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Frozen Funds, Failing Fronts, Financial Fantasy: Europe’s Desperation, Ukraine’s Decline, and Missouri’s Manufactured Morality · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning, welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International Flavor.
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I'm going to strike reverse that.
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Do you remember that?
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It's one of my favorite parts of Willy Wonka.
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When Gene Wilder played Willy, he would say, strike, reverse that, and then she'd reverse
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it.
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I always liked striking things.
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Strike!
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As a lawyer, you can just say, strike, and suddenly it didn't happen.
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Move to strike.
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You would move the judge to strike something that someone said, some pleading that someone
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That's a nonsensical document that I don't support in any way, shape, or fashion.
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What was that from Liar, Liar?
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When Jim Carrey would go, because it's devastating to my case, your honor, right?
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So that's what we're here to talk about this morning, is things that are devastating to
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the case of normalism in Europe.
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Europe's a bunch of nuts, okay?
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Okay, as example number, who knows what, there's so many of them, it's hard to say what all
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the examples are.
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Received that, so we are officially a charity that goes after government overreach.
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That is where we go.
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We hunt down those who overreach.
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We take examples of overreach, and we drive.
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We go after them.
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And it's always entertaining to watch the cockroaches scurry when we get some things.
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I'd love to do this in the EU, so we're going to share with you a little bit of news, because
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the headlines this morning are all full.
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I haven't even seen the Russian reaction yet, but we're waiting.
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So the EU leaders, after almost four years of war, the International Monetary Fund, great
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little organization that requires you to do things their way or you don't get the money.
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They estimate that Ukraine, as some people call it, I call it Ukraine, or Naukraine,
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because people are on the edge over there, and it would actually be Naukraine, they are
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standing on the edge and they're about to fall off the cliff over there in Ukraine,
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because they need 161 billion more dollars, or that's only 137 billion euros, sounds better
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that way, doesn't it, to fund 2026 and 2027.
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The government is on the verge of bankruptcy there in Kyiv, and they desperately need the
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money by spring.
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They have to have the money or they can't live.
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You know, they want to know, can we have the Russians' money, please?
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Can we please have that 310 billion dollars?
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Orban is having a real conversation about this.
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Although they have backed off of stealing Russia's money.
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How do you like that?
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These are, well, I think they realized what they were doing, these globalists and the
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globalism and what is left of the cabal, at least on the European side, and it'll be back.
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I mean, Trump is three years left till they, you know, they're just counting down the time.
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And Putin had an annual press conference last night that was entertaining, and we might
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get a little bit of that to you.
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And but the big news is Ursula von der Leyen and giving away the Russian funds, which didn't
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work.
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And so what happened?
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Oh, let's put it out there.
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They say they're crushing, they are crushing Vladimir Putin's hope for victory.
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They're crushing it.
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Of course, they're losing territory all over the place.
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So Pokrovsk and Myrnogrod now are completely in the favor of Russia.
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They're covered.
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So Myrnogrod, Petrovsk, they are Zaporizhia, and there they are.
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They are now fully under Russian control.
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And so, Sierski, watch this coming for the next couple of weeks.
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By the end of the year, Sierski will be gone, is what I think.
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I think that the 90 billion is going to give, you know, that's for this year.
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And they didn't steal the Russia's money.
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They did.
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They decided the debt is too horrible.
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And Ursula, she was pushing for it.
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Do you remember Ursula on the Disney show?
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Who is the big lady?
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She was Ursula, the great big octopus wearing a black dress.
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For what was that show?
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Little Mermaid.
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So there they were in the Little Mermaid.
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And Ursula was the big old octopus in a black robe.
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That's what I want you to think of every time you think of Ursula von der Leyen,
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because it's the same characteristic.
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You know, you got to take over the planet and you have no authority to do so.
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The EU spokesperson, the EU voice of sanity, insanity.
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Is is has been backing this.
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Let's see.
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I wish that the maybe we should listen to the presser on this on this here.
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Let's see.
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Let's listen to a tiny bit of Ursula von der Leyen because they're talking about giving up some money.
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Let's see if I can figure out how to do this.
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Hold the phone.
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Energy supplies from Russia and important progress.
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This is the president of the EU.
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Our work will continue at pace.
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We need to create the conditions to reach an agreement by the end of next year.
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This is key to ensure we have enough time to implement our decisions,
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to adopt the legal acts, to prepare our administrations for the next budgetary cycle in 2028.
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The budgetary cycle.
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So I want to commend the excellent work carried out by the Danish presidency under your leadership,
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dear Metta.
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Some remarkable steps have been taken during these last six months.
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Where's Ursula?
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Let's skip that guy.
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Everybody likes to listen to Ursula.
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Here she comes.
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Ready?
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Yes.
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Good evening or good morning.
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I should better say we all share one clear goal.
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She's saying good, good, good morning because they had to stay late and they have one clear goal.
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A just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
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That was the motto of the discussion today.
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So we get.
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Where's the just and lasting peace covered from your funding war?
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Here it is.
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With a clear objective to address Ukraine's pressing financing needs for the next two years.
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And I'm very pleased to say we made it.
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We have secured an agreement that we can deliver on the financing needs for Ukraine for the next
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two years.
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As you know, the commission had proposed two solutions.
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Both legally sound.
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Both technically feasible.
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On one hand, we proposed EU borrowing on the market.
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And on the other hand, we had developed the reparations loan.
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Very important was in our discussion that last week already on Friday,
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we had sent a very clear and strong political message by immobilizing
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the Russian assets in the European Union over the long term.
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So that message was very clear.
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And building on that, we today had then agreed to find a solution for the financing of Ukraine
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in the next two years.
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The member states have agreed to finance the Ukraine through EU borrowing on the capital
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markets for an amount of 90 billion euros for the next two years.
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We will do this by way of enhanced cooperation.
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That is backed by the EU budget headroom.
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And Bay means the EU has so much money that they can just hand it off to Ukraine.
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Right by the headroom.
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Max headroom is on an unanimous agreement to amend the MFF.
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Similarly to the reparations loan.
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Very important here.
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Ukraine would only need to pay back the loan once it receives reparations.
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Until then, the immobilized Russian assets will remain immobilized.
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And the union reserves its right to make use of the cash balances to finance the loan.
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This is the solution we found together.
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And as discussed in the last weeks, financing Ukraine beyond 2027 will then be part of the
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next MFF discussion.
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The EU's next budget, so the next MFF was also on the agenda.
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The Danish presidency has done a remarkable work.
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Oh, yeah.
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We got you.
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We got you the money, Green Goblin.
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So this is a big success for the old Green Goblin.
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He gets to wander around and say, we get this money.
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But all is not well in the European Union.
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There are troubles a-brewing.
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Here's what happens.
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The French president came after the old Macron, who's got his 15%, 10% approval rating in
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his own country.
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He says that the EU should be open to re-engage with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as diplomacy
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regarding the Ukraine conflict is gaining momentum.
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Yes, diplomacy.
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Yeah, diplomacy is gaining momentum.
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What he means is, we stole your money.
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We have frozen your money.
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And so now we think that you're going to be ready to talk to us.
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Wrong answer, Ghost Rider.
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They are not going to talk to you.
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He was speaking to reporters in Brussels.
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Macron said some countries have already established contact with Moscow.
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Wow.
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Some people have established contact with Moscow.
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That's diplomacy, isn't it?
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Europeans and Ukrainians have an interest in finding the framework to re-engage in that
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discussion properly.
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I think it will become useful again to speak with Vladimir Putin.
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Old Vladimir Vladimirovich is, you know, I'm sure he's waiting over there on the couch
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for you to show up.
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That's what I think.
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And Macron said, add that without a structured framework, we are discussing among ourselves
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while negotiators go alone to talk with the Russians.
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And that is not optimal.
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Really?
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Holy crap.
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How long did it take him to figure that out?
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Jeez, takes two sides to bargain.
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And if you, I'm sorry, if Europe wants this war so bad, which is what they want, they
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should get ready to do it.
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Macron's comments came after the EU leaders failed to agree on the plan to use 210 billion,
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246, that's euro, 246 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets as part of a reparations loan.
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So instead, they give them a loan and then free, well, they've already frozen Russian
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money, and then say it only has to be, so it's not a loan, is it?
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It's only a loan if and, if and, they say, if and Russia ever agrees to pay reparations
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to Ukraine, right?
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They should pay reparations.
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If that's the case, why not say you can buy these areas?
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You know, Russia, why don't you buy them?
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Why don't you say, all right, we'll give you the funds, the 300 and some odd billion dollars,
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we'll give that to you.
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And we get the property.
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Where's old Trumpster with his transactional deal like that?
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We get the money and there you have it.
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Crazy stuff.
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160 billion dollar shortfall for the old Ukrainians over the next two years.
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160 billion dollar shortfall means you probably shouldn't stay in business any longer.
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And so the EU is going to take over, right?
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The plan collapsed due to opposition from Belgium to steal the Russian money.
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They hold the bulk of the assets and have warned of the potential legal and financial
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fallout that I've been warning about.
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I don't know, maybe they listened to me.
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Instead, the EU leaders agreed to raise funds on capital markets to provide Ukraine with
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a hefty multi-year loan.
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That underscores the rift within the EU as several member states opted out.
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Russia, of course, condemns the Western proposals to use its assets as theft and is already
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engaged in retaliation on the legal sphere.
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Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev welcomed the collapse of this plan, saying,
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the whole world just watched you fail to bully others into breaking the law.
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I think that's a key, a key quote.
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And we should, we should, that should be the new theme of the war in Ukraine.
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It's not fought for democracy.
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It's fought for corruption.
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It's fought for funding the same old a-holes.
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That's what it's all about.
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Um, we're doing the hokey pokey in Europe and we're turning ourselves around.
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And that's what it's all about.
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You do the hokey pokey and they're doing it and stealing, but, but not with stolen money.
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I'm wondering how they're going to pay it back.
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Putin and Macron, they last spoke in July.
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And they've only spoken twice since 2022.
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And, uh, you know, a month ago, the French president advised other EU states to consider
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restoring a dialogue with Moscow.
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So they're out there running around in their own little circle saying, um, you know, war's
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going to continue.
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They're pushing old, uh, Sierski into making foolish counterattacks.
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So yesterday, Sierski pulled, um, a huge percentage, let's call it, from Sumy region,
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which is up on the North, South of Belgrade, where the Russians have pretty much just, uh,
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eased everything.
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And they're just defending.
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So these a-holes don't run back up into Belgrade and in the Kursk area that we had a year ago
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in the, in the August timeframe, when there was such a joke and they had this stupid attack
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inside of Russia.
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And then, uh, Russia had to push them back.
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And Russia hasn't gone any further in that area.
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Sumy is not necessarily on the chopping block.
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What, what they have said they're going to do, and what Putin has said he's going to
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do for years, a couple, three years now, is that, uh, we're going to create a buffer zone,
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buffernaia zona.
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And that buffer zone will be created, uh, to stop the Ukrainians from bombing places
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like Belgrade.
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And, uh, uh, so Sumy is just South of Belgrade.
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And that area is where the genius of Sierski is all about to collapse, right?
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Because that is where they put all their forces, uh, year and a half.
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That's almost, no, it's, I suppose it's only a year plus, a year and several months, um,
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where they put all their stuff, uh, their, uh, troops and said, here's what we're going
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to do.
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Here's a good plan.
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We're going to go into Kursk, to hell with our own Eastern front, to hell with what the
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war is all about, which is, uh, the Donbass region.
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And now Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and let's go put them up here in Sumy and run all through
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into Kursk and we'll start bombing Belgrade, which has been going on pretty regularly since
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the start of the war.
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And so up on the North, that's what they've done.
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Well, now Sierski, the genius, uh, so Zaluzhny, that, that genius, he had to go, uh, uh, yeah,
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he was kind of exiled over to England, right?
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And so Sierski, the war genius, here he is, who has just lost territory steadily because
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of the issues that are approaching him while he can't really do it.
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You know, it's, I mean, he, he, he can't, he has no, uh, uh, I mean, he has no arm,
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no personnel left.
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Who are you going to continue to throw there?
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You can't do it.
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And, and, and he's, it's going to continue.
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So now he's pulled everybody out of Sumy, according to all the military analysts here,
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he's pulled them out of there and he's thrown them East into where?
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Seversk and then Southeast into the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd region.
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So the Russians yesterday made some pretty serious gains.
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Where?
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Sumy!
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You pulled all your, it's like, don't you, I mean, we know the Russians know where your
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army is, where your people are.
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Their intelligence, their military intelligence is pretty damn good.
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And so they've sucked all the people down from there and throw them into Petrovsk and
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Mirnograd area to, so that, so that they can have some short-term successes before the end
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of the year.
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They were hoping to do this over the last couple of days.
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And there have been a couple of counterattacks, one in Seversk and one in Petrovsk and Mirnograd,
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which is Southeast down there.
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And so they have these couple of successful, meh, marginally successful counterattacks.
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And these counterattacks, you know, are short-lived, just like the Kursk where they
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attacked into Kursk, cost them, according to any, any reasonable estimate, 70 to 100,000
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men, 70,000 to 100,000 men to jump into Russia.
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Foolish, foolish, foolish.
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And now, instead of having your defenses may maintain a steady line in the North, in the
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Sumy region, they have yanked them all out because Sirsky's on his last legs.
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And so he's sending them to die in Petrovsk.
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And this is foolish from a military point of view, because as soon as they left, the
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Russians attacked.
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And the Russians already crossed the river in the East that I told you about earlier
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this week, and they are pushing.
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And so the reason I tell you all of this, because, you know, if you don't know where
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the maps are and you don't have anything there, it's because bullying others into breaking
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the law.
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They're also bullying Sirsky and the old Z-Monster into coming up with something public
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on, you know, that you can post on your X channel that Zelensky and his Instagram can
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claim a victory.
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But this is the biggest, most foolish waste of money that there is.
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And worse than that is the countless number of lives.
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I read an estimate that 500,000 soldiers this year, 40,000, 40-something thousand plus every
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single month.
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And it's going up.
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The number's not going down.
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They said 67,000, wasn't it, in October?
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67,000 Ukrainian men.
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Russia turned over 1,000 bodies yesterday.
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And so how much is that per man?
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Because their families each get the equivalent of about between $200,000 and $300,000 that
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the families get for the sacrifice.
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So the globalists are paying the families of people to, you know, that are being sent
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to slaughter.
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That's what's happening.
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And all of this money and militarization, they're pushing for World War III.
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Ukraine is on the front of it.
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And what they got to do while they arm themselves in the EU, up to 5% of their budgets, because
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the U.S., under the old Trumpster anyway, is backing off.
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So they got to wait.
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There's a mix on this.
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You got to wait three years till the Trumpster is gone and hopefully a new globalist.
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You know, if they get Rubio in there, things will go back to normal for the globalists,
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you know, if they get him in there.
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And hopefully for them, not hopefully for me, I think this is BS, they can continue
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the war.
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And all it's going to cost them is a loan, not of their money, of their future, because
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if they don't figure out a way, don't think that the attempt to steal Russia's money isn't
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going to continue, because it is.
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And they're going to keep on trucking.
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They're going to change the law.
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They're going to do something like that.
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But one of those things, according to Macron, is, well, I guess it's time to talk.
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Maybe we should talk to Russia now.
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Don't you think we should get the opinion of Russia now, finally, he says.
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I mean, twice.
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I mean, he talked to him once this year, and I don't remember when the other one, but
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he spoke to him in July.
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That'll resolve the conflict, won't it?
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And Russia, you know, they say, well, you know, we're ready for that engagement.
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Always have been.
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We're ready to talk.
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Let's talk.
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But the only talk they want to do is it's like they don't want to talk to you.
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They want to talk at you.
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They want to tell you what you've got to do.
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Russia denounces the EU's militarization, but has said that, in principle, we're ready
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to talk.
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Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, said that Europe's participation on the Ukraine conflict
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wouldn't bode anything good.
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So that would bode nothing good.
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Nothing good is going to come of that.
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Isn't that crazy, friends and neighbors?
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You know, we've got all kinds of crazy, crazy news in the world this morning.
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Let's talk about China for a second, okay?
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Because I think this was the state of Missouri.
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It came out in the news yesterday that China sued the United States, a state, you know,
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Missouri, they've sued Missouri.
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So Missouri won a $24 billion default judgment against China over mishandling the coronavirus
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pandemic.
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$24 billion in Missouri won this war.
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So we are, what did we do?
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We sued the province of Wuhan over there here in Missouri.
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China filed a suit in the court in Wuhan now against Missouri and several American officials
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and accused them of harming China's economic and reputational interests through litigation
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linked to COVID-19, the pandemic.
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According to the documents released by Missouri AG Catherine Hannaway, the lawsuit was filed
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in a court in Wuhan by Chinese scientific and state institution.
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They named the defendants as Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, U.S. Senator Eric Schmidt, and
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former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
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The complaint argues that Missouri's legal action and public statements are vexatious
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litigation and defamation and cause a significant economic loss.
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This is all propaganda.
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This is our propaganda, our Missouri-based propaganda to have you believe that our fearless
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leaders are doing something on your behalf.
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They are not, okay?
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Just so you know.
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And Beijing is suing them.
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So if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
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So we didn't participate in your lawsuit in the U.S. because it was bullshit.
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Pardon my French.
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Isn't what the Chinese are saying.
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So if you're going to play those games and use some crazy propagandized ridiculousness
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in a federal court in the United States, well, we're going to do the exact same thing.
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I think what I want to do is go out to the Missouri court system.
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Where was this filed?
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I forget.
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And I pulled it up.
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And you know what I think I'm going to do?
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I think I'm going to download and do a legal analysis for you of this ridiculous story.
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I think it would be entertaining, if nothing else.
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So as you can go back and where is it?
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Where's the rest of it?
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So Missouri is trying to enforce their default judgment issued earlier this year by a Missouri
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federal court.
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So default can be set aside.
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In fact, they might want to come over here and fight it.
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But you can all usually set that aside.
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Under Missouri law, it's like if you wait a year, then it's presumed to still be good.
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So you got to do it within a year.
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That's Missouri law.
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Federal law, I don't remember.
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But we'll have to go and find out how you set aside a default.
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And I'll figure it out and give us a real report on that and the likelihood of ever
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getting this money from China.
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Remember, money makes the world go around.
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And it's the same in politics.
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And if Missouri is going to do that, this will be my fact checking of the BS in there.
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And I read this story like 2 o'clock this morning.
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And I forgot to go and download the pleadings.
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But what I'm going to do is download the pleadings to this and see where we are.
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And then I'll try to find the ones in a Chinese newspaper somewhere.
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I'll see if I can come up with those and get the actual text of those.
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I'm sure they published them in English somewhere.
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But wouldn't it be fun to go through this nonsense?
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The 2020 Missouri filed a lawsuit and alleged that China concealed information about COVID-19.
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But more importantly, this is the kicker.
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They interfered with the global supply of personal protective equipment, masks, hello,
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during the early months of the pandemic.
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So here's the Chinese entities did not appear in the proceedings because it's crap.
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So they're saying because China interfered with people getting masks.
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I can't wait to read this.
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I meant to download it early this morning, but I never got there.
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Maybe I'll try to figure that out and get the actual pleadings to JR.
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It'd be fun to go through this today.
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It's good for Friday entertainment, Friday humor.
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Missouri officials, these geniuses, have said they intend to pursue
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the Chinese state-owned assets to collect a judgment.
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Because China has a lot of state-owned assets around in the United States, tons of them.
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China is a very large landholder of farmland and stuff like that.
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So it's actually a pretty sly and devious thing that Missouri is doing.
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In keeping with how sly and devious politics are in Missouri,
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anyway, they're now going up against the big bad Chinese.
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So the Chinese are going, well, all right, we'll do the same for you.
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We'll sue you for $50 billion because $24 billion,
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if you seize the property that we have here, well, we'll start taking U.S. property.
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So all politics goes back to money, how you get the money.
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If the idiots in Missouri can all stand up and go,
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yep, we got those big bad Chinese in here, it's about the money.
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They can go and say that we've gotten money.
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If you think that the state of Missouri pulling any of this judgment,
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if they collect this $24 billion judgment, if you think it's going to help you any in Missouri,
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you better think again because it's not.
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You won't see anything different in your life if Missouri gets this.
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But I guarantee you those pushing for this sure as hell will.
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Their families will be set for generations and they will make sure that they are,
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that they get their little chunk of the pie for their cronies and their family members.
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That's how it works in politics, right?
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So Missouri says they're going to pursue Chinese owned assets and collect on this judgment.
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Beijing has rejected the ruling, says it is illegitimate and political,
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and has warned of retaliation if Chinese assets are seized.
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China has denied allegations that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan
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and that it deliberately concealed information of the outbreak.
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They maintain that the country acted transparently and responsibly
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and have pointed to international scientific debates that remain
34:30
unresolved over the virus's origins.
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Now, I don't really know. I don't care.
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It was all a scam anyway, no matter how you slice it.
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It was a way to get people more control of other people.
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The debate over the origins of COVID-19 has been an international debacle
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since 2019 when it was first detected.
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Some U.S. officials and lawmakers have said a lab incident cannot be ruled out.
34:59
Well, cannot be absolutely proved either.
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A number of scientists and international bodies say the available evidence
35:05
has not conclusively determined whether the virus emerged naturally or through a lab-related event.
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Frankly, I lean toward the lab-related event,
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sponsored and funded by the United States government, is what I say.
35:22
So, you know, the craziness of COVID, I never ever participated in,
35:31
except the time that I was forced to wear a mask on an American Airlines flight.
35:38
And so I wrote F masks across my mask, put it on,
35:43
and boy, the looks I got from the flight attendants and stuff like that wearing that mask,
35:50
they didn't like it.
35:52
Oh, they didn't like it.
35:53
And it was, and I think I may have caused, you know,
35:56
it could have been some sort of international incident because I was coming up from,
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where was I?
36:02
Brownsville, Texas.
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Brownsville to Dallas to Columbia was the flight.
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So Brownsville, it's a cool little, you know, cool little airport, little tiny airport.
36:16
And that's where you go if you're going to go to the little island off of there,
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Padre Island, I think it is.
36:24
And so I went over there, checked on the way back.
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Now on the way there, I didn't have to wear a mask.
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There was nothing there.
36:33
And so I was bitching about that.
36:36
There I am wandering through.
36:38
And this is when signs were first posted.
36:40
And these signs were posted that said, put on your, put on your, you know, we've decided.
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It's a city ordinance.
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City ordinance, okay, in Brownsville that said you have to wear a mask.
36:57
Okay.
36:58
And so you got to wear a mask because the city said, and when we walked in there,
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there were a bunch of federal people, you know, that were standing, you know, that are there.
37:11
All of these, you know, ICE agents are there.
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They have the federal employees.
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And I said, wait a minute.
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This is federal property.
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All airports are federal property.
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Is this airport federal property?
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Well, yeah.
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Well, how in the world is a city ordinance?
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This is a voluntary thing here then, is it not?
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And they said, well, the U.S. government is still working on, they haven't done masks,
37:44
but we're going to require you to get in to wear a mask.
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But I didn't wear a mask.
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I'm wandering around the, I said, well, you know, this is federal property.
37:53
You want to arrest me, you better have a, you know, somebody come and do it,
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but it better not be local, you know, Jim Bob, the state cop, or I'm sorry, the city policeman.
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The city policeman can't arrest me in here.
38:08
And I said, well, we'll get a, we'll get a federal, you know, federal,
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there are federal marshals here.
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I said, well, bring them on.
38:16
I said, if federal marshals are going to enforce a county, a city ordinance,
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that'll be entertaining.
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It's like, let's do that.
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And I was kind of being a dick.
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And because they were saying, you have to, sir, you have to put on your mask.
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I was like, I am not putting on a mask.
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And so I'm sitting in the airport.
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Nobody, people were eyeballing me like crazy.
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It was like, Brownsville was a little bit like Columbia in those days to be, you know, Columbia.
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They love Missouri.
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I mean, they love people telling them what to do.
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They love to tell you what you will do.
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Columbia was one of the first to get their own little ordinance too,
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to make it look like we're doing something.
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And Missouri was one of the first to sue China because this is what, you know, China,
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look what they did to us.
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They're causing us to wear masks, right?
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And well, I didn't engage in that.
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And then here's the shitty part, though.
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Pardon my French.
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When I got up to the counter there, you know, when they start checking you in,
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for America, it wasn't, it wasn't a Federali.
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It wasn't a city policeman.
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It wasn't a state cop.
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It wasn't even a county dude.
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When it was American Airlines and American Airlines loved, they just loved COVID.
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Oh my God.
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They're all, I can't, I still have miles that I won't use on American Airlines
39:51
because of this nonsense.
39:53
These guys are, I couldn't, they were so happy to beat all of the flight attendants,
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everywhere you go, any ticket counter.
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I tell you what, these guys were just in heaven that they now had a method
40:11
to do what they liked to do anyway, to control and be rude to people.
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Have you ever, have you flown American Airlines recently in the last several years?
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What a bunch of pricks.
40:24
They act like, I mean, you are scum on the bottom of their shoe.
40:33
You're a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe that they just got to scrape off.
40:39
And it's always, you know, these people, they're like the government worker that is in control
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of their little kingdom.
40:47
And by God, you can't mess with them on their own little kingdom.
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Sir, sir, this is how they talk to you.
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Sir, you need to take that mask off.
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That's pretty rude.
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That's like, well, you know, I don't want to wear a mask.
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You're the one forcing me to wear a mask.
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I'm wearing a mask.
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You know, I think it's you guys who are being rude.
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I think it's you guys who, this is just nonsense.
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If you believe that saving, you know, that a mask is gonna save you, then save yourself.
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But don't tell me that I have to wear a mask because you feel triggered because, you know,
41:29
there's some pandemic cruising around.
41:31
And if your mask saves you, what difference does it make if I don't believe the mask saves me
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or you?
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Who's gonna die?
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Me.
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You're protected.
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You can't ingest.
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Doesn't a mask breathe both ways?
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Or is it just to protect you from me?
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So you need to, I don't think you, you know, I'm healthy.
41:53
You don't need to protect yourself from me.
41:56
But if you feel like everybody else, you see them wandering around today wearing masks.
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They're not doing it because they are afraid of them, you know, of their germs getting out
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and cause, trust me on that one.
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They aren't wearing a mask to protect you.
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They absolutely are not.
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They are wearing a mask to protect themselves.
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So if you are wearing a mask, you should be protected.
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What do you care if I choose to live dangerously and not be protected?
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I don't understand it.
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Masks either worked in both directions or they didn't.
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I don't know.
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Maybe I've been meaning to bitch about that for a long time.
42:42
I don't know because that issue's been gone for a while.
42:45
But I, you know, it's just so stupid.
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And, you know, I, that's the only time I wore mask.
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The only time.
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And I wrote F masks on the front of it and I wore it.
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And I was a confrontational a-hole the whole time.
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But all of the flight attendants, all of the ticket counter agents, American Airlines is
43:06
the Gestapo of the skies, right?
43:09
And they, it's crazy.
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It was nuts.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And I tell you what, that one experience nixed me from American Airlines.
43:21
I'll fly American Airlines, Dallas to Doha because American Airlines doesn't fly that.
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That's Qatar Airways.
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And that is fantastic.
43:32
And you want to go somewhere globally, go to Dallas, get a flight, 12 hours, Doha, go
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Doha to anywhere in the world, you know.
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Well, if you're here, Dallas is a good connection.
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If you're trying to get, you know, to South America, all those other places, Dallas is
43:51
a great connection for that.
43:52
And Dallas is a great airport too.
43:54
Of course, American Airlines is housed there.
43:56
But, you know, that's neither here nor there.
43:59
You try not to fly with those a-holes.
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But if you go to Dallas and you get on an air, a flight to Doha, 95 times out of 100,
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that's going to be run by Qatar Airways.
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And Qatar Airways is fantastic.
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And the Gestapo of the air stops at the Qatar Airways counter there.
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Those are, they're fantastic.
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They take care of you.
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You know, the, it's, it's a different world.
44:28
If you've flown and seen the Gestapo, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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And it wasn't only during masks, it still exists, you know, when you fly.
44:38
But if you fly an international that, you know, the international ones are fantastic.
44:43
Aeroflot is 10 times better than American Airlines, Delta, any of them, name it, hands
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down, they are great and they take care of you.
44:52
They treat you well.
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It's, it's like flying 30, 40 years ago.
44:56
You know, when they, when, when, when they respected you, they don't anymore.
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No, no, no.
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So this mask thing in Missouri is all about the propaganda that began way back then.
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It doesn't matter these days, you know, who, you know, Wuhan made this move, right?
45:18
Missouri is going to enforce this 24 billion.
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The state filed this lawsuit, blah, blah, blah.
45:23
Missouri officials said they intend to pursue the state-owned assets.
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China denies debate over the origins, blah, blah, blah.
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All of it the same.
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Crazy, crazy stuff.
45:37
Now we're going to go back to Russia just because I like to.
45:40
And Russia is handing over the remains of a thousand more soldiers that they have,
45:49
I don't know, collected, I suppose.
45:52
They are repatriating the humanitarian, you know, the remains.
45:58
Moscow has transferred to Kiev a thousand and three more soldiers killed by, you know,
46:04
killed by Russian forces.
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Vladimir Medinsky, who is Putin's aide said on Friday, repatriation of these remains
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was approved earlier this year.
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Russia has received over time 26 bodies of slain troops in Ukraine.
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Wow.
46:29
But a dozen similar operations were reported in 2025 with a huge number of Ukrainian remains,
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many of them unilateral, meaning Russia is the only one that turned over remains.
46:47
And Putin warned earlier this week that the pace of advancement is increasing
46:52
and he accumulated knowledge in his last visit of dealing with Ukrainian fortifications.
47:03
So there's a city called Zaporizhzhia, a very big city.
47:06
And a couple of years ago, they put some serious entrenchments in
47:12
Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
47:15
And, you know, they'll never get past this line.
47:18
It's what we spent spent.
47:19
Remember, remember a couple three years ago when they were talking about having
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deep, deep.
47:29
Supplies of Western.
47:32
Equipment, Western hardware.
47:34
Well, around these big cities, especially after Zaporizhzhia, when when they they had a
47:42
Russian drive into Zaporizhzhia and the city of Zaporizhzhia is a big, big city.
47:48
Now, I believe that Zaporizhzhia will be, you know,
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the Russians will be on the door of that within six months or so.
47:54
That's what I believe.
47:57
And the.
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Ukrainians, for their part, built this huge series of bunkers, of fortifications, of everything.
48:07
And now.
48:09
But the Russians have learned how to deal with these things.
48:12
They put them on the edges of all their bigger cities.
48:15
Russians already overcame these in Pokrovsk, in Bakhmut.
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Remember Bakhmut?
48:22
Artyomovsk, I think it was it was the Russian name.
48:26
And the Ukrainians changed it to Bakhmut.
48:29
And so Petrovsk, there were their Mirnagrad.
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This was here.
48:35
And now the Zaporizhzhia line.
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And it's a big one.
48:38
It's a big series of fortifications where there's all kinds of fortifications.
48:43
They don't have any Patriot missiles anymore.
48:46
And when's the last time you heard about a Patriot missile taking down something?
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You haven't.
48:51
And they're very quiet about that because, you know,
48:54
they don't want to say that Russia has outclassed.
48:59
Getting, you know, their S-400 series has outclassed the Patriot defense system big time.
49:07
And the Patriot, you know, and they're destroying the Patriot systems with the use of these
49:16
drones that they're using.
49:19
And it's, tell you what, it is continuing.
49:24
In Russia now, the news yesterday was that on either end of this fortification that stretches,
49:31
I don't know, quite a few kilometers around the city,
49:36
like the whole southern ring of the city, right?
49:39
And it's a big deal that they dug and they entrenched and spent these
49:42
millions that were set for this or spent some of it developing this.
49:49
And now the Russians have surrounded it on both ends.
49:56
And they've gone around it.
49:58
And so you having these defense lines, that's what Russians keep talking about,
50:04
which are pots like a cooker, like a pressure cooker.
50:11
You know, they're putting these pots and then they put the lid on the pot.
50:15
That's how they talk about it.
50:16
And so they surrounded Petrovsk.
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They surrounded Myrnogrod.
50:21
A couple, three months ago, I told you about the 10,000 encircled soldiers
50:25
in Myrnogrod and Petrovsk, two big cities right near each other.
50:30
Well, Russia went around them and they surrounded the cities.
50:34
They cut off their supply lines all the way.
50:37
It's a huge operation.
50:39
These are not small cities.
50:40
And they went around, blocked them off, said, you know,
50:44
you want the press to come and see how this goes?
50:48
You know, let's bring in some Western press.
50:51
You don't believe we're winning here?
50:53
Bring it in.
50:54
Meanwhile, you got Green Goblin creating selfies, fake ones with the use of AI,
51:03
saying that he's in a city they did the same thing to up in Seversk.
51:08
And there, you know, this is this is continuing.
51:11
And the Russians are getting better and better at it.
51:14
And the next one, pay attention to the city, is going to be for Zaporizhia.
51:19
The next one is they're going to be driving in from Sumy
51:22
and creating the buffer zone that Putin's been talking about because it's opportunity.
51:31
Opportunity is, Sersky pulled off quite a few brigades from the Sumy lines
51:37
and is sending them down for a propaganda tour so that he can say,
51:41
no, no, no, we're still in Petrovsk.
51:43
So they're mounting a counteroffensive on Petrovsk,
51:47
which has been securely held by Russia for nearly a month.
51:51
And the Mirnagrad part.
51:53
Now, when you look at the map, there's maybe a couple of small pockets deep inside the
52:00
Russian lines where these troops are still there, but they've all died.
52:04
Ten thousand.
52:05
Because nobody believed.
52:07
And the same things went on up in Seversk where Zelensky created his little fake video.
52:15
And now keep an eye on it.
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Next city, Zaporizhia.
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Next region, Sumy.
52:22
And Russia has said, for how long now?
52:25
We will drive until we meet our goals.
52:29
You want to claim that a referendum didn't occur?
52:37
That's your right.
52:38
It's your prerogative.
52:39
But a lot of people have recognized these territories as ours,
52:42
especially Crimea, that they have recognized.
52:45
And want a way to end the war?
52:48
Recognize those territories as Russian because they've been Russian for generations.
52:54
And I'm not saying that, you know, there aren't Ukrainians there.
52:58
But the Ukrainians want to pretend that they haven't been, you know,
53:02
a huge, huge, overwhelming majority Russian there.
53:08
As is true everywhere in Ukraine, except the far west.
53:12
You know, arguably, Kyiv West is more Ukraine.
53:18
Now it is, after 30 years of we hate Russia from Ukraine.
53:24
Pumped with U.S. agency for international development money.
53:28
Now it's true, you know, that most of the West,
53:31
most of the West of Ukraine speak Ukrainian.
53:34
And they're ultra nationalist.
53:36
You know, these are the guys who are the most
53:39
a jazzed up about going and trying to kill them, some Russians.
53:44
But they have failed.
53:45
And every time these elite nationalist units get sent over, they get destroyed.
53:50
They get their asses handed to them, just like they did in Kursk.
53:54
And now Sierski is doing the exact same thing.
53:58
And he will be in the frying.
54:00
Well, he's in the frying pan.
54:01
Pretty soon he's going to be tossed out with the leftover grease in the bottom.
54:06
That's what I say.
54:08
That's coming, maybe even by the end of the year, especially since now
54:13
the old Z monster has gotten his 90 billion from Ursula von der Leyen.
54:24
Let's see what happened to that story.
54:27
There was another story about Donald Trump was
54:32
canceled the green card lottery.
54:36
Well, he suspended it.
54:40
So every year I read when I was practicing law years ago, I represented
54:46
several green card lottery guys.
54:48
I represented this Russian guy years and years ago.
54:51
That was a man.
54:55
When was that?
54:55
Had to be 2005, maybe 2006.
55:00
And he was getting thrown out of the country.
55:04
And I forget what it was.
55:06
He was an overstay on a visa.
55:07
He was trying to figure out business stuff.
55:09
He had asked for asylum because he claimed to have been from from country.
55:15
He was Muslim or something like that.
55:17
And he was, you know, whatever it was, he was claiming asylum here for religious reasons.
55:30
And I don't think he was going to win.
55:32
The law was on his side and we were getting ready for the final hearing.
55:35
Those hearings back then would go for years, seriously.
55:40
And they still do.
55:42
I haven't done one recently, but it's the same.
55:44
You come over, you say you're going to report for asylum and they give you a working permit.
55:51
They give you a kind of a temporary green card, at least a withholding from removal.
55:58
And if they give you this withholding from removal, you're here then awaiting your case
56:06
and you're basically legal.
56:08
This is what this is what that meant.
56:11
Well, he and, you know, he was trying to figure out how he could stay.
56:18
And so he had told them that this asylum was open.
56:22
So the case is open.
56:23
These cases dragged on for years.
56:24
And he was in the middle of it and in the middle of it.
56:30
You know, I always recommended this to everybody.
56:32
Anyway, you want to come to the US, sign up for the green card lottery,
56:36
because every year they would give away 100,000 green cards in this lottery.
56:42
And it's I mean, everywhere else in the world.
56:45
It's a scam.
56:47
I'll tell you that about that in a minute, because I found much more out about it traveling
56:53
around in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
56:58
It was crazy.
56:59
So every year about I think it's October 1st is the deadline.
57:03
Don't quote me on that.
57:04
They have this green card lottery and the lottery you have to sign up every year.
57:09
And as part of any lawyer's repertoire, if you're going to be
57:15
protecting someone or helping them, you're going to say, look, you know,
57:20
whatever happens if you're here for asylum, ultimately, you may not get approved.
57:25
Ultimately, you might get sent back home.
57:27
In the meantime, you know, live it up because you could be temporary, you know,
57:32
and maybe try to find a different way to stay or whatever.
57:35
But always any lawyer would be an idiot if he didn't tell you to sign up for the green card
57:41
lottery.
57:42
So every year, millions of people from around the world sign up for the green card lottery.
57:48
In Uzbekistan, they're charging you the equivalent of about 450 dollars to come in,
57:55
get on a free website for immigration control and fill out your documents.
58:01
And they have these offices everywhere in downtown cities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
58:08
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek had a couple in Kyrgyzstan.
58:13
And you go and everywhere you go, you'd see they'd be open all night long.
58:16
And people would be wandering in.
58:18
One day I went into one and I said, what are you doing?
58:20
And they said, well, you know, we're helping people get their green card, you know,
58:25
get through the green card lottery.
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I said, what are you charging them?
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I said, how much did it cost me to apply for this?
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You know, the guy told me the amount.
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I was like, holy, I said, you realize it's free?
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Well, of course they realize it's free.
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They get in and they've created whole streams of business over there.
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And I'm walking in and chatting with them and going, you know, this is quite the scam.
58:47
Maybe I should move to Uzbekistan, hang up a little sign that says,
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American will help you sign up for the green card lottery.
58:59
Because that's all they were doing.
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And so these people every year, they go and apply for the green card lottery.
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But 400 bucks to them is a month's pay, for God's sake.
59:09
And so, you know, it'd be the equivalent of over here.
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I'm your lawyer.
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Pay me 2,500 bucks and I'll help you do that.
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You know, you want to hire a lawyer.
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Well, these guys have already been lawyers.
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They're just young kids that speak English and speak Russian or Uzbek.
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And they take their money.
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I mean, it's quite the plan.
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You know, it's more power to them.
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You know, you want to create a business and help people get it done right.
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But damn, that was a lot of money.
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You know, so they're charging people a month's pay.
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You know, and you can file it for free on the website.
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Anyway, the old Trumpster.
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So 100,000 people, a million people, a couple million people a year
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fighting for this 100,000.
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And your chances aren't all that great of getting picked up.
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And now that it's a popular program, it's there.
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Well, Trumpster just suspended the green card lottery
59:59
after the Brown University stuff, right?
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And he was linked to this program, I guess.
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U.S. President Trump suspended the green card lottery
1:00:10
after officials said the suspect in the shootings at Brown University
1:00:13
and MIT had entered the country through that system.
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Homeland Security Secretary Noem said on Thursday
1:00:20
that at Trump's direction, USCIS would immediately halt
1:00:25
the diversity immigrant visa program,
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which allows lottery winners to become permanent U.S. citizens.
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Just like happened with my guy way back in 05,
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right before the hearing with the judge.
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This worked out perfect for him.
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And luck of the draw, he won the diversity visa program
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and the judge adjusted his status on the spot
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when we went there, when he won the letter,
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because when he received his letter,
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because we were literally a week or two from the thing.
1:00:58
And he showed me the letter.
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I said, wow, he's a lucky B word.
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Bastard, I suppose I can say bastard.
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You lucky bastard.
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I said, I don't think you're going to win.
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So, you know, but here you go.
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And I presented it to the judge at the hearing.
1:01:13
The judge adjusted his status on the spot
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and he got his green card and his whole family,
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you know, everybody was there.
1:01:20
But this announcement by Noem followed a five day manhunt
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for 48 year old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,
1:01:30
who authorities suspect killed two students
1:01:33
and wounded nine others
1:01:34
in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday
1:01:37
and shooting the MIT professor Nuno Leiro
1:01:40
two days later in Brookline, Mass.
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Officials said the suspect took his own life
1:01:45
and was found dead in New Hampshire
1:01:46
with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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This heinous individual.
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How is an individual heinous?
1:01:55
Remember when that word was all popular back in the 80s?
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Heinous, always reminds me of Bill and Ted.
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Excellent.
1:02:04
Totally.
1:02:04
Or that's Jif Spicoli.
1:02:07
Awesome.
1:02:08
Totally awesome.
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Anyway, I'm having fun this morning.
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I don't know why.
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But this heinous individual
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should never have been allowed in our country.
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Noem wrote on X, referring, of course, to Valente.
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According to the court affidavit cited by authorities,
1:02:26
Valente initially came to the U.S. on a student visa in 2000
1:02:31
and won the green card lottery
1:02:34
because his lawyer had him figure that out
1:02:37
through the diversity visa lottery program in 2017.
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Oh, look, here's the numbers.
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They changed it.
1:02:44
Or I was wrong.
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Maybe I was.
1:02:46
But it says the diversity program makes up to 50,000.
1:02:51
I think that number used to be 100.
1:02:53
But what do I know?
1:02:54
50,000 immigrant visas available each year
1:02:57
by lottery to people from countries
1:02:59
with low immigration rates.
1:03:01
So every year, the Citizenship and Immigration Services
1:03:06
tells you what countries are eligible for this program, right?
1:03:12
And so they don't do it from places like Mexico.
1:03:16
You're not eligible from Mexico
1:03:17
because we have plenty of people that come from Mexico.
1:03:19
But people with lower immigration rates
1:03:21
is where they set this up.
1:03:23
I always thought it was a weird program anyway.
1:03:25
But people from countries with low immigration rates
1:03:29
can come to the US with their winners of spouses
1:03:32
they can undergo vetting and interviews
1:03:34
before being admitted.
1:03:35
Nome said the halt is intended to ensure
1:03:39
no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
1:03:43
It's not the program that's disastrous.
1:03:45
It's your policing facilities.
1:03:48
I'm not saying I agree with the program or disagree.
1:03:51
You know, if you want to spend your money on that,
1:03:53
go right ahead.
1:03:54
If you want to encourage Uzbeki young people
1:03:56
to scam out their family,
1:04:03
any people that walk in down the street
1:04:06
of huge amounts of money to enter a free program,
1:04:09
well, you know, go right ahead.
1:04:11
But that's what's happening, friends and neighbors.
1:04:14
But it's not the program that's disastrous.
1:04:17
You know, it's this vetting procedure.
1:04:21
The whole immigration system needs to be overhauled.
1:04:25
But this move follows broader immigration restrictions
1:04:29
by the old Trumpster in recent weeks,
1:04:31
including Titan review of other illegal
1:04:34
or legal immigration pathways,
1:04:37
because there was another shooting incident
1:04:39
in Washington, D.C. involving a suspect
1:04:42
who came to the US by way of a different immigration program.
1:04:48
I hate to say it, you know,
1:04:50
and you might not agree with this,
1:04:51
but why don't we accuse the guns then of murder?
1:04:57
You know, if the program is needs to be,
1:05:01
you know, charged and put away,
1:05:03
let's put away this program.
1:05:05
And I'm not against it.
1:05:07
I don't care one way or the other program.
1:05:09
No program doesn't affect me.
1:05:10
I don't care.
1:05:12
My liberty interests don't go there.
1:05:15
But, you know, remember my philosophy on liberty
1:05:18
is the same as I read in Machiavelli.
1:05:24
You know, you want to wander around swinging your arms.
1:05:27
That's your freedom.
1:05:28
Somebody else wants to wander around
1:05:30
swinging their arms.
1:05:32
That also is freedom.
1:05:34
And the only time that government is necessary
1:05:39
is to regulate when my swinging arms
1:05:41
hit your swinging arms.
1:05:43
That's it.
1:05:45
And so this doesn't affect me.
1:05:47
So I don't need the government in this respect, right?
1:05:51
So I don't know what area of freedom
1:05:55
they are necessarily engaging in.
1:05:59
But if people wish to come here,
1:06:02
you know, I don't have any qualms with that.
1:06:05
You know, people want to come to America.
1:06:07
If I want to move to wherever this guy was from,
1:06:10
where did he say he was from?
1:06:11
Portuguese.
1:06:12
He was from Portugal.
1:06:14
Yeah.
1:06:15
Portugal is a pretty cool country.
1:06:18
You know, I've been there.
1:06:19
It's very pretty.
1:06:22
And I was only there for two days.
1:06:23
But what I saw, I liked.
1:06:26
I like it a lot.
1:06:28
And that's where I was.
1:06:29
Anyway, I'm completely babbling.
1:06:31
No one has saved me with a phone call or anything today.
1:06:35
But that's okay.
1:06:37
The green card lottery is officially suspended.
1:06:41
This is important to me.
1:06:43
So years ago, I had an idea for writing a book.
1:06:47
I always decided years and years ago,
1:06:50
boy, this was in the 90s.
1:06:51
I can't believe I just thought about this.
1:06:54
And it was when, because I was in the army, right?
1:06:58
And so points were a big thing for getting promoted.
1:07:01
And I always max my points out.
1:07:03
So I knew as soon as the point system dropped,
1:07:06
I had 900, I had 1000 points.
1:07:08
And the points were 998 all the time anyway.
1:07:11
So those two percenters, I was a two percenter
1:07:14
as far as having the points.
1:07:15
I maxed out every point in every category for promotion points.
1:07:19
So I knew as soon as somebody put me up to be promoted,
1:07:22
I would be promoted, right?
1:07:24
But there was also a pretty strong push to encourage
1:07:29
or for commanders to approve people of color
1:07:32
to get promoted beforehand.
1:07:35
Universities, it was a big deal.
1:07:36
You know, you had your diversity,
1:07:38
sorts of, I don't know, selection process
1:07:44
to get into university and stuff like that.
1:07:46
They were trying to diversify.
1:07:48
And I'm not against that either.
1:07:49
I don't, you know, I don't care.
1:07:50
But I would always make facetious jokes to say,
1:07:55
you know, basically all I am is the,
1:07:58
I'm the average white guy.
1:08:00
You know, I'm five foot nine.
1:08:02
You know, I'm of average weight.
1:08:03
I weighed 185.
1:08:05
You know, I don't weigh that anymore.
1:08:08
I'm about 10 pounds up.
1:08:10
But, you know, I'm no longer average.
1:08:12
I'm in the upper pile of fatness.
1:08:15
And I'm not fat, but I'm not at the average weight.
1:08:21
I was of the average age.
1:08:23
I had two and a half, I had three children.
1:08:25
So two and a half was the average way back then.
1:08:27
And so I decided that I was the average white man.
1:08:30
And I thought the average white man should speak more
1:08:36
because we were the ones being discriminated against.
1:08:39
And as soon as I hit the age 50,
1:08:40
it's like, well, now, you know, I was of the average age,
1:08:45
you know, back then, 37, 38.
1:08:48
And now I'm no longer of the average age
1:08:51
and I can't be the average white man.
1:08:53
But I used to make jokes that it's the white people,
1:08:57
white men especially,
1:08:59
who are being discriminated against.
1:09:01
And I used to say facetious things.
1:09:03
So the U.S. agency, the DEI programs, here we go.
1:09:08
Our civil rights genius, Andrea Lucas,
1:09:10
who's the chair of the EEOC.
1:09:15
Let's see, I'm gonna read the whole story to you
1:09:18
because it's short and it's pretty damn funny.
1:09:20
The head, it's not funny, it's, you know, foolish.
1:09:22
But the head of the U.S. federal body
1:09:24
responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights,
1:09:28
the EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
1:09:33
urges white men to come forward
1:09:36
if they believe they have been discriminated against.
1:09:38
It's come full circle, people.
1:09:40
Including under diversity, equity,
1:09:42
and inclusion, DEI initiatives.
1:09:45
In a video message published on Wednesday,
1:09:48
Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. EEOC,
1:09:51
called on white male employees and job applicants
1:09:54
who feel they were targeted because of their race or sex
1:09:57
to submit a formal complaint.
1:10:00
She's out, you know, seeking complainants.
1:10:04
She emphasized that strict deadlines apply
1:10:07
for filing claims with the agency.
1:10:08
It's 270 days, or thereabouts,
1:10:11
if you're gonna file with, you know, the EEOC.
1:10:16
The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking,
1:10:18
and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination.
1:10:23
She directed potential complaints
1:10:25
to the EEOC's official guidance,
1:10:27
which notes that federal anti-retaliation protections
1:10:30
extend to workers who resist mandatory DEI training.
1:10:35
So, if I don't want DEI training,
1:10:40
you can't force me to take it, basically,
1:10:42
is what the EEOC is now saying.
1:10:46
Supporters of DEI policies argue
1:10:48
that the programs help address systemic disadvantages
1:10:53
faced by a marginalized group.
1:10:55
And now that I'm over 50,
1:10:57
I am white man over 50.
1:11:01
I am the most marginalized group in the country.
1:11:06
Isn't that right?
1:11:07
I don't, what do I get?
1:11:08
Where's my privilege?
1:11:10
Where's my white privilege?
1:11:11
Somebody argued with me about that once in New York City.
1:11:15
New York City, get a rope.
1:11:17
Maintaining that unequal outcomes
1:11:20
reflect structural barriers to progress
1:11:24
rather than merit alone.
1:11:26
Under DEI initiatives,
1:11:28
employees from privileged groups
1:11:32
are often told to learn about their own advantage.
1:11:36
I have a white person, a white male advantage.
1:11:41
Critics say that the policies, I'm a critic,
1:11:44
amount to ideologically driven discrimination
1:11:48
and do little to meaningly reduce inequality or prejudice.
1:11:54
And I have felt that every single day.
1:11:59
You know, I don't care if you're gay,
1:12:01
but don't tell me that you're better than me
1:12:03
because you're gay.
1:12:04
I don't care if you're a woman.
1:12:06
Don't say you're better than me
1:12:08
or you should get a percentage increase
1:12:11
in your consideration for a job
1:12:16
because you're a woman.
1:12:18
Nonsense.
1:12:19
But anyway, that's our world today.
1:12:21
But President Trump named Lucas
1:12:23
as acting head of the EEOC in January
1:12:25
and she was confirmed in early November.
1:12:29
A lawyer by training and an outspoken critic of DEI,
1:12:34
she's served as a commission member
1:12:36
since Trump's first term.
1:12:38
Her reconfirmation by Congress in July
1:12:40
drew opposition from Democratic lawmakers
1:12:43
who accused her of politicizing the agency.
1:12:47
Oh, and it wasn't politicized before.
1:12:51
Friends and neighbors, nonsensical nonsense.
1:12:56
All the way around.
1:12:58
What else do we have to talk about today?
1:13:00
We only have a few minutes because it's Friday.
1:13:03
So on Fridays, I am going to end a little bit early
1:13:06
to give the next host the opportunity
1:13:12
to prep a little bit.
1:13:14
And so I'm going to tell you about the schedule
1:13:19
on damn radio.
1:13:20
Today, we have me from 7.30 to really only 8.45,
1:13:28
a couple more minutes.
1:13:29
And then we have 9 a.m., Nadine at nine.
1:13:33
We have a really big shoe.
1:13:35
I created a nice logo for JR and his really big shoe.
1:13:39
I think you should use it.
1:13:40
Make a big sign of it and put it on his car.
1:13:43
And then we have search for solutions after that.
1:13:46
And I of the Beholder.
1:13:49
And then I shall be gone until Monday morning,
1:13:52
bright and early.
1:13:52
You know, over the weekend, we have all kinds
1:13:54
of fantastic music.
1:13:56
And you can listen to damnradio.com forward slash live
1:13:59
and get all the fantastic music.
1:14:01
It's a very, very good mix.
1:14:03
And now, what would it be in the Christmas season?
1:14:07
We have folded in, or JR, I haven't done a damn thing,
1:14:10
have folded in this wonderful Christmas music.
1:14:14
And he has some very good, I don't know, content.
1:14:22
So I encourage you to listen to it on damnradio.com and join us.
1:14:27
I only have a half a minute because I'm leaving early.
1:14:30
I like having you.
1:14:32
I'm very glad you have chosen to spend your morning with me.
1:14:36
You can always listen to my shows at internationalflavor.com
1:14:41
or you can go out to damnradio.com forward slash podcasts
1:14:46
and listen to the reruns in the privacy of your home sitting room.
1:14:52
It is fun and only slightly legal.
1:14:55
I ask you to join me next week.
1:14:57
Bye.