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Jan. 6; Iran Update; Venezuela Oil; Greenland; Welfare Fraud; AI; The Pitt | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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Speaker 1: A lot of funds of the little members and an
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Speaker 1: individual loss. This is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome
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Speaker 1: to your one book show on this What is it? It's Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: January sixth. It's it's been a busy, busy week. I
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Speaker 1: guess I don't know, a completely lost track of time.
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Speaker 1: It's we've been doing so many shows and things should
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Speaker 1: be busy that it's hard to keep track of where
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Speaker 1: we are. But yes, well, well into the first week,
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Speaker 1: almost the end of the first week of twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: All right, uh so today is January sixth. Indeed, it
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Speaker 1: is the five year anniversary of the January sixth riot
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Speaker 1: attempt to attempt to overturn an election, however you want
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Speaker 1: to perceive it. And we'll talk about that. And so
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about January sixth, and then i'll give you
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Speaker 1: an update on Iran and Venezuela, my latest thoughts on
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Speaker 1: Iran and Venezuela. And there's Greenland. We'll talk about welfare for
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Speaker 1: a little bit about AI. And I thought, since I'm
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Speaker 1: watching the show the pet I thought i'd give you
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Speaker 1: my quick thoughts on the Pits. Its season two is
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Speaker 1: starting in four days. I'm i don't know two thirds
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Speaker 1: of the way through season one and I forget to
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Speaker 1: give you a quick review of that and let you
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Speaker 1: know what I think, maybe I'll do more of that.
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Speaker 1: I do watch a lot of TV shows, and I thought, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it would be a good idea to share that with you.
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Speaker 1: Could you know, as I watch movies TV shows, will
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Speaker 1: just include that in our new shows as updates. But
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Speaker 1: before before we get to January sixth, I want to
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Speaker 1: I want to address a particular item that comes up
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Speaker 1: in the comments a lot. And I know we've covered
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Speaker 1: this many times before, but there are lots of new
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Speaker 1: people I think came in from Venezuela and Mela and
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Speaker 1: other things, and I get the same comments over and
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Speaker 1: over again, so what the hell? And I be told
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Speaker 1: that I should be repeating that there's no harm in
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Speaker 1: repeating given the amount of turnover in the number of
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Speaker 1: people in the people who listen to the show and
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Speaker 1: watch the show. So you know, I'm again being accused
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Speaker 1: of you know, I can't say anything positive about Trump
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Speaker 1: look or an amazing job they did in Venezuela, and
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Speaker 1: I can't even compliment him on that, And there you go.
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Speaker 1: It's more evidence of Uran's overwhelming, irrational, crazy, not e
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Speaker 1: TDS right. So I want to say something about that,
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Speaker 1: and and I think it's important. Look on Saturday, when
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Speaker 1: I first addressed the question of Venezuela, I was moderately
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Speaker 1: positive about it. You know, obviously the operation went very well.
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Speaker 1: The US military executed phenomenally. I had some questions about
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Speaker 1: the strategy and what the purpose was and what was
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Speaker 1: to be gained of the whole thing, but I wasn't
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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly negative. Now since then, every day that I've done
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Speaker 1: a show, I'm more negative, and I'm more negative for
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Speaker 1: a simple reason. I don't see a strategy emerging that
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Speaker 1: is consistent with my values, with what I think American
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Speaker 1: values and what I think American self interest. That is,
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Speaker 1: I don't see what about this is America first, America first,
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Speaker 1: if you really understand what America is and what American
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Speaker 1: values are. So yes, I'm skeptical. I haven't made up
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Speaker 1: my mind fully, because we'll see what they actually do,
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Speaker 1: and we'll know this over the next months, years to come,
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Speaker 1: whether this turns out to be a good thing or
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Speaker 1: bad thing. I mean, as I said, arresting Maduro, putting
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Speaker 1: him a trial, so be yet I mean, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with that. He's a bad guy. He's a bad dude.
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Speaker 1: If he spends the rest of the life in jail,
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Speaker 1: that's fine with me. If they shot him on the spot,
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Speaker 1: that would have been fine with me. I have no
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Speaker 1: problem with with the with the you know, eliminating dictators.
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Speaker 1: I think that's good, that's not a bad thing. So
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Speaker 1: I'm more radical than the people running the White House
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Speaker 1: right now when it comes to that those kind of things.
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Speaker 1: But then what is the point. You only should do
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Speaker 1: it if there's a point, if there's if there's something
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Speaker 1: to be achieved, and that's something to be achieved has
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Speaker 1: to be in America's interest, because you've versed American lives.
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Speaker 1: You spent a lot of American dollars in order to
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Speaker 1: do this. Uh So that's number one. The second is, look,
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Speaker 1: I truly believe that Donald Trump is uniquely bad, uniquely horrible,
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Speaker 1: a uniquely horrific president. It's not that I have an
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Speaker 1: ideological disagreement with him. That's because he has no ideology.
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Speaker 1: It's the the I and and I think it's worse
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Speaker 1: because I think we're governed by somebody who acts on
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Speaker 1: emotion as an objectivist. I don't think that's healthy. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's good and I don't think America benefits
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Speaker 1: when it's led by something somebody who acts on emotion.
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Speaker 1: I think he's he's got a he's a I think
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Speaker 1: he's a narcissist. I think he's a bully. I think
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Speaker 1: he enjoys using force. I think force and coasion something
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Speaker 1: that he he loves, just like a mafia boss. Would
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Speaker 1: love to have compared him in the past to a
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Speaker 1: mafia boss. I think. I think he behaves, talks, and
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Speaker 1: ultimately I think wants to run the country to the
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Speaker 1: extent that he can get away with it, like a
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Speaker 1: mafia boss. And you know when a mafia boss eliminates
6:13
Speaker 1: another mafia leader and you go, yeah, that's great, one
6:16
Speaker 1: less mafia leada, you go, okay, but it's a mafia boss,
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Speaker 1: did it? You know what? What is the upside for us?
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Speaker 1: For the American people? And yeah, you have to really,
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Speaker 1: you have to really, So everything he does, everything he does,
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Speaker 1: even the stuff that seems good, I'm gonna question and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be very skeptical about and it's going
6:39
Speaker 1: to take a lot to show me this something he's
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Speaker 1: done actually is good and we'll have good long term consequences. Now,
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Speaker 1: I said, I thought in his first term, I know,
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Speaker 1: things like moving ambassy to Jerusalem. I don't see any
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Speaker 1: doubtsides of that. You know. Cutting in the corporate tax rate,
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Speaker 1: that was a good thing. That was the best economic
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Speaker 1: thing he could have done. And he extended that cut
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Speaker 1: in in the big beautiful bill, and that's great. And
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Speaker 1: of all the tax stuff that he's done, that's brilliant.
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Speaker 1: I'm very cool with you know, I've long, long argued
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Speaker 1: for a corporate tax rate of zero. So cutting the
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Speaker 1: corporate tax rate very good move, and I think is
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Speaker 1: why one of the reasons, certainly one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: the economy since twenty eighteen is done better than one
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Speaker 1: would expect, giving COVID and everything else, and as compared
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Speaker 1: to other countries, and it's still doing. Okay, That corporate
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Speaker 1: tax cut is a big deal. It is. It puts
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Speaker 1: downward pressure on prices and it puts upward pressure on
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Speaker 1: south on wages, and that's those two things are both good.
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Speaker 1: But okay, so you can pick here and there things
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Speaker 1: that have happened that are good, and I'm sure the
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Speaker 1: others that can think of bombing you on is good,
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Speaker 1: you know, but then of course reading it in is not.
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Speaker 1: And of course cutting copy taxes is great, but then
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Speaker 1: raising tariffs is just terrific and awful and still and
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Speaker 1: a lot of other things. So for every one thing
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Speaker 1: he might do that's kind of positive, that twenty five
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Speaker 1: things that are pretty negative. Now, it's true that is
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Speaker 1: probably true of every president, or certainly the Democrats are same.
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Speaker 1: The differences that this president, as we'll see when we
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Speaker 1: talk about January six, this president doesn't even give doesn't
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Speaker 1: care about the Constitution. Granted many others probably don't either,
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Speaker 1: but he doesn't give a damn about it, and he
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about you knowing it, and he doesn't care
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Speaker 1: really about the rule of law, and he doesn't care
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Speaker 1: about any of these things. He cares about him, his power,
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Speaker 1: what he can do. He doesn't care about America, about
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Speaker 1: the fundamental and he won't fake it. See most presidents
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Speaker 1: at least fake it. I'd rather they fake it then
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Speaker 1: explicitly say or explicitly act as if the Constitution, the
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Speaker 1: separation of powers that exists in our form of government,
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Speaker 1: as if it didn't exist, because I think that does
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Speaker 1: long term lasting, very difficult to reverse, damaged the very
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Speaker 1: system of government, the system of government that has kept
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Speaker 1: us going moving forward in spite of horrible presidents and
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Speaker 1: in spite of a declining philosophy. Somebody says, so he's
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Speaker 1: too honest in his in his evil intent. Yes, and
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Speaker 1: it's not an issue being too honest. He just you know,
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Speaker 1: he he he is, He has no he has no shame,
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Speaker 1: He has no pretense that the system of American system
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Speaker 1: government even matters. Uh, and Andy, And he's imposed himself
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Speaker 1: on Congress and on the rest of the Congress certainly,
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Speaker 1: and to some extent, on the courts, on the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Courts certainly. He's imposed himself in a way that it
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Speaker 1: basically crippled. Congress is not functioning. It functioned better under
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Speaker 1: you know, most other presidents, and maybe it was just
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Speaker 1: as bad under FDR. I don't know, but but it's, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's just not functioning. The division of labor is
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Speaker 1: not functioning, division of powers is not functioning, except for
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Speaker 1: the courts. And we'll see, we'll see what happens when
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Speaker 1: the courts really overturn something he's done that that he
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Speaker 1: cares about, how he will respond and what will be
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Speaker 1: the reaction. I fear for the country. I fear for
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Speaker 1: the state of the country. I fear for what will happen.
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Speaker 1: I think he is a uniquely evil president in American history.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about this for ten years,
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Speaker 1: so there's nothing new, there's absolutely nothing. I don't think
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Speaker 1: he's Somebody says he's unapologetically masculine. He's not masculine. He's
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Speaker 1: he's no more masculine than a bully. The bully in
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Speaker 1: a school yard is not masculine. He's weak. The bully
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Speaker 1: in the school yard is an animal, he's not a
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Speaker 1: human being. To be masculine, you have to be a
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Speaker 1: human being. Human beings are not thugs human beings. Masculinity
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Speaker 1: is a is an aspect of being human. To be
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Speaker 1: thuggish is not masculine. Just to you know, show your
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Speaker 1: muscles is not masculine. Masculinity has to do with using
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Speaker 1: your mind, achieving great aims, striving to those aims, you know,
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Speaker 1: acting and and and and being driven towards those aims.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's it's reason is a part of it.
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Speaker 1: The idea that that a bully is masculine is you know,
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Speaker 1: is primitive, it's animalistic, it's it's it's contemptuous. And that's
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Speaker 1: the problem. We live in a We live in a
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Speaker 1: world where Andrew Tate and Donald Trump are considered masculine.
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Speaker 1: And that's bizarre. Yeah, Kendo, you have a very perverted
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Speaker 1: view of masculinity. Uh, it has to be uniquely male.
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Speaker 1: So you don't know any women who exhibit masculine characteristics.
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Speaker 1: I mean, even by your definition, that's not true. You
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Speaker 1: do not know any strong women who are stronger than you,
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Speaker 1: who could bully you. I do. So it's just I
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Speaker 1: mean the level of thought, the level of thought around
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Speaker 1: the issue of masculinity is pathetic in the country. As
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Speaker 1: I've told you before, I think the modern model for
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Speaker 1: masculinity is Steve Jobs, a commanding presence, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: a mind projecting into the future, acting based on a
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Speaker 1: rational plan, strategy thought. Uh. And and changing the world,
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Speaker 1: you know, making changes in the world that are actually
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Speaker 1: impactful and meaningful in pursuit of values. That to me
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Speaker 1: is is is masculine and and and masculinity is certainly
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Speaker 1: not a characteristics limited to males, all right, but any
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Speaker 1: more than femininity is limited to females. So I don't
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Speaker 1: want to get into that topic another show. So so Candor,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to we'll have to shut up about it
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Speaker 1: and I will stop reading the chat, all right, So
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Speaker 1: what do we want to start? Yeah, January sixth, So
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Speaker 1: today is five years to January sixth. I remember January
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Speaker 1: six as I was. I was in California. I think
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Speaker 1: we had just sold January sixth, twenty twenty one. It
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Speaker 1: was COVID. We just hold that home in California, staying
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Speaker 1: at a hotel, and I watched this happen on TV
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Speaker 1: and immediately from the hotel, did a live show while
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Speaker 1: watching the videos as they were streaming in live from
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Speaker 1: the Capitol, seeing how Donald Trump responded and everything else,
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Speaker 1: and it was horrific. I remember thinking at the time,
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Speaker 1: is this really the United States of America?
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Speaker 2: Is this?
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Speaker 1: Is this really America? The place I immigrated to, the
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Speaker 1: place I became a citizen of. Is this the country?
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Speaker 1: I mean? These animals were, you know, beating up cops,
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Speaker 1: flooding in, climbing on the side of the Capitol, breaking windows,
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Speaker 1: shadowing wind to climb in. Now. I know they all
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Speaker 1: deny that that ever happened, but the video is there.
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Speaker 1: You can find it, you know, yelling that they wanted
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Speaker 1: to hang Mike pants, you know, roaming around, roaming around,
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Speaker 1: trying to break into where the Congress was certifying the election,
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Speaker 1: clearly trying to stall it and ultimately overturn it. This
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Speaker 1: was clearly an act of aggression, a clearly an active
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Speaker 1: force intended to at the very least delay the certification
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Speaker 1: of Biden and as president, and the very worst, and
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Speaker 1: I think much more likely to stop it or to
15:45
Speaker 1: intimidate congressmen and senators into voting against it. Inside the House.
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Speaker 1: In the Senate, there were House members and senators cooperating
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Speaker 1: with the charade, actually questioning the twenty twenty vote, even
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Speaker 1: though they all knew, all of them knew that Donald
16:04
Speaker 1: Trump had lost that election, and they were playing along
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Speaker 1: with it. A lie, a lie that goes to the
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Speaker 1: very essence of voting in this country and the idea
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Speaker 1: of of an election. Mike Pens hiding away the Vice
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Speaker 1: president of the United States, why because he insisted on
16:34
Speaker 1: acting based on the Constitution, and these people wanted and
16:43
Speaker 1: hung you know, and and and we're chasing him through
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Speaker 1: cowadors or trying to find him. Now, put aside the
16:53
Speaker 1: fact think about the state of the country where the
17:00
Speaker 1: resident of the United States tells his vice president he
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Speaker 1: wants him to act in a manner that goes against
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Speaker 1: the Constitution so that he can stay in the White
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Speaker 1: House after losing an election. After losing an election, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just so Banana Republic, so un American, so against
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Speaker 1: the nature of this country. I mean, the one thing
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Speaker 1: I did think that day was, oh, well, at least
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Speaker 1: we know Donald Trump is finished. At least we know
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Speaker 1: after this nobody will vote for him. And the responsibility
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Speaker 1: for the violence, the responsibility for the you know, the rioting,
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Speaker 1: the responsibility for the break in, breaking in to the
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Speaker 1: Capitol is all on Trump's shoulders. It doesn't matter whether
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Speaker 1: he told him to go do it or not. He
18:01
Speaker 1: created the context in which they felt that was the
18:03
Speaker 1: only thing they could do because for two months he
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Speaker 1: had been moaning and complaining, and you know, about losing
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Speaker 1: an election which he and his advisors on knew that
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Speaker 1: he had actually lost. He had set it up as
18:23
Speaker 1: this was stolen and it wasn't. He lied. He knowingly lied,
18:30
Speaker 1: so did the people around him. I mean, recently, Juliana
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Speaker 1: under Oath said, yeah, most of the stuff I said,
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Speaker 1: I didn't believe. I mean, what's her name, Powell, the
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Speaker 1: crazy lawyer who came up with some of the wildest
18:45
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I mean, Trump himself thought she was crazy,
18:49
Speaker 1: and yet continued to spout her insane conspiracy theories over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again. It didn't matter putting pressure
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Speaker 1: on Republican officials in Georgia to try to come up
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Speaker 1: with votes. I mean, just the whole process was just unbelievable,
19:12
Speaker 1: to the extent that somebody like William Barr, who was
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Speaker 1: committed Trump is committed to the Trump administration, committed to
19:18
Speaker 1: Donald Trump himself came in in order to, you know,
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Speaker 1: because of his commitment and would follow through in the
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Speaker 1: justice run. He had to resign in disgust of what
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Speaker 1: was going on, as did several other cabinet members. They
19:33
Speaker 1: resigned after Janue six and Donald Trump that didn't stop him.
19:37
Speaker 1: He wanted to appoint somebody else into the Justice that
19:40
Speaker 1: would have backed him up. I mean, January sixth should
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Speaker 1: have unequivocally, without any doubt, disqualified Donald Trump from ever
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Speaker 1: running again. And then and then the Republicans had a
19:57
Speaker 1: chance to im beach him, to find him guilty, which
20:04
Speaker 1: would have prevented him from running in the future, and
20:07
Speaker 1: they failed to do it. They got I think seven
20:09
Speaker 1: Republican senators voted to impeach, but not enough. Donald Trump
20:23
Speaker 1: should have never been able to stand for the presidency
20:26
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. He should have been disqualified. Sadly,
20:33
Speaker 1: you know, they waited way too long to try to
20:37
Speaker 1: try him for his for the illegal action he took
20:43
Speaker 1: leading up to January sixth, So we didn't get him indicted.
20:48
Speaker 1: We didn't get him sorry, into a trial and prosecuted
20:54
Speaker 1: for that that would have made him disqualified. But it's
20:57
Speaker 1: just it's you know. And throughout the process, from from
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Speaker 1: the election to January sixth, people told him. The people
21:04
Speaker 1: around him kept telling him, you know, you lost the election.
21:08
Speaker 1: There was no fraud, And many of them have said
21:13
Speaker 1: since he knew that, he didn't care. Donald Trump's you know,
21:20
Speaker 1: the mean, the main characteristic he exhibits is not caring
21:26
Speaker 1: about the truth, not caring about reality. He has a
21:30
Speaker 1: primacy of consciousness mentality. If he thinks it, it'll be so,
21:37
Speaker 1: and therefore he will lie. He will do whatever he
21:41
Speaker 1: needs to do, and he will ignore the facts. He
21:47
Speaker 1: will ignore reality. He will ignore it all to get
21:50
Speaker 1: his way. Uh, and it works for him.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: He not only got away with January sixth and and
21:59
Speaker 1: with the he got elected again. He got elected again.
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Speaker 1: So yes, for those of you worried about my Trump
22:09
Speaker 1: derangement syndrome, I despise the guy. I think he's a
22:14
Speaker 1: cancer on the American political system. I think he's a
22:18
Speaker 1: cancer on American values. I think he's a cancer on
22:22
Speaker 1: the system of government that is an American system of government.
22:25
Speaker 1: I think he is destructive through and through. And yeah,
22:30
Speaker 1: once in a while he does something good, cutting corporate
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Speaker 1: taxes or whatever, and Okay, doesn't change the fact that
22:40
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy, and doesn't change the fact that
22:44
Speaker 1: often when a bad guy does something good, that good
22:48
Speaker 1: gets wiped out by the fact that a bad guy
22:50
Speaker 1: did it. It gives the good thing that they did,
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Speaker 1: a bad rap, a bad reputation. No, I don't think
23:04
Speaker 1: he was the better choice at all. So I mean,
23:07
Speaker 1: for those still wondering, No, somebody something like January six
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Speaker 1: cannot be rewarded, because if it's rewarded, i e. Better
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Speaker 1: choice voted for and rewarded, then what you get is well,
23:21
Speaker 1: all right, So who cares about US as no government,
23:24
Speaker 1: let's go all out. I mean, the problem in January
23:27
Speaker 1: sixth was probably that the that the rioters didn't have arms,
23:31
Speaker 1: that they didn't bring weapons. So no way, no way,
23:41
Speaker 1: is he the better choice. He is the worst choice possible,
23:47
Speaker 1: and we will continue to see the consequence of that.
23:52
Speaker 1: And by the way, everybody says Kamala, but Republicans, you
23:57
Speaker 1: guys had a choice before Kamala. It was a primary.
24:02
Speaker 1: You could have chosen any Republican up there on stage.
24:07
Speaker 1: All of them were better than Trump. Every single one
24:09
Speaker 1: of them would have been better than Trump. And yet you,
24:14
Speaker 1: the voters, chose him. So it wasn't Trump versus Kamala.
24:18
Speaker 1: It was Trump versus twelve Republicans plus Kamala, and you
24:21
Speaker 1: chose him over all those Republicans and Kamala. So I
24:29
Speaker 1: don't want to replay the elections, but any one of
24:31
Speaker 1: those Republicans could have been Kamala. Kamala was an easy prey. Indeed,
24:35
Speaker 1: every one of them would have beaten Kamala with a
24:38
Speaker 1: bigger margin than Trump. Trump beat her by a smaller
24:42
Speaker 1: margin than any other Republican. She was the weakest Republican
24:47
Speaker 1: in ever A Democrat, sorry, weakest Democrat ever. Biden was
24:51
Speaker 1: obviously even weaker. Any one of those Republicans could have
24:54
Speaker 1: beaten them. But you can continue your fantasy. And when
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Speaker 1: the American system of government comes crashing down all of
25:03
Speaker 1: us and we won't know what happened, what happened? Where
25:06
Speaker 1: did this come from? And it might be from the left,
25:09
Speaker 1: it might be from the right. I don't know. This
25:11
Speaker 1: is the guy who's to blame. And you are responsible
25:15
Speaker 1: for voting for him, not just for voting for him,
25:20
Speaker 1: for being excited about voting, point for for supporting him
25:24
Speaker 1: for you know, all right, anyway, that's my January sixth
25:32
Speaker 1: uh oh. And by the way, of course, what he
25:35
Speaker 1: did once he became once he became president was, you know,
25:40
Speaker 1: pardon all of those January six criminals who were sent
25:46
Speaker 1: to jail. All of them got a pardon. How that
25:48
Speaker 1: is not upsetting anybody? Why that is not horrifying? How
25:53
Speaker 1: you can get away with violence in the United States.
25:55
Speaker 1: How you can get away with trying to overturn an
25:57
Speaker 1: election in the United States. I can get away with
26:00
Speaker 1: storming the capital in the United States and get pardoned
26:03
Speaker 1: for it. Well, why not do it again? And this
26:08
Speaker 1: time do it more effectively, more violently, and get it done.
26:17
Speaker 1: So explain this to me. How how you know you
26:21
Speaker 1: can just you just pardon all those people? And nobody
26:26
Speaker 1: in the Republican sciences she used to care. Nobody cares
26:28
Speaker 1: about the rule of law anymore. Nobody cares about the
26:30
Speaker 1: American system of government anymore. Nobody cares about real elections anymore,
26:34
Speaker 1: nobody cares about what about America anymore. This isn't an
26:38
Speaker 1: American first presidency. This is an un American presidency. Or
26:43
Speaker 1: even better, this is an anti American presidency. This president
26:47
Speaker 1: is fundamentally anti American. So yeah, I despise him, and
26:59
Speaker 1: because I I understand what America is, and he is
27:04
Speaker 1: at the functioning at the anti American level that I
27:06
Speaker 1: don't think other presidents have functioned. Uh, what did I
27:12
Speaker 1: want to add to that? Yeah, I mean I think
27:15
Speaker 1: that's enough. And yeah, all right, let's let's give you
27:25
Speaker 1: a a quick update on on Iran. So demonstrations are
27:33
Speaker 1: continuing in some places around Iran. They're getting larger. I
27:39
Speaker 1: couldn't get an update this morning about what was going
27:42
Speaker 1: on today. I mean, youan is what eight hours forward
27:45
Speaker 1: from where I am, maybe nine hours on the East coast.
27:48
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly, maybe maybe only seven of them
27:50
Speaker 1: these coast, eight from these coast. It's ye at least eight,
27:57
Speaker 1: so is it. But I didn't get a sense of
27:59
Speaker 1: what was happening to We'll probably find out after the
28:01
Speaker 1: show as night falls. The demonstrations are pameili done at night,
28:06
Speaker 1: the extent of the size and how they're going and
28:08
Speaker 1: so on, But it did seem like last night the
28:13
Speaker 1: demonstrations some of the smallest cities were significantly larger. There
28:16
Speaker 1: were reports of demonstrators taking over certain cities or police
28:21
Speaker 1: putting down their weapons and joining the demonstrations. Again, hard
28:25
Speaker 1: to tell whether these are real or not. There also
28:30
Speaker 1: seems to be an effort by the Kurds, the Kurds
28:34
Speaker 1: who live in the northwest of Iran, adjacent to where
28:40
Speaker 1: the Kurds live in York and where the Kurds live
28:42
Speaker 1: in Turkey and Syria. Thekurds in the northwest of Iran
28:46
Speaker 1: on armed group. They have weapons, they are well trained,
28:50
Speaker 1: they're probably being supplied by Israel, and they have a
28:53
Speaker 1: militia up there. They supposedly are getting more aggressive in
28:58
Speaker 1: taking out some of the Iranian force is They're getting
29:01
Speaker 1: ready for more aggressive confrontation. Now, they were getting ready
29:06
Speaker 1: and they were getting more assertive even even during the
29:15
Speaker 1: Goos Revolution. Hard for me to tell from here how
29:19
Speaker 1: much more this is, but certainly things are escalating slowly,
29:24
Speaker 1: but they are escalating out there, in over there and Iran.
29:31
Speaker 1: Where this leads, we still don't know, but it is,
29:35
Speaker 1: it is in you know, it's still bad. Trump is
29:40
Speaker 1: still you know, claiming that he will intervene, that he
29:47
Speaker 1: is going to protect the Iranian civilians again, why, it
29:51
Speaker 1: is not clear what some motivation. You know, God forbid
29:55
Speaker 1: you actually articulate any kind of idea of what you're
29:57
Speaker 1: fighting for. Is it freedom? Is it oil? Again? You know,
30:01
Speaker 1: I don't know. But Trump is putting additional economic and
30:04
Speaker 1: military pressure on the Uranian regime. That's all good. The
30:08
Speaker 1: military pressure involves, as I told you yesterday, the more
30:12
Speaker 1: and more military assets, particularly air assets, are being moved
30:17
Speaker 1: into the region, particularly into a basis in Europe they
30:23
Speaker 1: can easily strike strike Iran. So and Trump is not
30:32
Speaker 1: it is not compromising in the sense that there is
30:35
Speaker 1: some efforts to start reopening negotiations with Tehran over the
30:40
Speaker 1: nuclear deal. He is not being seduced by that he
30:45
Speaker 1: is going for. Let's hope he is willing to stick
30:49
Speaker 1: through and go for regime change in Iran. Not the
30:52
Speaker 1: kind of regime change we saw in Venezuela, but there
30:55
Speaker 1: was a real regime change in Iran. And it's anyhow.
30:58
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I told you that some plans for
31:00
Speaker 1: the Israelis to attack Yon. However, NATANIAO has sent a
31:05
Speaker 1: different message y Putin to the Ranians, stressing that Israel
31:10
Speaker 1: does not seek a war with you on and wanting
31:14
Speaker 1: the Iranians that if Ley launched missile attacks against Israel,
31:18
Speaker 1: the consequences will be severe. So it does seem like
31:22
Speaker 1: Israel for now is standing down and is not going
31:25
Speaker 1: to initiate any force against the Iranians. While this is
31:30
Speaker 1: going on, again, mixed signals coming out of Israel. But
31:35
Speaker 1: this is the message Nathaniel sent to Putin for the Iranians. Nintheniel,
31:40
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, has a good relationship with Vladimir Vladimir Putin.
31:49
Speaker 1: Let's see, there is this rumor this is not related
31:52
Speaker 1: directly to Iran, but it is kind of interesting. There
31:54
Speaker 1: is a rumor that the United Arab Emirates is building
31:58
Speaker 1: a big military base near its border with Saudi Arabia,
32:03
Speaker 1: and that this military base is actually intended for Israeli use.
32:08
Speaker 1: Now I find that hard to believe, but supposedly this
32:11
Speaker 1: has it has the potential to host up to eight
32:14
Speaker 1: hundred idea of troops. I don't know if it has
32:16
Speaker 1: an air field, Israeli planes could land. I mean, the
32:21
Speaker 1: Saudis can be happy about that. And they are now
32:23
Speaker 1: in a bit of a conflict with UEE over Yemen.
32:27
Speaker 1: So how to tell exactly what's going on there. It
32:30
Speaker 1: might just be a rumor and it might be completely unfounded,
32:33
Speaker 1: but it is interesting in the context of what is
32:37
Speaker 1: going on in the Middle East. Israel would love to
32:40
Speaker 1: have an air base much closer to Iran in somewhere
32:44
Speaker 1: like the ue But hopefully within a few weeks they
32:47
Speaker 1: won't have to worry about Iran because Iran will be
32:50
Speaker 1: will be completely completely different. Okay, So let me just say, yeah,
33:06
Speaker 1: so that is that is going on with Iran. Nothing really,
33:10
Speaker 1: nothing really new on that front. I will definitely keep
33:15
Speaker 1: you posted and if there's dramatic events then I will
33:17
Speaker 1: definitely come on live to report on those dramatic events.
33:21
Speaker 1: So far a continuation and that's good. News right. The
33:25
Speaker 1: longer this can the longer this can go. The badd
33:30
Speaker 1: Uh Hello of for Liberty says, please give Trump credit.
33:36
Speaker 1: I think I just did. I gave him credit for
33:38
Speaker 1: corporate taxes. I gave him credit for still being Trump
33:42
Speaker 1: tough on Iran right now. Again, not for the right,
33:45
Speaker 1: I don't think for the right reasons or for any
33:47
Speaker 1: kind of strategic thinking. But you know, I try to
33:50
Speaker 1: give him credit where I can. It's it's difficult because
33:54
Speaker 1: he's a bad man. It's it's hard to give credit
33:57
Speaker 1: to bad men. All right, let's see, let's move on
34:07
Speaker 1: to Venezuela and an update about Venezuela. So it clearly
34:13
Speaker 1: seems now I think it's it's very clear that taki
34:19
Speaker 1: Amaduro was never intended to be an act of regime change.
34:24
Speaker 1: A regime change would require a lot more than taki Amaduro.
34:29
Speaker 1: The regime is very entrenched in Venezuela. It is not
34:33
Speaker 1: just about Madua, It's about the entire government, the military,
34:36
Speaker 1: the police, the security forces, and the people running all
34:42
Speaker 1: those entities have very strong incentives to continue with the
34:47
Speaker 1: current regime because it's how they make their money, it's
34:51
Speaker 1: how they survive. They don't want to have to face
34:54
Speaker 1: the consequence of opposition government that might fire them or
34:59
Speaker 1: even put them up for a trial for all their
35:03
Speaker 1: criminal behavior that they've engaged in. So uh so, the
35:19
Speaker 1: the United States never intended for regime change. Regime change
35:23
Speaker 1: is much more complicated than taking out one man. It
35:26
Speaker 1: would mean destroying the capabilities of the regime to govern
35:30
Speaker 1: and creating a context thus for the opposition to take over.
35:35
Speaker 1: That has not happened and it is not likely to happen.
35:39
Speaker 1: That would involve, you know, much greater use of force,
35:43
Speaker 1: much much much greater use of force than what the
35:46
Speaker 1: United States has done. It would it would involve the
35:48
Speaker 1: campaign like Israel's campaign against Iran, of killing leadership, even
35:53
Speaker 1: more so than what Israel did in Iran, killing leadership,
35:56
Speaker 1: destroying infrastructure, destroying military infrastructure, destroying bases, facilities, weapons systems.
36:03
Speaker 1: And the United States did not do that. It crippled
36:06
Speaker 1: their defenses, but did not do much more than that.
36:10
Speaker 1: So we're not going to see a regime change. You know.
36:14
Speaker 1: The reason Trump beyond the jealousy issue that I mentioned
36:18
Speaker 1: yesterday or the envy issue, the reason the reason that
36:28
Speaker 1: the reason Trump said that the opposition couldn't take over
36:32
Speaker 1: is because they can't in this circumstances. They don't have
36:36
Speaker 1: the backing of the military. They're on the backing of
36:39
Speaker 1: the security forces. If they did try to take over
36:43
Speaker 1: the military and in the security forces would kill them.
36:45
Speaker 1: The only way that could happen is again if the
36:48
Speaker 1: United States fully backed them and actually was willing to
36:51
Speaker 1: use commit the use of force in order to protect
36:54
Speaker 1: them and to place them in positions of power. So
37:01
Speaker 1: what has what has What is the goal here? What
37:09
Speaker 1: is the strategy some regime change? The strategy is supposed
37:13
Speaker 1: to take out Madua. Maduo was somebody who was clearly
37:17
Speaker 1: disliked by Trump and the people about him. And again
37:21
Speaker 1: Trump acts on whim and on emotion, and taking on Maduro,
37:25
Speaker 1: who's the guy who didn't like was was was was
37:29
Speaker 1: easy and and something that came natural to him. And
37:36
Speaker 1: it could also be flamed as in the context of drugs.
37:40
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a minute. The drug cartel
37:42
Speaker 1: that's supposedly Maduro is running. And what Trump really would
37:48
Speaker 1: like is uh, you know, access to the oil in
37:55
Speaker 1: in uh in Venezuela. I think he likes the distraction
38:01
Speaker 1: from his unpopularity at home. He wants to act the
38:06
Speaker 1: tough guy. He likes that and enjoys that. And we
38:08
Speaker 1: talked about all this yesterday. It now seems that Trump
38:12
Speaker 1: is so excited about the US all companies rebuilding Venezuela's
38:19
Speaker 1: energy infrastructure, and they need to be rebuilt. It's not
38:21
Speaker 1: like they come in there and everything's ready and they
38:23
Speaker 1: just pumped the oil out. The whole infrastructure of Venezuela
38:28
Speaker 1: and oil needs to be rebuilt again. This is not
38:32
Speaker 1: easy oil to get out of the ground. This is
38:34
Speaker 1: not easy oil to ship, and the Americans have been
38:39
Speaker 1: out of there for a long time. The infrastructure sucks,
38:42
Speaker 1: and they would they would have to invest a lot
38:45
Speaker 1: of money into this if they came, If the US
38:47
Speaker 1: companies came into Venezuela, they'd have to invest a lot.
38:50
Speaker 1: And many of the oil companies are saying, you know,
38:55
Speaker 1: this is risky. We'd have to spend a lot of capital.
38:58
Speaker 1: And there's no game Tea that Venezuela won't nationalize it
39:02
Speaker 1: all again. So we're not that interested Trump. The latest
39:09
Speaker 1: story is that the Trumpet Demis Station is actually going
39:11
Speaker 1: to offer all companies a subsidy to go in and
39:15
Speaker 1: do it, so the American government will subsidize all companies
39:21
Speaker 1: to go into Venezuela and create this oil infrastructure and
39:27
Speaker 1: start pumping oil out, which is which is ridiculous, to
39:36
Speaker 1: say the least. I don't believe anybody should be subsidized.
39:39
Speaker 1: There's zero reason to subsidize oil companies. There's zeros, some
39:43
Speaker 1: reason to subsidize all companies to go into Fegn country
39:45
Speaker 1: and doing this. It's really bizarre. And it's not like
39:49
Speaker 1: all prices right now at one hundred dollars a barrel
39:54
Speaker 1: or higher than that. Remember you remember that Jordan Peterson
39:57
Speaker 1: predicted three hundred dollars a barrel. It's not a two
40:00
Speaker 1: hundred dollars about that. Yeah, at that level, all these
40:02
Speaker 1: old companies would be jumping to go. Always at fifty seven,
40:06
Speaker 1: I think. And there's used to be plenty of oil
40:09
Speaker 1: out there in terms of a supply, and nobody's in
40:12
Speaker 1: a hurry to go develop the fears the oil fields
40:15
Speaker 1: of Venezuela. American owl companies are not jumping at this opportunity.
40:23
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's more and more looked like that.
40:27
Speaker 1: That's all there was. There really isn't anything else, you
40:30
Speaker 1: know that idea is one day we'll ask the you know,
40:34
Speaker 1: the regime there to have fair and honest elections. But
40:38
Speaker 1: even if they had fair and honest elections, in opposition one,
40:42
Speaker 1: would they let them rule? Who would stop them from
40:46
Speaker 1: not letting them move? I mean Trump almost overturned an
40:49
Speaker 1: election in the United States. You think he opposed overturning
40:52
Speaker 1: an election in Venezuela. So this whole idea that we
40:57
Speaker 1: will control them, it will us them to get better
41:01
Speaker 1: terms for oil. Does he care about the presence of
41:03
Speaker 1: Uranians ris ballad there? I don't know. There's no evidence
41:08
Speaker 1: to suggest that's going to change dramatically. He cares about
41:11
Speaker 1: oil not going to China, so supposedly over the last
41:14
Speaker 1: few days, no oil has been shipped to China. Oil
41:17
Speaker 1: is coming to the US, but nowhere else. Maybe cares
41:20
Speaker 1: about that as a geopolitical thing with China, that people
41:23
Speaker 1: around him who care about China, even if Trump doesn't.
41:28
Speaker 1: But it really is, it's one thing that is not
41:33
Speaker 1: It is not about freedom for Venezuelans. He doesn't care
41:36
Speaker 1: one iota, one way or the other about that. Now,
41:40
Speaker 1: if you remember, Trump has said that Maduro was the
41:44
Speaker 1: head of and I quote Trump the vicious cattel known
41:48
Speaker 1: as Katel de los Solis, which flooded out nation with
41:53
Speaker 1: lethal poison, but there is no such a cattel. Expert
42:01
Speaker 1: in Latin American crime and arcotics issues have said is
42:04
Speaker 1: actually just a slang term invented by the Venezuelan media
42:08
Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties for officials who are corrupted by
42:12
Speaker 1: drug money. And indeed, on Saturday, in court the administration
42:22
Speaker 1: that Trump administration, the ones that captured Maduro, released a
42:30
Speaker 1: rewritten indictment that basically conceded the fact that there is
42:36
Speaker 1: no such thing. There is no such thing as Cartel
42:39
Speaker 1: delos Solace. Prosecutors are still accusing mister Amduau participating in
42:46
Speaker 1: a drug trafficking conspiracy, but they've abandoned the claim that
42:51
Speaker 1: Cartel dellos Solace was an actual organization. The advised indictment
42:57
Speaker 1: states that are referced to a patronage system and a
43:01
Speaker 1: culture of corruption fueled by drug money. So even this
43:07
Speaker 1: one claim about leader of our cartel, it's just untrue.
43:12
Speaker 1: It's just made up stuff, which is again typical of Trump.
43:15
Speaker 1: He just makes stuff up. He just says stuff and
43:18
Speaker 1: the relationship between it in reality doesn't exist, and then
43:23
Speaker 1: just as BoNT Master change the diamond. Now. I don't
43:26
Speaker 1: know how this will affect the actual court case for
43:29
Speaker 1: all we know, for we know he'll be acquitted and
43:32
Speaker 1: return to Venezuela as president. Something else going on right
43:42
Speaker 1: now in Venezuela that is worth considering. When the first
43:49
Speaker 1: news came of Madua's arrest, I guess people were incredibly
43:55
Speaker 1: full of joy and happy and thinking that this was
43:57
Speaker 1: going to be a regime change. But over the last
44:01
Speaker 1: couple of days in Venezuela, you have armed gangs, paramilitary
44:08
Speaker 1: gangs allied with the government that are roaming the streets,
44:13
Speaker 1: arresting journalists and arresting anybody who shows signs of a
44:21
Speaker 1: position to a durea in this current regime. So and
44:29
Speaker 1: in other words, the regime is becoming more oppressive. There's
44:35
Speaker 1: nothing to suggest that the Trumpet deministation is doing anything
44:39
Speaker 1: because it controls Venezuela to stop this. I don't know
44:44
Speaker 1: that they care or they want to, now, do you
44:52
Speaker 1: use officials supposedly have made three demands I guess from
44:57
Speaker 1: the current government in Caracas. Crack down on drug flows,
45:03
Speaker 1: which is not going to happen. The government couldn't even
45:06
Speaker 1: do it if they wanted to. Probably the United States
45:08
Speaker 1: can't do it and it wants to, and it can't
45:11
Speaker 1: stop the drug flows. So stop their drug flows. That
45:14
Speaker 1: won't happen. The drug flows are going to Europe anyway,
45:16
Speaker 1: they don't come to the US. Trump will claim credit,
45:19
Speaker 1: but drug flows from Venezuela to the US were minimal,
45:23
Speaker 1: if at all. Always so again the whole issue about
45:28
Speaker 1: on drugs as being a big lie. Most of the
45:31
Speaker 1: drugs are going to Africa and from Africa up into Europe.
45:34
Speaker 1: That's the cocaine path. So one cracking down on drug flow.
45:39
Speaker 1: Two kicking out the Uranians, Cubans and other operatives of
45:43
Speaker 1: countries on networks hostile to Washington. That's Casbella. We'll see
45:48
Speaker 1: if any of that happens again not clear. And then
45:54
Speaker 1: stopping the sale of oil to US adversaries who are
45:59
Speaker 1: US advert series. Probably what they mean here is China,
46:04
Speaker 1: but it is not clear who else they might be
46:08
Speaker 1: included in this. So that's that's the agenda. You know,
46:11
Speaker 1: they can they can oppress their own people all they like,
46:14
Speaker 1: They can keep everything else they want. The thread is
46:18
Speaker 1: that if you don't do that, we will use force
46:20
Speaker 1: against you. The threat is that if you don't do that,
46:25
Speaker 1: we will do to you what we did to my
46:27
Speaker 1: duo Rodriguez, who is the current you know, a sworn
46:35
Speaker 1: in president of Venezuela. Initially, you know, it's very feisty
46:40
Speaker 1: and condemned do his capture. But then now it's become
46:45
Speaker 1: much more copetive. You know, she doesn't want to be kidnapping,
46:48
Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to be taken prisoner late at night. Uh,
46:52
Speaker 1: and she is, you know, she is willing to be
46:59
Speaker 1: influenced how much, to what extent in what way? You know,
47:05
Speaker 1: we'll find out. We'll find out in the days to come. Again.
47:08
Speaker 1: On drugs, I don't think there will be any change.
47:11
Speaker 1: Maybe the Ranians and the Risbela will be kicked out,
47:13
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the Cubans not clear oil, not selling all
47:20
Speaker 1: to China. As long as the US buiased oil and
47:22
Speaker 1: long sanctions are relieved, I think they'll go along with that.
47:27
Speaker 1: What have we gained very little? I think very little.
47:32
Speaker 1: So the you know, the leverage the United States has
47:36
Speaker 1: is basically the use of force. We can bomb facilities,
47:42
Speaker 1: we can seize people, we can we can use force
47:45
Speaker 1: against them. So they will play along to some extent
47:49
Speaker 1: and that will allow US or companies to come in.
47:52
Speaker 1: Whether the us L companies want to go, well, maybe
47:54
Speaker 1: that will depend on how big the subsidy is that
47:59
Speaker 1: the United that the US wants to give them. Yeah.
48:03
Speaker 1: Financial Times headline today Venezuela launches wave of repression after
48:10
Speaker 1: US seizure of Nicolas Maduro. All militious patrol the streets
48:15
Speaker 1: and journalists arrested as coming crack down on descent widens
48:22
Speaker 1: sad state of affairs. All right, what else did I
48:26
Speaker 1: want to do here? All right? That is Venezuela. And
48:39
Speaker 1: you know this hurts the Chinese. We talked about the oil,
48:45
Speaker 1: but also it's the Chinese in terms of influence. China
48:48
Speaker 1: was invested in Venezuela, viewed Venezuela as an ally That
48:53
Speaker 1: relationship is probably you know, sour dramatically. The United States
48:57
Speaker 1: will not allow that, uh, and that's that's a good thing.
49:00
Speaker 1: So you know, China, China at the end of the
49:05
Speaker 1: day has no strategic greech It has no ability to
49:10
Speaker 1: actually defend or help defend its allies in the Western
49:15
Speaker 1: hemisphere in America's so this will this just show that
49:19
Speaker 1: as a lie that it is a few and few
49:22
Speaker 1: countries were going to be enticed by China anyway, because
49:25
Speaker 1: more and more countries were moving away from the left
49:28
Speaker 1: in Latin America and towards various types of right wing governments.
49:36
Speaker 1: One of the consequences of all of this is that
49:42
Speaker 1: Trumps now felt emboldened to come back with with the
49:49
Speaker 1: with Greenland, with the Greenland issue. So Stephen Miller on CNN,
49:58
Speaker 1: you know, earlier on Monday, basically said, you know, we
50:04
Speaker 1: want Greenland. We're gonna get Greenland. Nobody's gonna fight us
50:07
Speaker 1: over Greenland. Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, posted
50:14
Speaker 1: a map of Greenland overlaid with the stun Spangled banner
50:17
Speaker 1: and captioned soon a Miller himself, as I said, said,
50:22
Speaker 1: this is a direct quote from CNN for the United
50:25
Speaker 1: States to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend
50:28
Speaker 1: NATO and NATO's interests. Obviously Greenland should be part of
50:32
Speaker 1: the United States. And he basically said, it's it's a
50:36
Speaker 1: done deal. It's gonna happen. Nobody's gonna stop us. There's
50:39
Speaker 1: no way for them to stop NATO. European countries are
50:47
Speaker 1: freaking out over this uh pretty much. You know then
50:52
Speaker 1: you know Greenland is part of Denmark and uh and
50:56
Speaker 1: and Denmark is is pissed off. Enough of enough. Greenland's
51:02
Speaker 1: prime minister said normal pressure, normally indiando, normal fantasies about annexation.
51:09
Speaker 1: Denmark's prime minister is imploring him to stop the threats,
51:14
Speaker 1: adding that they quote should be taken seriously the threats right.
51:19
Speaker 1: A bunch of European leaders, including Britain and France, have
51:22
Speaker 1: all said this is ridiculous. We completely support Denmark. Summers
51:27
Speaker 1: suggested that if the United States takes Greenland, it's the
51:32
Speaker 1: end of NATO. I think the biggest beneficiary of the
51:35
Speaker 1: United States taking Greenland would be Russia, because I do
51:39
Speaker 1: think it's the end of NATO. Whether explicitly or implicitly,
51:43
Speaker 1: NATO is finished. If the United States can just steal
51:46
Speaker 1: property from a European country, then then you know, what
51:54
Speaker 1: does an alliance mean? What allies mean? What does it
51:57
Speaker 1: mean to be in an alliance? It's it's basically finished.
52:13
Speaker 1: All right, I'm tired of this guy. All right. You know,
52:28
Speaker 1: it's still unlikely that Trump would annex Greenland, but who knows.
52:33
Speaker 1: I mean, scenyways have been laid out where the United
52:36
Speaker 1: States just announces Greenland is ours it. You know, it
52:42
Speaker 1: seems shoops over. It's got military basis, airfields in Iceland
52:47
Speaker 1: that it runs today, and it basically says, you know,
52:52
Speaker 1: this is done, and as part of the Monroe doctrine,
52:55
Speaker 1: we are taking it over. And what is anybody going
53:00
Speaker 1: to do about it? The people in Greenland are not
53:02
Speaker 1: going to oppose this. They don't have a military, they
53:05
Speaker 1: don't have military capabilities. And even if they did, what
53:08
Speaker 1: are they Fifty five thousand people live in Greenland. Denmark
53:12
Speaker 1: is not going to do anything about it. Is Europe
53:14
Speaker 1: going to go to war against the United States. No,
53:16
Speaker 1: but some European countries is going to kick out Americans
53:19
Speaker 1: out of those countries a military basis, and you're going
53:23
Speaker 1: to be shut down. No, So none of that, none
53:41
Speaker 1: of that is. All of that is possible. And as
53:43
Speaker 1: I said, if he actually goes ahead and does it,
53:49
Speaker 1: you know, it's very unlikely. It's very likely that it's
53:54
Speaker 1: the end of NATO. And the biggest winner of the
53:56
Speaker 1: end of NATO, and the biggest winner of a real
53:59
Speaker 1: frost uh fasting in the relationship between the US and
54:03
Speaker 1: NATO is is Russia. Denmark, by the way, is one
54:08
Speaker 1: of the most pro American members of Europe. It's one
54:13
Speaker 1: of the most pro American countries in Europe. You know,
54:16
Speaker 1: it sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, and it foot
54:19
Speaker 1: sight by side with American soldiers. Uh. And it is
54:23
Speaker 1: being incredibly supportive of American interests. Uh. And we're pissing
54:29
Speaker 1: off allies exactly for what this is again, you know,
54:33
Speaker 1: no reason. I mean, he he makes these excuses about
54:36
Speaker 1: the strategic value China Russia. They can take care of that.
54:43
Speaker 1: They can take care of that without annexing Greenland. Again,
54:48
Speaker 1: Greenland is part of NATO, uh CIA National Security Agent
54:54
Speaker 1: and an NSA are stepped up, stepped up surveillance of
54:58
Speaker 1: Greenland's independence movement. They've also been tasked with identifying local
55:02
Speaker 1: sympathetic to America. Do you ever see that show? It
55:08
Speaker 1: was a show. It was a Norwegian show about Russians
55:13
Speaker 1: taking no way. Russia is just basically invading Norway and
55:16
Speaker 1: taking it no way at that point, and and you're
55:22
Speaker 1: basically agreeing because no way, this is the premise of
55:25
Speaker 1: the show. It's kind of funny no way because it's green,
55:27
Speaker 1: so green, it's so leftist green that we're going to
55:31
Speaker 1: shut off all the oil from the North Sea. Uh there,
55:36
Speaker 1: there's pumped to Europe. Europe was upset about that. They
55:39
Speaker 1: kind of deal with Russia so Russia would take over
55:41
Speaker 1: Norway and keep the oil pumping. That that's the premise
55:44
Speaker 1: of the show. And you know, it's a it's it's
55:49
Speaker 1: a show about the occupation of Norway by the Russians
55:51
Speaker 1: and how many people are sympathetic and so on, and
55:54
Speaker 1: of course the occupation happens with no shots taken. And
55:57
Speaker 1: you can imagine exactly the same thing happened with America
56:00
Speaker 1: are taking over Greenland. So you know, do I think
56:07
Speaker 1: this will happen? You know, I wouldn't be surprised. I
56:12
Speaker 1: just wouldn't be surprised. I think Trump is going to
56:15
Speaker 1: try to seduce the people in Greenland with money to
56:20
Speaker 1: try to get them to vote to be taken over
56:24
Speaker 1: by the US. I think he'll try that route. Maybe
56:28
Speaker 1: it'll work, maybe it won't. Again, it's a small country
56:31
Speaker 1: with small population. Maybe you can just buy them out.
56:36
Speaker 1: They would still have to separate somehow from Denmark, but
56:42
Speaker 1: you know America could. But if that doesn't work with
56:45
Speaker 1: den America deploy troops, and they could initially deploy troops
56:54
Speaker 1: under an agreement they have right now with Denmark is
56:56
Speaker 1: part of NATO without limit. And and then what do
57:00
Speaker 1: those troops do and how do those troops impose they
57:04
Speaker 1: will on the people running Greenland? I don't know. I mean,
57:08
Speaker 1: it's crazy that we're even talking about. It's insane and stupid.
57:12
Speaker 1: And again, it's all about Trump ego. It's all about
57:15
Speaker 1: Trump wanting to have be able to end his presidency
57:19
Speaker 1: with no territory, a bigger America than when he started.
57:23
Speaker 1: It's all about size. Size matters, right, It's all about ego,
57:27
Speaker 1: ego in the in the in the narcissistic sense. All right,
57:40
Speaker 1: there was a good editorial today, mostly good. I don't
57:44
Speaker 1: agree with everything in the editorial today in the Wars
57:47
Speaker 1: Journal actually a couple of days ago in the Wars
57:49
Speaker 1: Journal about the welfare fraud and Trump today announced or
57:55
Speaker 1: it looks like Trump is going to cut ten billion
57:59
Speaker 1: dollars and social services spending and childcare funding from Democratic
58:04
Speaker 1: led states. This is a claim with regard to you know,
58:11
Speaker 1: there are frauds, there's fard going on there now. Just
58:14
Speaker 1: the other day it was announced that in Mississippi, there's
58:16
Speaker 1: welfare fraud going on. And of course in every single
58:19
Speaker 1: state there's welfare fraud. We'll get to wind him in it,
58:21
Speaker 1: but every state there's welfare faut. But he is only
58:25
Speaker 1: doing this at democratic states because it's all about politics
58:28
Speaker 1: and power. Again, Trump does not care one iota about
58:32
Speaker 1: actual thought. He has pardoned massive fraudsters who have defrauded
58:38
Speaker 1: the American people. He doesn't care about fraud. So he's
58:44
Speaker 1: blocking money from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York
58:49
Speaker 1: because he claims this faud there, which there is explicitly
58:55
Speaker 1: o implicitly there is fault. The whole welfare state basically
58:58
Speaker 1: is one big case of fraud and it creates massive
59:01
Speaker 1: opportunities for fraud. Bet Trump is using this to to
59:12
Speaker 1: go after Democrats. So there was a good I think
59:16
Speaker 1: a pad in the Wall Street Journal makes some good
59:19
Speaker 1: points about this idea that you know, all these programs
59:24
Speaker 1: are fraudulent and you can see it all over the place,
59:26
Speaker 1: and so I thought i'd read you some sections out
59:28
Speaker 1: of this. It's actually quite good. This is a bye bye.
59:33
Speaker 1: Who's the author, Alicia Finley Finlay? And who is Alicia Finlay? Yeah,
59:43
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. It appeared in yesterday's
59:50
Speaker 1: print edition with the title the scandal of America's welfare
59:54
Speaker 1: goes beyond fraud. Although this is arguably is fun here
1:00:00
Speaker 1: it is economist John Maynard Keynes suggested that government paid
1:00:05
Speaker 1: people to dig holes in the ground and then fill
1:00:06
Speaker 1: them up. This is an app metaphor for progressive government
1:00:10
Speaker 1: these days. It creates social dysfunction, then shovels up money
1:00:15
Speaker 1: to correct it, dredge, fill, and repeat. Healthcare and social
1:00:20
Speaker 1: assistance added more than one point six million private sector
1:00:23
Speaker 1: jobs between June twenty twenty three and June twenty twenty five.
1:00:27
Speaker 1: One point six million private sector jobs according to comprehensive
1:00:31
Speaker 1: data from employer payrolls. Right Yet, the US gained only
1:00:35
Speaker 1: one point three million private jobs during that period, meaning
1:00:39
Speaker 1: that there was a net loss of jobs in other industries.
1:00:43
Speaker 1: So the rest of industries shrunk while health care and
1:00:47
Speaker 1: social assistance increased. She continues, These two industries account for
1:00:52
Speaker 1: more than half of new establishments, businesses, and nonprofits created
1:00:57
Speaker 1: after the last over the last two years. Minnesota's welfare
1:01:01
Speaker 1: fraud scandal makes you wonder how many of these new
1:01:05
Speaker 1: entities in their employees are actually helping people, and how
1:01:09
Speaker 1: many are merely looting the government. Well, it's not the government,
1:01:13
Speaker 1: it's you and me. Continue. More than ninety people have
1:01:18
Speaker 1: being charged with setting up sham businesses and nonprofits in
1:01:21
Speaker 1: Minnesota that feasted on Midikaid, food, housing, and other welfare programs.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: Defendants employed family members and others to provide autism treatment
1:01:31
Speaker 1: to kids who didn't have autism, to drive the kids
1:01:33
Speaker 1: to fake appointments, and to feed them while they were there.
1:01:37
Speaker 1: The fraudulent enterprises didn't provide legitimate public services, though they
1:01:41
Speaker 1: did employ people in the service of bilking the government.
1:01:46
Speaker 1: Bilking tax bars honest graft in quotation, maybe a bigger
1:01:53
Speaker 1: scandal than outright fraud. America is all you can eat
1:01:58
Speaker 1: buffet of health and social benefits. Sixteen different federal food programs, Medicaid,
1:02:06
Speaker 1: housing support, childcare, and more provides abundant opportunities for milking
1:02:14
Speaker 1: the government. Looking up further than California, where a vast
1:02:18
Speaker 1: welfare industrial complex has developed around homelessness, drug addiction, and
1:02:24
Speaker 1: left wing identity politics, the Golden State added roughly one
1:02:28
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight thousand jobs in social assistance between
1:02:32
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty three and June twenty twenty five, yet
1:02:35
Speaker 1: only four nine hundred private sector jobs in Toto. During
1:02:40
Speaker 1: this period, some one hundred and fifty three thousand, one
1:02:44
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three thousand new establishments were created in
1:02:48
Speaker 1: social assistance stony. In two years, one hundred and fifty
1:02:53
Speaker 1: three thousand new establishments were created in social assistance. Every vagrant,
1:03:02
Speaker 1: drug addicts and confused young people needs a social worker
1:03:07
Speaker 1: and community support. Governor Gavin Newsom's Elevated Youth California Initiative
1:03:13
Speaker 1: claims to adjust Substance Abuse disorder by quote by investing
1:03:18
Speaker 1: in leadership development and civic engagement for youth of color
1:03:22
Speaker 1: and two s LGBTQIA plus youth age sixty to twenty
1:03:27
Speaker 1: six living in communities disproportionately impacted by the Warren drugs
1:03:32
Speaker 1: end quote. Grants are funded by taxes and marijuana. Now,
1:03:38
Speaker 1: of course, you know, maybe young people wouldn't be struggling
1:03:41
Speaker 1: with all this if they actually got a decent education
1:03:45
Speaker 1: that actually helped them get a job. Or maybe they
1:03:53
Speaker 1: get a job if California didn't have sky high minimum
1:03:56
Speaker 1: wage laws that basically excluded them from the workplace. I
1:04:04
Speaker 1: continue with an article what are these youth alreay in
1:04:07
Speaker 1: and outfits do with the state money they receive. The
1:04:10
Speaker 1: nonprofit Brothers of Elders Network instructs quote system impacted black
1:04:16
Speaker 1: youth in what it calls the Art of Being a
1:04:19
Speaker 1: Black Man. Its curriculum explores African culture through rhyme, song
1:04:24
Speaker 1: and dance your taxpayer money. Another nonprofit, Asian Refugee United,
1:04:31
Speaker 1: sponsors weekly Queer Youth Art Storytellers programming, which combines youth mentorship,
1:04:37
Speaker 1: leadership development, and creative skill building unquote to reduce substance
1:04:41
Speaker 1: of use. And you can go on and on and
1:04:44
Speaker 1: on about this, right well, spay you a long recitation
1:04:50
Speaker 1: of other examples in the news of splashing around money
1:04:53
Speaker 1: to left wing groups, which can be found on the
1:04:55
Speaker 1: state's website. You can find the same thing on every
1:04:58
Speaker 1: stag's website, including red States. They just splash it in
1:05:01
Speaker 1: different directions. It's possible that work by some giant recipients
1:05:07
Speaker 1: is reducing recidivism, homelessness, and substance reduced, but it's impossible
1:05:13
Speaker 1: to note because the state doesn't measure such outcomes. The
1:05:16
Speaker 1: goal of the warfare industrial complex isn't to ameliorate social
1:05:20
Speaker 1: programs problems, but to extract money from the government. Social workers,
1:05:26
Speaker 1: employed by a nonprofit funded by hospitals and health insurance,
1:05:30
Speaker 1: spent recent weeks searching for undocumented immigrants to sign up
1:05:34
Speaker 1: a Medicaid for for Medicaid before deadline that would make
1:05:38
Speaker 1: them ineligible. A story in Atlantic this fall described how
1:05:43
Speaker 1: drag addicts and mentally ill have been cycling in and
1:05:47
Speaker 1: out of California hospitals. Every emergency room visit, typically covered
1:05:51
Speaker 1: by Medicaid, means more money for the hospitals. It's no
1:05:55
Speaker 1: coincidence that hospitals are the law loudest opponents of Medicaid
1:06:00
Speaker 1: mediciate reforms. California's Medicaid spending, which pays for Native American exoricisms,
1:06:07
Speaker 1: music lessons, cooking classes, and many other non medical services,
1:06:10
Speaker 1: has ballooned by nearly fifty percent over the last two years.
1:06:17
Speaker 1: It's just so you know, the bottom line is the
1:06:22
Speaker 1: welfare state is going to be inherently corrupt. The government
1:06:26
Speaker 1: has massive quantities of money that it gets by taxing
1:06:30
Speaker 1: us or by borrowing, and it can't It has so
1:06:36
Speaker 1: many programs at the federal level, and then it has
1:06:40
Speaker 1: so many programs at the state level, and it can't
1:06:45
Speaker 1: employ enough people to actually do the work. It relies
1:06:50
Speaker 1: on nonprofits and for profit businesses to do the work
1:06:53
Speaker 1: for it. That creates enormous incentives to gain the system.
1:07:00
Speaker 1: The welfare state is inherently corrupt, using some people's money
1:07:05
Speaker 1: to help out other people's money other people, based on
1:07:09
Speaker 1: the value systems of the people in between of the
1:07:12
Speaker 1: bureaucrats applying the program. If the bureaucrats are red, then
1:07:16
Speaker 1: red programs they get conservative stuff. If they're blue, they
1:07:20
Speaker 1: get these crazy left wing stuff. The reality is that
1:07:30
Speaker 1: there's so much money slushing around in government, federal and
1:07:35
Speaker 1: state that a few billionaire, a few billionaire that somebody
1:07:41
Speaker 1: missed places, who's going to even notice, and who's going
1:07:46
Speaker 1: to care? Nobody cares. Nobody cares. The corruption is endemic.
1:07:55
Speaker 1: It's endemic in the very system. It's endemic in a
1:07:58
Speaker 1: very system that redistributes wealth. In any system. To redistribute
1:08:01
Speaker 1: wealth at a scale that we have seen redistribution in
1:08:04
Speaker 1: the United States, and one of the differences between the
1:08:07
Speaker 1: US and Europe is that we have created an unbelievably
1:08:12
Speaker 1: inefficient mechanism to redistribute the wealth. Again, we've got multiple
1:08:18
Speaker 1: food programs and medicaid and this caid and that CAD
1:08:21
Speaker 1: and that program and this program, a million different programs
1:08:24
Speaker 1: as always at one hundred and fifty eight thousand entities
1:08:28
Speaker 1: to redistribute this wealth created just in California over two years.
1:08:35
Speaker 1: Who could even keep track of one hundred and fifty
1:08:37
Speaker 1: two thousand entities, what they're doing, how they're spending the
1:08:39
Speaker 1: money where they should have any money. Europe, for better
1:08:47
Speaker 1: or for worse, is much more efficient in its wealth ested. So,
1:08:55
Speaker 1: you know, just more data on the sheer corruption of
1:08:59
Speaker 1: the whole system. Nobody will challenge that. Nobody will challenge
1:09:02
Speaker 1: the nature of the office, the EMO rally of taking
1:09:05
Speaker 1: someone giving to others and then determining the standards of
1:09:07
Speaker 1: who to give and who not to give, and how
1:09:09
Speaker 1: corrupt that has to be. But I found, you know,
1:09:17
Speaker 1: researching this, I found this funny video. I mean, it's
1:09:19
Speaker 1: not meant to be funny, so don't laugh, but it's hysterical. Uh.
1:09:24
Speaker 1: And and I have to show to you, Uh. This
1:09:26
Speaker 1: is a video of Chad Mills, Kurt Mills, sorry Kurt Mills,
1:09:30
Speaker 1: Kurt Mills talking about the the Somalia, you know, the
1:09:37
Speaker 1: the the welfare corruption in Minneapolis and Minnesota and figuring
1:09:43
Speaker 1: out who's really at fault, what what, what's really what's
1:09:46
Speaker 1: driving this? Why? Why? Why is the rights so focused
1:09:49
Speaker 1: on the Somalis? He is the what is he? He's
1:09:53
Speaker 1: the executive director of the American Conservative in Washington, d C.
1:10:00
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's worked as senior a port and
1:10:02
Speaker 1: could you be the editor to the American Conservative. So
1:10:05
Speaker 1: he is, you know, he's he's definitely part of the right, right,
1:10:10
Speaker 1: the right. He's got a very long list of very
1:10:13
Speaker 1: prestigious publications he's published at. And yeah, anyway, let's listen
1:10:21
Speaker 1: to Chad to Kot Mills. I don't know why I'm
1:10:24
Speaker 1: going to Chad court Mills, Jack, Jack, how did you
1:10:28
Speaker 1: get it right? Listen to this American Conservative. It's just like, okay,
1:10:34
Speaker 1: I think I even appeared in the American Conservative.
1:10:36
Speaker 2: Once minimize it. But I mean, Israel is actually mold
1:10:39
Speaker 2: in the Somali thing. I mean, Israel has taken aside
1:10:42
Speaker 2: in the Somali Civil War, they recognize Somali land. And
1:10:46
Speaker 2: again not to excuse that any of the fraud that
1:10:48
Speaker 2: is doubtless going on in some of these inner cities,
1:10:51
Speaker 2: but the reason why Somalia is so in the mainstream
1:10:55
Speaker 2: of sort of American media right now. Is that I think, frankly,
1:10:57
Speaker 2: the Israeli lobby wants to push it, and it wants
1:11:00
Speaker 2: to radicalize people on this issue to distract from the
1:11:04
Speaker 2: larger macro issue of the Israel lobby in the United
1:11:07
Speaker 2: States driving foreign policy on this discrete issue. And when
1:11:11
Speaker 2: I say discrete, it's this specific issue Iran. But I
1:11:14
Speaker 2: think if they get what they want on Iran, they're
1:11:16
Speaker 2: gonna widen it. They're going to widen it to TURKEYA,
1:11:19
Speaker 2: they might even widen it to Saudi the way that
1:11:21
Speaker 2: you hear people talking about the region these days, and
1:11:23
Speaker 2: it will never really stop. And I think the idea
1:11:26
Speaker 2: that this is separate from the process that went on
1:11:29
Speaker 2: in the global War on Terror, the process that Donald
1:11:32
Speaker 2: Trump won the presidency rejecting in twenty sixteen and again
1:11:36
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. The idea that this is separate,
1:11:39
Speaker 2: I think is pretty laughable. Benjamin net Yaho's had a
1:11:41
Speaker 2: long career. He's been the most important Israeli politician since
1:11:45
Speaker 2: the death of the founding generation in Israel, and his
1:11:48
Speaker 2: greater project has been.
1:11:50
Speaker 1: Remaking the Middle East with the American Force of Arms. So,
1:11:53
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to give the guy credit. He
1:11:56
Speaker 1: just integrated. Flawed, is Somaya Why we can't so much
1:12:00
Speaker 1: about that? Two, it's the Jews.
1:12:06
Speaker 2: You know.
1:12:06
Speaker 1: The reason Surmaia is important is because the Jews are
1:12:10
Speaker 1: trying to remake the Middle least, and they're not going
1:12:12
Speaker 1: to stop there. They want to remake the world because
1:12:13
Speaker 1: ultimately they want to control the world. They are controlling
1:12:16
Speaker 1: the world though they want to, they don't have, you know,
1:12:19
Speaker 1: they want to use American power in order to make
1:12:21
Speaker 1: sure that the world is controlled by them. That is
1:12:24
Speaker 1: Natanielle's ambition. So it's is, it's Natannielle is those behind us.
1:12:40
Speaker 1: You cannot make this up. You cannot make this up.
1:12:44
Speaker 1: It really is, uh, you know, pretty astounding and uh
1:12:51
Speaker 1: and spooky that people like this are considered credible, credible
1:12:57
Speaker 1: members within kind of the the call it the conservative
1:13:00
Speaker 1: community at large, and that they have positions and they
1:13:04
Speaker 1: publish articles and they're just treated seriously right, and and
1:13:08
Speaker 1: you can't make it up. The reason we're so focused
1:13:12
Speaker 1: on the Somalis as doing the fauday in Minneapolis is
1:13:16
Speaker 1: because of the Jews, specifically the Zionists or the Israelis.
1:13:20
Speaker 1: But but who want to take over the world, and
1:13:23
Speaker 1: and uh driving Trump to help them take over? Well,
1:13:28
Speaker 1: first they want to remake them at least, and then
1:13:29
Speaker 1: they want to remake the world. It's why you know, Maduro,
1:13:33
Speaker 1: It's why you know everything everything everything is the Jews.
1:13:38
Speaker 1: All right, Far more positive story today. I did read
1:13:42
Speaker 1: there's a big story, a long story in the in
1:13:44
Speaker 1: the wall set journal and coverage. You to check this
1:13:46
Speaker 1: out about AI in hospitals. Hospitals are probably the other
1:13:53
Speaker 1: than programming, probably uh, the the area in which AI
1:13:58
Speaker 1: is being adopted the fastest right now. They're being across
1:14:01
Speaker 1: the board in a variety of different medical applications and
1:14:05
Speaker 1: hospital applications. It's it's quite exciting anyway, from helping radiologists
1:14:11
Speaker 1: as we know, make diagnosis and and and doctors are
1:14:14
Speaker 1: using them to basically reduce the time. It's not that
1:14:19
Speaker 1: the AI is left alone. It's that the the you know,
1:14:23
Speaker 1: the AI and the doctor two pairs of eyes in
1:14:26
Speaker 1: a sense, are reviewing anything. And uh, you know, it's
1:14:30
Speaker 1: cutting doctor's time to by half in terms of reviewing
1:14:36
Speaker 1: and writing up reports on these cases, which means they
1:14:39
Speaker 1: can review many, many more let's say MRI scans uh,
1:14:44
Speaker 1: you know, per day than they were before double really
1:14:47
Speaker 1: and which means they catch they they catch stuff earlier.
1:14:54
Speaker 1: And uh. And if AI AI is is an additional
1:14:59
Speaker 1: quote not really I, but AI in for some cancers
1:15:03
Speaker 1: is much better than a radiologist. So they're catching more uh.
1:15:07
Speaker 1: And so this is a huge benefit. It's it's not
1:15:11
Speaker 1: at the point because AI does make mistakes, and mistakes
1:15:15
Speaker 1: are being identified by the doctors. AI is not about
1:15:18
Speaker 1: it's not about letting go. It's just about increasing productivity,
1:15:23
Speaker 1: reducing time and improvements. Now, AI does stuff like that,
1:15:27
Speaker 1: but it's also does more mundane things like do insurance claims,
1:15:31
Speaker 1: streamline insurance claims, which are incredibly bureaucratic and take a
1:15:35
Speaker 1: lot of time in hospitals, and fewer errors are made
1:15:39
Speaker 1: when the AI does and as a consequence, more claims
1:15:42
Speaker 1: are approved, fewer claims are you know, are turned down
1:15:46
Speaker 1: by insurance. Uh. Hospitals are eager to implement more and
1:15:52
Speaker 1: more AI in the hospitals because they're being squeezed. Medicaid,
1:15:57
Speaker 1: you know, is cutting costs and the government is the
1:16:01
Speaker 1: biggest provider funds to hospitals, and that we know that
1:16:06
Speaker 1: in the future, Medicare will cut Hospitals need to cut
1:16:09
Speaker 1: costs and need to become more efficient, and the way
1:16:11
Speaker 1: they're doing that is they're turning to AI accounting payment systems.
1:16:20
Speaker 1: Then transcription doctors are no longer typing into computer at
1:16:26
Speaker 1: the end of the day. The computer can listen to
1:16:28
Speaker 1: the conversation the doctor has with the patient and then
1:16:31
Speaker 1: type up the reporte themselves or the doctor just dictates
1:16:33
Speaker 1: it into the machine. And vocial cognition is so good
1:16:37
Speaker 1: now that it just types it all up and it
1:16:39
Speaker 1: gets it ready. That is saving doctor's huge amount of
1:16:41
Speaker 1: time on the things that they hate doing and on
1:16:43
Speaker 1: the things that they're not particularly have a competitive advantage
1:16:47
Speaker 1: in doing, and it's not a good use of their
1:16:49
Speaker 1: skill set to do now. It's not always it doesn't
1:16:55
Speaker 1: always work. I mean, there are examples in which doctors
1:17:00
Speaker 1: check with AI about treatments and diagnosis and AI sometimes
1:17:07
Speaker 1: gives them citations that are made up that are not real.
1:17:12
Speaker 1: So AI still hallucinates. But again it's a great resource
1:17:17
Speaker 1: because you can check those citations and more often than
1:17:22
Speaker 1: not the citations are real and advice is good and
1:17:25
Speaker 1: it's a good first step. It doesn't take the mind
1:17:28
Speaker 1: of the doctor out. But it is certainly increasing his
1:17:33
Speaker 1: capacity to deal with many, many things at the same time,
1:17:36
Speaker 1: and it's a shortcut for them. It's a shortcut for them. Now. Again,
1:17:42
Speaker 1: in all of these things, none of it is perfect, right,
1:17:46
Speaker 1: it's all still very early. AI is very early, but
1:17:49
Speaker 1: it's an indication of what is possible, what is possible,
1:17:53
Speaker 1: and it is certainly possible that AI. I mean what's
1:18:00
Speaker 1: possible is that AI will do more and more. It'll
1:18:03
Speaker 1: save doctors more and more time. You're not going to
1:18:05
Speaker 1: get rid of doctors. You might get to be able
1:18:09
Speaker 1: to get rid of some of the support staff, but
1:18:10
Speaker 1: you won't be able to get rid of doctors. But
1:18:13
Speaker 1: it will make doctors incredibly more productive to the extent
1:18:16
Speaker 1: that it works well. And it's mixed right now, more
1:18:23
Speaker 1: positive than negative, but still mixed. But it is clearly
1:18:27
Speaker 1: only going to get better now. One of the disadvantages
1:18:36
Speaker 1: is doctors who start relying on AI for certain procedures
1:18:42
Speaker 1: lose when they stop using AI. Let's say they stop
1:18:46
Speaker 1: using the AI, then they lose the capacity, that is,
1:18:49
Speaker 1: they're not as good after the fact. That is the
1:18:52
Speaker 1: the the automatization of being able to identify, for example,
1:18:57
Speaker 1: in a colonoscopy the polyps or the or the or
1:19:00
Speaker 1: the growths. That automatization is gone because you've become reliant
1:19:04
Speaker 1: on the AI. So there is there is that, and
1:19:07
Speaker 1: doctors are saying what they're doing is again they're using
1:19:10
Speaker 1: AI to double check as a second as a second source,
1:19:14
Speaker 1: not to replace them. So there's an October study in
1:19:18
Speaker 1: Landscent that found the physicians who used AI for three
1:19:22
Speaker 1: months to aid them in spotting growths during colonoscopies, we're
1:19:26
Speaker 1: able to detect significantly fewer such growth once the tool
1:19:30
Speaker 1: was taken away. So what do they do? They they
1:19:36
Speaker 1: use it to enhance, not to replace. Here's one doctor
1:19:41
Speaker 1: who says, anytime I outsooce my thoughts to something that
1:19:45
Speaker 1: is in my own brain, I'm worried I'm going to
1:19:48
Speaker 1: lose that muscle memory. And he's absolutely right. It's absolutely right.
1:19:53
Speaker 1: So you don't want to lose the muscle memory, but
1:19:55
Speaker 1: you also want to use the tech. So the relationship
1:19:59
Speaker 1: between the doctor then AI, it's going to be really
1:20:02
Speaker 1: interesting to see how that evolves and how that develops.
1:20:05
Speaker 1: So all of this is exciting and and good, even
1:20:11
Speaker 1: if you'll hear some horr stories and bad outcomes and
1:20:14
Speaker 1: bad things will happen. That's just the nature of adopting
1:20:17
Speaker 1: a new technology. But you know, it's only going to
1:20:21
Speaker 1: get better. And these data centers that are being built
1:20:23
Speaker 1: are a part of the process of getting this better,
1:20:27
Speaker 1: and you're going to see more efficient hospitals, more efficient doctors,
1:20:32
Speaker 1: doctors using these tools to enhance what they are actually doing.
1:20:38
Speaker 1: Colleen is here on the chat, which is great Colleen Smith,
1:20:41
Speaker 1: because Colleen is an emergency room doctor who uh who knows,
1:20:49
Speaker 1: you know, she's she's at the forefront of using these tools.
1:20:53
Speaker 1: So here's somebody in the chat actually contributing valuable influence,
1:20:58
Speaker 1: valuable influence with this suspect. I can't read everything she's written.
1:21:02
Speaker 1: It's going by too fast, but yeah, you guys should
1:21:06
Speaker 1: read it and pay attention. I think Colleen is going
1:21:10
Speaker 1: to be on the Colleena you coming on the show
1:21:12
Speaker 1: in a week or two weeks so something. I think
1:21:16
Speaker 1: we can have some doctors on the show to talk
1:21:19
Speaker 1: about healthcare in the United States soon, and Colleen might be.
1:21:24
Speaker 1: She says she's not sure. I guess she's not sure.
1:21:26
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We're not sure. Exactly. But hopefully we'll
1:21:30
Speaker 1: have her on soon to talk and we can talk
1:21:33
Speaker 1: about this as well. So since Colledi is here, let's
1:21:35
Speaker 1: talk about The Pits. I'm really curious what she thinks
1:21:38
Speaker 1: of it. You know, what I think of it as
1:21:39
Speaker 1: really irrelevant is not that irrelevant what she thinks of
1:21:42
Speaker 1: it as somebody who actually has practiced exactly this kind
1:21:45
Speaker 1: of medicine. So The Pit is a show on HBO
1:21:50
Speaker 1: on HBO Max it is. The season two is just
1:21:54
Speaker 1: about to come out January sixth I've been watching season one.
1:21:58
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know two thirds of the way in. Uh,
1:22:02
Speaker 1: and look, this is not a show for everybody. It is.
1:22:08
Speaker 1: It is hyper realistic. It is it can be very upsetting.
1:22:16
Speaker 1: The stuff that happens there is is uh really tough,
1:22:24
Speaker 1: really difficult, Uh you know, real but really really difficult.
1:22:30
Speaker 1: It's done very naturalistically. You're going to see you know,
1:22:34
Speaker 1: body organs and bones sticking out, all kinds of stuff
1:22:37
Speaker 1: that maybe you don't want to see a lot of blood.
1:22:42
Speaker 1: But and it's I find myself I'm completely engrossed and
1:22:47
Speaker 1: yet super stressed, like this is this is a show
1:22:53
Speaker 1: where I'm I'm I'm you know, really really stressed out
1:22:57
Speaker 1: by it. And the reason I'm stressed out by it
1:23:03
Speaker 1: is because of the intensity of it. So the way
1:23:07
Speaker 1: the show goes is every episode is one hour in
1:23:11
Speaker 1: real time. So it's you remember the show twenty four,
1:23:16
Speaker 1: you know, with I forget the character's name who goes
1:23:19
Speaker 1: around killing terrorists, and every hour is an hour, and
1:23:22
Speaker 1: it goes they're twenty four episodes here, they're not twenty
1:23:24
Speaker 1: four because the time in the emergency room. Doctors don't
1:23:30
Speaker 1: stay for twenty four hours. It's a short shift fifteen fourteen,
1:23:34
Speaker 1: fifteen hours. Anyway, they're that many episodes. It was Jack Bauer,
1:23:37
Speaker 1: that's right, And so every episode is one hour like
1:23:40
Speaker 1: the show twenty four, and it's super intense because you
1:23:43
Speaker 1: constantly get patients are coming in, the doctors are running around,
1:23:45
Speaker 1: they're going between the patients, cutting from patient to patient.
1:23:49
Speaker 1: You've got a number of different doctors, a number of
1:23:50
Speaker 1: the gnosis and you're following all this and god, you can't.
1:23:55
Speaker 1: It's intense. The thing that blows me away about the
1:23:59
Speaker 1: sh show and it blows me away about what Colleen does.
1:24:04
Speaker 1: Colleens as a representative, how do they do it? I mean,
1:24:13
Speaker 1: these doctors are real heroes and amazing heroes and the
1:24:22
Speaker 1: capacity to hold their knowledge, to know when to apply it,
1:24:28
Speaker 1: to hold context. I mean the chief, the guy who's
1:24:32
Speaker 1: in charge of them. I mean he's going around literally
1:24:36
Speaker 1: in some cases doing proceigures because he's the only one
1:24:38
Speaker 1: who knows how to do it or something specially right
1:24:40
Speaker 1: doing procedures. He's in and almost on most of the
1:24:43
Speaker 1: consultations in terms of approving the treatment and not approving
1:24:46
Speaker 1: the treatment, say no. He has to be up to
1:24:48
Speaker 1: speed on all these different areas of medicine and know
1:24:51
Speaker 1: what the treatment should be. And then he's got patients
1:24:55
Speaker 1: who die and he has to console the relatives and
1:24:59
Speaker 1: deal with their relatives try to convince him to organ
1:25:01
Speaker 1: you know, to allow for organ organ transplation transplants. Uh,
1:25:07
Speaker 1: you know. One of the one of the things is
1:25:10
Speaker 1: a kid, eighteen year old, good kid, college student, overdoses
1:25:14
Speaker 1: in fentanol because he's taken xanax, which is lacial fentanyl,
1:25:17
Speaker 1: and the overdoses and he's died, and he has to
1:25:20
Speaker 1: he has to tell the parents that he's brain dread
1:25:24
Speaker 1: brain dead, and he has to do that at the
1:25:26
Speaker 1: same time he's rushing over and try to save somebody's life,
1:25:29
Speaker 1: and just the intensity of it, the fact that they
1:25:32
Speaker 1: go through twelve hour shifts where it's non stop and
1:25:40
Speaker 1: you know, the the again, the knowledge that has to
1:25:43
Speaker 1: go into that, the intensity, the ability to switch and
1:25:48
Speaker 1: to do different things and to and to change and too,
1:25:51
Speaker 1: and it's it's stunning. It just is stunning. So, uh,
1:25:56
Speaker 1: you know, these are real life, every day heroes. You know,
1:26:02
Speaker 1: very few human beings could do it. I really think
1:26:05
Speaker 1: that very few human beings can do this job. I mean,
1:26:09
Speaker 1: it's difficult enough to be a doctor and deal just
1:26:13
Speaker 1: in a in an irregular ward and irregular circumstances, dealing
1:26:21
Speaker 1: with disease and death and strange cases and new knowledge
1:26:26
Speaker 1: and new techniques and new informy and constantly being up
1:26:29
Speaker 1: to speed and constantly and being good at it and
1:26:31
Speaker 1: bedside matter and and all of that. But at least
1:26:36
Speaker 1: the pace they generally is relatively moderate. But the pace
1:26:44
Speaker 1: that emergency room doctors have to deal with it is
1:26:50
Speaker 1: just it is just unbelievable. And of course they also
1:26:55
Speaker 1: have to deal with a bureaucracy at the hospital putting
1:26:57
Speaker 1: pressure on them. At the pitch shows us. They have
1:26:59
Speaker 1: to their customer satisfaction and to improve this number and
1:27:02
Speaker 1: that number, and all these other things. There's constantly pressure,
1:27:06
Speaker 1: and you know, Medicare and Medicaid and insurance companies and
1:27:09
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I mean, my level of it, I mean,
1:27:13
Speaker 1: my dad was a doctor, so I'm already pretty awestruck
1:27:17
Speaker 1: by doctors broadly, but my level of admiration for emergency
1:27:25
Speaker 1: room doctors, it has just gone through the roof watching
1:27:29
Speaker 1: the pit. It's just I mean, I always knew this,
1:27:33
Speaker 1: I always knew this, But this is the power of art.
1:27:35
Speaker 1: The power of art is to make it real for you.
1:27:38
Speaker 1: It conquitizes it for you. I guess if I went
1:27:41
Speaker 1: into an emergency room and and just walked around, not
1:27:44
Speaker 1: went in as a patient, but walked around as saw
1:27:46
Speaker 1: what was going on, I could get something very similar.
1:27:48
Speaker 1: And again, the pit is very naturalistic. It's it's not
1:27:52
Speaker 1: you know, it's not romanticizing anything, but art comcatizes it
1:27:59
Speaker 1: with an intensity that is just striking. And uh, you know,
1:28:05
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm impressed. I'm hugely impressed and hugely thankful.
1:28:11
Speaker 1: I keep thinking, what if that was me? I mean,
1:28:15
Speaker 1: if I've been to an emergency room, I have, I've
1:28:18
Speaker 1: been to emergency rooms a few times in my life.
1:28:21
Speaker 1: I I've with my kids and with me, so I've
1:28:26
Speaker 1: been in emergency room situations. But when you're the patient,
1:28:30
Speaker 1: it kind of all goes by very fast, and you've
1:28:32
Speaker 1: you're really focused on you. You're not focused on the
1:28:34
Speaker 1: doctor or what they're doing or what's going on. And
1:28:38
Speaker 1: but yeah, anyway, blown away, Colleen, you're a hero. I
1:28:44
Speaker 1: find it amazing and you, guys should should just just
1:28:50
Speaker 1: stop a minute to think about the lives that are
1:28:52
Speaker 1: saved and your life might be saved one day, and
1:28:56
Speaker 1: just appreciate doctors. Doctors are amazing, amazing, and particularly right
1:29:01
Speaker 1: now when uh, you know, attitude towards experts, particularly medical
1:29:06
Speaker 1: experts that is an all time low among certain parts
1:29:10
Speaker 1: of the population where science and medicine and and is
1:29:15
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1:29:19
Speaker 1: guys do and how many lives they save and how
1:29:22
Speaker 1: how they save them, and and and the complexity and
1:29:25
Speaker 1: the intensity, it's it's it's it's it's good for the
1:29:30
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1:29:34
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1:29:36
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Speaker 1: for you to still deal with people and realize that
1:37:14
Speaker 1: anytime you deal with these people, it is doing harm.
1:37:17
Speaker 1: The question is you have to make the evaluation of
1:37:20
Speaker 1: how bad is that hamp and what you know, how bad?
1:37:24
Speaker 1: How bad is it h and other options? What is
1:37:29
Speaker 1: the cost of those options? Shasbut maybe after failing to
1:37:34
Speaker 1: win the Peace Prize, Trump is going for the Noble
1:37:37
Speaker 1: Violence Prize. There isn't one. If there was, there would
1:37:40
Speaker 1: be you know you mean by then, I mean that
1:37:44
Speaker 1: he invaded Venezuela out of spite. You know, it was planning.
1:37:49
Speaker 1: It was planning for a long time. I didn't think
1:37:52
Speaker 1: there was some spite in it. Making peace all over
1:37:55
Speaker 1: the world didn't get him a prize. Maybe this will
1:37:57
Speaker 1: get him a prize. I don't know. Nothing, nothing positive
1:38:02
Speaker 1: I don't think really motivated him. Maybe some of the
1:38:05
Speaker 1: people around him were motivated by more positive things. I think,
1:38:09
Speaker 1: I do think. I'm not sure that Rubio thinks that
1:38:12
Speaker 1: he can bring about political change in Venezuela. For the better.
1:38:15
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced of that, but I don't think Donald
1:38:20
Speaker 1: Trump cares. Yeah, it is funny that the Nobel was
1:38:25
Speaker 1: the inventor of dynamite, so Nobel was responsible quite a
1:38:28
Speaker 1: bit of violence, quite a bit of violence, optimum. You
1:38:35
Speaker 1: captured my emotion perfectly when you said the fact Trump
1:38:39
Speaker 1: is being is doing a takeover of Venezuela, that makes
1:38:41
Speaker 1: it bad. It's not just TDS. The man is a
1:38:45
Speaker 1: nut job and anything that gives him power has to
1:38:49
Speaker 1: be seen in that context. Yeah. I think that's right.
1:38:52
Speaker 1: I think that's right. Even if the proximate outcome might
1:38:55
Speaker 1: be positive. You know, the if he successful in a sense,
1:39:01
Speaker 1: it's dangerous because that gives him the confidence to do
1:39:05
Speaker 1: more stuff that could be incredibly damaging. I mean, he
1:39:08
Speaker 1: might decide to take Greenland because he's been so successful
1:39:13
Speaker 1: at Venezuela if he thinks he's successful. Colleen, if Trump
1:39:20
Speaker 1: did initiate military exercise or annexation against Greenland, Denmark, do
1:39:24
Speaker 1: you think any country organization would actually do anything, Not militarily,
1:39:29
Speaker 1: but I do think they would do something diplomatically, economically,
1:39:36
Speaker 1: and potentially even the closing of US military bases in
1:39:41
Speaker 1: certain countries in Europe. If this happened now, Europe isn't
1:39:47
Speaker 1: a bind because they're not yet in a position to
1:39:50
Speaker 1: defend themselves, or they don't think they are. Anyway, this
1:39:53
Speaker 1: will have to This will accelerate them basically establishing European
1:40:01
Speaker 1: Security League that is independent of the United States. I
1:40:06
Speaker 1: think that accelerates that. I don't think it's necessarily a
1:40:08
Speaker 1: healthy thing. They'll definitely do some things. They won't militarily,
1:40:13
Speaker 1: they won't be a shot fire, but it'll be terrible
1:40:18
Speaker 1: for the relationship between the United States and Europe. Thank you,
1:40:25
Speaker 1: Colleen Jasper, Happy New Year you on I missed the
1:40:30
Speaker 1: Year in Review show, but here's a late contribution. I
1:40:33
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you, Jessper, really appreciate it. Victim from
1:40:38
Speaker 1: India on air ri's fortieth anniversary show. I heard tell
1:40:42
Speaker 1: say that India is on the list of places and
1:40:45
Speaker 1: objectivest event this year. Can you put me in touch
1:40:48
Speaker 1: with the organizers? Would love to know and help. I
1:40:51
Speaker 1: think Telar was being aspirational, that is, the aspires to
1:40:56
Speaker 1: have an event in India. I don't know that there's
1:40:59
Speaker 1: anything being planned right now, the anything concrete. If there is,
1:41:04
Speaker 1: I'll definitely announce it on the show because I know
1:41:06
Speaker 1: a number of people from India listen to the show.
1:41:09
Speaker 1: I'll give you information on the show, but there's nothing
1:41:13
Speaker 1: concrete right now, and I don't think there's any specific
1:41:16
Speaker 1: organization or a person in India that is working on it.
1:41:21
Speaker 1: But I'll check and if there is, I'll make an
1:41:23
Speaker 1: announcement on the show. All right, Michael, Michael is like,
1:41:29
Speaker 1: Michael has quite a few questions. Good, all right, Michael.
1:41:34
Speaker 1: Trump is a bully and he's making America reflect you.
1:41:37
Speaker 1: He is. Yeah, I mean absolutely us is acting like
1:41:42
Speaker 1: a bully, talking like a bully. I mean to the
1:41:44
Speaker 1: extent that he represents us. And look, he's the reason
1:41:48
Speaker 1: I should upset you is it's not Trump talking acting
1:41:52
Speaker 1: as an individual. It's Trump talking and acting on your behalf.
1:41:56
Speaker 1: Whether you like it or not, I know you don't
1:41:58
Speaker 1: like to think of those terms, but the reality is
1:42:01
Speaker 1: the reality is that the President of the United States
1:42:05
Speaker 1: represents you. He speaks on your behalf, and as such,
1:42:14
Speaker 1: he is presenting you as a as a bully, as
1:42:17
Speaker 1: a thug. All Right, I just made I just gifted
1:42:22
Speaker 1: five memberships. We will have a member's only show on Sunday.
1:42:30
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1:42:35
Speaker 1: you can buy a membership just by the minimum level
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1:42:41
Speaker 1: selfishness without a Self, which is an essay in h
1:42:48
Speaker 1: philosophy Who Needs It? Philosophy, Who needs It? Selfishness without
1:42:53
Speaker 1: a self? So yeah, it's gonna be that. It'll be
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1:43:00
Speaker 1: membership and uh and then read the read the read
1:43:03
Speaker 1: the essay. It's a short essay, very short and very valuable,
1:43:07
Speaker 1: particularly these days. Is Trump this is Michael? Is Trump
1:43:11
Speaker 1: a man who turned power into theater? Well, I think
1:43:15
Speaker 1: most dictators turn power into theater because part of their
1:43:19
Speaker 1: sustaining of the power is through theater. So you have
1:43:24
Speaker 1: to say that, you know, ma had Mao had a
1:43:27
Speaker 1: certain theater around him, and I mean Madua did and Shavez.
1:43:31
Speaker 1: There's a lot of theater there, and as the Hitler
1:43:33
Speaker 1: and Stalin, So I think it goes with the territory.
1:43:36
Speaker 1: I don't think it's unique to Trump. Michael again, is
1:43:41
Speaker 1: it immodel to lie to a dementia patient? Since by lying,
1:43:45
Speaker 1: you're not preventing them from engaging in long term action,
1:43:49
Speaker 1: You're simply making them feel better at no cost. Yes,
1:43:53
Speaker 1: I definitely think lying to a dementia patient when it
1:43:57
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt them and and it could help them is
1:44:03
Speaker 1: completely legitimate. Is completely legitimate. You know, context, context, context,
1:44:11
Speaker 1: You have to keep that in mind. There's no duty
1:44:14
Speaker 1: in objectivism not to lie. There's a virtue in objectivism
1:44:21
Speaker 1: being honest, which is different than not lying. And in
1:44:24
Speaker 1: the context of a demansia patient, the only reason to
1:44:30
Speaker 1: interact with them is to make them as comfortable as possible.
1:44:34
Speaker 1: They can't achieve anything, they can't pursue any goals or
1:44:38
Speaker 1: any values. You just want to make the last days
1:44:43
Speaker 1: live as comfortable as possible. And if that involves lying
1:44:47
Speaker 1: in a particular context, then still be it. Thomas, thank you.
1:44:54
Speaker 1: The Mino doctrine is fine as far as it goes.
1:44:57
Speaker 1: But the world is clearly very different from nine eighteen twenty.
1:45:00
Speaker 1: Use interests and defense needs extend far beyond the Western hemisphere,
1:45:03
Speaker 1: such as trade routes and dealing with China and Russia. Yes,
1:45:07
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna product in a sense for a
1:45:09
Speaker 1: power like the United States is the bare minimum. It's
1:45:12
Speaker 1: a starting point of you know, we don't want people
1:45:16
Speaker 1: who are hostile to us messing in our hemisphere, and
1:45:19
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that our interests are protect
1:45:22
Speaker 1: it in our hemisphere. But in a globalized economy and
1:45:26
Speaker 1: with the kind of military force the United States has
1:45:30
Speaker 1: it interests a way beyond just you know, just the
1:45:39
Speaker 1: Western hemisphere, you know, make It has interests in the
1:45:43
Speaker 1: South China Sea because so much of global trade flows
1:45:47
Speaker 1: through it. It has interests in the Red Sea because
1:45:49
Speaker 1: so much of global trade goes through there. So and
1:45:53
Speaker 1: this is why American needs to sustain and maintain a
1:45:56
Speaker 1: large navy to be able to protect those trade routes.
1:45:59
Speaker 1: It has. It had interestingly in the Middle East when
1:46:03
Speaker 1: we didn't have enough domestic oil. Now that we have
1:46:05
Speaker 1: more domestic interests a lesson, but we certainly have interest
1:46:09
Speaker 1: in the Middle East because we want to sustain oil.
1:46:11
Speaker 1: Oil is the sustaining fluid of industrialization and there for civilization.
1:46:21
Speaker 1: So absolutely, thank you, Thomas Cook. Is there something ominous
1:46:27
Speaker 1: about the administration stressing that the Madua move was an
1:46:30
Speaker 1: act of war but military assisting was not. It was
1:46:36
Speaker 1: not an active war, but military assisting law enforcement, given
1:46:40
Speaker 1: the administration's willingness to deploy marines and domestic issues. Yes, now,
1:46:45
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has limited his ability to use at
1:46:49
Speaker 1: least the National Guard, and he's so far he's abiding
1:46:52
Speaker 1: by that. But he will find loopholes to use the
1:46:56
Speaker 1: military for law enforcement. You know, there are provisions that
1:47:01
Speaker 1: are allowing him to do that, and he, I think
1:47:05
Speaker 1: is indicated that he could. This is a gray area
1:47:10
Speaker 1: that Congress will not call him on. I mean, the
1:47:14
Speaker 1: big advantage Trump has is he has a Republican party
1:47:18
Speaker 1: that will do exactly what he wants, will not challenge
1:47:21
Speaker 1: him on anything, and therefore he can get away with anything,
1:47:26
Speaker 1: and Congress will do absolutely nothing. They won't even investigate,
1:47:31
Speaker 1: never mind actually penalizing. If they didn't impeach him for
1:47:34
Speaker 1: January six what will they impeach him for? So if
1:47:39
Speaker 1: you remember the excuse they gave him January sixth, the Republicans,
1:47:41
Speaker 1: what's the point of impeaching him. He's out of office anyway,
1:47:45
Speaker 1: and he's never coming back. Well, he came back. Did
1:47:50
Speaker 1: they learn a lesson from that? No, Paul, What would
1:47:56
Speaker 1: be the political fallout if a duo is acquitted after
1:47:59
Speaker 1: the trial. Oh, I don't know what's the political fallout
1:48:04
Speaker 1: for Trump. It doesn't Everything seems to bounce off of
1:48:07
Speaker 1: him visa via the right, and it left hates him anyway,
1:48:11
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure. I don't know how much of
1:48:13
Speaker 1: a political fall out there will be. Yeah, thank you,
1:48:20
Speaker 1: Paul Gail. All dictators are hoping to be kidnapped by Trump.
1:48:25
Speaker 1: Let's do a deal. Well, I don't know if they
1:48:27
Speaker 1: want to be kidnapped by Trump, but they want to
1:48:29
Speaker 1: do a deal. And Trump is open to doing deals.
1:48:31
Speaker 1: And usually we get the short end of the deal.
1:48:34
Speaker 1: That is, our opponents usually get a better deal than
1:48:36
Speaker 1: he did. Let's see Joseph Kelli, says Trump on one
1:48:45
Speaker 1: six today, Pelosi was off of ten thousand troops. He's
1:48:49
Speaker 1: just lying, straightforward, unequivocally lying. He refused to call the
1:48:55
Speaker 1: National Guard in spite of the fact that his own
1:48:59
Speaker 1: aide encouraged him to do something. He refused to tweet
1:49:03
Speaker 1: out to the demonstrators to stop. And when he did
1:49:06
Speaker 1: tweet out, it was almost an encouragement to them. Hours passed.
1:49:13
Speaker 1: People very close to him encouraged him. I think his
1:49:15
Speaker 1: daughter encouraged him to do something that this was really
1:49:18
Speaker 1: really bad, and he sat there watching it on television
1:49:21
Speaker 1: and enjoying the whole thing. So no, he's just a liar.
1:49:25
Speaker 1: She was offered nothing, and he could have called out
1:49:27
Speaker 1: the National Guard. He didn't need Pelosi. He could have
1:49:30
Speaker 1: just called him out, and he didn't. Michael, the justification
1:49:39
Speaker 1: might makes right the strong have always taken from the week.
1:49:43
Speaker 1: According to philosopher Stephen Miller, the few could have said
1:49:47
Speaker 1: this exact thing before taking student land. Yeah. I mean
1:49:51
Speaker 1: there's definitely every thug, every zero sum personality it believes
1:49:59
Speaker 1: in might makes right. I mean, that's the whole basis
1:50:02
Speaker 1: of their justification for everything. The bully in school thinks
1:50:06
Speaker 1: that might makes him right. He can't deal with you
1:50:10
Speaker 1: on a rational basis. He needs fists. Trump being a thug,
1:50:15
Speaker 1: kind of a muffiosa boss type. Yeah, he's definitely on
1:50:20
Speaker 1: the mic makes right. You know, that's definitely his perspective
1:50:24
Speaker 1: of the world. Call three cheers from modern medicine. George
1:50:28
Speaker 1: Washington would be so jealous. Yeah, I mean, anybody from
1:50:32
Speaker 1: that period would be so jealous. Michaels is still in
1:50:35
Speaker 1: Boston dynamics. You know, I don't know that much about
1:50:39
Speaker 1: Boston Dynamics. I mean, they build robots. They it seems
1:50:45
Speaker 1: like the Chinese are quite far ahead of Boston Dynamics
1:50:49
Speaker 1: in terms of the robots that they're building. But I
1:50:51
Speaker 1: really don't know. Maybe maybe Boston Dynamics builds better robots.
1:50:54
Speaker 1: Maybe I just don't know. I don't know. I'd have
1:50:57
Speaker 1: to look them up. Lucien found ten dollars in the
1:51:02
Speaker 1: ground today paying it forward. Well, I appreciate that, Thank you,
1:51:04
Speaker 1: luci Michael Venezuelo was to stop drugs, or liberate them
1:51:10
Speaker 1: from socialism, or stop oil from going to China. It's
1:51:13
Speaker 1: amazing to watch the arguments manufactured by the National Conservatives. Yeah,
1:51:17
Speaker 1: I mean, and the only one of those that is legitimate,
1:51:21
Speaker 1: somewhat legitimate, and could actually happen is to stop the
1:51:24
Speaker 1: oil from going to China. None of the others are
1:51:26
Speaker 1: going to happen. All the others are completely bogus and
1:51:30
Speaker 1: will not stop. Michael said, no, Kamala would not have
1:51:35
Speaker 1: been worse, not even close. I agree with you, Michael.
1:51:39
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you. I will see you again tomorrow.
1:51:44
Speaker 1: I think at the same time, I think this week
1:51:46
Speaker 1: is pretty much all week. Let me just check because
1:51:49
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I have some meeting or something. Yeah,
1:51:56
Speaker 1: this week, except for Friday. Friday will probably be late. Uh.
1:52:00
Speaker 1: But except for Friday, all the shows will be a
1:52:02
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1:52:05
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1:52:10
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