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Checkers vs Chess: Trump, Iran, Russia, and the Dangerous Illusion of Control in a Fragmenting Global Order · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, happy Monday to you.
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  Here we are, coming to you live from
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  the Lake Ozark Real Estate of the Art
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  Studio.
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  My name is Samuel Trapp.
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  It's going to be a good Monday today.
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  Once again, nobody can figure out what the
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  hell we're supposed to do on the weather,
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  and they're certainly not following my well-laid
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  instructions at all.
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  You know, my instructions have been out there
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  for a while.
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  I need, I demand warmth.
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  What is all this nonsense?
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  Who wants to freeze their little doodads off?
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  Nobody.
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  Well, especially me.
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  And so I'm a bit bothered that you
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  have the air conditioner on one day, and
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  then you don't shut it off, and you
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  wake up in an ice cooler with frost
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  hanging from your nethers, and breath visible in
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  your bedroom.
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  It's nonsense.
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  We don't know who's in charge, but whoever
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  it is, they are not running it according
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  to standard.
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  I spent the last, when did I leave?
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  I left Wednesday afternoon after a fantastic meeting
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  with some state reps in the Capitol Building,
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  and met with a friend in, what's the
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  name of that little place where the gas
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  stations, and you're crossing 70 on your way
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  up to Mexico, if you ever wanted to
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  go that route.
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  Kingdom City is what it's called, and they've
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  screwed up all that interchange.
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  They got, I don't know if Columbia is
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  running the planet or what, but now we
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  have to have the very creative and highly
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  frustrating and irritating interchanges.
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  If you had lights that worked, you wouldn't
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  have to spend the money, but nobody ever
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  can do that.
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  So we're putting in all these, and I
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  don't care.
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  I like traffic circles, but the traffic circle
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  concept, you know, many people cannot, they have
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  no clue.
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  Do you know what they call those things?
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  Just so you know, you ever get in
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  Qatar, they're everywhere, and you go over Europe,
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  there's quite a few of them too, and
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  they are there, they are called there the
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  King's Circle.
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  You know why?
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  Because the person wearing the crown's in charge.
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  If the person is on the, already in
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  the traffic circle, he wins, okay?
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  He has the right of way.
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  This is a simple concept, but the larger
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  the lane numbers in the traffic circle itself,
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  the bigger the horror story for those that
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  have no idea what they're doing, trying to
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  enter in.
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  Like Chevy Chase, look kids, Big Ben, Big
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  Ben, there it went again, and he can't
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  get off, and he's jacking up all the
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  traffic because he don't understand what's going on.
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  Even if you're in the inner lane, you
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  know, I got smacked by some kid from
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  Sri Lanka, and his English was non-existent,
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  and you, basically, I was coming off of
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  the traffic circle in my little car there,
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  and he smacked into me with a great
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  big truck that he was driving, transporting God
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  knows what, building materials, and smacked me all
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  up, smashed up the car pretty good too,
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  and he was attempting from the far right
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  lane to continue straight.
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  Three lanes in a traffic circle, you don't
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  get it go straight, you know, truck or
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  not, you're bigger, rules apply, and I got
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  smacked up pretty good there in that little
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  traffic incident, not my fault, and there they
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  got to pay the damages instantaneously.
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  You got to get your money together, or
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  they can be collected.
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  Anyway, that wasn't the topic for today, starting
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  out with figuring out how to drive in
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  foreign countries.
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  You know what the best rule for driving
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  in foreign countries is?
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  Don't.
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  Just get in your Uber, get in your
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  Yandex, get in whichever taxi service that's going
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  to cart you around, just be done with
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  it, okay?
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  I traveled this past weekend to see some
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  horse races, you know, it was really cool,
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  Belmont, I think it was called, what was
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  the name of that thing?
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  And I did, so we did a couple
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  of bourbon tours, that was fun, and I
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  got some awesome photos, had a great time
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  going solo, stayed in a large sort of
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  mansion house that a group of friends got,
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  I was able to do, my sauna plans
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  are underway, friends and neighbors, so, but anyway,
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  we had a good weekend, drove back yesterday
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  from Kentucky, and that was a good drive,
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  stopped in Mount Vernon, Illinois, get this, so
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  we're looking for some place to eat, there's
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  nowhere to eat, there's two cars, seven people
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  in our little crowd, which is about half
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  of the people that went, right?
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  And we're looking for something, the other crowd
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  had either left early or left later, who
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  knows, but they're all off to Columbia, Central
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  Missouri, other places, Jeff City, you know, whatever,
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  that people are traveling to, and somebody picked
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  a restaurant in Mount Vernon, Illinois, now, having
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  grown up in Illinois, having gone to the
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  University of Illinois Shampoo Banana, I often
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  am struck by how desolate a lot of
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  Illinois is, in the old heartland, with people
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  being, I don't know, maybe everybody's leaving, but
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  boy, that Mount Vernon was depressing on the
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  outskirts driving in, anyway, we ended up, through
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  whatever means, at the airport, so there's an
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  airport, little tiny, what do you call it,
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  regional sort of airport, and you go in
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  the front door of it, and I swear
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  to God, the place was packed, and guess
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  why, Easter dinner, they had a buffet line
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  in there, that was reasonably good, you know,
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  I'm not a big buffet-er, I'm a
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  Jimmy buffet-er, but the buffet kind of
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  is not conducive to living small, as it
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  were, there's a lot of living large going
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  on in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and wow, the
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  entire town was there, the town looked, I
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  mean, seriously, somebody needs to go on a
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  beautification patrol, and there were so many people
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  in there, they had to open up several
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  flight training rooms, and stuff like that, people
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  everywhere, and the wait staff was running all
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  over the place, so you ever get a
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  chance, they have a buffet for $8 on
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  Wednesdays, it wasn't Wednesday, I can't remember what
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  I paid, they went around asking the table
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  ages, and we got, I believe I paid
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  $19 for that buffet, and anyway, I don't
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  know why I'm telling that ridiculous story nobody
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  cares about, but I got home, and I
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  had a chance to, on the road, listen
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  to some news in preparation for today's ramblings,
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  and once again, we're on another deadline, you
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  know, Trump's got another deadline coming up, Tuesday,
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  we're now destroying infrastructure, by the way, such
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  is a war crime, just so you know,
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  that's what we accuse other people of engaging
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  in, war crime, some people are straight up
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  calling what Trump and Netanyahu are doing is
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  genocide, now, I happen to agree as far
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  as it relates to taking out layers and
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  layers of leadership, you know, targeting people, that
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  is, in my humble view, and I know
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  that here in America, we've been trying to
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  make it acceptable, that this is how you
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  engage in diplomacy, this is how diplomacy is
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  played, but it's not, the fact is, it
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  is a war crime to blow up people's
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  infrastructure, and you can go back and look,
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  find out who started it, find out who,
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  you know, not that, oh, gee, he started
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  it, mom, not that that's the big question,
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  but from a legal perspective, if you are
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  reacting, it's a hell of a lot better
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  than being the guy aggressing, being the aggressor,
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  and American Aggressor, you know, would be another
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  good Schwarzenegger movie, we just call it American
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  Aggressor, and we can have Donald Trump all
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  buffed like, you know, him and Pete Hegseth,
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  all buffed out, hanging out with Lindsey Graham
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  and Netanyahu, but Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham are
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  the puppeteers, they're the puppet masters, and that's
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  depressing, and that is truly depressing, I watched
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  a press conference, well, no, no, no, no,
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  I'm sorry, Senate, it was some kind of
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  Senate hearing, where they're asking Hegseth to justify
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  the eight military generals that he's gotten rid
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  of, and he couldn't, he just said, and
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  all he says is, I have the bigger
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  appendage, that's it, they serve at the pleasure
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  of the president, and I get to decide
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  what the pleasure of the president is, so
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  I'm firing him, that's it, in a wartime,
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  okay, this is clearly a problem that we're
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  not, we aren't even addressing remotely enough, is
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  that we've got people up there on personal
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  vendettas, Hegseth through not being, you know, I
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  don't know what, not being in charge in
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  some land deal, when he was a soldier
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  himself, you know, and now he's in charge,
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  and by God, he's gonna let you know
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  it, and it's frustrating, but very real, and
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  Donald Trump, who wears his heart on his
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  sleeve everywhere he goes, and everything he's doing
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  is because of the wrongs that he received
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  at the hands of those who were using
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  the government as their own tool, and just
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  like the Obaminator, who said elections have consequences,
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  we are seeing what those consequences are now,
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  but both versions of abuse of government power,
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  or maybe, let's say it's not an abuse
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  of the government power, because you have the
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  power, but let's call it instead the use
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  of government to clear the table of all
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  of the past wrong deeds that were done
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  to you, that'd be like giving me charge
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  of the Missouri bar, and me, instead of
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  fixing the system, targeting each of the people
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  who came after me, destroying Sam Phillips, who's
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  a bad man, destroying him instead, you know,
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  that it's nonsense, that is not the use
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  of government, and I like, I too have
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  problems with the fact that the people who
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  really deserve it, rarely are brought to justice.
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  I have a serious problem with that, because
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  if you control the shackles of power like
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  these juveniles do, the result is horrific, no?
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  It's equally horrific when it's some incompetent, and
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  you don't even know who's finger puppeting the
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  president, like it was under O'Biden, O
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  'Biden, I love it, we should put an
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  O in front of him, call him O
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  'Biden, because a lot of people believe that
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  the abominator was directing traffic, and that's a
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  scary version, as the same with Billary Clinton,
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  those are scary things, and most of us,
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  I like to consider myself in the realms
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  of the average American, I almost said normal,
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  but I'm not sure I want to call
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  myself normal, who have no idea where real
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  news comes from, have no idea what the
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  truth is, because the power brokers determine not
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  what the truth is, but what the narrative
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  is, and you have to decide for yourself
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  what the truth is, and my little lecture
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  today is to pull your own heads out
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  of your own asses, if you still support
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  the genocidal tendencies of things that are going
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  on in the Middle East right now, Israel
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  is not a friend of America if they
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  are dragging us in, but it's even worse
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  if we're not going in, kicking and screaming,
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  and instead are going in as willing participants,
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  and now we're straight up in a war
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  that none of us have any interest in,
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  or didn't, until Trump already said we were
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  doing it, and then they go, yeah, we've
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  been meaning to get those guys for 40
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  years, you know what, this is stupid and
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  moronic, and I'm telling you, it keeps me
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  up at night watching in my mind the
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  visions of Netanyahu pushing a button and sending
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  a nuclear weapon, sending over a nuclear bomb,
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  most likely, although I'm definitely frightened of our
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  morons, you know, so one of them suggested,
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  here's how you fix it, was it freaking
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  Graham, one of them suggested, get this moronic,
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  I mean stupid, these guys are saying, and
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  they know nothing about nuclear, nuclear power, if
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  they know this, so this is, oh, you
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  know what we'll do, we'll stick a nuke
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  down on the bed of the sea in
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  Hormuz, and we'll open that channel right up,
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  yeah, geez, how about we blow up Oman,
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  get rid of some of the places in
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  there, oh, no, you can control those, no,
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  you can't, and now, what we did, and
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  venting occurred all the time, remember, friends and
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  neighbors, I was at the Nevada nuclear test
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  site, I am a product of radiation, and
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  still would like to know how much the
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  government subjected me to without me really knowing
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  any better, oh, here, put this dosimeter on,
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  we'll keep track of those numbers, anything ever
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  comes up, we'll let you know, but make
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  sure you get a new one every month,
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  because we've got to keep track of you,
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  and you get a new dosimeter, and don't
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  go around radiating the country, Mr. Trapp, or
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  Sergeant Trapp back then, don't go around radiating
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  the country, we've got to keep an eye
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  on you, we have a place for you,
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  you know, that kind of thing, these people
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  are nuts, and so, why do I not
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  get my news from, I mean, I read
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  various targets, I watch other things, and I
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  believe that is extremely necessary at this point,
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  what people are being told from both sides
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  of the equation, because by the way, in
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  America, there are only two sides, you either
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  got to hate Trump, or you got to
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  love him, and there's no in between, but
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  I'm here to tell you, call me a
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  because I'm in between, and as far as
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  the national views, I used to be pretty
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  much supportive, seriously, and pretty much, you know,
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  methods, all right, everybody's methods suck, the method
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  of opening the freaking borders on the first
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  day of Joe Biden's administration was a punch
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  in the face to America, that was just
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  a ridiculous use of the power, but it's
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  equally, equally horrific to build a 900 foot
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  wall, and go never the two shall meet,
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  America is built upon immigration, and always has
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  been, bringing people in, now that doesn't mean
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  we open up the doors willy-nilly, apparently
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  there was some news yesterday, of, they took,
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  Suleimani's, I forget which one, took his niece
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  and her mother into custody in New York
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  or something, and are going to deport them,
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  but now there's news coming out that they
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  aren't even sure who it is, they don't
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  have any idea who they arrested, doesn't matter,
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  let's give the masses something to chew on,
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  let's say we collected some person we don't
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  like and stole their family, what are you
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  doing America, and we threw them out the
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  door, all right, well, optics, optics, optics, none
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  of this is about truth, none of this
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  is about a realistic American view, so I
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  wanted to contrast for you today, two speeches,
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  okay, one is the press secretary for Sergei
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  Lavrov in Russia, and her name is Maria
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  Zakharova, and I like watching her anyway, and
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  she gets increasingly, I don't know, it's like
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  me, you say, I'm at a loss for
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  words, it's really sad that we have to
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  say this all the time, because things are
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  going on, and you're going, oh my God,
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  how are they going to justify that, you
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  know, what are they going to sell me
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  now to get me on board with this
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  war in Iran somehow, after you terminate all
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  the generals, Hegseth has on his JV gear,
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  he's ready to go, you know, he is
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  ready, coach, put me in, coach, that's him,
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  meanwhile, across the world we have, we've been
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  playing chess, we have, on the board, we
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  have Xi Jinping, we have Vladimir Putin, we
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  have whichever level of Iranian leader they're going
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  to look at next, you know, because Trump's
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  just going to kill them all, and that's
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  supposed to be acceptable to us, we just
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  kill our terrorists, yep, so was narco-terrorist
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  Maduro, right, that is gone now, nobody knows
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  a thing about that, narco-terrorism, yep, that's
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  what it is, it's oil terrorism, friends and
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  neighbors, in the other direction, and there's no
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  doubt that that's what it is, or open
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  it up and guess what we did, we
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  gave that oil to Shell, we gave that
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  oil to BP, anybody in the West, they
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  get the oil, not those assholes down in
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  Venezuela, not Xi Jinping, why are we giving
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  him Venezuelan oil, that's not, I don't like
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  that, and I'm Donald J.
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  Trump, and I approve this message, that's it,
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  and it makes no sense, it's stupid, and
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  then you, and then you, and then you
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  justify it by saying, oh gee, that's all
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  right, they were engaged in narco-terrorism, don't
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  you see all those little mini boats that
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  we blew up, we don't know who was
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  on them, because we blew them up, but
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  they're gone, and that's the view of terrorism,
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  right, now we're doing the same thing, some
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  nameless, faceless, dusty place called Iran, that none
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  of you could pick, I shouldn't say that,
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  people can't pick out on a map, they
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  wouldn't know where it is, and the Straits
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  of Hormuz, until you've started two months ago,
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  you never heard of it, and didn't know
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  what it was doing, unless you listen to
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  International Flavor, because I told you about the
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  efforts of the Chinese, and the Iranians, and
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  the Russians, and everybody else, including the Europeans,
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  to get around the Straits of Hormuz, because
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  of just this problem, and they have been
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  building ports in Iran, the biggest port in
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  Iran is run by who, what did I
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  tell you about that, years ago, not years
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  ago, months ago, there's a contract for 10
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  years, it's run by India, it's run by
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  Indian engineers, Indian government, and it's one of
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  the largest ports around, and China built it,
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  India runs it, Iran benefits from it, and
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  they're building railroads to go through it, so
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  you don't have to worry about Straits of
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  Hormuz, don't have to worry about Choke Point,
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  meanwhile we got Lindsey Graham and company, and
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  I'm not, I don't know if it was
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  him specifically, I really don't remember, going, well
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  geez, just put a nuke down there and
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  blow it up, blow it up, good plan,
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  yeah, good plan, are you gonna, are you
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  gonna build a causeway between America and Canada
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  by putting a nuclear bomb in the Great
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  Lakes, I mean, oh it's okay, that's not
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  our part of the world, we don't give
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  a crap, well obviously we don't give a
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  crap, because Donald Trump just gave 48 hours
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  to say, well we're gonna blow up all
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  your infrastructure, if, we're gonna blow up all
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  your electrical networks, everything, because we're gonna bring
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  Iran to its knees, now imagine somebody doing
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  that in the reverse, let us say, the
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  10 years from now, call him, call him,
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  well I don't know, let's come up with
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  a nice name, Xi Jinping, we'll pick somebody
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  else, next leader of some huge country on
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  the other side of the planet, because we
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  don't want to say it's China, right, we
• 23:14
  don't want to say it's India, nobody over
• 23:16
  there, but some other country with more money,
• 23:18
  more power, more brains than ours, and they
• 23:21
  come over and say, they say, all right,
• 23:24
  here's what we're gonna do, I tell you
• 23:27
  what, we're, you will capitulate, America, capitulate, you
• 23:34
  know, it's, we like Canada better, and you're
• 23:38
  gonna capitulate, we're gonna get rid of all
• 23:40
  those buildings in downtown Washington D.C., and
• 23:44
  we're gonna install my friend, you know, Biff,
• 23:48
  my friend Biff is gonna be in charge
• 23:51
  of America, why, because I'm the U.S.,
• 23:53
  I'm the president of the world, I get
• 23:55
  to pick who's the leader, and I get
• 23:56
  to exchange who I want willy-nilly, okay,
• 24:00
  and who runs the government, America, doesn't matter
• 24:02
  anyway, in all truth, to most of us
• 24:06
  Americans, nobody gives a rip, they just want
• 24:08
  to be left alone and allowed to watch
• 24:10
  their football games on Friday, or in the
• 24:12
  case of those of us who went to
• 24:13
  Illinois, the final four, and watch our team
• 24:16
  get the crap kicked out of them, not
• 24:17
  really, it was a good game, and the
• 24:19
  final four, that's, that's, it's, this is the
• 24:22
  American dream, right, we want to be left
• 24:24
  alone, well, they want to be left alone,
• 24:26
  now, do you think they're ever gonna capitulate
• 24:30
  after all this, just take it from a
• 24:32
  realistic point of view, imagine you're in a
• 24:34
  country that has existed for 5,000 years,
• 24:37
  you have history and culture that goes back
• 24:41
  endless, I mean, endless, it goes back, a
• 24:47
  rich and beautiful culture that just thinks differently
• 24:52
  than you do in America, we think differently,
• 24:55
  there's no doubt, and if you ever got
• 24:57
  your travel shoes on and went somewhere else,
• 25:01
  and appreciated the beauty of variety, God and
• 25:05
  Allah, guess what they love, wondrous variety, that's
• 25:09
  what they love, and when we get a
• 25:11
  look around, I almost, almost brought home a
• 25:14
  young African American girl, I was so taken
• 25:16
  by her from the horse races, we had
• 25:18
  a lot of fun, we had a lot
• 25:20
  of fun running around, placing stupid bets on
• 25:22
  stupid horses, and just running around, having a
• 25:25
  good time, and there's nothing wrong with it,
• 25:28
  no, I wouldn't bring her home, I'd be
• 25:29
  a little more sensible than that, but it
• 25:31
  would be, it's, you meet all kinds of
• 25:34
  cool and interesting people, and if you approach
• 25:36
  it from the, from the point of view
• 25:38
  of that, I mean, take, that's small time,
• 25:41
  that's small, that's your own personal life, and
• 25:43
  if I choose to, to run around with
• 25:45
  the four, and I'd say sisters, they were
• 25:49
  sisters, but if I choose to run around
• 25:51
  with four sisters, having a great deal of
• 25:54
  fun, why not?
• 25:55
  And we, it was a lot of fun,
• 25:59
  and, and, and, and, you know, people stand
• 26:01
  there, and they're, they're placing bets on, on
• 26:03
  horses, it was a joy to be there,
• 26:06
  and by the way, what is life supposed
• 26:08
  to be about?
• 26:09
  Is it supposed to be about, geez, let's
• 26:11
  blow up Iran?
• 26:12
  We don't give a shit, if you don't,
• 26:14
  we don't want to blow up Iran, I
• 26:16
  don't want to blow up to people, I
• 26:18
  don't want, I don't want Netanyahu blowing up
• 26:20
  to people, and maybe people say, well, gee,
• 26:23
  that Sam hasn't put enough time into this,
• 26:25
  and he doesn't understand, they might get nuclear
• 26:28
  weapons, who cares?
• 26:30
  Pakistan's got nuclear weapons, for God's sake, India's
• 26:34
  got them, and worst of all, Israel's got
• 26:37
  them, and they won't even admit it, they
• 26:39
  won't admit it, because they don't want to
• 26:41
  be, and they're the only ones not bound,
• 26:43
  not the only ones, but they, they will
• 26:45
  not be bound by non-proliferation, they will
• 26:47
  not do it, if they want to take
• 26:49
  over Lebanon, and they want to do something,
• 26:51
  by God, they're going to do it, and
• 26:52
  Donald Trump's going to get in line and
• 26:54
  help them, because, you know, hey man, those
• 26:57
  are our nuclear weapons, you may have helped
• 26:58
  us get them back in the 50s, 60s,
• 27:01
  70s, made sure that we got them, but
• 27:04
  we use them how we want, we will
• 27:08
  attack Iran, and by God, you better follow
• 27:10
  us, because we're your, we're your best friends
• 27:13
  in the Middle East, yeah, friends like that,
• 27:15
  who to flip needs enemies, we, we, we
• 27:19
  as Americans need to change the way we're
• 27:21
  thinking, and part of that includes listening to
• 27:24
  the other side, because nobody does, and I
• 27:28
  am going to twist it just a little
• 27:30
  bit, what do you think all those Americans
• 27:32
  would do if they're attacked, you know, is
• 27:34
  it existential to us, does it mean it's
• 27:38
  an us or them kind of scenario, wouldn't
• 27:41
  you, you personally, I know I would, somebody
• 27:45
  came to attack what's mine, what would I
• 27:47
  do, I don't care if I'm 90, you
• 27:50
  know, I'm still going to do what I
• 27:51
  can for the effort, right, what do you
• 27:53
  think Iran's doing right now, when they hear
• 27:55
  our president say, posted in true social idiocy,
• 28:01
  as far as the, the means of communication
• 28:03
  with the masses, by a president, somebody get
• 28:06
  him to shut up, 30 days, shut up,
• 28:10
  how about that, and, and quit, quit, quit
• 28:13
  talking about the destruction you're going to rain
• 28:15
  upon the world, because by God, you're in
• 28:17
  charge, and shut Lindsey Graham up too, you
• 28:21
  know, just shut him up, and, and do
• 28:23
  nothing for 30 days, then I'll feel much
• 28:26
  better, if at the end of that 30
• 28:27
  days, you see aggression from Iran, then, okay,
• 28:32
  maybe I'll consider doing something, you know, committing
• 28:36
  American lives to destroy in a region that
• 28:39
  nobody cares about, or dying for same, for,
• 28:42
  for what, it ain't democracy, it is not
• 28:46
  democracy, and if you're fighting for democracy, you
• 28:49
  got problems anyway, you know, do that in
• 28:52
  your homeland, who are we to dictate to
• 28:55
  the rest of the world democracy, so if,
• 28:57
  if, you know, if the war ever came
• 28:58
  to you, well, that's a different story altogether,
• 29:02
  the war is on their doorstep, for Israel,
• 29:06
  this is not a, what do you call
• 29:10
  it, a necessity, the war of necessity, this
• 29:15
  was a war of choice, and for us,
• 29:18
  it is a war of choice, and I
• 29:21
  am against wars of choice, where we go
• 29:25
  in, there ain't no threat, they just have
• 29:28
  the same old standard ales, doing the same
• 29:31
  old standard thing, and the rest of the
• 29:33
  world is laughing up its sleeve at us,
• 29:37
  including people from England, France, leaders, okay, they're
• 29:41
  not on board, watching, watching the alliances of
• 29:48
  America fall apart, and, and be, I don't
• 29:53
  know what, independent, or at least think on
• 29:56
  their own, is quite new, quite novel, because
• 30:00
  everybody always just followed along with America, and
• 30:05
  especially if you were one of the vassal
• 30:07
  states of, of Europe, you just followed along,
• 30:12
  and that's not, that's not happening, that is
• 30:15
  not happening, so I wanted to do a
• 30:19
  comparison of how people, how, how rhetoric, because
• 30:23
  it's rhetoric, you know, there's no doubt, and
• 30:25
  I picked two governmental channels, it would have
• 30:28
  probably been more fair, but Donald Trump is
• 30:30
  more fun to, to, to look at, because
• 30:33
  of his, I don't know, I suppose the
• 30:38
  best way to call it would be speech,
• 30:40
  speech patterns, the way he talks, everything I
• 30:42
  have is the greatest, everything you have is
• 30:44
  crap, that's it, and that's, that's the way
• 30:47
  he talks, and you know what, there's, that's
• 30:50
  a, everybody knows it, he's been doing it,
• 30:53
  he's been doing it forever, and he just,
• 30:56
  he's, he's a, he's a bulldog, he's a
• 30:58
  bulldozer, he's a, a tank, you know, going
• 31:02
  one direction, and, and, and, you know, give
• 31:05
  him a mission, but unfortunately, the strategic thinking,
• 31:08
  I think is off, that's what I think,
• 31:11
  I think he's either, there, there's some, there's
• 31:14
  some things, or he's got completely the wrong
• 31:20
  advisors, absolutely, meanwhile, here's Maria Zakharova, so we're
• 31:25
  going to do her speech first, this is
• 31:27
  public speech, long speech, I, I listened to
• 31:31
  it all, I muddled through it, I listened
• 31:33
  to it all, because it's, this is not,
• 31:37
  this was not just a press briefing, this
• 31:40
  is a carefully layered performance, and how they
• 31:45
  put things together, they got a team over
• 31:48
  there, because when you watch her, every speech,
• 31:52
  every appearance, they do it every Friday, April
• 31:56
  Fool's Day was the last one, and I,
• 31:58
  I, I, I think that was actually Thursday,
• 32:03
  but usually it's on Fridays, or maybe it's
• 32:06
  only because I can download them on Fridays,
• 32:08
  I don't know, but, but I try to
• 32:10
  keep, keep track of that, it's a world
• 32:11
  view, but it's never just a press briefing,
• 32:14
  it's a political, you know, I don't know
• 32:16
  what, performance by a very good person, she's
• 32:21
  talking about the calendar, she's enforcing the narrative,
• 32:25
  she's accusing, I don't know, taking moral positions
• 32:30
  one way or the other, she's saying what
• 32:32
  the proper answer is going to be for
• 32:34
  their own public to listen to, and then
• 32:37
  she's emotionally getting the audience on board with
• 32:42
  the next steps, that, oh, gee, we have
• 32:45
  to do this, don't think that our people
• 32:46
  aren't doing the same thing, they're just failing
• 32:48
  miserably at doing it, but that's been politics
• 32:51
  forever, and, and that was definitely the Soviet
• 32:54
  Union, that's how it used to be, it
• 32:58
  with press briefings by State Department for us,
• 33:01
  now we have clear morons, you know, dictating
• 33:04
  war, that's it, and, and people are buying
• 33:07
  in, you know, the people that are buying
• 33:10
  into this war as necessary, they got problems,
• 33:14
  and because now all it is is, now
• 33:17
  all it is is, well, we can't lose,
• 33:18
  we started it, we can't lose, get on
• 33:20
  board, we started it, it was a mistake
• 33:23
  to start it, we didn't think about it
• 33:25
  properly, but guess what, we have to continue,
• 33:28
  because now we're in, and the answer otherwise
• 33:30
  would be, geez, we lost again, we lost
• 33:33
  again, well, we lost again, because we have
• 33:35
  more idiots sitting on the triggers, and they're
• 33:39
  not, they're not thinking before they're acting, if,
• 33:43
  if they didn't understand the straights-a-whore
• 33:47
  -moves concept, that, that is frightening in and
• 33:52
  of itself, that these guys had no clue,
• 33:56
  they, and, and truly, the more I watch
• 33:58
  this, the more I understand that these people
• 34:01
  have no clue what they're doing, Hegseth, that
• 34:06
  guy has no idea, that guy, coach put
• 34:09
  me in, you know, that's too bad, too
• 34:13
  bad your last quarterback broke his leg right
• 34:15
  before the game started, but I got you,
• 34:18
  I'll do whatever you say, but I'll never
• 34:21
  question you, that's a bad leader, right there,
• 34:25
  that guy is not level, ready for the
• 34:27
  next play, he thinks he's it, he thinks
• 34:29
  he is the star of the show, he's
• 34:31
  not, and, and you certainly don't, you know
• 34:34
  what the sign of a good leader is,
• 34:36
  and if you never went to military school,
• 34:38
  okay, I had a very, very good first
• 34:41
  sergeant, and you know he told me one
• 34:43
  day, he brought me in, and this is,
• 34:45
  this is God's truth, and this is a
• 34:48
  military that will succeed, because I tell you
• 34:51
  what, I said the exact same thing to
• 34:54
  my little troopies several years later, and when
• 34:57
  I was running 120 little troopies of my
• 34:59
  own, and told them what they would do,
• 35:02
  and, and, and he brought me in, and
• 35:04
  he says, he said, Sergeant Trapp, he goes,
• 35:07
  look here, I want to promote you, but
• 35:11
  I, but I want to promote you, but
• 35:13
  you're a little bit, I don't know what,
• 35:16
  he said, you need to think, think more,
• 35:19
  talk less, think more, talk less, you ask
• 35:23
  questions that are relevant, but you're getting a
• 35:25
  reputation, you know, and, and it's like, well,
• 35:28
  yeah, well, somewhat deserved, and, and, and by
• 35:31
  the way, I've sharpened it over time, and,
• 35:34
  and not that, but I took his, his
• 35:37
  words to heart, and I absolutely listened, because
• 35:40
  he's right, and so here's what a good
• 35:44
  organization, a good military is built upon, people
• 35:49
  that might question, but stop, question, provide alternatives,
• 35:56
  and then accept what the boss says, if,
• 36:02
  if the, if the boss has listened to
• 36:04
  all the alternatives, you disagree, but he made
• 36:08
  the decision, the military is built upon engaging
• 36:12
  as directed, questioning professionally, of course, and, but
• 36:19
  once the decision is made, understanding your, your
• 36:22
  point, understanding your place in the system, and
• 36:27
  Hegseth don't get his place, Donald Trump doesn't
• 36:30
  even get his place, those are two guys
• 36:32
  who are using their places to let everybody
• 36:36
  know that elections have consequences, they are just
• 36:39
  as bad as Obama when doing so, though,
• 36:42
  but the first sergeant said to me, he
• 36:44
  goes, listen, I will never, ever ask you
• 36:49
  to do something that I haven't done myself,
• 36:54
  and probably, even today, couldn't do better than
• 36:59
  you, and he said, and your job in
• 37:03
  the army, Sergeant Trapp, is to make leaders
• 37:07
  like you, he said, you have potential, you
• 37:14
  need to identify that potential, and put it
• 37:18
  into the use of the military, and perhaps
• 37:23
  have that person go to the next level,
• 37:26
  you also got to identify the dipshits, and
• 37:29
  push those dipshits out of here, that's the
• 37:32
  job of a strong organization, he goes, Sergeant
• 37:36
  Trapp, you can never, and this is the
• 37:39
  problem with bureaucracy, okay, he said, you can
• 37:42
  never, ever, push people down like a bureaucrat
• 37:50
  does, you need to identify those that are
• 37:53
  smarter than you, and surround yourself with them,
• 37:59
  that's what you need to do, he goes,
• 38:01
  you don't need all the answers, you need
• 38:03
  to know where to fucking find them, and
• 38:05
  that's where you find them, you find and
• 38:07
  identify key and good people down below, and
• 38:10
  you bring them up, that's what you do,
• 38:13
  in Obama, in Trump one, certainly in Obidinator,
• 38:22
  now I can combine all my names for
• 38:24
  him, certainly in Obidinator, and absolutely in this
• 38:28
  second term of Trump, this is nothing but
• 38:31
  a free-for-all, I'm bringing in my
• 38:33
  buddies, I'm bringing in the Fox News hosts
• 38:37
  that spoke well of me on the air,
• 38:40
  and gee, he happened to be in the
• 38:41
  military before, so why don't we put him
• 38:44
  in charge, who's in charge, that guy, the
• 38:48
  JV quarterback, bullshit, that's not how you pick
• 38:52
  people, what the hell, he obviously was not
• 38:55
  in the military if he thinks that the
• 38:57
  right answer is to get rid of eight
• 38:58
  generals on the eve of battle, or going
• 39:01
  into war, what the hell's wrong with you,
• 39:04
  it's nuts, and if Trump thinks that's the
• 39:06
  way to play, finding a bunch of yes
• 39:08
  men and sticking them in, hello, Hillary Clinton,
• 39:11
  same frigging thing, there's a play between this,
• 39:17
  you have to ease your way through it,
• 39:20
  and I'm telling you, I am almost despondent
• 39:24
  over this, and just waiting, because now, we
• 39:28
  just have to prove who's got the bigger
• 39:30
  wiener, that's it, that's all we're doing right
• 39:32
  now, straight to whore moves, how about Trump
• 39:34
  the other day, true social, open the effing
• 39:38
  streets, oh yeah, this is genius, this is
• 39:42
  it right here, this is genius, so when
• 39:45
  you listen to people that somewhat make sense,
• 39:47
  or at least understand how the game is
• 39:49
  played, you should probably pay attention, and thus
• 39:55
  the speech of Maria Zakharova, that she went
• 39:58
  through, then we're going to get into the
• 39:59
  Donald Trump one, okay, after that, so Zakharova's
• 40:02
  got a plan, there used to be presidents,
• 40:05
  somebody, I was having a discussion with somebody
• 40:07
  the other day, and please don't punch me
• 40:09
  for this, because it's really not even, it's
• 40:12
  actually worse than that, because maybe in my
• 40:15
  lifetime, you know, maybe one or two presidents
• 40:20
  in my lifetime appeared presidential, somebody that is
• 40:26
  presidential, somebody that brings me calm, saying that
• 40:30
  somebody's got the wheel, and I don't have
• 40:33
  to worry about my sons, or my grandchildren
• 40:38
  being sent to the front lines as meat
• 40:42
  puppets, we don't, you know, that's, it's, I
• 40:47
  haven't felt that in a long time, that
• 40:49
  oh yeah, everything's gonna be okay, no it's
• 40:52
  not, it is not gonna be okay, the
• 40:56
  bulk of Americans are out digging bunkers in
• 40:59
  their backyard, and stuffing it full of dried
• 41:01
  food, and buying food dehydrators, and putting them
• 41:04
  in their garage, and trying to figure out
• 41:07
  how to make their own water desalination, well
• 41:10
  water purification plants for us, you know, to
• 41:13
  dig a well on their property, you know,
• 41:16
  something that ain't gonna, and putting up solar
• 41:18
  panels, you know, the energy's gonna, we gotta
• 41:22
  figure out how to get along without the
• 41:24
  government, because they're cocking this all up, you
• 41:27
  know, and they really are, and it's terrible,
• 41:31
  so the short truth is, the rest of
• 41:35
  the world is just sitting back and watching,
• 41:37
  and rubbing their, what do you think Xi
• 41:40
  Jinping is doing on his chessboard, and Vladimir
• 41:43
  Putin on his chessboard, Mark Carney, for God's
• 41:46
  sake, has his own chessboard, you think that
• 41:50
  the Iranians, the Qataris, don't have chessboards, I
• 41:56
  guarantee you Netanyahu's got his little, his little
• 42:00
  chessboard, but more and, or his checkers board,
• 42:03
  I mean, more and more, I get to
• 42:05
  thinking of the image, and it's this pretty
• 42:07
  powerful image for me, I'm thinking, I'm thinking
• 42:09
  I might figure out how to create it
• 42:11
  today with the use of AI, is create
• 42:14
  some, some picture with Xi Jinping, Modi, Putin,
• 42:21
  and whichever Khomeini is in charge now, maybe
• 42:25
  they're three, four levels down, and put them
• 42:28
  on the one side playing chess, and all,
• 42:30
  you know, gazing with their arms crossed, looking
• 42:33
  down on the board, and assessing the board,
• 42:36
  and over on the, on the other side,
• 42:38
  you got, you got Netanyahu, who else, oh,
• 42:46
  Lindsey Graham, Netanyahu and Graham, this is horrific,
• 42:50
  with puppet strings on Hegseth and Donald Trump,
• 42:54
  on their side of the checkers board, you
• 42:57
  know, so the checkers board, and there's Hegseth,
• 43:01
  subordinate to the Trump, so, so Trump's puppeting
• 43:04
  Hegseth, but being puppeted by Graham and Netanyahu,
• 43:09
  and that, and their checkers board looks like
• 43:13
  Iran on one side, and the rest of
• 43:15
  the world is calmly watching what's going on,
• 43:19
  and not getting involved, you got people like,
• 43:24
  is it Perez, from Spain, you have Macron,
• 43:29
  in his speech that he gave in South
• 43:31
  Korea, I believe it was a commencement ceremony,
• 43:36
  that he was talking about, beating up on,
• 43:39
  on what the U.S. is doing, and
• 43:41
  then, you know, it's just becoming a pretty
• 43:43
  powerful image for me, I'm going to figure
• 43:46
  out how to make it, so, but let's
• 43:49
  see, Zakharova, her thing started with Belarus, and
• 43:54
  the unity, and the anniversary of their framework
• 44:00
  of international order, legitimacy, continuity, and civilized statecraft,
• 44:07
  you know, that thing came up several times,
• 44:10
  and then, you know, she talked about, we
• 44:13
  have partners, we've had partners, they talked about
• 44:16
  Xi Jinping, and 30 years of partnership, talked
• 44:19
  about Modi, and the increasing importance of India,
• 44:23
  in the Eurasian sphere, which is absolutely true,
• 44:28
  they talked about Iran, and the idiocy of
• 44:30
  what's going on over there, and then after
• 44:33
  she talks about how normal things are from
• 44:36
  their end, she goes to the true center
• 44:39
  of gravity, the foolishness of the Ukraine war,
• 44:45
  do you know Donald Trump put his 1
• 44:47
  .5 trillion dollar budget together, and there ain't
• 44:51
  a nickel in it, identified for Ukraine, 26
• 44:56
  is the last of it, they don't have
• 44:58
  any money, and I'm for that, if it
• 45:01
  occurs, they need to be cut off ages
• 45:03
  ago, but Ukraine, butcher, remember that, anti-Russian
• 45:08
  propaganda everywhere, censorship all over Europe, pressure, and
• 45:12
  deportation of Russian journalists, Moldova, and the foolishness,
• 45:17
  and stupidity being pushed by NATO militarization, without
• 45:21
  the US, Iran, sanctions, and the most important,
• 45:27
  the moral collapse of the West, morally, you
• 45:33
  know, all it is, is power, we are
• 45:35
  power mongers, that's it, we're bigger, we're baddest,
• 45:40
  so if we want Greenland, by God, we're
• 45:42
  gonna take it, if we want the Panama
• 45:43
  Canal, we want to kick China out of
• 45:46
  the Panama Canal, we're gonna, if we want
• 45:48
  to take leaders from other countries, and either
• 45:53
  usurp them, and make them ours, like we
• 45:56
  did in Venezuela, and give all of their
• 45:57
  capital to our, we nationalized Venezuela, and Venezuelan
• 46:03
  oil, that doesn't bother anyone, you know, apparently
• 46:07
  not, and the structure of this matters, you
• 46:11
  know, what Russia is saying, we have colleagues,
• 46:15
  we have partners, we have friends, what do
• 46:18
  you got, what do you got, seriously, lackeys,
• 46:24
  and you know, lackeys surround us, and then
• 46:27
  we are the lackeys of Netanyahu and company,
• 46:32
  in the scary version, right, and that's pretty
• 46:34
  scary, I'm frightened, or I wouldn't be telling
• 46:38
  you this stuff, and I'm not frightened, but
• 46:40
  I, but I'm telling you what, I think
• 46:42
  it's more likely than not, when you have
• 46:44
  idiots saying, geez, blow up Straits of Hormuz
• 46:46
  with a big nuclear, put it in there
• 46:48
  in the bottom, and it'll open that thing
• 46:49
  wide open, yeah, well, it's, you know, Oman,
• 46:54
  nobody cares, let's, you know, Straits of Trump
• 46:59
  built with a nuclear weapon, it's foolish, nuts,
• 47:04
  so her speech is not random, she talks
• 47:07
  about domestic, you know, shared history, culture, reform
• 47:13
  on television, youth festivals, focusing on what's important,
• 47:17
  growth of children, regional cooperation, education, huge, and
• 47:24
  guess what she spent a long time talking
• 47:27
  about, memory, memory, history, history, where we came
• 47:33
  from, we're not allowed to remember where we
• 47:36
  come from, you know, somebody told me, while
• 47:40
  we were driving yesterday, come across that, what
• 47:44
  do they, what do they call it, the
• 47:46
  rock, the huge rock between Columbia and St.
• 47:50
  Louis, that he said the history of it,
• 47:53
  is that people want to get rid of
• 47:54
  this rock, because they sold slaves on that
• 47:57
  rock two, three hundred years ago, why are
• 48:02
  we getting rid of it, you're getting rid
• 48:03
  of a rock, you're going to spend hundreds
• 48:06
  of thousands of dollars to get rid of
• 48:07
  a rock, why, because somebody sold slaves there,
• 48:12
  I mean, Jesus Christ, how far back do
• 48:13
  we have to go to find a place,
• 48:16
  you know, just keep going back and back
• 48:18
  and back to find something that we disagree
• 48:21
  with and destroy it, that's what we've done
• 48:24
  in Ukraine, we go back and we tell
• 48:27
  them that, and we make sure that all
• 48:29
  their children are educated that the big problem
• 48:32
  was not Nazism, it wasn't Russia defending the
• 48:35
  world again and itself against Nazism, no, no,
• 48:39
  no, no, no, it was the West came
• 48:42
  in and stopped Russia, the aggressor wasn't even,
• 48:45
  wasn't even Germany, wasn't Hitler, who's stolen, that's
• 48:53
  what, that's what people are being sold, it's
• 48:56
  bullshit, pardon my French, but it's nonsense, you
• 49:00
  know, the truth cannot be told because the
• 49:04
  truth is frightening, or the truth doesn't fit
• 49:07
  in with our narrative, we can't talk about
• 49:09
  that, we gotta, we gotta tell them how
• 49:12
  all of this was all driven by Stalin,
• 49:15
  every bit of it, and Stalin is what?
• 49:17
  He's a Russian, oh my God, he was
• 49:20
  Russian, he's actually Georgian, but you know, so
• 49:23
  what, that part never enters into it, these
• 49:28
  people do, it doesn't matter, it doesn't fit
• 49:31
  the narrative, we don't talk about it, if
• 49:32
  there's a slave rock where somebody sold a
• 49:34
  slave 200 years ago, we got to blow
• 49:36
  it up, but Jesus, why don't we go
• 49:38
  blow up the White House, there were slaves
• 49:40
  in there, it wandered through, right, there were
• 49:43
  people that all over the place, George Washington,
• 49:46
  we're supposed to hate him, Jefferson, we're supposed
• 49:49
  to hate them too, this is, this is
• 49:52
  foolish, anyway, I'm ranting like a mofo today.
• 49:57
  One of the things she talked about is
• 50:00
  this memory thing, it's, is she obsessed with
• 50:03
  who gets to define the past, because remember,
• 50:05
  that's what they say the West is doing
• 50:08
  everywhere, if you can define the aggression as
• 50:12
  narco-terrorism, you can define what the West
• 50:16
  chose to do in the form of Donald
• 50:19
  Trump and, and a JV quarterback as necessary,
• 50:25
  because they may have gotten a nuclear weapon,
• 50:28
  who the hell's the aggressor, seriously, I mean,
• 50:34
  seriously, think about that, huh, Bucha, the, the,
• 50:41
  the part where this is not merely a
• 50:44
  disputed event, but a fabricated story, this wasn't,
• 50:48
  this wasn't, it's not even remotely true, if
• 50:52
  you go and look at what Bucha, Bucha
• 50:54
  is where the, where the Ukrainians went and
• 50:56
  laid out bodies on the street and took
• 51:00
  a video, I mean, it is propaganda 101,
• 51:03
  and then they took a video, the Russians
• 51:05
  had left four or five days earlier and
• 51:07
  turned it over to them, and they displayed,
• 51:10
  they took bodies, some of Russian soldiers, and
• 51:13
  displayed them on the ground, took pictures of
• 51:16
  them, and said, look what Russia did, and,
• 51:21
  and it's, it was disgusting then, it's disgusting
• 51:25
  now, and no, and, and now it is
• 51:29
  clearly a lie, and how many times in
• 51:31
  our past, in America, do you look at
• 51:33
  things that have clearly been a lie, and
• 51:37
  outlined to you later, but you still hold
• 51:40
  on to the history, you still hold on
• 51:44
  to it being the narrative, because the narrative
• 51:48
  is so ingrained into your head, that you
• 51:51
  refuse to see the truth, in the Middle
• 51:55
  East, certainly, that is the case, we just
• 51:59
  keep on jumping from country to country to
• 52:02
  country, and causing problems, and destroying regimes, and
• 52:06
  sitting on them, if Qatar went the other
• 52:08
  way, they'd be no different, if they weren't,
• 52:12
  if they weren't selling things to us, and
• 52:14
  making fantastic wealth, they wouldn't be, you know,
• 52:17
  which country was it that gave Trump the
• 52:20
  400 billion dollar plane, you know, that wouldn't
• 52:23
  be happening, they're buying him off, they're buying
• 52:27
  him off, anyway, her language was not cautious,
• 52:35
  they didn't talk about, as I do not,
• 52:37
  possible manipulation of the facts, or inconsistencies, they
• 52:43
  call it incensirovka, which is incensing the public,
• 52:49
  incensirovka, podlog, which means a, you creating a
• 52:55
  false foundation, a false foundation of something, or
• 53:03
  krovavi fars, it's a blood for the masses,
• 53:08
  you know, like, what do they call it
• 53:10
  here in America, krovavi fars would be, you
• 53:13
  know, a blood for the, to get the
• 53:17
  wolf on the hunt, you know, throw them
• 53:20
  some meat to them, to get them jazzed
• 53:23
  up, or just straight up lies, she wasn't
• 53:27
  nibbling at the edges, she was, and she's
• 53:31
  right to do so, destroyed the legitimacy of
• 53:35
  bucha completely, there are many, right now, western
• 53:41
  even, tales of the, you know, when they
• 53:47
  go over, documentaries, documentaries that outline what and
• 53:52
  how it happened, same thing with Nord Stream
• 53:56
  2, same thing with all of the the
• 54:02
  basis of us creating a million man army,
• 54:06
  or assisting, funding, training, being on the ground
• 54:11
  with advisors, most of them western money, creating
• 54:17
  a million man army to get the real
• 54:20
  jewel, which is not Ukraine, the real jewel
• 54:24
  is Russia, well Russia ain't giving up its
• 54:28
  jewels, and Ukraine shouldn't have, and now they've
• 54:32
  lost them completely, because they aren't even on
• 54:36
  the menu, next fiscal year, when money starts
• 54:42
  rolling out of the Pentagon, Lindsey Graham is
• 54:46
  allegedly, so get this, now the team going
• 54:49
  to Istanbul, I think, is where they're picking
• 54:53
  the next round of talks, guess who's gonna
• 54:55
  be there, three-man team, they probably got
• 54:59
  some flunkies traveling along with them, but guess
• 55:01
  who now, this tells you how far the
• 55:05
  Trump, the Trump team has fallen, okay, we
• 55:09
  have Jared Kushner, we got Steve Whitkoff, and
• 55:13
  Lindsey freaking Graham, what in the world is
• 55:19
  Lindsey freaking Graham doing on a negotiation team
• 55:24
  headed to Ukraine, on behalf of America's positioning,
• 55:31
  he's a freaking senator from South Carolina, what
• 55:35
  the hell, it's not remotely in his job
• 55:38
  to be Trump's man, Whitkoff was supposed to
• 55:41
  be his man, you know, they were at
• 55:42
  least partners in real estate, you know, his
• 55:45
  nephew or son-in-law, whatever he is,
• 55:48
  the other guy, okay, I dislike both of
• 55:51
  those, you know, where's a professional negotiator in
• 55:54
  the group, you know, a professional diplomat, sorry
• 55:58
  about that, where is one, they don't have
• 56:00
  one, nope, it's a blind leading a blind,
• 56:05
  and it's terrible, and they're not going with
• 56:07
  the purpose to, I mean, I hope they
• 56:09
  get peace, but they obviously don't understand the
• 56:14
  impetus behind it, and they don't in Iran
• 56:17
  either, because it's continuing, so Zakharova spoke about
• 56:20
  those things, and the same framework is about
• 56:25
  the Ukrainian deputy, Natalia Pipa, and her anti
• 56:28
  -Soviet memory struggle, you know, and what they're,
• 56:31
  what they're putting, she's tying today's Ukraine directly
• 56:35
  to Stepan Bandera, which I do too, because
• 56:38
  that's who they're, that's who they honor, you
• 56:41
  know, Stepan Bandera was, he was an ally
• 56:43
  of Hitler in the Ukraine, he killed 120
• 56:47
  ,000 Poles, the Poles hate him, but they
• 56:50
  can't say anything, because then you're anti, well,
• 56:55
  you're pro-Russia, if you say anything, suddenly
• 56:57
  you're not beaten up sufficiently on Russia, suddenly
• 57:00
  you're talking about things that matter to you,
• 57:04
  but by God, you better not say anything,
• 57:06
  because it might mess up the bigger picture,
• 57:09
  and the bigger picture is, we have to
• 57:12
  show that it was Stalin who, you know,
• 57:17
  was trying to take over the world, Stalin
• 57:19
  had the opportunity to take over the world,
• 57:21
  especially post, post World War II, right afterward,
• 57:26
  Bretton Woods, and he didn't, he could have,
• 57:30
  they were definitely the most powerful militarily, and
• 57:33
  they were just coming off a massive victory
• 57:36
  against the German forces, they could have continued
• 57:41
  rolling, if Russia wanted France so bad, or
• 57:44
  wanted Europe so bad, why didn't Stalin just
• 57:47
  keep on rolling, America couldn't have put up
• 57:49
  with it, America only lost 600,000, Russia
• 57:52
  had 26 million, and they were totally in,
• 57:55
  they lost 26 million people, 26 million people,
• 58:00
  we lost 600,000 who were involved in
• 58:03
  the war for a year and a half,
• 58:05
  two years, active, but Russia had been involved
• 58:11
  since 39, 38, you know, it's nonsense, they
• 58:16
  could have taken over France then, if they
• 58:19
  wanted it, they didn't want it, they went
• 58:20
  back, so to now claim that history doesn't
• 58:23
  exist, is deceitful, it's just as bad as
• 58:28
  taking a slave rock, and pretending it didn't
• 58:31
  happen, and not telling people it was there,
• 58:36
  so the West is structurally deceitful, because they
• 58:40
  just tell these lies to their own people,
• 58:43
  and worse yet, to the world, who really
• 58:46
  knows the truth, and that's all, media, non
• 58:51
  -government organizations, the UN, human rights structures, the
• 58:56
  bureaucracy everywhere, academia, the sanctions people who try
• 59:01
  to force you to do something, and then
• 59:03
  the broad information warfare, everywhere, nope, it's classic
• 59:12
  information wars, and Ukraine is a terrorist, according
• 59:15
  to her, not merely adversarial, and I believe
• 59:19
  Ukraine is very much so, drone strikes, civilian
• 59:25
  casualties, they're doing the same thing that America
• 59:29
  is now, but Donald Trump says tomorrow he's
• 59:32
  doing this, if he's doing this tomorrow, it
• 59:34
  is the end of America, we know it,
• 59:36
  that is not how we engage in warfare,
• 59:39
  it's not what we do, it's not what
• 59:42
  we're supposed to do, that ain't the America
• 59:44
  that I remember, we don't go in and
• 59:46
  destroy, what does he want to destroy?
• 59:49
  Desalinization plants, power facilities, nuclear and standard coal,
• 59:56
  you know, whatever, electrical, hydro, any of them,
• 59:59
  they're gonna destroy all their, we're gonna bomb
• 1:00:01
  you back to the stone ages, I mean,
• 1:00:06
  let that sink in, we're gonna bomb you
• 1:00:09
  back to the stone ages, why?
• 1:00:12
  Because you're Muslim, that's it, why?
• 1:00:17
  Because Netanyahu's afraid that someday you might get
• 1:00:20
  a nuclear bomb, yeah, you can do that,
• 1:00:25
  Pakistan has already got a nuclear bomb, you're
• 1:00:27
  gonna do that in North Korea, somebody's already
• 1:00:31
  got a bomb, nope, I mean, hell, even
• 1:00:34
  Ukraine's running around, Poland's running around going, man,
• 1:00:37
  we need to get us some nuclear bombs,
• 1:00:38
  we need some nuclear bombs because somebody's gonna
• 1:00:41
  do this to us one day, look what's
• 1:00:42
  happening over there in Iran, look what they're
• 1:00:45
  doing to Iran, they are destroying a 5
• 1:00:48
  ,000 year society, 5,000 year empire, a
• 1:00:55
  historical empire, I mean, you know, obviously, you
• 1:00:59
  know, Iran's a rich culture, you may not
• 1:01:01
  agree with it, but it's certainly a rich
• 1:01:03
  culture, I didn't agree with Grozny, I still
• 1:01:05
  went to Chechnya and checked out the history
• 1:01:08
  of it all, I don't agree with everything
• 1:01:11
  that went on in Georgia, Georgia's beautiful, you
• 1:01:18
  know, and has a great history, I mean,
• 1:01:21
  it's beautiful stuff, does that mean it needs
• 1:01:23
  to be a NATO vassal?
• 1:01:25
  What kind of crap is this?
• 1:01:29
  Religious persecution is happening right now all over
• 1:01:36
  Ukraine, and by the way, all over, this
• 1:01:40
  is what we're, what are we fighting for?
• 1:01:41
  Religion, right now, Netanyahu, we're talking, the Netanyahu
• 1:01:46
  dream is, geez, you know, Moses, somebody led,
• 1:01:50
  Moses led the slaves out of bondage, you
• 1:01:54
  know, whatever it was 3,000 years ago,
• 1:01:56
  and by God, I'm Netanyahu, and now I
• 1:01:59
  can make sure that it sinks in, because
• 1:02:02
  I got some fools across the sea who
• 1:02:05
  are willing to do it for us, we
• 1:02:07
  don't even have to do it, we have
• 1:02:08
  big brother on our side, and here he
• 1:02:11
  is, here's my puppet master, you know, Netanyahu,
• 1:02:16
  there we are, they're taking over monasteries and
• 1:02:22
  ransacking them all over Ukraine, history that's been
• 1:02:27
  around for thousands of years, they're taking these
• 1:02:29
  icons and seizing them, they're creating, in her
• 1:02:36
  words, spiritual vandalism, they're taking the patriarchs and
• 1:02:42
  arresting them, because why?
• 1:02:45
  Because they say the same, the same biblical
• 1:02:48
  thing, this is what's going on in Ukraine,
• 1:02:50
  that's what they're doing, and so Russia is
• 1:02:55
  doing what?
• 1:02:56
  They're fighting an existential threat to who they
• 1:03:00
  are, that's what they're fighting, you can agree
• 1:03:03
  or disagree, but guess what?
• 1:03:05
  That's the same thing that Iran is doing
• 1:03:08
  right now, and trust me, they're going to
• 1:03:10
  continue, just because you say you got 48
• 1:03:14
  hours, last time we had five days, and
• 1:03:16
  one before that was two weeks, how long
• 1:03:19
  is this war gonna last?
• 1:03:20
  It's gone a hell of a lot longer
• 1:03:22
  than they said it was gonna, and you
• 1:03:25
  know, let's contrast her speech with, well,
• 1:03:37
  what's she trying to accomplish?
• 1:03:40
  She wants to talk about the broader framing,
• 1:03:43
  but the bigger is more accusatory, right?
• 1:03:46
  Ukraine isn't an independent, tragic case of aggression,
• 1:03:51
  it's a vehicle for a larger, worldwide, anti
• 1:03:57
  -Russian campaign, and Ukraine is losing that war,
• 1:04:05
  because the West is losing that war, they
• 1:04:07
  still pump it every single day, but there
• 1:04:10
  are truth-tellers out there that are telling
• 1:04:12
  you what's going on, I'm one of them,
• 1:04:14
  and I'm telling you, it's the bucha, I
• 1:04:19
  mean, you want to figure it out for
• 1:04:21
  yourself without listening to me?
• 1:04:23
  Go and watch the bucha narratives, and the
• 1:04:26
  attack on the western media, the rituals of
• 1:04:29
  how they give, you know, a blood scent
• 1:04:35
  to the pack, to make them think that
• 1:04:39
  a war in Iran or Ukraine is in
• 1:04:42
  our best interest, okay?
• 1:04:44
  Check that out, check out bucha, that's where,
• 1:04:49
  that is where the blue and yellow flags
• 1:04:51
  came from, because people too, non-analytic people,
• 1:04:56
  just took it as gospel, and it wasn't
• 1:04:59
  remotely true.
• 1:05:01
  How about Europe's silence, western silence on orthodox
• 1:05:06
  persecution, Russian orthodox persecution, the anti-Russian language
• 1:05:13
  policies, all across, you know, you're not allowed
• 1:05:16
  to do it in Lithuania, you know, you
• 1:05:18
  boy, nobody will speak to you, and the
• 1:05:20
  policy is worse in Ukraine, you can't speak
• 1:05:23
  Russian in a school, and they all speak
• 1:05:27
  Russian, the militarization of NATO, they intend to
• 1:05:31
  be at war with Russia by 2030, idiocy,
• 1:05:35
  energy hypocrisy, you know, do you realize who
• 1:05:39
  the only liquid natural gas supplier is left
• 1:05:43
  for Europe?
• 1:05:43
  They've destroyed everything else, Qatar's last shipments, there
• 1:05:47
  are two more ships showing up, and those
• 1:05:49
  are, those are Qatar's last two liquid natural
• 1:05:53
  gas shipments to Europe, and they'll be in
• 1:05:57
  on Wednesday, and that's it, that's the end
• 1:05:59
  of the line, and the energy war that
• 1:06:02
  is going on means that Europe can either
• 1:06:07
  buy from Russia, which would be easy, simple,
• 1:06:10
  cheap, but they won't, or pay double to
• 1:06:14
  triple, some say up to six times as
• 1:06:17
  much for liquid natural gas coming from the
• 1:06:20
  United States.
• 1:06:21
  If you think that's positive, all right, maybe
• 1:06:23
  it is for us, for now, but pretty
• 1:06:27
  soon there are going to be shortages, and
• 1:06:29
  who's going to get cut off first?
• 1:06:31
  They're already doing it, Russia's pushing that game,
• 1:06:34
  Iran is pushing that game, closing the straits,
• 1:06:37
  because they can survive it longer than we
• 1:06:40
  can, and by the way, all the oil
• 1:06:42
  is underneath their ground.
• 1:06:44
  The U.S. has some, but increasingly you're
• 1:06:47
  seeing them attempt to steal it from Iran,
• 1:06:52
  that's what's happening, they want to steal, you
• 1:06:56
  know, natural resources, that's what we did in
• 1:06:58
  Venezuela.
• 1:07:00
  Now you can, you know, I'm a blunt
• 1:07:02
  kind of guy, you know, there are other
• 1:07:04
  people that might be a little more pragmatic
• 1:07:08
  about it, I'm not, I'm blunt, it's, what
• 1:07:12
  she did is a narrative weapon for the
• 1:07:17
  Russians, for sure, this tells, you know, the
• 1:07:22
  blunt truth, it's a well-constructed speech, they
• 1:07:26
  have a purpose for this speech, that's what
• 1:07:28
  they do, this is a balancing system, this
• 1:07:32
  is something where they're trying to get the
• 1:07:33
  people on board, and to understand why they're
• 1:07:37
  doing what they are doing, and how, and
• 1:07:40
  why it's important, she's given all the backdrop
• 1:07:42
  for why it's critical that Russia engage in
• 1:07:45
  what, do you think people in Russia want
• 1:07:46
  to be at war with Ukraine?
• 1:07:48
  No, but they understand why they are, and
• 1:07:51
  they generally are supportive of the concept, they
• 1:07:56
  might not agree with the specifics, I mean,
• 1:08:01
  who does?
• 1:08:02
  You know, they're smart thinking people, and, but
• 1:08:05
  they, you know, they have to be thrown
• 1:08:08
  more than, oh gee, Netanyahu says Iran's going
• 1:08:12
  to create a nuclear weapon, first of all,
• 1:08:13
  who gives a shit if they do?
• 1:08:15
  So what?
• 1:08:16
  So what?
• 1:08:18
  You know, then there'll be a threat to
• 1:08:20
  Israel, and Israel's not a threat to every
• 1:08:22
  one of its neighbors, come on, they're the
• 1:08:26
  threat, Israel is the threat to the rest
• 1:08:29
  of the place over there, and so what
• 1:08:31
  I thought I would do, would be, you
• 1:08:33
  know what, is we're going to look at
• 1:08:35
  old Trumpster, he gave a speech the day
• 1:08:39
  after, and I forget where, you know, I've
• 1:08:42
  got it somewhere, but he had a full
• 1:08:44
  address, and if you take his speech, you
• 1:08:53
  know, and contrast it with Zakharova's, analytically it's
• 1:08:58
  totally unfair, because her speech was something else.
• 1:09:03
  Donald Trump, nobody can ever claim that he's
• 1:09:06
  got a master plan in his speeches, I
• 1:09:08
  believe he just says the first thing that
• 1:09:10
  comes to the mind, and moves on, but
• 1:09:12
  Zakharova is pointing this out, she has a,
• 1:09:18
  you know, the typical themes about bucha, censorship,
• 1:09:22
  Ukraine, NATO, Iran, and the huge difference in
• 1:09:32
  rules for me, but not for thee, and
• 1:09:37
  Donald Trump embodies that.
• 1:09:39
  Donald Trump, and the U.S. in general,
• 1:09:42
  will happily tell everyone else what the rules
• 1:09:45
  are, but never engage in them, you know,
• 1:09:50
  or apply them to themselves, you know, they
• 1:09:53
  just won't do it, and Trump's speech is
• 1:09:56
  grave, if you look at it in the
• 1:09:58
  blunt way that I tend to, it's the
• 1:10:01
  president justifying war, wrapped in, you know, victory
• 1:10:06
  language, we've already won, force, well we're going
• 1:10:09
  to kick the crap out of them, punishment,
• 1:10:11
  we're going to destroy all their infrastructure, and
• 1:10:14
  finality, yep, we're going to win, and that's
• 1:10:16
  that, we're going to, we're going to defeat
• 1:10:18
  them, and you better get on board, because
• 1:10:21
  you're next, if you don't, it's uh, Operation
• 1:10:29
  Epic Fury, according to him, one month campaign
• 1:10:33
  of overwhelming success, yep, if, if, if it's
• 1:10:38
  overwhelming success, why in the hell am I
• 1:10:40
  paying four dollars a gallon for gasoline, tell
• 1:10:48
  you what, one month, well okay, we're past
• 1:10:50
  a month now, we're well into the fifth
• 1:10:52
  week, right, Iran's navy's gone, oh yeah, what
• 1:10:56
  about all the little mini subs I was
• 1:10:59
  telling you about, what about the mining of
• 1:11:01
  the, of the bottom of the Straits of
• 1:11:04
  Hormuz, why aren't your ships moving if the
• 1:11:06
  navy's gone, Air Force in ruins, leadership dead,
• 1:11:13
  we killed them all, and you know, now
• 1:11:15
  here's the promise, here comes the promise, why
• 1:11:19
  do you have to promise something if all
• 1:11:20
  this already exists, absent a deal, the United
• 1:11:24
  States, the United States will destroy Iran's electrical
• 1:11:29
  grid, and its oil infrastructure as well, he
• 1:11:33
  says, we have all the cards, they have
• 1:11:37
  none, we're going to send them back to
• 1:11:40
  the stone age, that's it, and there are
• 1:11:45
  people there cheering, yeah, this is great, it's
• 1:11:50
  not great, it's a strategic intimidation, is all
• 1:11:54
  this is, is intimidation broadcast as a, some
• 1:11:59
  sort of reassurances for Americans, you shouldn't be
• 1:12:02
  reassured, you should not be reassured by this
• 1:12:05
  speech, if this is your, your bastion of
• 1:12:08
  hope, you got problems, because this is not
• 1:12:12
  hope, this is anti-hope, this is the
• 1:12:15
  furthest thing from hope that you can imagine,
• 1:12:18
  so Trump is normalizing annihilation of another, of
• 1:12:24
  another people, he is normalizing genocide, he is
• 1:12:30
  normalizing what Netanyahu's doing all around Israel, pick
• 1:12:36
  a new country, pick a new place, Palestine,
• 1:12:40
  Lebanon, Syria, just West Bank, just pick one,
• 1:12:47
  we're going to own it all, you know,
• 1:12:49
  we being Israel, not us, and then, you
• 1:12:53
  know, their bomb, anyway, confidence, he wants to
• 1:12:59
  show you all the confidence, he's showing the
• 1:13:02
  confidence of an empire that assumes, that assumes,
• 1:13:06
  he says it, he just comes right out
• 1:13:08
  and says it, that he has the right
• 1:13:11
  to decide who can have infrastructure, who can
• 1:13:14
  have systems of energy, who's allowed to own
• 1:13:17
  a military, or even have a political regime,
• 1:13:22
  continuity, he says regime change was not the
• 1:13:26
  goal, well, if it wasn't the goal, why
• 1:13:28
  did you blow the shit out of everybody,
• 1:13:30
  individually, kill their kids, but immediately adds that
• 1:13:34
  regime change has in effect occurred because Iran's
• 1:13:37
  original leaders are all dead, and then he
• 1:13:39
  threatens to kill them too, if Tehran doesn't
• 1:13:42
  comply, the tone isn't hesitant, it's not tragic,
• 1:13:46
  it's not even reluctant, it's like the bully
• 1:13:50
  on the block, well, you might think you
• 1:13:53
  got a shot, but we'll see, I'm going
• 1:13:56
  to kick the crap out of you, and
• 1:13:57
  anybody you bring in, that's it, so it's
• 1:14:03
  unpleasant to listen to a speech like that,
• 1:14:09
  so the seriousness of Zakharova's briefing was especially
• 1:14:15
  taken in light of Trump's, I don't know
• 1:14:17
  what, football coach cheering, we can do it,
• 1:14:21
  right before the game on Friday night, is,
• 1:14:25
  tell you what, stark, the fact is, it
• 1:14:31
  wasn't answering a speech from the American president,
• 1:14:35
  those things were somewhat contemporaneous, so I don't
• 1:14:39
  think they each listened to each other and
• 1:14:42
  then spoke, obviously, but he's talking about the
• 1:14:45
  destruction of states, further choking of energy transport
• 1:14:53
  lines, military eradication of bridges, that have nothing
• 1:15:01
  to do with the military, they are the
• 1:15:04
  hubs of economy of Iran, you're making friends
• 1:15:09
  over there, right, and it's this coercion leverage
• 1:15:14
  that he thinks he has, but I believe,
• 1:15:16
  as do many many experts, that this is,
• 1:15:20
  this coercion, this domineering attitude, is the opposite
• 1:15:29
  of what is needed right now, you need
• 1:15:31
  a calm and reasonable person to at least
• 1:15:35
  recognize the situation as existential for Iran, because
• 1:15:40
  what would happen if, remember the movie Red
• 1:15:44
  Dawn with Patrick Swayze, what would happen if
• 1:15:51
  the Chinese and the Russians paratrooped in millions
• 1:15:56
  of people, millions of soldiers into America to
• 1:15:59
  take it over from the inside, you'd have
• 1:16:02
  little pockets of wolverines everywhere, wouldn't you, that
• 1:16:05
  are fighting, you'd have people fighting for their
• 1:16:11
  lives, that's, that's what it's for, you know,
• 1:16:16
  that's, that's, you think that is, that Iran's
• 1:16:18
  not having the same thought process, you think
• 1:16:20
  they're not proud of their culture and who
• 1:16:22
  they are, where they come from, they are,
• 1:16:25
  I assure you, they are, they are very
• 1:16:27
  proud of where they're from, so he's got
• 1:16:31
  all this triumphant, he's, it's all, we've won,
• 1:16:35
  it's great, whole campaigns reduced to proof of
• 1:16:38
  his strength, Venezuela was described as, we did
• 1:16:41
  it a matter of minutes, yep, you did,
• 1:16:43
  and it was still wrong, Iran is described
• 1:16:45
  as effectively broken, we broke Iran in a
• 1:16:48
  month, yeah, but you thought you were going
• 1:16:50
  to do it the day later, and they're,
• 1:16:53
  and they're still not broken, they're not going
• 1:16:55
  anywhere, we'll still be in this 20 years
• 1:16:57
  from now, even if you quote, unquote, win,
• 1:17:01
  or what, what about, there are people that
• 1:17:03
  say that he, that he's, that he just
• 1:17:05
  goes out and declares victory, and then if,
• 1:17:07
  if we have victory, why are we still
• 1:17:09
  fighting?
• 1:17:14
  This all matters, because once war is, is,
• 1:17:17
  is framed against competence, anyone opposing it must
• 1:17:22
  do more than just disagree, they have to
• 1:17:25
  restore some sort of moral gravity to what
• 1:17:28
  they're celebrating, there's no celebration on my end,
• 1:17:32
  when Trump declared victory the other day, and
• 1:17:35
  says that we're going to win, I mean,
• 1:17:37
  I don't want him going over and bombing
• 1:17:39
  historic sites in, in Iran or anywhere else,
• 1:17:43
  I don't want Ukraine blowing up churches or
• 1:17:45
  destroying them otherwise, from the, the, the father,
• 1:17:49
  the patriarch on down, in a church that's
• 1:17:52
  existed together with other people for hundreds and
• 1:17:56
  hundreds, thousands of years, that's what Trump's proposing
• 1:18:00
  in, in Iran, that's what they're proposing, where
• 1:18:07
  you're going back to the stone age, dead
• 1:18:09
  civilians, dead children, desecrated churches, persecuted, you know,
• 1:18:15
  languages, false narratives, you know, it's, Trump's address
• 1:18:21
  is openly imperial, isn't it?
• 1:18:24
  But especially in energy logic, one of the
• 1:18:28
  most revealing parts of what Trump said, isn't
• 1:18:31
  even the military language, it's the energy language,
• 1:18:35
  he tells countries, dependent on Hormuz, that you
• 1:18:39
  got to protect it yourselves, or you can
• 1:18:42
  just keep buying from us, the boastful Americans,
• 1:18:46
  you know, you can buy it from us,
• 1:18:47
  we're the biggest, baddest thing, now we control
• 1:18:49
  all the oil, and we don't give a
• 1:18:51
  shit about the Middle East, we got plenty
• 1:18:52
  of our own, and he suggests that the
• 1:18:55
  straits will open up naturally once Iran is
• 1:19:00
  broken, because Tehran will need to sell its
• 1:19:03
  oil to rebuild, so this isn't his strategy,
• 1:19:06
  or not only, it's energy imperialism said out
• 1:19:11
  loud, we control the energy, the subtext, Americans
• 1:19:15
  will decide what degree of destruction is acceptable,
• 1:19:19
  and others will absorb the market cost, we
• 1:19:23
  don't care, we don't need anybody, you either
• 1:19:25
  support us, or your energy price are going
• 1:19:28
  to go up one way or the other,
• 1:19:29
  either you're not going to get it from
• 1:19:30
  Iran, and you'll be forced to get it
• 1:19:32
  from us, or you'll get it from Iran
• 1:19:34
  at an increased price, because you know, it
• 1:19:37
  can't come through the straits of Hormuz anymore,
• 1:19:41
  that's pretty straight up, what he said, that
• 1:19:44
  you know, Americans are going to decide what
• 1:19:46
  degree of destruction is acceptable, Europeans, you wouldn't
• 1:19:50
  help, therefore, we're going to destroy it, and
• 1:19:53
  you're screwed, right, and the global oil order,
• 1:19:58
  the global dollar, the petrodollar are going to
• 1:20:00
  rearrange around the U.S. capacity and U
• 1:20:03
  .S. leverage, and if you don't understand what's
• 1:20:06
  really going on, and you support this war,
• 1:20:09
  that this is a war against the yuan,
• 1:20:12
  and people not using dollars, and the trillions
• 1:20:16
  of U.S. debt that have for years,
• 1:20:19
  has been built upon the backs of the
• 1:20:21
  petrodollar, and U.S. debt, we now have
• 1:20:25
  two legs of debt, okay, Trump had three
• 1:20:27
  legs of his stool, okay, you want the
• 1:20:29
  scary version, here it is, this is scary,
• 1:20:32
  but think about this, three legs of the
• 1:20:35
  Trump stool, first one is, energy of America,
• 1:20:40
  right, second one is, energy around the world,
• 1:20:44
  third one is, the petrodollar, okay, and which
• 1:20:50
  is, well, the petrodollar, and the world-based
• 1:20:57
  currency, and the backing of United, the growth
• 1:21:01
  of the United States economy, by the fact
• 1:21:05
  that we finance everyone's growth around the world
• 1:21:09
  through the dollar system, through the dollar, all
• 1:21:13
  this goes back to the imperialism of, that
• 1:21:17
  had been gone on for generations, the Dutch
• 1:21:19
  East Indies Trading Company, the French, the Spaniards,
• 1:21:25
  the British, Americans, now, and we are the
• 1:21:29
  last, well, not the last, the last in
• 1:21:32
  this line of imperialists, and how did we
• 1:21:36
  build, how did England become so massively powerful
• 1:21:40
  as they funded, they stole India, they stole
• 1:21:44
  Africa, France stole East Asia, France stole North
• 1:21:50
  Africa, took all of that, with their Russian
• 1:21:53
  language, with their dominance, with their military, they
• 1:21:55
  took them over, and well, they're being booted
• 1:21:59
  out even now, in some of these countries,
• 1:22:01
  Donald Trump knows all of this, and he
• 1:22:05
  is seeing it, and he also knows that
• 1:22:08
  nobody's buying U.S. debt anymore, and that
• 1:22:12
  the debt funding tree, and the regime is
• 1:22:15
  coming to an end, unless he does something
• 1:22:17
  drastic, so what does he do?
• 1:22:19
  He goes and takes over Venezuela, and international
• 1:22:24
  oil, and his plan was, now I got
• 1:22:27
  Iran too, Xi Jinping, those two things were
• 1:22:30
  going to help you, but now I control
• 1:22:32
  them, now what?
• 1:22:34
  What are you going to do?
• 1:22:35
  Get rid of the yuan, you start trading
• 1:22:38
  in the dollar again, and we'll go back
• 1:22:40
  to being friends, you keep buying U.S.
• 1:22:42
  debt, because we are on a cliff, and
• 1:22:47
  if we don't do something about U.S.
• 1:22:49
  debt, we're going to recognize quickly that cliff,
• 1:22:52
  and tariffs, by the way, those aren't helping,
• 1:22:55
  because now there's a fight to get the
• 1:22:58
  money, there are advertisements all over TV, I
• 1:23:01
  don't know if you, or all over the
• 1:23:02
  internet, I mean, that if you paid tariffs,
• 1:23:05
  and you want to get them back, call
• 1:23:06
  the firm of whoever, and this firm will
• 1:23:09
  help you get your tariffs back, that you
• 1:23:11
  paid in, because the judge says they're illegal,
• 1:23:14
  and they'll have to give them back, so
• 1:23:16
  how are you going to give back these
• 1:23:18
  billions upon trillions of dollars, and give that
• 1:23:22
  back, when you have nobody funding the debt,
• 1:23:25
  all that's going to happen is we're going
• 1:23:27
  to print new bills, so think about this,
• 1:23:30
  you print the new bills, and what does
• 1:23:32
  that cause?
• 1:23:33
  Inflation, too many in the thing, and not
• 1:23:35
  enough people that want them, they used to
• 1:23:37
  be able to hold them in the oil
• 1:23:39
  dollar, but Qatar isn't buying them, Saudi Arabia
• 1:23:43
  is not buying them, England's being forced to
• 1:23:45
  buy some, as are several other countries in
• 1:23:48
  the EU, so the people least capable, and
• 1:23:52
  least situated to fund America for another generation,
• 1:24:00
  to kick this down the road, so that
• 1:24:02
  Donald Trump can be the greatest president in
• 1:24:04
  history, and restore all of this, but all
• 1:24:09
  it's really doing is kicking the ball down
• 1:24:12
  the road, let's assume he gets what he
• 1:24:13
  wants, I'm telling you, people are already planning
• 1:24:16
  for what happens after the dollar, they're already
• 1:24:19
  planning it, part of the attack on Venezuela,
• 1:24:22
  and still in the oil, is because of
• 1:24:23
  the BRICS initiatives that they are talking, and
• 1:24:27
  those are the backdrops of what are important
• 1:24:31
  for Americans to know that they really don't
• 1:24:36
  know, so at any rate, I'm going to
• 1:24:39
  end a tiny bit early today, I'd like
• 1:24:42
  to get some coffee, a little bit of
• 1:24:44
  milk, and I think I'm going to end
• 1:24:46
  it a little bit early, I appreciate you
• 1:24:48
  listening to the show, hopefully you listen every
• 1:24:50
  day, we've got some good stuff going on
• 1:24:51
  this week, I hope that on Civic Outlaws
• 1:24:54
  on Friday, I'll have some serious news to
• 1:24:59
  report to you, well I know I will,
• 1:25:01
  oh by the way, I've been invited to
• 1:25:03
  participate tonight, and I plan to to go
• 1:25:06
  and chat at the Encore, meet and greet
• 1:25:14
  some candidates, stuff like that, and I don't
• 1:25:18
  know what the schedule is, if we're just
• 1:25:21
  doing some recordings and doing some live or
• 1:25:23
  not, I don't know, but I'm going to
• 1:25:24
  be there, and if you'd like to speak
• 1:25:27
  about this or any other issue or any
• 1:25:29
  of the issues facing candidates or anything like
• 1:25:31
  that, that's at Encore this evening, and I'm
• 1:25:36
  pretty sure JR will be talking about some
• 1:25:38
  of that, so we'll listen to his show
• 1:25:41
  and make sure we're all on the same,
• 1:25:44
  playing from the same sheet music, and if
• 1:25:47
  you ever want to, so we have Civic
• 1:25:49
  Outlaws every Friday, which you can get to
• 1:25:54
  civicoutlaws.com forward slash podcast, listen to all
• 1:25:58
  those episodes, you can go to internationalflavor.com
• 1:26:04
  and get my programs on this program every,
• 1:26:09
  you know, from every morning, and I appreciate
• 1:26:11
  you listening, invite you to participate some more,
• 1:26:14
  and hope you have a very fantastic week,
• 1:26:19
  starting with a beautiful Monday, even though it's
• 1:26:22
  pretty darn nippley out there, oh did I
• 1:26:24
  say nipple?
• 1:26:25
  Have a nice day.