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Europe Drops the Veto, Trump Plays Doctor, and the Globalists Smell Blood in Hungary · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You are listening to DAM Radio this morning.
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  cut it off in the middle of the
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  Let's see.
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  Damn it.
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  Now I have to be two-step verified.
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  I don't two-step.
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  I tried to two-step when I lived
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  in Texas and I was very, very uncoordinated.
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  So the two-step never quite worked out
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  for me.
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  You'd see all these guys shoving along the
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  floor looking pretty good and they were good
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  at the dance.
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  Well, I just had to stand in a
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  corner and be a wallflower and buy lots
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  of alcohol to get girls interested in me,
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  right?
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  Or at least I thought they were interested
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  in me because I could drink a lot
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  of alcohol.
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  See, faking begins right there.
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  Just sell yourself a model and that model
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  will be yours.
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  Let's see.
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  I wanted to talk today.
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  I've been, did you see what happened immediately?
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  So yesterday, I told you that Victor Orban
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  lost his election, right?
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  So he lost his election in Hungary and
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  he was the only one defending against increasing
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  war, improving war, right?
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  Now all of Europe is right now pushing,
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  pushing, pushing for war.
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  Now, not the people that live there.
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  They don't want war.
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  Now, a lot of them are anti-Russia.
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  They don't know why, but they are and
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  they have no idea why.
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  And it's pretty funny because I've talked to
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  some of them and they really don't know.
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  It's just we hate Russia and we're supposed
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  to hate Russia.
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  That's how it is.
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  And so Orban lost in large part because
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  of Trump's support is what all the analysis
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  and analysts are saying.
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  And there's some, some, that sounds reasonable to
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  me as an argument.
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  Trump's not doing well on the world stage
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  and that's unfortunate for him.
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  And it's unfortunate for the movement that really
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  started as make America great again.
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  You don't make America great again by destroying,
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  destroying other people.
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  If you got to destroy other people to
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  make yourself great, you got problems.
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  And that's true in life.
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  It's true as a country.
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  You don't destroy others to make yourselves great.
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  And there was my view now, Mr. Trump,
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  my view, you know, this is, this is
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  only me talking and I'm a, I'm a
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  random normal used to call myself the average
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  white man because I'm five foot nine and
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  I'm average build and have the average income.
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  You know, I'm Mr. Average, right?
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  And so you put me in there and
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  I'm the average white guy.
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  I'm the guy you were trying to impress
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  and to elect.
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  And, you know, I really, I'm always suspicious
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  cause I'm just that type of guy.
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  And I'm a suspicious guy and I was
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  suspicious all the way through.
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  You didn't turn me off in your first
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  term.
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  I wasn't turned off, but I wasn't necessarily,
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  it's going to sound bad, turned on either.
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  You know, it, it, it was all right.
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  I can handle some of that.
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  And I gave him a lot of points
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  because of the beatings he took and a
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  guy that can take a beating like that,
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  you gotta respect, right?
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  And you gotta, I mean, that guy's playing
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  to win and I like it.
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  You know, those are, those are things I
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  admire.
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  You know, I wish I had his brains
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  to at least financial brains.
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  I'm not so sure I want his international
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  brains.
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  And he's not attracting the right people with
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  the right brains in that regard.
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  That's for damn sure.
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  And so in large part, old Orban is
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  a, is a result of the failures of
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  the United States through its biggest person, the
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  King, the, the president, Donald J.
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  Trump.
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  And that's how it works.
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  That's, that's how it is.
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  He, he sent, he sent old Vance over
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  to politic for him, hoping to save him
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  in the last few days of his election.
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  But the globalists who hate Trump also hated
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  Orban.
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  You know, anybody that, anybody that bands together,
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  Xi Jinping, this is, this is a global
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  war people.
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  Now this, I believe, and it's, it's the
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  globalists, your Soros types versus everybody else.
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  And the Soros types are pretty freaking powerful.
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  Okay.
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  They have all the money, they have all
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  the business, they have all the media.
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  And, and, and so the rest of us
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  have to snipe from the sidelines.
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  That's how it works.
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  And they have every apparatus of everything connected
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  to the world.
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  Like UN, IMF had a big here, a
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  big meeting, a conference yesterday, day before, and
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  they're, they're speaking about some of the things
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  that they're planning.
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  And everybody's all excited about the post Orban
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  world.
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  They take it as a big punch in
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  the face to Donald Trump.
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  And by the way, it is, and they
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  are not, they're not slowing down.
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  They are gearing up.
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  They want world war III.
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  That's what they want.
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  They want world war III globally.
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  They want economics to be beat up upon.
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  You ever hear a safe, the, I forget
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  what the S stands for, but it's a,
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  for a, for, for a safe Europe, basically.
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  It's a European group and it's kind of
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  a defense group.
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  It's kind of a alternative to the North
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  Atlantic Treaty Organization is the way I see
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  it.
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  And they, and Canada was invited and that's
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  the only non-European country invited.
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  And it's for, they are by the, by
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  2030, 2033 to 2035 time, they want to
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  cut out, they want to cut out the
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  purchase of American weapons because they feel, rightly
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  so, that America controls and holds all the
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  cards.
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  I'm telling you now, Europe, I don't want
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  to say they're against us, but they're certainly
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  not for us.
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  And so when I, and I saw this
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  through the bricks and through all of that
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  anyway, I sort of understood this.
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  Now I've known for a long time, I
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  travel a lot and I've known for a
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  long time, even back in the nineties, people
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  were not very pro-American.
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  They would put on the right show, they
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  would do the right thing, but we were
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  the ugly Americans.
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  You go traveling, you got to be careful
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  not to be one because they think we're
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  foolish.
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  They think we don't pay attention.
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  They think we know nothing about international events.
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  And by the way, they're right.
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  The bulk of the people do not.
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  I speak with some very intelligent people, and
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  I have some really good friends that I
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  spend a lot of time with.
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  And every time I tell them something, I
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  try hard not to talk about it in
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  front of a lot of people, and that's
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  why I do it on my show.
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  But the people, people just aren't interested.
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  They have their own lives.
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  And I'm not saying that's wrong.
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  I'm saying that there are broader packages out
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  there, but allowing the apparatus to act as
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  if it's in your interests or on your
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  behalf is a big mistake, because it sure
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  as hell isn't.
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  They're not doing us any favors.
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  They're the ones who force us to look
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  like the dumb American when we're traveling because
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  nobody knows.
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  We all only go to Mexico.
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  We go to Dominican Republic.
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  We're off to Haiti.
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  We're off to places in the Caribbean.
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  We go to Canada.
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  People don't go all over the planet, and
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  there are some fantastic places, including those in
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  the Middle East and those in the Southeast
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  Asia.
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  They're freaking beautiful, and the people are great,
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  and the areas are great.
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  And we don't get along, and we never
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  get along.
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  And here we are causing these things.
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  But it's already started, this shift away from
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  the American hegemony, which before, now remember this,
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  before the deep state was always kind of
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  centered around the elites of New York and
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  the big business and the military industrial complex
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  people of the U.S. This is where
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  it came from.
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  And the power was the power of the
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  Senate, the power of the UN, the power
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  of the International Monetary Fund, the power of
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  any international, the World Bank, all of it
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  run by the same a-holes, okay?
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  And it's run by, and they kind of,
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  they inbreed.
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  They only stay in their own little groups.
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  Well, post-Trump, now Trump first term, Trump
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  second term.
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  You know, a lot of people think this.
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  I think this.
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  I think that he had a war on
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  the deep state.
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  I suspect, and some people tell me it's
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  far more than a suspicion, and I should
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  be far more, I don't know what, accepting
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  of this, of this concept that the Xi
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  Jinping's of the world, the Vladimir Putin's of
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  the world, the Viktor Orban's, and the Donald
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  Trump's have a plan.
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  And that plan has to be against the
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  deep state.
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  You go up against the deep state, you
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  lose.
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  Look what just happened to Viktor Orban.
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  Look what happened to Trump in his first,
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  in his first term.
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  Look what they've tried to do to Russia,
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  and they're going to move on to Xi
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  Jinping.
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  And I believe Donald Trump right now is
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  suffering from some, so he's in, what's her
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  name, Candace Owens, a couple, Tucker Carlson, a
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  couple other people that have come out with
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  things that there's something somebody's holding over Trump's
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  head to keep him so involved as he
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  is in the Middle East in a foolish
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  war that we're never going to win.
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  And a foolish incursion, a foolish blockade.
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  How the hell are you going to do
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  that?
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  You know, yesterday Xi Jinping said, you better
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  not be blocking, not him, but his deputy,
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  his foreign, foreign minister, one of them.
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  And because it wasn't Jaishankar, it was the
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  military guy.
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  Military guy says, don't blockade our ships.
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  And it was, it was, you should go
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  out and check it out on YouTube, but
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  they're starting to talk.
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  And if we're going to end up in,
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  in a confrontation with China, as well as
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  all the bull crap that's going on right
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  now, perhaps we shouldn't be there.
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  But if you want proof of what I'm
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  telling you, look at this.
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  The right, I mean, here we are.
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  It's only Tuesday.
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  Victor Orban lost on Sunday.
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  And what has Victor Orban been doing?
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  He has been vetoing and blocking $90 billion
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  from going to Ukraine for war because his
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  country cannot get fuel from Russia because it
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  all comes through Ukraine.
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  And so now he's had to get it
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  to come through the Turk stream, through the
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  Greek one, which I forget the name of,
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  that, that it comes up there.
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  And I want to say Svoboda or something,
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  but I don't remember.
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  And Druzhba, Druzhba pipeline.
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  I believe is what that one is that
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  it comes up through, through Greece into places
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  like Serbia and into places like, what do
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  you call it?
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  Hungary.
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  And so there they are.
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  And that's how they get their fuel and
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  nobody gets it.
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  So yesterday after the, the, the new guy
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  Magyar won that he said, now he has
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  plans.
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  He's going to meet with first, he's going
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  to meet with Poland, the Polish Donald Tusk.
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  He's going to meet with him.
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  Then he's going to meet, I believe with
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  the German one.
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  Then he's off to Brussels to kiss the
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  rear end of Ursula von der Leyen, because
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  that's where Viktor Orban always ran into trouble.
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  And this is where they held over his
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  head and did not give Orban.
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  This is one of the biggest things that
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  all the people in Hungary were pissed off
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  about was that Orban couldn't get the European
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  funds.
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  European funds were denied to Hungary because Orban
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  wouldn't agree to give 90 billion loan, allegedly
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  to Ukraine to be paid for what they
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  try to steal it.
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  You know, he was also one of the
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  big voices to say, you can't steal 300
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  billion of Russian assets from a Belgian bank
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  because you'll destroy the internal banking systems of
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  the planet.
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  You can't do it.
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  And many people have a politic against that,
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  including Orban.
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  And so now that he's gone, guess what?
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  The first thing that has happened besides the
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  new guy, Magyar, making these trips, he says
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  that after his trip to Brussels, he's going
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  to go to visit Putin, that he wants
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  to restore fuel from Putin and he wants
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  to negotiate with him.
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  Now he's going to have to kiss the
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  ass of the EU von der Leyen's of
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  the world anyway, but he's going to say,
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  I imagine he's going to say something like,
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  look, we quit screwing around with you.
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  We let you screw around while you want
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  in Ukraine.
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  You quit messing with us and you make
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  Ukraine give us fuel through Russia, you know,
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  Russia through Ukraine or even through the Druzhba
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  2 pipeline or somewhere.
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  We need this is nonsense because everybody's buying
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  liquid natural gas from America, double the price.
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  This is a big deal.
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  And so this is really what's going on
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  in the background.
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  All you see is all Orban's gone and
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  he was a piece of crap anyway, in
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  16 years, dictator, blah, blah, blah, all the
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  crap that you get from the globalist people.
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  Right.
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  So now the globalist, the eternal globalist, one
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  of the biggest of them all, Ursula von
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  der Leyen says yesterday von der Leyen is
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  pushing for the abolition of veto power in
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  the EU now that she has the this.
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  This is how killers act.
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  OK, this is how kill it.
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  This is killer instinct.
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  And so this woman is dangerous.
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  OK, she is.
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  And so she attacks out of instantly even
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  before the meeting with Magyar when he comes
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  over because she's going to say, well, I
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  want I'm going to want your support in
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  this.
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  So get this.
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  Majority should dictate.
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  Majority should dictate the bloc's common foreign policy,
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  she says.
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  The majority should dictate, meaning Orban can't have
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  a relationship with Russia if Ursula von der
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  Leyen says so.
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  And these people are not bright, but they're
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  dangerous and they are devious.
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  They are devious.
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  The time has come for the EU to
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  remove individual member states veto power on the
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  bloc's foreign policy decisions.
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  European Commissioner von der Leyen insists she issued
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  a call less than 24 hours after her
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  longtime opponent, Hungarian Prime Minister, well, former Viktor
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  Orban, lost power in a general election due
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  to the pro-Titsa party by Peter Magyar.
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  Orban is a staunch critic of Brussels, as
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  he should have been, used the unanimity requirement
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  to stall EU policies during his time in
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  office.
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  In recent months, Budapest has been vetoing the
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  bloc's 90 billion euro, 105 billion dollars emergency
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  loan for Ukraine.
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  This is going to extend the Ukraine war
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  another two years.
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  OK, and when he gets that money, citing
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  Kiev's reluctance to resume supply of Russian oil
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  to Hungary via Druze pipeline, von der Leyen
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  insisted on Monday that moving to qualified majority
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  voting in foreign policy is an important way
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  to avoid systemic blockages, as we have seen
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  in the past.
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  In other words, dictator.
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  I'm king of Europe.
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  So we got a king in America.
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  Now we're going to have a king in
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  Europe.
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  And by the way, they're unelected.
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  These are just people dictating what European countries
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  are going to do.
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  And they're not even elected.
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  I mean, these the the European Commission has
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  long been trying to force through a series
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  of fundamental changes the EU rules in order
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  to create a two tier block in which
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  Ukraine would be integrated into the EU, despite
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  not meeting requirements for member states.
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  The EU should use the momentum now, she
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  says, from the defeat of Orban, who opposed
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  EU accession for Kiev to make changes to
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  its regulations and put an end to the
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  veto rule in international relations.
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  It's coming people von der Leyen welcome to
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  Magyar's victory, saying that Brussels will engage in
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  his government from day one.
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  There's much work to be done as Hungary
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  returns to the European path.
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  You can almost cry.
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  I mean, isn't that beautiful?
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  Returning to the European path.
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  They're a bunch of nuts.
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  They're all crazy.
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  You get Ursula von der Leyen, who thinks
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  she's the queen of the world.
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  Donald Trump on the other side.
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  Those two should be together.
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  They should have a what do you call
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  it?
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  A family arranged wedding and, you know, push
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  their own spouses off to the side.
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  They don't matter anyway.
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  Right.
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  And so we push them off.
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  We make a king of the world and
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  we have a globalist pattern.
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  But Trump, he won't work for that next
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  president, maybe.
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  But not this one.
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  This one won't work.
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  According to von der Leyen, the mindset of
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  the commission on Magyar is let's double down
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  on him.
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  If he delivers, we deliver.
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  Brussels is currently withholding 35 billion in EU
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  funds for Hungary over a disagreement with Orban
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  on Ukraine, on migration through Hungary.
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  They want to stop that LGBTQ rights and
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  other issues.
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  And trust me, if you saw the videos
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  now, all you see is videos and a
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  lot of this is AI generated and a
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  lot of it is is very selective, just
• 18:51
  like we do in here.
• 18:52
  But all the kids are screaming and, oh,
• 18:54
  yeah, it's great.
• 18:55
  You know, oh, we got rid of that.
• 18:57
  That old man.
• 18:59
  And that's it.
• 19:00
  All they care about is the old ways
• 19:02
  have to go and we got to be
• 19:03
  integrated into Europe, period.
• 19:05
  That's it.
• 19:06
  And if war happens, well, you know, but
• 19:08
  it's really weird because the only thing they
• 19:11
  absolutely buy into from the old folks that
• 19:15
  that have created this stuff for them is
• 19:18
  you're supposed to hate Russia.
• 19:19
  That's it.
• 19:21
  Hate Russia.
• 19:22
  You know, as long as we hate Russia,
• 19:24
  everything else can be worked out and we
• 19:28
  can double down on Magyar.
• 19:30
  If he delivers, we will deliver.
• 19:32
  And there's much work to be done as
• 19:35
  Hungary returns to the European path, meaning there
• 19:40
  is no sovereignty.
• 19:41
  OK, that's like in the United States.
• 19:43
  Now, ours is a little bit different.
• 19:45
  We all have a common background, common theme.
• 19:47
  We have 50 states.
• 19:49
  There's whatever it is, 1920 members of the
• 19:51
  EU.
• 19:52
  Don't remember specifically, but there it is.
• 19:55
  It's those countries are now going to have
• 19:59
  no choice in their foreign policy.
• 20:02
  None.
• 20:03
  What are they?
• 20:03
  I mean, if you start wanting to do
• 20:05
  business with somebody, you're going to have to
• 20:06
  run everything through the EU, all of it.
• 20:10
  No independent countries anymore.
• 20:12
  And I think and the more that the
• 20:15
  globalists do this, the harder it's going to
• 20:18
  be for individual countries to pull out.
• 20:21
  It's going to be nearly impossible.
• 20:23
  OK, EU diplomats told the Financial Times that
• 20:28
  the bloc expects Magyar to unblock the 90
• 20:31
  billion loan to Kiev and reverse some of
• 20:34
  his predecessor's key policies in order to mend
• 20:36
  ties between Budapest and Brussels.
• 20:39
  The Tisa Party leader said Monday he isn't
• 20:41
  intending to veto funds for Kiev, but he
• 20:44
  added the Budapest will not participate in the
• 20:47
  EU loan due to financial difficulties.
• 20:50
  Could there be a negotiation point for him?
• 20:55
  He also criticized the idea of accelerated Ukraine
• 20:58
  accession to the EU while insisting on continued
• 21:02
  energy cooperation with Russia.
• 21:06
  Hmm.
• 21:07
  Wonder if this dispute will continue.
• 21:09
  Hungary will procure.
• 21:12
  Here's his quote, will procure crude oil and
• 21:15
  gas in the cheapest and safest way possible.
• 21:20
  Moscow said it is open to building friendly
• 21:22
  and mutual, mutually beneficial relations with the new
• 21:26
  authorities in Budapest.
• 21:30
  Hmm.
• 21:31
  Very interesting.
• 21:33
  And Moscow, for its part, says they want
• 21:36
  to maintain pragmatic relations with Hungary after Magyar's
• 21:41
  Tisa Party defeated Orban.
• 21:44
  Magyar center right position.
• 21:46
  So he's still on the right, center right.
• 21:50
  Tisa Party scored 53 percent of the vote,
• 21:54
  gives it a qualified majority.
• 21:56
  You need 60 percent, I believe it is,
• 21:58
  to be a majority.
• 22:01
  Orban, who conceded defeat, charted an independent course,
• 22:04
  ruffled more than a few feathers in Brussels.
• 22:06
  During his time in office, he consistently opposed
• 22:09
  EU sanctions against Russia, military aid to Ukraine,
• 22:13
  vetoed the bloc's planned 90 billion euro loan
• 22:16
  package.
• 22:17
  His government advocated pragmatic relations with Moscow, especially
• 22:21
  in terms of energy supply.
• 22:22
  Everyone else in the entirety of Europe just
• 22:24
  about is nuts.
• 22:27
  You can't talk to them.
• 22:30
  Why would you talk to them?
• 22:32
  Oh, man.
• 22:33
  It's like a Friday night.
• 22:35
  You know, you go to the you go
• 22:36
  to the wrong high school group and you
• 22:40
  and you don't you talk to the wrong
• 22:43
  person on Monday.
• 22:44
  You're in bad shape.
• 22:45
  You talk to him.
• 22:48
  Not good.
• 22:49
  That's that's that's the drama, the high school
• 22:54
  drama of Europe.
• 22:55
  It's all over.
• 22:56
  Only they do it in different languages.
• 22:58
  You know, that's pretty cool.
• 23:00
  While no contact is planned between Vladimir Putin
• 23:03
  and Magyar at the present, Kremlin hopes to
• 23:06
  establish dialogue with the new Hungarian minister, according
• 23:10
  to Pescar.
• 23:12
  I'm sorry, not Peskov.
• 23:16
  And that's he pointed out that Moscow and
• 23:19
  Budapest have a number of joint products that
• 23:22
  need to be finalized.
• 23:23
  We are open to dialogue with Magyar.
• 23:26
  We are open to building friendly and mutually
• 23:28
  beneficial relations, he said.
• 23:32
  So there you have it.
• 23:34
  So the Donbass, there's only a few kilometers
• 23:36
  left to to free the Donbass.
• 23:40
  And I'm very curious what happens at that
• 23:42
  time, if Russia will continue or not.
• 23:48
  I don't know.
• 23:49
  Russian forces are still advancing and they are
• 23:52
  near the border of the People's Republic.
• 23:55
  So Russian forces have only a few kilometers
• 23:59
  left to go before the Donbass is liberated.
• 24:03
  Now, they got Lugansk has been pretty much
• 24:08
  100 percent for quite a few months.
• 24:10
  They have only a few kilometers left.
• 24:13
  Speaking to journalist Pavel Pavel Zarubin, Peskov was
• 24:17
  asked to comment on the recent statement by
• 24:20
  J.D. Vance, who said that the Ukraine
• 24:22
  conflict has fundamentally stopped making sense.
• 24:26
  Well, it never made sense, I would clarify,
• 24:29
  and that the sides are haggling at this
• 24:31
  point over a few square kilometers of territory.
• 24:35
  Peskov confirmed that the territorial issue is now
• 24:38
  down to just a few kilometers.
• 24:40
  Roughly speaking, he stated that Russia needs to
• 24:43
  liberate around 18 percent of the Donetsk People's
• 24:47
  Republic in order to reach the region's borders.
• 24:51
  Once the army reaches the borders of Russia,
• 24:54
  new regions, he said, a complex, painstaking and
• 24:58
  not fast negotiation process will begin in which
• 25:02
  the details of a settlement with Ukraine still
• 25:05
  have to be determined.
• 25:06
  Peskov's remarks came after the Russia Foreign Ministry
• 25:10
  announced on Friday that it established control over
• 25:13
  the village of Dubrova in the DPR, Donetsk
• 25:19
  People's Republic, and the village of Miropolskaya in
• 25:23
  Sumy.
• 25:24
  Moscow calls on Kiev to withdraw from all
• 25:27
  Russian territories peacefully, stressing that it will liberate
• 25:30
  the Donbass, which voted to join Russia in
• 25:33
  22, one way or the other.
• 25:35
  And now they're nearly there.
• 25:37
  Early this month, Ukrainian leader Zelensky claimed that
• 25:40
  Moscow issued a two-month deadline for Ukrainian
• 25:42
  troops to retreat.
• 25:44
  The Kremlin rejected that claim and said that
• 25:46
  Zelensky should have issued a withdrawal order long
• 25:49
  ago, which would have saved the lives of
• 25:51
  thousands of people and stopped the hot phase
• 25:54
  of this war.
• 25:55
  Trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the U
• 25:58
  .S. have been on hold due to the
• 26:00
  Iran war, with Peskov describing the pause as
• 26:04
  situational.
• 26:05
  Zelensky rejects any territorial concession, calls a withdrawal
• 26:09
  from Donbass a threat to European security.
• 26:15
  Hmm, curious.
• 26:17
  You know why?
• 26:18
  It's because they won't be able to get
• 26:20
  to the Azov Sea anymore.
• 26:22
  Well, they can't.
• 26:23
  They already can't.
• 26:24
  Crimea blocked that off, and then Donbass area,
• 26:32
  Donetsk and Lugansk blocked off the rest.
• 26:34
  And so now they're stuck with the Dnepr
• 26:37
  River.
• 26:37
  And if they're not careful, they're going to
• 26:39
  lose all the way to the Dnepr River.
• 26:41
  And the Dnepr River winds through Kyiv, okay?
• 26:45
  But on the southern part of it, it
• 26:47
  heads off to the east and then it
• 26:49
  goes down.
• 26:50
  And so I think they're going to lose
• 26:51
  all the way to the Dnepr is what
• 26:53
  I think.
• 26:54
  But who knows?
• 26:56
  I said that before.
• 26:59
  Russian gymnasts have won four medals at the
• 27:02
  World Cup, okay?
• 27:04
  Now, this fits in with what I've been
• 27:05
  saying all along, that eliminating one country or
• 27:12
  making them, a lot of them won't or
• 27:15
  wouldn't participate under someone else's country flag.
• 27:20
  I mean, imagine you're an American athlete and
• 27:22
  they go, eh, we don't like America because
• 27:25
  there are not enough gays, too many gays,
• 27:28
  whatever, that they don't allow.
• 27:31
  We're not going to allow you to participate
• 27:33
  in those things.
• 27:34
  But wait a minute.
• 27:35
  We have some of the best gymnasts in
• 27:36
  the world.
• 27:37
  We always win.
• 27:38
  We place high.
• 27:40
  Well, that's okay.
• 27:42
  But what if you're doing it just to
• 27:43
  make a space for some lesser gymnast?
• 27:47
  That's what has always been my trouble.
• 27:50
  You get rid of some of these bigger
• 27:51
  states and you don't let them participate.
• 27:53
  How in the hell can you be a
• 27:54
  world champion if the world can't participate?
• 27:58
  Nonsense.
• 27:59
  Maria Borisova topped reigning Olympic champion Daria Varfolomeyeva.
• 28:06
  It's Bartholomew, basically.
• 28:09
  Varfolomeyeva in the all-around in her first
• 28:11
  outing at the event.
• 28:13
  Russian rhythmic gymnast competed under a neutral flag
• 28:18
  and have won four medals at the World
• 28:21
  Cup in Tashkent.
• 28:23
  Maria Borisova led with gold in the individual
• 28:26
  all-around, topping German, Russian-born, though, Olympic
• 28:32
  champion Daria Varfolomeyeva and silver in the hoop,
• 28:36
  the team's first World Cup outing.
• 28:39
  Finals were held on Sunday as part of
• 28:41
  the second stage of the World Cup for
• 28:44
  FIG, Federation of International Gymnasts, or something like
• 28:49
  that.
• 28:49
  All seven Russian competitors train at the Sky
• 28:54
  Grace Rhythmic Gymnastic Academy, founded in Sochi in
• 28:58
  2022 by 2004 Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, and
• 29:06
  all were making their World Cup debut.
• 29:09
  Coached by Irina Gasurova, the 18-year-old
• 29:13
  Borisova finished ahead of Varfolomeyeva and Uzbekistan's Tahmina
• 29:17
  Ikromova in the all-around and then got
• 29:22
  silver in the hoop behind Ikromova.
• 29:25
  Pretty cool stuff if you watch it.
• 29:27
  It's that rhythmic dance of sorts.
• 29:30
  It's pretty cool.
• 29:31
  Um, let's see.
• 29:33
  I think this is interesting and important as
• 29:37
  well.
• 29:39
  So the Iran war goes on.
• 29:42
  We destroy people.
• 29:44
  Hang on.
• 29:45
  Let's see here.
• 29:46
  You know what I'm going to do?
• 29:47
  I am going to uh, beguile you as
• 29:52
  it were with some, uh, some, uh, Andre
• 29:59
  Bryansev.
• 30:04
  That's what I'm gonna do.
• 30:05
  And then I'm gonna take a short break
• 30:08
  and we're going to see, uh, YouTube.
• 30:16
  Irina Krug is also there with, uh, another
• 30:21
  one of my favorite songs, right?
• 30:24
  We're gonna, we're gonna play this for you
• 30:26
  just cause I like it.
• 30:28
  And, uh, let's see here.
• 30:31
  Let's see if we can see, cause I'm
• 30:34
  going to take a little bit of break.
• 30:36
  I gotta, I gotta, uh, do some coffee
• 30:40
  and we shall see what happens when I
• 30:43
  do.
• 30:44
  Isn't that right?
• 30:45
  So I'm going to go get some coffee
• 30:49
  and we're going to listen to Irina Krug
• 30:52
  and Andre Bryansev is what we're going to
• 30:57
  do.
• 30:58
  Okay.
• 30:58
  Sorry.
• 30:59
  It took me so long.
• 31:00
  I didn't, I knew I was going to
• 31:01
  do it, but I hadn't pulled up the
• 31:03
  song and I'm going to do it cause
• 31:04
  I gotta go.
• 31:05
  Uh, I gotta get my coffee.
• 31:07
  I need something to drink.
• 31:08
  So there you have it.
• 31:09
  End of the line.
• 31:11
  Here is Irina Krug and Andre Bryansev.
• 31:13
  Ready?
• 34:43
  I like that song and I hope you
• 34:45
  do too, but there you have it.
• 34:46
  Um, it's a, it's a pretty cool song
• 34:48
  actually.
• 34:49
  Um, good stuff Maynard, good beat, all that
• 34:52
  stuff.
• 34:52
  Um, so a gunman attacked a, um, school
• 34:57
  in, uh, Turkey, which is not good.
• 35:01
  Um, two U S congressmen are resigning over
• 35:06
  sex scandals.
• 35:08
  You know, I saw it again today.
• 35:10
  The, uh, the Trump, I'm Jesus post it
• 35:15
  popped up again.
• 35:16
  And I just can't tell you how ridiculous
• 35:18
  that, what the hell is the guy thinking?
• 35:21
  I mean, seriously, what is he thinking?
• 35:24
  I just saw something also that a Chinese
• 35:27
  tanker, remember I brought to you yesterday when
• 35:29
  the Chinese guy, actually, I don't think I
• 35:30
  did.
• 35:31
  Uh, but yesterday one of the, uh, military,
• 35:33
  uh, leaders of China said, do not interfere
• 35:37
  with our tankers, uh, coming out of the
• 35:40
  Straits of Hormuz.
• 35:41
  We have lots of business in that area
• 35:43
  and don't screw with us and S and
• 35:46
  sent a direct message and said, don't do
• 35:48
  it.
• 35:49
  And just now we see that, um, that
• 35:52
  a Chinese vessel, um, under sanctioned, you know,
• 35:56
  Iran crossed the Straits of Hormuz wonder what's
• 36:02
  going to happen.
• 36:03
  You know, uh, so far it's been watch,
• 36:07
  watch, watch the Russians.
• 36:09
  Haven't dicked around too much with, uh, uh,
• 36:12
  the American people, although Britain, you know, um,
• 36:16
  there was reports last week that they were
• 36:18
  going to stop on in the last minute
• 36:19
  old, uh, uh, damn it.
• 36:23
  Now I forget his name, prime minister, whatever
• 36:27
  his name is.
• 36:27
  Doesn't matter.
• 36:28
  He's he's, he's, he's not, he, unfortunately he's
• 36:30
  sort of irrelevant cause he pushed out.
• 36:32
  He didn't do it.
• 36:34
  Nah, let him go.
• 36:36
  He talked about, you can't go up here.
• 36:38
  You can't go there, but, uh, we can't
• 36:40
  block them.
• 36:40
  I think now that big brother might be
• 36:42
  out of the picture.
• 36:43
  They're not willing to act as such.
• 36:46
  You know, they don't want to be a
• 36:47
  direct threat to, uh, uh, Russia because without
• 36:52
  America backing you, well, who knows what it's
• 36:55
  going to be old, uh, old, uh, Vance
• 36:59
  is on his way back to Islamabad, uh,
• 37:02
  to, uh, do some dealings.
• 37:06
  It'll be interesting to see what they do.
• 37:10
  Um, I wanted to share with you a
• 37:12
  little bit more about, because this definitely interests
• 37:16
  me, um, about Orban and what remains for
• 37:20
  old Hungary now and why it's important.
• 37:23
  But, you know, one of the big sticking
• 37:28
  points in the Iran, Iranian discussions, and here
• 37:33
  they're all trying to twist it and say,
• 37:35
  Iran wants a nuclear weapon.
• 37:37
  You know, we need something else.
• 37:40
  You know, we're not, we're not gonna not
• 37:44
  seek weapons there.
• 37:47
  Maybe that's positioning.
• 37:48
  You know, if Trump said it, everybody go,
• 37:50
  Oh, it's just positioning.
• 37:51
  Maybe it's just positioning because what they really
• 37:54
  want is relief from the sanctions.
• 37:55
  Maybe what they really want is to be
• 37:57
  left alone and quit being targeted.
• 38:00
  They want all their allies to be left
• 38:01
  alone.
• 38:02
  And I'm not saying they're right, wrong and
• 38:04
  different.
• 38:04
  I'm saying what it is.
• 38:06
  You can have your own deep seated feelings
• 38:07
  about whether the Bible dictates that, uh, Israel
• 38:11
  should be able to kill anybody they want
• 38:13
  because they were in bondage in Egypt 3
• 38:15
  ,000 years ago.
• 38:16
  If you want to believe that, that, that,
• 38:19
  that applies right now today.
• 38:20
  Fine.
• 38:21
  I don't believe that way, but, but, uh,
• 38:24
  you know, I don't believe that they get
• 38:26
  a slaughter other, uh, people, tribes of Israel,
• 38:31
  get a slaughter them all or, uh, the
• 38:35
  tribes of, uh, uh, the, the, the children
• 38:37
  of Abraham.
• 38:38
  Right.
• 38:39
  And, uh, the, the, so all the children
• 38:41
  of Abraham, 12 tribes, right?
• 38:43
  There's 12 tribes.
• 38:44
  They all went different ways.
• 38:45
  One of them's Israel.
• 38:46
  The other 11 is everybody else.
• 38:50
  It's the way I look at it.
• 38:52
  It's the way I learned it.
• 38:53
  Right.
• 38:53
  And it's okay because the Egyptians put, uh,
• 38:58
  put, uh, Israel in bondage 3,000 years
• 39:01
  ago and took their land.
• 39:03
  Therefore that's their homeland.
• 39:04
  They get a, they get to go back
• 39:06
  and they get to expand it.
• 39:07
  And if they don't like it, they can
• 39:08
  just slaughter all the other 11, 11, uh,
• 39:12
  uh, tribe leaders descendants.
• 39:14
  It's, you know, geez, Torah, Bible, everything we're,
• 39:18
  we're permitted.
• 39:19
  Meanwhile, Mohammed and company are saying, Nope, that's
• 39:22
  not how it works.
• 39:23
  You know?
• 39:25
  And, and, you know, the Quran doesn't say
• 39:27
  that.
• 39:27
  And so therefore it doesn't, and this is
• 39:29
  so, and for us, what in the hell
• 39:31
  do we care?
• 39:32
  You know, what do we care?
• 39:33
  Seriously?
• 39:33
  If they want to go fight a battle
• 39:35
  from 3000 years ago, let them period the
• 39:38
  end, stop interfering, stop supplying them.
• 39:42
  Stop, stop.
• 39:45
  How do we want to stop being the
• 39:46
  big brother, but it's really, uh, the big
• 39:48
  dumb brother who just does anything that they
• 39:51
  want, you know, in, in Israel.
• 39:53
  And I'm sorry, I shouldn't talk like that,
• 39:55
  but I believe that way.
• 39:56
  I think this is foolish.
• 39:57
  And I believe that Iran is pushing to
• 40:00
  get some look, killing Hezbollah.
• 40:04
  If that's who you're really after doesn't mean
• 40:07
  seizing all of Lebanon because Hezbollah is in
• 40:12
  charge.
• 40:12
  Okay.
• 40:13
  That'd be like coming to America and saying,
• 40:15
  you know, we need to eradicate all, uh,
• 40:19
  libertarians, the whole libertarian party.
• 40:21
  We need to get rid of them.
• 40:22
  And so therefore we're going to take over
• 40:24
  America because we hate those libertarians.
• 40:26
  You know, we hate, we hate, um, Ozark
• 40:29
  people.
• 40:29
  We hate people live in Ozark and all
• 40:31
  the, you know, you, you know, you can't
• 40:32
  have Ozarkers anywhere else in the world.
• 40:34
  And those Ozarkers are supplied with their own
• 40:36
  guns hidden under their beds.
• 40:38
  Therefore we need to destroy America.
• 40:40
  This is a foolish argument, no matter how
• 40:43
  you slice it.
• 40:44
  And, uh, it's, it's long past time that
• 40:49
  people get over these.
• 40:50
  Why is it okay then to honor history
• 40:54
  so far back 3,000 years and you
• 40:57
  can't, and you can't honor the history of
• 41:00
  Russia.
• 41:01
  Why not give Russia Kiev then?
• 41:04
  Why not give, it was taken away from
• 41:06
  them.
• 41:06
  Well, you know, why not give Russia back
• 41:09
  if you want to go that way?
• 41:11
  You know, Russia, Russia was in charge of
• 41:13
  a lot of things for a while.
• 41:15
  Why don't the Indians get to take back
• 41:17
  America?
• 41:18
  Why isn't that if that's the case, where's
• 41:20
  their homeland?
• 41:21
  You know, we get to put it and
• 41:22
  they can expand it.
• 41:23
  You know, we don't like those Texans.
• 41:25
  We have a, we have a, uh, Indian
• 41:27
  reservation and right outside are all these damn
• 41:29
  Texans.
• 41:30
  We're going to probably a better example would
• 41:32
  be, uh, Oklahoma or, or, or places like,
• 41:36
  uh, wherever the, uh, you know, the Cherokee
• 41:38
  were wandering through Kentucky and places like that.
• 41:41
  And they just kept getting pushed further and
• 41:43
  further West.
• 41:44
  Anyway, that that's, that's all a philosophical sort
• 41:48
  of commentary on what this is.
• 41:50
  And so, um, that battle in the Iranians
• 41:54
  demanding reparations from Arabic States, Iranians want them.
• 41:59
  Okay.
• 42:00
  They want reparations as part of the end
• 42:02
  of this, uh, as part of the, uh,
• 42:07
  ceasefire, the settlement, whatever you want to call.
• 42:10
  Oh, they're showing on the TV.
• 42:12
  Trump went scorched earth on Carlson Kelly, Candace
• 42:15
  Owens, Alex Jones on his, uh, that was
• 42:18
  ridiculous.
• 42:19
  What he was doing.
• 42:21
  I assume the Jr shared that with you.
• 42:24
  I didn't hear it.
• 42:25
  Um, if he did, but that was nuts.
• 42:30
  He, he, here he is back in Lindsey
• 42:33
  Graham and destroy and Tucker Carlson are trying
• 42:35
  to, I can't take it.
• 42:39
  Um, so it's, it's, uh, nonsensical.
• 42:42
  The world is full of crap today.
• 42:44
  Um, and so you just got all kinds
• 42:47
  of craziness going on, but I ran, we're
• 42:49
  going to, we're going to share this with
• 42:51
  you on what they are demanding in the
• 42:52
  state of this.
• 42:53
  Tehran says that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the
• 42:56
  UAE and Jordan are complicit in the unlawful
• 43:00
  us and Israeli tax.
• 43:01
  Iran demands that five Arab States hosting us
• 43:05
  basis pay reparations for American and Israeli airstrikes
• 43:11
  carried out on the territory of Iran in
• 43:14
  a letter to the UN secretary general, Antonio
• 43:16
  Gutierrez on Monday.
• 43:17
  Oh yeah, this will work.
• 43:19
  UN is UN is going to do something.
• 43:21
  No, they're not Iranian envoy.
• 43:24
  Amir Said Irvani argued that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
• 43:29
  Qatar, UAE, and Jordan had allowed the us
• 43:31
  to use their territory to attack Iran.
• 43:33
  And in some cases were directly involved in
• 43:35
  unlawful armed attacks against civilian objects.
• 43:38
  Irvani added that Arabic States should make full
• 43:41
  reparation to the Islamic Republic of Iran, including
• 43:45
  compensation for material and moral damages sustained in
• 43:49
  as a result of their internationally wrongful acts.
• 43:52
  Nothing will ever happen.
• 43:54
  The Gulf States previously demanded that Iran be
• 43:58
  held liable for war damage and claimed a
• 44:01
  claim.
• 44:01
  Irvani rejects as legally untenable, fundamentally divorced from
• 44:05
  factual and legal reality.
• 44:07
  The US and Iran launched strikes and on
• 44:10
  our US and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
• 44:13
  February 28 said that the goal was to
• 44:15
  dismantle Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
• 44:19
  Now they've added in the ballistic missile part.
• 44:21
  Initially it was a nuclear.
• 44:24
  They have tons of ballistic missiles.
• 44:25
  You're not going to eliminate that.
• 44:27
  And why, why can't they have them?
• 44:29
  Israel.
• 44:29
  So Israel needs to be the only one
• 44:31
  to have them.
• 44:32
  Is that we're saying that us bases need
• 44:34
  to have them, but nobody should be able
• 44:36
  to defend themselves.
• 44:38
  You're not a country.
• 44:39
  You're not a country.
• 44:41
  We sanctioned you.
• 44:42
  That's it.
• 44:43
  The attacks killed on the 28th, dozens of
• 44:46
  senior officials, including Iran's longtime Supreme leader, Ali
• 44:50
  Khamenei, as well as more than 1300 civilians.
• 44:54
  In addition to military sites, the US and
• 44:56
  Israel target energy structure, infrastructure, bridges, universities, and
• 45:00
  schools.
• 45:01
  Iran responded by striking us bases in the
• 45:04
  region and civilian infrastructure in Gulf States, including
• 45:07
  oil and gas facilities, airports, and seaports.
• 45:11
  Tehran said the strikes were an exercise of
• 45:13
  its right to self-defense.
• 45:16
  Now what's wrong with that statement?
• 45:19
  Seriously, take, take away the blame that you
• 45:24
  get to say, you can't have nuclear weapons.
• 45:26
  You can't have ballistic missiles.
• 45:27
  And we said, so UN didn't tell them
• 45:30
  they couldn't have any.
• 45:31
  Did they?
• 45:33
  Hmm.
• 45:35
  Hmm.
• 45:37
  Well, I told you a little bit yesterday,
• 45:39
  um, about, uh, the, uh, 65 year anniversary
• 45:47
  of the first space flight, um, in, uh,
• 45:52
  happened with Yuri Gagarin in Russia.
• 45:54
  I have a bunch of, uh, Soviet stamps
• 45:56
  with Yuri Gagarin.
• 45:57
  When I went over there, uh, one of
• 45:59
  my first times over there, I was on
• 46:01
  the Arbatskaya Ulitsa in, uh, Arbat is what
• 46:05
  they call it.
• 46:06
  And it's a cool shop place.
• 46:09
  I went back there this past summer when
• 46:11
  I was there and it's changed quite a
• 46:12
  bit dramatically, in fact.
• 46:15
  And, uh, it, but it's still the same
• 46:17
  thing.
• 46:18
  You have all these, uh, independent artists and,
• 46:21
  uh, artisans selling their craft and selling all
• 46:24
  their stuff.
• 46:24
  So there's some really cool stuff in there
• 46:26
  and you can find, you know, world war
• 46:28
  II things, all of these other things that
• 46:30
  are there.
• 46:31
  And it's really cool.
• 46:33
  I bought an entire book of stamps of
• 46:36
  Soviet stamps and these, uh, stamps, some of
• 46:45
  them were Yuri Gagarin, the first, the first
• 46:47
  flight of Soviet, uh, Soviet era stamps.
• 46:50
  And I had quite a bit of one,
• 46:51
  if they're worth anything these days, who the
• 46:53
  hell knows?
• 46:54
  But, uh, I still got them.
• 46:55
  I got an entire book of them.
• 46:57
  And, uh, that was a pretty cool deal.
• 47:01
  Let's see to have those, but the 65th
• 47:04
  anniversary of the first space flight, um, was
• 47:11
  actually a Russian event.
• 47:14
  So long before Gagarin's historic flight generations of
• 47:18
  explorers, philosophers, and engineers prepared Russia for its
• 47:23
  leap into space conquest of frontiers, you know,
• 47:29
  and they go through, there's a whole article
• 47:30
  of some of the things like, uh, Tsar
• 47:33
  Ivan the fourth, who was preoccupied with Livonian
• 47:37
  war when they took over the Siberian, you
• 47:40
  know, he sent people, uh, off into Siberia
• 47:43
  and expanded their lands all the way through
• 47:46
  into, into Alaska.
• 47:47
  And I covered that, some of that with
• 47:49
  you when I talked a few, a couple
• 47:52
  of months ago, I guess about the, um,
• 47:54
  the sale of the Alaskan territories.
• 47:56
  This was, that was around the time that
• 47:58
  Trump and Putin met in Alaska.
• 48:01
  I told you about that and some of
• 48:03
  the things that came of it, creating a
• 48:05
  bridge between Russia and Kamchatka and the Bering
• 48:10
  Strait, you know, which would be really cool.
• 48:13
  Um, imagine if you could, if you could
• 48:15
  drive it, you know, they ever been technology
• 48:17
  exists.
• 48:18
  We went through all that stuff there.
• 48:19
  I did a whole story on it.
• 48:21
  And, uh, so, um, did I relate to
• 48:26
  you?
• 48:26
  I believe I did a little bit, but
• 48:29
  they're having very serious difficulties.
• 48:32
  Yes, I did.
• 48:33
  I outlined that to you yesterday on the,
• 48:36
  uh, problems in Bangladesh with, uh, fuel shortages
• 48:41
  and Trump isn't helping us.
• 48:42
  The world is, uh, the world is, uh,
• 48:45
  having serious issues, um, and fuel prices are
• 48:50
  going up.
• 48:52
  Uh, like I said, I wanted to go
• 48:54
  right back to, uh, Orban, maybe finish off
• 48:58
  the show with some, some Orban defeat issues,
• 49:02
  but maybe not.
• 49:04
  There could be some news at the end,
• 49:05
  but, uh, um, you know, this is a,
• 49:08
  uh, not all that long of an article
• 49:12
  that I want to provide to you.
• 49:13
  And this one was, uh, I often share
• 49:16
  with you, uh, the writings of a guy
• 49:18
  named Fyodor Lukyanov, who's a editor in chief
• 49:22
  of global affairs and chairman of the Presidium
• 49:26
  on the Council of Foreign and Defense Policy.
• 49:29
  And he's a research director at the Valdai
• 49:31
  International Discussion Club.
• 49:33
  Boy, I'd love to be a member of
• 49:35
  that club.
• 49:35
  I might have to go do that.
• 49:38
  Uh, you know what though?
• 49:40
  No, we'll do that later.
• 49:42
  The defeat of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz
• 49:44
  party in Hungary parliamentary elections should not be
• 49:47
  seen as a shock.
• 49:49
  Opinion polls long pointed in that direction, nor
• 49:53
  should the outcome be divorced from a simple
• 49:55
  political reality.
• 49:57
  16 years in power, 20 in total is
• 50:01
  an exceptionally long tenure by the standards of
• 50:04
  central and Eastern Europe.
• 50:06
  Fatigue with familiar faces is inevitable and psychologically
• 50:10
  understandable.
• 50:12
  Yet the result contains a paradox.
• 50:17
  Orban's defeat appears in some ways to confirm
• 50:20
  the very trend that has, that he has
• 50:22
  come to embody.
• 50:24
  The primacy of the national agenda, my country
• 50:27
  first.
• 50:28
  In recent years, particularly since the escalation of
• 50:32
  the Ukraine conflict, Hungary's sovereign approach has become
• 50:36
  deeply entangled with external issues.
• 50:39
  Opposition to the European commission's line on Ukraine,
• 50:43
  justified in Budapest as a defense of Hungary,
• 50:46
  led to sustained confrontation with both Brussels and
• 50:50
  Kiev.
• 50:51
  What began as a domestic political stance increasingly
• 50:55
  played out on the international stage.
• 50:58
  So this dynamic shaped his election, Orban's election
• 51:02
  campaign.
• 51:03
  Orban leaned heavily on external things, portrayed Ukraine
• 51:07
  and its leadership, especially Zelensky, as antagonists, which
• 51:12
  they are, but his opponent took the opposite
• 51:15
  approach.
• 51:17
  They focus on domestic concerns, living standards, the
• 51:20
  promise of restoring smooth relations with the EU
• 51:24
  as a pathway to improving everyday life.
• 51:28
  Meaning, if we kiss their rear ends, we're
• 51:31
  really going to be better off individually, which
• 51:34
  is true.
• 51:35
  But you also lose any sovereignty of all
• 51:38
  kinds, I say.
• 51:40
  Continuing with the article of Lukianov, whether that
• 51:46
  promise proves justified is another manner.
• 51:50
  I think it does not.
• 51:51
  I think it's a bigger problem for them.
• 51:54
  But it resonated with the voters.
• 51:56
  The message was entirely consistent with the logic
• 51:59
  of sovereignty, only turned inward rather than outward.
• 52:03
  It's also notable what didn't matter.
• 52:06
  Now, and by the way, I wanted to
• 52:07
  stop right here.
• 52:08
  When I was reading this earlier, I got
• 52:10
  to thinking, you know, America has, we're a
• 52:15
  republic, right?
• 52:16
  And there are states, and each of the
• 52:19
  states has its own internal issues and problems.
• 52:24
  And on the national level, we have the
• 52:29
  jokers who are running the show these days,
• 52:31
  and unfortunately have been for a long time.
• 52:35
  They remain the all-powerful, okay?
• 52:42
  And what is the job of a Missouri
• 52:45
  senator or a Missouri person elected to the
• 52:48
  United States House of Representatives?
• 52:50
  What's their job?
• 52:51
  Their job is to bring home the bacon.
• 52:53
  That's it.
• 52:54
  Nobody gives a crap what they do otherwise.
• 52:57
  What deals they have to make, what mud
• 52:59
  they have to sling, whether they support or
• 53:02
  don't support Ukraine, because all we care about
• 53:05
  is internal, what's going on in our own
• 53:07
  little neck of the woods.
• 53:09
  That's a fair presentation of what goes on
• 53:14
  in what they're trying to create in the
• 53:16
  EU.
• 53:17
  Only there, these are different cultures.
• 53:20
  And if all their, oh my God, here
• 53:22
  it is.
• 53:23
  What does Trump say?
• 53:25
  Oh, I can't hear it.
• 53:26
  Trump says the AI image of him was
• 53:29
  him as a doctor.
• 53:31
  He said he was a doctor.
• 53:33
  Where is that?
• 53:33
  I don't know how to work the TV,
• 53:35
  so I can't put it on.
• 53:36
  Well, JR, I've been distracted, but one day
• 53:38
  you'll have to show me how to use
• 53:40
  the TV button.
• 53:41
  I don't know how to do that.
• 53:42
  Anyway, so I can't put Trump up there
• 53:44
  saying the AI image.
• 53:46
  I'm a doctor.
• 53:47
  No, you're not a doctor.
• 53:48
  That sure as hell, that white coat didn't
• 53:50
  portray you as a doctor.
• 53:52
  That is bad news.
• 53:54
  You had some terrible AI.
• 53:56
  That's not you as a doctor.
• 53:59
  Anyway, I gotta get back to the article.
• 54:01
  I've been distracted, so we're going to go
• 54:09
  back to it.
• 54:09
  It was notable what didn't matter also in
• 54:14
  Victor Orban's election.
• 54:15
  It just absolutely made no difference.
• 54:17
  The visit to Budapest by U.S. Vice
• 54:20
  President J.D. Vance, along with repeat expressions
• 54:24
  of support from Trump and his circle, had
• 54:28
  no measurable impact.
• 54:30
  Well, I think the impact was actually the
• 54:33
  opposite.
• 54:34
  I think the impact was not good.
• 54:37
  This too fits the pattern.
• 54:39
  Overt external endorsement rarely helps national elections.
• 54:44
  Indeed, Trump's team has so far failed to
• 54:48
  influence the outcome of any European country where
• 54:52
  it has attempted to intervene, including Romania and
• 54:55
  Germany.
• 54:56
  External pressure, regardless of its source, cannot substitute
• 55:00
  for domestic political conditions.
• 55:02
  Well, that's not true if you're the EU.
• 55:05
  If you're the EU and you have all
• 55:08
  your deep staters go in there and twist
• 55:11
  all the narratives, twist everything, and provide huge
• 55:15
  money to the opposition, that has an effect.
• 55:20
  That said, external actors were not absent.
• 55:24
  The Western European mainstream, as usual, worked against
• 55:28
  Orban, but such involvement has long been a
• 55:33
  structural feature of European politics.
• 55:35
  Without underlying domestic factors, it's rarely decisive.
• 55:40
  There were, however, surprises in the details.
• 55:44
  Fidesz anticipated potential losses in the proportional vote,
• 55:48
  but expected to retain strength in single-member
• 55:51
  district.
• 55:52
  The opposite occurred.
• 55:53
  The party's relative resilience in the lists contrasted
• 55:57
  with a collapse at the constituency level.
• 56:01
  This suggests that at the local level, voters
• 56:04
  viewed opposition candidates as more attuned to their
• 56:07
  immediate concerns and less associated with the government
• 56:11
  perceived as preoccupied with broader geopolitical battles.
• 56:17
  So equate this to Missouri and Missouri going,
• 56:23
  I don't care about the war in Iran.
• 56:25
  That's not important to me.
• 56:26
  That's not important to my constituents.
• 56:28
  That's correct, isn't it?
• 56:30
  Well, all we care about is we don't
• 56:32
  want to pay $4 a gallon for gas.
• 56:34
  What the hell are you doing about that?
• 56:35
  And how can I stop it?
• 56:36
  And what do I have to do?
• 56:37
  This is what my people are involved in
• 56:40
  so that we look inward statewide, statewise.
• 56:43
  But nationally, we're making some pretty foolish steps
• 56:48
  that are hurting our ability to pay $2
• 56:53
  .50 a gallon for gas instead of $4.
• 56:57
  And I remember, well, we won't give my
• 57:02
  age.
• 57:02
  I remember, I think the earliest price I
• 57:05
  ever remember for seeing gas and paying for
• 57:08
  gas was $0.55 a gallon is what
• 57:12
  I remember.
• 57:13
  And so I remember that on a trip
• 57:17
  with the family driving.
• 57:22
  My dad liked to do that for us.
• 57:24
  In Brussels and other Western European capitals, the
• 57:27
  mood is celebratory.
• 57:29
  Yeah, I already told you about von der
• 57:32
  Leyen pushing her advantage.
• 57:34
  Orban had become a persistent irritant to the
• 57:37
  EU, an obstacle to consistent consensus, and at
• 57:41
  times to policy itself.
• 57:43
  His departure will be framed symbolically as a
• 57:46
  triumph of liberal integration over a disruptive and
• 57:51
  illiberal figure, often portrayed as aligned with Moscow
• 57:57
  and Washington's more nationalist wing.
• 58:00
  The incoming government will be expected to demonstrate
• 58:03
  its credentials quickly.
• 58:05
  Chief among these expectations is the unblocking of
• 58:08
  the $90 billion package for Ukraine, something that
• 58:12
  will likely happen without delay.
• 58:15
  From Moscow's perspective, this is not welcome news.
• 58:19
  It would be naive to assume that the
• 58:21
  European Commission would have been unable to advance
• 58:23
  its agenda had Orban remained.
• 58:26
  Mechanisms to bypass his obstruction were already under
• 58:30
  discussion.
• 58:31
  Beyond these immediate questions, however, the direction of
• 58:35
  Hungary's new government is unclear.
• 58:38
  Peter Magyar's campaign bore many of the hallmarks
• 58:41
  of a personal project.
• 58:43
  The composition of his cabinet, the balance of
• 58:46
  power within it, and the concrete priorities of
• 58:49
  it are still unknown.
• 58:51
  More importantly, the structural realities facing Hungary have
• 58:55
  not changed.
• 58:56
  Geography and the broader geopolitical environment impose constraints
• 59:00
  that cannot be washed away.
• 59:03
  Magyar has already acknowledged the need for dialogue
• 59:05
  with Russia, as I told you earlier.
• 59:08
  A recognition that reflects practical necessity rather than
• 59:11
  ideological alignment, whether this pragmatism can coexist with
• 59:15
  expectations from Brussels and Kiev remains to be
• 59:18
  seen.
• 59:19
  Now, I believe what's going to happen now,
• 59:24
  and you've already seen it on the international
• 59:27
  stage, you're going to see Magyar concede on
• 59:35
  the $90 billion.
• 59:36
  If he was smart, he would only concede
• 59:40
  after he gets a deal with it for
• 59:42
  the transport of Russian gas through Ukraine.
• 59:48
  That's the only way he can get it.
• 59:50
  Well, the only way he can afford to
• 59:51
  get it.
• 59:52
  And if he's really looking out for his
• 59:54
  people, like in the big picture, and remember
• 59:57
  how long Orban was there.
• 59:59
  Orban knows how this works.
• 1:00:01
  He can't afford to buy the stuff through
• 1:00:03
  the other pipelines from the U.S. at
• 1:00:05
  double, triple the cost.
• 1:00:07
  He can't do it.
• 1:00:08
  And so he wants that cheap Russian gas
• 1:00:11
  back, and the Russian oil, and all the
• 1:00:13
  products.
• 1:00:14
  But nobody else does.
• 1:00:16
  And so, for some reason, they think he
• 1:00:20
  doesn't understand his own economy, and the corruption
• 1:00:23
  in Ukraine, and all that other stuff where
• 1:00:25
  they're getting fantastically wealthy.
• 1:00:27
  I told you yesterday about the fact that
• 1:00:29
  Europe, well, in fact, I followed up with
• 1:00:32
  it again this morning, the fact that Europeans
• 1:00:35
  are preparing for war against Russia by 2030.
• 1:00:39
  They want to be ready to start World
• 1:00:41
  War III if Trump hasn't started it already
• 1:00:45
  by that time.
• 1:00:45
  They want to be able to start it,
• 1:00:47
  and they're pushing towards it, including England, including
• 1:00:50
  all the majors in the European Commission.
• 1:00:54
  And if people like Orban, who's gone now,
• 1:00:57
  if people like Magyar don't resist, and just
• 1:01:01
  bow down and lick the feet of Ursula
• 1:01:03
  von der Leyen, I see bigger problems in
• 1:01:07
  the future for them than solutions.
• 1:01:10
  Because they're going to be pushing for war
• 1:01:13
  with Russia.
• 1:01:14
  And they're doing it already.
• 1:01:16
  But what is the point of war with
• 1:01:19
  Russia?
• 1:01:19
  As I told you earlier in the show,
• 1:01:21
  if Russia takes over the Donbas, you know,
• 1:01:24
  which they're close to, very close to, they
• 1:01:28
  should be able to stop, right?
• 1:01:30
  And what if they do stop?
• 1:01:34
  And they just have the lines of the
• 1:01:36
  front, and they're going to want some more
• 1:01:39
  to have a buffer zone, because, you know,
• 1:01:42
  Ukraine will just sit there for the next
• 1:01:43
  50 years lobbing missiles and sending in drones.
• 1:01:48
  You know, Russia is going to want to
• 1:01:49
  destroy their capabilities, and they have been destroying
• 1:01:52
  missile plants, destroying all that.
• 1:01:54
  The goal of the European community, and the
• 1:01:57
  United States under everybody pre-Trump, was to
• 1:02:01
  get, after 1991 anyway, was to militarize and
• 1:02:06
  have a million-man Ukrainian army.
• 1:02:09
  And they were very close to that in
• 1:02:12
  2022, when this started, right?
• 1:02:14
  They were very close to it.
• 1:02:16
  And now that's been decimated, you know, but
• 1:02:20
  now they're still pushing, they're still pushing to
• 1:02:23
  have Ukraine be the battle zone forever, you
• 1:02:28
  know?
• 1:02:29
  And they're hoping once they get rid of
• 1:02:30
  Lukashenko, they can do the same thing with
• 1:02:32
  Belarus.
• 1:02:33
  And I'm not sure what's going to happen
• 1:02:35
  after that, you know?
• 1:02:36
  That country, it's beautiful, you know?
• 1:02:41
  I thought it was wonderful.
• 1:02:43
  You know, Minsk was fabulous.
• 1:02:45
  And it's a little on the, not quite
• 1:02:49
  as modern side as many European places.
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  And, but Lithuania was too, you know, the
• 1:02:57
  same thing.
• 1:02:59
  And I don't, those countries, maybe they just
• 1:03:04
  want something different.
• 1:03:06
  And Europeans like von der Leyen are going
• 1:03:08
  to be pushing to create that impetus, absolutely,
• 1:03:14
  when Lukashenko comes up for re-election again,
• 1:03:17
  because he's now in the old man stage,
• 1:03:22
  you know?
• 1:03:22
  He's been in power for a long time.
• 1:03:24
  And it is a bit of a dictatorship,
• 1:03:27
  I mean, no doubt.
• 1:03:28
  But he's watching out for his country, you
• 1:03:31
  know?
• 1:03:32
  He's definitely watching out for his country.
• 1:03:35
  And I fear what happens after that, if
• 1:03:37
  they try to get somebody anti-Russia and
• 1:03:40
  twist it against Putin or twist him against
• 1:03:45
  Russia.
• 1:03:45
  And Russia is running into the same issue
• 1:03:48
  before too long.
• 1:03:50
  I want to spend some time chatting with
• 1:03:53
  some people about where the world goes after
• 1:03:56
  these larger-than-life figures, like Sergei Lavrov,
• 1:04:01
  like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, you
• 1:04:06
  know?
• 1:04:06
  Where's the after this, you know?
• 1:04:10
  Where does it go?
• 1:04:12
  But Orban's defeat is a symbolic representation of
• 1:04:20
  that very thing.
• 1:04:21
  It's significant, but its practical implications, we don't
• 1:04:24
  know what they are.
• 1:04:26
  Hungary's new leadership are going to have to
• 1:04:28
  navigate some complex and often unfavorable conditions.
• 1:04:33
  The same ones that Orban was trying to
• 1:04:35
  get through, just because it's a new person.
• 1:04:38
  I mean, don't think that Ursula von der
• 1:04:42
  Leyen has your back, because she doesn't.
• 1:04:44
  She's already proven the next day, we're going
• 1:04:47
  to take away your veto ability.
• 1:04:50
  That next day.
• 1:04:52
  So they're going to be pushing this guy
• 1:04:53
  to give up on the...
• 1:04:57
  She's still pushing it.
• 1:04:58
  That's what they're trying with Orban.
• 1:04:59
  And Orban said, that's not according to the
• 1:05:01
  rules of the EU.
• 1:05:02
  We have a veto.
• 1:05:04
  And this guy needs to seize his own
• 1:05:06
  power and fire back.
• 1:05:08
  So the story today, the big story, is
• 1:05:11
  here comes von der Leyen.
• 1:05:12
  She's going to take this newbie.
• 1:05:14
  She's kicking the country while it's down, and
• 1:05:17
  taking the newbie before the newbie knows what
• 1:05:20
  happens, and changes all the rules.
• 1:05:22
  So she doesn't have to deal with anybody
• 1:05:25
  like Orban in the future.
• 1:05:28
  I think it's a big mistake, but we'll
• 1:05:29
  see what he does.
• 1:05:31
  It'll be interesting how this goes.
• 1:05:37
  The differences may lie less in the direction
• 1:05:40
  of policy than in the manner in which
• 1:05:42
  such policy moves are presented.
• 1:05:46
  In that sense, this election may mark not
• 1:05:49
  a fundamental shift, but a recalibration.
• 1:05:53
  The slogan might change, but the constraints will
• 1:05:56
  not.
• 1:05:57
  And that was a pretty good article.
• 1:05:58
  It was an opinion piece by Fyodor Lukyanov,
• 1:06:01
  slightly edited by me with additions and commentary.
• 1:06:06
  But the basis of it was from Fyodor
• 1:06:10
  Lukyanov, first published in Rassiyskaya Gazeta, and then
• 1:06:16
  translated for your listening pleasure.
• 1:06:23
  Let's see.
• 1:06:25
  Should we talk about the Soros takeover, according
• 1:06:34
  to Musk?
• 1:06:34
  I think we should.
• 1:06:36
  The billionaire weighed in on, not Musk, but
• 1:06:40
  Soros.
• 1:06:40
  The pro-EU CICA party's victory over Prime
• 1:06:44
  Minister Orban in the Hungarian election means that
• 1:06:48
  the country has essentially been taken over by
• 1:06:50
  Soros, said Elon Musk.
• 1:06:53
  In a post on Monday, Musk lashed out
• 1:06:56
  at Alexander Soros, the son of Hungarian-American
• 1:07:00
  billionaire George Soros, and chair of the board
• 1:07:03
  of directors of the Open Society Foundation, who
• 1:07:07
  celebrated Orban's fall as a resounding rejection of
• 1:07:12
  entrenched corruption and foreign interference.
• 1:07:17
  You say in the Hungarian...
• 1:07:18
  This is the funny part.
• 1:07:19
  Now, this is Soros' organization politicking against outside
• 1:07:25
  or foreign interference.
• 1:07:28
  What does he do?
• 1:07:29
  He's outside.
• 1:07:30
  A Soros organization has taken over Hungary, the
• 1:07:33
  SpaceX and Tesla owners said.
• 1:07:35
  In a separate post, Musk responded to a
• 1:07:38
  post by an ex-user who listed figures
• 1:07:41
  who cheered the result.
• 1:07:42
  Among them, U.S. former President Barack Obama,
• 1:07:47
  UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose name I
• 1:07:50
  couldn't remember earlier, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and
• 1:07:54
  various EU officials, and wrote, this should tell
• 1:07:57
  you everything.
• 1:07:59
  Musk replied with a 100% emoji.
• 1:08:02
  Musk's comments came after Peter Magyar's Conservative Sica
• 1:08:06
  party secured 138 seats of the 199-seat
• 1:08:11
  Hungarian parliament with 53% of the vote,
• 1:08:14
  while Orban's right-wing Fidesz party took just
• 1:08:18
  55 seats with a 37.8%, with an
• 1:08:22
  extremely high voter turnout of almost 80%.
• 1:08:25
  Though conservative in profile, Sica has pledged to
• 1:08:29
  dismantle the core pillars of Orban's policies, drawing
• 1:08:34
  once again closer to the EU and NATO.
• 1:08:37
  Orban, who will see his 16-year tenure
• 1:08:40
  as Prime Minister come to an end, has
• 1:08:42
  long clashed with Budapest-born Soros, accused him
• 1:08:47
  of fomenting woke ideology, liberal internationalism, and an
• 1:08:52
  intention to turn Native Europeans into a minority
• 1:08:56
  through an invasion of immigrants.
• 1:08:59
  The Soros-founded Open Society Foundation has a
• 1:09:05
  strong footprint in Hungary.
• 1:09:07
  Between 2016 and 2023, the network spent almost
• 1:09:11
  $90 million to fund Hungarian-based organizations, and
• 1:09:17
  in the year prior to the 2022 parliamentary
• 1:09:20
  elections, it gave a record $17 million, according
• 1:09:24
  to research by the Center for Fundamental Rights.
• 1:09:28
  Hungary received nearly double the OSF's average of
• 1:09:32
  $19 million per country across Europe and the
• 1:09:35
  post-Soviet region, with at least 153 organizations
• 1:09:39
  benefiting from Soros's financial support.
• 1:09:43
  The OSF is essentially forced to leave Hungary
• 1:09:46
  in 2018 after Orban passed a stop-Soros
• 1:09:50
  anti-migration legislation.
• 1:09:53
  Critics argued that despite the move, the OSF
• 1:09:55
  continues to influence Hungary's domestic political scene through
• 1:09:59
  alternative routes.
• 1:10:01
  So they're still doing it.
• 1:10:05
  Crazy.
• 1:10:07
  Oh, who is this?
• 1:10:09
  Oh, this professor.
• 1:10:10
  I like listening to him.
• 1:10:12
  But we're not gonna do that right now.
• 1:10:13
  I wanted to share with you what Netanyahu
• 1:10:15
  has gained from the Iran war.
• 1:10:19
  According to the former Israel interim president, nothing.
• 1:10:24
  The US-Israel war in Iran and the
• 1:10:27
  recently announced ceasefire exposed a fundamental clash of
• 1:10:33
  political interests between the US president and the
• 1:10:39
  Israeli prime minister, according to the former Israeli
• 1:10:44
  acting president, Abraham Berg.
• 1:10:47
  In an exclusive interview, Berg explained that Trump
• 1:10:52
  had an interest in ending the conflict before
• 1:10:55
  it had an impact on the midterm elections
• 1:10:57
  in the US.
• 1:10:58
  It should have been a very short exercise,
• 1:11:03
  according to him.
• 1:11:05
  Netanyahu, on the other hand, has to extend
• 1:11:07
  it as long as possible because he wants
• 1:11:10
  to go into elections in a state of
• 1:11:12
  war, according to Berg, who noted that Israelis,
• 1:11:17
  when there is a state of war, usually
• 1:11:19
  rally around the flag of the government.
• 1:11:21
  The next legislative election is set for late
• 1:11:24
  October.
• 1:11:26
  The former speaker of the Knesset argued, however,
• 1:11:29
  that Netanyahu's gamble has backfired.
• 1:11:32
  As for now, Netanyahu did not profit a
• 1:11:35
  thing politically from this campaign, and he may
• 1:11:38
  have lost a lot, Berg said, predicted that
• 1:11:42
  the next elections will show that Israelis are
• 1:11:44
  fed up with his manipulation, his tricks, his
• 1:11:48
  sticks, and his endurance.
• 1:11:51
  These are the very last couple of months
• 1:11:53
  of his government.
• 1:11:55
  Berg dismissed the idea that the war was
• 1:11:57
  an existential necessity for Israel.
• 1:12:00
  It wasn't.
• 1:12:00
  It was a war of choice.
• 1:12:02
  This is not existential remotely.
• 1:12:05
  This is war of choice for the US
• 1:12:08
  and for Israel.
• 1:12:10
  Iran was not an existential threat to Israel.
• 1:12:13
  This is a former Israeli prime minister or
• 1:12:16
  interim.
• 1:12:17
  It was a real problem that could have
• 1:12:20
  been dealt with by diplomacy, by agreement, by
• 1:12:23
  different equilibrium and balance.
• 1:12:26
  He also rejected speculation that Netanyahu would use
• 1:12:29
  nuclear weapons to stay in power, calling it
• 1:12:32
  unthinkable.
• 1:12:33
  Now, I disagree with him there.
• 1:12:34
  I think Netanyahu would do anything, and Netanyahu
• 1:12:39
  will do anything to stay in power, including
• 1:12:41
  using nuclear weapons.
• 1:12:43
  Netanyahu has no regard for human life.
• 1:12:49
  Those people are bugs and need some bug
• 1:12:52
  spray, is what I believe he believes.
• 1:12:55
  He acts that way, that's for sure.
• 1:12:57
  These are not people that he's sending to
• 1:13:00
  their deaths to kill people.
• 1:13:02
  These are people he's sending to their deaths,
• 1:13:05
  but they're not killing people.
• 1:13:06
  They're killing less than people.
• 1:13:09
  And in his mind, I'm telling you that
• 1:13:11
  I can't imagine that that's not how he
• 1:13:13
  thinks.
• 1:13:14
  Oh my gosh, they're showing on the TV.
• 1:13:15
  I have a book.
• 1:13:17
  I have a red book.
• 1:13:19
  I have a copy of it, but it's
• 1:13:20
  in English.
• 1:13:21
  It has a Chinese and they're showing it
• 1:13:23
  on TV saying Mao Zedong's Little Red Book
• 1:13:26
  and Chinese Communism.
• 1:13:28
  And it's shown on the TV.
• 1:13:29
  Sorry to be delayed here, but I have
• 1:13:32
  in my office a copy of quotes from
• 1:13:35
  Chairman Mao.
• 1:13:37
  And I mean, they're pretty cool.
• 1:13:39
  You know, you have Chairman Mao quotes in
• 1:13:42
  there that you could read right next to
• 1:13:44
  my, you know, I brought a lawyer joke
• 1:13:45
  book with me.
• 1:13:46
  I was going to share some jokes with
• 1:13:48
  you.
• 1:13:48
  500 Great Lawyer Jokes is the name of
• 1:13:51
  the book, hangs in my office, you know,
• 1:13:53
  hangs out there.
• 1:13:54
  And I brought it in maybe before I
• 1:13:56
  get back to the Israeli zero gain, zero
• 1:14:00
  sum game.
• 1:14:02
  I will share with you a random, a
• 1:14:05
  random lawyer joke.
• 1:14:11
  Here's a joke for you.
• 1:14:14
  Why do you want to be buried in
• 1:14:17
  the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
• 1:14:19
  The attorney asked when a slot as he
• 1:14:22
  drew up his new will, because said when
• 1:14:25
  a slot, my wife has vowed to dance
• 1:14:28
  on my grave.
• 1:14:31
  Well, maybe that one was a bad one.
• 1:14:33
  We'll share another one.
• 1:14:34
  Then there was the attorney who pointed out
• 1:14:37
  that it only takes a few words in
• 1:14:39
  a church to get married and a few
• 1:14:42
  words in your sleep to get divorced.
• 1:14:45
  Now that was much better.
• 1:14:47
  Okay.
• 1:14:47
  So there you go for the lawyer jokes
• 1:14:50
  that we have.
• 1:14:51
  That was a good one in the ceasefire.
• 1:14:55
  Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:14:56
  Did I miss one?
• 1:14:57
  Yeah.
• 1:14:57
  These are the last we talked about.
• 1:15:00
  It's not existential.
• 1:15:01
  And they got to agree to equilibrium.
• 1:15:03
  He also rejected speculation that Netanyahu would use
• 1:15:06
  nuclear weapons.
• 1:15:07
  I disagree with that.
• 1:15:08
  That's where we were on the ceasefire.
• 1:15:10
  Berg described Trump's unilateral move as a divorce
• 1:15:14
  from Israel.
• 1:15:15
  And he concluded that the only clear winner
• 1:15:18
  from the conflict is Iran, which got hit
• 1:15:20
  very strong, but survived and therefore won.
• 1:15:23
  Check out the full episode at a show
• 1:15:27
  called Going Underground.
• 1:15:30
  You can find it on YouTube, I believe.
• 1:15:34
  But Vance, he claims that the U.S.
• 1:15:36
  has achieved its Iranian goals, right?
• 1:15:39
  Now I think he's this, this I'm going
• 1:15:43
  to share with you because it's just funny
• 1:15:45
  that we haven't achieved anything.
• 1:15:47
  U.S. has achieved its objectives in Iran,
• 1:15:49
  Vice President Vance has claimed.
• 1:15:51
  Adding Washington could begin winding down its military
• 1:15:55
  operation against the Islamic Republic.
• 1:15:57
  In a Fox News interview yesterday, after negotiators
• 1:16:00
  left talks in Pakistan without securing an agreement
• 1:16:03
  to end the conflict, Vance said Washington made
• 1:16:06
  a lot of progress in the negotiations.
• 1:16:08
  They left again today.
• 1:16:10
  He left this morning, it looks like.
• 1:16:12
  And that the ball is in Iran's court
• 1:16:14
  on whether to move forward.
• 1:16:16
  I do think that we're in a place
• 1:16:18
  where we've accomplished our objectives.
• 1:16:20
  We can start to wind this thing down.
• 1:16:23
  I'd much rather wind this thing down with
• 1:16:25
  a big successful negotiation.
• 1:16:27
  But either way, he's got to wind it
• 1:16:29
  down.
• 1:16:30
  The trouble is they have to wind it
• 1:16:33
  down.
• 1:16:33
  They have lost.
• 1:16:34
  And if they keep on going, it's only
• 1:16:36
  going to be, it's only going to get
• 1:16:39
  worse.
• 1:16:40
  According to Vance, and these blockades are going
• 1:16:43
  to be a terrible idea.
• 1:16:45
  According to Vance, the talks at the weekend
• 1:16:47
  in Islamabad did make some progress, particularly U
• 1:16:51
  .S. demands for the removal of nuclear material
• 1:16:53
  from Iran and measures to prevent future uranium
• 1:16:57
  enrichment.
• 1:16:58
  They did move in our direction, he claimed.
• 1:17:02
  He suggested that Iranian negotiators were unable to
• 1:17:05
  cut a deal without sign off from other
• 1:17:07
  authorities and return to Tehran to seek approval
• 1:17:10
  of U.S. terms.
• 1:17:11
  Whether we have further conversations, whether we ultimately
• 1:17:13
  get to make a deal, I really think
• 1:17:16
  the ball is in their court.
• 1:17:17
  He added that if the U.S. red
• 1:17:18
  lines on Iran's nuclear program are met, then
• 1:17:23
  this can be a very, very good deal
• 1:17:25
  for both countries.
• 1:17:28
  Well, then why do we have blockades if
• 1:17:31
  all we're waiting for is the negotiators to
• 1:17:35
  go to Tehran and get approval of the
• 1:17:37
  U.S. terms?
• 1:17:39
  Why are we blocking ports if that's the
• 1:17:41
  case?
• 1:17:42
  The comments came hours after the U.S.
• 1:17:44
  began blocking ships at Iranian ports in the
• 1:17:47
  Straits of Hormuz, a move President Trump said
• 1:17:50
  was meant to force Tehran back to talks
• 1:17:53
  and reopen the vital oil artery, the disruption
• 1:17:57
  of which has sent energy prices skyrocketing.
• 1:18:00
  Well, if he hadn't started this idiocy, then
• 1:18:04
  the Straits of Hormuz would have never been
• 1:18:07
  blocked.
• 1:18:07
  They were never blocked before.
• 1:18:11
  So this this was long planned.
• 1:18:14
  You guys knew this was the result or
• 1:18:17
  a potential result, and you did nothing to
• 1:18:20
  counter it or even have a plan for
• 1:18:24
  countering it.
• 1:18:25
  And here we are, you know, six weeks
• 1:18:27
  later, and the prices of energy are skyrocketing,
• 1:18:31
  skyrocketing.
• 1:18:33
  It's nonsense.
• 1:18:34
  Meanwhile, Tehran signals its own doubt, insisting that
• 1:18:37
  Washington should accept the terms or face a
• 1:18:41
  stalemate.
• 1:18:42
  Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament
• 1:18:46
  and the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee,
• 1:18:48
  told the newspaper on Sunday he added that
• 1:18:52
  the U.S. needs a deal more than
• 1:18:54
  we do.
• 1:18:56
  Now that's telling.
• 1:18:57
  The U.S. needs a deal more than
• 1:19:00
  we do.
• 1:19:01
  I happen to agree with that sentiment, truthfully,
• 1:19:04
  because we do.
• 1:19:05
  People are talking.
• 1:19:07
  This is not good.
• 1:19:10
  Many Iranians are unhappy that Tehran even entered
• 1:19:13
  into negotiations.
• 1:19:15
  That's true, too.
• 1:19:16
  When they need it, they should accept both
• 1:19:19
  the conditions and the prerequisites.
• 1:19:21
  If they don't, we'll do our work and
• 1:19:23
  go our own way.
• 1:19:24
  Nothing will change, according to Azizi.
• 1:19:27
  Tehran remains deeply skeptical of Washington, even after
• 1:19:31
  ceasefire-related preconditions were discussed.
• 1:19:35
  Azizi said, we do not trust them.
• 1:19:38
  We simply do not trust them, he added,
• 1:19:41
  questioning whether a country that elevates arrogance and
• 1:19:45
  colonialism to a guiding principle can be relied
• 1:19:49
  upon to honor its commitments.
• 1:19:54
  That's scary.
• 1:19:56
  I mean, seriously.
• 1:19:57
  And it's most scary because it's absolutely true
• 1:20:01
  what he said.
• 1:20:03
  It's true.
• 1:20:04
  How in the world can you trust people
• 1:20:07
  who ignore their own commitments?
• 1:20:11
  You know, why?
• 1:20:13
  In the middle of negotiations, twice now, the
• 1:20:17
  U.S. has allowed Israel to start attacking
• 1:20:19
  and killing people right during the negotiations.
• 1:20:22
  That's not a negotiation tactic.
• 1:20:25
  That's not in the art of the deal
• 1:20:26
  anywhere that I'm aware of.
• 1:20:30
  You know, what 11-point plan of learning
• 1:20:34
  how to negotiate, does that fit?
• 1:20:38
  You know, that's absolutism at its worst.
• 1:20:42
  You're not negotiating.
• 1:20:44
  It's, you know, same playbook, same map.
• 1:20:50
  And these people, well, and these globalist people,
• 1:20:56
  which I include, by the way, you know,
• 1:21:02
  the Lindsey Graham group, you know, that is,
• 1:21:04
  in my view, has a lot of great
• 1:21:07
  influence of some sort over the old Trumpster.
• 1:21:11
  Because otherwise, I don't think he'd be endorsing
• 1:21:16
  Lindsey Graham.
• 1:21:18
  What the hell is that?
• 1:21:20
  Oh, my God.
• 1:21:20
  That is scary.
• 1:21:21
  Who in the world would endorse that guy?
• 1:21:25
  I can't imagine his own state continues to
• 1:21:30
  elect him.
• 1:21:31
  You know, I really did want to share
• 1:21:32
  with you something about this Gagarin flight some
• 1:21:35
  more, but I'm going to delete it.
• 1:21:37
  We're sharing with you yesterday.
• 1:21:41
  Soros taking over Hungary, we already discussed.
• 1:21:44
  Here you go about more U.S. congressmen
• 1:21:48
  resigning over sex scandals.
• 1:21:50
  Is that even a problem anymore post-Bill
• 1:21:53
  Clinton?
• 1:21:53
  I mean, that wasn't, you know, is.
• 1:21:58
  Depends on what the definition of is, is.
• 1:22:02
  So, Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzalez have
• 1:22:06
  said they will resign from the U.S.
• 1:22:09
  House of Representatives following accusations of sexual misconduct.
• 1:22:15
  Swalwell, elected in 2013, denied the allegations, claimed
• 1:22:19
  they were part of an effort to derail
• 1:22:21
  his campaign for governor in his home state
• 1:22:23
  of California, where he'd been one of the
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  top contenders.
• 1:22:26
  He suspended that campaign on Sunday and announced
• 1:22:30
  plans to leave Congress yesterday.
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  I'm deeply sorry to my family, staff, constituents
• 1:22:35
  for mistakes and judgment I made in the
• 1:22:36
  past.
• 1:22:37
  Swalwell said in a statement on X, he
• 1:22:39
  criticized calls for a vote to expel him,
• 1:22:41
  but added that it also wrong for my
• 1:22:43
  constituents to have me distracted from my duties.
• 1:22:46
  Well, why is it okay to have Lindsey
• 1:22:49
  Graham distracted with all the international BS that
• 1:22:52
  he does?
• 1:22:53
  Guy's a nut.
• 1:22:54
  He needs to go to Kiev and make
• 1:22:55
  sure that the 90 billion gets handed over
• 1:22:57
  personally, right?
• 1:22:59
  According to CNN, four women accused Swalwell of
• 1:23:01
  misconduct, including a former staffer who alleged the
• 1:23:05
  politician raped her in 2019 and 2024 while
• 1:23:09
  she was heavily intoxicated.
• 1:23:10
  Other women alleged that Swalwell groped them and
• 1:23:13
  sent explicit messages and nude photos.
• 1:23:16
  Oh, we got wiener pics.
• 1:23:18
  In 2023, Swalwell was removed from the house
• 1:23:22
  intelligence committee following an Axios report that he
• 1:23:25
  had contacts with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
• 1:23:30
  Gonzales, a Republican from Texas suspended his reelection
• 1:23:34
  campaign last month after it was revealed he
• 1:23:37
  had an affair with an aide who died
• 1:23:38
  by suicide in 2025.
• 1:23:41
  Gonzales, who was first elected in 2021, admitted
• 1:23:44
  to the affair, described it as a lapse
• 1:23:47
  in judgment, and on Monday, he said he
• 1:23:49
  would submit his resignation the next day when
• 1:23:52
  Congress returns to session.
• 1:23:57
  I guess it's no longer just business as
• 1:24:01
  usual, huh?
• 1:24:03
  How are these legislators ever going to get
• 1:24:07
  away?
• 1:24:08
  How are they ever going to take the
• 1:24:11
  next level if all of them have to
• 1:24:16
  resign over sex?
• 1:24:18
  I mean, come on.
• 1:24:19
  These people can have sex with whoever they
• 1:24:21
  want.
• 1:24:21
  They're powerful.
• 1:24:23
  Their wives, I mean, you can't tell them.
• 1:24:26
  I mean, why in the world do we
• 1:24:27
  destroy a man's life?
• 1:24:29
  Why?
• 1:24:29
  Why?
• 1:24:30
  Well, I would argue they destroyed their own.
• 1:24:33
  Never screw around at the office.
• 1:24:36
  What's wrong with you?
• 1:24:37
  Don't you know the rules of the game?
• 1:24:40
  You don't screw around at the office.
• 1:24:43
  I realize that true love smacks you in
• 1:24:45
  the face every time you walk out the
• 1:24:47
  door these days.
• 1:24:48
  You see true love at Walmart, for God's
• 1:24:51
  sake.
• 1:24:51
  You could go anywhere, you know, just wandering
• 1:24:54
  down the street.
• 1:24:55
  Oh, my God, look at that girl.
• 1:24:57
  True love, there it is.
• 1:24:58
  I understand that, you know, true love is
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  difficult to overcome, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Gonzales, but
• 1:25:06
  you have to restrain those native urges, you
• 1:25:12
  know, and attempt to be professional.
• 1:25:16
  Keep it at the house.
• 1:25:18
  Keep it, you know.
• 1:25:19
  Heck, buy her a, you got money, buy
• 1:25:22
  her a, what do you call it, a
• 1:25:24
  condo somewhere.
• 1:25:25
  You guys, you could have done better than
• 1:25:27
  this.
• 1:25:29
  This is terrible.
• 1:25:30
  I disagree with that entirely, but, you know,
• 1:25:32
  if you're going to do it, jeez, why
• 1:25:34
  do it in your office, you moron?
• 1:25:37
  And, you know, you don't go attacking an
• 1:25:39
  intern.
• 1:25:40
  Come on, you get the intern drunk and
• 1:25:42
  then have sex with her.
• 1:25:43
  Good, good plan.
• 1:25:44
  Anyway, that's the news for today.
• 1:25:47
  I really apologize for digressing a little bit
• 1:25:50
  there on the points that I originally had.
• 1:25:53
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• 1:26:29
  -Missouri day, supposed to get up to like
• 1:26:31
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• 1:26:34
  I'm not sure I like that.
• 1:26:36
  Have a very good day.