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Livestream: US Thought Israel Was Going to KILL Iran’s Peace Delegation! · Combat Veteran News

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Boy.
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How are you guys? Welcome to another
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crazy day
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with lots of crazy news.
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What else is new? That doesn't narrow it
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down at all whatsoever.
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Oh, man.
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Okay.
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Yo.
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Also, let's talk about Trump's crypto
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money.
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Let's see.
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Good evening. We'll let people kind of
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slide in and then we'll and we'll
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chit-chat about it.
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Yeah.
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Ooh, first time watching live. That's
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cool.
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How's How's everybody dealing with the
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the super heatwave?
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The super turbo heatwave.
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Everybody alive? Chewing Strike gum.
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[ __ ] yeah.
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Really, you can't be serious. I'll I'll
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I'll you guys what I what I'm reading.
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We can decide ourselves.
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Let's see if we can find this.
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Ooh, heatwave is moving through Europe.
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Yikes.
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Yeah, everybody's bragging about the AC.
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Real real Americans with our AC.
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Yeah, I also heard about the Trump um
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the Trump meeting technology group
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getting a huge Oh, no, the stable coin
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owned by the Trump kids uh got a huge
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investment in Qatari money. Investment
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to do what? Unclear.
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Pay salaries.
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Dressed up. Oh,
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a good friend. All right, put me on to
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you a year ago. That's awesome. Warms my
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heart that people that human-to-human
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friendships are recommending people.
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Sorry, you and he no longer talk.
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That's true. Mitch McConnell briefly got
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to visit hell.
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Uh
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Yeah.
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Yeah, which is
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uh
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Let's see.
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Uh
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Let's see. Mitch McConnell I'm I got to
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remember which is the one
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Inferno.
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Okay, which one do you think Mitch
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McConnell was in when he briefly died?
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Limbo, virtuous non-believers and
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unbaptized infants. That's not him. He
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looks like a he looks like a
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a fetal alcohol syndrome baby, but
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No, in fact
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uh lust, probably not.
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Um let's see, what is Mitch
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Look at that punchable face. Kentucky
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Senator since 1985,
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a walking [ __ ] corpse.
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Mhm, political positions.
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No political positions.
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Huh.
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He opposed He tried to work tirelessly
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to get more rich money in politics and
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made sure he culminated the Supreme
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Court overturning the Bipartisan
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Campaign Reform Act. God bless. Opposed
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Obamacare.
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Opposed gun control. Opposed mitigation
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climate change. Man, he is like
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he is really the the um whatever the the
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anti-abundance him and the
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anti-abundance Democrats must love each
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other.
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The you can't do that. Haven't you
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thought about but but a but a da.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, Green New Deal,
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Medicare for All probably threatened to
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put him into a a stroke.
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But don't worry, guys. The Chinese have
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both of those things in their economy.
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Yeah, I mean you know, it's a it's
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And clearly clearly the Chinese uh have
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have
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remained an agrarian backwater.
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Uh, let's see.
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We support Ukraine, that's cool.
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Opposition to Iran nuclear deal, but he
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feels stupid to that. In support of
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Israel and it's I love I love this this
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like total lack of ideological like
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framing.
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I mean, I guess it's like
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our friends can do anything and our
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enemies are bad.
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But like the
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again, I'm not as we've discussed.
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Like
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I support Israel's right to go after
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Hamas, like Hamas are bad people, but if
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you go after Hamas using
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Hamas levels of brutality,
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you're just as bad as them.
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And call for military intervention
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against the United States by Iran. They
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literally brought him back.
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Good. I'm so glad they brought that
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[ __ ] loser back so he can watch his
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[ __ ] dreamed about military
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intervention against Iran, just
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fantasizing about watching American
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service members get absolutely [ __ ]
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fed to the wood chipper to achieve
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nothing in Iran.
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Watching watching this country [ __ ]
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lose
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another Middle Eastern war. I mean,
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again, I I'm not out here
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I'm not like rooting against the
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military, but his desire for military
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intervention against Iran has resulted
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in us losing a [ __ ] war
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because
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it's not thought out. So, I laugh at the
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fact that his I can laugh at it. I mean,
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I don't laugh at the family the the
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13 families, but I laugh
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at living in a world where maybe Mitch
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McConnell might might in his on his
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deathbed realize that just cheerleading
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endless Middle Eastern wars is actually
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maybe not the best thing to do.
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That
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His son Porter is the campaign director
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for Take on Wall Street, a left-wing
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advocacy coalition. Womp womp.
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And following her divorce from
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McConnell, his first wife became a
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feminist scholar at Smith College and
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director of the Sophia Smith Collection.
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Jesus.
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No.
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Okay, in February he was hospitalized
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for 8 days with flu-like symptoms, which
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by the way, guys,
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8 days in the hospital is like a [ __ ]
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lifetime, okay?
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And you if you had spent 8 days in the
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hospital, you had a death-like event,
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okay? And then on June 14th, a month
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ago, he was found unconscious and rushed
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to the hospital. By the way, guys,
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McConnell
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uh
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was reportedly given CPR.
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And
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our voters just don't get to know that?
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We just weren't allowed to learn that
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for a month?
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Like, that's crazy.
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And then since June 14th, he's made no
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appearances or statements and no
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information has given about his
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whereabouts or condition,
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leading some to speculate that he has
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died.
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Probably because if there was to be a
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special election to replace him,
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he would [ __ ] lose and they would
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lose so [ __ ] hard.
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No.
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there's a bunch of freezing episodes in
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the last 3 years.
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He just froze during a press conference
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in Kentucky and was led away by staff.
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He froze unspeaking for 20 seconds while
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addressing a press conference. That's
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pretty bizarre.
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He founded James Madison Center for Free
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Speech. I mean, also God has a sense of
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humor.
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Somebody who
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claimed to be an advocate for free
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speech but then curtailed it at every
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turn.
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Suddenly losing their power of speech is
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pretty funny.
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Ooh, Open Secrets found he was one of
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the wealthiest members of the Senate and
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net worth of 34 million, which is crazy
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because basically his early career
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Let's see. Oh, a private in the Army
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Reserve. Oh.
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Where he
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ducked, dodged, dipped out of combat in
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Vietnam War.
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Oh, and shortly after arriving he was
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diagnosed with optic neuritis and he
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medically unfit for military service and
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was honorably discharged.
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And then he worked as a legislative
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assistant, right?
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Then he worked as a legislative
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assistant on an on unsuccessful
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campaign.
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Uh
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tried to run for the state legislature
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but was disqualified, worked for a
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Louisville
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law firm for a few years.
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He sometimes taught political science
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classes at night.
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Then he was the deputy assistant
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attorney general under Gerald Ford.
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And uh uh uh
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uh
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wow.
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That's a big jump up. Served as
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assistant US AUSA for Office of
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Legislative Affairs under Ford.
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And then was elected So, he he has
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literally, other than So, he's worked
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what appears to be
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um
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He appeared to have about 36 months of
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work in the private sector.
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So, he has 36 months of work in the
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private sector
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in any capacity.
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And miraculously, incredibly,
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he has amassed
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34 million [ __ ] dollars.
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What a [ __ ]
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What a [ __ ] incredible.
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Of course, some of that was a generous
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gift of between 5 million 25 million, so
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25 million, from his wife's daddy.
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James Tao, Taiwanese American
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businessman, philanthropist, and former
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sea captain, founder of a shipping
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company.
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Oh, the gift followed the death
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of McConnell's mother-in-law.
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Who also was incredibly so rich,
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my god, that she has her own center at
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Harvard. Jesus Christ.
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And he's probably worth about 65
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million.
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So, even before getting the spontaneous
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gift,
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he managed to accrue 34 million dollars.
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Well, I guess that's why somebody put 34
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million dollars in your pocket, you're
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going to sit there and be like, "Whoa,
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whoa, whoa. I think this money Giving
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away money for political causes is
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great."
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Uh detractors have nicknamed him Moscow
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Mitch, Cocaine Mitch, the Grim Reaper,
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Darth Vader, Rich Mitch, Nuclear Mitch,
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Midnight Mitch, Old Crow.
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McConnell embraces several of them, but
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has strenuously objected to Moscow
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Mitch. Okay.
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So, truly,
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uh Mitch McConnell
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So, what what which circle of hell do
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you think he probably ended up in?
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It could be gluttony, right? Because
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uh
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you know, gluttony would make sense.
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Given that
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you know,
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he seems to have greedily, despite
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despite making $174,000
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a year in Congress,
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he's clearly received massive influxes
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of of private money some way or another.
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Right? Oh, oh, greed. Sorry, greed
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should be its own thing, right? I don't
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know why he was called Cocaine Mitch.
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Greed?
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Oh, those who hoarded wealth and those
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who squandered it.
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So, okay. Who are forced to push heavy
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weights against one another clashing and
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screaming. Neat.
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The lower circle sends a malice and
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fraud heresy. Sinners who taught against
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the church are trapped inside
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flaming tombs that remain perpetually
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open. Hmm, that doesn't seem to be him.
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Violence against neighbors like
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murderers and tyrants.
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Violence against themselves. Hmm.
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Violence against God, blasphemers and
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sodomites. Well, I'm probably not that.
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Fraud.
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Oh, panderers, flatterers, thieves,
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sorcerers, and corrupt politicians.
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Face specific and often ironic torments.
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Oh, perfect. They do have a spot. So,
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that's where he was. That's where he got
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to visit. Um
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and uh
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yeah.
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Proclaiming to have worked to the
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benefit of people in Kentucky. Uh
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and instead
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serving
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well,
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rich [ __ ]
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I'd say.
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Oh.
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Kentucky has the second worst state
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economy in the United States. Well, no
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shocker there.
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The state was 45th in GDP change, 33rd
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in startup activity, 42nd in high-tech
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jobs, 41st in annual median household
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income,
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42nd growth in non-farm payrolls, 24th
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in government surplus deficit per
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capita, and 40th in the unemployment
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rate. Yikes.
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Yikes. Wow. 30 years of Mitch McConnell
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has really [ __ ] Kentucky up the ass.
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But look, Kentucky is a blistering 36th
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in child well-being.
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So, young Kentuckians,
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you guys have a marginally brighter
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future.
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Are we sure he's still alive? No. No,
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there is no evidence that Mitch
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McConnell is currently alive.
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So, anyway, we have Speaking of Mitch
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McConnell,
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and his strident support for Israel,
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it's he [ __ ] loves the fact that the
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Israelis
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destroyed that hospital.
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See, killing civilians isn't bad because
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civilians are innocent victims of war.
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Uh No, no, no, killing the Hamas killing
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civilians was bad because
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you killing Jews is bad.
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But killing Palestinian is [ __ ]
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awesome.
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According to the IDF, it's just
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prevented it's terrorism prevention,
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right?
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So, here's the stories, anyway.
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According to New York Times, let's see
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if we can get this here. This is a story
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from the New York Times. US officials
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believed Israel was plotting to kill
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Iranian negotiators.
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Now, obviously, killing the negotiators
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would have derailed peace talks. US
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officials believed Israel might have
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been plotting to kill Iran's top
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negotiators while Washington was dealing
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with Tehran in the spring. Senior
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Iranian leaders have been part of Israel
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Killing senior Iranian leaders been part
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of Israel's strategy from the start.
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American
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concerns about killing the two lead
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negotiators
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spiked during this ceasefire in April.
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Fearful Fearful that an Israeli
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assassination attempt would doom the
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negotiations, the United States going
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some officials went so far as to ask
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other countries in the region to warn
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Iran about the possibility Israel could
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target the two officials. Literally
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going around Israel's back to be like,
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"Yo,
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tell the Iranians to watch their [ __ ]
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cuz Israel's going to try to kill them."
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US officials acknowledge during the
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intense phase of the war senior
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government officials could have been
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targets for Israel, which was intent on
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toppling Iran's hardline government. But
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after negotiations started, American
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officials believed that any attempt to
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kill the Iranian leaders would end talks
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and reignite the fighting.
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Now, while US air strikes focused on
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Iran's navy and missile forces, Israel
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prioritized killing the leadership in
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the early phase of the war, killing as
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many high-ranking officials as it
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possibly could. That included
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potentially killing more pragmatic
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leaders that the Trump administration
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had hoped to negotiate with, such as
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>> Ali Larijani
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Larijani
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>> the top national security official, and
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Kamal Kharrazi, a former Iranian foreign
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minister. Both men were involved in
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negotiations with the United States when
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they were killed in with Israeli air
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strikes. Jesus Christ.
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Trump administration suspicions about
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possible Israeli plot to kill the two
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top negotiators show how the US-Israel
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war aims, which were closely aligned at
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the very beginning of the war, lol,
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diverged radically. While the United
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States wanted a peace agreement, Israel
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wanted to keep going and kill as many
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Americans as possible. No IDF troops
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were killed in the operation.
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The initial two-week ceasefire was met
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with grudging Israeli official support
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and broad public concern in Israel that
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the United States was ending the war too
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early.
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Rather than being driven from power,
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theocratic government become even more
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hardline. Whoops.
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They reached a framework of an agreement
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a framework of an agreement that
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contains major provisions that are not
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being implemented.
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Officials and commentators in Israel
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viewed the initial agreement as a
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disaster. As something that actually I
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agree with them on. Cuz it did not a
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complete accomplish the country's war
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aims of forcing regime change. If Israel
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wants a regime change, listen, the IDF
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can invade Iran.
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That's what the United States did in
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Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It didn't really work out for us, but
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maybe Israel will do it better.
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10,000 Americans died. Fed them into the
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[ __ ] wood chipper.
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Maybe the IDF can do it. I mean, they're
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doing a great job in Lebanon, right?
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Oh, what they mean is, of course, that
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they want the US
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to force regime change.
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American soldiers should die, right? The
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IDF soldiers, they they they're they're
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busy doing other stuff. They're busy
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right now. They'll they they'll they'll
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cheer us on from the side. Good luck out
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there.
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Destroying Iran's proxy forces and
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seriously damaging his missile program,
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right?
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Well, apparently, I mean, as discussed,
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if our air strikes didn't do that
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initially, they're not going to do it
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now.
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Israeli officials also worried the
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agreement would put billions into Iran,
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mostly because of the part of the
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agreement that said Iran will receive
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billions of dollars.
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Uh when asked about Israeli plans and
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the war to Iran, US official noted talks
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between American and Iranian delegations
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continue.
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Okay.
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Uh let's see. US official and Middle
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East official said the Trump
20:36
administration learned around this time
20:37
that at least Mr. Ghavid was on an
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Israel targeting list and asked them,
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"Don't kill the person we're negotiating
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with."
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Jesus.
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He was nearly killed in both the 12-day
20:50
war in 2025 and again in this year's
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conflict when Israel targeted a secret
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meeting of senior government officials
20:54
in a bunker under a mountain, according
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to three senior Iranian officials and
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public officials. In both incidents, Mr.
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Ghavid was rescued from under the
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rubble.
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Jesus.
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During negotiations, Iran taking
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precautions aimed at making more
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difficult for Israel to strike its
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senior officials.
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Iranian security officials were
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concerned Israel would use the
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opportunity, i.e.
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traveling to Islamabad to meet with J.D.
21:18
Vance
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to assassinate. They were worried that
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he would be assassinated on his way to
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meet with J.D. Vance. Iranians sought
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guarantees from the United States
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through Pakistani and Qatari
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intermediaries that Israel would not
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carry out any covert operations
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targeting the delegation. Pakistani
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fighter jets literally escorted the
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Iranian airplanes carrying the
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delegation of more than 70 Iranians from
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the border of Iran to Islamabad and back
21:37
when the session was over. But literally
21:39
on the way to Tehran
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a an Israeli security threat emerged. It
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Iran's security forces notified the
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plane carrying Mr. Galibaf back to
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Tehran that they had picked up
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intelligence Israel planned to attack
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the plane and that two Israeli fighter
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jets had entered Iran's airspace from
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its western border near Iraq.
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One of the senior advisers confirmed
21:58
that the plane then landed
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made an emergency landing
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at Iran's closest airport to the
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Pakistani border and the Iranian
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delegation traveled 8 hours by land back
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to Tehran.
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Wow.
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Even more insane
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is that according to New York Times blah
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blah blah blah blah blah.
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Oh, speaking to Israel's i24 News, an
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Israeli security official has responded
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to the New York Times report on Israeli
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threats to Iranian decision-makers
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during negotiations saying quote, "If
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and when Israel wants to eliminate
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anyone, it does so."
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Okay, well. All right. Well, there's
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your answer.
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Jesus. Jesus. [ __ ]
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I mean, at least the Israelis are honest
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about what they're about at this point.
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Like
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you know? So, it's it's again, it's like
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it's like they've been
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they've been dealing with Hamas and
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Hezbollah for so long that they're just
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like
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they're just like
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we should just be the same.
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Where Hamas is like, we're going to
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[ __ ] turn Israel into glass. Israel's
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like,
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maybe maybe they're right. Maybe we
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should just all try to turn each other
23:11
into glass. Maybe that's the best way to
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do things.
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This is Quizzlet Bad Soup. What has been
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a greater strategic disaster, the
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Vietnam War or the Iran War? Well, I I I
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um
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I mean, the war in Afghanistan was a
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greater strategic disaster. Look, look,
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look.
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I'm
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I'm all about calling wins and losses,
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but if there's one thing that I at least
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appreciate, it's that Trump doesn't have
23:37
the patience for long wars. He's here to
23:39
get things in and done, right? He's got
23:41
two new cycles max to focus on
23:43
something. Right?
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The Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan,
23:49
the Vietnam War, we killed tens of
23:52
thousands of Americans. We killed a
23:53
thousand times more Americans in these
23:55
wars than died in this Iran debacle.
23:58
Yay, Iran's a better in a better spot.
24:02
Yay, Iran now exerts control over a key
24:04
geopolitical choke point, but that is
24:07
fixable.
24:08
Okay? The Strait of Hormuz is only
24:11
important because a bunch of oil passes
24:13
through it.
24:14
Other countries have oil. The oil market
24:17
will stabilize.
24:19
OPEC and OPEC plus can expand or reduce
24:21
production based on needs. Everybody but
24:24
Russia.
24:25
Idiots.
24:27
The oil market will stabilize. We'll be
24:29
fine. Right?
24:31
Um
24:33
the eventually, after years of this,
24:37
but
24:39
the Vietnam War, again, you're talking
24:41
about we wasted a lot of money.
24:44
We pretty much [ __ ] the country,
24:47
right?
24:48
Woah, Arnie's wouldn't Israel be working
24:50
with and maybe even enabling and
24:52
training the Lebanese government to
24:53
strike at Hezbollah basically from two
24:54
sides, a better way than occupying a big
24:56
percentage of Lebanon as a forever war
24:57
zone, basically. Uh 100% 100%
25:01
>> [snorts]
25:01
>> I mean, the Israelis could prop up the
25:03
Lebanese government, right? Uh like a
25:05
counterinsurgency type thing and have
25:06
like IDF soldiers kind of consulting and
25:09
helping out, working in close
25:10
coordination. There's There's many
25:12
solutions. There are many many
25:13
solutions. Again, reaching some kind of
25:15
diplomatic agreement with the
25:18
uh Iranians um
25:21
Again, they did the whole pager thing.
25:23
Remember the pager thing? And after the
25:24
pager thing, there were a bunch of
25:25
stories literally where people were
25:27
like, "Israel has crippled Hezbollah.
25:29
Israel's enemies are on the run. They're
25:31
defeated." And it turns out that all
25:33
those stories were just
25:35
um
25:36
pro-Israel media figures just absolutely
25:38
jerking themselves off.
25:40
Like, that's all it was. Yeah, there's a
25:41
milli- That's Arnie's exact This is
25:44
exactly the thinking, the strategic
25:46
thinking where you weigh costs and
25:48
benefits, right? You know, it's like
25:50
it's like this, right? If Hezbollah
25:54
like invaded an Israeli town and killed
25:56
every man, woman, and child, like
25:58
obviously, you'd say, "Okay, well,
26:00
Israel has a right to respond to that
26:02
incident, right?"
26:05
And in contrast, if one Hezbollah rocket
26:08
landed in a field in northern Israel,
26:10
the Israeli army probably doesn't have
26:11
the right to go in and kill every man,
26:13
woman, and child in in in in southern
26:15
Lebanon.
26:17
So, the question is then, if those are
26:18
like your parameters, then what is the
26:21
What is a reasonable response? What is a
26:23
reasonable course of action against this
26:26
threat or that threat, right? How do you
26:28
respond to different types of
26:29
threatening situations? And how do you
26:31
do so in a way that will actually
26:33
achieve the desired effects, ideally in
26:35
a long-term way, right? Or however long
26:38
a time horizon you want to operate with.
26:40
Yeah, strengthening the Lebanese
26:41
government would be a great step,
26:44
right?
26:46
Uh that's a great solution. The problem
26:49
is that the
26:51
Israel has become so combative in the
26:53
Middle East and has such a terrible
26:55
reputation that by assisting the
26:57
Lebanese government, they would actually
26:59
make the Lebanese government less
27:00
legitimate. So, the Israelis would have
27:03
to find ways to kind of like obliquely
27:05
along the side try to try to support
27:08
them. It's that that's a great strategy.
27:10
That is a preferred strategy. That is
27:12
the US counterinsurgency strategy
27:14
basically since Iraq and Afghanistan.
27:15
We've way biased. Like that's what we
27:17
were doing in Niger.
27:19
Small contingents of US forces working
27:22
with the local government
27:24
in the capacities that they have to say,
27:25
"Listen, we want to do we want to help
27:27
you guys do things that we like better.
27:30
Fighting Islamic insurgents,
27:33
we want to help you guys in your fight.
27:35
We share that objective. What can we do
27:37
to help?" And they say things like,
27:38
"Train our soldiers, give them better
27:40
gear, provide us air support." Right?
27:42
Cheap, effective, locally tailored
27:44
conditions. That is the That is what the
27:47
United States has learned over years.
27:49
Okay.
27:52
>> [snorts]
28:00
>> So, yeah.
28:04
Yeah, I mean that they most people just
28:07
do not want to
28:09
to figure that out.
28:16
Like they don't again, this is the kind
28:18
of stuff. Like what if part of what
28:20
Hezbollah is is a government in a
28:21
government. It provides a bunch of
28:22
social services. Right? What if the
28:24
Israelis were to sit there and say,
28:25
"Hey, listen, we're going to help the
28:26
government of Lebanon provide social
28:28
services to deliberately
28:30
diminish popular support from
28:32
Hezbollah." But that requires
28:35
a perspective from Israel that they just
28:37
don't have anymore. Right? I think after
28:39
October 7th, they were just like,
28:41
"Arabs aren't really people like we're
28:43
people."
28:44
And and and by the way, this isn't me
28:46
making it up. This is a statement from
28:48
the um
28:49
Israeli minister who said, "Listen, for
28:51
[snorts] every one
28:53
a
28:54
for every one Israeli mother who has
28:56
cried or who has lost a child, um a
28:59
thousand we have to kill a thousand
29:00
Lebanese kids." Which explicitly is just
29:03
like, "Listen, an
29:04
an Israeli life,
29:06
a Jewish life is worth a thousand times
29:08
the life of an Arab." So, the idea of
29:10
Israel spending money to make
29:13
Southern Lebanese people's lives better
29:15
to diminish support for Hezbollah
29:17
isn't going to to to work. It's not
29:20
going to play with the public.
29:22
Right? Again, it's one of the things
29:23
that makes America different, or used
29:25
to,
29:26
is that we sat there and we're like,
29:28
"Yo, making life better for the average
29:30
Afghan is a is essential to what we want
29:33
to do."
29:34
Like we've talked about on this channel,
29:36
the US invading Afghanistan rose the
29:38
human development index in that country
29:40
like exponentially.
29:45
Alex Brandt, "Kentucky got hit hard when
29:46
Canada stopped buying US bourbon."
29:47
Remember, Canada didn't used to hate us.
29:49
I do kind of remember that. I remember
29:51
that.
30:06
Yeah, I I think the average like the
30:09
Lebanese military probably tolerates
30:10
Hezbollah. Governments don't like Here's
30:12
the thing,
30:13
no government on Earth likes having
30:15
their power diminished, okay? Especially
30:18
not by a competing government, okay?
30:23
JC Tiffler, "Thanks, man. Thanks for the
30:26
gifted memberships, dude. That's sick."
30:55
>> Yeah, ultimately I think it's Netanyahu
30:57
needs the war to stay out of jail and I
30:58
think the far right faction of the
31:01
Israeli public. But again, a lot of
31:03
Israelis, they're just they're in this
31:05
post-9/11 moment and what's scary is
31:08
that like George Bush
31:11
was not I don't think anybody thought
31:13
George Bush was like an authoritarian
31:15
leader. Like anti-democratic,
31:17
centralized power with me,
31:20
um
31:22
And and we realize now that like that
31:24
was actually
31:26
good for the country.
31:28
Cuz now what we're watching in Israel is
31:30
what would happen if 9/11 occurred while
31:31
Trump was president. And Americans rally
31:34
around the flag, they were like, we're
31:35
going to stop this, but instead of
31:37
having a
31:39
a
31:40
misguided, like the neocon ideology was
31:42
misguided, but one that was based on
31:45
core principles, right? We weren't going
31:48
to to exterminate Iraqis. Like we
31:51
weren't there to do that. We were going
31:53
to free Iraqis. And like
31:56
regardless of whether or not you think
31:58
we were successful or we did the right
32:00
thing or it was wise to do so, like we
32:02
believed that
32:04
and we fought the war in a way that
32:07
reflected that, right?
32:10
Like
32:12
Americans would never bulldoze
32:15
uh block after block, neighborhood after
32:17
neighborhood of Iraqi houses. That's
32:18
just like not a thing that would happen.
32:20
And that's not to say that we were like
32:21
great, but nobody's perfect and
32:26
but there are degrees to being bad.
32:39
Uh yeah, the Europeans also people are
32:41
like, oh the Europeans were they right
32:43
to say to say this isn't our fight?
32:44
Yeah, if Trump wanted European support,
32:46
he should have asked them for it before
32:47
starting the war. But like, one, when he
32:50
was just like, Europeans, send some
32:51
strive ships through the Strait of
32:53
Hormuz.
32:54
Europeans were probably like, guys, we
32:56
have very limited naval capabilities.
32:58
They are committed by treaty to other
33:00
missions. The little bit of capability
33:03
we have,
33:04
we're not There's no helping you.
33:06
There's nothing to help you with.
33:42
Yeah, if American soldiers start going
33:45
on the ground, yeah. I mean, I don't
33:46
think that's going to happen. And I
33:47
think the Israelis or the the Israelis
33:49
know that, but also the Iranians know
33:52
that.
33:53
So here's what I thought was even more
33:55
interesting a story. So according to a
33:56
thousand-page financial disclosure,
33:59
President Trump had a personal income, a
34:01
personal income of 2.2 billion in 2025.
34:05
Personal income. Remember Remember how
34:08
his business interests were supposed to
34:09
be held in a trust?
34:11
2.2 billion dollars. Almost all of it
34:13
from crypto ventures like the Trump
34:16
coin, a meme coin created by the Trump
34:18
family only days before last year's
34:20
inauguration, which soared over $300 on
34:23
release night before falling to less
34:24
than $2 a coin in 2026. In addition to
34:27
over four 1.4 billion in crypto profits
34:30
in 2025, investment accounts linked to
34:32
the president carried out multiple high
34:34
profile trades last year, including 300
34:36
previously undisclosed stock purchases
34:38
on April 8th, one day ahead of his
34:39
surprise announcement that he would he
34:41
would pause his liberation day tariffs.
34:44
So, he bought 300 stocks when he paused
34:47
the Oh my god, he created stock market
34:49
crises and then profited from them.
34:52
Absolutely [ __ ] insane. This is a
34:53
level of corruption that is insane.
34:57
Like
34:58
crashing the market stock market, buying
35:01
all your [ __ ] and then uncrashing it
35:04
is
35:05
[ __ ] crazy.
35:08
Absolutely [ __ ] unhinged.
35:11
But, the fact is the best thing he did
35:13
was this, the official Trump meme coin.
35:17
So, you see here, it debuts at $75 a
35:20
coin and immediately drops like a rock.
35:26
And all the while the Trump family was
35:28
selling it. And then Trump offers By the
35:30
way, access to the White House if you
35:32
buy his coin, rallying it to $12 a coin,
35:34
and now it's worth [ __ ] nothing.
35:44
Coin coin's website to ownership of the
35:45
token is primarily concentrated in two
35:47
Trump owned entities, CIC Digital LLC
35:50
and Fight Fight Fight LLC, which
35:51
together hold 80% of the coins
35:54
remaining after the initial coin
35:55
offering. Trump's personal profit under
35:56
the ownership structure is unclear.
35:59
The holdings are scheduled for gradual
36:00
release over 3 years. Yeah, okay.
36:06
Uh
36:07
They noted Trump's brazen conflict of
36:08
interest by setting crypto market
36:10
policies while directly benefiting from
36:12
participating in the market. Some noted
36:14
its similarity to a rug pull in which a
36:15
coin is launched and quickly abandoned,
36:17
leaving investors with steep losses.
36:19
Quote, even the most ardent Trump
36:20
supporters reached a breaking point when
36:21
the Melania token launched 48 hours
36:23
after Trump token, with one urging Trump
36:25
to fire the advisor who recommended it.
36:29
Others discuss its lack of utility
36:31
beyond enriching Trump. Quote, Trump
36:33
doesn't purport to hold any value the
36:35
way that Bitcoin or stable coins do. By
36:37
the way, Trump holds the exact same
36:38
intrinsic value as a Bitcoin or stable
36:40
coin.
36:41
Nor does Trump entitle a buyer to vote
36:43
on a company's future direction as World
36:44
Liberty's token does. That also doesn't
36:47
There is no company that's directed. It
36:49
does not convey the right to own a
36:50
digital cartoon of Trump. It is a meme
36:52
coin, a novelty. Fun. Fun for those who
36:54
enjoy it of paying Donald Trump. But
36:56
it's not.
36:58
Andrew list, check out his deal with
36:59
Kazakhstan and a company his kids are
37:01
tied to. Trump called personally to get
37:02
the deal done. Huh. Okay, let's take a
37:04
look.
37:11
By the way, Kazakhstan is a Russian
37:13
vassal state.
37:15
Uh well, okay. US-Kazakhstan mining
37:17
deal, 1.6 billion government-backed
37:19
project to mine one of the world's
37:20
largest untapped reserves of tungsten in
37:22
Kazakhstan. Finalized in November.
37:25
The venture was heavily pushed by the
37:27
Trump administration to secure the
37:28
critical mineral for US defense and
37:29
technology supply chains.
37:31
Interestingly, it's secured from a
37:33
Russian uh
37:35
a Russian vassal state.
37:39
The agreements run scrutiny and ethical
37:40
concerns and report that the investment
37:42
firms were owned by Trump's kids and
37:44
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
37:45
acquired a lucrative financial stake in
37:47
corporate entities driving the project.
37:55
Jesus.
37:59
Hey scams, do you think he will get away
38:00
everything he did in the second term,
38:01
especially if a dem takes over? Trump is
38:02
acting like he has nothing to worry
38:03
about. Uh yeah, I think he has I if I
38:06
were Trump, I would have a pre-signed
38:09
pre-released pardon for myself, my kids,
38:12
and all my friends. That even if I die
38:14
in office,
38:16
my kids will still receive an automatic
38:18
pardon. And the Lutnicks and everybody.
38:20
They'll get blanket pardons for
38:21
everything they've done. Kushner will
38:23
get a pardon for everything from Epstein
38:26
to
38:29
the corruption with Tether, all of it,
38:31
everything, everything. They'll all get
38:33
blanket pardons.
38:35
Excuse me about you. Oh yeah, Kushner's
38:37
resort in Albania, that just sounds kind
38:39
of [ __ ] up. That sounds like a rich
38:40
guy just want to buy a [ __ ] island in
38:42
the Mediterranean. Cuz that's a [ __ ]
38:44
rich guy dream. That's a rich [ __ ]
38:46
dream.
38:47
Remember, Jared Kushner's dad is a
38:49
[ __ ] felon.
38:51
Is it is a is a died-in-the-wool
38:53
criminal. And Kushner explicitly is
38:55
like, I admire my dad, so there you go.
38:58
That's like me being like, oh yeah, my
38:59
dad's a serial killer and I really
39:01
admire him. Like, okay, dude, like don't
39:04
you're not going to hang out at my
39:05
house.
39:14
Uh, yeah, I love this. Trump Media
39:16
Technology Group, the parent company of
39:17
Truth Social, which by the way, guys,
39:19
has a $2.5 billion has a multi-billion
39:21
dollar market cap and makes less than
39:23
$10 million in revenue, peanuts.
39:25
Announced in May that it would sell
39:27
shares of bonds to raise $2.5 billion in
39:29
a Bitcoin stockpile. In July, SEC
39:31
regulations exposing exchange-traded
39:33
funds were issued in the following week,
39:35
filed SEC papers for what it called a
39:37
blue-chip
39:39
crypto blue-chip ETF. [ __ ] kill me.
39:44
Oh yeah, and through an umbrella
39:45
company, Trump and his family members
39:46
own 60% of World Liberty Financial, a
39:48
finance firm that provides no services
39:50
and no products, but offers a digital
39:52
token called World Liberty Financial I.
39:55
Trump gets 75% of the proceeds from the
39:57
sale of the tokens, right? Trump's New
39:59
York real estate associate and Mideast
40:01
envoy Steve Witkoff and his son Zack
40:03
Witkoff are among the co-founders, huh?
40:05
World Liberty Financial created its
40:07
stablecoin USD1.
40:08
And in May 2025, the UAE said it would
40:11
use USD1 to make a $2 billion investment
40:13
in the crypto exchange Binance, whose
40:15
owner Trump pardoned.
40:17
So again, it just basically legitimized
40:21
this stablecoin, put two built bought $2
40:23
billion of the stablecoin, which means
40:25
they gave Remember, a stablecoin is
40:28
nothing. It's nothing.
40:31
Okay? It is Here, let me let me I'll
40:33
mint you guys a stablecoin.
40:35
How much How much do you think the
40:37
stablecoin should be worth, guys? Come
40:39
on.
40:40
And and name it. Give me a name and an
40:42
amount.
40:46
I'm waiting, chat.
40:56
Come on. Give me a good one. Give me an
40:58
amount and a name for my stablecoin.
41:04
Come on.
41:07
Flubby coins. I love it. I love it.
41:09
There you go. Shout-out to the chat. All
41:12
right. Here you go.
41:15
An 8,000
41:18
8,000
41:19
uh 647.
41:22
Great. Okay. Welcome. This is my
41:25
stablecoin. Here you go. I've minted
41:27
Flubbycoin. It's a stablecoin. One
41:29
Flubbycoin is worth one USD. And as you
41:32
guys can maybe see there may maybe Let's
41:35
try to get this There you go. And there
41:37
you go. So you just have to pay me 8,
41:40
647
41:41
dollars and I will give you 8, 647
41:47
dollars of
41:48
Flubbycoins, which is worth one USD. You
41:51
may ask yourself, "What do you mean,
41:53
Paul? It's a piece of paper." No, it's a
41:54
stablecoin. It is worth one USD. The US
41:56
government says
41:58
that I have a right
41:59
to issue money.
42:01
So what does it mean when the UAE is
42:04
going to invest $2 billion in USD
42:08
in USD one in Flubbycoin? It means
42:11
you're they're going to give me $2
42:12
billion.
42:14
And we're going to just
42:16
uh
42:17
invest in Binance
42:20
an exchange, whatever the [ __ ] that
42:21
means.
42:23
Trump's made tens of millions of
42:24
dollars.
42:25
Transaction made the unknown USD one is
42:27
the world's seventh largest stable coin.
42:29
Flu B-coin is the eighth.
42:31
Uh 2 weeks later, of course, by
42:33
by agreement with the White House
42:36
G42, which is controlled personally by
42:38
the UAE's national security advisor uh
42:40
gained access to hundreds of thousands
42:42
of advanced AI chips. David Sachs
42:44
received a White House ethics waiver so
42:46
he could participate in the deal. Well,
42:48
good, David Sachs. Wow, great. What a
42:49
wonderful guy.
42:51
[ __ ] David Sachs.
42:58
Uh Flu B-coin would sell better.
43:04
Trump also attended a gathering in the
43:06
presidential palace in the UAE. [ __ ]
43:07
kill me.
43:12
Huh. World Liberty Financial directly
43:14
solicited access to Trump with secret
43:15
payments and currency swaps from foreign
43:17
investors, companies, and individuals
43:18
with criminal records and
43:19
investigations. At least one
43:20
investigation was dropped after a
43:21
payment where several million was made
43:22
to the firm, and Trump granted an
43:24
official pardon to an investor of a
43:25
company World Liberty Financial invested
43:27
in.
43:28
Trump's family received a cut of all
43:29
transactions made to World Liberty, and
43:31
the company directly advertised its
43:32
services as connected to Trump. Several
43:34
actions taken by the Trump
43:35
administration regarding cryptocurrency
43:36
bolstered the company's assets and
43:38
position. A spokesman for Trump said
43:39
that his assets were in a trust managed
43:40
by his children so there were no
43:41
conflicts of interests.
43:45
Trump earned 57 million from World
43:46
Liberty Financial according to his
43:47
disclosure in 2024.
43:49
But now, tokens had a total value of $6
43:52
billion, and Trump himself owned
43:53
two-thirds of them.
43:57
Absolutely [ __ ] wild.
44:02
Wild.
44:09
Trump affiliates control 800 million
44:10
tokens hypothetically worth $51 billion
44:13
potentially making Trump one of the
44:14
richest people in the world.
44:16
Launch new meme coin after his wife
44:17
promoted on Truth Social before his
44:18
inauguration. When I crypto venture was
44:20
criticized.
44:24
And foreign governments buying the coin
44:26
was highlighted as violating the foreign
44:28
emoluments clause.
44:35
Trump pays the praise the Pakistani
44:37
general for his country's restraint in
44:39
the conflict over Kashmir and flattered
44:40
the general the general flattered Trump
44:42
by nominating him for a Nobel Peace
44:43
Prize.
44:46
That Trump has said to his to want
44:47
because of President Obama got one.
44:51
Absolutely wild [ __ ] guys.
44:53
Absolutely wild [ __ ] Are we stupid for
44:55
not shilling a scam crypto?
44:58
Like should we collectively I would
45:00
think about that. Maybe we could make a
45:01
scam crypto and try to sell it to
45:03
actually to to Russians. Like get the
45:05
Russians to buy it. I mean if the
45:07
ruble's falling in value, we could even
45:09
call it
45:10
a stable coin, right? Here you go. Here
45:13
you go, Russian citizen. Oil coin,
45:16
[ __ ] gas coin. Buy that [ __ ] Sell it
45:19
to them and then we just [ __ ] rug
45:20
them.
45:22
Is that legal? It probably is illegal
45:24
and because I would be doing it to
45:25
Trump's best friend in the whole world,
45:27
uh I wouldn't we would probably not be
45:29
allowed to.
45:36
So investing in crypto is a scam.
45:39
Uh
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tell me, what is the product or service
45:41
that that crypto produces?
45:44
Right? When I buy a share of Apple, I'm
45:45
buying a share in a company that makes
45:46
iPhones. I can point to it. When I buy a
45:49
share of Google, I'm investing in the
45:51
company that makes the big search engine
45:52
and those Waymos that drive everywhere.
45:55
Uh what did what does your Bitcoin do?
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Nothing. It does nothing.
46:03
Does nothing.
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Even even the USD in my wallet. You know
46:07
what USD in my wallet does?
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Here, I'll show you. I'll show you.
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This thing
46:14
is the only thing on planet Earth
46:17
that I can pay taxes to the US
46:19
government. And if I want to do business
46:21
in the United States, if I want to
46:22
reside in the United States, if I want
46:23
to earn money in the United States, I
46:25
have to be able to pay my taxes to the
46:27
US government. And this thing is the
46:29
only thing that can do that.
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What can Bitcoin do?
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Yeah, gold does nothing. It's true. Gold
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is a
46:43
also equally worthless equally neutral
46:45
store value. But there's a key There's
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There's The key thing with gold is that
46:50
it's physical and it exists because if I
46:53
was to fall through a time portal and
46:55
end up 5,000 years into the past, my
46:58
gold could still actually be convertible
47:01
to assets. It would still be worth
47:02
something.
47:04
Right?
47:05
Um and gold is also Gold shares the same
47:08
basic problem. And gold has some assets,
47:10
gold-plated things. Yeah, it's worth
47:11
more than its productive value, sure.
47:20
Uh credit default swaps, no, they are an
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insurance product. They insure an
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opposing asset. They're an insurance
47:26
product. They're selling insurance.
47:27
They're selling a risk transfer asset.
47:32
Okay, when people are like, "It's a
47:33
store of value." You're right. Gold is
47:35
also a store of value, but um you know
47:36
what else stores value?
47:38
My car. My car is a store value. This
47:41
Monster Energy. I could probably sell
47:42
it. You know, it stores value.
47:45
Sorry, this unnamed energy drink brand
47:48
that is inferior to Strike gum. In fact,
47:49
this pack of Strike gum stores value,
47:51
right?
47:52
In theory, I could go and sell it to
47:55
anybody who looks like they could use
47:56
some energy, right? Anybody looks like
47:58
they're flagging at work, I could be
48:00
like, "Listen,
48:01
do you want a zero sugar energy drink
48:03
alternative that's made in the USA and
48:05
veteran owned? It's got 90 mg of
48:07
caffeine as much as an energy drink,
48:09
right? I could sell this to someone.
48:12
It'll meet your need. You're feeling
48:13
tired.
48:15
No more.
48:16
And I could I this stores value. It's I
48:18
don't know. Let's say I could sell to
48:20
somebody for
48:21
$5.99,
48:23
right?
48:24
Less if I bought the tray, right?
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I'm not saying you should become a
48:29
Strike Gum reseller.
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Uh no, you cannot make more gum,
48:36
actually. Um it's a proprietary product.
48:40
There's a fixed amount of it in the
48:41
world.
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That's true. Even Even
48:49
poop has a store of value.
48:56
So, it means like it could be taxed at
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the smart contract layer.
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I've never heard of a stable coin being
49:01
used in a smart contract. That's a
49:02
separate thing.
49:04
It could be taxed, but it isn't. And
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government No, no, it's going to be
49:08
taxed, but you will have to pay your
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taxes in USD. You cannot pay your taxes
49:12
in stable coin.
49:16
That's true. Okay. Zane Lamont, you know
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what? I I concede.
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You are absolutely right.
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You can bribe the president of the
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United States with with Bitcoin.
49:26
You can commit you That is That is true.
49:29
You can bribe the president of the
49:30
United States with Bitcoin. You can scam
49:33
or blackmail people in Bitcoin, right?
49:35
Bitcoin is the favorite uh currency of
49:39
um
49:40
uh
49:41
cybercriminals, right? When they hold a
49:43
medical record system hostage, they
49:45
always want payment in Bitcoin.
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>> Kevin John, that's a great point.
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Absolutely bank notes, worthless $1,800
50:01
what is what they are. In the Wild West
50:03
and Civil War eras, that's right.
50:04
Thousands of private but chartered banks
50:06
printed their own bank dollars that
50:08
could only be exchanged at that bank.
50:10
And the further away you were from that
50:12
bank, the actually less valuable they
50:14
would become.
50:22
Yeah, there's a bunch of other cryptos
50:23
that are better, but not by much. A lot
50:25
of times they just want crypto Bitcoin
50:27
payment cuz they know a lot of times
50:29
they're Russian hackers. And Russia
50:30
doesn't prosecute people who hack and
50:32
scam the United States.
50:40
Okay, guys.
50:41
I got to go because it's 5:00 and
50:44
I hear my kids. They're They sound like
50:46
they're in a good mood.
50:49
My son just took his first steps. He's
50:51
walking, he's cruising. So, he's I can
50:53
sense it. I can see in his little eyes
50:55
that he now knows he can cause a lot
50:57
more trouble. So, I'm going to go try to
50:59
mitigate that a little bit. But thank
51:00
you, guys. I had a lot of fun.
51:02
Uh I really appreciate this. I love I I
51:05
love hanging out with you guys. I love
51:07
this. I know I could in theory probably
51:09
it'd be like more productive to like
51:10
make another video, find another story,
51:12
but this is so much more fun. This is
51:14
really enjoyable. So, thank you, guys,
51:15
for coming on board and I'll see you
51:17
guys
51:18
uh manana. No.
51:19
I'll see you guys Monday for our lives
51:21
live stream. Okay.
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See you. Cheers.