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That's Armageddon! · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  Well, I was hoping that today would be a, let's get back to
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  normal day. Didn't work out that way, who
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  will break Christmas break was supposed to end yesterday.
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  And it sort of dead took that the schools ended up on a
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  two-hour delay. Because we have bad weather
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  here, snow ice. So instead of going to school at
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  7:00 in the morning, the boys went to school at 9:00 in the
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  morning which kind of screwed up our day because in our other
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  granddaughter who goes Elementary School for buses,
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  Supposed to go at 9:00 and ended up being at 11 and well, then
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  you turn around and you're it's time for me to come home or
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  Wednesday is our what they call early release days to get out of
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  our early anyway. So late, last night, they put
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  the schools on another two-hour delay and then this morning, I
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  thought well okay, I can sleep in a little bit and so I started
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  to sleep in a little bit and then came and woke me up and
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  said, Can you make me breakfast? At 6:30 in the morning, so I
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  didn't get to sleep in and then 15 minutes later, they canceled
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  school for the day. So all the kids are home again,
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  like the Christmas break that never ends.
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  It just keeps going on. And, of course, the weather here
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  is just crap as those of you watching the video can see.
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  It's very cold, it rained all night.
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  So the roads are a little icy in spots, not everywhere, but
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  especially out in the rural areas, pretty bad and the kids
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  are home. I am so ready for Christmas
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  break to be over. I thought I would have time to
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  sit down here and put together some cogent thoughts but
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  obviously that's not going to happen today.
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  We try to get through the rest of the week.
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  But it's been a weird morning. My text machine hasn't stopped
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  dinging every 5 Seconds. And multiple conversations going
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  on with people, particularly the mill surpriser and Bill and Rod
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  others as well. I finally had to turn off the
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  news. I tell you this, normally, I
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  watch the news in the morning. I watch the local news just
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  because it's, you know, it's brain candy.
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  It's just chatter in the background, but it, but every
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  now and then something comes up and, you know, I want to know
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  about it. This morning I finally just had
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  enough of it. I just had to turn it off and
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  I'm literally watching the webcams that I have a program on
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  my my Kindle Fire. That does webcams from around
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  the world called Earth cam earthkam tv.com, I highly
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  recommend it and it just play some music.
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  It takes me around the world. And right now, I'm in San Diego,
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  Believe It or Not few minutes ago, I was in Jackson Hole
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  Wyoming before that, I was in Gibraltar Spain and watching
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  that. So anyway it's just a little
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  more relaxing because this morning.
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  Let's see, what have we seen? Just in headlines this morning.
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  No, that was yesterday. Sorry covid, cases covid, cases,
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  million covid cases. Yesterday, if you know, this and
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  other everybody's having everybody is having a conniption
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  fit about. The fact we had a million covid
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  cases yesterday and for the first time ever, we've reported
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  a million cases in one day. And of course, everybody's
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  wetting themselves over this. of course, the drawback to this is
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  we go back to, I can't believe it's been What was it?
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  March of 2020, we were talking about this.
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  Hey, the more tests you do, the more cases you're going to have.
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  And if you seen I don't know about where you live but here in
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  Washington state. It's this whole testing thing
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  has become a huge issue. Right now, there are lines that
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  are literally hours. People are waiting six, seven
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  eight hours, to get a covid test.
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  And I'm, I think these people are delusional.
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  I don't see any point in doing that, but I guess there must be
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  some motivational factor to get this covid test and I can't
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  think of anything important enough for me to do.
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  That would necessitate me standing in line for six, seven
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  eight hours, to get it covid. Test it covid test, which is
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  almost guaranteed to be positive because The likelihood is, as I
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  said already, I'm 99% certain that I had covid in late
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  January, late December, early January of 2012 to December
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  2019, January 2020. And I did get the first
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  vaccination, so of course it's going to be positive, what a
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  shocker there would be but then they're going to report that as
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  a positive case, I can't imagine anything worth with these lines.
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  We went out the other day, remember, what day?
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  It was a couple of days ago. We went down to get coffee.
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  And as we were driving through Silverdale, Silverdale way,
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  right by the mall, there's a McDonald's.
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  And behind the McDonald's is a Kaiser Permanente.
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  Clinic area, I guess. And they were doing mobile
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  testing and the line was all the way down.
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  Silver do is at least a mile down Silverdale way is
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  ridiculous. It's insane.
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  I don't know why people are doing that.
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  So, that's got people upset. Things that have got me a little
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  on edge this morning. I don't know if you've heard
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  this yet or not, but there's been a major attack on American
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  forces, in Western Iraq this morning, artillery attack and
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  assault. And it's like, how many of you
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  even knew we still had ground troops in Iraq?
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  Well, we do, and they're under attack this morning and it seems
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  Coordinated. Because there's a lot of unrest
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  in the world today. Kazakhstan is going on.
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  You've got the whole thing in Ukraine which is a complete lie,
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  boy. That's you've got, you've got
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  Belarus kind of not allied with but certainly not hindering
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  Russia, and its actions against Ukraine.
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  You've got all these threats from Iran today and yesterday to
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  attack the United States to Ang that General that we killed so
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  forth and so on. And so it's just it seems like
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  all these unconnected dots all over the place but there seems
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  to be some coordination to it which has me a little concerned
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  watching that as well. The middle of all this Chuck
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  Schumer yesterday threatened to Delete and change permanently,
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  change the rules in the United States.
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  Senate to, delete the filibuster.
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  Now, this is a little. This is one of those cases where
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  I think he has the right idea. I personally wouldn't bother me
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  if they deleted the filibuster or the filibuster is one of
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  those things that I'm not sure, I'm not sure it's in the best
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  interest of the people of the United States.
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  However, common or am I certain that the party that's trying to
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  eliminate the filibuster. Is doing so, so that they can
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  get rid of theirs that they can do things in the, in the best
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  interest of the United States. Some years ago, if you recall,
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  Harry Reid killed, the the cloture rule for judicial
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  nominations. Now, the plan here was they were
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  trying to get the DC Circuit Court, judges seated and the
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  Republicans are filibustering this and so they did away with
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  the cloture rule for that and It ended up biting him in the butt
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  because all of a sudden Hillary Clinton didn't win the election
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  and the judicial nominees that no longer needed to the cloture.
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  Rule were Republican nominee. It's kind of bit them in the but
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  I'm not sure that eliminating the filibuster right now for
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  Chuck Schumer would be that great of an idea but they are
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  absolutely determined to get build back better through.
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  And so this is the only way they're going to do it and so
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  he's going to continue to threaten to do this.
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  Now the Problem with that, is that one of the things that is
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  currently being debated in the United States.
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  Senate is a sanction on Russia, not particularly Russia,
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  specifically, but I Russian company that you may or may not
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  have heard of. And over the past few days, I've
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  been doing a lot of reading, a lot of research, a lot of
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  discussion. and, It's eye-opening.
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  And if you if you're not familiar with a company called
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  Nord stream and their project Nord stream 2, You, you probably
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  look at this whole Ukrainian situation and go, I don't
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  understand it. When you see what's going on
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  with Nord stream to all of a sudden you understand.
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  It Nord stream to is a pipeline. It's a natural gas pipeline,
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  that Russia is building to supply natural gas to the rest
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  of Europe. Europe has laws that say you
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  can't have a natural gas supplier.
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  That actually owns The Delivery Systems.
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  So, in other words, You can't have a Russian Pipeline
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  supplying Russian gas. It has to be somebody else's
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  pipeline. Well, this has led to arguments
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  between Germany and the United States because Germany wants the
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  pipeline. Germany wants to Natural Gas.
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  They needed the United States has objected to this and if
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  threatened sanctions and in fact has already sanctioned Nord
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  stream once and this led to friction between Germany and the
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  United States. Well of course Russia wants this
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  because then they Troll. All the energy to Western
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  Europe. I mean, you do what we say are
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  we turn off your gas and you freeze in the freaking winner or
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  you don't have electricity in the summertime whatever.
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  So, of course, it makes sense now, much of that Natural Gas
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  Pipe lining running through Ukraine as well and Russia wants
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  to control all this. That's what they want.
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  That's what their goal is here and the United States,
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  sanctioning that creates economic problems for the
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  Russians, it creates physical Problems for the Russians.
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  And this is what it's really all about.
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  Well, of course, part of this problem with Schumer and the
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  filibuster is that Republicans want to sanction Nord stream to
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  and Democrats want to as well. Some Democrats want to as well.
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  The Biden Administration is kind of wofully kind of squishy on
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  the whole thing. And at this point we're still up
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  in an argument. We could literally yesterday,
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  the Republicans made it. Clear that they are going to
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  sanction Nord stream 2 and if they do so Russia has made it
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  clear that that is a is an act of War.
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  So we sanction Nord stream to, they invade Ukraine Europe,
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  presumably Germany, puts pressure on us because we don't
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  really want to fight in Ukraine. We don't want to fight Russia
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  and Ukraine. And in the middle of all this,
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  this Kazakhstan thing going on to distract attention.
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  That way it's going to be a mess folks.
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  And here I am. Stuck in my house in crappy
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  weather with kids and a cat and I am just having a whale of a
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  day and so so instead of sitting here and thinking through
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  things, logically and thinking through things about where I
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  want to go with all this stuff, I instead I'm having some coffee
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  because that's what I do. In my brand, new Denver, Broncos
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  cup that my wife got me for Christmas.
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  Which I love. She also got me a stocking cap,
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  Bronco stocking cap and a poster that I can't show.
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  It's a wooden post or that can't show you because it's in the
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  other room but it's pretty cool. Says Broncos on it and I'm
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  pretty happy about that. In all of this, I'm waiting for
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  the Broncos to decide what they're going to do about their
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  head coach. And as if all that were not
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  enough for a Wednesday, a crazy-ass Wednesday, Verizon
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  informed me this morning that they're changing their terms of
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  service and I don't need to do anything about it right now.
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  Don't need to worry about it right now.
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  But at some point you might want to read these because well, you
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  know, we we need to we need to make sure that at the end of the
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  day you understand that we have changed our terms of service and
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  in doing so I don't know, maybe it's important, maybe it isn't,
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  I don't know, but at the same time, it's for the stakes were
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  Chase. Could you throw anything more at
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  me today? Just about had enough.
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  Fact, I'm gonna turn it all off right now.