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And we're talking. We're talking.
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The next part of Operation Vivaldi is
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back, baby.
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So, let's uh yeah, we're going to talk
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about Operation Vivaldi plus
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Presidente
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having even his absolute
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diehard fans
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uh reputation launderer really uh go out
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and abandon him.
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Good day, OG Dirty One Canobi.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome. I know we're
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off to a little bit of a late start, but
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you know, it's uh today's my long run
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day, so it took well a long time to do.
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That's how that works.
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Mr. Ariel on time this time. You know
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that implies that my streams are on any
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kind of regular identifiable schedule.
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And I I'm just here to tell you uh
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they're not.
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They're just not.
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So, you know,
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don't worry about it. Don't don't ever
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be like, "Oh, I'm late."
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Because you can't be late to something
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that just happens at at random times.
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That's my thing. I was like, for a long
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time, I resisted live streaming because
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I was like, "Oh, a schedule." Like I
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have an upload schedule obviously, but
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like
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every given day has different
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constraints and different things and and
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part of the one of the best parts about
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being a YouTuber
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is that uh
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you know
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like you just
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get to flex around. You get to take your
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kids to their doctor's appointments,
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right? you get to um uh you know uh say
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hey I'm going to cut out at 3 and I'm
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just going to do my my work at the you
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know in the evening right you get to
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make those kind of flexes and it's
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really if you ever gone from working in
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office to working from home it's a it
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makes a huge difference makes a really
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tremendous difference
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so
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um
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yeah so but anyway I when I started live
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streaming I was just like you know what
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there's no law there's I have no boss. I
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mean you guys are sort of my boss but
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like I I have no boss. I'm going to live
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stream
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four days a week when I want to. When
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when I am done everything that I want to
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get done I'll live stream.
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That's right. And you know you're right.
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It's more fun when it's random. Plus,
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you know, as we know, intermittent
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conditioning, it reproduces the
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strongest response.
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Yeah, vote in November is [ __ ] right,
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guys. Okay.
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Should we talk should we talk about this
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this this Trump thing? I want to do that
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so that we can focus uh some more
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attention on Operation uh Vivaldi
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because I I think it's pretty sick. So,
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let's uh let's let's let's do that.
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Okay,
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that's right, Mr. Ary. My channel, my
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rules, right? I I spent, you know,
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five years in active duty military or
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four years on active duty military.
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Another two in the reserves
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and
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seven years at the Department of
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Homeland Security. You know what? I have
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I I know how to be the bottom of a
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hierarchy. All right. I know what it's
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like to be, you know?
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Yeah. At the bottom of a of a hierarchy
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and and getting told what to do by a
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million zillion gajillion bosses of
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varying levels of of competence. And you
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know what? I don't have a boss. I get to
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do whatever the hell I want. That's what
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I like.
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So, yeah, let's let's let's let's follow
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my rules. Let's take a look. Let me pull
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this up because this is this I want to
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talk to talk about.
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That's no secret that the president's
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polling numbers have been in the toilet.
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But it's not just his rank and file
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supporters from the MAG verse that have
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abandoned him. In fact, now one of his
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most crucial, maybe the most crucial
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media ally of Trump has gone and bailed
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on him. And not only that, but actually
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he's given him the finger on the way
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out. This is actually crazy given that
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we are just 43 days away from the
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midterms. To see the president's
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basically number one media ally do this.
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It really it just it it blows my mind.
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So here's the context. A bunch of news
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organizations were barred from the White
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House and they filed suit against Trump
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himself uh in response to this ban. So
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media outlets including the New York
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Times and Fox News are suspending their
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use of what's called pool audio, video,
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and photographs of the president. And
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essentially that says, listen, there's a
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gazillion major media outlets. There's,
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I don't know, 50, let's say. And they
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say, listen, we're not going to have 50
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people follow on the president. That's
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actually like so high volume that it
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actually interferes with our ability to
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do our job. So they say, "Listen, let's
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just agree that we take turns and we
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just have a couple of audio people, a
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couple of video people, and a couple
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photographers just go around and and and
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produce media of these events, and we
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all agree to kind of share it, right? We
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all pull their salaries. We kind of
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rotate persons. It's a it's a efficient
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system, right? it it reduces the amount
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of like crazy media presence. But
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uh
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these reporters essentially everyone
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from that runs this pool is boycotting
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it including NPR but including here's
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the crazy part Fox News. Now here's what
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they're responding to. Reporters from
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CNN, MS Now and Politico were banned
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from entering the White House because
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the president didn't like what they
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reported. these new these news
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organizations have sued. But what's
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critical is not so much it's not news
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that the president hates CNN or
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Politico, right? He did the same thing
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with The Atlantic and Reuters, right?
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He's trying to like ban these people
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from White House press conferences. He's
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always trying to do something. But
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what's unique is that usually what
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happens is that the president's media
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allies, especially first and foremost
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Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch
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properties like Fox, like like the New
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York Post,
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those guys absolutely kiss his ass. They
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say, "Yeah, you know, you'll get some
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Fox News, some like unhinged Botox
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failed comedian being like, "Yeah, he's
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told those woke liberal Reuters
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reporters, what for? President Trump so
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strong, making America great." But the
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fact that not only is Fox News not
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saying any of those things, not
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laundering his decision, but that
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actually Fox News is like, "Hey,
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you can't ban these guys."
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And if you're going to do it, we are
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going to not cover you. And if you're
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not in the US, you may not appreciate
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just how much
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President Trump exists as a creature of
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the media.
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He is by almost all accounts addicted to
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uh television cameras, media coverage.
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And so taking that away from him is like
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it's it it's like taking
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your security blanket away from my
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2-year-old. They're going to go
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ballistic and they're going to be
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deprived of the thing that is giving
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them any semblance of emotional
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stability. And I literally didn't
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believe this, but I had to go on Fox
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News itself and confirmed that this is
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this is from Fox News, the White House
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TV pool to suspend coverage of Trump
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events. Now, this is one, this is
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already Fox News headline writers being
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doing some slop. You notice how they
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they take agency away from Fox News.
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They're like, "Not Fox News isn't
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betraying President Trump. No, never.
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It's the White House TV pool.
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which Fox News is a member of, saying,
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quote, "The public has a vital interest
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in receiving accurate independent
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information about its government."
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That's quoting a joint statement that
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Fox signed. So, I'm I'm I always think
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this, but remember the headline writers
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of Fox News, they are they're their own
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unhinged people, right? Separate from
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the people who write the articles.
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Sometimes when we've looked at articles,
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the article is written by a sane person
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with a complete a relatively complete
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grasp of the facts. And the headline
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though will will barely even reflect the
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facts of the article. It'll be some
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crazy slop. As you can see, they also
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made me turn off the ad blocker. So,
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there's plenty of AI slop here for
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everyone. But here's the here's the
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actual text from Fox News saying White
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House television pool members Fox News
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Media
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Jesus Christ. It's like you this is Fox
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News.com, you know. Anyway, Fox News
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Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC
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News announced Monday they've agreed to
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suspend their pulled coverage of
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President Trump after he banned CNN, MS
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Now Political, accusing the three
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outlets of publishing fake news. Monday
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had been CSN's turn to serve as White
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House pool representative. The pool
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members have long taken turns covering
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the president and sharing footage.
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Quote, "The public has a vital interest
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in receiving accurate, independent
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information about its government. No
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administration should restrict a news
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organization because it objects to its
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reporting," this pool member said in a
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joint statement.
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Right.
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And of course from the actual banned
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outlets they said quote this morning we
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notified the government that we are
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filing a lawsuit today to protect our
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first amendment rights and defend the
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principle that the government does not
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decide what the press reports or
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publishes. Quote without notice of
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process of right white house revoked our
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journalist credentials because it
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objected to our reporting. The statement
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continued quote left unchallenged this
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threatens press freedom and the public's
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right to independent journalism free
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from government interference.
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right now. Trump said that he was not
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going after quote free press. He instead
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quote said the White House is not
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instituting an assault on the free press
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news to me. Uh something which I
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cherish. It is in instituting an assault
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on fake news. Something that has grown
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like cancer in our beloved United
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States. It is corrupt, purposeful,
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pervasive, fully coordinated and totally
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out of control. It is a threat to our
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national security. Must be stopped now.
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So again, I love it. uh free press only
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if the president agrees with what they
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say. Uh one, this is unusual because Fox
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News almost never quotes the president's
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tweets. And the reason they don't do so
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is because the president's tweets are
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[ __ ] crazy. And the fact that they
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are verbatim quoting his crazy [ __ ] is
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kind of crazy. Now, obviously, it's it's
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far down in the article and like the
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median Fox News viewer is not going to
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consume this, but still the fact that
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they are willing to put with the crazy
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caps like this is something that is
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almost like a parody. Like you would
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find this in like a like an unserious
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video game
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like like found like a found document
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like I this isn't an assault on the free
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press, it's an assault on the fake news.
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It's like, okay, if they lie you, which
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by the way, they can't liel you because
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you're the president of the United
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States. And you can only go after
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somebody for liel or I think it's
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defamation. I think liel's spoken. But
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you can only go after somebody for liel
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if they have caused material harm to
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your business. But you're the president.
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The president,
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he's not legally allowed to have a
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business. That's conflict of interest.
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So how can they defame him? Of course,
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President Trump made $1.4 4 billion in
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his crypto business. That didn't show up
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in the article.
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Now, before we talk about the pres what
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the president said literally hours
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before that statement and why it keeps
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running into the pesky US Constitution
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and how bad it is try to pro trying to
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profile how bad it is for the president
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uh that Fox News is out here
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putting shots across the bow on the guy
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proverbally. Don't Don't [ __ ] it at me.
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Right.
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Uh, I want to mention that if you are
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like the president and you feel like you
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need to just rant and rave at all times,
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pick it up on Amazon, but I I don't
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think the creator codes will work. Sh.
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Don't tell Jeff Bezos.
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So here's the thing. Officially, John
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Trump says, "No, this isn't a
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restriction on the free press, and it's
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definitely not a restriction on the free
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press because of their reporting." But
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literally, this was from yesterday
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afternoon
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in which he says, "As expected, fake
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news CNN Politico, then in parenthesis,
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pay back the $8 million contribution
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made by US government to keep them
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afloat
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and MS now, formerly MSDNC, have brought
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suit to gain access to the White House
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and your president, comma, me." They
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have drawn a great judge for them, a man
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who ruled in favor of Jim Acasta, who
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now seems to have disappeared from the
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planet, capital P. And then he names the
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judge. Uh,
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and he was sadly appointed by, and then
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in quotations, Trump in all caps. This
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is brilliant. This is crazy to be like,
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"Yeah, he's a bad judge. I appointed
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him." You're not Did Wow. Uh,
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as usual, we'll go for appeal because
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fake news people and publications, he
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says, fake news people and publications
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that only write negatively and who
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violate our national security by writing
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false and defamatory stories with
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unknown sources. By the way, I want to
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point out that almost every major story
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has been proven absolutely correct.
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Shouldn't be allowed access to the most
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important office anywhere in the world.
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It's called the Oval Office, and it
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should be treated with decorum, respect,
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and dignity, not defiled by third rate
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clowns. Now, again, I point out that uh
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Trump in the Oval Office has a merch
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store. Um, so uh
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uh
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you know,
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uh yeah, here we go. Here we go. This is
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this is the Oval Office. And as you can
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see, there's there's the merch. There's
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the merch. There's him showing Zalinsky
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the merch. Um, so you know, listen, do
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you know how bad it is that that that
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like I'm a YouTuber that works in my
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garage and I have the good sense
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to not sell [ __ ] merch and not put my
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merch in the background. Though, in my
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defense, back there is a is a is a
16:53
container of strike gum. But you know
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the fact that no one he told the
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president, "Hey man, uh the Oval Office
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should be treated with decor and respect
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and dignity, not defiled by a merch
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store."
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He says, "Purposely twist degrade
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everything we write or publish." You
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guys do that yourselves, man. As
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discussed, like when we talk about, hey,
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the whole die for Israel joke, it's
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pretty funny. Um, but the State
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Department website says that Operation
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Epic Fury was launched at the request of
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Israel
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and in defense of Israel. So, I don't
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know, man. That doesn't require a lot of
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twisting.
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Then he says something that's virtually
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every story about me or anything having
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to do with me is negative, wrong, and
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dangerous for our country. He just he
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said the thing. Oh my god, this is this
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is hysterical. Uh, but here's the thing.
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Here's here's here's what really matters
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here, right? Then he goes on this thing
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about the election which he says is fake
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but was also real when he won it. Um the
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point is is that he just says he just
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says the thing and instead you know what
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what a what a more sophisticated
18:03
political actor would do would say hey
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we are um revoking everyone's press pass
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except for Fox News while we go through
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a recredentiing a background check
18:11
process. And then they'd say, "Hey, we
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noticed that the background check
18:14
process was completed immediately for
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New York Post and Fox News and Newsmax
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and it's taken two years for all of
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CNN's people, right?" Like, and then
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they have to sue and d goes back and
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forth. And but instead, normally that's
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what you would do. And that's what
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probably like the White House's lawyers,
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if there are still any lawyers working
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for the White House at this point,
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that's what a real lawyer might try to
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argue um and say, "Ah, it's just
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bureaucratic procedure. It's hard
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because uh CNN reporters travel
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overseas. Um you know, so we have to
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like takes longer to do their background
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check. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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Like make make up some stuff. But here's
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the thing. You can't make up some stuff
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because the president came out and said,
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"No, no, no. It's not it's not a
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security thing. It's not any of that.
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It's because they say fake things. It's
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because they report things that I don't
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like."
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And here's the problem. You may be think
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why why can't they just get act why
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can't the president decide who gets
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access and and that's because of this um
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this this this thing you might have
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heard of it it's called the first
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amendment to the US constitution
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and uh believe it or not guys uh this is
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this is actually we're going to a
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government website once again guys I
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don't have to make anything up the
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government themselves tells us these
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things that says Congress shall make no
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law now respecting an establishment of
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religion prohibiting the free exercise
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thereof abridging the freedom of speech
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or of the press. Meaning that it's
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actually
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if you were strictly interpreting the
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constitution, it is illegal for the
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president to deny any journalist access
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to the White House because there should
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be a free press and the press should be
19:52
free to question the president. Right.
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Now, obviously not 24/7, not at all
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hours of the day and night, right?
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Right. Like this is always couched in
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like a level of reason, reasonleness.
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But you should understand that the very
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first amendment and we've discussed that
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the the founding fathers left us a bunch
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of writing to know exactly what they
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were trying to say here. And it was
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eminently clear that that
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democracies only work with a free press.
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Right? Again, here's the National
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Constitution Center.
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that generally speaking it means the
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government cannot jail, fine or impose
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civil liability on people organizations
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based on what they say or write except
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in extreme circumstances.
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Right? The Supreme Court has held that
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all speakers are protected against all
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government agencies and officials
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federal, state, local, legislative,
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executive or judicial. First amendment
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does not protect speakers against
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private individuals, organizations like
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private employers, private colleges,
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private land owners. Restricts only it's
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a restriction imposed on the government.
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Right.
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And what's interesting is that the the
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reason this is so by the way defamation
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of the false statements that damage a
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person's reputation and can lead to
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civil liability and sometimes criminal
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punishment especially when the speaker
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deliberately lied or said things they
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knew were false right true threats uh
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I'll kill you if you don't give me your
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money right uh are are not protected
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obviously like producing things of like
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an extreme extreme ex obscene predatory
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nature or literally just straight up
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lying like uh you know like Tylenol
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causes autism that would be an example
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of um not protected speech in a real
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country. But
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I I I point these things out because the
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notion of free expression and free
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speech are actually bound up because in
21:49
America there is no such thing as a
21:50
press license. By picking up a camera
21:53
and transmitting information to others
21:56
to know and understand, you become the
21:58
press. And the
22:02
this
22:04
protection is essential to the way
22:06
democracies work. And here's here's why.
22:11
Because
22:13
Vladimir Putin has elections, right? And
22:16
yes, he rigs his elections using the
22:18
power of the law to silence real
22:20
opposition parties. But another way he
22:23
rigs his elections is by destroying any
22:26
independent media. Some of the only
22:28
independent media that exists in Russia
22:30
is actually like funded by outside
22:34
sources. Russian dissident for example.
22:36
Um you know notably one of the sources
22:39
we use is the Moscow Times which are not
22:42
even like anti-Russian. They just make
22:43
objectively true reporting. Uh but the
22:47
problem is that Moscow Times isn't
22:49
actually available in in Russia. And
22:53
the fact is that by restricting the
22:58
press and the ideas that are allowed to
23:00
be discussed in Russia, voters can't
23:03
make intelligent voting decisions. How
23:06
do you know if your economy is being run
23:10
wisely or ineptly? The answer is you
23:12
don't. or simple, how how do you know if
23:15
you're winning the war? How does a
23:17
Russian know that they are winning the
23:18
war? The Russian government is their
23:21
only source of information. It is
23:22
illegal to report any other uh report
23:26
about the war. Any other assessment of
23:28
the war other than Russia is winning is
23:30
illegal. So, how can a voter vote? How
23:33
can you have an electoral democracy
23:35
without the ability of voters to obtain
23:39
any kind of information about the way
23:41
the country is being run? You don't, you
23:43
know, you can't sit there and be like,
23:44
"Oh, well, we well, we found out we were
23:46
losing the war because uh British troops
23:49
marched through my neighborhood and then
23:50
I was like, huh, I guess the government
23:52
lied to me." And that's but that's
23:54
really what's happening to a lot of
23:55
these people in Moscow in St.
23:57
Petersburg. They're not finding out that
23:59
Ukraine is isn't on the brink of defeat
24:02
with Ukrainian drones buzzing overhead.
24:07
So, this principle is one of those
24:09
things that is worth defending. And
24:11
again, I point out it is worth defending
24:12
so much that despite getting absolutely
24:16
lambasted by Fox News, Joe Biden never
24:20
came close to kicking Fox News out of
24:23
the press pool. Never even attempted to.
24:29
And the fact that Trump is out here
24:31
trying to do this and that he is 45 days
24:33
away from a midterm is um crazy because
24:38
the thing is pissing off Fox News is the
24:42
stupidest idea for the president. And
24:45
let me show you why. This is the top 50
24:48
news websites by visits
24:51
in the United States.
24:53
Okay. Now, I want you I want to take a
24:56
look at the top 10 here, okay? To help
24:59
me so you we can understand this
25:00
together. Number one is a New York
25:02
Times, right? Oh. Oh, there you go. What
25:06
news brand? What am I looking at? No,
25:08
these are fastest growing, right? These
25:10
are the largest visits. New York Times,
25:13
August alone, nearly 400 million visits,
25:16
right? Fox Newsw.com had nearly 200
25:19
million visits. Now, both of these
25:22
reflect some drops from last year,
25:24
right, where the news was kind of crazy.
25:26
You can see CNN.com, but then you have
25:29
some of these sites that are not real
25:30
sites at all, right? Finance.yahoo.com.
25:32
I mean, that's real news, but it's
25:33
finance news. People.com is a news
25:36
aggregator. MSN.com is a news
25:37
aggregator. Substack.com is a like news
25:40
platform. Um, whoa, 30% year-over-year
25:44
growth. News.goole.com is a news
25:45
aggregator. New York Post is a proTrump
25:48
outlet. and then BBC UK government
25:50
outlet. So I point these things out
25:52
because of the top 10 news outlets in
25:54
the country, you can see that two of
25:56
them are proTrump. So one, Trump's
25:59
allegation that the news pool is like
26:02
being mean to him is is not really true.
26:05
And Fox News, I point out, literally,
26:08
we're talking about 200 million hits
26:10
every single month or every single Yeah.
26:14
Every single month, represents a huge
26:18
ability to reach a massive portion of
26:20
the US electorate with a proTrump
26:23
message. That is the thing. The
26:25
president has failed to realize that
26:27
despite the New York Times, his hatred
26:29
of the New York Times and CNN, Fox News
26:32
is reaching more people and more
26:36
proTrumpers. Right? The median age of a
26:39
consumer of Fox News is 55 years old. Uh
26:44
for nearly half of Americans over 65
26:46
regularly get their news from Fox News.
26:48
And if you know anything about American
26:50
voters, those over 65 are the only ones
26:52
with time to vote because Americans vote
26:54
on a on a workday and they are not
26:56
legally permitted to get any kind of of
26:58
vacation or time off to vote. So if you
27:02
work, basically you can't vote. Um you
27:06
are functionally disenfranchised. But
27:08
65year-olds, they have nothing but time.
27:11
So they always vote. And 50% of them
27:14
consume Fox News, right? 45% of age 50
27:17
to 64 consume Fox News and just a third
27:19
of age 30 to 49y olds consume Fox News.
27:22
Um,
27:24
and among old conservatives, 75% of them
27:28
trust Fox News. Uh,
27:31
and this is crazy for a number of
27:35
reasons. Namely, this thing is powering
27:40
uh Trump's voter base, right?
27:44
So like
27:49
I mean when you look at the share of
27:51
Trump voters over uh 55 or we'll do over
27:55
65, right? Uh
28:00
you are looking at basically older
28:03
voters going all in. Oh my god, AP
28:05
should this website's also terrible. You
28:07
can see voters over 50 put their weight
28:10
behind Trump 5247
28:13
and
28:16
uh what they generously call middle-aged
28:19
voters uh but among voters 65 and older
28:23
again it was a split. So and basically
28:26
50% of the US electorate is over 55 or
28:29
over 50 years old. So, you should
28:31
understand that the ability to reach
28:33
voters over 55 um
28:37
is absolutely essential and Trump has
28:41
just shot that ability uh completely in
28:44
the foot. It would be crazy. Um you'd
28:48
think, man, it's surely he's playing
28:51
some 5D chess. He's not. He's not. He's
28:54
just not a smart guy. He just isn't
28:55
surrounded by good adviserss. every
28:58
adviser worth their salt doed on out of
29:01
there. Got either got kicked out via
29:02
Doge and so he's getting absolutely dog
29:06
[ __ ] advice. Pete Hgsth getting dog [ __ ]
29:09
advice. There's no experts left. They've
29:11
all been fired. They all got kicked out.
29:13
They all got sent somewhere else. And so
29:16
what you have is trying to govern by
29:18
tweet. And well, we see how that's
29:21
working out. Anyway guys, check to make
29:22
sure you're still subscribed. Thanks to
29:24
John, Kevin, Michael, Rob, Thomas,
29:26
William, Al, as well as those lieutenant
29:29
tier folks. We really appreciate you
29:30
guys.
29:32
So, okay, I see I see some super chats.
29:35
Ace Cams, I don't think even rigging the
29:37
election is going to save Trump with how
29:38
unpopular he's getting. Everyone's
29:40
turning their backs on him, even his
29:41
dieards. Um, yeah, I I I I think you're
29:45
100% correct. I mean, I think they're
29:47
forecasting this election to be
29:50
genuinely a um train wreck of pretty
29:54
epic proportions. Um,
29:58
and I worry I don't I worry less about
30:03
the administration
30:05
itself.
30:07
I worry I I don't worry about the
30:08
election outcome. I I I worry about the
30:12
president
30:14
um doing things to damage America's like
30:20
trust in its elections. He already
30:21
maintains that inexplicably in 2020 um
30:25
the the Democrats like hacked the
30:27
election somehow but then decided just
30:30
not to do that in 2024. Like the 2024
30:32
election in his mind was legitimate and
30:34
the 2020 election was fake. And it's not
30:37
really clear how despite Democrats
30:39
controlling everything in 2024, like
30:41
they still rigged it somehow. It doesn't
30:43
make any sense. There's no evidence for
30:45
it. And the problem is that the US
30:46
president is repeatedly saying the US is
30:48
not a democracy. Which means, and he
30:51
believes it. He really believes it's
30:52
true. It's not like a gimmick. It's not
30:54
a bit. And the problem, the thing that
30:56
keeps me awake at night is that if you
30:58
believe these elections are false, like
31:00
Vladimir Putin, Putin voted online this
31:02
year because his elections aren't real.
31:05
So they you can vote any [ __ ] way you
31:07
want when it's not real, right? Like
31:12
whatever play food my daughter brings
31:13
me, she can tell me it's a pancake and
31:15
I'll believe her because because we're
31:17
all just it's not real. You know what I
31:20
mean?
31:21
If elections are real, then you have to
31:23
So no, we can't vote online. We have to
31:26
have some kind of secure mail ballot
31:28
system. We have to have uh uh uh voter
31:31
roles, right? We have to have uh you
31:34
know we we have to do all these things
31:36
to to weigh be like hey can we how do we
31:39
make voting accessible to the broader
31:41
public as as accessible as possible but
31:45
keep it secure but make sure that the
31:47
number of of instances of non of
31:50
non-eligible voters voting is is low and
31:54
we have a system that largely does that.
31:56
The number of votes cast illegally has
31:59
consistently been found to be uh when
32:02
rounded to the nearest whole number
32:03
zero.
32:05
Something around one in one million
32:07
votes, right? not enough to impact uh
32:09
like if you took every if you took every
32:12
instance of actual cast ballots, not not
32:15
someone registering, not someone like
32:18
like defrauding a v voter registration
32:20
drive by entering fake names, but actual
32:23
people who voted in an election and
32:25
submitted a a filled out ballot that
32:27
they weren't supposed to.
32:30
um
32:31
and you added them all up, there would
32:34
not be enough to sway a city council
32:37
election in my suburb.
32:40
That is how low actual voter fraud is.
32:43
It doesn't exist. And
32:47
you know, President Trump, the problem
32:49
is that my worry is that he's going to
32:51
do some [ __ ] Putin Crimea [ __ ] Like
32:56
voting in Crimea was done under at
32:59
gunpoint.
33:01
Like Russian soldiers collected votes
33:04
from people. They weren't secret. They
33:07
handed random residents pieces of paper
33:10
and they said, "Here, you're going to
33:11
vote. Write your name on the top. Select
33:13
your party. And if you don't want to end
33:15
up in a [ __ ] FSB jail cell
33:20
in Sevastapole,
33:22
you write your name at the top and you
33:23
write Vladimir Putin, United Russia.
33:26
That's called survival. Okay.
33:30
And yeah, cuz there's a guy with a gun.
33:32
If the guy with a gun tells you who to
33:35
vote for, you just have to vote for
33:36
them. And my fear is that he's going to
33:38
pull some [ __ ] like that. that he's
33:40
going to put armed, you know, armed
33:42
individuals, uh, you know, ICE, the US
33:45
military. He's going to declare a
33:46
national emergency and sort of change
33:48
the way voting works at the last minute.
33:51
Um, do all these things to make it hard
33:52
to vote. Uh, and it's going to
33:54
disproportionately impact um, blue
33:57
states like cities. He's going to say,
33:58
"Ah, cities are too dangerous. We can
34:00
only have one polling site per county."
34:02
Well, okay. Uh, you know, Manhattan
34:04
County, New York, and Bum [ __ ] County,
34:07
Wisconsin are gonna have the same
34:08
polling one poll polling place. Like,
34:10
come on, man. And believe me, I'm in
34:12
Texas. That's how they do this this
34:14
stuff. In fact, Texas is so dog [ __ ]
34:17
that they sometimes will say, "Hey, if
34:18
you're a registered Democrat, you have
34:20
to vote in Democrat designated um polls
34:24
or or or if you're a Republican, you
34:26
have to vote in Republican designated
34:28
polls." And the problem is that in in um
34:32
like super Democrat areas, so like a
34:34
college station, right, a major
34:36
university town, they'll say, "Oh, well,
34:38
you guys each have Republicans and
34:40
Democrats each have three polling
34:41
stations, but there's only [ __ ] 10
34:44
Republican voters in the whole county,
34:46
and there's 80,000 Democrat voters. And
34:50
so the Democrat voters have to wait in
34:51
line for 8 to 12 hours."
34:54
And like obviously, as discussed, you
34:57
don't get time off. You don't get food
34:59
and water. You got to get in line.
35:02
You're gonna be there for 8 to 12 hours.
35:03
It's ridiculous. The idea that like you
35:05
can't exercise a franchise without the
35:07
ability to stand in line for a gazillion
35:09
hours is ridiculous, right?
35:25
Like let's see if we can find how long
35:26
the longest wait time
35:35
Okay, let's see. Here's
35:51
Okay, here's an example of average
35:53
weight times over 11 minutes. So this is
35:58
MIT election data dian lab election
36:00
performance index 2020 election right
36:05
data includes voters who dropped off
36:06
mail and ballots in person at a dropbox.
36:08
Okay so it's already going to be skewed
36:10
low but basically the overunder
36:15
in 2020 21 states had average weight
36:17
times over 11 minutes and you can
36:19
basically see it's Alabama, Delaware,
36:21
Florida, Louisiana, Maryland,
36:23
Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, right?
36:25
Texas, West Virginia, and a bunch of
36:26
these other states had low weight times.
36:29
So, again, I'm going to see if I can
36:31
find the longest one. Um,
36:45
okay, here's a Reddit post from
36:49
UT Austin.
36:59
Yeah.
37:04
Again,
37:06
there's a lot of people who are just
37:08
like, uh, whoa. Uh,
37:23
Yeah, sorry. I'm just trying to figure
37:25
out
37:26
uh wait times. Oh, okay. There's no wait
37:29
time. All right. Well, they usually I
37:31
mean they live stream wait times, which
37:32
I still think is a
37:35
Let's see. Let's see if we can find
37:46
Oh, here we go. Here we Oh, here's Pew
37:47
Research. Okay. Okay.
37:51
So, a third of voters had cast their
37:54
ballot on election day. More and more
37:56
people are voting early, right?
38:02
Uh early voting, mailin voting.
38:08
And
38:10
okay, let's see. Wait times. Seven and
38:13
10 voters who voted on election day said
38:16
they waited less than 10 minutes, which
38:17
is great. 42% said they didn't wait at
38:20
all. About 30% waited at least 10
38:23
minutes to vote. And 11% waited more
38:25
than 30 minutes. And 4%, that's one in
38:28
25 voters waited more than an hour to
38:30
vote,
38:32
which is crazy, right? Like more than an
38:36
hour. And again, one in every 25 voters
38:38
wait more than an hour. I think that's
38:40
ridiculous. And in 2020, uh, shocker,
38:43
black voters were reported waiting
38:45
somewhat longer to vote than white or
38:46
Hispanic voters, probably because
38:48
they're more likely to live in, you
38:50
know, dense urban areas.
38:57
Again, in 2020, when Trump was president
38:59
last time, inerson vid Biden voters
39:02
reported longer wait times to vote than
39:04
Trump voters.
39:06
So again, I mean, you got to think it's
39:08
kind of crazy to be like, "Hey, you got
39:09
to put in more than an hour
39:13
to exercise your franchise.
39:27
Okay, do you guys want to talk about
39:29
Operation Vivaldi?
39:31
Let's crack into this one. This is this
39:33
is this is this is too too good, too
39:36
juicy, too important to to ignore.
39:40
Let's do it.
39:44
Third Assault Brigade's Operation
39:45
Vivaldi is continuing and has rolled out
39:50
even more retaken territory from the
39:52
Russians. Plus, we're going to take a
39:54
look at some combat footage of how it
39:56
was done and the brutal reality of
39:59
clearing operations inside of northern
40:03
Ukraine. But before we take a look about
40:06
that, I want to mention what you guys
40:07
can do to support the guise of the third
40:10
assault. So one I wanted to point out
40:12
that operation Vivaldi is a is the term
40:15
now for the third assault cor's efforts
40:19
to attack this salient here in and
40:23
around uh the Lyman area. And you can
40:26
see that this has reportedly happened
40:29
over the course of months. But recently
40:32
it has become public that this effort
40:34
was undertaken. You can see that the
40:37
third assault confirmed last week uh
40:40
that a series of villages were taken
40:41
here, but now they've officially
40:43
confirmed even larger gains targeting
40:46
this salient. And reportedly this has
40:49
involved flipping over 100 square
40:52
kilometers of uh territory. And you can
40:55
see that again this entire area looking
40:59
like oh probably I don't know probably
41:02
about 75 square kilometers maybe of
41:05
retaken area including several villages
41:08
that previously it was not even known
41:10
that they were uh they had been
41:12
liberated right Deralova um and Sandra
41:16
Halovva so this is something that's
41:19
being announced as we go but we're going
41:20
to take a look at one operation in which
41:22
three Russians were ka and two were
41:24
captured near the town of Sandra Hova,
41:27
which they call note by note. And again,
41:30
before we do a deep dive reaction to
41:32
this video, I wanted to mention guys
41:34
that we have partnered with Ukraine aid
41:35
operations, a US registered 501c3 and
41:38
European EU registered charity uh to
41:41
raise money for third assault. We are
41:44
hoping to raise them some stuff for
41:45
ground drones, which evacuate wounded
41:48
soldiers uh through areas that no
41:51
vehicle can go. uh components for their
41:53
heavy logistics drones to keep forward
41:56
positions supplied without having to
41:58
again risk soldiers lives. Thermal and
42:00
night optics so that uh they can operate
42:02
247 as well as things like Starling
42:04
terminals, batteries, chargers, and
42:05
more. Of course, for donors, uh the
42:08
third assaults special operations group,
42:10
Triarium, has pledged a patch for anyone
42:12
who donates over $200. And for if you
42:14
donate $350 or more, you'll get both the
42:16
Triarium patch and the overall Third
42:18
Assault soft group patch. Uh huge thank
42:20
you to you guys that have donated. uh
42:22
guys like Adam donating. I literally
42:24
don't even know what this currency is
42:25
that he's donated in. That's how
42:26
international this effort is. Anonymous
42:28
dropping 5, right? Somebody could have
42:31
gotten a coffee and said, "You know
42:32
what? I think I'd rather see this go
42:35
towards Third Assault, right? PJ Rodri,
42:38
thank all thanks to all you guys that
42:40
donate. You guys are badasses." The link
42:42
is going to be in the description as
42:43
always to support these guys. Okay,
42:46
let's crack into the latest iteration of
42:50
Operation
42:52
more command.
43:03
>> All right, we're trying to
43:07
control.
43:10
Okay, hold on. Wait. I'm going to try to
43:12
adjust this so that you guys can see the
43:14
bottom a little better. Oh, okay.
43:15
Actually, we're we're we're we're all
43:17
right here. Okay, so one I want to point
43:20
out that as we've seen in other videos,
43:22
this is I think reportedly actually took
43:24
place in the summer. Let me see if I can
43:25
find the notes here. Um,
43:29
last fall they said. So again, we're
43:32
looking at something that took place
43:33
weeks and weeks ago. Um, but you can see
43:35
that if there's foliage on the trees,
43:37
these guys are operating these ghillie
43:38
suits. And this is one of the things
43:40
that makes Third Assault Third Assault
43:42
is that they are um excellent, excellent
43:46
uh fundraisers. They have great
43:48
logistics. And when I talked to Third
43:50
Assault in December after actually just
43:53
as they were getting ready to push into
43:54
Coupons, one of the things that they
43:56
told us uh is that 50% of their combat
43:59
power comes from donor raised funds,
44:02
right? Buying drones, buying uh medical
44:05
kits. Um again, fundraisers like what
44:08
we're doing. And that's one of the
44:09
things we that UAO does um is they go
44:12
direct to the units and they don't say,
44:13
"Hey, we got you some tourniquets or
44:15
whatever." They say, "What do you guys
44:17
need today? What are your most pressing
44:19
needs that nobody else is getting you?"
44:21
And sometimes, again, they're things
44:23
like ground drones that take a lot of
44:24
losses. Sometimes they're just things
44:26
like, "Hey man, we just need more
44:27
Starlinks." All right. We need more
44:30
batteries. We need charging c. We need
44:31
eco flows. So many eco flows, guys. So
44:34
again, stuff like having these ghillie
44:36
suits though, all of these little things
44:38
seem like irrelevant, but in the
44:41
aggregate, they really translate to
44:43
greater survivability and lethality.
44:52
So you can see just how destroyed some
44:54
of these villages that are in these
44:56
frontline areas are. I mean, you can
44:57
literally see there's almost nothing
44:59
standing here. Uh you've got this
45:02
basically maybe this is the entrance to
45:05
a basement. Uh
45:08
basically three of these four walls and
45:10
nothing else. Dude, this is a level of
45:13
annihilation that is pretty surreal.
45:24
[panting]
45:26
>> Right? So you can see how they have to
45:28
look in every one of these areas because
45:30
if you want to survive this level of
45:32
annihilation, this level of and remember
45:33
the Russians are dropping bombs on this
45:36
and FPVs and artillery, the Ukrainians
45:38
are responding with FPVs and artillery.
45:40
This is this is a massive this is the
45:44
result. Like by the time infantry,
45:46
especially Ukrainian direct assault
45:48
infantry are in an area, the artillery
45:51
has done its work, the drones have done
45:53
their work. This is the final cleanup,
45:55
the final high-risk cleanup. Because if
45:58
you want to survive this level of
46:01
destruction, you've got to be buried
46:02
underground. You've got to be hidden
46:03
underground. And you can see how
46:06
literally even these little sistns
46:09
because they are set in the ground, they
46:11
actually are extremely survivable.
46:17
But there's only one way to get Russian
46:20
infantry out of those positions, and
46:21
that is to send a human being with a
46:24
rifle to clear them out.
46:49
Okay. So, I want to point out this is
46:51
actually what he's adjusting. He's just
46:53
turning on his CCO, his close combat
46:55
optic. And this is one of the things
46:56
that I talk about is that when you're
46:59
operating in these forward positions,
47:00
logistics is so difficult that often
47:04
times you don't want to burn out your
47:07
batteries needlessly. And these CCOs's,
47:09
these close combat optics, um, you know,
47:12
if they're styled after the M68 or
47:13
whatever, they run off of little
47:15
batteries. And you don't want to, the
47:18
last thing you want is to be in an
47:21
engagement and be like, "Oh, I have no
47:23
batteries." But that means you have to
47:24
be kind of conservative with it. It's
47:26
also worth noting that in a lot of these
47:29
operations, what I've seen of infantry
47:31
engagements, they're either they're very
47:34
very very close and you're a lot of
47:38
times firing would appear to be
47:40
intuitively and this is something that
47:42
we were trained on in in Afghanistan,
47:44
you know, to a lesser extent, like a
47:46
more a less refined version. Uh the
47:49
tactics are now very different, but the
47:51
idea is that you're shooting based on
47:53
feel. You're not actually like looking
47:55
down a sight picture, closing one eye,
47:58
looking and being like, "Oh, perfect
48:00
target alignment. Breathe and squeeze."
48:02
Right? When you're talking about
48:05
somebody on the other side of the room,
48:07
you're just supposed to feel it. You're
48:08
supposed to just raise the rifle. You
48:10
almost use your hands to give you a
48:12
sense of about where the person is
48:14
because you don't need to be laser
48:15
accurate. You need to be able to hit a
48:17
torsosized target at 10, 15, 20 ft away.
48:22
And so that means that you often times
48:25
don't even really the red dot site is
48:27
like a minor helper to putting rounds
48:31
where you need them.
48:34
>> So again, he's now saying like, listen,
48:37
let's get this on. Let's turn this thing
48:38
on.
48:53
Okay, this is crazy, right? So, they've
48:55
identified these guys are here and
48:56
literally they found cables and possibly
48:59
possibly cables leading to an antenna or
49:02
to a almost certainly an antenna. Um, I
49:06
guess maybe it's possible, but you can
49:08
see they're following the cables up to
49:10
this roof.
49:14
corner.
49:28
>> Okay, so these are actually civilians.
49:30
All right, so it wasn't an antenna. It
49:32
was probably something else, but they
49:33
appear to be living in basically a
49:34
makeshift bomb shelter. This is uh
49:39
[ __ ] crazy. And this is one of the
49:40
things that again if you've been to
49:41
Ukraine, you're like there are some
49:43
people that just do not leave these
49:45
places that just some of it from from
49:48
from what I've heard is that a lot of
49:50
people they view their house as not just
49:52
their their biggest investment but in
49:54
some cases their only investment. They
49:56
go listen I have this paidoff house. I
49:58
have everything I own all my physical
50:00
possessions in the house and that is
50:02
everything that I have acrewed all the
50:04
wealth that I've acquired over my
50:05
lifetime. And then they get told, "Hey,
50:09
you've got to evacuate your house and
50:11
you can only carry two backpacks of
50:13
stuff." And they say, "No, like I have
50:16
this very valuable
50:18
collections, very like the land itself
50:20
is valuable, and if I leave, someone is
50:22
going to come in and take over my
50:24
house."
50:27
>> So they say, "I'll stay in I'll stay in
50:29
this makeshift bomb shelter as long as
50:30
needed.
50:41
He's like, "How old's your daughter?"
50:42
"2." He's like, "I'm 23, dude."
50:46
Yeah. You tell them.
50:47
>> It's a reminder. That's that. I mean,
50:49
that's Sometimes I look at these guys
50:50
and I feel like they're like my age,
50:52
like 40 and or nearly 40. Um, but I
50:56
remember like the guy the Paul that went
50:58
to Afghanistan was also just 23.
51:04
If we evacuate, we'll be homeless.
51:12
>> All the clothes, shoes, tools,
51:14
everything. Yeah, don't kid yourself.
51:16
Like, owning a bunch of tools, again, we
51:18
may think to ourselves, all the tools,
51:20
all your farm tools or whatever, they're
51:22
what, a,000 bucks? That's a lot of money
51:26
to to a rural, impoverished Ukrainian.
51:41
He's like, "You b I was born a slave,
51:43
you know, and and that's the idea." He's
51:44
like, "Listen, I was born into extreme
51:46
extreme endemic poverty and you're just
51:50
like, listen, I've I've you know, I've
51:54
acquired these these material
51:56
possessions over my lifetime and they're
51:57
all I have." Again, you have to like
52:02
you have to understand a little bit of
52:04
like I think there is a mentality among
52:08
people who have been like you got to
52:10
think this guy probably
52:12
was a peasant worker, a peasant farmer.
52:17
His his ancestors going back probably
52:19
2,000 years were peasant farmers. So,
52:22
the idea of being like, "Oh, well, why
52:25
didn't you just buy uh stocks or
52:28
investment properties or why don't you
52:30
save your money in a bank?" They're
52:31
like, "A [ __ ] bank? For 2,000 years,
52:33
my family has had wealth in one thing,
52:35
which is agricultural production
52:38
implements, like tools and land and
52:42
sheep and goats and goose, and like
52:44
that's it. That is what wealth is to
52:45
us." They're like, "I'm a I'm a I'm a
52:48
surf." You know, we're using the word
52:49
slave. He's like, "I'm a surf, dude.
52:51
Surf's wealth is in this form.
53:15
damn they've been living at 167 days
53:17
which is crazy cuz that's a long time
53:20
for a Ukrainian soldier to be in
53:23
position and and they he gets resupply.
53:41
Okay, he says sky's is not clear. Skies
53:42
not clear. Same drones still circling.
53:44
This is something else that um
53:48
that is quintessential if you want to
53:49
infill or xfill from a position. every
53:52
single Ukrainian soldier I talked to was
53:53
like you have to wait until the weather
53:55
is good and weather good weather for
53:58
good weather for infiltrating or
54:00
exfiltrating um is uh the exact opposite
54:03
of good weather for drones. So I mean
54:06
just think intuitively what would be the
54:08
circumstances where you would never ever
54:09
want to fly an expensive drone. Uh heavy
54:12
rain, heavy dense fog, um extremely high
54:16
winds. That's what you wait for. You
54:19
wait for that time. And so he says,
54:20
"Listen, there's not enough rain. The
54:22
sky is not clear. You still got a drone
54:24
circling. And if they get spotted by a
54:26
reconnaissance drone, a Russian
54:28
reconnaissance drone, the FPV drones or
54:30
artillery will fire very shortly.
54:44
>> [laughter]
54:57
>> Okay, I actually really appreciate this
54:58
scene. Um, because a lot of times we get
55:02
these highlight reels of like clearing
55:03
operations, like the really high octane
55:05
part. Um, but what you forget is that is
55:08
that if you want to have a successful
55:10
operation, sometimes you just need a
55:12
bunch of people on call. Like I will
55:14
tell you, even in my deployment to
55:16
Afghanistan, at least once a month,
55:19
sometimes more, we would just get a
55:20
PowerPoint and it would say, "Listen, an
55:22
unnamed special operations unit is going
55:24
to it requests that you set up a vehicle
55:28
patrol base at this grid coordinate.
55:30
turn your radios to this frequency and
55:34
um uh if you receive a call from this
55:37
call sign um you're going to proceed to
55:41
to along this route to this grid
55:43
coordinate you're going to link up with
55:44
them and you're going to provide any
55:45
support they need and that's all you
55:47
ever know. So what did that mean? That
55:49
meant that for 12 between 12 and 24
55:51
hours that's what we did. We drove out
55:53
into the desert somewhere. We circled
55:55
our vehicles and we turned our radio
55:57
frequencies on and then we just did what
55:59
these guys do. You sit around and you
56:01
just [ __ ] and you go, you think
56:03
they're going to need us and you go,
56:04
"Nope." And you know what? Never once,
56:05
not once did we have to go support those
56:07
guys. But they just wanted to have
56:09
because they had their own backup. We
56:10
were the backups backup, you know, and
56:12
and that was what they said. They said,
56:13
"Listen, we just want the backups back
56:15
up.
56:27
There you go.
56:29
[music]
56:46
Yeah, this is the other thing is that
56:48
sometimes you just end up in this like
56:49
chunk of the world. Like you get this
56:51
little corner of the universe and you
56:52
just know it so well. And it's also one
56:55
of the things that like like I could
56:57
still probably navigate around my AO,
57:01
especially Shininoir and Nazian like
57:04
like like it was yesterday cuz you just
57:06
think you got to think like for months
57:09
and months and months you just drive the
57:11
exact same roads over and over and over.
57:14
It's like it's like the neighborhood you
57:16
grew up in as a kid, you know? Like
57:18
imagine just being like, "Hey, you just
57:21
you just like develop this like sense of
57:23
everything there." But the problem is
57:26
that it it can lull you into a false
57:28
sense of complacency because like the
57:32
human mind, the more times it drives the
57:34
same exact road where nothing is ever
57:37
any different,
57:38
the the more you relax. But the more you
57:41
relax, you don't realize that again, the
57:44
drones don't care if you've driven once
57:47
or twice or three times or 10 times. And
57:49
I I can tell you that's happened to us
57:51
right when I was deployed. You would
57:52
drive a road that you driven a million
57:54
times. But this time, somebody was
57:57
waiting for you. Somebody had placed an
57:58
IED in a in a in a in a in a wall or
58:02
somebody the Taliban had set up an
58:04
ambush right during at a key
58:05
intersection, right? Like they know it.
58:09
[music]
58:19
>> [music]
58:20
>> Okay.
58:51
Yeah, that's the problem is that as he
58:53
points out like every one of those
58:55
villages, every one of those buildings,
58:57
every multiple places within a building
58:59
could have enem just kind of dug into
59:01
them and you got to dig them out slowly
59:03
and systematically. And the bigger
59:04
problem is that remember it it's not
59:07
just about digging them out. This is why
59:08
clearing operations were so hard. And
59:12
again, one of the themes that we I think
59:13
we harp on in on this channel is that if
59:15
you knew where to look, everything that
59:17
makes the modern war of Ukraine uh so
59:21
hard were also things or aspects that um
59:25
made defeating the Taliban and the Iraqi
59:27
insurgents impossible for the US
59:29
military. And one of the reasons is that
59:31
if you want to clear like a a village,
59:33
right? Let's say you want to clear this
59:35
building or this this represents a city
59:37
block and you go, "Okay, we're going to
59:39
clear every building from from front to
59:41
back." Well, what happens? Well, you get
59:44
here, maybe you clear out one of these
59:46
insurgents here, right? You start and
59:48
the insurgent goes, "Oh no, they're
59:49
coming for us." And then they hop out
59:51
and they hop around and then you keep
59:53
clearing. You keep clearing. You keep
59:54
clearing
59:56
and then they leave and they hop back to
59:59
the area you cleared. So suddenly you
1:00:01
go, "I already cleared that building."
1:00:02
What do you mean we're taking fire from
1:00:03
it? I cleared it yesterday. And they go,
1:00:05
"Well, in the day that you've been out,
1:00:08
the enemy moved back in." So now you
1:00:11
have to clear and hold and clear and
1:00:14
hold and it takes so many people and it
1:00:17
takes so much tech and it takes 24 You
1:00:19
got to think. Basically, you have to
1:00:21
clear a building and then you have to
1:00:22
have a drone watch it 24/7 or another
1:00:25
person occupy it 24/7. It's so hard.
1:00:31
What'sch?
1:01:02
I want to point out this is this is
1:01:04
really interesting. Let's back it up for
1:01:05
a sec. Um there's there's two
1:01:08
interesting aspects. The first is this
1:01:09
weapon. This is actually an anti- drone
1:01:11
shotgun. Um you can literally see it's
1:01:13
loaded with 12 or I think 20 or 12 gauge
1:01:16
shells. And you load it and it's got a
1:01:20
uh like a a site designed to target and
1:01:22
shoot down drones. It is one of the
1:01:25
things that I've seen people move away
1:01:26
from these specialty shotguns is
1:01:28
reportedly because they sometimes when
1:01:31
they hit the drone, the drone is so
1:01:33
close to you that it actually detonates.
1:01:35
There's there's another note that I want
1:01:37
to take about this from this guy and
1:01:39
that is his body armor. He This is
1:01:42
unique in that he's not wearing a plate
1:01:43
carrier. Do you notice that he's got
1:01:45
it's got plate carrier like
1:01:46
characteristics, but it's not. It looks
1:01:49
more like an IBA, an interceptor, body
1:01:51
armor, or um an improved outer tactical
1:01:53
vest. This is all Kevlar here. I think
1:01:56
this is a lot of Kevlar. And this this
1:02:01
wrapping the person in 360° of of of
1:02:04
protection, protecting the entirety of
1:02:06
the torso down to the stomach um is is a
1:02:12
superior design uh to preventing
1:02:16
um uh the shrapnel wounds. I mean, you
1:02:20
got to think because so the shrapnel of
1:02:22
a drone or of an artillery strike, that
1:02:24
is what's more likely that produces
1:02:26
something like 85 90% of casualties in
1:02:28
this war. So those guys who are doing
1:02:30
clearing operations, yes, they're going
1:02:32
to want plate carriers. They're
1:02:33
lightweight. They protect you against
1:02:34
rifle fire. Um, but this guy's probably
1:02:38
never going to have a rifle encounter
1:02:40
with the enemy. He's, I imagine,
1:02:42
potentially like a like a drone pilot.
1:02:44
So for him, the risk of of shrapnel
1:02:47
wounds is way greater. So he wants this
1:02:49
soft armor that wraps around his entire
1:02:52
body.
1:03:24
Okay. I I I really appreciate the fact
1:03:27
they included all this like screwing
1:03:29
around. You just don't understand. Uh uh
1:03:33
screwing around in a war zone is the
1:03:35
core one of the core soldier activities.
1:03:37
Dude, you got to blow off steam, man.
1:03:39
You can't,
1:03:40
>> bro.
1:03:47
[laughter]
1:03:52
>> [snorts]
1:04:11
>> These guys are very very disciplined.
1:04:13
You see there's they are head to toe
1:04:15
covered in the ghillie suits.
1:04:22
Jesus Christ, that's terrifying to be
1:04:24
like that close. The enemy hasn't
1:04:26
spotted you and they're coughing. That
1:04:28
is crazy close.
1:04:47
Uh-huh.
1:04:52
They're not a volunteer. There are there
1:04:53
are almost no people who are not
1:04:55
volunteers. I want to point that out. Uh
1:04:58
this is just kind of a joke. Um
1:05:02
also love that's also a trope. The
1:05:04
Ukrainians would always just be like,
1:05:05
"Yeah, every Russian says the same
1:05:07
[ __ ] thing. I was only here two
1:05:09
weeks. Uh I never I I didn't even fire
1:05:12
my rifle. Um I was I was arrested and
1:05:15
forced to come." like everything
1:05:18
everything to like not assume
1:05:19
responsibility for this and to be clear
1:05:21
some of those are true but they are not
1:05:23
there's no way they are true for all
1:05:25
soldiers and you know it's a joke that
1:05:27
guys will be like super kitted up
1:05:28
obviously highly trained and they'll be
1:05:30
like I'm a farmer who just signed up two
1:05:32
weeks ago and and meanwhile they have
1:05:34
this like super geared out like
1:05:35
perfectly set up rifle and they're like
1:05:37
nah dude
1:06:04
as we've talked about, they don't like
1:06:06
the Russians, but they exchange them for
1:06:08
Ukrainians. They get intelligence from
1:06:09
them. And uh reportedly about up to one
1:06:13
in 10 of these Russians have such a
1:06:16
awful experience with the Russian
1:06:17
military and and have like a real sthing
1:06:20
hatred of their commanders um that they
1:06:22
agree to fight for the Russian Volunteer
1:06:23
Corps. They agree to switch sides and
1:06:25
fight for Ukraine. And like, yeah, the
1:06:28
Russian Volunteer Corps is kind of run
1:06:29
by some real trash bags, but um that
1:06:33
doesn't change the fact that many of
1:06:35
these Russians like the experience of
1:06:37
fighting fighting for the Russian
1:06:39
military, it is one of the only
1:06:41
militaries on earth that will make you
1:06:42
less patriotic for serving in it, like
1:06:44
actually. But that's a a testament to
1:06:47
being an authoritarian.
1:07:05
You see that? He's literally like, "Oh,
1:07:07
yeah. You going to fight for us?" He's
1:07:08
like, "Yeah, yeah, I'll help you guys
1:07:09
out." He's like, "Why?" Like, I h I I
1:07:13
have no [ __ ] water, dude. I got sent
1:07:15
here to die of thirst. Like, [ __ ] these
1:07:19
guys. Like, I want to kill my commander.
1:07:21
Like personally,
1:07:48
All right. That's [ __ ] crazy that
1:07:50
your firing position is a dead Russian.
1:07:53
Jesus. That's That's some hardcore [ __ ]
1:07:57
All right. I don't know what else to
1:07:58
tell you.
1:08:09
You may be like, "Why are they so mad?"
1:08:11
Probably because uh this dead Russian
1:08:15
tried to kill them. And if you've ever
1:08:17
been in a gunfight, you are so [ __ ]
1:08:20
keyed up. And by the way, they are not
1:08:22
out of the gunfight. I want to make that
1:08:23
clear. If there are two dudes
1:08:25
surrendering and there are three alive,
1:08:27
that means one of them is maybe trying
1:08:30
to position themselves to ambush them.
1:08:49
Goodman. Goodman.
1:09:04
Okay.
1:09:06
Damn. I just want to point this out. It
1:09:08
says, "Russian soldier, when you
1:09:09
surrender, do not make any sudden or
1:09:11
suspicious movements. follow the
1:09:12
instructions of the Ukrainian fighters
1:09:13
to the letter. A provocative action by
1:09:14
just one of you could cost the lives of
1:09:15
everyone who's chosen to live. Uh yeah,
1:09:18
that's that's the problem. And by the
1:09:19
way, this is also something that that US
1:09:21
law enforcement is routinely trained on
1:09:23
is that like sudden movements, people
1:09:26
reaching for guns, like I mean, if you
1:09:29
ever watch like body cam footage, you
1:09:30
see that even civilian police routinely
1:09:32
deal with this where people go, "Hey,
1:09:34
I'm just going to get my I'm just going
1:09:35
to get this out of the glove box." Bam.
1:09:37
Right? Uh you know, oh, I'm just going
1:09:40
to get my documents. And then they pull
1:09:41
a grenade and throw it. It it you like
1:09:45
this.
1:09:47
That is why you're like, "Oh, wow. Why
1:09:49
are those guys keyed up?" Because of
1:09:50
[ __ ] like this.
1:10:05
Oh, when he says be careful, also worth
1:10:07
noting is that it is not uncommon to
1:10:10
have grenades with the pins pulled and
1:10:13
um the you know
1:10:16
a a soldier is shot, they fall, their
1:10:17
body falls, but you could still have the
1:10:20
grenade in the in the body's hand. It
1:10:22
could be pinned under the body and so
1:10:24
that if you move it even a little bit,
1:10:26
the grenade could uh the fuse could
1:10:28
trigger and it could go off. It's very
1:10:30
dangerous.
1:10:46
Now again, you see this? They're like,
1:10:48
"Whoa, a rainbow." And why? Because they
1:10:51
are coming home after a rainstorm, just
1:10:54
like we talked about. Anyway guys, I'm
1:10:55
going to drop a link in the uh
1:10:58
description obviously to help our third
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assault the fundraiser. Also a huge
1:11:03
thank you to guys like Alfred Allen,
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Andreas, Bastion, Brent, Brendan,
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Charles, Christine. Um check to make
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difference for us. Um
1:11:14
and yeah. Okay. Uh wait, I see you guys
1:11:16
there.
1:11:19
Oh. Oh, looks like we got more [ __ ]
1:11:24
trolls. Very cool, guys. Very cool.
1:11:31
You know, I got a question for the
1:11:32
Russian like I always wonder the Russian
1:11:34
trolls. Like, you guys have access to
1:11:35
chat bots, man. Why not be do troll chat
1:11:38
bots? Hey, Cams, do you think Russia
1:11:39
attacks NATO? Europe may gun for
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Keningrad. It seems like a hard place to
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defend. Soldiers there are not ready for
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drones. Listen, what Europe what Russia
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is going to do the one thing what they
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don't want is to create a clear decisive
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um instance in which Europe is attacked
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right they don't like the worst case
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scenario for them is a Europe 911 where
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European countries collectively say this
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was an attack this is beyond the pale we
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have to respond and the public goes yes
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we support this right
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um uh
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they are going to use hybrid attacks um
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plausible deniability. They're going to
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actually use their military um their
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their geopolitical like their propaganda
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and their social media influence
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campaigns to obscure what really
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happened. So, for example, um they'll
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say something like, let's say a drone
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hits a a civilian German aircraft and
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kills 200 people. And the German
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government goes, we know this was a
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Russian drone. Um we are fully
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mobilizing. The Russian propaganda
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machine will um go into overdrive and
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it'll say, "No, this was actually done
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by Ukrainians. It was actually done by
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um uh pick your pick your poison
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immigrants." They'll say, "Oh, it was
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immigrants. It was ISIS." Um they'll
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they'll maybe make something up and
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they'll be like, "Oh, the German
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government knew it was immigrants. It
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knew it was Muslims, but they they are
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used they're they're pretending it's
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Russian because you can't criticize
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immigrants cuz they own Germany or
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something like playing on existing fault
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lines. They'll have a bunch of different
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narratives that will that that different
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subgroups within the country will be
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primed to hear. And what that will do is
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prevent political consensus on any kind
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of response. Right?
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[snorts]
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So I think that's the plan actually.
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All right guys. Um that's going to be it
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for me for today. Uh I got to you know
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cook dinner and do some stuff. Um but
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I'm going to catch you guys thank
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tomorrow. Uh, thanks so much and I'll
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see you guys uh in the next one.