49
  them.
• 36:49
  And Trump is proud of it, and they're
• 36:52
  very proud of the fact that we're thieves,
• 36:54
  we're criminals, we're robbers, we're imperialist bandits.
• 36:59
  That's what we are, and that's what this
• 37:01
  represents.
• 37:02
  We could have done something with diplomacy, but
• 37:06
  nope, all we have is force and the
• 37:08
  threat of force and parking our Navy outside
• 37:11
  of there, blowing up ships with zero, and
• 37:13
  you know what?
• 37:14
  We watched them do that for two, three
• 37:16
  months, blow up ships, and the uproar, you
• 37:20
  know, they were watching.
• 37:21
  They're going, oh, well, there's not much uproar
• 37:23
  about that.
• 37:24
  There's some people bitching about it, but not
• 37:26
  very many.
• 37:27
  You know, nobody's bitching about that.
• 37:29
  What if we go in and kill 100
• 37:30
  people and steal a guy and claim it's,
• 37:33
  you can imagine him sitting in the back
• 37:36
  office of the White House with Lindsey Graham
• 37:38
  and Marco Rubio and Donald Trump all rubbing
• 37:40
  their hands together in, you know, like Dudley,
• 37:45
  what was Snidely, Snidely whiplash or whatever, sitting
• 37:48
  back there and going, yeah, yeah, they won't,
• 37:51
  you know, we've convinced them.
• 37:52
  Nobody said anything, and we'll just go a
• 37:54
  step further, and that's incrementalism going further and
• 37:57
  further and further, and then you pull the
• 37:59
  rug out from underneath and you go, oh,
• 38:01
  by the way, everything we told you the
• 38:02
  last three months was a complete lie.
• 38:04
  This isn't about narco-terrorism.
• 38:07
  It's about nothing but stealing resources and keeping
• 38:11
  China out.
• 38:12
  Well, why didn't you tell me that in
• 38:14
  the first place?
• 38:15
  I might have been able to help you,
• 38:17
  you know, figure, or at least support you
• 38:19
  in your effort to do it.
• 38:20
  I don't support this type of behavior, and
• 38:23
  I think it's just wrong.
• 38:25
  And so, anyway, that's my rant on that
• 38:26
  topic.
• 38:27
  I really got to get off of it
• 38:28
  because I said I wasn't going to.
• 38:30
  I wanted to get back to the craziness
• 38:31
  that's going on here in Missouri, and there's
• 38:36
  plenty of that going on.
• 38:37
  All of you know that, well, I only
• 38:41
  meant to spend 20 minutes on that, and
• 38:43
  I doubled it.
• 38:44
  I spent 40, so sorry about that, but
• 38:48
  we're going to continue on because there's something
• 38:51
  I've been working on for a little while.
• 38:53
  I've been involved with the group, and I
• 38:55
  put a little ping, and hopefully, you know,
• 38:57
  how you can get on CaseNet, and you
• 38:59
  can tell it to, what do you call
• 39:04
  it, ping you when activity occurs on a
• 39:08
  particular case.
• 39:09
  That's what I have done, and I'm watching
• 39:11
  this case, and I want to know where
• 39:15
  it is.
• 39:16
  And so, I'm waiting for this judgment, and
• 39:24
  the hearing was December 3rd.
• 39:26
  The parties, the attorneys had to submit their
• 39:31
  proposed judgments by December.
• 39:34
  Turned out to be December 17th, I think,
• 39:37
  is when they were all submitted a couple
• 39:38
  weeks later.
• 39:41
  And now, you know, with the holidays and
• 39:43
  stuff, no ruling's going to be made, but
• 39:45
  I've been waiting for a ruling, and it's
• 39:48
  on the, or we have been waiting for
• 39:49
  a ruling, and we're very interested in where
• 39:53
  we go from here, and this has to
• 39:56
  do with alcohol and tobacco control.
• 39:59
  Last week, I walked you through the Chevron
• 40:02
  Doctrine, what it meant, the overturning of that
• 40:06
  doctrine by a Supreme Court of the United
• 40:09
  States case called Loper Bright, and Loper Bright
• 40:13
  overturned the Chevron deference, and deference was when
• 40:19
  a court was, or had a case before
• 40:26
  it, predicated upon agency action against, you know,
• 40:33
  somebody, license holder, agency action, and I don't
• 40:36
  know what, pick one, and people fighting a
• 40:42
  term of either a regulation, an interpretation of
• 40:50
  a regulation, an action on a regulation, anything
• 40:54
  regarded to a regulation or a statute that
• 40:56
  was interpreted by an agency.
• 41:00
  The Chevron Doctrine said that the court should
• 41:07
  defer to the professional bureaucrat, right?
• 41:11
  That, well, the professional bureaucrat's been doing this
• 41:15
  for, you know, 30 years, the agencies are
• 41:18
  usually built with people who know what they're
• 41:21
  doing, which is totally wrong, by the way.
• 41:26
  Thinking that agencies are built with people that
• 41:28
  know what they're doing, or taking that as
• 41:31
  a presumed fact is not a good idea,
• 41:34
  because it's not a good fact.
• 41:37
  Have a lot of respect for a lot
• 41:38
  of government workers, but I got a lot
• 41:41
  of lack of respect for plenty more that
• 41:46
  clearly love their position more than they love,
• 41:49
  you know, the law, and they truly love
• 41:52
  the fact that they were the ones interpreting
• 41:56
  the agency action, right?
• 42:00
  And so they would interpret the agency action,
• 42:02
  and under the Chevron Doctrine, which was in
• 42:05
  place for, I can't remember when Chevron came
• 42:07
  out, 71, 72, I really don't remember, and
• 42:10
  I could be off decades in that, I
• 42:12
  don't remember.
• 42:13
  But I think it was in the 70s
• 42:15
  when the Chevron Doctrine came about.
• 42:18
  And from 40, 50 years, let's call it,
• 42:22
  maybe it's long, and maybe it's less than
• 42:23
  that, who knows?
• 42:24
  But some, a decent period of time, I
• 42:26
  could look it up, but I'm not going
• 42:28
  to, because it's, for that period of time,
• 42:31
  courts would defer to the professional bureaucrat interpretation
• 42:36
  of whatever this, whatever they were interpreting.
• 42:40
  If they're interpreting a regulation, a statute, a
• 42:43
  guide, a handbook, you know, whatever, an action
• 42:48
  against an individual, a business, or anything, and
• 42:52
  the court would say, well, these guys are
• 42:54
  the experts, I'm not the expert, I'm a
• 42:56
  judge, you know, I'm not the expert in
• 42:58
  this case, alcohol and tobacco rules.
• 43:02
  They are, you know, they're experts on alcohol
• 43:04
  and tobacco rules, not me.
• 43:06
  So, I will defer to their interpretation, because
• 43:10
  they've been doing it a long time, and
• 43:12
  presumably, they won't use the interpretation one way
• 43:16
  for one person, and another way for another.
• 43:19
  What that allowed was exactly that to happen,
• 43:22
  though.
• 43:23
  Agencies could pick and choose who they targeted,
• 43:27
  and that's my biggest beef with administrative action.
• 43:30
  It isn't given in a blanket manner to
• 43:33
  everyone.
• 43:35
  It is selective.
• 43:37
  These guys selectively go out and choose who
• 43:40
  to go after.
• 43:41
  They selectively pick and choose what issues they
• 43:44
  like and don't like.
• 43:47
  Targeting is prevalent, and in fact, a preferred
• 43:51
  method of destroying people in Missouri and many
• 43:55
  other places.
• 43:56
  And so, the Chevron doctrine kind of allowed
• 44:00
  that to happen, right?
• 44:01
  The Chevron doctrine would go, because when you
• 44:03
  sued them, you'd get into court, and the
• 44:05
  judge would go, well, you know, the agency
• 44:07
  gets the, you know, ties go in their
• 44:11
  favor, you know, if there's a tie.
• 44:13
  And so, you know, we're going to go
• 44:14
  with their, we're going to defer to their
• 44:17
  understanding.
• 44:18
  And, you know, sorry, but your understanding doesn't
• 44:21
  count.
• 44:22
  You know, what the statute says doesn't count.
• 44:25
  How they've interpreted it does count.
• 44:28
  Even if the interpretation is BS, you know,
• 44:31
  we defer to what they decide.
• 44:33
  So, Loper Bright came along in 2024 and
• 44:37
  changed all of that.
• 44:41
  Loper Bright, on the Supreme Court of the
• 44:43
  United States, overturned the Chevron doctrine and said
• 44:47
  what should have been said, in my view,
• 44:49
  all along.
• 44:50
  It said, listen, this is nonsense.
• 44:54
  The interpretation of the law is a legal
• 44:59
  matter, and judges determine what the law is.
• 45:06
  Not some bureaucrat in an agency, even if
• 45:10
  they've been there 30 years, doesn't matter.
• 45:13
  Law judgments should be interpreted by the court.
• 45:18
  The meaning of a statute shouldn't be interpreted
• 45:22
  by some, you know, I don't know, non
• 45:26
  -lawyer, you know, all judges are lawyers.
• 45:30
  Well, actually, that's not true in Texas.
• 45:32
  But in most places, all judges are lawyers.
• 45:36
  And so, when they make an interpretation, presumably,
• 45:41
  they were listening in administrative law class in
• 45:46
  law school.
• 45:46
  I enjoyed administrative law class.
• 45:49
  I enjoyed going through all this stuff.
• 45:50
  I liked it, you know, talking about all
• 45:53
  those things.
• 45:54
  And I took even a couple of years,
• 45:57
  some advanced courses in it.
• 45:58
  I liked it, you know.
• 45:59
  Not that I ever wanted to be in
• 46:01
  an agency.
• 46:01
  I thought it'd be fun to run the
• 46:03
  planet, you know, but I'm done with that.
• 46:06
  You know, let the idiots, you know, like
• 46:08
  Lindsey Graham do that.
• 46:10
  I can't kiss ass that much.
• 46:12
  I just, I can't do it.
• 46:14
  Makes me wish I could.
• 46:16
  But look at me.
• 46:17
  I went straight back to Lindsey Graham because
• 46:19
  he's such an easy target.
• 46:21
  Jeez, what up?
• 46:22
  Oh, you know, I forgot to mention yesterday
• 46:26
  when I was going on about all the
• 46:27
  five things that he did.
• 46:29
  I forgot Afghanistan for that a-hole.
• 46:33
  You know, what about Afghanistan?
• 46:34
  You know, he, well, he was involved in
• 46:37
  that nonsense too.
• 46:39
  You know, another big knife in the back
• 46:41
  to the American public.
• 46:43
  Another big stealing money for a failed mission
• 46:46
  by Lindsey Graham and company.
• 46:49
  And there were six, not five.
• 46:51
  Yesterday I went through five of them and
• 46:54
  there were actually a sixth one.
• 46:56
  Cause I can't believe I forgot all about
• 46:58
  Afghanistan.
• 46:59
  He was out there talking about that too.
• 47:02
  20 freaking years we were over there.
• 47:05
  Lost all kinds of stuff.
• 47:06
  And don't go acting like that's all Joe
• 47:09
  Biden and we can blame it on him.
• 47:11
  You know, Lindsey Graham, if he was the
• 47:13
  genius, uh, uh, that, that he pretends to
• 47:16
  be riding around in air force one, then
• 47:19
  that wouldn't have happened.
• 47:21
  Nor would any of the other wrong results.
• 47:26
  The absolute opposite of what he said on
• 47:30
  every single instance.
• 47:32
  And here's Trump listening to him.
• 47:34
  Anyway, sorry to get sucked back into that.
• 47:37
  We're going to go right back to our,
• 47:38
  uh, regularly scheduled programming and not rail about
• 47:42
  the federal government.
• 47:43
  Cause I have no power against Missouri government,
• 47:46
  let alone the federal a-holes.
• 47:48
  You know, this is nonsense.
• 47:49
  And we just need to understand as Americans,
• 47:52
  they are not your friend.
• 47:54
  They are not your friend.
• 47:56
  Why do we have the right to bear
• 47:58
  arms?
• 47:58
  Because the government is not your friend.
• 48:01
  I don't even own any weapons right now,
• 48:03
  but I tell you what, I feel like
• 48:05
  I need to go buy a bunch.
• 48:07
  You know, I wouldn't pull the, you know,
• 48:09
  the actor thing and move to another country.
• 48:11
  Although I would do that just cause I
• 48:12
  like other countries, I wouldn't do it to
• 48:15
  avoid the U S you know what I
• 48:17
  mean?
• 48:17
  It's not that bad.
• 48:19
  Yeah.
• 48:19
  It's a great play.
• 48:20
  I don't mean it's not that bad.
• 48:21
  It's a fantastic, but you know, I'm so
• 48:24
  tired of, of, of these negative things that
• 48:27
  do nothing for us and only line the
• 48:31
  pockets of a-holes like Lindsey Graham.
• 48:33
  Anyway, back to the other stuff, when you
• 48:36
  look, sorry, I sidetracked myself like a numb
• 48:39
  nuts and I shouldn't do that, but, but
• 48:43
  here we go.
• 48:44
  The, so with Chevron being overturned by Loper
• 48:47
  Bright, and then the U S or here
• 48:50
  in Missouri, the, the statute or the Congress
• 48:54
  in its legislature, in its wisdom, which is
• 49:00
  rare too, they codified it in 536.140,
• 49:06
  which I shared with you last week.
• 49:08
  And basically 536.140 says that in the
• 49:14
  event, there's a dispute.
• 49:16
  There's a question.
• 49:17
  There's an interpretation that needs to be reviewed
• 49:22
  that that interpretation is the realm of the
• 49:27
  judiciary of a judge, a judge.
• 49:30
  When a dispute is brought before him, he
• 49:32
  will not defer to an agency.
• 49:36
  He will not, he shall not defer to
• 49:39
  the agency and he shall interpret it DeNovo
• 49:43
  brand new, you know, as, as if new,
• 49:46
  he will interpret it himself and say what
• 49:52
  it means based on what he knows of
• 49:54
  the law.
• 49:55
  And he will do so.
• 49:56
  They added this key phrase and I'm paraphrasing
• 50:00
  the phrase, but the key phrase is, and
• 50:03
  he will do it in a way that
• 50:05
  maximizes individual liberty and minimizes government overreach.
• 50:13
  That's basically the last line of this interpretation.
• 50:17
  And so what the, what the legislature have
• 50:20
  done, and I've got my, my problems with
• 50:22
  the legislature and the idiot rules they put
• 50:24
  into place in a lot of respects, but
• 50:27
  not that everyone, you know, what they say
• 50:30
  in the military, you do something right.
• 50:33
  And the Sergeant look at you go, well,
• 50:34
  trap, even a blind squirrel finds a nut
• 50:37
  every once in a while.
• 50:39
  Right?
• 50:39
  Well, that's how I feel about the legislature.
• 50:42
  Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
• 50:45
  And there's the legislature having done the right
• 50:48
  thing.
• 50:49
  Wow.
• 50:50
  What a surprise.
• 50:52
  Curious.
• 50:53
  They've done the right thing.
• 50:55
  We ought to write that down somewhere and
• 50:57
  go, look, they've done it.
• 50:59
  They've pulled their collective heads out of their,
• 51:01
  you know, each other's asses.
• 51:03
  And look where we've gotten.
• 51:05
  We've gotten somewhere positive.
• 51:08
  So this is positive.
• 51:09
  Okay.
• 51:10
  And I believe that we are the first
• 51:13
  to have this, this, this, this law went
• 51:16
  into effect August 28th of this year, 2025.
• 51:20
  I'm sorry.
• 51:21
  It's 2026 now of 2025 and nobody that
• 51:24
  I'm aware of.
• 51:25
  And I did some looking has, has asked
• 51:28
  a court to rule or to make a
• 51:33
  ruling based upon 536.140. I think we're
• 51:36
  the first.
• 51:38
  And so I think that the, the judge
• 51:39
  in this case is going to be particularly
• 51:41
  careful with what he does.
• 51:43
  I mean, why not?
• 51:44
  He's going to have to be particularly careful
• 51:47
  because somebody is appealing me the way it's
• 51:49
  going to be appealed.
• 51:50
  And I told you a little bit about
• 51:52
  the case last week and a little bit
• 51:54
  about what we're doing.
• 51:55
  Well, turning this, okay.
• 51:58
  So the alcohol and tobacco control, they have
• 52:02
  taken, taken it upon themselves to say that.
• 52:08
  And now did you know, and if you
• 52:11
  go out to civic warriors or civic outlaws
• 52:13
  .com, you'll see the start of a webpage
• 52:17
  that we have going on.
• 52:18
  It's not finished yet.
• 52:19
  We have, you know, we have a sample
• 52:21
  out there, but it's not done.
• 52:23
  We're testing out the donation links and we're
• 52:26
  testing out a couple of other things for
• 52:29
  people to help us go after government overreach
• 52:32
  and to fund us going after government overreach,
• 52:38
  which is rampant in America.
• 52:40
  It's, and, and we believe that with the
• 52:43
  changes in the Loper Bright decision and with
• 52:47
  the 536.140 in Missouri, that the, the
• 52:54
  path is clear and it allows people to
• 52:58
  revisit issues where they're getting screwed by administrative
• 53:05
  governmental overreach everywhere.
• 53:09
  People taking authority that doesn't belong to them.
• 53:12
  The department of public safety, putting up cameras
• 53:15
  somewhere and spying on people now needs to
• 53:20
  be reviewed.
• 53:20
  They don't have the ability.
• 53:21
  They don't have the right to do that.
• 53:23
  They put up these traffic cams, but they
• 53:26
  don't use them for that.
• 53:27
  They don't put up traffic cams to, I
• 53:29
  don't know, to see what happened when an
• 53:32
  accident occurred.
• 53:33
  That's not why they're put up.
• 53:35
  That's one tiny reason, but what they're doing
• 53:38
  is tracking people.
• 53:39
  What they're doing is selling the information.
• 53:42
  Private companies are holding this information.
• 53:45
  We spent a lot of time on this
• 53:47
  when I got arrested for being a forward
• 53:50
  looking and a good man and took down
• 53:54
  that damn camera because the county has a
• 53:57
  rule that says you can't put them up.
• 54:00
  You can't put them up.
• 54:01
  And yet the sheriff signed something that said
• 54:03
  that he could.
• 54:04
  And then the prosecutor helped go after him.
• 54:07
  Nonsense.
• 54:08
  And well, somebody needs to get that interpreted
• 54:11
  and to do it correctly.
• 54:13
  And somebody needs to file another suit like
• 54:15
  the one going on in Richmond, Virginia against
• 54:18
  flop cameras who now with gusto, you know,
• 54:23
  with...
• 54:27
  Sorry, excuse me.
• 54:30
  Maybe put on a song for you for
• 54:32
  a minute whilst I clear my throat.
• 54:35
  Oh, no song, just a sip of coffee.
• 54:39
  How about that?
• 54:40
  But anyway, the reason that the overturning of
• 54:46
  Chevron is so important and the reason that
• 54:49
  the codification of that overturning at a state
• 54:55
  level in Missouri is so important, still not
• 55:01
  out of the woods, is that now courts
• 55:05
  have to determine, you know, what's the right
• 55:08
  activity in a case.
• 55:11
  The courts get to determine why a statute
• 55:15
  was written in this manner.
• 55:18
  They will look at the...
• 55:19
  Because one thing an administrative person, a bureaucrat,
• 55:25
  does not do, has zero interest in, is
• 55:30
  why.
• 55:31
  They don't care.
• 55:33
  To them, everything is black and white.
• 55:35
  You know, the true...
• 55:36
  Or everything is according to what they think
• 55:39
  is right.
• 55:40
  Doesn't matter what the rules say.
• 55:41
  This is how I run my ship.
• 55:43
  This is what I do.
• 55:45
  You know?
• 55:45
  And so now we see the path.
• 55:51
  And the path allows us to go places
• 55:55
  for anybody.
• 55:57
  And our start was, I mean, we wish
• 55:59
  to get into the cameras.
• 56:00
  We wish to get into things like HOAs
• 56:03
  and the overreach of HOAs that are approved
• 56:06
  by the government.
• 56:07
  Or sort of funding of housing by, you
• 56:12
  know, the government.
• 56:14
  Child care nonsense with money that is appropriated
• 56:20
  by the state.
• 56:23
  Name it.
• 56:23
  Anything administrative.
• 56:25
  And I'm interested in digging in.
• 56:29
  And one of the greatest tools of that
• 56:31
  is Sunshine Law, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act,
• 56:37
  on the federal side.
• 56:40
  And those tools, unfortunately, are somewhat expensive.
• 56:47
  We have spent a great deal of money
• 56:49
  trying to get 36...
• 56:52
  Well, what we've received so far is like
• 56:54
  4,000 pages of records from the Alcohol
• 57:00
  and Tobacco Control.
• 57:02
  Which, you know, we have reviewed.
• 57:05
  We have gone through.
• 57:06
  We have combed through pretty deeply using some
• 57:10
  proprietary tools that we have for that purpose.
• 57:14
  And we're developing our methods to gather information.
• 57:19
  And we're going through it.
• 57:20
  And it's paying off big time.
• 57:23
  Because what we're finding and what we're seeing
• 57:27
  is their own words are hanging them.
• 57:30
  You know?
• 57:31
  At least in our view.
• 57:32
  And we don't know what the judge is
• 57:34
  saying.
• 57:34
  But we think the path is pretty clear
• 57:36
  for what he has to do.
• 57:38
  But ATC has created their own definitions that
• 57:41
  don't exist in the statute.
• 57:43
  They have taken on power that was never
• 57:46
  given to them in an enabling statute.
• 57:49
  I went through a little bit last week
• 57:51
  of Section...
• 57:53
  Chapter 311 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri
• 57:57
  and Chapter 407 of the Revised Statute of
• 58:00
  Missouri, which gives the enabling language to Alcohol
• 58:04
  and Tobacco Control.
• 58:06
  And so, Alcohol and Tobacco Control.
• 58:08
  The only power you can take as an
• 58:12
  administrator is the power that is given to
• 58:16
  you.
• 58:16
  Let me equate this to you like somebody's
• 58:19
  power of attorney.
• 58:20
  Okay?
• 58:22
  When I'm old and feeble, it's possible that
• 58:27
  I need to have a power of attorney
• 58:29
  because...
• 58:30
  Simply for the fact that I can't get
• 58:32
  around as fast as I used to.
• 58:35
  Okay?
• 58:35
  And so, I can say something to somebody
• 58:38
  like, listen, I'm going to give you this
• 58:41
  piece of paper that gives...
• 58:43
  It's a grocery list.
• 58:45
  All I want you to do is get
• 58:46
  out in the grocery store.
• 58:47
  Here's my credit card.
• 58:48
  I want you to use my credit card
• 58:50
  to buy this thing.
• 58:51
  There's a grocery store.
• 58:52
  I'm going to write a thing on the
• 58:54
  bottom that says, I give this person the
• 58:56
  authority to use my credit card, but only
• 58:58
  to buy these 10 items.
• 59:00
  He can't put on candy bars for himself.
• 59:02
  And I sign the bottom.
• 59:03
  Arguably, that's an enforceable power of attorney.
• 59:06
  I've authorized someone to act on my behalf.
• 59:11
  So, when you authorize an agency to act
• 59:16
  on behalf of the king, you know, the
• 59:18
  governor's the king in this scenario.
• 59:21
  And when the governor has to be given
• 59:23
  that power, first of all, any power he
• 59:26
  gets is derived from the legislature giving him
• 59:30
  the power.
• 59:31
  And he's kept in check by the judicial
• 59:35
  branch, right?
• 59:36
  But the power comes through the law, through
• 59:39
  the statutes, through the things that are written,
• 59:42
  right?
• 59:42
  And then he can go through and he
• 59:45
  appoints...
• 59:46
  It gets even worse because now he appoints
• 59:49
  the head of the Department of Public Safety.
• 59:51
  And the head of the Department of Public
• 59:53
  Safety has all of the rules that he
• 59:55
  has to abide by for the highway patrol,
• 59:58
  for the water patrol, for whatever, name it.
• 1:00:01
  One of those other ones is the alcohol
• 1:00:04
  and tobacco control folks, right?
• 1:00:07
  So, the Department of Public Safety, ATC is
• 1:00:10
  underneath them.
• 1:00:11
  So, now you've got a power of attorney.
• 1:00:14
  Well, an authorizing statute.
• 1:00:17
  Now, we're not going to call it a
• 1:00:18
  power of attorney, but it's basically what it
• 1:00:19
  is.
• 1:00:20
  It's an authorization to act.
• 1:00:22
  And that authorization to act and to enforce
• 1:00:25
  or to carry out the law is given
• 1:00:31
  to the governor to carry out the law.
• 1:00:33
  The legislature created it.
• 1:00:35
  The governor has to carry it out.
• 1:00:37
  He does that through the Department of Public
• 1:00:40
  Safety head.
• 1:00:40
  And that guy appoints somebody to alcohol, tobacco
• 1:00:44
  control.
• 1:00:45
  That person has 500 others.
• 1:00:48
  I don't know the number.
• 1:00:49
  That could be a BS number.
• 1:00:50
  God knows how many there are that work
• 1:00:53
  for her in this case.
• 1:00:55
  And each one of those things has a
• 1:00:58
  level of authority of interpretation and of things
• 1:01:01
  like that.
• 1:01:02
  Well, at the core of it, though, the
• 1:01:06
  only authority, because what's happened is the legislature
• 1:01:12
  created the alcohol and tobacco control back in
• 1:01:17
  the 40s, I think it was.
• 1:01:19
  Back during, right after Prohibition or maybe even
• 1:01:22
  during.
• 1:01:22
  So, it's been around for a long time.
• 1:01:24
  And they created it.
• 1:01:26
  And over the years, they've narrowed it down.
• 1:01:28
  But they've now, the only authority they ever
• 1:01:31
  gave them is to enforce things under alcohol
• 1:01:36
  and tobacco controls, enabling language inside Chapter 311
• 1:01:41
  and 407.
• 1:01:43
  What that means is they can't, we call
• 1:01:46
  it bootstrapping.
• 1:01:47
  You can't bootstrap and steal power from somewhere
• 1:01:51
  else that you don't have.
• 1:01:53
  Or you can't suck in, I don't know,
• 1:01:59
  law from somewhere else that you cannot enforce.
• 1:02:04
  And we allege that's what they've been doing.
• 1:02:07
  And so, over the years, ATC has gotten
• 1:02:10
  pretty proud of themselves.
• 1:02:12
  And they've created circulars to send around and
• 1:02:15
  tell people that, oh, gee, you better watch
• 1:02:18
  out, hooters.
• 1:02:19
  And you better not have girls running around
• 1:02:21
  with the bottom, with their butt cheek.
• 1:02:23
  They call it the butt cheek.
• 1:02:25
  And, oh, you people at Twin Peaks, the
• 1:02:29
  one with the girls where they all got
• 1:02:30
  big boobs.
• 1:02:32
  Cleavage is okay, but you better make sure
• 1:02:34
  that the under boob, that the under boob
• 1:02:38
  isn't hanging.
• 1:02:39
  Tube tops aren't going to be okay.
• 1:02:41
  We don't want to see any under boob.
• 1:02:45
  Well, who gave them that authority?
• 1:02:49
  Who said that, I mean, what does your
• 1:02:52
  alcohol license, what does alcohol or tobacco have
• 1:02:57
  to do with whether a girl, because they
• 1:03:01
  happen to be serving alcohol and she's got
• 1:03:04
  big boobs or a big ass and she
• 1:03:08
  can't have the under, you know, your under
• 1:03:12
  part of your butt or your under boob
• 1:03:17
  can't be visible.
• 1:03:19
  And certainly a can't be visible.
• 1:03:21
  But, you know, that's nudity.
• 1:03:22
  It's not allowed.
• 1:03:23
  But usually nudity was more of a local
• 1:03:25
  thing.
• 1:03:26
  I don't know.
• 1:03:26
  I haven't done any serious research on that,
• 1:03:30
  but I remember the free the nipple thing
• 1:03:32
  that was going on in Columbia several years
• 1:03:35
  ago.
• 1:03:36
  And I made sure to go to this
• 1:03:38
  place because the women were all wandering down
• 1:03:40
  the street topless.
• 1:03:41
  And I was like, well, you know what?
• 1:03:42
  I'm for this.
• 1:03:44
  Suddenly, I'm for it.
• 1:03:45
  No, I'm kidding.
• 1:03:47
  I honestly don't even think I went to
• 1:03:48
  that.
• 1:03:49
  But I remember hearing about it.
• 1:03:50
  But that's humor from a Sam side.
• 1:03:54
  And sometimes my humor kicks me in the
• 1:03:55
  butt.
• 1:03:56
  But at any rate, the whole point of
• 1:03:59
  saying that is who in the world gives
• 1:04:02
  you alcohol licensing people the authority to go
• 1:04:09
  into hooters and say, gee, don't hire girls
• 1:04:13
  with big boobs, you know, because, you know,
• 1:04:18
  or make sure that when you do, boy,
• 1:04:20
  they better have them propped up correctly.
• 1:04:23
  And, you know, nothing is hanging out below
• 1:04:25
  the top.
• 1:04:26
  Or if they happen to have a big
• 1:04:28
  butt in their butt cheek, you can see
• 1:04:31
  the bottom of the butt cheek.
• 1:04:32
  What the hell is the difference in the
• 1:04:34
  bottom of a butt cheek?
• 1:04:35
  Is everybody supposed to wear underalls?
• 1:04:38
  You know, women don't do that.
• 1:04:40
  And you can go to any swim up
• 1:04:42
  bar in this place.
• 1:04:44
  And the girls that are serving alcohol, the
• 1:04:47
  waitresses or the servers that are running around
• 1:04:50
  providing stuff are wearing bikinis.
• 1:04:54
  And the bikinis are bikinis.
• 1:04:57
  Women don't wear the ones that, you know,
• 1:04:59
  they don't wear shorts for, I don't know,
• 1:05:04
  bikini bottoms.
• 1:05:05
  They don't do it.
• 1:05:06
  It doesn't cover the under cheek of the
• 1:05:10
  butt.
• 1:05:11
  It doesn't do it.
• 1:05:12
  But that is what, you know, there's a
• 1:05:14
  story going around, and this is true.
• 1:05:16
  We can get an affidavit for this.
• 1:05:18
  This is disgusting to me, okay?
• 1:05:21
  Now, personal grooming is definitely a personal matter.
• 1:05:25
  You know, how you choose to groom is
• 1:05:28
  a personal matter.
• 1:05:29
  And I remember being in the Army years
• 1:05:32
  and years ago.
• 1:05:32
  And I was on a three-man team
• 1:05:34
  on something called Quick Fix.
• 1:05:36
  And Quick Fix was something way back when
• 1:05:39
  you could, when it was hard to target
• 1:05:42
  where a radio signal was coming from.
• 1:05:45
  And so what you would do would be
• 1:05:47
  you would triangulate.
• 1:05:48
  There'd be three Quick Fix units.
• 1:05:51
  And each one of us had a Tilky
• 1:05:53
  17 Alpha that would jam, and a collection
• 1:05:57
  module, a 32 Victor that would collect radio
• 1:06:01
  signals.
• 1:06:02
  And then later, in a helicopter, we did
• 1:06:05
  the same thing in helicopters.
• 1:06:07
  But in order to get it to work,
• 1:06:08
  and today this is not the case, but
• 1:06:10
  way back then, you had to have a
• 1:06:14
  mile apart on three different hills, three separate
• 1:06:17
  apparatus.
• 1:06:19
  And I'd be in one of them, and
• 1:06:20
  I'd have two more on hills a mile
• 1:06:22
  on either side of me, right?
• 1:06:24
  And when I pushed a button, I could
• 1:06:26
  triangulate a position and catch a radio signal
• 1:06:29
  from an enemy and pinpoint to within, it
• 1:06:33
  had an error of probability, but to within
• 1:06:35
  so many feet of where that guy was
• 1:06:38
  standing.
• 1:06:39
  And I could call in artillery and go,
• 1:06:41
  take out this guy.
• 1:06:42
  He's bombing the hell out of people.
• 1:06:43
  You know, that's triangulation.
• 1:06:47
  And so you could put that into place
• 1:06:50
  and have that.
• 1:06:52
  And the point of that for this sort
• 1:06:59
  of thing is I came over a hill
• 1:07:01
  one day inspecting one of my teams, and
• 1:07:04
  it was in the middle of the Mojave
• 1:07:06
  Desert.
• 1:07:06
  And so that part of the story was
• 1:07:08
  really not relevant at all.
• 1:07:09
  But I come over the hill, I had
• 1:07:10
  a girl on my team.
• 1:07:12
  And this is back when girls couldn't be
• 1:07:14
  in combat, but they could be in military
• 1:07:16
  intelligence.
• 1:07:17
  And so we were out in the field,
• 1:07:18
  two guys and a girl.
• 1:07:20
  And this girl, I come over the hill,
• 1:07:22
  and she's laying out on a beach chair
• 1:07:27
  in the middle of the desert.
• 1:07:29
  And I'm going, and she's sunning herself, wearing
• 1:07:32
  a bikini.
• 1:07:33
  And I'm like, you can't do that.
• 1:07:35
  And I was sent there by a guy
• 1:07:36
  named Figaro.
• 1:07:37
  He's like, Sergeant Trapp, you got to go
• 1:07:38
  over and check her.
• 1:07:39
  Oh, she's beautiful.
• 1:07:40
  I can't go see her.
• 1:07:41
  And she was not beautiful.
• 1:07:43
  But that's neither here nor there.
• 1:07:46
  When you went over and you saw this
• 1:07:47
  girl, it has to do with grooming.
• 1:07:51
  I'm telling you, this girl was wearing a
• 1:07:54
  bikini.
• 1:07:55
  And everywhere she did not shave.
• 1:07:59
  She was a pubic hair heaven.
• 1:08:01
  It was everywhere.
• 1:08:03
  Some women are that way.
• 1:08:05
  And who are you to determine who gets
• 1:08:07
  to do it?
• 1:08:07
  Well, the story goes that here at the
• 1:08:10
  lake, one of the owners of a club
• 1:08:14
  here, an ATC guy was inspecting him on
• 1:08:18
  a day when there were a lot of
• 1:08:20
  people out.
• 1:08:21
  And there was a middle-aged woman eating
• 1:08:23
  and having a drink on the side of
• 1:08:26
  the pool, the swim-up pool at the
• 1:08:28
  bar.
• 1:08:29
  And the woman was similar to the girl
• 1:08:32
  I just told you about, her grooming.
• 1:08:35
  She wasn't one of those that shaves everything.
• 1:08:37
  And the ATC guy made the owner of
• 1:08:42
  the bar go over and tell this woman
• 1:08:46
  she had to either put on some shorts
• 1:08:50
  or leave the facility because there was pubic
• 1:08:55
  hair coming out the side of her bikini.
• 1:09:03
  Now, let that sink in a minute, okay?
• 1:09:06
  I'm not for or against.
• 1:09:08
  I don't care.
• 1:09:09
  People's grooming is their own grooming.
• 1:09:11
  But who the hell made you in charge
• 1:09:14
  of determining what somebody gets to wear or
• 1:09:17
  not wear based on your arcane view of
• 1:09:22
  grooming for women or anything else for that
• 1:09:25
  matter?
• 1:09:26
  If you're going to target a facility because
• 1:09:30
  it allows middle-aged women to come and
• 1:09:33
  sit on the side of a pool unshaven,
• 1:09:37
  that is not what you were enabled to
• 1:09:40
  do by the legislature of the state of
• 1:09:43
  Missouri.
• 1:09:44
  That's the issue.
• 1:09:46
  Who in the world told you?
• 1:09:48
  And the justification is that is lewd.
• 1:09:53
  That's lewd to you.
• 1:09:55
  Who allowed you to come in and interpret
• 1:09:57
  that lewd is there?
• 1:09:58
  Where did the legislature write a definition for
• 1:10:01
  lewd that said if a woman is showing
• 1:10:04
  pubic hair and she's a middle-aged woman
• 1:10:07
  sitting on the side of the pool drinking
• 1:10:08
  a drink, you can kick her out of
• 1:10:10
  a bar.
• 1:10:11
  That's nonsense.
• 1:10:13
  It's crap.
• 1:10:14
  And the legislature, if they're doing that, I
• 1:10:17
  would target that too.
• 1:10:18
  But the legislature isn't doing that.
• 1:10:20
  This is some over the years, many years
• 1:10:24
  of interpretation.
• 1:10:25
  The ATC has created these rules that they
• 1:10:31
  created, they interpreted, they bootstrapped from other places
• 1:10:38
  and said you can't do it.
• 1:10:40
  You can't because all they can enforce, all
• 1:10:44
  they can enforce is laws having to do
• 1:10:47
  with alcohol or tobacco.
• 1:10:51
  They weren't, they're not the pubic hair police.
• 1:10:54
  What is this nonsense?
• 1:10:57
  This is ridiculous.
• 1:10:59
  And it is a terrible story.
• 1:11:02
  It's a shame that you have to report
• 1:11:03
  that.
• 1:11:04
  The guy, I won't say who it is,
• 1:11:10
  you know, if he ever wants to, you
• 1:11:11
  know, we'll let him come on and chat
• 1:11:13
  about it.
• 1:11:14
  But these are, whether they're important issues to
• 1:11:18
  you or not, they're certainly important real issues
• 1:11:26
  about the overreach of government everywhere.
• 1:11:31
  Everybody knows that I believe, I detest government
• 1:11:36
  overreach.
• 1:11:37
  I detest government stretching their authority.
• 1:11:44
  And you know, the president can declare war.
• 1:11:47
  Well, but over the last 30 years, we've
• 1:11:51
  discovered that he doesn't have to do that.
• 1:11:54
  He can create war in many, many places
• 1:11:56
  and never declare it.
• 1:11:59
  That way you can always claim that the
• 1:12:01
  US hasn't lost when it's a war and
• 1:12:04
  we leave a place in ruins.
• 1:12:06
  Worse than we started with it.
• 1:12:09
  The goal should be that we leave a
• 1:12:10
  place better off than when we came in.
• 1:12:13
  That ain't going to happen in Venezuela.
• 1:12:16
  You know, the people that'll be better off
• 1:12:19
  will be the board of directors of, you
• 1:12:22
  know, Chevron.
• 1:12:23
  Again, a new Chevron doctrine is we give
• 1:12:27
  you, we give you Venezuela.
• 1:12:29
  You know, that's the new Chevron doctrine, right?
• 1:12:33
  Nonsense.
• 1:12:34
  And at any rate, government overreach is where
• 1:12:38
  I like to spend some time.
• 1:12:41
  And one of the ways to do that
• 1:12:43
  is through sending out of sunshine law requests.
• 1:12:50
  And we sent out a sunshine request.
• 1:12:54
  And I want to share with you this
• 1:13:01
  comical response.
• 1:13:03
  Where is it?
• 1:13:09
  Let's see if I can bring this up
• 1:13:11
  without hurting myself too much.
• 1:13:18
  Because it is downright comical what they responded
• 1:13:26
  here.
• 1:13:27
  And this I target.
• 1:13:29
  This I do not like.
• 1:13:31
  This is foolish.
• 1:13:36
  And I may have shared some of it
• 1:13:43
  with you.
• 1:13:46
  Where is it?
• 1:13:48
  But I don't think I shared all of
• 1:13:50
  it with you.
• 1:13:52
  And I need that letter.
• 1:13:55
  And I think I'm going to have to
• 1:13:56
  search for it in my drive here.
• 1:13:58
  It'll take me just a second to get
• 1:14:00
  there.
• 1:14:01
  And but it's, I find it to be
• 1:14:05
  entertaining.
• 1:14:07
  You may not, but I like it.
• 1:14:10
  And it is the response to a request
• 1:14:14
  for information from Alcohol and Tobacco Control.
• 1:14:20
  And we had asked for a number of
• 1:14:26
  documents, certain topic areas.
• 1:14:30
  And what we got in return, where is
• 1:14:35
  it?
• 1:14:36
  Come on, give us the long one.
• 1:14:38
  So they sent us two on the same
• 1:14:40
  day.
• 1:14:41
  And I keep opening the first one and
• 1:14:44
  I can't find the second one.
• 1:14:47
  And where in the world is it?
• 1:14:51
  Hello, how is the family?
• 1:14:56
  Um, come on, come on, come on, come
• 1:14:59
  on.
• 1:15:02
  Let's see here.
• 1:15:05
  I think I have found it.
• 1:15:09
  Here we go.
• 1:15:12
  This is a long letter.
• 1:15:14
  Okay.
• 1:15:14
  And so I'm not going to share all
• 1:15:16
  of it with you.
• 1:15:17
  But basically, we have requested a number of
• 1:15:22
  documents.
• 1:15:24
  And the request was responded to as follows.
• 1:15:33
  We received your December 4th and December 9th
• 1:15:37
  letters, which include additional requests.
• 1:15:42
  Since August, we have in good faith made
• 1:15:45
  every reasonable effort.
• 1:15:47
  And I'm paraphrasing, I'm not reading all this
• 1:15:49
  to you.
• 1:15:50
  To fulfill your request in an organized manner.
• 1:15:54
  To date, more than 3,600 pages of
• 1:15:57
  records have been provided.
• 1:16:00
  Our communications with you have consistently included clear
• 1:16:05
  estimations of dates on when the records would
• 1:16:08
  be made available for inspection, detailed explanations when
• 1:16:12
  appropriate for why access was delayed, specific statements
• 1:16:17
  of the provision of law under which we
• 1:16:19
  closed our records when applicable, and clarifications regarding
• 1:16:25
  which of your expanded requests the documents produce
• 1:16:29
  pertain to.
• 1:16:31
  We believe our team's extraordinary efforts to fulfill
• 1:16:35
  your request demonstrate our respect for Missouri's policy
• 1:16:39
  favoring open conduct of business.
• 1:16:43
  Despite our good faith efforts, and remember, I'm
• 1:16:47
  paraphrasing because this is a long letter, but
• 1:16:49
  I'm not adding anything.
• 1:16:51
  It is plain from the increasingly hostile and
• 1:16:54
  argumentative tone of your communication and the overly
• 1:16:59
  broad, unduly burdensome, that's a legal term, nature
• 1:17:04
  of your repeated demands, particularly those made in
• 1:17:08
  October 3rd, 7th, 10th, November 10th, December 4th,
• 1:17:12
  and December 9th, that your invocation of Missouri
• 1:17:16
  sunshine law is intended not as a tool
• 1:17:19
  to examine public meetings and records, but as
• 1:17:23
  a weapon to harass the division, burden the
• 1:17:27
  government, and strain agency staff.
• 1:17:31
  It seems to the division that due to
• 1:17:36
  the obvious connection between the record and the
• 1:17:39
  nature of your pending legal action, these requests
• 1:17:42
  are in retaliation for administrative actions taken against
• 1:17:46
  your liquor license, and a means to conduct
• 1:17:50
  improper discovery, okay?
• 1:17:58
  The estimates provided below are calculated assuming at
• 1:18:04
  this time that the requests are completed using
• 1:18:07
  currently available agency resources.
• 1:18:11
  Historically, the division has not received sunshine requests
• 1:18:15
  in quantities or volume necessary to consider the
• 1:18:18
  assignment of additional employees or resources.
• 1:18:22
  Therefore, as currently staffed, ATC's capacity to process
• 1:18:27
  requests of the size you submitted will unfortunately
• 1:18:33
  result in a very lengthy fulfillment time.
• 1:18:37
  When upon receipt of payment, ATC commences with
• 1:18:43
  processing the requests outlined below, the agency will
• 1:18:48
  explore avenues through which it might reduce the
• 1:18:52
  time and expense estimated to fulfill the request.
• 1:18:55
  Such possible solutions might include, but aren't limited
• 1:18:59
  to, outsourcing review to a private firm.
• 1:19:03
  Well, if you're going to do that, why
• 1:19:05
  don't you just let me in there?
• 1:19:07
  I'm a private firm.
• 1:19:08
  I'll go have a look at all your
• 1:19:10
  records and decide what it is.
• 1:19:12
  If you're going to hire somebody outside anyway,
• 1:19:14
  why wouldn't you just let me do it?
• 1:19:16
  Anyway, continuing, employing additional temporary or part-time
• 1:19:20
  personnel for document review, or hiring a full
• 1:19:23
  -time employee dedicated permanently to matters related to
• 1:19:27
  sunshine law.
• 1:19:28
  We caution, however, that requests of this nature
• 1:19:32
  must be formally submitted and approved as budget
• 1:19:35
  items.
• 1:19:36
  So now, me requesting a sunshine item, or
• 1:19:39
  anyone, we cannot guarantee either their approval or
• 1:19:43
  timeline within which they would be considered if
• 1:19:46
  submitted.
• 1:19:46
  Thus, the time required to fulfill your request
• 1:19:49
  stated below should not be assumed to change
• 1:19:54
  unless indicated otherwise by authorized agency personnel.
• 1:19:59
  Any expenses approved will be billed to you
• 1:20:02
  as allowed prior to completion.
• 1:20:05
  So the remaining records encompassed by the letters,
• 1:20:11
  the previous letters, we have processed all portions
• 1:20:15
  of these records sought.
• 1:20:18
  Okay.
• 1:20:20
  Communications.
• 1:20:21
  We asked where they get the authority to
• 1:20:24
  patrons or served alcohol by servers wearing bikinis
• 1:20:29
  or attire that is deemed to be lewd,
• 1:20:33
  right?
• 1:20:34
  We want communication, email, text message, enforcement, discussion,
• 1:20:37
  or actions regarding bars, restaurants, or other establishments
• 1:20:40
  licensed to sell alcohol where servers are wearing
• 1:20:44
  clothing deemed lewd by ATC.
• 1:20:48
  So the request is go out and tell
• 1:20:52
  us.
• 1:20:53
  Every instance where you have targeted somebody's license
• 1:20:58
  because of lewd clothing by a woman, okay?
• 1:21:05
  This is what they, with respect to these
• 1:21:08
  records, we indicated in December 7, November 7
• 1:21:13
  correspondence that the division doesn't categorize licensees in
• 1:21:17
  this manner.
• 1:21:18
  But they have a piece of paper that
• 1:21:21
  judges people according to it.
• 1:21:24
  One of the check marks on the inspection
• 1:21:26
  sheet is lewdness.
• 1:21:30
  They check every less licensee for whether or
• 1:21:33
  not they are lewd.
• 1:21:35
  You can't go through and tell me how
• 1:21:37
  many people you've punished or questioned or fined
• 1:21:42
  for being lewd.
• 1:21:45
  Apparently they can because listen to what they
• 1:21:48
  say after this.
• 1:21:51
  This list, and they gave all of these
• 1:21:53
  things, right?
• 1:21:55
  Keyword searches.
• 1:21:57
  Lewd.
• 1:21:58
  The list resulted in the retrieval of 691
• 1:22:03
  ,463 email files alone.
• 1:22:07
  We conservatively estimate the cost associated with fulfillment
• 1:22:13
  of this portion of these records will total
• 1:22:17
  $368,783.77. And
• 1:22:29
  the earliest these records will be available for
• 1:22:33
  you for your review is 44 years, 3
• 1:22:38
  months, and 26 days from the receipt of
• 1:22:42
  payment.
• 1:22:44
  44.32 years.
• 1:22:48
  Should fulfillment of this request result in fees
• 1:22:52
  lower than those estimated here, the difference will
• 1:22:56
  be credited to you.
• 1:22:58
  And they want the party requesting to pay
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  this amount up front, right?
• 1:23:10
  Yeah.
• 1:23:10
  Okay.
• 1:23:11
  No, no.
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  Hey, this is going to cost a lot
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  of money.
• 1:23:14
  No.
• 1:23:14
  Hey, we got personnel problems.
• 1:23:16
  No, you know that no, they, nothing in
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  the sunshine law says that, you know, you
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  get to do this when, when the, this
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  is one of your duties and responsibilities, by
• 1:23:26
  the way, this is one of the things
• 1:23:27
  you are required to do under sunshine law.
• 1:23:32
  And somebody would, you know, you would normally,
• 1:23:37
  somebody would send not this accusatory letter, but
• 1:23:40
  something to say, hey, you know, maybe we
• 1:23:45
  could tailor that a little bit.
• 1:23:47
  Maybe we could come up with something like
• 1:23:51
  that.
• 1:23:52
  We also asked for another, another document.
• 1:23:56
  There was another request in a December 9th
• 1:24:00
  letter requesting any documents, including incident reports, investigative
• 1:24:05
  reports, forms, memoranda, emails, in which any of
• 1:24:09
  the following phrases appear in the heading, title,
• 1:24:14
  body, footer, where they define themselves because what
• 1:24:18
  they have done is they have taken the
• 1:24:20
  authority not given to them and called themselves
• 1:24:23
  the Alcohol and Tobacco Control Police Department.
• 1:24:27
  And we have several examples of this, or
• 1:24:30
  the ATC Police Department, or the Alcohol and
• 1:24:33
  Tobacco Control Police Department.
• 1:24:36
  We explained in an email dated October 10
• 1:24:39
  that the division does not identify itself as
• 1:24:43
  Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control Police Department.
• 1:24:46
  They actually do.
• 1:24:48
  To clarify, this phrase appears only at the
• 1:24:50
  top of specific printed investigative reports entered into
• 1:24:55
  the computer-assisted report entry database, the CARE
• 1:24:58
  database.
• 1:24:59
  The header of these reports is auto-generated
• 1:25:03
  by the database, which was built by the
• 1:25:06
  St. Louis County Police Department and is used
• 1:25:08
  by multiple government agencies and appears only when
• 1:25:12
  reports are generated from the database in current
• 1:25:15
  printable format.
• 1:25:17
  Several report formats accurately populate the header using
• 1:25:21
  the correct identifier, Division of Alcohol and Tobacco
• 1:25:25
  Control.
• 1:25:26
  It is a bug in the system that
• 1:25:28
  resulted in the alternative header for some entities
• 1:25:32
  and accounts for ATC's oversight of this discrepancy.
• 1:25:38
  In the previous five years, 8,428 approximately
• 1:25:43
  reports have been entered by ATC agents.
• 1:25:45
  We conservatively estimate that the fee for producing
• 1:25:48
  every CARE report bearing the phrase Alcohol and
• 1:25:52
  Tobacco Control Police Department in the associated emails
• 1:25:57
  in the last five years will be $34
• 1:26:04
  ,839.45. The earliest we estimate these records
• 1:26:11
  will be available to review is four years,
• 1:26:14
  two months, and two days from the receipt
• 1:26:16
  of payment.
• 1:26:18
  Yeah, seems odd, doesn't it?
• 1:26:22
  So who is being rude to whom is
• 1:26:26
  the question?
• 1:26:27
  Who is using fees as a deterrent or
• 1:26:32
  responses to sunshine requests as a deterrent?
• 1:26:37
  And you can't just go out and maybe
• 1:26:40
  you should only search for the word Alcohol
• 1:26:42
  Tobacco Control Police Department and why deny it
• 1:26:45
  if you know damn well it's on your
• 1:26:47
  reports and has been.
• 1:26:50
  They knew about this and they were coming
• 1:26:51
  up with a reason why.
• 1:26:53
  This is bureaucracy, friends and neighbors.
• 1:26:56
  You create defenses to yourselves later.
• 1:27:02
  And one of the defenses is to scare
• 1:27:03
  people off with large amounts of money.
• 1:27:06
  But you can run in a shoddy fashion
• 1:27:10
  and take power that doesn't belong to you
• 1:27:12
  and nobody can question you because you're not
• 1:27:15
  permitted.
• 1:27:16
  You're just a riffraff out there.
• 1:27:19
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• 1:27:21
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• 1:27:23
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• 1:28:08
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• 1:28:10
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