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Epstein Blowback & Clinton Subpoenas — Then Trump’s Grab: Europe’s Jellyfish Spine, Ukraine Chaos · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Good morning. Welcome. I am Samuel Trap.
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  This is International Flavor and I am
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  share some with you. I uh have been
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  computer trying to log in and you know
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  there's something that drives me really
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  bananas and I don't know how people feel
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  about this but uh drives me freaking
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  crazy is
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  uh
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  two factor or double factor whatever the
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  heck they call it authentication. So,
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  you know, the computer gets to um
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  dictate how you operate your computer.
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  It's um
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  frustrating because uh heck, you never
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  change your password and when you change
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  your password, you can't use the
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  password, any password that you've used
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  before. So, you got all these people
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  thinking for you. Nobody gives a rip
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  about my passwords.
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  Um, least of all me. I just don't want
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  to have, you know, 50 different
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  passwords. And, uh, they just don't um
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  um they don't drive drives me freaking
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  crazy. And it's even worse with double
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  factor authentication because you can
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  never log in to your own stuff. At any
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  rate, here it is. Wednesday. It's um
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  uh you're welcome to phone in this
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  morning. 5737468020.
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  I am unable to log into my um my uh
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  computer from afar. That's frustrating.
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  And
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  uh
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  I wanted to start this morning with um a
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  a rather amusing story I think anyway
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  about uh
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  here it is. By the way, today is my uh
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  wonderful deceased uh father's birthday.
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  Uh today he would have been
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  Oh, what would he have been today? 30 uh
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  30. He was born in 38 and so that would
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  make him 80
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  88
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  today. Isn't that correct? I believe he
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  would have been 88 today. And uh yeah,
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  he was good man. And that means he died
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  19 years ago um in about April. and he
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  was a very good man and uh miss him and
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  that's a you know could use him uh on
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  the scene about now so he could keep a
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  couple of idiot family members in line
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  that are just just being destructive and
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  uh it's freaking irritating. I'm
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  watching the news now. Uh by the way, I
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  just missed a man and I I want to talk
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  to you a little bit about Trump. I've
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  been watching the news about the [ __ ]
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  move of uh gez, we're going to steal
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  Greenland. Vance and Rubio are going to
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  meet with Arctic leaders. Geez, that
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  makes me feel.
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  Makes me feel safe. The lunatics are
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  guarding the nutouse.
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  This is, oh jeez, we need we need to
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  take Greenland. You Nobody gives a flip
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  about Greenland, nor should they. And uh
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  it's it's just nonsense that we create a
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  big nothing burger of an issue and try
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  to convince the world that it's it's
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  critical to our survival that we take
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  Greenland. Yeah. Uh nonsense. Um but the
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  news of the day on the 14th is uh uh
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  Trump has flipped off a worker who
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  called him a pedophile protector. The
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  video is um uh interesting and it sure
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  looks like you flipped the dude off to
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  me. So, the US president has faced harsh
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  criticism over transparency on the
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  Epstein files. The old Clintons are
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  refusing to testify about the very same
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  thing. And uh uh US President Donald
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  Trump has been filmed raising his middle
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  finger and appearing to mouth fu at a
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  Ford auto worker who heckled him during
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  a factory visit near Detroit or is it
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  Detroit? Detroit or Detroit? H curious.
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  The insult was linked to the controversy
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  over the Epstein files, which Trump has
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  sought to play down after previously
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  promising transparency.
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  It's always transparency.
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  Transparency for the
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  but not for me. Actually, I don't give a
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  rip about any of this. This is this this
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  uh uh Epstein stuff is just a
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  distraction in my opinion. But what do I
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  I I don't even freaking care. It's been
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  twisted so much at this point, who
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  really gives a rip.
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  Uh, the confrontation
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  happened on Tuesday at the Ford F-150
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  assembly plant in Dearbornne after a
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  worker shouted, and I watched the video,
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  he shouted something first, but I
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  couldn't understand it. And then he
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  said, "Pedophile protector.
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  you pedophile protector. The guy's dead.
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  How are you protecting a pedophile? Uh,
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  according to a video circulating on the
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  social media,
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  Trump turned toward the worker, uttered
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  several expletives, and flipped off the
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  heckler. White House communication
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  director Stephven Chung did not comment
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  on whether Trump had actually raised his
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  middle finger, but confirmed the
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  authenticity of the video. He said a
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  lunatic was wildly screaming expletives
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  in a complete fit of rage. He didn't
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  seem to be in a complete fit of rage to
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  me. Uh, and the president gave an
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  appropriate and unambiguous
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  response. Chung said in a statement to
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  the Washington Post. So, TMZ says,
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  "President Trump was filmed flipping off
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  a Ford worker who yelled pedophile
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  protector at him." The worker, TJ
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  Sabula, a 40-year-old USA
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  local 600 line worker who described
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  himself as an independent and occasional
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  Republican
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  said he has been suspended pending an
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  investigation. Why would he be
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  suspended? Does that mean we should
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  suspend Trump for flipping him off? And
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  he he did say he felt no remorse that
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  this uh Sabula felt no remorse as far as
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  calling him out. Definitely no regrets
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  whatsoever, Sabula said, adding that he
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  believes he was targeted for political
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  retribution for embarrassing Trump in
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  front of his friends.
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  H
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  can't even get away with calling
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  somebody a pedophile protector these
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  days.
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  The taunt appeared to be tied to the
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  ongoing political storm over the files
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  of disgraced financier and convicted sex
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  offender Jeffrey Epstein,
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  who is said to have died by suicide in a
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  New York jail in 2019. And we're still
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  talking about this Yahoo. He's been dead
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  for a long time and we're still talking
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  about it. While awaiting trial on sex
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  trafficking charges, his death spawned
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  widespread conspiracy theories,
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  claiming he had been killed to prevent
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  testimony about alleged crimes involving
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  powerful figures. If you think powerful
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  figures don't get away with whatever
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  they wish to get away with, you better
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  think again, cuz they do. On the
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  campaign trail, Trump promised to
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  release the Epstein files. But as
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  president, he has bristled at the issue,
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  dismissing calls to make the documents
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  public as politically motivated hoax.
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  The controversy intensified after the US
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  president's name appeared in Epstein
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  related material. With no allegation of
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  wrongdoing, later amid sustained public
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  pressure, the Justice Department
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  released a batch of Epstein related
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  documents that were heavily redacted,
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  prompting criticism over the scope and
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  pace of disclosure.
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  Isn't that horrible? What a story. What
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  a story. Can you believe we're still
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  focused on this? Let's focus some more
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  on it because people love to hear about
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  this. The Clintons have refused to
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  testify in the Epstein inquiry.
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  The House Oversight Committee Chair
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  James Comr has threatened to hold them
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  in contempt of Congress. Oh goodness. Oh
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  goodness. This is terrible. Former US
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  President Bill Clinton and Secretary of
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  State Hillary have refused to comply
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  with subpoena to testify before the
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  House Oversight Committee investigation
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  into the government handling
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  of the Epstein case. Is it Epstein? We
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  don't know. We don't know.
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  Oh jeez. Why are we still showing
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  pictures of this Goomba? There he is
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  again.
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  H.
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  We're showing him Lindsey Graham. You
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  got to show Lindsey Graham all over the
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  TV. It's frustrating. Anyway, back to
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  Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
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  The committee had scheduled depositions
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  for Bill Clinton on Tuesday and Hillary
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  on Wednesday. In both an 8page legal
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  letter and a separate signed public
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  statements, the Clintons declared the
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  subpoenas invalid and legally
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  uninforcable.
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  Every person has to decide when they
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  have seen or had enough and are ready to
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  fight for this country, its principles,
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  and its people, no matter the
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  consequences. The Clintons wrote, "Well,
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  I'm glad to see they're together on
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  this." you know, uh, Chairman James
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  Comr, who's a Kentucky Republican, who
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  left an empty chair at the deposition
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  table to mark the former president's
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  absence, expressed disappointment, and
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  pledged a committee vote next week to
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  hold Bill in contempt. No one's accusing
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  Bill of anything, any wrongdoing. We
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  just have questions, Goomer told
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  reporters. If the full house votes for
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  contempt, the Justice Department would
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  decide whether to prosecute.
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  This refusal comes as the Justice
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  Department continues to release
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  thousands of pages of files from the
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  Epstein investigation.
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  The first batch, which was made public
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  in December of 2025,
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  featured numerous photographs of Bill
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  with Epstein and his associate Gain
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  Maxwell, none of which include
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  contextual details or dates. Clinton's
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  documented ties to Epstein date to the
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  late 90s and early 2000s. Flight log
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  show. Clinton and his entourage took
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  multiple international trips on
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  Epstein's private jet, often referred to
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  as the Lolita Express, traveling to
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  locations such as Bangkok, Brunai,
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  Rwanda, Russia, and China. Epstein also
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  visited the White House multiple times
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  during Clinton's presidency. The
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  Clintons have repeatedly said they
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  possess no relevant information and had
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  offered to provide sworn witness
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  statements.
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  Similar to other high-profile figures,
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  excused from live testimony, their legal
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  team argued that the subpoenas are
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  politically motivated, an effort to
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  harass them and distract from President
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  Donald Trump's own alleged associations
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  with Epstein.
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  Clinton spokesperson Angel Urina
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  previously called for the release of all
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  Epstein files accused the Justice
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  Department of selectively releasing
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  material mentioning the former president
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  and implying wrongdoing
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  where none exists.
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  Isn't that depressing?
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  Oh,
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  tell you what, it's pretty pretty sad
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  when the government is hunting you down
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  and you're just nothing but innocent.
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  You know,
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  it's, you know, when you haven't done
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  anything and the government continues to
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  come after you, it's just frustrating.
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  Like, oh, poor Bill and
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  Bill and Hillary or Billery and Hill. Uh
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  but let's share an an an older article,
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  shall we? Where the Congress warned the
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  Clintons over the Epstein case. Again,
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  James Comr. He said any attempt by the
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  ex-presidential couple to avoid
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  subpoenas will constitute contempt of
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  Congress. Now, this came out in
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  November. Remember this? This was right
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  before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving.
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  You're supposed to put the stress in the
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  proper word, Thanksgiving. Um, isn't
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  that right,
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  US? This is an old arcticle, but we're
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  going to share it with you because this
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  is a warning is a warning. And then we
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  got to talk about a Wall Street Journal
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  article, too, that shows how guilty Bill
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  Clinton is. Right? This is this is the
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  twist. we're supposed to believe that he
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  is, you know, just a terrible, terrible
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  person and a horrible president and all
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  kinds of stuff. I actually lived in
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  Washington DC when he was president.
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  That was fun. I wore a t-shirt down um
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  on um
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  near near where the Washington Monument
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  is and the Capitol Mall just starts down
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  there.
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  And uh I wore my t-shirt which said uh
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  it was a bright yellow t-shirt and it
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  said I don't trust
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  President Clinton
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  or her husband. That was the joke way
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  back then that the pants in that family
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  have always been worn by the old
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  Hillary. Um, we used to call it the, you
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  know, they were uh tagged at the hip,
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  you know, since they were joined at the
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  hip back during the presidency. We
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  called it the billery, the billery
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  element.
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  Uh, anyway, let's share this article
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  from ancient history, which was right
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  before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving.
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  US House Oversight Committee Chair James
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  Comr demanded that President Bill
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  Clinton and his wife, Secretary of
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  State, former testify before lawmakers
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  about the late late, you know, he's
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  always going to be late because he's
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  never going to arrive because he's dead.
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  About the late convicted sex trafficker
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  Jeffrey Epstein. He warned Culr did that
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  failing to comply with subpoenas issued
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  earlier this year would mean
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  serious consequences for both of them.
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  Epstein, convicted of sex offenses in '
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  08, was charged again in 2019 with
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  trafficking minors and running an
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  underage sex ring. He was found dead in
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  a Manhattan jail cell later in the year.
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  According to a press release from the
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  committee on oversight and government
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  reform on Friday, Comr quote sent a
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  letter to Bill and Hillary
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  Clinton's attorney, David Kendall,
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  saying that they are required to comply
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  with lawful lawful subpoenas and appear
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  for scheduled in-person depositions. He
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  noted that both Republicans and
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  Democrats on the committee approved a
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  motion to issue subpoenas to Bill and
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  Hillary in July. Given their history
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  with Epstein and Maxwell, any attempt by
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  the Clintons to avoid sitting for a
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  deposition would be grounds to initiate
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  contempt of Congress proceedings. The
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  document states that Bill had been
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  summoned to appear on December 17 and
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  Hillary the following day. Uhhuh. The
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  ex-president previously admitted he
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  traveled on a jet with Epstein, but that
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  he had never visited the financier's
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  infamous island.
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  Wow. In July, Wall Street Journal
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  claimed that Clinton had once written a
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  personal note to Epstein that reportedly
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  read, "It's reassuring, isn't it, to
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  have lasted as long across all the years
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  of learning and knowing, adventures, and
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  illeible word, and also to have your
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  childlike curiosity, the drive to make a
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  difference, and the solace of friends."
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  Well, that's curious. A spokesman for
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  the Clintons
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  declined to comment on the note at the
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  time, stating that the former president
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  had severed ties with Epstein long
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  before his 2019 arrest and was unaware
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  of his alleged crimes.
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  In a post on his true social platform
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  last Friday, remember this is November.
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  US President Trump said he had directed
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  Attorney General Pam Body and the just
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  and the Justice Department to
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  investigate Epstein's involvement and
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  relationships with Bill Clinton and
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  other prominent Democrats.
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  On Wednesday, Trump signed a bill
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  requiring the Justice Department to
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  release files related to Epstein. And in
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  his post, this is back in November, by
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  the way. Remember, I'm sharing an older
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  one, Trump suggested that perhaps the
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  truth about these Democrats and their
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  associations with Epstein will soon be
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  revealed, mentioning Bill Clinton, among
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  several others. Trump's move marked a
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  shift from his earlier positions.
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  Yeah.
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  Isn't it terrible that we are still
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  focused on this happy crappy and even
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  me? Um,
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  excuse me. I wanted to uh to uh keep
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  talking about Greenland because I can't
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  believe how silly the whole thing is.
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  And like I told you, we're gonna have um
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  Rubio
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  and Vance uh discussing things. Um
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  there's several articles about this. Uh
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  allegedly
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  Trump is threatening Greenland's
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  leader with a big problem. It's going to
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  be a big problem. a huge problem
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  apparently and this came out yesterday
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  too uh
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  a big problem. US President Trump has
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  dismissed Greenland Prime Minister Jens
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  Friedrich Nelson as someone he doesn't
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  even know
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  and is threatening him with a big
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  problem. After Neielson reaffirmed the
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  island's commitment to Denmark over the
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  US, the confrontation over Trump's
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  ambitions to acquire the Arctic Island
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  reached a new peak at a joint press
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  conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday
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  where Danish Prime Minister Met
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  Friedrien and Neielson presented a
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  unified front. If we have to choose
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  between the United States and Denmark
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  here and now, we choose Denmark. We
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  choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of
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  Denmark. We choose the EU. Neielson said
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  the comments
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  made on the eve of highlevel talks in
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  Washington between Danish and Greenland
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  officials and the US Vice President
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  Vance and Secretary of State Rubio
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  drew sharp retorts from Trump. That's
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  their problem. Trump told reporters at
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  Joint Base Andrews, I disagree with him.
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  I don't know who he is. I don't know
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  anything about him. But that's going to
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  be a big problem for him. Trump has
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  argued that the US must control
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  Greenland to prevent Chinese or Russian
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  dominance. An allegation disputed not
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  only by Moscow and Beijing, but also by
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  regional officials. One way or the
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  other, he said on Sunday, we're going to
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  have Greenland. The threat comes amid a
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  legislative move by Florida Florida
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  Congressman Randy Fine who introduced I
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  shared with you yesterday the Greenland
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  Annexation and Statethood Act which
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  authorizes the president which would
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  authorize the president to take whatever
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  steps necessary.
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  Danish officials
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  have rejected the premise
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  with ambassador Jesper Mhler Sorenson
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  saying he made it abundantly clear to
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  find that Greenland is part of Denmark.
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  While Copenhagen has expressed
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  willingness to deepen security
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  cooperation with the US within the NATO
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  framework, it insists the island's
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  future lies with its own people, who
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  voted in '08 to retain self-governing
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  status within Denmark. NATO Secretary
• 24:41
  General Mark Ruda declined to comment
• 24:44
  directly on the dispute, saying his role
• 24:46
  is to ensure security in the Arctic. I
• 24:51
  disagree with that. NATO's role isn't to
• 24:54
  secure security or to uh provide
• 24:57
  security in the Arctic. It's to provide
• 25:01
  security within NATO countries.
• 25:04
  I don't know where they they just keep
• 25:06
  um stretching stuff. Um you know, to we
• 25:11
  just make it up as we go along.
• 25:15
  I think it's a bit silly.
• 25:18
  Um,
• 25:19
  let's see here. I'm yawning a bit this
• 25:22
  morning. Sorry about that. We're going
• 25:24
  to stay on the Greenland topic, though,
• 25:26
  because there was something
• 25:28
  entertaining.
• 25:31
  Uh, a jellyfish
• 25:34
  has more spine than Europeans,
• 25:38
  said a professor on Trump's plans to
• 25:41
  annex Greenland. Any European troop
• 25:44
  deployment to the Arctic over the
• 25:47
  imaginary Russian and Chinese threats
• 25:50
  will be symbolic, says Greg Simons.
• 25:56
  Europe is too weak to stand up to US
• 25:58
  President Trump's ambitions to bring
• 26:01
  Greenland under American control, said
• 26:04
  journalism professor Greg Simons. Last
• 26:08
  week, Trump stated that the US must enex
• 26:11
  Greenland, a Danish self-governing
• 26:14
  island to contain Russia and China,
• 26:18
  claiming the two countries would take
• 26:20
  over the island unless Washington acted
• 26:23
  first. Several media outlets since
• 26:26
  reported that the UK, France, and other
• 26:29
  European states are discussing plans to
• 26:31
  send ground forces to Greenland to
• 26:34
  signal that they take Arctic security
• 26:37
  seriously.
• 26:39
  They're all nuts. Speaking to RT on
• 26:43
  Tuesday, Simons, who teaches at Daffodil
• 26:46
  International University in Dhaka,
• 26:49
  Bangladesh,
• 26:51
  said European governments lack the
• 26:54
  strength and will to resist Trump. A
• 26:57
  jellyfish has more spine than these
• 27:01
  Europeans and the EU at this stage, he
• 27:05
  argued, calling their stance
• 27:08
  hypocritical.
• 27:10
  Commenting on the reports of a potential
• 27:13
  deployment, Simon said, "Such a move
• 27:15
  would be largely symbolic. any European
• 27:18
  troop presence in presence in Greenland
• 27:22
  or a wider Arctic will amount to a token
• 27:26
  number of troops facing an imaginary
• 27:29
  threat of Chinese and Russian destroyers
• 27:32
  and submarines. He argued, adding that
• 27:36
  even Denmark acknowledged that there are
• 27:38
  no such vessels in the area. Rather than
• 27:42
  reflecting strategic autonomy, the idea
• 27:45
  shows Europe trying to plate Washington.
• 27:49
  It's an attempt to try and appease
• 27:52
  Trump," he said, adding that the message
• 27:55
  to the president would be, "See, we're
• 27:58
  helping you, so there's no need to annex
• 28:01
  Greenland."
• 28:04
  He argued Simons did that
• 28:06
  deindustrialized
• 28:08
  Europe is gutted and has very pathetic
• 28:12
  sized armies which are nothing to speak
• 28:15
  of, leaving Europe unable to compete
• 28:19
  with the US for control of Greenland or
• 28:22
  the wider Arctic.
• 28:25
  Denmark insists that Greenland is not
• 28:28
  for sale and that the island's future
• 28:31
  must be decided by its own residents who
• 28:35
  voted in ' 08 for self-governing.
• 28:38
  Beijing criticized Washington for using
• 28:42
  Russia and China as pretexts
• 28:45
  for deeper push into the Arctic. Moscow
• 28:49
  has not yet officially responded to
• 28:52
  Trump's latest remarks, but it
• 28:55
  previously stressed that Greenland's
• 28:57
  future has to be determined by its own
• 28:59
  citizens and dismisses claims that
• 29:02
  Russia poses a threat.
• 29:06
  But we're America. We just make stuff up
• 29:08
  as we go along.
• 29:11
  If we say Russia and China are problems,
• 29:15
  by God, they must be, right? They have
• 29:18
  to be.
• 29:19
  Um, is everybody watching this? Uh,
• 29:22
  there's supposed to be a transgender
• 29:24
  case, isn't it, in sports coming up um
• 29:27
  in the um Supreme Court coming pretty
• 29:30
  soon. Um
• 29:33
  there's more uh I'm giving you a whole
• 29:36
  bunch of uh u uh opinions on u on other
• 29:40
  people on this Greenland thing because
• 29:43
  it's just a bunch of nuts that uh well
• 29:46
  we are that we are talking about there's
• 29:49
  another guy called u John what is his
• 29:53
  name John Varolei
• 29:55
  who has spoken too
• 29:58
  uh western European nations are vassels
• 30:01
  of the US and will inevitably submit if
• 30:05
  Trump moves to annex Greenland, said
• 30:08
  American journalist John Varolei.
• 30:12
  Um,
• 30:14
  yeah.
• 30:16
  Well, who is this guy? The US will not
• 30:18
  let European powers deploy any troops to
• 30:22
  Greenland because Washington,
• 30:25
  they want total control and conquest of
• 30:28
  Greenland.
• 30:29
  They can threaten. They can throw
• 30:32
  tantrums and make all the joint
• 30:36
  statements they want, but the US always
• 30:39
  gets its way. He said, the Europeans at
• 30:42
  the end of the day, let's be very clear,
• 30:46
  they are the vessels and they will have
• 30:49
  to do whatever Washington says. NATO is
• 30:53
  the US said Veroli recalling how
• 30:57
  Secretary General Mark Rut called Trump
• 31:00
  daddy at a summit in the Hague last
• 31:03
  June. The European powers know that big
• 31:07
  daddy is in charge. The big daddy in the
• 31:11
  White House. He said Trump wants to go
• 31:14
  down in American history as the greatest
• 31:17
  American president. And for that to
• 31:20
  happen, he thinks it means acquisition
• 31:24
  of new territories and conquest.
• 31:28
  I don't think he thinks that. Um I I
• 31:31
  think um
• 31:34
  well, it doesn't matter. Let's finish
• 31:36
  the article. Denmark has insisted that
• 31:38
  Greenland is not for sale. Once again,
• 31:40
  we've talked about and then we have
• 31:42
  Randy Fine, the goof saying Trump should
• 31:46
  take whatever steps necessary to annex
• 31:50
  Greenland.
• 31:52
  Nuts running the nutouse. I'm telling
• 31:54
  you, we got Trump flipping people off.
• 31:58
  We got lunatics.
• 32:00
  Um, a Trump envoy was not welcome at a
• 32:05
  Greenland dog sled race, according to
• 32:07
  the organizers.
• 32:09
  Um Jeff Landry, the organizers of a of
• 32:15
  Greenland's premier dog sled race have
• 32:20
  said the presence of US President
• 32:22
  Trump's envoy Jeff Laundry at the event
• 32:26
  would be wholly inappropriate
• 32:29
  and launched a probe into his alleged
• 32:32
  invitation.
• 32:33
  He has openly backed Trump's push to
• 32:36
  incorporate the island into the US.
• 32:42
  Yeah. on Sunday he you know uh
• 32:48
  well
• 32:50
  Trump did anyway
• 32:53
  uh said that uh you know the two dog
• 32:56
  flood remark remember that and Landry
• 32:59
  who was appointed by Trump as a special
• 33:01
  envoy to Greenland in December told Fox
• 33:05
  News radio last week he intended to
• 33:10
  attend the annual aan Nata
• 33:15
  uh Quimus
• 33:17
  Quimua
• 33:19
  dog sled race in March and used the
• 33:22
  occasion to speak with locals about the
• 33:25
  benefit of closer ties with the US.
• 33:28
  According to him he said
• 33:32
  he said I'm interested in talking to
• 33:34
  Greenlanders. In fact, I got invited, I
• 33:39
  think, to the world's largest dog sled
• 33:42
  event that goes up in March in
• 33:44
  Greenland. I'm going," Landry said. In a
• 33:48
  Facebook statement on Tuesday, the
• 33:51
  Greenland Dog Sledding Association
• 33:55
  said it was unaware who issued the
• 33:57
  invitation and called Land Landry's
• 34:00
  potential presence inappropriate, giving
• 34:03
  his public
• 34:05
  advocacy for annexation.
• 34:09
  The dog sledding board
• 34:12
  finds it unacceptable that political
• 34:15
  pressure
• 34:17
  is being exerted from outside and
• 34:20
  considers the participation of foreign
• 34:23
  political
• 34:25
  actors at the race wholly inappropriate
• 34:28
  said chairman Michl Jeremia
• 34:32
  adding that he had ordered an internal
• 34:34
  probe.
• 34:36
  Landry has openly called Denmark's rule
• 34:38
  of Greenland an occupation and he urged
• 34:42
  the island who claimed their
• 34:43
  independence to gain the US as an ally.
• 34:46
  His appointment as envoy prompted
• 34:48
  Copenagen to summon the US ambassador
• 34:51
  interpreting the move as a breach of
• 34:53
  diplomatic norms
• 34:56
  by treating Greenland as independent
• 34:59
  rather than an autonomous Danish
• 35:01
  territory.
• 35:03
  Hm. Denmark has condemned Trump's
• 35:06
  rhetoric as a direct threat to its own
• 35:09
  sovereignty.
• 35:10
  Greenlandic prime minister reiterated
• 35:13
  Tuesday that Greenland will not be part
• 35:16
  of the US
• 35:20
  and that if they are annexed this would
• 35:22
  mark the end of NATO. But Trump envoy,
• 35:27
  this guy, the genius, he says this to
• 35:30
  Landry. He says that Denmark is
• 35:33
  occupying Greenland.
• 35:37
  The US defended the island during World
• 35:39
  War II when Copenhogen couldn't. Denmark
• 35:43
  is occupying Greenland in violation of
• 35:46
  UN rules, says uh Special Envoy
• 35:49
  Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.
• 35:54
  We know about the story of of what he
• 35:56
  said where Trump said one way or another
• 35:58
  that we're we're taking it. He argued
• 36:01
  that Copenhogen is unable to provide
• 36:03
  security
• 36:05
  uh because they only have two dog sleds
• 36:07
  up there. That's the defense. Landry
• 36:09
  took to X to note that US protected
• 36:12
  Greenland during World War II. US
• 36:15
  military facilities were set up on the
• 36:17
  Arctic Island in line with a deal
• 36:19
  between Washington and Copenhogen in
• 36:21
  April 41, a year after Denmark was
• 36:25
  overrun by Nazi Germany.
• 36:30
  History matters, he wrote. The US
• 36:32
  defended Greenland's sovereignty during
• 36:35
  World War II when Denmark couldn't.
• 36:39
  After the conflict ended, Denmark
• 36:42
  reoccupied it, sideststepping and
• 36:45
  ignoring UN protocol, said Landry.
• 36:52
  Uh the Danish ambassador responded to
• 36:56
  the accusation saying that Greenland has
• 36:58
  been a part of the Kingdom of Denmark
• 36:59
  for centuries that has repeatedly been
• 37:02
  recognized by US administrations
• 37:06
  in the UN and internationally.
• 37:10
  Only the people of Greenland should
• 37:12
  decide their future. A vast majority of
• 37:16
  Greenlanders voted yes to its
• 37:19
  self-governing status.
• 37:22
  He wrote, "Copenhagen has always stood
• 37:26
  shoulderto-shoulder with Washington."
• 37:31
  He noted that Denmark lost more soldiers
• 37:34
  per capita than any other NATO ally
• 37:39
  during the US-led invasion of
• 37:42
  Afghanistan. A total of 43 Danish troops
• 37:45
  were killed in the country from 2002 to
• 37:49
  2014.
• 37:51
  Let's continue to address security
• 37:54
  challenges in the Arctic as partners and
• 37:57
  allies.
• 38:00
  And uh you know staying on this topic,
• 38:04
  you know, this is really I I happen to
• 38:08
  agree with this that it is delusional to
• 38:12
  claim that Russia and China pose a
• 38:14
  threat to Greenland according to a
• 38:16
  Danish MP.
• 38:20
  Yeah, it's absolutely true. Russia and
• 38:22
  China pose no threat to Greenland, said
• 38:26
  a senior Danish lawmaker.
• 38:29
  Uh
• 38:31
  on Sunday, Ramis Rasmus Jarloof, the
• 38:35
  chair of Denmark's Parliamentary Defense
• 38:38
  Committee, sparred with security expert
• 38:41
  Valina
• 38:43
  Chakarava,
• 38:44
  who claimed that European nations do not
• 38:48
  take the threat from Russia and China
• 38:51
  seriously, have not been paying
• 38:54
  attention to what was happening in the
• 38:56
  Arctic in the last 10 years. Jarof wrote
• 39:00
  on X without clarifying who he was
• 39:03
  referring to. I am head of the defense
• 39:06
  committee of Denmark. I get all relevant
• 39:09
  information. I can assure you that your
• 39:12
  fantasies about a big threat from China
• 39:15
  and Russia against Greenland are
• 39:19
  delusional.
• 39:20
  You are the threat, not them. Russia,
• 39:25
  whose western border lies more than
• 39:27
  3,000 kilometers from Greenland, has
• 39:30
  provided few comments on Trump's push to
• 39:33
  acquire the island, only insisting that
• 39:36
  the wishes of Greenland's population be
• 39:39
  respected. Polling suggests that there's
• 39:42
  little appetite in Greenland to join the
• 39:45
  US. Moscow also dismissed speculation
• 39:48
  that it has plans to attack Western
• 39:51
  countries as nonsense.
• 39:54
  China has denied that it seeks to
• 39:57
  control Greenland and pushes back
• 39:59
  against Trump's
• 40:02
  bananaama rhetoric. He's nuts. After
• 40:06
  Trump claimed that Greenland is covered
• 40:08
  with Chinese ships, he hasn't shown a
• 40:12
  picture of one. Foreign Ministry
• 40:15
  spokesman Lin Jang said Beijing urges
• 40:18
  the US to stop using the so-called China
• 40:21
  threat as a pretext for itself to seek
• 40:25
  selfish gains. On Saturday, the Daily
• 40:29
  Mail reported that Trump has ordered
• 40:32
  generals to draw up a plan for a
• 40:34
  potential invasion of Greenland
• 40:38
  with sources warning that it would lead
• 40:40
  to the destruction of NATO from the
• 40:43
  inside.
• 40:45
  Isn't that crazy?
• 40:49
  Yeah.
• 40:51
  Well, it's a strange old world. That's
• 40:54
  all I'm saying. It is all I'm saying.
• 40:59
  Whe you know, we're just going to steal
• 41:03
  land. We've stolen
• 41:06
  we've stolen Venezuela. Apparently, we
• 41:09
  now own Venezuelan oil. We just took it
• 41:13
  and um you know, we just it's ours. The
• 41:18
  end. Nuts. The whole thing is nuts. We
• 41:21
  just we're a bunch of lunatics running
• 41:24
  around the world stealing stuff from
• 41:26
  people. Um, but you know what? Let's
• 41:29
  let's shift gears here because I read an
• 41:31
  interesting art article about uh an
• 41:34
  interesting lady. Her name is Ulia
• 41:37
  Timosanka. And Julia Timoshanka is an ex
• 41:41
  Ukrainian
• 41:43
  prime uh
• 41:46
  uh PM targeted in a vote buying probe.
• 41:52
  Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia
• 41:55
  Timosanka has confirmed that her party's
• 41:59
  office has been searched by law
• 42:00
  enforcement as part of parliamentary
• 42:03
  vote buying probes. detectives from the
• 42:07
  Westernbacked National Anti-Corruption
• 42:10
  Bureau of Ukraine, NABU, and the Special
• 42:14
  Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Office, SAPO,
• 42:18
  announced on Tuesday,
• 42:21
  that a parliamentary faction head was
• 42:23
  under investigation
• 42:25
  without naming the suspect, but she said
• 42:29
  it's her. So on Wednesday morning she
• 42:32
  confirmed that her Batkish
• 42:36
  Batkiv Shina Fatherland Party was
• 42:40
  targeted overnight, dismissed the move
• 42:43
  as a grandiose publicity stunt and
• 42:47
  denied any wrongdoing.
• 42:53
  Little bit of coffee for me. Shortly
• 42:56
  afterward, Nibou announced formal
• 43:00
  charges against a female suspect accused
• 43:03
  of creating a mechanism for regular
• 43:07
  long-term payments to MPs following her
• 43:10
  instructions. The development came after
• 43:14
  a series of key votes in the
• 43:16
  Verhovnarada
• 43:17
  required to enact Vladimir Zalinsk's
• 43:20
  latest government reshuffle.
• 43:23
  Timashanka blamed unspecified rivals of
• 43:27
  persecution and terror against her,
• 43:31
  implying that the case was politically
• 43:34
  motivated and linked with hypothetical
• 43:36
  elections in the country. Parliamentary
• 43:40
  and presidential elections are banned in
• 43:42
  Ukraine under martial law and Zilinski
• 43:46
  has retained presidential powers despite
• 43:48
  the fact that his term expired in 2024.
• 43:53
  During her decades long career, Tim
• 43:56
  Mashanka has faced criminal prosecution
• 43:59
  multiple times and was sentenced to
• 44:02
  prison for abuse of power under former
• 44:05
  President Victor Kovich. She spent a
• 44:09
  year in jail before being released early
• 44:11
  after westernbacked Maidan coup toppled
• 44:15
  Yanukovich.
• 44:18
  Yes, Batkisha votes were crucial in
• 44:22
  several key parliamentary decisions,
• 44:24
  including the bill last summer that
• 44:26
  stripped Naboo and Sappo of their
• 44:28
  independence. The Zalinski reversed that
• 44:31
  move under western pressure and blamed
• 44:35
  lawmakers
• 44:37
  mostly from his own party who voted for
• 44:40
  the amendments.
• 44:43
  On Tuesday, Timanka and other MPs from
• 44:46
  her parties voted to remove Vasilei
• 44:49
  Maluk as head of the domestic security
• 44:51
  service SBU at Silinsk's request
• 44:55
  securing the proposal's passage. The
• 44:57
  reshuffle was triggered by a Nibou
• 45:00
  investigation into corruption g again in
• 45:03
  Ukraine's energy sector which led to the
• 45:06
  resignation of Andre Yermach and two
• 45:10
  other ministers.
• 45:13
  Wow.
• 45:14
  The Zilinsky backed candidate for energy
• 45:17
  mis minister, former prime minister
• 45:19
  Dennis Schmegel,
• 45:21
  failed to secure enough support after
• 45:24
  MPs agreed to remove him as defense
• 45:27
  minister. Parliament did not approve a
• 45:30
  replacement to lead the defense
• 45:32
  ministry. Isn't that sad?
• 45:36
  Meanwhile, Zalinski is complaining.
• 45:39
  Gee, there's a surprise. Zalinski is
• 45:42
  complaining. Who'd have thunk it? K's
• 45:45
  European backers are too slow on weapon
• 45:49
  purchases.
• 45:51
  Those damn Europeans, they're not giving
• 45:54
  us weapons fast enough. The Ukrainian
• 45:56
  leader complains of insufficient pace on
• 46:00
  funding for a scheme to buy US arms.
• 46:05
  Terrible. Oh,
• 46:08
  Ukraine's Vladimir Zalinski is
• 46:11
  complaining that the backers, you know,
• 46:16
  moves are insufficient.
• 46:18
  On Tuesday, he spoke after a staff
• 46:22
  meeting on defense issues and claimed
• 46:26
  major issues with the prioritized
• 46:29
  Ukrainian requirement list, the Pearl
• 46:33
  initiative.
• 46:35
  prioritized Ukraine requirement list.
• 46:38
  It's a NATO coordinated mechanism
• 46:42
  designed to pull mainly European funding
• 46:45
  to buy weapons from the US to be sent to
• 46:50
  Kiev. The plan was launched in August as
• 46:54
  European governments looked for ways to
• 46:56
  continue supporting Ukraine's military
• 46:58
  after the old Trumpster ended direct
• 47:02
  arms supplies and argued that the
• 47:05
  conflict should be primarily addressed
• 47:07
  by Europe. What matters is the real and
• 47:12
  timely fulfillment of all agreements
• 47:14
  with our partners. The Pearl initiative
• 47:18
  needs funding and progress in January
• 47:23
  has been insufficient, said the Z
• 47:26
  monster.
• 47:28
  While Zullinsky did not provide figures,
• 47:31
  funding has indeed lagged behind the
• 47:34
  targets of previous months. Mark Ruta,
• 47:38
  NATO Secretary General, said in November
• 47:41
  that overall investments in Pearl were
• 47:43
  expected to reach 5 billion by the end
• 47:46
  of the year. But by late December,
• 47:49
  publicly disclosed figures showed only
• 47:52
  4.3 billion had been committed since
• 47:55
  August, including almost 1.5 billion in
• 48:00
  December.
• 48:04
  Political friction inside the EU has
• 48:07
  further complicated this matter.
• 48:10
  According to Politico, Germany and the
• 48:13
  Netherlands wish to ensure Kiev can use
• 48:17
  an EU backed $90 billion euro which is
• 48:22
  $105 billion
• 48:25
  loan to buy US weapons. French President
• 48:29
  Emanuel Macron, however, has argued that
• 48:32
  EU funds should be used to purchase
• 48:36
  European rather than US-made weapons to
• 48:40
  enhance the block's military industry.
• 48:43
  In addition, while most NATO members
• 48:45
  join the Pearl Initiative in some form,
• 48:48
  several countries,
• 48:50
  notably Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia,
• 48:54
  have declined to participate.
• 48:57
  Russia condemns, of course, Western
• 48:59
  armed shipments to Ukraine, saying they
• 49:02
  only prolong the conflict without
• 49:06
  changing the outcome.
• 49:09
  Ain't that just the truth, friends and
• 49:12
  neighbors? Uh so I've been following of
• 49:16
  course as you all know the um the uh
• 49:20
  advances
• 49:23
  toward the west
• 49:25
  by the Ruskis by the Russian forces and
• 49:29
  they are continual
• 49:31
  and they are occurring steadily
• 49:35
  pushing westward
• 49:38
  more and more.
• 49:41
  the latest troop numbers aren't um
• 49:47
  doing any any good. You know, the the
• 49:50
  the the troops are uh
• 49:54
  are u
• 49:57
  not insufficient to uh to take care of
• 50:01
  anything.
• 50:03
  Um and there's all kinds of you know
• 50:06
  inner inner um
• 50:09
  uh turmoil in in the regime of Zalinski.
• 50:15
  You know that uh your mock and who else
• 50:18
  is gone now? Um what was his name?
• 50:22
  Schmegel. Denis Denise Schmegle. He who
• 50:26
  held the post for less than six months
• 50:29
  and he served as prime minister.
• 50:32
  uh before that and he was a defense
• 50:34
  minister. They got rid of him. They got
• 50:37
  rid of, you know, he stepped down last
• 50:39
  week. Uh ongoing cabinet reshuffle,
• 50:43
  reshuffling, ongoing bribery, ongoing
• 50:47
  uh everything. Um
• 50:51
  and a Kazak commission tanker was
• 50:54
  attacked by Kiev. Two Ukrainian drones
• 50:57
  hit the ship on Tuesday.
• 51:00
  Two Ukrainian drones were involved in an
• 51:02
  attack on an oil tanker on the Black Sea
• 51:05
  Tuesday. The incident involved crude oil
• 51:08
  tanker Matilda reported by the
• 51:11
  Kazakowned oil company Kaz Munai Gaz KMG
• 51:16
  whose subsidiary commissioned the ship
• 51:18
  to pick up cargo at the Russian port of
• 51:20
  Novarisk.
• 51:22
  The shipment was part of the operations
• 51:25
  of the International Caspian Pipeline
• 51:27
  Consortium, which transports fuel
• 51:29
  extracted in Kazakhstan via Russia to
• 51:31
  international markets. According to
• 51:33
  Russian military, the Malta flagged
• 51:36
  vessel was attacked 100 kilometers from
• 51:38
  the Russian city of Anapa around 10:15
• 51:42
  a.m. local time. And earlier on
• 51:45
  Wednesday, footage purportedly showed a
• 51:47
  kamicazi drone striking a second tanker,
• 51:50
  the Delta Harmony.
• 51:52
  Uh, Ukrainian officials declined to
• 51:55
  comment on the incidents. Moscow accuses
• 51:58
  Kiev of deliberately targeting CPC
• 52:00
  infrastructure on Russian soil.
• 52:03
  Last November, after Kazakhstan
• 52:05
  protested disruption of its exports,
• 52:08
  Kiev argued that Russia is responsible
• 52:10
  for damage caused to foreign nations by
• 52:14
  Ukraine.
• 52:16
  So, the Russians are to blame if Ukraine
• 52:19
  attack Kazaki uh ships. That's I don't
• 52:24
  get the logic of that. That's why I'm uh
• 52:26
  uh laughing at that as you should be as
• 52:29
  well. Russian officials say Kiev is
• 52:31
  resorting to terror attacks. Yes, that's
• 52:34
  true. Um,
• 52:38
  has anybody I mean I'm sure everybody's
• 52:40
  been following and and and I'm so tired
• 52:43
  of it. It's it's uh yesterday I shared
• 52:45
  with you the how many incidents? some 66
• 52:48
  or something like that when we counted
• 52:50
  them and went through that uh
• 52:52
  gentleman's um
• 52:55
  uh
• 52:56
  video which I followed on uh online and
• 53:01
  shared with you. Uh
• 53:05
  now illegal sanctions pressure is the
• 53:09
  root cause of protests in Iran. And
• 53:11
  according it's Iran. According to
• 53:14
  Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman
• 53:16
  Maria Zahara I watched her that was an
• 53:18
  interesting um an interesting
• 53:22
  uh commentary and uh basically the
• 53:26
  allegation is the west is seeking regime
• 53:29
  change in Iran. Of course, that's what
• 53:32
  we do. We uh wonder if we're going to
• 53:35
  seek regime change in Greenland. We'll
• 53:37
  go up there and kidnap kidnap the the
• 53:40
  the leader. We can kidnap the Greenland
• 53:43
  leader and just say, "Well, we're taking
• 53:45
  all your stuff. We're taking all of your
• 53:48
  ice and uh we're going to take
• 53:51
  everything there and we're going to uh
• 53:53
  take your um your uh
• 53:58
  all of your dog sleds. We're going to
• 54:02
  take everything important to you in
• 54:05
  Greenland and capture kidnap your uh
• 54:08
  your your president or your leader. Take
• 54:11
  me to your leader. And uh uh since we
• 54:15
  did it in in Venezuela, you know, why
• 54:18
  can't we just say we say that Denmark is
• 54:20
  illegitimate? We you know, I just shared
• 54:23
  some articles up there. Maybe we could
• 54:25
  just go uh you know, send the military
• 54:28
  to capture the uh to kidnap and and and
• 54:33
  charge him with some kind of a
• 54:35
  anti-Trump crime and just bring him to
• 54:37
  New York. That's what we do these days,
• 54:39
  you know. We just charge him with crimes
• 54:41
  that um you know you don't even have to
• 54:44
  commit in your own country. You know,
• 54:47
  you we're just it's law enforcement.
• 54:50
  What else is it? It's law enforcement. I
• 54:52
  mean, why don't we just charge the man
• 54:54
  with a crime, go kidnap him, bring him
• 54:58
  to New York, install our own, say
• 55:01
  everything underneath the uh you know,
• 55:03
  any resources are ours, and move on.
• 55:07
  It's, you know, it's acceptable. these
• 55:09
  days. This is what we do. It's what we
• 55:12
  live for. This is what Americans accept
• 55:14
  as reality these days. We just go, you
• 55:18
  know, steal countries. And it's uh all
• 55:21
  wonderful. And uh we might as well do
• 55:24
  the same. I mean, this is what we're
• 55:25
  going to do in Iran, right?
• 55:28
  The West is seeking regime change in
• 55:30
  Iran and is using the color revolution
• 55:33
  playbook, says uh Maria Zakaraba. And uh
• 55:38
  foreign nations want to turn a peaceful
• 55:41
  protest into a cruel and senseless
• 55:44
  unrest, she said, and added that Moscow
• 55:47
  condemns interference in Iran's internal
• 55:49
  affairs. But US President Trump openly
• 55:53
  expresses support for protesters in
• 55:56
  recent days and he said the US is locked
• 56:00
  and loaded for regime change in Iran.
• 56:04
  He wants to support the demonstrators.
• 56:07
  America will start shooting if
• 56:10
  authorities use force against the
• 56:12
  crowds. Israel openly endorses the
• 56:16
  unrest as well. The intelligence agency
• 56:18
  MSAD is admitting admitted to having
• 56:21
  operatives in the Islamic Republic. I
• 56:23
  wonder if Israel has operatives in
• 56:27
  Greenland, too. Oh my god. We could take
• 56:32
  MSAD and the CIA and put a color
• 56:35
  revolution inside of Greenland.
• 56:38
  Holy crap. How come I How come I'm the
• 56:42
  one that has to come up with this idea?
• 56:45
  This is the playbook. Why can't we do it
• 56:47
  in Greenland? We've done it everywhere
• 56:50
  else. This is this is how it works. We
• 56:54
  just
• 56:55
  go to Greenland and, you know, start a
• 57:00
  color revolution. We can condemn those
• 57:02
  as and then say, "Listen,
• 57:05
  we're going to rile up some protesters.
• 57:07
  Maybe we could pay some protesters and
• 57:09
  that'd be that."
• 57:11
  Wow. Tran blames the protests in Iran on
• 57:15
  Washington and West Jerusalem, arguing
• 57:17
  the US and Israel have had a big hand in
• 57:21
  the unrest. Russia resolutely condemns
• 57:24
  disruptive foreign interference in
• 57:26
  Iran's domestic politics. Zahara told
• 57:30
  journalists on Tuesday, "Washington's
• 57:32
  threats to use force against the Islamic
• 57:36
  Republic are unacceptable," she said,
• 57:40
  warning that strikes against Iran would
• 57:43
  destabilize the entire Middle East.
• 57:48
  The spokeswoman also blames the economic
• 57:52
  crisis in Iran
• 57:54
  that triggered the protests on Western
• 57:57
  sanctions. The West has been pressuring
• 57:59
  Iran for years with illegal sanctions,
• 58:01
  she said, adding they are affecting
• 58:04
  lives of ordinary people. Western
• 58:06
  nations are trying to exploit the
• 58:08
  resulting social and economic tension to
• 58:11
  destroy the Iranian state just like we
• 58:15
  did in Venezuela.
• 58:17
  And we're going to do in Greenland. We
• 58:21
  should do the You know what? We should
• 58:23
  sanction Greenland. We should sanction
• 58:26
  Greenland because they won't give up.
• 58:29
  They want to be Denmark. Huh? What is
• 58:33
  What gives them the right to for
• 58:35
  self-determination? They don't get that
• 58:37
  just like Iran doesn't get that. The
• 58:40
  protests erupted in several Iranian
• 58:42
  cities on December 28th as the national
• 58:44
  currency. The realale hit a record low.
• 58:47
  They quickly spread to other cities and
• 58:49
  turned political and violent, marking
• 58:51
  the worst unrest in recent years. On
• 58:54
  Monday, Trump said Washington is
• 58:57
  considering options against Iran. On
• 59:00
  Tuesday, the US warned Americans to
• 59:04
  leave Iran immediately. Tran previously
• 59:07
  warned that it would target US forces in
• 59:10
  the Middle East if Washington attempted
• 59:13
  to intervene.
• 59:16
  Once again, getting into places we
• 59:19
  shouldn't be.
• 59:22
  Here's another genius for us. Uh, the US
• 59:26
  Department of War has announced a new
• 59:30
  strategy to accelerate the military's
• 59:33
  use of AI,
• 59:35
  aiming to establish an AI first fighting
• 59:40
  force across all domains. The plan
• 59:45
  mandated by the old Trumpster focuses on
• 59:48
  seven projects expected to enhance
• 59:51
  combat capabilities with new AI tactics
• 59:55
  and simulations,
• 59:57
  speed up intelligence processing to
• 1:00:00
  develop new weapon systems and automate
• 1:00:04
  internal military
• 1:00:06
  administration and workflow.
• 1:00:10
  US Secretary of War Pete Hegs said the
• 1:00:14
  US will invest heavily in expanding
• 1:00:18
  access to AI
• 1:00:21
  computing power and tap into hundreds of
• 1:00:25
  billions of dollars in private capital
• 1:00:28
  flowing into American AI. A key
• 1:00:32
  directive within the strategy orders the
• 1:00:37
  eradication of woke DEI from military AI
• 1:00:43
  capabilities.
• 1:00:45
  He argues that diversity, equity,
• 1:00:47
  inclusion, and social ideology have no
• 1:00:50
  place in systems designed for combat.
• 1:00:54
  Gone are the days of equitable AI and
• 1:00:58
  other DEI and social justice infusions
• 1:01:02
  that constrain and confuse our
• 1:01:06
  employment of this technology
• 1:01:09
  said heth the secretary of war. We will
• 1:01:14
  not employ AI models that won't allow
• 1:01:18
  you to fight a war.
• 1:01:21
  Well, it's most important to be at war.
• 1:01:24
  He also announced the Department of War
• 1:01:26
  personnel will soon be able to use Elon
• 1:01:30
  Musk's Grock AI through geni.mill,
• 1:01:36
  a website that already provides a
• 1:01:39
  specialized version of Google's Gemini
• 1:01:42
  AI for government use. Very soon we will
• 1:01:47
  have the world's leading AI models on
• 1:01:50
  every unclassified and classified
• 1:01:54
  network through our department.
• 1:01:57
  Long overdue,
• 1:02:01
  says he, the Secretary of War. Hegsathth
• 1:02:06
  noted the Pentagon will be taking a
• 1:02:09
  wartime approach to people and policies
• 1:02:13
  that block AI implementation
• 1:02:17
  and has established a
• 1:02:20
  barrier removal SWAT team
• 1:02:24
  with authority to wave non-stutory
• 1:02:28
  requirements and highlight roadblocks.
• 1:02:32
  How exciting. Russia has similarly
• 1:02:35
  outlined the pursuit of advanced AI
• 1:02:38
  technology as a priority. Vladimir
• 1:02:41
  Putin, president of Russia, said in
• 1:02:44
  November that for the country to have
• 1:02:46
  its own complete range of AI
• 1:02:48
  technologies and products is a matter of
• 1:02:49
  national technological and value
• 1:02:51
  sovereignty. Last month, he highlighted
• 1:02:54
  the need to implement AI and robotic
• 1:02:56
  technologies to further develop the
• 1:02:59
  military.
• 1:03:01
  Well, that is true. I remember watching
• 1:03:03
  that art that uh broadcast. It was uh uh
• 1:03:08
  quite interesting.
• 1:03:10
  Quite interesting.
• 1:03:13
  Um
• 1:03:15
  I've had some more time to look at the u
• 1:03:18
  the uh
• 1:03:20
  soccer mom shot by the ICE agent the
• 1:03:25
  other day.
• 1:03:27
  Um,
• 1:03:30
  and and I'm still very much against uh
• 1:03:33
  what took place there.
• 1:03:36
  Uh, and I I I I suppose I could go
• 1:03:38
  further into that, but uh
• 1:03:42
  I don't know. I I
• 1:03:46
  have so many
• 1:03:48
  there's there's a few other things I
• 1:03:50
  wanted to share. I wanted to talk about
• 1:03:53
  um Venezuela and Greenland some more
• 1:03:56
  today. I I still have a couple of other
• 1:03:58
  things to talk about and the lunacy of
• 1:04:00
  uh of taking Greenland,
• 1:04:04
  which is almost as lun as as a loony is
• 1:04:08
  seizing Venezuela.
• 1:04:10
  Um, and there was a uh uh where where
• 1:04:16
  did that long article go that talked
• 1:04:19
  about the several people?
• 1:04:23
  Well, quite a few people the here it is
• 1:04:27
  the heroes dictators and the long fight
• 1:04:30
  for sovereignty in Latin America before
• 1:04:33
  Maduro. It's a long long article and I'm
• 1:04:37
  not sure I have time to get through it
• 1:04:39
  all today. I may have to paraphrase, but
• 1:04:43
  um
• 1:04:45
  before I get to that, you you guys know
• 1:04:48
  that I like to uh uh refer to Tariq
• 1:04:52
  Sirill Amar, who's a historian from
• 1:04:54
  Germany
• 1:04:56
  and an expert on the culture of war of
• 1:04:58
  World War II. Um he he wrote an article
• 1:05:02
  about Venezuela and Greenland. It's um
• 1:05:06
  not too long
• 1:05:09
  and uh I wanted to uh share that with
• 1:05:12
  you. He starts with a question. What is
• 1:05:15
  the difference between Venezuela and
• 1:05:18
  Denmark? Apart of course from geography,
• 1:05:21
  food, weather, the fact that Venezuela
• 1:05:24
  uh used to at least condemn Israeli
• 1:05:27
  genocide of Palestine
• 1:05:29
  in accordance with basic moral norms and
• 1:05:32
  international law. While the Danish
• 1:05:34
  leadership has in effect sided with uh
• 1:05:38
  Israel in accordance with the revolting
• 1:05:41
  way things are done in the valuesdriven
• 1:05:44
  West. Here's a fun fact. He said there
• 1:05:47
  is no real difference between these two
• 1:05:50
  countries except US President Trump
• 1:05:53
  wishes to see one. And at this point, it
• 1:05:56
  seems that he and his merry crew of
• 1:05:58
  hemispheric pirates are in the mood to
• 1:06:01
  treat Venezuela and Denmark in
• 1:06:04
  essentially the same manner, namely by
• 1:06:07
  doing whatever they want to them in the
• 1:06:10
  pursuit of raw material and geopolitical
• 1:06:12
  location.
• 1:06:16
  Trump himself has reiterated his brief,
• 1:06:19
  his belief that Washington needs
• 1:06:22
  Greenland. In other words,
• 1:06:26
  in his world, the same as he has the
• 1:06:29
  right to take it. Stephen Miller, who's
• 1:06:33
  nuts in my opinion, one of Trump's
• 1:06:35
  familia,
• 1:06:37
  many aggressive and sinister sidekicks,
• 1:06:40
  has claimed that Denmark's Greenland
• 1:06:42
  really belongs to the US anyhow,
• 1:06:46
  and that there won't be any military
• 1:06:48
  resistance if Washington seizes it.
• 1:06:51
  That's most likely correct. Miller's
• 1:06:54
  wife, Katie, has already posted a map of
• 1:06:57
  Greenland covered in American flag in
• 1:06:59
  the caption, "Soon, even before her
• 1:07:02
  husband laid down the law, or rather its
• 1:07:05
  absence. We live in the real world that
• 1:07:08
  is governed by strength, that is
• 1:07:10
  governed by force, that is governed by
• 1:07:13
  power."
• 1:07:16
  that fundamentally Denmark is getting no
• 1:07:18
  more respect than Venezuela is ironic
• 1:07:21
  obviously because Venezuela has a
• 1:07:24
  history of resisting the US where
• 1:07:26
  Denmark has a history of submission and
• 1:07:29
  is a member of two clubs of US vassels
• 1:07:32
  NATO and the EU. And yet Washington is
• 1:07:36
  still openly threatening to take over a
• 1:07:39
  massive slice of Danish territory with
• 1:07:42
  the same total disregard for law and
• 1:07:45
  rule that it displayed while assaulting
• 1:07:48
  Venezuela. Sure, the American campaign
• 1:07:51
  in Venezuela has been more vicious and
• 1:07:53
  bloodier than US takeover of Greenland
• 1:07:56
  is likely to be. Notwithstanding her
• 1:07:59
  safely rhetorical distance to Trump's
• 1:08:01
  equally verbal Sally's the Danish prime
• 1:08:04
  minister Meta Frederickson has good
• 1:08:07
  chance not to be kidnapped in blindfolds
• 1:08:09
  and handcuffed while her guards are
• 1:08:12
  massacred by the dozens as happened to
• 1:08:14
  Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro and his wife
• 1:08:17
  Celia Flores. Last but not least,
• 1:08:19
  Denmark's leftover colonial claim to
• 1:08:22
  Greenland is much less impressive than
• 1:08:24
  Venezuela's clear right to sovereignty,
• 1:08:27
  its own resources, and last but not
• 1:08:30
  least, peace. All of which the US has
• 1:08:33
  trampled upon. Yet, there it is under
• 1:08:37
  Trump. the old hierarchy between global
• 1:08:40
  north US allies really clients at best
• 1:08:44
  vassels most of the time and US victims
• 1:08:47
  pure and simple mostly in the global
• 1:08:50
  south had become unreliable at best in
• 1:08:54
  the bad old days countries such as
• 1:08:55
  Germany Britain France and Italy always
• 1:08:58
  had to obey Washington when the chips
• 1:09:00
  were down witness for instance the
• 1:09:03
  massive CIA intervention in Italy
• 1:09:06
  kicking off fur furiously with elections
• 1:09:08
  in 1948, the British France Suez FA
• 1:09:11
  fiasco in 56 or the station of US
• 1:09:15
  intermediate range missiles in the
• 1:09:17
  early8s.
• 1:09:19
  But they were allowed a little posturing
• 1:09:22
  as under France's de Gaul and Shurac and
• 1:09:25
  Germany's Brandt and Schroeder for
• 1:09:27
  instance and could reasonally expect to
• 1:09:29
  be spared the most brutally lawless and
• 1:09:32
  lawlessly brutal side of American
• 1:09:35
  domination as long as they kept
• 1:09:36
  complying when it mattered. With
• 1:09:40
  Washington now demanding a big piece of
• 1:09:43
  what is officially and legally Denmark
• 1:09:45
  and threatening to take it by force if
• 1:09:47
  it isn't handed over. The US signaling
• 1:09:50
  that these mostly European global north
• 1:09:53
  privileges have become extremely
• 1:09:55
  fragile. That's why some Europeans have
• 1:09:58
  been shocked to wake up one day and find
• 1:10:00
  out that they are allied to the world's
• 1:10:03
  biggest bully. German figurehead
• 1:10:06
  president and bornagain rousifobe Frank
• 1:10:10
  Walter Steinmeer for instance has
• 1:10:12
  discovered that the US is turning the
• 1:10:14
  world into a robber's den. Congrats.
• 1:10:18
  Congrats Frank Walter the fastest brain
• 1:10:21
  in Germany. And now off with you to the
• 1:10:23
  end of the line behind the Vietnamese,
• 1:10:25
  the Afghans, the Iraqis, the Libyans,
• 1:10:28
  the Iranians, the Guatemalans.
• 1:10:32
  Really all of
• 1:10:35
  Latin America, of course, and at least
• 1:10:37
  half of Africa. Simply almost everyone
• 1:10:41
  outside of the global north. I believe
• 1:10:45
  I'm going to uh take this call just for
• 1:10:48
  grins.
• 1:10:50
  Hello, caller. How might I help you this
• 1:10:53
  morning?
• 1:10:55
  >> Samuel,
• 1:10:56
  >> that would be me.
• 1:11:00
  >> This is Virginia calling in. I listened
• 1:11:02
  to you yesterday. I wanted to call in
• 1:11:04
  yesterday, but I wasn't able to.
• 1:11:06
  >> Well, it's mighty kind of you to call
• 1:11:07
  in. How might I assist you?
• 1:11:11
  >> Well, I'm thinking about all that you're
• 1:11:13
  saying about Trump, and I think actually
• 1:11:17
  uh now, don't take this the wrong way,
• 1:11:20
  but I think that you're skewed. I think
• 1:11:22
  that you're biased.
• 1:11:24
  >> No.
• 1:11:24
  >> Yeah. Absolutely. Against Trump. Now,
• 1:11:27
  I'm not saying that I'm 100% for what
• 1:11:30
  Trump is doing, but I think I want you
• 1:11:32
  to take a look back over history, okay?
• 1:11:35
  >> I shall.
• 1:11:36
  >> And
• 1:11:38
  let's talk about um some of the things
• 1:11:40
  that Reagan did. And prior to Reagan
• 1:11:43
  getting in
• 1:11:45
  um which I was in the military at that
• 1:11:47
  time, uh you know, we had all of these
• 1:11:51
  the hostages, right?
• 1:11:53
  >> We had all these hostages. There was no
• 1:11:56
  end in sight. Why? Because we had a
• 1:11:58
  panty waist nami pami Jimmy Carter. And
• 1:12:02
  I have great respect for Jimmy Carter as
• 1:12:04
  a person, but as a president, he had no
• 1:12:06
  business being a president. However,
• 1:12:11
  the world could have its way with us and
• 1:12:13
  communism could run rampant.
• 1:12:16
  >> Okay?
• 1:12:16
  >> But you know what? when the new sheriff
• 1:12:19
  in town showed up, which is President
• 1:12:21
  Reagan,
• 1:12:22
  >> there had to be some coming to Jesus
• 1:12:25
  moments and people had to be held
• 1:12:27
  accountable
• 1:12:28
  >> and that is kind of and I'm saying that
• 1:12:33
  I don't agree with everything that Trump
• 1:12:34
  is doing and I think that he's carried a
• 1:12:38
  lot of things too far. I don't believe
• 1:12:40
  that we should have a hand in the
• 1:12:42
  protests in Iran. I don't think that we
• 1:12:45
  should have. However, there's some
• 1:12:47
  complications in Venezuela. So, I can't
• 1:12:50
  just hands down say that Venezuela
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  because remember that prior to um all of
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  us going in there and taking this over.
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  Let's remember that Cuba and China and
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  Russia were in there playing in our
• 1:13:07
  playground, which all of those oil
• 1:13:10
  companies were from the US. Yes. Okay.
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  And we abandoned those. Okay. With the
• 1:13:17
  regime change, we abandoned those and we
• 1:13:21
  lost those. Okay. So, really, if you
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  were to leave it, all you're doing is
• 1:13:27
  allowing for other entities to step in
• 1:13:31
  and you say, "Why do we care?" Well, we
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  care a lot because now those things are
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  getting closer and closer to home.
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  Greenland is another story in itself,
• 1:13:41
  but this is somewhat
• 1:13:43
  like a large family and everyone has
• 1:13:46
  their own agendas.
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  And let's say that you have someone, one
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  or two people that are for justice
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  and want to see justice service served,
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  but you have one radical, let's say it's
• 1:14:00
  an evil sister that wants to totally
• 1:14:04
  come in and trample all over peace and
• 1:14:07
  truth and justice and has no mercy.
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  Okay. At what point do you stop that
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  evil sister from trampling over what is
• 1:14:18
  left of your family after they've had
• 1:14:21
  their way with everything? Is there a
• 1:14:23
  point at which as Trump would be and I
• 1:14:27
  would equate the evil sister to Trump
• 1:14:30
  at what or I mean to to the communists.
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  Why wouldn't you have someone that at
• 1:14:36
  least stands up and says, "Listen, if we
• 1:14:39
  allow them to continue in these um
• 1:14:44
  communist ways or in their diabolical
• 1:14:47
  plans, then we will leave lose the whole
• 1:14:50
  world to that, which is actually what
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  took place prior to World War II. Did we
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  not just stand by and stand by and stand
• 1:14:58
  by as each of these vulnerable countries
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  And they could be vulnerable members of
• 1:15:05
  your family that are taken over and
• 1:15:08
  controlled by the evil one, right? What
• 1:15:13
  if how long do you let that happen? I
• 1:15:16
  think Trump at some point is trying to
• 1:15:19
  restore
• 1:15:20
  some semblance. Yeah, there's going to
• 1:15:23
  be divided sides. There are divided
• 1:15:26
  sides
• 1:15:27
  and you will never have a complete
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  quiet. I don't agree with with uh going
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  around facilitating war or anything
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  else, but I actually believe that Maduro
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  at least at some at some level
• 1:15:45
  wants to be under the US protection at
• 1:15:48
  some level particularly given and do I
• 1:15:52
  agree with the oncom the incoming? No, I
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  don't. But as we've seen in other
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  countries,
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  you know, this really is a game of chess
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  where we
• 1:16:03
  basically are just strategically,
• 1:16:07
  you know, we have a uh a regime in in uh
• 1:16:11
  in control and then when that regime,
• 1:16:15
  that's really what it is because there's
• 1:16:17
  very few sovereign countries in this
• 1:16:19
  world. Venezuela doesn't have a way to
• 1:16:22
  defend itself. Greenland doesn't have a
• 1:16:24
  way to defend itself even if Denmark is
• 1:16:27
  its so-called sponsor really you are
• 1:16:30
  looking at Russia and the United States
• 1:16:31
  and China and China is becoming a
• 1:16:34
  formidable power but I would say only
• 1:16:37
  because you have the strengths of Russia
• 1:16:39
  and China together
• 1:16:42
  I don't think on their own and I I
• 1:16:44
  honestly think that now we're looking
• 1:16:46
  forward to a world that has
• 1:16:49
  uh a lot of smaller factions not just
• 1:16:53
  one or two or three superpowers. I think
• 1:16:56
  all of that power is being disseminated
• 1:16:59
  because of the rise of AI and technology
• 1:17:02
  and the advancements that we have in
• 1:17:04
  this so-called civilized society. What
• 1:17:06
  are your thoughts, Sam?
• 1:17:09
  Well, I I suppose at the very base I
• 1:17:13
  come up to as as the
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  the
• 1:17:18
  belief that we are somehow superior
• 1:17:23
  to anyone else's
• 1:17:28
  anyone else's
• 1:17:30
  interpretation of what should be done in
• 1:17:32
  their own country. that we get to
• 1:17:35
  dictate where whether or not Venezuela
• 1:17:39
  can be partners with uh China, with
• 1:17:43
  Russia, with us, with uh with oil
• 1:17:47
  companies from uh the Middle East, with
• 1:17:50
  oil companies from China. That is not
• 1:17:53
  our role. We are not the global economic
• 1:17:58
  uh determiner of who gets to be where.
• 1:18:02
  And uh that has been my argument all
• 1:18:04
  along is that uh that all of this is the
• 1:18:09
  same old same old. This is only about
• 1:18:13
  money and only about maintaining the
• 1:18:17
  dollar and that Trump understands
• 1:18:20
  exactly what he is doing. He wants to
• 1:18:23
  claim falsely in my opinion that the
• 1:18:27
  dollar is the only currency that the
• 1:18:31
  world can uh can rely upon, can trade
• 1:18:35
  upon, can be the the
• 1:18:39
  backbone of the world is only the
• 1:18:42
  dollar. And many many many
• 1:18:45
  um
• 1:18:46
  what do you call it? Global powers over
• 1:18:49
  the millennia have also said the same
• 1:18:52
  thing. You know, England, France, Spain,
• 1:18:55
  everybody.
• 1:18:57
  >> Rome and and that point of the
• 1:19:00
  >> actually you and I agree upon and that
• 1:19:02
  point and and and if any of this
• 1:19:05
  >> in a perfect world,
• 1:19:06
  >> well, of course not. I never I never
• 1:19:08
  said we are. This is
• 1:19:09
  >> I I never said we are. But what makes
• 1:19:12
  our pursuit of the almighty dollar
• 1:19:16
  any more relevant than the pursuit of
• 1:19:20
  the almighty I don't care yuan or the
• 1:19:23
  rupee or the uh the petro dollar or the
• 1:19:28
  the the the ruble for god's sake. Um
• 1:19:31
  what what what
• 1:19:33
  allows us the
• 1:19:37
  uh what would you the arrogance to say
• 1:19:40
  that it's only the dollar that counts?
• 1:19:42
  It does. I mean none of the rest counts.
• 1:19:44
  Um Greenland has been pretty damn vocal
• 1:19:49
  about the fact that we're not there.
• 1:19:51
  That that that we have they have no
• 1:19:54
  desire to be a vassel of the United
• 1:19:57
  States. They don't want to be they don't
• 1:19:59
  want to be occupied. They don't want to
• 1:20:01
  be the 51st state. They don't want to be
• 1:20:04
  uh uh subjugated to the great the the
• 1:20:08
  great and powerful Trump.
• 1:20:10
  >> Well, you know, they don't they don't
• 1:20:11
  want to be
• 1:20:12
  >> That's true. And that's
• 1:20:13
  >> that's true. They want to be
• 1:20:14
  independent. Exactly. But there are but
• 1:20:17
  but when you say they that's not all of
• 1:20:19
  them because there is a group of
• 1:20:22
  citizens over there that do want to be
• 1:20:26
  uh the 51st state.
• 1:20:28
  >> Okay. Let's go back
• 1:20:32
  >> but let's go back to your comment about
• 1:20:35
  uh it being all about money. Everything
• 1:20:37
  in this world is all about money. We
• 1:20:39
  know that. Yep.
• 1:20:40
  >> Everything is so here's a proposal. That
• 1:20:43
  means Trump gets to do whatever he wants
• 1:20:45
  because
• 1:20:46
  >> he's defending the dollar, right?
• 1:20:49
  >> Let me present to you another. Okay. So,
• 1:20:51
  what if what if there were not the
• 1:20:54
  standard of the petro dollar? Okay. And
• 1:20:56
  let's say that there's not the standard
• 1:20:58
  of uh that we don't follow what the
• 1:21:01
  BRICS nations do. Instead, let's say
• 1:21:04
  that we said, "Okay, well, for universal
• 1:21:07
  transactions, let's have an accounting
• 1:21:09
  method that does not include any of
• 1:21:12
  these." And everyone
• 1:21:15
  everyone is subjected to it. United
• 1:21:17
  States, China, Uruguay,
• 1:21:21
  Africa that all all everyone is
• 1:21:24
  subjected to the same one and it doesn't
• 1:21:26
  include any of and those are for
• 1:21:28
  universal global transactions or
• 1:21:31
  international transactions. Let's put it
• 1:21:33
  that way. But within your own nation,
• 1:21:36
  because you and I both know that Russia
• 1:21:40
  and the US, we are under nationalist
• 1:21:43
  regimes, which I'm all for. I agree with
• 1:21:47
  100% wholeheartedly. People should take
• 1:21:50
  care of their own affairs in their own
• 1:21:52
  family, in their own country, the way it
• 1:21:55
  is. And um we don't need outside
• 1:21:59
  interference. not from Trump, not from
• 1:22:02
  Putin, not from anyone outside of that.
• 1:22:06
  However, at some point there does need
• 1:22:10
  to be that ability to be able to um take
• 1:22:15
  on that third party mediator if there is
• 1:22:19
  call or cause for that to take place.
• 1:22:22
  What about that type of thing? Which,
• 1:22:25
  you know, you and I can talk about that
• 1:22:27
  all day and it's not going to make a
• 1:22:28
  difference on the global global economic
• 1:22:31
  stage. Um, but I don't think I think
• 1:22:36
  Trump is a business man businessman and
• 1:22:38
  he's a hard hitter and that's what a lot
• 1:22:40
  of that's what he was hired for the job
• 1:22:43
  for. That's what he uh that's what his
• 1:22:47
  platform was. He wouldn't put up with
• 1:22:49
  this nonsense. So, that's that's what
• 1:22:50
  we've got. And it beats the hell out of
• 1:22:55
  little weeny pants Biden who was afraid
• 1:22:57
  to leave his own basement and and that
• 1:23:01
  much people are appreciative of. Do I
• 1:23:04
  like everything that Trump is doing? No.
• 1:23:06
  And in in fact, I'm pretty disgusted by,
• 1:23:10
  you know, his uh intervention in
• 1:23:13
  Venezuela and the threats of Greenland
• 1:23:16
  and saying, "Yeah, we should go around
• 1:23:18
  and make every country our playground or
• 1:23:23
  or our uh you know uh one of our
• 1:23:27
  slaves."
• 1:23:28
  >> Then we're on then we're on the same
• 1:23:30
  page because I'm I'm in general a
• 1:23:34
  Trumpster uh supporter. I support the
• 1:23:36
  man um
• 1:23:39
  here in the United States. I don't
• 1:23:41
  support there's very little that I'm in
• 1:23:44
  favor of that he has done
• 1:23:46
  internationally. Very little.
• 1:23:48
  >> And
• 1:23:49
  >> so what do you do about um Okay. You say
• 1:23:52
  >> you don't do anything. It's not our job.
• 1:23:55
  It is not our job. I'm I'm against
• 1:23:59
  interventionalist. We've we've done it
• 1:24:02
  over and over and over. And to what
• 1:24:05
  benefit? I mean I I outlined yesterday
• 1:24:08
  if you were listening some 60s something
• 1:24:11
  times that the US has engaged in regime
• 1:24:14
  change bombings everything like that
• 1:24:16
  since World War II
• 1:24:19
  >> at that we have engaged in and and and
• 1:24:22
  of them literally 90% were failed or
• 1:24:26
  foolish or stupid or regime change or
• 1:24:29
  created scenarios worse than uh than
• 1:24:33
  what existed prior to our uh
• 1:24:36
  intervention uh and and look just just
• 1:24:39
  have a look at Ukraine and look at what
• 1:24:42
  we have caused and we have destroyed
• 1:24:47
  a a a good country. Now, they've done a
• 1:24:50
  hell of a lot of it themselves, but we
• 1:24:53
  >> facilitated that BS with a regime change
• 1:24:57
  operation in 2014 because we wanted to
• 1:25:01
  put Russia on its heels. We've been
• 1:25:04
  idiots on the global stage for a very
• 1:25:07
  long time and it doesn't it it has not
• 1:25:11
  changed in my lifetime. We have done
• 1:25:13
  nothing but be idiots and supporters of
• 1:25:17
  morons like um
• 1:25:20
  the Lindsey Grahams of the world and the
• 1:25:22
  other idiots that that are um that are
• 1:25:26
  >> pushing that sort of thing. They're
• 1:25:27
  they're just idiots and and they they do
• 1:25:30
  it for their own lining of their own
• 1:25:34
  pockets. And that is exactly what
• 1:25:37
  >> this all comes down to. War is
• 1:25:39
  profitable,
• 1:25:40
  >> right? And and Trump is no different
• 1:25:42
  than any of the rest of them is how it
• 1:25:45
  turns out. Uh he is just as big a neocon
• 1:25:48
  as the rest. And and that's unfortunate
• 1:25:51
  to say that because I never would have
• 1:25:53
  believed that before. But when when
• 1:25:55
  Lindsey Graham is dictating and and
• 1:25:58
  Marco Rubio are dictating what your
• 1:26:01
  foreign policy is. You're the [ __ ] you
• 1:26:04
  know, for allowing.
• 1:26:05
  >> This goes back this goes back to we
• 1:26:07
  already know, and I think we've talked
• 1:26:09
  about this before, that we already know
• 1:26:13
  that what we're being subjected to is is
• 1:26:16
  not um just uh an exclusivity here in
• 1:26:21
  the United States. This is the Council
• 1:26:23
  of 300. This is the globalist elite
• 1:26:27
  which I don't believe that Trump is a
• 1:26:29
  globalist. I believe he's the
• 1:26:30
  nationalist and that is also what what
• 1:26:33
  Putin is.
• 1:26:34
  >> Yeah. But but but he's subjugated
• 1:26:36
  himself to the uh globalist morons like
• 1:26:40
  the
• 1:26:41
  >> like the Lindsy Grahams of the world.
• 1:26:43
  What else has he done?
• 1:26:45
  >> No. What I think is that it advances his
• 1:26:48
  agenda uh for our economy because this
• 1:26:52
  really is about greed and money and and
• 1:26:56
  control and
• 1:26:56
  >> Yeah. But he's passing it on to the to
• 1:26:58
  to to he's passing the financial
• 1:27:01
  interests on to his own uh
• 1:27:03
  >> to his own cohorts and equals right now.
• 1:27:06
  >> Absolutely.
• 1:27:06
  >> And so he's no different than the rest
• 1:27:08
  of them
• 1:27:09
  >> sadly.
• 1:27:10
  >> No. Except except it's a different
• 1:27:12
  faction in charge. Exactly. And that's
• 1:27:14
  exactly what we're going to get because
• 1:27:16
  that's right. This really is about
• 1:27:18
  factions ruling.
• 1:27:20
  >> Correct. And as soon as he is gone,
• 1:27:22
  it'll go back to the other faction
• 1:27:24
  again. And I've been saying that for a
• 1:27:26
  very long time. And and uh I'm I'm glad
• 1:27:30
  you agree with that because
• 1:27:33
  the truth of Trump on on on its face.
• 1:27:37
  Okay. Yes. We should not be in other
• 1:27:39
  countries. And I think 90% and I think
• 1:27:41
  you even pointed this out yourself. 90%
• 1:27:44
  of Americans would not go along with
• 1:27:47
  this, okay? But 90% of us just want
• 1:27:51
  peace in our homes and in our families
• 1:27:54
  and we just don't really care what's
• 1:27:57
  going on anywhere else because it's
• 1:27:59
  difficult enough dealing with the own
• 1:28:00
  our own drama in our own lives, let
• 1:28:03
  alone taking on everyone else's. Ain't
• 1:28:05
  that?
• 1:28:06
  >> And that's where it really stands for
• 1:28:07
  all of us. No matter what country you're
• 1:28:10
  in, because both you and I know how
• 1:28:12
  Russians truly feel about us. They love
• 1:28:15
  us. We love them. We feel that way about
• 1:28:18
  most other countries. The the evil
• 1:28:21
  people are the rulers
• 1:28:25
  and the people that control the people.
• 1:28:27
  >> Exactly. And on that note, sadly, I have
• 1:28:30
  to let you go because I got a whole
• 1:28:31
  minute and 15 seconds to wrap it up.
• 1:28:35
  So, I appreciate your call in. You have
• 1:28:37
  a very good day.
• 1:28:39
  >> Yep. You too. We'll talk to you soon.
• 1:28:41
  >> Bye bye.
• 1:28:43
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• 1:28:46
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• 1:28:49
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• 1:28:56
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• 1:29:29
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• 1:29:31
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