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Big about Canada is that, you know, you kind of think it's an
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actual country instead of a dictatorship, but it has evolved into pretty much a
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dictatorship because you know, how the media works up there is the government makes
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a list of what it considers to be liberal, me legitimate media, and
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it pays them. Public money flows into the media that the government approves of,
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and then everything else is censored. So it's very close to the old
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Soviet Union in an awful lot of ways. You know, the Canadian Broadcasting
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Corporation is an awful lot like problem to used to be. You're listening to
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This is Financial Survival Network on your host, Carrie Lentz. John Rabino is
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with us. We have much to talk about. We have We have the
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Second Civil War, maybe it's a cold Civil war, John, that's brewing.
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Now, We've got AI threatening to make us all into podcasters and YouTubers.
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John, you might be out of a job soon if the AI gets
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any better. I'm a little concerned about that. What are you going to
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do when AI takes your writing gig? Oh, I'm not worried. I'm
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old enough that it's not an issue. But who should be worried is Taylor
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Swift if she ever wanted to get into porn la line, I thought she
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was in it already. Well, you know that the argument can be made.
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But AI has been creating very lifelike nudes and things of Taylor Swift and
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you know, posting them everywhere and stuff. So that's I think that's the
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first first time we've actually seen anybody threatened in a meaningful way who we knew
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and cared about up by AI. But yeah, you know, and that's
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just the beginning. Or were you asking if I was threatened to buy the
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poor inside of this in case? Oh about the porn? You know your
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porn career is long past, John, Yeah, yeah, Well, I
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mean there are guilts now, right, So you know it would be great
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my way into that, you know, it would be a great AI project,
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a coherent resident if they could get AI and kind of do these deep
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fakes so he actually knew and sounded coherent. That would be an amazing project,
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maybe worthy of their attention. That would indeed, you know what I
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mean, people are speculating about how we're going to be ruled by AI pretty
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soon and an avatar it's run by ar but AI but is the perfect politician.
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Would be a pretty formidable candidate, right you know, because hey,
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I can AI can make that candidate look exactly the way the focus groups want
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the candidate to look. Could take a voice that everybody loves, you know,
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and synthesize it. And all they have to do then is go back
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through Ronald Reagan's speeches and just repeat his turns of phrase and you got to
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win in candidate right there. So yeah, it's a real possibility. It's
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like I can see it now. Hi, I'm from the government. No,
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I mean, Elon Musk, I'm here to help you words in the
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English. Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, you know that's all
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coming. And should we segue from here into the collapse of modern media?
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Because the La Times has laying off like twenty five percent of its reporters and
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a big part of that is that AI can replace them for the basic stuff.
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Hey, well, it's as it couldn't happen soon enough, you know
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that. Taylor Lorenz was she said some kind of She was a blogger and
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she went end up with The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and she was
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lamenting the demise of the legacy media. She said, over twenty thousand people
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in the media lost their job in the past year. Now, that was
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the first time I actually saw a number. Every week you see layoffs taking
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place in newsrooms around the country. She said, they got rid of their
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Washington d c Bureau in an election year. She was very upset about that.
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I guess you think that were influence. That was the Los Angeles Times.
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Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, I mean it's a huge deal
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and Harry, but you know, AI is responsible for part of it,
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but the biggest part. Because remember journalism is booming. Independent journalism is just
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rock and right then you know, you got your audience. And Joe Rogan
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has a massive audience, and Matt Taubee and Glenn Greenwald, Michael Schellenberger and
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Jimmy Dork these guys have massive audiences, some cases so big that they dwarf
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rime time CNN. So journalism is absolutely rocking. I think it's probably it's
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arguable that it's never been healthier. Mark Dice, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Mark Dice has a he has a breaking journalist that I can't view myself
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as a journalist, you know it, just like I would have to quit
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doing what I'm doing if I was quary journalism. Journalists interview people a lot
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of a time. You know, you're not writing an article based on what
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Martin Artstrom told you. You're just showing Martin mstrong. But that's even better
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journalism arguably, right. Yeah. Well, I just view myself as a
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messenger and I try, you know, I put my own spin on things,
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at my own take. I'm human and I don't make any bones about
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it. But hey, you can't like pin me to a political party because
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I despise them both, even if I am a member of one of them.
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It's nothing to do with it. I keep meaning to like disestablish my
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party affiliation, but I've just not gotten around to it. But you know,
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it's this journalism virus thing. Man. It was great for a while
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until people like started waking up to the fact that it was just a machine
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that's there to generate lies. Really that, I mean, that's what it's
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turned into. There was a time when reporters were instead of, you know,
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part of the establishment. They were these blue collar guys whose job was
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to dig up dirt on the powerful right, and they were they did not
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hang out with the rich people they covered. They because they were the mortal
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enemy of the rich people they covered. That changed over the last twenty or
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thirty years when journalists basically got co opted. Big companies bought up all the
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media outlets, and then the paychecks were signed by corporations, and so you
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ended up with CNN and Fox and MSNBC. We're basically on teams. They
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have a business model of freaking out a small segment of the population in order
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to keep them engaged, because that's where you generate revenues when you get people
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coming back over and over and over again and watching all day long. And
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you know, Fox caters to clueless, afraid white people, old white people,
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and msn legitimately afraid. But yeah, yeah, they're genuinely afraid,
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but they're also kind of clueless, like they don't completely understand what's happening,
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and so Fox explains it to them in the most blunt instrument what MSNBC caters
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to over educated, hyper neurotic liberals and keeps them on the freak out all
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day or barely barely connected to reality. They are getting to kool aid intravenously
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in both arms, the MSNBC audience, and you know, they've totally lost
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their ability to think critically. Not that the Fox people haven't, but their
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things are kind of rooted, maybe in a little more in stact, but
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the MSNBC audience, I mean, they listen to it day and day out.
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I don't watch news. Did you stop watching news? I stopped watching
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it after the Twin Towers collapsed because I realized it was making me miserable and
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anxious and unhappy. Is the best thing I ever did was to stop watching
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news. You know, the only cable mainstream news I see now is when
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Jimmy Door or Tucker Carlson runs a clip in order to make fun of it,
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and that is literally all the Fox at MSNBC and I see now.
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Yeah, I think a great number of people are in that boat. They've
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figured out that those media outlets, the big media outlets, are playing for
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a team, so they can't be trusted. So they're looking for trustworthy people,
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and you know what they're finding them. I mean, substack is full
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of people who are not necessarily right all the time, but they're honestly trying
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to get to the truth. So you really need one or two outlets like
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that, you know, Substack and Rumble. If you just live on those
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two outlets, you will be getting closer to the truth than anybody else in
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the country has over the last couple of decades. And I might mention that
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you are on substack. It's Rabino dot substack dot com. I urge everybody
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to go there and subscribe because John is part of the truth Brigade. Hey,
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so we just got a decision from the from a federal court and candidate
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that what Trudeau did to the Trucker convoy, and I'm tying this into what's
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happening at our border right now. The attack on the Trucker convoy, labeling
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it a terrorist group and invoking the Emergencies Act, which basically institutes allows the
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Prime Minister to arbitrarily impose martial law, was all illegal. And then we
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found out that the intelligence was cooked, that they were just guys trying to
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do their job, and didn't want to get vexed, and you know,
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we're just against what the government was doing. And it got declared illegal.
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And then Tucker Colonelson went to Canada and he like really put it to the
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to the powers that be in Canada and they had a complete and total meltdown.
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John, I'm sure you caught that. Well. The big about Canada
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is that, you know, you kind of think it's an actual country instead
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of a dictatorship, but it has evolved into pretty much a dictatorship because you
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know, the media works up there is the government makes a list of what
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it considers to be liberal, legitimate media and it pays them. Public money
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flows into the media that the government approves of, and then everything else is
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censored. So it's very close to the old Soviet Union in an awful lot
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of ways. You know, the Canadian Brought Casting Corporation is an awful lot
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like problem they used to be. And see watch what happens now because a
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court has decided that Trudeau violated the constitution. Now that would be a thing
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in a real country where the police show up, they purp walk somebody like
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that to the car, take them, try them quickly and put them in
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prison. None of that's going to happen to Trudeau. He's totally going to
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skate. And most Canadians won't even hear about this because it won't be reported
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on the state media, you know. And so that's there's your definition of
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a dictatorship right there. And the only reason why we're not there is to
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go back to independent media, you know, because we got Joe Rogan,
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they don't, you know, Yeah, and Tucker Carlson now so an RFK
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Junior, And hey, I want to hear from RFK Junior. I know
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him personally, I don't care for the person, but hey, he's an
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opposing boy to the power structure. I want to hear him on all sides.
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I don't want to hear anybody shut up or being shut up by the
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government, but that's what this government has tried to do. Three Twitter takeover
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of the digital media. You want to hear an interesting scenario for this upcoming
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election because RFK, by the way, you know Trump and RFK, that's
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pretty impressive connecting. Yeah, and I'm at Obama once too, a razor.
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Wow. Meanwhile, I've been sitting out here and in the country.
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I shook his hand. I wasn't impressed, and but I wanted to meet
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him because I knew he's going to be president, or I thought there was
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a good chance he would be. And I want to see history being made,
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and I did so. So let's go to our border. So we've
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got a truck or convoy forming supposedly I have been one hundred thousand trues carry
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before we do that, Can I do the election scenario theme? Oh yeah,
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yeah, I forgot. We got distracted from it. But okay,
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because RFK is going to get on ballance, which means he's going to qualify
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for debates. So we're going to have a spectacle of Biden and RFK Junior
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standing side by side on a stage and RFK is going to speak in complete,
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grammatically correct paragraphs with names and dates and numbers, and then Evan Biden,
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when it's inster, is going to go, yeah, I told corn
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Pop he is a bad dude, and if he doesn't vote for me,
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he'd black. You know, he's going to say something like that, and
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there it's going to become a two person race between Kennedy and at that moment,
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you know, and or or at least a legit three person race where
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Cargress has to decide who's president because nobody gets over forty percent. So very
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interesting scenario. And if there's a debate, a completely plausible scenario because Kennedy
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and side by side, he's going to be a contrast that the Democrat establishment
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never wants to see. No wonder, Biden won't give RFK Junior Secret Service
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protection. It all makes sense now right. Well, you know, the
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other plausible scenario is that both Trump and Kennedy get assassinated before this is over,
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and Biden is the last man standing. Yeah, you know, and
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that's that is true, horrifying to contemplate, but it might be more likely
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than the debate thing, you know, because they won't want to let it
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get to that point. And the other one is that they don't Biden for
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Michelle Obama, which there's a lot of speculation that that's what's going to happen.
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So that's that's a huge wildcard if it happens. I did see that
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that I think is more plausible than eliminating the competition. That it's just on
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American you know, not in the elections. You got to wait off after
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the election till you move these people not before. Well competitive, I think
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our fascists are creative enough to be flexible on the timing. Get they aren't.
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They're not going to be limited to the calendar. Do you remember those
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movies? They were French movies. One was called State of Siege and I
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can't remember what the other one was, but they're basically about Greek collections and
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they just kill off the candidate who is running, the opposition candidate. They
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just get rid of them. And yeah, it was isman taught he was
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he was the opposition candidate. It was. They were French movies. They
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were great or its play. Opposition candidates get killed all the time around the
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world, yeah, and it just doesn't happen that often in the first world.
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But you know, I think this whole distinction between the first world and
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the third world is fading quick you know. Yeah. So now, which
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which is a good segue into the Texas thing, because we're headed for Banana
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republic status in so many ways and this is an example of it. Hey,
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so so looking at that, all right, the Texas National I'll just
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set the stage. We talked about it before. The Texas National Guard has
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been ordered out by the Governor of Texas to secure the border, and they
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seem to have an affinity for razor wire, which the Supreme Court ruled it's
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the right of the federal government to go remove that razor wire, and Governor
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Abbot said basically gave them a middle finger and said, not only that,
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we're going to put out more razor wire, and basically the border patrol ain't
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going there. They've thrown the border patrol out of certain areas and just taking
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it over. Twenty five or six other governors have committed to support Governor Abbot,
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and now there's calls to federalize the National Guard, which can't do without
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the consent of the governor. We could go into the history of that,
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but just cut Governor Blanco during Hurricane Katrina refused the federal government's offer to federalize
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it. And we all know what happened there. And you know, basically
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they've defied the Supreme Court and they've defied the federal government. And then we
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also have supposedly seven hundred thousand truckers heading to the border to shut it down
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in support of border security. And look, you can't just have an open
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border otherwise you don't have a country. I mean it's madness. Millions,
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as much as thirteen million people have come in. One person I know as
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anecdotal from Colombia said her friend saw Columbian guy who just come in. He
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hit we released from prison and he killed two people. I mean, they're
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opening up their prisons some of it. Well, I mean that's the logical
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thing to do. If you're basically you're anybody, and some big country opens
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their borders, you will get every you empty out every mental institution, every
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prison, and you take all your secret police and your sleeper cell, potential
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terrorists, and you send them to that country, and so you let them
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reak havoc each in their own way. And so an open border in that
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sense is a tool for destabilizing the country. And clearly that's the goal.
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And you know, the most important thing that happened with the border is the
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statement that the border patrol just put out. They came on and said,
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look, you know, we're not going to cut down Texas's barbed wire.
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We have a good working relationship with these guys. When we need to get
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in there, we tell them they let us in there, so we are
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not going to get involved in this in any way, which is them sending
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the signal that we're not going to shoot our American friends over this. We're
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not going to do it. And you know, one of the reasons why
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this will never work for Biden is because the people he needs to basically kill
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Americans are mostly men who own guns, and who are you know, no
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fans of Biden in the first place, So he can't order them to kill
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other guys with guns who basically, you know, on the same side ideologically
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as the first bunch of guys. So everybody's just going to put down their
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weapons or turn around and point their weapons in the other direction at the time
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comes. So I think this never gets to the point of a shooting war.
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I think it gets to the point of basically not an insurrection, but
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peaceful protest on the part of the guys with the guns. They're just going
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to say, no, we're not going to do this, and then it
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just shuts right down. So it's an amazing scenario you never expected to see
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in the United States. The last time some states tried to pull this,
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a million soldiers got killed basically to keep it all from uh shattering up.
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I mean, look the Blue cities, they're suffering, the results because Abbot
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and our governor here in Florida, DeSantis Abbots sent over one hundred thousand of
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these illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. They're choking on it, they're going broke
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from it. They're like confiscating hotel rooms right and left in New York,
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Chicago, LA, all these places. And man, it's like, where
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does it end here? Because nobody is in favor of the current policy except
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the politicians who don't want to do anything about it. I don't even think
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it's Democrats are Republicans because it's not already divide here because the Republicans are trying
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to set or trying to pass this watered bill down, you know, watered
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down bill to secure the border that will have zero effect. You know,
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there's a huge number of NGOs and entities that make like a fortune off of
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this illegal trade, not to mention the cartels and the human traffickers, and
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they're the ones whose policies they are get getting the stamp of approval from the
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government. Both parties. Well, I think the establishment is clearly panicking over
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this because okay, let's take one step back and look at what's up above
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the elected government. We have an aristocracy. In that aristocracy, he is
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not Republican or Democrat, or gay or straight, or black or white,
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and it exists above those issues in order to increase its own power, basically.
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And it seems to see an open border as increasing the aristocracy's power.
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And maybe it's because it destabilizes the country to the point where martial law becomes
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feasible and then they finally get to take over and that's their end goal.
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So that could be the way it's working. But yeah, it's obviously you've
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got Republicans and Democrats on both sides of this. But see on the Republican
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side, this new bill, this horrendous thing that they're trying to push through,
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is separating from the rhinos, the rhinos from the America First Republicans,
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Okay, And that's a very big distinction that is useful for us to see.
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And I don't think it's going to pass because it's just it's too politically
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useful for the Republicans to have Biden on the wrong side of the immigration issue,
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because that is a totally losing issue. So that is almost as good
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an issue for the Republicans as abortion is for the Democrats. So They've each
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got this big issue that they can point to and said, look, this
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is existential, you have to vote for otherwise armageddon, you know. And
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it's very helpful with the Republicans, so I think they will. They'll save
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it for Trump to come along in their scenarios and then close the border down
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and take it off the table as an issue, and then six months in
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say, look, that's all you had to do, and you should never
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have gotten rid of me, because I would have fixed it, or I
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did fix it, and look how easy I fix it again. So you
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know, I'm going to stay for four years and do a great job,
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and then you vote for my vice president of the Vakramswami for the next eight
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years. And there's the scenario, you know, like it's out of control
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that I don't think any rational person can think that this situation is acceptable,
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whether you're pro immigration or not. I'm pro immigrant. We're both products of
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immigration. And there was a lot of illegal immigration earlier in the country's history
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too. It's not exactly a new problem here. Many people came well,
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you know, back then we had fifty million people live in here or one
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hundred million or whatever. Now we've got three hundred going on four hundred million
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people, and you know, every new person that comes in is that much
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more of a stressor on the system than anything. So it's a completely different
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thing. So I you know, obviously, yeah, everybody is in favor
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of some level of immigration, and most people want it to be legal.
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And I would be fine with one million legal immigrants a year, screened for
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useful skills. If they speak English, boom, they're on the list.
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Yeah, if they can program a computer, or if there are any kind
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of you know, technical anything, bring them in. And you know,
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if they're from a culture that does not assimilate and that has a big history
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of violence, and that I'd say maybe not, you know, you go
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go move to this other country. Make them take a loyalty oath too,
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all right, Well, loyalty oath. It's meaningless except the people who find
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that it's they can't take one because it's not meaningless to them that they have
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to renounce all other allegiances to other countries. You know, that's part of
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the problem with dual citizenship. But hey, one way or the other,
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it's reached the point. As most problems in a democracy, you can't solve
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a problem in a democracy until it becomes a crisis. Right, there is
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no way to solve a problem proactively until it reaches a point where it becomes
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existential or it becomes such a disruptive problem that it has to be addressed.
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We're at that point now. It's going to be solved. And if it's
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not, then Lord save us, because it will lead to a true insurrection
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because people are just not going to put up with this anymore. Seven hundred
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thousand truckers can't be wrong. Yeah, this is going to be a fascinating
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way. You know, two weeks now, you and I are gofta.
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Oh no, it won't be two weeks from now. Huh month and a
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half from now. I'm gonna I'll make time. We just have to.
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We're twelve hours ahead, so I'm fifteen hours ahead of you, so we'll
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make time to get together. Don't worry. But hey, okay, so
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that's what's going on layoffs here? All right? I thought we're employment was
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good. Well, okay, the employment numbers are one of those scam headline
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numbers. It's not me If we talked about as before. It sounds kind
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of familiar, like I told you this story before. But what they do
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with employment numbers is they report an excellent headline number for jobs created and for
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the unemployment right and then over the next few months they revised those numbers down
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to what would be disappointing. Nobody sees the revisions, and then they buried
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the bad news in each report it so deeply that normal people don't see it,
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but eventually people do. And with our last employment report, the number
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of part time jobs are soaring while the number of full time jobs are tanking,
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which is a side of an unhealthy economy. And the number of people
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with two full time jobs is spiking. And I know some techies manage to
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do that. They get two full time jobs. Only lawyers can do that.
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No, I know, only people that bill by the hour can work
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two full time jobs. Man, you're just feeding the material from the act
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John. But you know we're regular people who have full time jobs, Okerry,
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I'm not not lawyers, non non lawyer, regular people. That's a
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side of a very bad situation. If you're one full time job doesn't cover
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it for you and you have to take on a whole new one. And
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so those people are spiking. So the employment report, the employment situation in
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the US is actually pretty weak, and we're seeing you with all these layouts
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tech companies across the border laying people off, and then it's spreading. I
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think three M just announced big layoffs, and there's a bunch of other companies
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doing the same thing. So part of that is because consumer spending is weaker
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than people expected it because people think, oh, the American consumer never you
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know, blah blah blah. Well, I mean, when your credit cards
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are maxed out and you're carrying a twenty percent interest rate balance on credit cards,
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you stop spending. You basically have to because otherwise you're bankrupt. So
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that's happening in a you know, bigger and bigger way out there, and
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that's leading to fewer things being bought, more companies laying people off, and
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that's the kind of thing that snowballs into inequities, bear market, which leads
28:45
to more layoffs, which leads to lower corporate profits, and so on until
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you get you know, the kind of recession we've seen eight times, and
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you're in my lifetimes, you know, so nothing mystical, magical, that's
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just how the process works. And it's seems like we're headed that way.
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I pretty quickly knew I couldn't agree with you more. And it's just the
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whole world is bankrupt. Though, you know, the whole world is bankrupt.
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The countries are bankrupt, and the majority of people in every country are
29:18
bankrupt. You know, they're insolvent. Okay, bankrupt is a legal term,
29:25
insolvent meaning their assets are far outweighed by their liabilities. So how do
29:30
you how do you solve this problem? John? The only way to solve
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it is a debt, you believe, But then you've got to like take
29:37
all your financial institutions and reconstitute them. This is a mess. I don't
29:45
know how it gets solved. We've been talking about this for years and years.
29:48
It's sound money, but sound money just accelerates the ongoing slow implosion of
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the global economy. Right, No, sound sound money is like a shock
30:00
to the system. You know, if we just today we just go to
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the gold standard. To do that correctly, you got to do it at
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gold with ten thousand dollars an ounce or whatever mean, And that means it's
30:11
a massive devaluation of the dollar. So everybody who trusted the government and saved
30:18
dollars sees their wealth almost evaporate, and so you get the civil unrest from
30:23
that. You know, anytime you have a currency massive currency evaluation, you
30:26
have the people that you screwed over hit the streets, right urgenza. Yeah,
30:32
yeah, So this is global and it you know, if you can
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get through the civil unrest and you're on a gold standard with gold at ten
30:40
thousand dollars an ounce, you can go forward with a monetary system that basically
30:45
works because the gold standard will prohibit you from taking on too much depth in
30:51
the future. But you got to get through the shock to the system when
30:56
all these people who trusted you are the one who got hurt, and the
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people who didn't trust you get rich. You know, the gold bugs out
31:03
there want nothing to do with today's government will have five times as much money,
31:08
and the shorts, the guys who were shorting big tech, will have
31:14
fifty times as much money. And so those are the people that you were
31:17
enrich, which you and I love that right that those are the guys we
31:19
should get rich. But government will think that. So only when it becomes
31:26
the best of a series of horrendous options will government do something like a currency
31:33
reset or whatever. So the crisis has to come first, and it'll come
31:37
so and then we either get a dictatorship, or we get a civil war,
31:41
we get a global war, or we get a healthy monetary system going
31:45
forward. So that's on the menu possibilities out there. I would put it
31:48
at twenty percent possibility and the others cumulatively at eighty percent. It's the prospects
31:56
are frightening. And I would just add not so much to people who trusted
31:59
the gold government, but the people who had no choice but to trust the
32:04
government, meaning that for decisions they made, not necessarily having a good perspective
32:12
on what was really happening, or believing those paid liars on the legacy media,
32:20
they believed what they wanted to believe. They believed their pensions were safe,
32:25
their bank deposits, their bank deposits were insured by the federal government,
32:31
by the full faith and credit of the US government. Those people are the
32:36
ones getting burned here. And all they had to do was go buy some
32:42
precious metals and lock it away for that day. But that day has to
32:46
happen because the system becomes more unsustainable by the day, and we see it
32:53
and people know it. Now, they know something is really really wrong,
33:00
and the proof of that is the price of gold that has been over two
33:04
thousand dollars now for several months. It ended to twenty twenty three, and
33:10
it looks like it's going to end twenty January of you know, assuming it
33:16
doesn't go down in the next two days, it's going to end that way.
33:22
So hey, so asymmetric warfare revolution, you know, we got like
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it's been you know, it's been the case since the first Arab Israeli War
33:37
when they found out that set, you know, surface to air missiles that
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costs like back then ten thousand dollars each could shoot down a plane that costs
33:47
like five million back then. And maybe it was a second Arab now I
33:52
take it back, second Arab Israeli war, the yan Kapor War nineteen seventy
33:57
three or two, whatever it was, and that's when a lot of Israeli
34:02
planes were shot down and then started a whole arms race of countermeasure. Remember
34:07
mad magazine, Spy versus spy, that's what we had here, and you
34:15
know we see it now in Russia. They got a lot of scrap metal
34:19
that used to be Russian tanks, like six thousand of them have been destroyed
34:22
and armored vehicles and everything else. And you know, seeing it when in
34:29
the Middle East and even with US. Until they get the laser beams,
34:34
the laser weapons, directed energy weapons perfected, these drones are going to be
34:39
a major hazard to everybody. Well, you know what it's come to you
34:45
now is that you can you can take a thousand small drones with the equal
34:51
one of a hand grenade on each one and just send them out and they
34:55
can overwhelm any kind of a missile defense system. You know, we didn't
35:00
set up our missile defense systems to take out small, tiny things flying in
35:06
a huge swamp. And you know it's not clear that even AI guided laser
35:14
cannon or something and to do that, because all you need is one drone
35:19
to get through, hit the cannon, blow it up, and then all
35:22
the rest of the drones can come through and do whatever they want. So
35:25
this fits into the fall of the American Empire scenario. And we don't have
35:32
time to go through that whole thing, because you've got to go back to
35:35
the Roman Empire and stay there for a while and then move forward to do
35:38
it. So maybe the next time you and I till lot we can do
35:40
that. But seeing our weapons be made obsolete by cheaper weapons that anybody can
35:49
get a hold of is one of the ways that a modern empire can fall,
35:55
you know, in other words, technology changing in a way that's unfavorable
36:00
or the weapons of the empire. And we kind of are there now.
36:04
Look at the Kufies. They just enacted a naval blockade without having a navy.
36:12
They just got you know, little installations in the desert with camouflage over
36:17
top of them to shootout drones or little missiles or something like that. They're
36:21
taking out ships and now a lot of insurance companies will no longer ensure cargo
36:27
vessels to go near the Yemen border. And that's it, you know,
36:31
and there's not much the US can do about that short of basically bombing those
36:37
guys out of existence. Yes, so we are in another war. Okay,
36:39
so we got we're fighting a Ukraine proxy war. We're funding an Israeli
36:46
whatever you want to call it over there, and now we're starting to respond
36:53
to the Kufis and Yemen and we're blaming Iran for an attack that just killed
37:00
a few American soldiers. See where this is going. Yeah, you know,
37:02
the psychopath neocons in the US are just so happy. You know,
37:08
Christmas came early for these guys because now they get to declare war in the
37:12
whole world. And so they're calling for US to bomb Tehran right now.
37:17
Well, that was McCain bomb bomb Iran. Remember that he did a takeoff
37:22
on The Boys, Barbara and it was Iran. I'm sorry, Tehran is
37:28
Saudi Arabia, right, Tran is Iran? Iran? Yeah? It is?
37:34
Okay, yeah, okay, anyhow, Yeah, see how much you
37:37
want to bet that a lot of the people calling for US to bomb they
37:40
were in are completely sure where Tehran is they but were able to find the
37:46
country itself on a map. You know, I don't I don't think that
37:50
really matters to the pads, But I think they just want to be bombing
37:53
people because they think bombing people reads good outcomes. And you know, worst
37:59
case scenario, you bomb the country back to the Stone Age, you get
38:02
to sell whatever comes left, you know, or wherever it comes next,
38:06
all their new weapons. So the defense contractors make money, you know,
38:10
yeah, because you never see you never see the four hundred thousand dead Ukrainians
38:15
in any of these calculations, right, It's always well we only spent five
38:19
percent of our military budget and we degraded the Russian military. It's money well
38:22
spent. Well not if you're one of the four every thousand dead Ukrainian Broxy
38:28
soldiers. So yeah, I'm very worried that that's what they have planned for
38:32
Israel, you know, And I wonder if they want to use Israel as
38:37
a proxy army against Juan that would be horrendous. So it would be just
38:40
terrible, beyond belief. But yeah, well it is believable. On the
38:45
bright side, if you're holding a defense company shares right now, you're doing
38:50
quite well. Right thee on you know, Lockheed Martin Bowing, Well,
38:55
not so much Boeing because they're commercial debacle there, man, doll fly on
39:00
a seven thirty seven max. At least don't sit where you think there might
39:07
be there might have been a door in the original design. Well see,
39:10
Okay, there's the ideal investment strategy. Starting at twenty twenty. You buy
39:15
the pharmaceutical companies, ride them up for two or three years, then you
39:20
dump them and you buy them the arms makers, ride them through the next
39:24
five years of global war, and you're rich. So so it all worked
39:30
out. Yeah. Yeah, if there's any place left to spend your money,
39:34
my god, you can spend that money. Hey. Yeah, one
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more thing. We talked about AI, but we didn't talk about these robots.
39:42
And I don't know if you watched the Tesla Optimus robot. It can
39:46
like pick up a penny off of the It can thread it almost thread and
39:51
needle. I mean, these things are coming, John, and they're like
39:55
that combined with the AI. They're advanced for a BU and the AI.
40:00
I mean really it's like you know, like think about like they already used
40:07
robots in like nursing homes in Japan, but you can see the day coming
40:13
like where they're just going to really replace virtually all manual labor in the country.
40:21
Oh yeah, except the New Jersey where they allow them to pump gas
40:25
because humans can't pump gas only well, customers can't pump gas, only gas
40:31
station attendance because they're highly trained professionals in the art of pumping gas. Well,
40:37
do you think they'll be allowed to dig graves in the in the pine
40:40
barrens for the mobiles? You know, they'll the mobile hire an army of
40:45
them or hate robots. Yeah, well okay, so there there are some
40:50
other robots that are much scarier than Elon Musk, the Boston Dynamics robots and
40:57
dance which, as you know, as a white and I know have the
41:00
idea of everybody being a better dancer than me. But and then there are
41:06
other robots. You know, those robot dogs that you see everywhere. Yeah,
41:08
a while ago somebody mounted a fifty caliber machine gun on the back of
41:12
one of those things. And so now now you've got Ai driving a four
41:17
legged robot with a gun that can shoot through cars and brick walls and things
41:22
like that. What could go wrong? Nothing? I can tell those nets
41:28
next right, yeah, yeah, all right, Well, I think we'll
41:31
leave it at that and we'll synchronize our schedule so when I'm over in Thailand.
41:37
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41:42
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