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Trump’s Iran Fantasy, Hormuz Pressure, Cuba Diversion, Baltic Hostility, and ATC Hypocrisy on Intern · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning. Welcome. This is
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Samuel Trap. This is International
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Flavor. You are listening to DAM Radio.
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Hopefully, you're listening live at
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damradio.comlive.
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And uh if you're the ever important uh
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JR, uh some very odd things have been
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going on in here. And I don't know if I
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don't believe I did anything, but uh
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each song has been stopping
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and not just going straight on to the
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next one. Perhaps I've touched something
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that's not there. I have to stop and
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click to get it going on. So, if you're
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aware of what causes that, perhaps
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you'll um
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engineer me and figure out how that uh
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fixes going forward when I stop and uh
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go forward. Well, I wonder because the
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last three songs, fortunately, I was
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here in the studio, but I assume it was
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playing all night, but uh when I came in
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uh here, it was uh empty.
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So, just sorry to tell you that on the
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air here, but that's something was weird
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going on in there and the songs were not
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forwarding to the next one. So, just so
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you're aware of that. Anyway, uh I am
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sleepless in uh Lake Ozark. Sleepless in
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uh the Lake Ozark real estate of the art
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studio. I think the last time I looked
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at my clock was like uh 4:35 in the
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morning. And then I went to sleep. I
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woke up at 511. So 4:35 to 5:11, not
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very much sleep. And the night before I
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didn't sleep very much. Saturday night,
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I slept like a freaking stone in uh I
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don't know, 10 hours, some crazy thing.
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This is the nonsense of life that goes
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on. I've uh been researching what to do
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about that kind of thing, but that's not
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what we care about here on uh
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International Flavor. We care about
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other things. Um I'm headed off to
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Kentucky
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uh tomorrow. So tomorrow I will do the
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uh program
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uh in the morning for the greatest day
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in radio and then in the afternoon I'm
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uh got a couple of appointments um
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in uh the old city of Jefferson going up
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to the old capitol building and uh then
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I'm headed off to Kentucky. Feel like I
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ought to be trapping beaver or something
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out there. I don't know. doing something
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exciting with my life in Kentucky, but
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it's going to be off to some horse race
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or another. I'm uh going with a group of
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people and I'm more of a tag along than
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anything else. Um and I would uh I think
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we're going to have a good time. This is
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a good group of people. I like traveling
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with them. It's very much fun. So, I
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shall keep you posted and I may even do
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a show uh get the show on the road.
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Maybe I'll find one of them to
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interview. Wouldn't that be funny? Um,
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let's see. Um,
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I don't know. I'm I'm I'm actually tired
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of the Iran uh the Iran topic. That is
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such crap uh croc of pardon my
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French, with people uh
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torn apart by this and thinking one way
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or the other um and attacking civilian
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infrastructure. We have the old
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Trumpster saying he's going to tear
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apart all of their power
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in um Iran. Still says Iran is losing.
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Um I don't think he is. He He also says
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that they've they they've got a deal.
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We've worked out a deal, but nobody says
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they have. Nobody. They've apparently
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been passing cryptic messages back and
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forth to uh through Pakistan and uh uh
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some some Pakistani guys, but they don't
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have anything going on in there. What in
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the world are we uh engaging in? Nobody
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knows. It's um uh you know, look at what
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Iran's saying. It's the exact opposite
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of what uh Trump is saying. Trump says
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they've already settled on the US
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demands and uh we don't even know what
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the demands are. He's got this 17point
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plan soon to turn into a 22point plan
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and mirror that. What we got going on in
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uh um
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allegedly going on in uh Ukraine
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as uh somebody I know calls it, the old
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uh Ukrineskaya, the Ukraine, the region
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of Ukraine.
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Um, you know, I got to thinking a little
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bit about those people I ran into on uh
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Saturday evening here at the lake,
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hanging out, having a good time from a
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foreign country. Okay? And I told you
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about them. You know, they were um
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uh from Litva uh and you know, it's it's
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uh unbelievable. You know, it's just
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like when I was in Lithuania last year
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and and I told you about that and you
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get into a u a Yandex or an Uber or
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whatever and you get a you're going to
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be getting a ride around in your in your
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Uber and
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the guys have, you know, they'll have a
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Ukrainian flag up in the inside of their
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their u cab or whatever and uh they
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won't speak to you in Russian if you
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speak to in Russian, they treat you like
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And it's nuts. They don't speak
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English. They don't want to speak Well,
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their English just sucks, you know, and
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uh you don't My Russian Well, hell,
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their Russian is is far better than
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their English. And uh and they speak,
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you know, I don't speak Lithuanian. I
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don't speak Latian and any of those
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Baltic republics. and and and uh I I am
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so offended by what I mean and look what
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Europe has done to itself in all
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seriousness. Um the the the rest of the
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world starting with Ukraine is supposed
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to
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I don't know hate. So you you cannot
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they they've they've backed themselves
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into this corner. Okay. where you cannot
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even speak to a Russian. And so the
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point where Ukraine was
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literally killing ethnic Russians in the
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Dawnbass from 2014 to 2022.
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I mean, it's a fact and it's a
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wellestablished fact. They, you know,
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there was a referendum. The referendum
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didn't go the way of Ukraine. Russia
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supported the people who wanted to be
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separatists. There were two different
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efforts through the uh Minska
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agreements, the Minska Accords to uh
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allow them to self-ruule similar to what
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Malddova did in Transnistria
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and uh to have a Russian region of a
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former Soviet Republic and allow those
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Russians, which are huge amounts of
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ethnic Russians, far greater percentage
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at least in the Dawnbass then you had a
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Ukrainians to allow them to either rule
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themselves. Russia wasn't trying to take
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over has never been trying to take over
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the areas of Crimea, Zaper, Herson, uh,
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Lugansketsk
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that's that Transnistria even Odessa
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even Odessa is the same thing that is
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ethnically Russian for centuries
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uh not ethnically Ukrainian regardless
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of the fact that for the last at least
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especially the last 15 years with all
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the uh NG OS uh have been destroying
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anything Russian history-wise for the
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next generation and destroying anything
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Russian speakingwise
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so that you don't you know turning it
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into the uh OG we've been fighting for
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our independence forever. with the
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Nazis. Sure. You know, you were and uh
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the the the
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horror story of what they have done to
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those countries that have such a very
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rich history at least in the last 100
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years and and even more rich before
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that. you know, the whole uh Lithuania
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and and and uh the the breast area of of
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going into uh Bellarus
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and going in, you know, Poland,
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Bellarus, Lithuania, that those are all
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of those places overrun back and forth
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and in in here and there, hundreds of
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years, okay, of uh of that type of
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overrunning each other history.
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And so to go to a country that has a
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rich background like Lithuania and it's
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a beautiful country, you know, except
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for the people, at least the ones I ran
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into, they were all dicks. And you go
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up, it's like, I ain't speaking to you
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in Russian, you know? It's like,
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okay, so why don't we sign like, you
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know, I don't know. Why don't we mime
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something? I all my a coffee so you
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could order something to me because you
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don't speak English. I don't speak
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Lithuanian. We both speak Russian but
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we're not allowed to say it. You know,
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we're not allowed to talk in it. It's
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just freaking nuts. And uh this is this
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is what I ran into here in Lake Ozark on
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Saturday and it was a group of five or
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six of these yahoos coming over. I don't
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speak Russian. It's like all right.
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Well, you don't speak English. Your
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English sucks. you know, and so heck, I
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thought I was going to be doing you a
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favor coming over and speaking some uh
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some Russian to you, but oh no. Oh jeez.
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What if I'm what if what if people think
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that I'm connected with those those
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horrific Russians, their culture, oh my
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god, they have the culture of killers. I
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what a bunch of nuts. And anyway, this
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is this is what we're into. And it's the
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same thing that we've created with Iran.
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this is what we're doing. This is how
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it's done. Okay? And and especially, you
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know, you think for for some reason
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Donald Trump and company think that just
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because we're the United States, we get
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to go over and say,
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"Take over your government. We're
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coming. We'll help you." They don't want
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us to. Okay. There may be a small
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amount, you know, just like the lunatics
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in Ukraine. There may be a small amount
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of those, you know, and and and even
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less in Iran than there are in Ukraine.
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But, you know, the the the deciding who
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you're going to hate is is not going the
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way that we had it planned, is it?
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You know, here's here's Trump saying,
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"We won. It's over. We won." You got
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Heg, Seth, and Kane and the these,
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you know, nuts getting up there and
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saying, "Oh, yeah,
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we've already won. I don't understand
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why the straight of moves isn't
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open. I don't get it. We've already won.
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Why the hell If we've already won, why
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the hell you keep having to escalate? If
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we've already won, why in the hell is
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oil uh and and uh natural gas and uh
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lithium and you know helium, bunch of
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other stuff that come through that port,
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why is it only being allowed to to flow
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through to uh India, to Pakistan, to
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China, you know, to come out through
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that way? How come the streets of Hormuz
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is still uh
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uh
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how come it's still closed?
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If you look at what Iran is saying,
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they're saying the exact opposite of
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what Trump is saying. You know, Trump uh
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yesterday morning, here's what Trump
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did. He said, "Uh, everything is fine.
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War in Iran is almost over. Iran agreed
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to a deal and they're settling, you
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know, which they're they're figuring out
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which demands we're going to do. And by
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the way, I own all the oil just like I
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did in Venezuela. It's mine." Meanwhile,
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Iran's saying the exact opposite. They
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said no talks have even happened and
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they certainly haven't agreed upon a
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deal and they're calling out the fact
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that the US is um you know they want to
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negotiate but at the same time they
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attack you while you're negotiating.
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That's history of the last year. They
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attack you while you're negotiating and
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meanwhile they send over thousands of
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troops and number of uh navy vessels and
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other things that are going on. So Trump
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goes to social media, puts up another
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one, you know, um
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says, "Progress has been made, but if
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for any reason the deal isn't reached,
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which it will be, and if the straight of
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Hormuz is not immediately open for
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business, we'll conclude our stay in
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Iran by blowing up and obliterating all
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their electric generating plants, oil
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wells, and Car Island and possibly
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desalinization pants plants, which we
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purposed fully have not yet touched.
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Okay, that's that's Trump
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saying that. So, we're going to destroy
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your ability to get water, power, all
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that other thing, right? Um he says the
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talks are ongoing, but he won't tell us
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who with.
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Um
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I don't know. you know, this is this is
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a strange mirror into what they were
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doing in uh uh in Venezuela, too. And on
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top of that, you know, the the people in
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the government of Iran, you know,
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they're not negotiating.
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Um and instead, they're retaliating.
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Um they act like, you know, he acts
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like, well, gez, we just, you know, kill
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the next level of government. We'll have
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we'll have BB go in there and kill the
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next level of uh of uh people and then
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you know they'll capitulate. You know
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that's that. We've been begging for that
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already for more than 30 days. What are
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we on? Day 31. Today's the 31st with
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start on 28th. Maybe it's a day day 32,
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right? Day 32.
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Um they're fighting back. It's it's not
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going along. We had a we had a fiveday
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deadline. We had a 10day deadline. war
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is going to be done in uh a week to 10
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days. The bombing is going to destroy
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them all and there's not going to be
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anything left and then they're going to
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capitulate and that'll be that. And I
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truly think they believed that.
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I think that they believed that that
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they really thought that's what was
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going to happen. But that isn't what has
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happened. Um no deal has been struck.
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Straight a Moose is still closed.
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Trump is still making his threats and
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rattling chains and acting like he's got
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all of this under control. Doesn't look
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like a place under control to me. And
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what are you gonna do? What are you
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going to do with 15,000
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guys? Seriously, 15,000 troops. 15,000
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troops.
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I saw an interesting um um show
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uh cut. I forget who it was.
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Damn it. I wish I could remember who it
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was
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uh was saying that and I don't know the
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exact numbers but and so don't hold me
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to these numbers but he said
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that going into Iraq in 91
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we had several hundred,000
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uh you know like a whole armor division
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or two armor division. I mean people
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couple couple 300 thousand people and uh
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uh that's that's what happened you know
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you have hundreds of thousands of
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soldiers there a serious
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presence for Iraq and Iraq is half the
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size if that of Iran
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far less population Iran's nearly 100
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million people Iran is very mountainous
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is more along the lines of u of uh
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Afghanistan that you never did anything
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useful in and there it was a great deal
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of number of people uh you the Iranians
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are saying you know bring it I'm not
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saying I'm for that I don't want it I
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think is stupid and foolish and it's not
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that I'm for or against Iran or America
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I'm a I'm a you know I I look at
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military things that that uh interests
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me and I'd like to know what that is. Um
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well, let's just watch the the post for
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the rest of the week. Let's see how many
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more times Trump will come to us and say
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we're uh you know, we've won. It's over.
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We got we have we have a capitulation.
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You know, he's trying to buy time and
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keep everybody calm so the markets don't
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collapse further than they already have.
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And uh uh I don't know. He says uh what
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else did he put his his the oil industry
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and him taking over Venezuela. Right.
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Here's a Trump quote. And he says, "To
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be honest with you, my favorite thing is
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to take the oil in Iran." But some pe
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some stupid people back in the US say,
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"Why are you doing that?" But they're
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stupid people.
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We are one month into this war and Trump
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is, you know, talking about, well,
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that's my oil. You know, I can't believe
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you guys are still occupying my country.
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I'm king of the planet. It's uh, you
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know, uh, what is Oh we got Sorry,
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I shouldn't talk like that. There's uh
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something up there from the old Gavin
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Gavin Newsome. Corrupt and repressive
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must never have nuclear weapons. The
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leadership of Iran must go. But they
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did. But that does not justify the
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president of the United States engaging
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in an illegal, dangerous war that risks
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the life of American service members and
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our friends without justification the
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American people. President Trump's
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putting Americans at risk. Now,
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you can agree with that or disagree with
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that. I obviously disagree with that uh
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that theory and sending people over to
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die for another place that nobody gives
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a rip about and uh without any clear
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objective. What's the objective? Oh, now
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it's got to be to open the straits of
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Hormuz. What are we after? Is it
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nuclear? Is it because uh you know we
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got to you know make sure democracy is
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present in Iran? We got to save
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Netanyahu. What are we trying to do?
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What What are we trying to do? Um, this
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is going to be a longterm
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deal. This is not going to be, you know,
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it's not going to be a shortterm a
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short-term deal. Um,
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I don't Wall Street Journal reports that
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Trump is weighing um coming in
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going in with these 15,000 people and
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carrying out a,000 pounds of uranium,
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right? He's going to carry out all of
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the uranium, the enriched uranium from
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Iran.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's what he's going to
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do. He's gonna go in and just like he
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took carried out Maduro, he's gonna go
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in and carry out a thousand pounds of
20:26
uranium, right? There's no no safety
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measures, no safety protocols required.
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Just go get that uranium and carry it
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out. Each of you put a few pounds in
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your backpack and bring it on out. What
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in the hell? They're They don't It's
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like I would sure like to know how this
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is going to succeed. They don't even
20:47
know where it is.
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Anyway, I'm I'm a little grumpy over all
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this nonsense.
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Uh
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Marco Rubio says they want to control
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the Hormuz the Straits of Hormuz like
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forever.
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um you know and he's they're not going
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to allow you that they're not going to
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allow that the US will not allow
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allegedly there's the coalition group of
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people heading with a whole bunch of
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boats to sit outside the straits of
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Hormuz, okay, and pretend that
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they can do something about Iran
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blocking those straits or the Red Sea.
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I'm I am so curious to see what this uh
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gamesmanship
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uh provides, but I'm I'm disgusted and
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sickened as well because of the amount
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of uh
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death that this is going to this is
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going to cause. It's going to cause a
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bunch of death and uh not on the sides
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that you think in my opinion the
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president has options available to him
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and he keeps choosing in my view the
22:15
wrong ones. escalation instead of
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normaly
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following Israel instead of
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backing the interest of Americans
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you know following following that guy's
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not a follower at least he hasn't been
22:35
in the past so I don't know
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I think where am I here today we're
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going to pull up some other other handy
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dandy info. And I want to play for you
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a little bit of music. I'm going to take
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a small break, but in order to get
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there, I've got to go to my history.
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And
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here it is. This is the history.
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Um,
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I like
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this sort of music and I'm going to play
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it for you if I can get to it.
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Uh,
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well, maybe not.
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Apparently, I've played far too much
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music and I can't get to what I was uh
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looking at before.
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Who in the world is playing all of this?
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Where is this coming from? That's not
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me. Maybe it just runs in perpetuity
23:43
when you uh have it out there. We have
23:46
some Tatiana Corticova, but that's not
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what I wanted to play for you.
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And
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yeah, it was definitely yesterday that
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we listened to it
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and we are going to get there.
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Uhhuh. All right. Here it comes. So, I
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want you to listen to this because this
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is uh I don't know if any of you listen
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to this type of uh of music and what has
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been uh played in the past. Now, when
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you watch the videos of these things,
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these are very much similar to um
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um
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I'd say I'd say somewhat American Indian
24:40
stuff. No, it's not. But it seems like
24:45
it it is. And I want you to listen to
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this cuz this is really cool music in my
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humblest of opinions.
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Here we go.
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Oh,
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Call by not again.
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Never.
26:34
Yellow. He's
26:54
You are the
27:00
I'm
27:24
All
27:25
of that
27:29
That's my
27:54
Heat. Heat.
28:04
I love
28:08
you.
28:55
I can't tell you why I like that so
28:57
much. I just do. Now the first time I'd
29:00
heard that I was in uh either
29:02
Usbekiststan
29:04
I think it was Usuzbekiststan but it
29:06
might have been might have been
29:09
Kazakhstan but I don't during that trip
29:12
I went um
29:15
Kyrgystan
29:17
Kazakhstanistan
29:20
and the three countries spent like six
29:22
weeks over there is freaking fantastic
29:24
and the the food in Isbekiststan is just
29:27
fantastic.
29:29
And some of the best food on the planet,
29:32
they make this stuff called pluff. And
29:35
if you can find a place that can cook,
29:38
you pluff. Now, Kyrgyzstan, they each
29:40
one of those stands has a different
29:42
version of something similar. And since
29:44
it's uh Asian, basically, it has um it's
29:48
got it's like put in a huge walk. So So,
29:52
but it's not really a walk. It's a it's
29:54
a great big
29:56
Oh my god. It's like a community bowl
29:58
that'll feed like I don't know 60 80
30:02
people and they make these huge amounts
30:05
of pluff and you watch them do it and uh
30:09
then some of them in the traditional
30:11
dress and whatnot from uh the Usuzbck or
30:14
Kazak or people that have been there for
30:16
for centuries you know in that area and
30:20
uh it's pretty it's pretty interesting
30:21
because they wear uh a lot of the
30:24
traditional clothing in my view reminded
30:27
me of Indian uh types of clothing. And
30:31
everybody says that the American Indian
30:33
came across the Bearing Straits, you
30:35
know, from uh the Asian uh world and was
30:39
part of the nomadic and roaming tribes
30:42
that that covered that area, you know,
30:44
and and wandered over there. And I
30:46
assume that they've got uh you know,
30:49
that the Russia and the Bearing Straight
30:50
thing. I've gone into that history
30:52
before. and uh the music, the culture,
30:55
the the the thousands of years of uh of
31:01
history that go on over there. Another
31:03
Stan, you know, it's near Pakistan. It's
31:06
near,
31:07
you know, it's an interesting The
31:10
cultural differences are freaking
31:12
amazing. And you're not going to solve
31:15
any cultural wars, you know, between
31:18
Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India,
31:22
China, any of the, you know, Georgia,
31:25
Azarbaijan, any of those places that
31:28
that you're going to resolve, Tajikistan
31:31
that you're going to resolve in any time
31:35
um
31:38
without having to consider the history
31:40
of where you came from. And the
31:42
unfortunate part is uh you know and the
31:44
tiein to this is that we never ever
31:48
consider that from anybody else's point
31:51
of view. We only consider it from oh
31:54
we're America
31:56
we're America. Of course of course
31:58
everybody wants to be an Americanbased
32:01
democracy you know a European-based
32:04
democracy. Didn't we didn't we uh we
32:07
being descendants of uh England you know
32:10
uh didn't as a country I mean didn't
32:13
didn't we uh rule India Nepal all those
32:18
places over there uh Sri Lanka
32:22
Bangladesh you all of those places were
32:25
colonies basically of the French of the
32:28
Dutch of the British of all those people
32:30
and a lot of them you know how long did
32:33
it take them to ease out, you know,
32:35
India still supposed to be uh
32:37
subordinate to us. Is that what's
32:39
supposed to be happening? China still
32:41
supposed to be subordinate to us. Uh
32:44
we're supposed to come in and cause all
32:46
kinds of problems. Uh bringing in
32:49
Georgia,
32:51
Georgia, the country of Georgia and and
32:54
and Azerbaijan and those countries were
32:56
supposed to uh help them become members
32:59
of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty
33:02
Organization. They aren't remotely close
33:04
to the North Atlantic Treaty or the
33:06
North Atlantic. You know, they're
33:08
nowhere close to it. But if we can get
33:10
in there and screw with them, we can uh
33:13
you know, make sure that uh uh you know,
33:16
Western democracy, you know, Allah,
33:19
Donald Trump survives, you know, and and
33:22
Joe Biden before him and Donald Trump
33:24
before him, Obama before them, you know,
33:27
and this is, you know, all the way back
33:29
to Bush one and in fact before that. But
33:33
back to 91
33:35
uh when you know you're you're out there
33:38
trying to make sure that uh you get your
33:41
chunk of the Soviet Union and you help
33:45
people like Latvia, Lithuania,
33:48
Estonia, um Bellarus, you help them all
33:53
uh fment their hate for um for Russia.
33:58
whatever hatred you can bring up uh
34:01
fairly or unfairly, it doesn't matter.
34:03
That's that's that's the that's that's
34:05
what we're supposed to do. We, you know,
34:08
I'm not supposed to be out here saying,
34:09
you know, live and let live or anything
34:11
like that. We're supposed to we're
34:13
supposed to hate Iran. Why? Nobody
34:16
knows. And uh except except these uh uh
34:22
decisions by people that say, "Oh,
34:24
they're just evil. They cut their babies
34:26
in half. you know, Donald Trump gets to
34:28
get up there. They cut women in half, be
34:30
had babies, you know, that's what
34:31
they're doing. Um,
34:33
well, you know, you could argue um that
34:37
America hasn't had all that uh colorful
34:39
a history either. you know, but when you
34:41
go back slavery,
34:44
death of Indians, I mean, if you want to
34:46
go back in history and talk about the
34:49
uh, you know, where we come from,
34:53
maybe we've got things that perhaps to
34:56
other
34:58
countries
35:00
like Iran, Persia don't uh don't sound
35:03
so positive for what uh, you know, what
35:07
they have, you know, their history and
35:10
where they come from and who they are.
35:13
I'm not saying they're correct. I'm
35:15
saying it's not our fight. Same thing I
35:17
said in uh same thing I said in Ukraine.
35:21
And I believe as a person who supported
35:25
the old Trumpster that he has
35:31
damaged
35:33
pretty much beyond repair
35:36
my thoughts of him as a uh as a global
35:42
peacemaker
35:44
which is what I was sold
35:48
by him. Um,
35:51
I I was I was sold that that he wasn't
35:54
going to start any more wars.
35:57
Um, that's that's what I was sold. And
36:01
was it Rubio that said, "No, no, no, no,
36:03
no. We didn't say that. He didn't say
36:06
there were weren't going to be ground
36:07
troops." He Mark Levin goes, he didn't
36:11
say there weren't going to be any ground
36:12
troops. He didn't say that we weren't
36:14
going to get involved in uh in in Iran,
36:19
that we weren't going to take Iran out.
36:21
He didn't say that. He never said that
36:23
at all. And um
36:26
I want to find this for you again
36:30
because it bears repeating
36:33
of no new war because he absolutely did
36:39
it. And um
36:42
this is this is
36:46
nuts what what he is telling
36:50
uh the world and then he completely did
36:54
a U-turn and I do not appreciate that.
36:58
Uh I don't like it. Um,
37:05
and I sure would hope that nobody else
37:10
um
37:13
supports that kind of thing either.
37:17
New no war, more no more more war. We
37:22
don't want any of that. Let's uh let's
37:25
do this again just because it bears
37:27
repeating. I've had so many people tell
37:29
me, "Donald Trump didn't say that." He
37:32
said he, you know, he he didn't say we
37:34
weren't gonna go into Iran.
37:38
That's that's not No, no, no. He never
37:41
said that. No, he didn't. Of course not.
37:45
And so let's uh not listen to what he
37:49
said.
37:50
>> I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.
37:53
People don't believe me.
37:56
>> People don't believe me. Vote for Donald
37:57
Trump is a vote for a man who wants to
38:00
end wars, not start them.
38:02
>> We do not want war with Iran. We
38:04
actually want peace. The Iranians are
38:06
clearly not very good at war. Perhaps
38:08
they should follow President Trump's
38:10
lead and give peace a chance.
38:11
>> Kamla is campaigning with wararm mongers
38:14
like Liz Cheney. How do you think that
38:15
is? She picks Liz Cheney whose father
38:20
virtually destroyed the Middle East. You
38:22
know, Liz Cheney, she talks big. Oh, I
38:24
want war. She always wants war. every
38:25
time I was with her in the White House.
38:27
We should attack this nation, that
38:29
nation, nations that people never even
38:32
heard of. We should attack. A big big
38:34
tough guy. She sits back in Washington.
38:36
Oh, we ought to go and attack Iran,
38:40
Iraq. We're going to attack everybody.
38:42
That's why I broke up with her. All she
38:44
wanted to do is go to war with
38:46
everybody. These war hawks, they want to
38:48
draft your kids to die in wars and they
38:52
will never fight themselves. You know,
38:54
we'll stay around the country for 15
38:55
years. Just bomb the hell out of
38:57
everybody. Make everybody miserable.
38:59
Nobody knows why we're there. You know,
39:01
the wars that never end. These endless
39:03
wars that we've been in, I've gotten us
39:05
out of so many. We don't want to get
39:06
into wars. We're tired of fighting. I'm
39:08
the only president in the last 84 years
39:12
that didn't start a war. Under Trump, we
39:14
will have no more wars. No more wars. No
39:17
more wars. We will
39:20
>> under Trump. We will have no more wars.
39:25
>> H curious.
39:26
>> Will have prosperity and peace. We will
39:29
have prosperity and we will have peace.
39:31
>> Remember, I'm the president of peace.
39:33
>> They said he will start a war. I'm not
39:34
going to start a war. I'm going to stop
39:36
wars. He's going to start a war. I said
39:38
no, no, no. My rhetoric is going to keep
39:40
us out of wars. And that's what
39:42
happened. My proudest legacy will be
39:45
that of a peacemaker. That's what I want
39:48
to be, a peacemaker. We will measure our
39:50
success not only by the battles we win,
39:53
but also by the wars that we end. And
39:56
perhaps most importantly, the wars we
39:58
never get into.
40:01
Our president will start a war with Iran
40:05
because he has absolutely no ability to
40:07
negotiate. He's weak and he's
40:09
ineffective. I believe that he will
40:12
attack Iran sometime prior to the
40:15
election because he thinks that's the
40:17
only way he can get elected. Isn't it
40:20
pathetic?
40:22
>> Yes, it is.
40:26
I uh am very much against it. I truly
40:30
am. So
40:36
Mhm.
40:39
Uh let's let's do one more thing.
40:44
Um
40:47
let's read this little deal here.
40:53
Um,
40:56
Spain,
40:58
this published yesterday,
41:00
Spain has closed its airspace
41:04
to aircraft linked to the USIsraeli war
41:08
on Iran, which is deepening the rift
41:11
with Washington over the now monthlong.
41:16
It's only going to be 5 days, then 10
41:19
days.
41:21
On Monday, Spanish Defense Minister
41:25
Margarita Robles said that aircraft
41:29
taking part in operations against Iran,
41:32
will not be allowed to operate in the
41:36
country's airspace, including US jets
41:39
based in other NATO countries such as
41:42
the UK or France. Madrid had already
41:45
barred the use of the jointly operated
41:49
ROA and Maron de la Fronta bases in
41:53
southern Spain for strike missions.
41:56
Robas told reporters that Spain would
41:59
not participate in or contribute to a
42:03
war initiated unilaterally and against
42:06
international law. Echoing Spanish Prime
42:10
Minister Pedro Sanchez who branded the
42:13
USIsraeli campaign as
42:17
illegal, reckless, and unjust.
42:21
Around 15 US KC135 tanker aircraft have
42:25
been relocated to bases in France and
42:28
Germany. According to Spanish media,
42:31
with Spain's airspace off limits, long
42:34
range B-52 and B1 bombers operating from
42:38
UK's Fairford Air Base must now fly
42:41
longer routes, reducing operational
42:44
efficiency and forcing tradeoff between
42:47
fuel and payload.
42:49
Madrid's decision first reported by El
42:54
Pace
42:55
is the most significant public break
42:58
with Washington by a major western ally.
43:04
Mhm.
43:06
Yeah. since the 2003 Iraq invasion when
43:11
Spain allowed the US use of its
43:14
territory despite domestic opposition.
43:18
Spain has been among the most outspoken
43:21
EU countries to oppose the Iran war,
43:25
withdrawing its ambassador from Israel
43:27
and downgrading
43:29
diplomatic
43:31
relations. Sanchez
43:34
has repeatedly urged an end to
43:36
hostilities, warning last week that it
43:39
could have much worse consequences than
43:42
the campaign in Iraq.
43:46
Spain's defiance has drawn criticism
43:49
from Trump, who has threatened trade
43:51
measures and recalled Madrid's failure
43:54
to meet NATO's 5% defense spending. They
43:57
said they weren't going to be higher
43:58
than two, at least that was four or five
44:00
months ago. While closing its airspace
44:03
and bases for missions against Iran,
44:05
Spain Spain says it remains committed to
44:08
a broader NATO obligation and continues
44:11
cooperation within the military alliance
44:14
and the EU on other security issues. US
44:18
military aircraft can still use Spain's
44:21
facilities under existing bilateral
44:24
agreements for logistics and support of
44:27
some 80,000 American troops based in
44:32
Europa in Europe.
44:38
Well,
44:41
a Russian tanker, I think two tankers, I
44:45
heard it was two that one of the two
44:49
tankers, one carrying crude oil and the
44:52
other one carrying uh liquid natural gas
44:56
uh arrived in Cuba. But uh I don't have
44:59
the details on the second one. This one
45:01
is short story. A Russian tanker arrived
45:04
in Cuba to deliver humanitarian oil
45:08
shipment amid monthsl long US blockade
45:12
that led to severe fuel shortages and
45:15
recurring power cuts across the island.
45:18
The reason I tell you this, you want to
45:20
know what what uh if I had to be a
45:23
betting man, if I had to make a choice
45:27
on what was going to happen in Iran, and
45:30
I really don't want to vote for the fact
45:32
that I believe that Netanyahu is going
45:35
to throw Netton Netanyahu.
45:39
He's a Yahoo. Net Netany
45:43
war Yahoo. um that guy uh is will
45:47
probably be the most likely to throw the
45:49
nuclear bomb. So, we got that. But if
45:52
you want to uh take it a step back from
45:55
that, here's Donald Trump's offramp.
45:59
Okay, where he can still claim victory.
46:04
He makes a deal with Iran, backs off.
46:07
Now, this is Sam thinking,
46:10
I don't know, trying to come up with
46:12
something positive out of this for the
46:14
old Trumpster. And he won't get anything
46:16
positive out of this. You know, he'll
46:18
have to capitulate in some respects with
46:21
what's going on in the Middle East. I
46:24
think uh that is um
46:27
unfortunate but true.
46:30
And I think um what
46:33
is far more likely is that Trump backs
46:36
off, regroups, and in the meantime does
46:41
his uh you know victory dance in Cuba
46:45
instead.
46:46
I saw an interesting article yesterday
46:48
that said the um the Russian deliveries
46:52
of fuel and of crude oil to um Cuba
47:01
are, you know, they'll help out. You
47:03
know, they haven't had any any new uh
47:05
they they've blocked Venezuelan oil from
47:08
getting there, the US blockade, but the
47:10
Americans are allowing the Russians in.
47:12
They don't want to have a confrontation
47:14
with Russia there right now. Can't can't
47:16
afford that kind of thing. uh you know
47:19
politically and so they allow Russia to
47:22
bring these things in but it's a small
47:25
amount
47:27
and you know it's a long way off and the
47:31
theory was you know my theory is
47:34
actually after putting all this together
47:37
is that this is how Trump diverts
47:40
attention because remember you take a
47:42
crisis and you end it by diverting
47:45
attention somewhere else so that people
47:48
don't recognize how badly you cocked it
47:50
up in the Middle East. You divert
47:53
everything over to Cuba. You take over
47:55
Cuba and you go, "Yeah, we're focused
47:58
back on the, you know, our west heat
48:00
yesterday. Was it yesterday or Sunday? I
48:02
don't remember." But he put a new map up
48:05
of the uh of the western hemisphere
48:08
included the US sphere of influence
48:11
includes Panama, includes Venezuela,
48:14
includes uh Cuba, includes Greenland,
48:17
all of Canada, you know, and the the
48:19
Arctic Circle up above it. And uh this
48:22
is this is Hegath and his Department of
48:26
War, you know, gez, this is us. We're in
48:28
charge. Well, all right. if if you want
48:31
to uh if if you're going to have to go
48:33
to regional
48:35
um which I believe ultimately we're
48:39
going to have to go to regional powers
48:43
um
48:45
then a focus on the western hemisphere
48:48
and uh that would be a way to ease out
48:52
and diverted all attention away from I
48:54
Iran
48:56
say well we don't give a crap about that
48:58
you know you guys you know we're no
49:00
longer going to try to control the
49:03
Straits of Hormuz or the Red Sea or
49:04
anything like that. We got our own fuel
49:07
and we've stolen all of Venezuela's. We
49:09
still have all the Western Hemisphere.
49:12
Uh it looks like you guys are on your
49:14
own. You know, you deal with Iran, you
49:16
know, but that would mean the
49:18
abandonment of uh of Israel. But right
49:21
now, what is the offramp for the old
49:24
Trumpster?
49:26
I mean, seriously, how do they get out
49:29
of this? They're they're stuck. It's
49:32
either escalation
49:34
or capitulation.
49:37
Escalation or agreeing, you know,
49:41
something.
49:43
I I'm I'm I'm curious to see what
49:45
happens. But this Russian tanker that I
49:48
think that's something that uh needs to
49:50
be folded into the mix. Uh Russia's
49:54
energy energy ministry reported that the
49:57
Anatoli Colodkin which was carrying
50:00
100,000 tons of crude oil docked at the
50:03
port of Montanzas and waits to be
50:08
unloaded.
50:09
Despite the Coast Guard,
50:12
US Coast Guard being present, the Trump
50:15
administration did not order those
50:18
vessels to act.
50:21
What could the Coast Guard do?
50:22
seriously. Um, barring orders
50:24
instructing it otherwise, the Coast
50:26
Guard planned to let the tanker reach
50:28
Cuba. As of Sunday, said the source. The
50:32
Russian tanker blah blah blah blah blah,
50:35
US President Trump, has repeatedly
50:37
threatened tariffs on countries
50:38
exporting fuel to Cuba. But speaking to
50:42
reporters on Air Force One, he confirmed
50:44
that Washington had allowed the Russian
50:47
tanker through on humanitarian grounds.
50:50
We don't mind having somebody get a
50:52
boatload because they need to survive.
50:55
He said, "I prefer letting it in whether
50:58
it's Russia or anybody else because the
51:01
people need heat and cooling." However,
51:05
Trump said he still expects Havana to
51:08
fail soon, saying that the US would be
51:11
there to help it out.
51:14
Right. And uh the Caribbean nation has
51:17
faced severe fuel shortages because
51:19
Trump blocked it. That's really helping
51:21
them out, right? Multiple international
51:23
fuel deliveries have been disrupted.
51:25
Vessels linked to Havana struggled to
51:27
secure supplies. Some have been turned
51:29
away or intercepted. One escorted away
51:32
from Cuba. Earlier this month, Havana
51:34
agreed to enter into talks with
51:36
Washington to diffuse tension. Cuban
51:38
President Miguel dez Canel confirmed the
51:41
negotiations were ongoing and aimed at
51:43
finding solutions through dialogue and
51:44
bilateral differences between nations.
51:47
However, Trump has not abandoned his
51:49
intention to take over the island one
51:53
way or another. I I
51:57
on Friday he said Cuba could be next
52:00
following you know Venezuela and then
52:02
Iran then Cuba you know
52:06
I
52:09
I don't get it.
52:12
This came uh when when did this get
52:15
published? The day before. Uh US
52:19
President Trump said Cuba will be next
52:22
in talking about the success of his
52:25
operations in Iran and Venezuela. The
52:28
threat came amid uh you know well
52:31
despite Havana agreeing to talks with
52:34
Washington in a bid to find solutions
52:36
through dialogue and bilateral
52:38
differences between the nations uh
52:41
speaking on the investment form in Miami
52:44
Friday. The president said his policy of
52:47
peace through strength, including the
52:49
raid to abduct President Maduro in
52:52
January and the war on Iran,
52:57
have been very, very successful. I built
53:01
this great military. I said he'll never
53:04
have to use it, but sometimes you have
53:06
to use it. And Cuba's next, by the way,
53:08
he told the audience. But pretend I
53:11
didn't say that. Please pretend I didn't
53:13
say it. Please, please, please, media,
53:16
please regard that statement. Thank you
53:19
very much. Cuba's next.
53:22
Trump has repeatedly threatened to take
53:25
Cuba, warning of a total oil blockade
53:28
and tariffs on countries supplying fuel
53:30
to the island. Cuba faces severe fuel
53:33
shortages and power cuts. On Saturday,
53:35
Cuban Minister Bruno Rodriguez condemned
53:38
Washington's blockade, calling it brutal
53:41
onslaught. For more than 67 years, the
53:44
US has imposed economic warfare against
53:47
Cuba with the intention to harm the
53:50
economy and deny access to markets and
53:52
technology. This is a ruthless
53:55
aggression against an incompetent
53:58
uh supposedly incompetent Cuban
54:01
government. Cuba has launched nationwide
54:05
civilian military drills involving
54:07
reserveists and part of its war of the
54:10
people defense doctrine. Before the
54:12
energy blockade, daily life for most
54:15
Cubans was defined by scarcity. The
54:19
average salary is about 600 6,830
54:24
Cuban pesos per month, which is about uh
54:28
an informal exchange is about $30 a
54:31
month.
54:32
Families have long relied on remittance
54:35
sentence from sent from relatives
54:37
abroad.
54:39
Yep. Net immigration surpassed 500,000
54:44
in the two years leading up to the
54:47
crisis. You know, there's a lot of
54:48
Cubans in Russia. Did you know that?
54:51
There's quite a few of them. Um
54:55
I don't know. Iranian ambassador to um
54:59
Russia,
55:01
a guy named Kazim Jalali um said this
55:06
said that uh Thran is a rational player
55:09
not looking for war. Iran does not
55:12
currently need negotiation and remains a
55:14
rational player not looking for war.
55:20
This was on the show that Sanchez
55:22
effect. I played you part of it, you
55:24
know, a different version of it last
55:26
week. Um, he said Iran has never denied
55:30
peace talks, but says there must be
55:32
proper conditions before any dialogue.
55:35
Iranian diplomat dismissed Trump's
55:37
claims that Tyran is negotiating with
55:41
Washington and says that these
55:44
statements are completely false. He
55:47
noted that Iranian officials repeatedly
55:50
denied the talks and said some Americans
55:54
uh you know have sarcastically written
55:57
that Trump is
56:00
this is true. Trump is almost surely
56:03
sitting in front of a mirror negotiating
56:05
with himself
56:07
is according to this Jalali guy. Uh
56:10
Jalali argued that Washington is talking
56:12
up negotiations to undermine Iran's
56:15
internal unity and control energy prices
56:18
because there's a lot of people making a
56:21
lot of money off the fluctuating prices
56:24
of oil. A lot of them. And in the how is
56:27
it that they always seem to know, you
56:29
know, five to 10 minutes before the uh
56:32
announcement that uh this is going to
56:35
occur and then everybody makes their
56:38
billions on the uh manipulation of
56:41
futures and the markets. Um he and you
56:45
know, Jalali is pretty blunt about it.
56:47
He says this is an attempt to control
56:50
energy prices and at the same time Trump
56:53
and Israel are planning to strike Iran
56:56
some more.
56:58
White House press secretary Carolyn
57:00
Levit said on Monday that talks between
57:03
the US and Iran are continuing going
57:05
well. No details though nobody can tell
57:08
us who they are speaking to. Oh, it's a
57:11
high up person. Nobody tells you who it
57:13
is. Why is that? She claimed that what
57:16
is being said publicly is much different
57:18
than what's being communicated to us
57:20
privately. Well, tell us who you're
57:22
talking to then. I don't Why can't we
57:24
know? If there's really somebody
57:26
negotiating, call them out. Just quit
57:29
quit saying, "Oh, no, no. We're surely
57:31
doing a lot of negotiating. Who the hell
57:32
are you negotiating with? They aren't
57:34
talking to Witkoff." You know, nobody's
57:36
talking to him. You can't tell us who
57:38
the negotiation team is. Obviously,
57:40
there's no negotiation team. What would
57:43
be the point of hiding that? Seriously,
57:47
somebody somebody u uh riddle me this,
57:50
right?
57:53
Crazy. Let's see.
57:59
Wow. Here's a new one. Did you see this
58:02
video? I haven't seen this. Honolulu.
58:05
This occurred in Honolulu.
58:07
Um they had a you know this Sunday they
58:10
had this no kings. So when I lived I
58:13
mean I still live in I have a residence
58:16
in Florida, let's put it that way and so
58:18
you know I still can you know go back
58:20
and forth and whatnot and um get this
58:24
where you'd see these no kings protests
58:27
against Trump and his domestic policies.
58:29
No, I'm not for any of that.
58:30
Domestically I I'm generally for the old
58:35
Trumpster. internationally. The guy's a
58:36
mess and uh the cheerleaders he's got in
58:40
the Department of War are bunch of
58:43
lunatics. And uh however, nationally,
58:47
I'm generally
58:49
supportive. Let's call it that. Um now
58:53
there's been footage in Hawaii that
58:55
shows a man wearing clothing resembling
58:58
Immigration's Customs Enforcement
59:00
uniforms, guy being attacked in
59:03
Honolulu. Um protesters took to the
59:06
street across all 50 states on oh sorry
59:09
it wasn't Sunday it was Saturday to
59:11
oppose Trump's administration uh
59:14
including the flagging economy rising
59:16
cost of living conflict with Iran
59:19
immigration enforcement t tactics video
59:23
circulating online from a no king's
59:26
protest in Hondulu shows several people
59:30
assaulting a man wearing clothing of ICE
59:34
striking him in the head, knocking him
59:36
to the ground before others intervened.
59:39
According to the Honolulu police, an
59:42
incident occurred Saturday night.
59:44
15-year-old was arrested on seconddegree
59:47
assault charges in connection with the
59:49
attack, although authorities have not
59:51
confirmed whether the man was actually
59:53
an ICE agent or not. Organizers estimate
59:57
that at least 8 million participants
1:00:00
took part in more than 3,300 events
1:00:04
nationwide in the latest No Kings
1:00:07
protest, making it one of the largest
1:00:09
single day protest movements in recent
1:00:12
years. Earlier rounds in the protest
1:00:15
gathered over over
1:00:18
um
1:00:20
that that can't be right. earlier rounds
1:00:24
gathered five people in June last year
1:00:27
and seven in October last year. I don't
1:00:30
think that's correct. They got their
1:00:31
numbers incorrect, but that's literally
1:00:33
what it says in the article. Largest of
1:00:35
protests took place in New York, Dallas,
1:00:38
Philly, and Washington. Um said that 40%
1:00:42
um of the demonstrations were held
1:00:44
outside major cities. The main event was
1:00:47
held in Minneapolis, which is the focal
1:00:50
point of the administration's hardline
1:00:52
immigration crackdown. Um,
1:00:56
you know, that that uh
1:00:59
how do I want to put this? I I don't
1:01:01
want to say anything negative or or too
1:01:03
positive about it. I I think uh the
1:01:06
militarization
1:01:08
of ICE I I don't really care for but uh
1:01:12
you know generally I'm supportive of um
1:01:14
people not being in the country um
1:01:19
you know illegally
1:01:22
had an interesting conversation. So, I'm
1:01:25
going to talk about this on uh Friday in
1:01:28
my uh civic outlaws and uh I'm I'm
1:01:31
working on this article and I wanted to
1:01:33
put this this information out there. In
1:01:36
the last few days, there have been quite
1:01:40
a bit of uh
1:01:43
there has been quite a bit of commentary
1:01:46
and stories about once again ATC
1:01:51
coming out and this time
1:01:55
uh talking about
1:01:59
granting licenses for alcohol,
1:02:03
alcohol licenses to
1:02:07
illegal immigrants, to people who aren't
1:02:11
even citizens, you know, and uh that
1:02:14
they're they're So, one of the big
1:02:16
things that we we fought and have been
1:02:19
fighting and will continue to fight is
1:02:21
this nonsensical
1:02:24
uh remember me talking about the
1:02:27
article, or if you don't, you can go out
1:02:29
to civicoutlaws.com
1:02:30
and read one of the first articles or
1:02:32
listen to one of the first
1:02:35
um of the I think so far se I think I've
1:02:37
been doing it seven weeks for Civic
1:02:40
Outlaws. Um, and I do that every uh
1:02:43
every Friday from uh 7:00 a.m. to um
1:02:47
8:30 a.m. And
1:02:51
one of the first ones talked about how
1:02:55
in this court hearing in December, the
1:03:00
attorney general's office was talking
1:03:02
about the
1:03:05
use by alcohol and tobacco control of
1:03:10
somebody's character and saying, "Well,
1:03:13
they're breaking the law." the, you
1:03:15
know, this person is breaking the law
1:03:18
because who knows what. Uh, one of the
1:03:20
statements was the the officer was able
1:03:23
to hide a beer under his jacket and walk
1:03:26
out with it even though the door there's
1:03:29
a sign on the door and like there is in
1:03:32
every place that says no alcohol beyond
1:03:34
this point, right? You have to have
1:03:36
procedures for that. perhaps a uh a
1:03:40
camera, perhaps this signage that tells
1:03:42
people what it is, but you don't have to
1:03:44
necessarily have a person standing there
1:03:46
frisking people as they walk out the
1:03:48
door. So, one of the things of this uh
1:03:51
particular license uh alleged violation
1:03:55
was the officer hides the alcohol, runs
1:03:58
outside with it, and then says, "You
1:04:01
broke the law because I was able to run
1:04:03
out with a beer." Okay. And then that
1:04:07
discussion came out in one of the first
1:04:09
articles I wrote where the uh where the
1:04:11
the
1:04:13
uh you know talking about
1:04:16
breaking the law means
1:04:19
according to ATC
1:04:21
in their sole discretion and no no uh
1:04:24
you know they can punish you before you
1:04:27
ever get to have a judge hear it. your
1:04:30
your punishment costs you, you know, a
1:04:33
lot of business, a lot of your business
1:04:35
because they claim that you are uh
1:04:40
uh that your character is flawed because
1:04:43
you're breaking the law, right? Well, by
1:04:46
the same token, if you're giving an
1:04:49
alcohol and to, you know, alcohol
1:04:51
license, a liquor license to sell liquor
1:04:55
in your Mexican restaurant and you're an
1:04:58
illegal Well,
1:05:02
how in the world is that character not
1:05:05
analyzed? Remember Judge Judge Stumpy I
1:05:08
told you about in this in the
1:05:10
questioning that he did in the
1:05:11
transcript of this was like all right
1:05:13
suppose I'm going 73 and a 70 is that
1:05:16
enough to uh break bring about this uh
1:05:19
character flaw and the AG goes well
1:05:23
that'd be ludicrous judge that'd be
1:05:25
ridiculous you know nobody clearly
1:05:27
nobody would do that but you know say
1:05:29
somebody's getting raped in the back
1:05:31
room you know that's a crime well yeah
1:05:33
but somebody would call the police too.
1:05:36
You know, um obviously, you know, that's
1:05:39
that's a little bit different. But is it
1:05:41
the crime that's going to be
1:05:44
attacked as a crime or is it a license
1:05:49
that's going to be attacked as a
1:05:50
license? And that's the discussion. But
1:05:53
I'm I'm I'm going through and finding
1:05:55
out what I'm trying to do is get enough
1:05:58
sunshine information to discover and I'm
1:06:00
going to have to do it again. And it
1:06:02
might take me a little bit. So, I could
1:06:03
be a week off before I get all of the
1:06:06
information that I'm trying to get
1:06:09
that I'm interested in gathering that um
1:06:13
it could be that
1:06:16
these people that the targeting
1:06:21
you can't how do I want to put it that
1:06:23
the people who are granting the licenses
1:06:25
are okay with people being illegal
1:06:27
that's not considered a crime right in
1:06:30
in a lot of spheres it's not you know
1:06:32
that's just, oh gee, they're trying to
1:06:34
better their lives. Well, so is
1:06:36
everybody else trying to get a liquor
1:06:38
license. They're trying to maintain a
1:06:40
business. Who are you to pick and
1:06:42
choose? By the way, this is the
1:06:43
argument. Which
1:06:46
which violations of the law
1:06:50
affect your character? Right? Is it the
1:06:54
officer sneaking out with a bottle of
1:06:56
alcohol and claiming that you broke the
1:06:59
law cuz you didn't stop him? First of
1:07:01
all, I think that's entrapment anyway.
1:07:03
You know, you go you go break the law
1:07:05
yourself and then use it as a way to say
1:07:08
somebody else's character is flawed.
1:07:10
Well, what about the officer the
1:07:12
officer? What about the agent who snuck
1:07:15
it out the door in the first place? You
1:07:18
know, and contrary to what the sign says
1:07:20
on the front of it, all you got to do is
1:07:22
have a procedure in place. Your
1:07:24
procedure is we have a sign, we randomly
1:07:26
check, if we see anybody, we stop them.
1:07:29
Okay? But that doesn't mean that people
1:07:31
aren't going to get away with it
1:07:32
sometime. I remember I walked out. I was
1:07:35
in downtown Columbia and uh one night
1:07:39
some kind of a a pub crawl or something
1:07:42
like that. I forget what they call them.
1:07:44
I guess it's a pub crawl when you go bar
1:07:46
to bar to bar down on uh uh whatever
1:07:49
that main street is in Colombia. And you
1:07:51
go bouncing around. And I remember
1:07:54
getting stopped by the police about four
1:07:57
blocks away from where I walked out of a
1:08:00
club carrying a uh uh a drink, you know,
1:08:04
and I had a I had a drink. I had the
1:08:06
glass and everything. It was I'm walking
1:08:09
down the street carrying a glass and uh
1:08:12
I never even thought about I wasn't
1:08:13
drunk, you know. I was just walk I
1:08:15
walked out the door with it, you know.
1:08:17
Nobody nobody said anything. I suppose
1:08:18
that arguably, you know, my character is
1:08:20
flawed for life because of that, you
1:08:22
know, cuz I wandered out without a beer.
1:08:25
What about the officer who did it
1:08:26
intentionally to entrap somebody into
1:08:29
saying that, geez, look, they're letting
1:08:31
people walk out the door. Why? Because I
1:08:34
got away with it. What? That's nonsense.
1:08:37
Um, at any rate, uh, crazy crazy stuff.
1:08:43
And we're going to get further into that
1:08:45
uh on Friday is is my plan uh to put
1:08:49
some of that out there.
1:08:52
Um
1:08:55
let's see. I wanted to do a bit of a
1:08:57
followup, you know, speaking of criminal
1:09:00
things.
1:09:02
Let's see. And and I always wondered
1:09:04
about this and I I'm I'm going to get on
1:09:06
the federal um court website for the
1:09:11
which one is it? Eastern District of New
1:09:13
York. I don't remember but where Maduro
1:09:16
and his wife Flores are uh are uh being
1:09:20
held. US pro according to u uh um
1:09:26
Maduro's son. US prosecutors have
1:09:29
nothing on Venezuelan President Nicholas
1:09:32
Maduro abducted by US commandos in early
1:09:36
January and indicted on several charges
1:09:39
relating to drug drug trafficking a
1:09:41
weapons possession national assembly
1:09:44
deputy and his son Nicholas Maduro Gera
1:09:47
has uh stated a member of Venezuela's
1:09:52
national assembly he said his father's
1:09:54
defense team has pre presented arguments
1:09:57
During the trial, "There is no evidence
1:09:59
that Maduro and Celia Flores committed
1:10:02
crimes," he stressed. The Venezuelan
1:10:04
president and his spouse face charges of
1:10:07
narot terrorism conspiracy,
1:10:11
cocaine importation conspiracy,
1:10:15
possession of machine guns,
1:10:20
possession of machine guns
1:10:25
and destructive devices.
1:10:29
What?
1:10:31
You're not allowed as the president of a
1:10:34
foreign country to possess machine guns
1:10:37
and destructive devices and conspiracy
1:10:40
to possess machine guns and destructive
1:10:44
devices against the United States. As a
1:10:47
foreign leader, you're not allowed to do
1:10:49
it. So, you could arrest anybody.
1:10:51
You know, you could arrest them. You
1:10:53
could arrest them for being an enemy of
1:10:55
America, right?
1:10:57
So arguably, if you could figure out how
1:10:59
to get into Iran and you didn't just
1:11:01
blow them all up, you could get in there
1:11:03
and arrest any leader that you wanted to
1:11:06
that possessed a machine gun.
1:11:09
I can't I I've got to download these and
1:11:12
I've been meaning to do it for a little
1:11:13
bit because this Maduro thing I think is
1:11:16
a hugest of jokes and it's the most
1:11:19
illegal of BS. you know, there was zero
1:11:23
international law being followed and
1:11:26
they got extremely creative with
1:11:29
bringing a person into another country.
1:11:32
Okay? So, if I go to um I don't know,
1:11:36
another country and engage in bribery
1:11:39
with somebody,
1:11:41
it's not illegal in some other
1:11:42
countries. In other countries, it's
1:11:44
actually a time-honored tradition, you
1:11:46
know, that people that's that's part of
1:11:49
the cost of doing business, you know, is
1:11:51
doing um you know, bribery, paying your
1:11:54
paying the the fee, you know, paying the
1:11:57
freight, right? And uh how in the world
1:12:02
are you going to charge someone with a
1:12:04
crime? Most most of jurisdiction
1:12:06
requires it to be done in the
1:12:08
jurisdiction. If you commit murder in
1:12:10
another country, you can't be charged
1:12:12
with it here. It's nonsense. And uh in
1:12:16
general, now there's got to be some
1:12:18
pretty creative uh they brought him here
1:12:23
in order to charge him. So they
1:12:26
kidnapped him in order to get
1:12:28
jurisdiction over him. Okay. So, so that
1:12:32
so breaking the law in order to enforce
1:12:35
a law is something I've been bitching
1:12:36
about forever. You know, you've heard me
1:12:38
talk about this where it's a timehonored
1:12:41
uh it's very positive policing. If the
1:12:44
police lie to you in an effort to get
1:12:47
you to talk, that's considered good
1:12:50
police work. But if you lie to them,
1:12:53
even inadvertently, it's a crime. You
1:12:56
know, it's a gez, you can be charged
1:12:59
with lying to an investigator as a
1:13:02
separate felony, separate crime. Uh I
1:13:05
disagree with that. Always have. I think
1:13:06
it's BS. You know, of course you're
1:13:08
going to lie to him. You know, it should
1:13:10
be on you to prove the case without
1:13:12
trying to get him to to lie, you know.
1:13:15
Well, that's why you always your lawyer
1:13:17
should always encourage you to shut your
1:13:19
mouth and not talk, right? So, um
1:13:25
let's see. The Venezuelan president
1:13:29
and his spouse face charges of, you
1:13:32
know, all these things and both entered
1:13:34
their not guilty plea. The US has long
1:13:38
accused Maduro of having links to drug
1:13:41
cartels and has flooded America with
1:13:44
narcotics while refusing to recognize
1:13:47
him as legitimate leader
1:13:50
in Venezuela and offered a $50 million
1:13:54
bounty for information leading to his
1:13:56
arrest and conviction. The Venezuelan
1:14:00
president vehemently denies the
1:14:03
accusations, argues that Washington has
1:14:05
been using them as a pretext for
1:14:07
military aggression with a view to
1:14:09
toppling a government. Last month,
1:14:12
Venezuelan Vice President Rodriguez, who
1:14:15
assumed power, emphasized that rem
1:14:18
Maduro remains Venezuela's legitimate
1:14:21
head of state despite his capture.
1:14:24
Speaking in January, Russian Foreign
1:14:27
Minister Sergey Victor Lavrov
1:14:30
characterized Maduro's objection
1:14:32
abduction by US as a flagrant violation
1:14:36
of international law. By the way, it is.
1:14:40
He said at the time that the assessment
1:14:43
was shared by uh that his assessment is
1:14:46
uh shared by an overwhelming global
1:14:49
majority and that is actually true. Um,
1:14:54
most people think that what occurred in
1:14:57
Venezuela is completely illegal and not
1:15:01
remotely
1:15:03
in um keeping with international law.
1:15:07
It's just not there. And so, uh, you
1:15:10
know, that's bad news.
1:15:13
Let's see. Let's we're going to go back
1:15:16
to the Middle East for a little bit.
1:15:20
Kuwait has accused Iran of carrying out
1:15:23
an attack on one of its combined power
1:15:26
and desalinization plants on Sunday.
1:15:31
This nation, you know, Kuwait, depends
1:15:33
heavily on industrial production to meet
1:15:36
its freshwater needs. The purported
1:15:40
strike killed one worker who's an Indian
1:15:42
national and caused extensive damage to
1:15:45
the to a service building. The
1:15:48
authorities have not disclosed which
1:15:50
facility was struck or whether
1:15:52
electricity or water produced has been
1:15:54
disrupted. The spokeswoman said
1:15:56
emergency teams are assessing the damage
1:15:59
and urge residents to ignore
1:16:02
speculation.
1:16:04
Thran hasn't responded to the
1:16:06
accusations, but Iranian media reported
1:16:08
a fire at the Sabaya power plant,
1:16:12
mistakenly identified it as the Doha
1:16:14
West facility, another combined power
1:16:17
and desalinization plant 50 kilometers
1:16:20
away. So, how crucial is the Sabaya
1:16:23
facility? Kuwait operates six
1:16:27
governmentowned thermal plants that
1:16:29
produce both electricity and desalinated
1:16:32
water. The Sabaya plant, which was
1:16:35
launched in 98
1:16:37
and expanded several times since then,
1:16:41
generates 5,300
1:16:43
megawatt
1:16:45
of electricity per hour and roughly 34
1:16:49
340,000
1:16:51
cubic meters of water a day. The
1:16:54
country's largest single water producer,
1:16:57
the Azour South plant, has a capacity of
1:17:00
of pretty much double that at 670,000
1:17:04
cubic meters per day. Water scarcity is
1:17:08
a defining challenge in that region.
1:17:11
Kuwait is particularly
1:17:14
constrained. According to the UN,
1:17:17
it has access to 4 cubic meters of
1:17:21
naturally renewable fresh water per
1:17:25
person annually compared to 296
1:17:30
cubic meters in relatively water- richch
1:17:32
Oman. Modern living standards require
1:17:36
about 1,700 cubic meters per person per
1:17:40
year according you know accounts for all
1:17:43
their needs uh from thirst to food to
1:17:47
you know whatever desalinization
1:17:50
supplies a large share of this drinking
1:17:53
water ranging from 42% in the UAE to 99%
1:17:58
in Qatar industrial op operations such
1:18:02
as data centers and petrol rochemical
1:18:04
facilities further drive this demand.
1:18:07
The GCC countries have been heavily
1:18:10
investing in desalination
1:18:13
after the 79 oil crisis with their
1:18:16
surplus wealth while thermal
1:18:19
desalinization remains important.
1:18:22
Seawater reverse osmosis which uses
1:18:25
membranes to remove salt is the dominant
1:18:29
technology. Today, more than 3,400
1:18:32
desalinization plants operate across the
1:18:35
Gulf that com that produce 22 million
1:18:39
cubic meters of water daily, onethird of
1:18:43
global capacity, desalinization
1:18:46
capacity. Anyway,
1:18:50
so the region's reliance on desal
1:18:52
desalination combined with limited
1:18:55
shortages especially in Bahrain, Kuwait,
1:18:58
Qatar, make these systems highly
1:19:00
sensitive to disruption and major damage
1:19:04
can quickly escalate into a humanitarian
1:19:07
emergency.
1:19:09
Um,
1:19:11
let's see. the USIsrael regime change
1:19:15
war against Iran. How do you like that?
1:19:18
That's like Vladimir Putin's uh
1:19:20
unprovoked
1:19:22
uh aggression into u into uh unprovoked
1:19:27
war into Ukraine. Well, here we say it
1:19:29
now. Now, this is what you have to say.
1:19:32
The USIsraeli regime change war against
1:19:35
Iran has already seen incidents
1:19:38
affecting critical infrastructure debris
1:19:41
from Iranian drones and missiles cause
1:19:44
unintended damage at UAE's Fujira F1
1:19:47
plant and Kuwait's Doha West facility.
1:19:50
Iran accuses the US of striking its
1:19:53
desalinization plant on Kessum Island,
1:19:57
saying the attack threatened water
1:19:58
supplies for 30 villages. Foreign
1:20:02
Minister Aragshi called it a precedent
1:20:04
and a dangerous move with grave
1:20:06
consequences. The following day, Bahrain
1:20:10
reported an Iranian drone hit one of its
1:20:12
plants.
1:20:14
The incident coincided with major
1:20:16
emergency in Thran after Israeli strikes
1:20:18
hit oil storage. Residents in the
1:20:20
Iranian capital, breathing difficulties
1:20:23
due to toxic smoke. Have you seen the u
1:20:26
what is it? Phosphorus that they're
1:20:27
releasing into the air. The Israelis are
1:20:30
bombing with uh phosphorus, burning
1:20:34
people's lungs and whatnot. Uh not good.
1:20:37
During the 91 Gulf War, Iraqi forces
1:20:40
damaged Kuwaiti water facilities before
1:20:42
being driven out by the US forces.
1:20:45
Offshore oil spills believed to have
1:20:48
been deliberate also threatened
1:20:50
filtration intake systems which are more
1:20:53
vulnerable to ple pollutants than
1:20:55
thermal. Kuwait was forced to impose
1:20:58
water rationing and import. In Yemen,
1:21:00
Saudiled military operations in the
1:21:03
2010s included strikes on desalination.
1:21:06
Meanwhile, Houthi's force target forces
1:21:10
targeted Saudi plants with missiles in
1:21:13
2019 and 2022.
1:21:17
More recently, Israel's military
1:21:20
campaign in Gaza following the 2023
1:21:24
Hamas attack caused widespread damage to
1:21:28
desalinization
1:21:30
systems.
1:21:32
This is not going to end well, no matter
1:21:34
how you slice it.
1:21:40
Yeah.
1:21:43
Where are we? Oh, yeah. There was a spy
1:21:46
uh captured in uh uh or expelled from
1:21:51
from Russia. The Moscow Moscow has
1:21:55
expelled a UK diplomat, a British
1:21:58
diplomat in Moscow, stripped of his
1:22:00
accreditation and ordered to leave the
1:22:02
country after conducting intelligence
1:22:04
and subversive activities under the
1:22:07
cover of his embassy post. The officer
1:22:10
identified as Albertus Jans van Wrenberg
1:22:15
served as second secretary at the UK
1:22:17
embassy in Moscow. According to the FSB,
1:22:20
the diplomat deliberately provided false
1:22:23
information when applying for his entry.
1:22:26
Uh, you know, and that violates Russian
1:22:30
law. The FSB said it had recorded
1:22:32
attempts to obtain sensitive information
1:22:35
during informal meetings with Russian
1:22:37
experts in the field of economics.
1:22:40
The diplomat has been given two weeks to
1:22:42
get the hell out. uh the Russian foreign
1:22:45
ministry summoned the UK's charge
1:22:47
defairs uh Da Doolakia to officially
1:22:52
lodge a protest. In brief appearance
1:22:54
outside the ministry, Dolakia was seen
1:22:56
arriving with van Rensber before
1:22:58
entering without commenting to
1:23:00
journalists.
1:23:03
So there was a there's been some a great
1:23:06
deal of uh discussion over this in the
1:23:09
last uh 24 hours, 48 hours. So, Ukraine
1:23:15
has been attacking very far north into
1:23:20
Russia with drones. And in the last 48
1:23:23
hours, there have been several drones
1:23:28
that f that fell in that crash, landed
1:23:32
or blew up or whatever in Finland. Okay.
1:23:36
Now, Finland has a a a border with
1:23:39
Russia, and so in order to get to St.
1:23:43
Petersburg, people have been, you know,
1:23:45
you'd have to fly a hell of a long way
1:23:48
from the uh uh Ukrainian border. So,
1:23:50
what they're saying now is, and it
1:23:52
appears to be the case because Finland's
1:23:54
even saying it, that Ukrainian drones
1:23:58
are flying over Finland.
1:24:02
H curiouser and curiouser. So why I mean
1:24:07
that would mean I suppose that um you
1:24:11
could use
1:24:12
Iran but let's say this suppose Iran
1:24:16
used Egypt to fly over their airspace to
1:24:21
bomb Israel. That's a similar, right?
1:24:25
That's a similar uh uh
1:24:29
uh I don't know method of attacking into
1:24:33
Israel, right? You don't have to
1:24:35
ballistic missile over way up in the air
1:24:37
or anything. you can go use the uh the
1:24:41
uh airspace of Egypt just like and
1:24:43
they're saying that just like in the
1:24:46
earlier in this uh broadcast here talked
1:24:50
about Spain saying American planes
1:24:53
cannot use uh Spanish airspace.
1:24:57
Well, either Finland is allowing, you
1:25:01
know, Ukraine to use its airspace to
1:25:06
attack Russia and therefore Russia
1:25:10
should be justified in attacking the
1:25:12
Finnish airspace.
1:25:14
Very curious. We wonder how it's, you
1:25:17
know,
1:25:19
rules, rules, rules. where where are
1:25:22
they and how do they count, you know,
1:25:24
and do you have to be do you have to be
1:25:26
upfront and open about it, you know, or
1:25:30
does doing so make you one of the
1:25:33
enemies? Or did Finland even know that
1:25:38
this is what was occurring? We don't
1:25:41
know. Well, um, we're going to ease on
1:25:45
out of the program today and, uh, I'll
1:25:49
I'll stick around to make sure that the
1:25:51
the music transfers properly. I'm not
1:25:55
sure what has occurred. Way back in the
1:25:58
beginning of the show, uh, when I was
1:26:01
talking about it, um, but there was a a
1:26:05
a couple of periods of no music. It's
1:26:09
really weird. It wasn't just going on to
1:26:11
the next song like it usually does. Um,
1:26:14
at any rate, uh, I am Samuel Trap. This
1:26:16
is International Flavor. Tomorrow,
1:26:21
um,
1:26:23
is Wednesday,
1:26:24
and you know what that means here at
1:26:26
damradio.comlive.
1:26:29
It's the greatest day in radio. Many
1:26:32
shows, many things to discuss and to
1:26:35
talk about. um many um programs to uh
1:26:42
review with us. If we go to the schedule
1:26:46
and look at what is going on tomorrow,
1:26:48
today we have JR coming in for the
1:26:51
really big shoe at uh 2 p.m. And after
1:26:54
that we have Search Solutions with Josh
1:26:56
uh Butterfield. After that, tomorrow we
1:26:59
have me with International Flavor. We
1:27:01
have The Damn Swag with Jimmy Tibo. We
1:27:03
have Gabby Hayes Show. He's been on a
1:27:05
roll lately. be very good to listen to.
1:27:07
Oh, looks like he's got a special guest.
1:27:10
Willie. Plain old Willie. I don't know
1:27:12
what that means, but that'll be Willy or
1:27:15
won't he? I don't know. But he's got a
1:27:17
special guest named Willie. Then we have
1:27:20
the really big shoe with JR. We have
1:27:22
Search of Solutions. And then we have
1:27:24
the Ike Skelton radio program. All
1:27:26
coming up for you tomorrow, April 1st,
1:27:30
which could be April Fool's Day in some
1:27:32
countries. and uh you should definitely
1:27:36
participate. What would it be in the 1st
1:27:38
of April? Uh
1:27:42
many things going on. And that's uh
1:27:45
Wednesday. Then uh Thursday,
1:27:49
um I can't decide if I'm going to do my
1:27:51
show or not. I may be traveling. I'm
1:27:53
going to try to, but I'll be in K by
1:27:56
that time. And then Friday, I do plan on
1:27:58
doing my uh my show for uh Civic Outlaws
1:28:03
where I will be on from 7 am to 8:30
1:28:05
a.m. for Civic Outlaws. And so uh I hope
1:28:08
to have that article created for you and
1:28:11
go over the uh the uh
1:28:16
lot of interesting things going on. I I
1:28:18
intend to uh check out the uh like I
1:28:20
told you earlier, the granting of liquor
1:28:24
license to illegal aliens. I want to
1:28:26
review some of that and I also want to
1:28:28
talk about the beating up of the uh
1:28:32
marijuana uh licensing or u regulation
1:28:36
agency the Missouri's regulation that
1:28:38
has been obvious well according to the
1:28:40
court um the appellet court uh western
1:28:44
district of Missouri that uh uh has been
1:28:48
quite the failure you know that they
1:28:50
haven't been consistent in what they're
1:28:52
doing. So, I hope you join us tomorrow
1:28:54
for that uh uh discuss well on Friday
1:28:59
for that discussion. I hope that you uh
1:29:02
continue to listen to damnadio.comlive
1:29:05
and be sure to stay tuned for tomorrow
1:29:07
or listen to uh all of the good music
1:29:10
when talk is not occurring. It's great
1:29:12
music on this station. So, continue to
1:29:15
listen. Have a very beautiful mid
1:29:17
Missouri day.