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When Chevrons Collide: Law Falls, Oil Rises, and Venezuela Loses the Illusion of Sovereignty · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I am Samuel Trap. Hello, good morning
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  and welcome. I am Samuel Trap. This is
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  International Flavor. You happen to be
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  listening to DAMR Radio. Uh
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  damradio.comlive
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  is where you are.
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  And if you're listening later, not
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  between 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., uh,
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  Central Standard Time, seems like you're
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  probably
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  on my website, internationalflavor.com,
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  and listening to me there, which I'm
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  also not against, but I prefer it when
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  people listen live just because I do.
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  Uh, so there's been a lot of um, you
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  know, I'm not alone in my trashing of
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  the uh, moves in uh, Venezuela.
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  I don't want to spend a lot of time on
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  that today or this week, but I I did
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  want to share something. I I watched an
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  interesting one last night, and I don't
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  usually watch very often because uh, you
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  know, most of the uh, e even the what do
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  you call it? the
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  right leaning um media is unbelievable
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  these days. You can't believe it. You
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  got to get your your news from elsewhere
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  because the national news I I I suppose
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  I could be taught something or someone
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  could push me in the right direction of
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  a national news program that isn't
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  completely full of crap uh that I might
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  be willing to listen to. But uh I've
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  started going to just independent shows
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  and stuff and and I just
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  I used to be a pretty big fan of
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  O'Reilly long ago. I'd listen to the
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  O'Reilly factor and every once in a
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  while I'll watch him on his Independent
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  on um whatever that is YouTube or
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  however he puts it out. I am not a fan.
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  And many many years ago, I was a fan of
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  the other guy that uh was on Fox News at
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  nights, Hannity. And uh I just now he's
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  he's just a neocon cheerleader, you
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  know, that's that's all he is. And so I
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  quit watching him long ago. Maybe he's
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  changed his tune these days, but I don't
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  think so. But I still like to go out and
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  find people in America that actually
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  will speak the truth, that'll speak
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  things that uh that matter, that won't
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  just blanket, "God bless you, Donald
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  Trump, you're saving the country." And I
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  don't like that because uh I think he's
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  saving the country, but I also think one
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  of his big goals and I found somebody
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  who said something similar and I've been
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  talking about this maybe not in as as uh
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  maybe not as well or with some sort of
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  thesis as I should have been doing. Um
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  but I know I know what I meant. He used
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  to have a guy tell me something. I was
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  like, "What the hell are you talking
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  about?" He'd go, "Well, I know what I
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  meant." I like, well, that's good cuz
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  nobody else does. So, I I just want to
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  make sure that everybody knows uh what I
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  meant and what I mean. And uh you know,
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  I never want it to be cuz I take the
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  point of view from uh traveling
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  from being outside of the country. And
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  if you've gone around in as uh um many
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  places as I have, and I'm only at 57.
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  I'm trying to figure out the next place
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  to go. And uh I I'm thinking uh uh you
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  know, I I I said something the other day
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  about uh going through Qatar to uh St.
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  Petersburg. I really want to get to
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  Russia in a winter month and and I
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  really wanted to do the the uh Christmas
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  holidays. You do realize that tomorrow
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  in the praise of Yanske
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  uh
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  uh Russian Orthodox Church
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  uh Christmas is celebrated tomorrow the
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  7th and uh so that's a holiday for them.
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  They're a bit the opposite. So, I wanted
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  to be over there for uh this season in
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  particular, and it looks like I'm going
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  to have to figure that out for next
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  year. Um, yesterday I I spoke with uh
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  Anna Cherasiva. She's from Ukraina.
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  Oo, it's uh the news uh agency that
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  publishes my my uh papers, my my
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  articles and uh we we uh only through
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  telegram we had a discussion. We didn't
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  do anything formally, but we did a a
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  telegram um sort of following and she
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  put my comments out there. And I'm
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  telling you, uh I I truly am not alone
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  in what uh in what I believe. um
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  uh regarding this uh Venezuela deal. And
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  I wanted to share with you because I
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  watched uh uh anyway, she she put some
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  of my questions. She basically answered
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  questions uh and I answered them. Asked
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  questions and I answered them. And uh
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  you know, we we I I got a little little
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  article published out there again uh
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  yesterday about this Venezuela
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  travesty, this nonsensical. Now, I heard
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  somebody yesterday I watched a little
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  bit more of the news because, you know,
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  it's really troubling to me to watch uh
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  the decline and uh and I haven't put it
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  the way that it needs to be put.
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  Obviously, uh I haven't done so and I
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  really kind of need to because I talk a
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  lot about the end of the uh global
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  order, the end of uh US dominance.
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  Multipolarity
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  is something I've spoken about and I
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  recognized it
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  long ago and kind of culminated in my
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  desire to go to that bricks conference
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  in Kazan in October 2024.
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  And it was an eyeopener for me. It was a
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  big one. And and it's stuff like this
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  that just kicks you right in the nuts,
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  right in the dads, if you want to call
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  them that, that she's going, you know,
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  we we speak about America as, you know,
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  oh gee, you know, let's pull some Bill
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  Clinton or some Hillary out of the
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  shining city on the hill or something
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  like that, you know. But we all love
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  America and we all love what it's doing.
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  And what I love is the fact that we're
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  supposedly the good guys. Well, we
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  aren't the good guys. We're the bad guys
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  for the last 30 years. Easy. And it's
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  because of the reality, the world
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  reality of multipolarity. And and I saw
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  somebody agree with me yesterday and say
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  something uh much much better
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  formulated than the way I do it.
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  America, we're not declining. We're
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  still powerful. We're still whatever.
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  And I don't want anybody to say that
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  we're declining, but everybody else is
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  coming up to our level. You know, a
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  rising tide raises all ships and all
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  that. and uh the rest of the world are
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  rising. Okay? And and and I don't mean
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  anything bad about America. We we
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  started it, if you want to put it that
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  way. We we're supposed to be the good
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  guys, but now we're making no bones
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  about it. We're stealing people's
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  resources and we are I I don't know
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  what. We're we're we're threatening.
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  Well, I mean, if watch that Trump thing
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  again, the guy's becoming a neocon
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  blowhard. And he threw he threw Lindsey
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  Graham in there. And Lindsey Graham is a
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  freaking nightmare. And that guy makes
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  no bones about it. Oh yeah, we're
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  coming. We're taking everything. You
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  know, we're we're
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  screw everybody. We got war, America.
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  And he ain't losing anything. That guy's
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  not losing a damn thing, and he never
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  will. And uh uh it's it's it's it's
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  nonsense because this is who's running
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  our foreign policy now. It is the neocon
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  and always Marco Rubio has been a
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  neocon. I mean he's hidden it some. I
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  thought he hid it for the first year but
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  oh no he is deep involved in this. Him
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  and Lindsay they're joined at the
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  freaking hip. And uh you know having
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  Lindsey Graham on Air Force One was like
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  uh it just made me want to throw up
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  knowing that that a-hole is there and
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  guiding our foreign policy. And who's
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  Trump listening to? I think he's finally
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  figured out that the only way to
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  prolong the decline, if you want to call
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  it that, but it's not a decline.
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  Everybody else is coming up. but to
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  force the issue and maybe keep all the
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  subjugated
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  uh you know masses in Venezuela or
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  anywhere else keep them in their proper
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  places is to go on the offensive and
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  attack people and get into and go go
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  into stealing Greenland, you know, I
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  mean he was pretty blunt about that.
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  Yeah, Greenland's coming. We'll talk
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  about that in a couple of months. You
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  know, Cuba, you know, maybe we'll take
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  them, too. It's this is nonsense. This
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  is why people
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  don't like Americans. And when you
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  travel, you got to be careful about, you
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  know, broadcasting the fact that you're
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  an American. And that's terrible. And
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  and and you know, it's terrible that we
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  can't be proud who we are. And being
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  proud doesn't mean that, oh, gee, we get
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  to go be condescending to the rest of
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  the world. The rest of the world are
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  people, too. We're all people on a
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  common planet. And just because we
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  happen to be born in what I believe to
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  be the greatest country on earth,
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  although my my conviction of that, you
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  know, with these terrible people like
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  Lindsey Graham, he's not even a good
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  person. It's it's nonsense. He wants to
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  destroy other people. The fact that
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  nearly 100 people got killed in in and
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  seizing a a criminal and bringing him to
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  justice in New York is is beside the
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  point that you know the hundred people
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  dead, the Venezuelans dead or the Cuban
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  guards dead. That means nothing. We're
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  supposed to jump for joy for that. We're
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  supposed to go, "Oh yeah, we got the
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  greatest armed forces on the planet."
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  Which we do. But so what? Walk softly.
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  Carry a big stick. don't go killing
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  people needlessly. And this was
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  needless. And so now what are we doing?
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  We're broadcasting to the world that we
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  are a bunch of and that we are
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  a bunch of of doineering colonializing
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  imperialists. That's what we are. And uh
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  that is disgusting to me that we have to
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  admit that to people. I don't want to.
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  So but I did want to share with you if
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  you haven't seen it yourself.
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  So, uh, McGregor, Ritter, and Johnson
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  were, uh, uh, all on, um, I think it was
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  Judge Npalitano was there, and I think
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  there there's a group of people there.
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  And, uh, uh, and I, and, and
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  unfortunately, when you, uh, transcribe
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  these shows, they only say speaker this,
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  speaker that. It doesn't tell you which
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  one's which. So, I'm not positive which
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  one said that. And uh here's here's the
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  very first question that they that he
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  gave. He said, "How can President Trump
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  possibly justify the invasion and
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  takeover of the government in Venezuela
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  in terms of American national security
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  cuz we all know that's That is
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  that is not remotely what he's doing
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  here. This isn't narco terrorism. This
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  is nothing but a resource grab and a
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  doineering stuff." And here's how he put
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  it. He said, "Well, judge, that's a
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  question that I think is irrelevant
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  because he's already done it, and we
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  have to accept the fact that he's now
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  committed the United States armed forces
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  and the wealth and power of the United
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  States to intervention in Venezuela. I
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  mean, we could sit here and pick apart
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  the drug allegations or the presence of
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  Hamas and Hezbollah and all this other
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  nonsense, but it doesn't make any
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  difference. He's already acted. That's
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  why he didn't That's why he had to get
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  Lindsey Graham in on it, right? And
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  Marco Rubio had to be in on it. This is
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  This is the neocon strategy. This is the
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  people destroying Donald Trump. Trump is
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  no Trump can no longer claim to be an
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  outsider. He is hip deep in the and
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  getting deeper. And uh uh and and right
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  now, as far as I can tell, the Senate
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  Armed Service Committee has signed on
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  for the operation character
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  characterizing it as law enforcement,
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  which is horseshit because you can't
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  engage in law enforcement outside of the
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  country. And that is presumably because
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  the DEA was part of the team that went
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  in with Delta force to seize Maduro and
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  his wife. And uh so the question
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  continues, so I guess the neocons have
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  triumphed notwithstanding everything
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  Donald Trump and his accolades said
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  during the campaign. And the guy says,
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  and this is the important part that I
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  wanted to get to you.
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  I think that what we're learning here is
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  that Washington, led by President Trump,
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  is ready to use whatever means it has at
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  its disposal, including military power,
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  to stop the diminishment
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  of US national influence in its bid to
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  manage the sort of decline and
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  dissolution of the socalled postwar
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  liberal order. That's what it all seems
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  to be about. Remember, the rules-based
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  order is effectively gone. And
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  rules-based meaning whatever Washington
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  wants to impose. And President Trump
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  simply stated very very categorically,
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  we can do it again because nobody can
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  stop us. There's nothing with the
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  capability that we have. You know,
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  somebody said, "Well, Team America is
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  back." If you ever saw the funny puppet
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  show, I think that's where we are right
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  now. And lots of people are saying,
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  "Fine, this is great." The question is,
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  what happens now? That's, you know,
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  difficult to answer, but we need to talk
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  about that. And, uh, you know,
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  uh, here you go. Um he says and and and
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  you got to see this. He said uh and
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  because they were showing some of the
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  things that I'm complaining about and
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  I'm on the radio so I'm I'm not even
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  going to play it for you. But before we
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  get into what happens now, I just can't
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  resist showing you RFK Jr. and President
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  Trump together at the Republican
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  National Convention two summers ago.
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  Watch the look of glee on President
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  Trump's face when Bobby, whom you and I
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  both know, says Trump will end the grip
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  of the neocons on the government. Uhhuh.
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  And he said, "Play play this cut." Then
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  he said he also told me he wanted to end
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  the grip of the neocons on US foreign
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  policy. and don't you want a president
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  who's going to get us out of wars and
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  who's going to rebuild the middle class
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  in this country? He said, "We don't have
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  that. We have a president who wants to
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  start wars." So the question is, who's
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  really in charge? I'm not convinced that
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  President Trump is because remember
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  during the convention you had this giant
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  Israeli flag suddenly appear in the
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  middle of the Republican convention and
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  certainly in my lifetime perhaps you can
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  remember an example but I don't know of
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  a single instance where either the
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  Democrat or Republican parties held a
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  convention and hoisted a giant foreign
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  flag at the convention talking about
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  quote unquote Israel. first. I've never
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  heard of that before. And uh I tell you
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  what,
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  these are frightening times, people.
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  This is I mean, if we are going to be
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  starting wars, there's some people are
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  going to have some things to say about
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  that. There really are. And I told you
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  yesterday in my rant that people are
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  certainly
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  watching us. And for all those of you
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  who think that Trump is the answer, you
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  know, he's he's the uh you know, the
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  greatest thing since sliced bread,
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  uh I tell you what, I I have always
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  thought positively of this guy, always.
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  But he is certainly in the pocket of the
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  Lindsey Grahams of the world right now.
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  And if that Air Force One
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  didn't show that
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  to you, you better look again because
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  who's running that show? It ain't Trump.
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  And Trump has bought on to this whole
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  thing. And if this is how he thinks. So
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  So and and I've thought about this. It's
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  been a couple of days now. know I I
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  similarly I don't believe there's crap
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  you can do about it except about
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  it you know which I you know I'm doing
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  now and because that's what I'm good at
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  but there's not much you can do about it
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  you know who who are we you know we're
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  nobody and and and frankly we're the
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  people that Lindsey Graham will send off
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  to slaughter without thinking twice of
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  it you don't care we're nothing but
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  little red uh risk pieces in
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  denominations of 1 five or 10. That's
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  it. And uh uh that's all we are to that
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  guy. And uh he cares about money. He
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  cares about power. And he cares about
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  whether he gets reelected. That is it.
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  And he don't care about a damn thing
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  else. He cares about destroying Ukraine.
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  Why? Because that might weaken Russia.
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  But in the meantime, we'll just destroy
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  Ukraine and it doesn't matter cuz
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  they're dying for it. He was pretty
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  upfront about that. Well, none of our
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  guys are dying. That's not true either.
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  We've had some people dying over there,
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  but our guys aren't dying. What do we
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  care? We'll just keep funding it. We'll
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  keep funding it until Ukraine is gone.
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  And hopefully we can come in and make a
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  deal with Russia and get half of the
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  resources. But they lost that resource
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  battle. Russia took the Dawnbass, which
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  is in the eastern side. Why do you think
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  Ukraine doesn't want to give it up? We
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  can't give up our territorial integrity.
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  They're all talking about territorial
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  integrity. It's talking about uh the UN
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  charter and how that works and
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  territorial integrity and no other
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  country can do it. And what does the US
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  do? We go replace leaders. You can't.
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  Everything in the UN charter, we ignore
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  it. But by God, we want to enforce it
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  against everybody else. What's wrong
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  with Xi Jinping wandering into Taiwan
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  now? Anything? What's wrong with North
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  Korea taking over South Korea? No.
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  Anything at all? You know, and what is
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  wrong with wandering into Greenland and
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  saying, "Jesus, if you guys really
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  wanted this, you'd put more than 70,000
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  people here and we need this." Like
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  Trump said on Air Force One the other
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  day, we need this cuz strategically we
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  need it. Denmark and you know, I think
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  most of Europe wants it anyway. So screw
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  it. Me and Lindsay, we're we're just
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  going to put a fleet up there. We'll put
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  a fleet up there. And uh you know if if
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  if Fisceland had anything to offer, we'd
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  have taken that long ago.
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  They don't have anything to offer. So
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  we'll just stick with taking all of
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  Greenland so we have a a seat in the
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  Arctic. Well, Jesus Christ, why don't
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  you take over uh uh Sorry, I shouldn't
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  talk like that. Why don't you take over
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  Canada, too? I mean, Canada's run
• 20:31
  poorly. We could knock them over. The
• 20:33
  only reason they don't have an army or
• 20:34
  military is cuz we do. And they know
• 20:37
  we'll get their back. They don't have to
• 20:39
  have defense. a huge chunk of their
• 20:41
  money doesn't have to go to defense.
• 20:43
  Meanwhile, we're a trillion bucks in and
• 20:45
  we're 38 million on the world debt or a
• 20:49
  trillion, I'm sorry, million. Yeah. Gez,
• 20:51
  God, that'd be awesome. But 38 trillion
• 20:56
  and counting and rising every day and
• 20:59
  the crap ain't going down. Anyway, I've
• 21:01
  ranted on that long enough and I said I
• 21:03
  wasn't going to do that, but I have. Um,
• 21:07
  I was playing for you a little bit of uh
• 21:10
  uh that that song when I just happened
• 21:12
  to hear it on the car coming in and it
• 21:14
  was uh the Stonebridge radio edit of a
• 21:18
  song called The Fear and uh and I like
• 21:22
  it now. Where is it? How come we're not
• 21:24
  hearing it? Um I don't know. We're gonna
• 21:27
  we're gonna maybe play it some more, but
• 21:29
  I doubt it. uh cuz I don't want to go
• 21:31
  through and cut it and when I upload it
• 21:33
  to my to my uh podcast site, I got to
• 21:37
  take it out so they don't about
• 21:40
  having a license. And we have a license
• 21:42
  on the radio show, but somehow I paid
• 21:46
  for a license ages ago, but I can't
• 21:48
  figure out how to transfer it over
• 21:50
  there. So anyway, I'm bitching about
• 21:52
  nothing. I wanted to continue uh with
• 21:55
  the uh with the uh uh the latest news
• 22:00
  regarding Venezuela
• 22:02
  and uh I heard yesterday uh on uh let's
• 22:07
  see who was I watching I can't remember
• 22:09
  Christophoru um one of the two Alex's I
• 22:13
  listened to in uh in in in English and
• 22:19
  they were saying that this turns out uh
• 22:22
  that uh there's further information.
• 22:24
  They're saying that the New York Times
• 22:25
  was reporting that this was a coup, that
• 22:29
  uh they were supported on the way in.
• 22:31
  Well, if it was a coup, why in the world
• 22:32
  are they killing a 100 people? Why is
• 22:35
  it? And I saw something very interesting
• 22:37
  on uh uh Telegram last night in in
• 22:40
  Russian and uh I needed to translate it
• 22:43
  to English and I wonder and it's hard. I
• 22:47
  see if I can do it on the fly. I think I
• 22:49
  can cuz it wasn't that difficult. If I
• 22:52
  can just provide it to you on the fly
• 22:56
  cuz they were showing
• 22:58
  um
• 23:00
  Apache helicopters attacking
• 23:04
  inside of uh
• 23:07
  inside of
• 23:10
  uh what do you call it?
• 23:12
  Um Venezuela. And I forgot my glasses.
• 23:16
  No, I didn't. They're here hanging on my
• 23:18
  shirt. and uh hard to read my phone in
• 23:20
  my old age, but I'm going to save this
• 23:24
  or tell this for you. This is something
• 23:26
  I saved. And this was uh from Venezuela
• 23:29
  sent to Russian uh on my Telegram
• 23:32
  channel and it shows a video and the
• 23:34
  video is this uh patchy helicopter
• 23:37
  bombing the crap out of uh places inside
• 23:41
  of Venezuela. And it says a team of
• 23:46
  attack helicopter Apaches with uh
• 23:49
  appeared over targets in the region of
• 23:52
  Caracus.
• 23:53
  If these pictures can be supported, this
• 23:58
  is a serious escalation.
• 24:02
  strikes
• 24:04
  uh not from drones and not one-time
• 24:09
  drones and not diver uh what do you call
• 24:12
  it? Diveranti are um protesters. They're
• 24:16
  not really protesters but uh rebels.
• 24:18
  rebels. A uh a fullscale
• 24:23
  strike of uh but but a full scale strike
• 24:28
  of a machine of American aviation. The
• 24:32
  Apache is not a the um weapon of
• 24:37
  Venezuela. It's a symbol of the direct
• 24:40
  participation of the US and its allies.
• 24:46
  All lat of Latin American history of the
• 24:49
  last decades was
• 24:52
  uh
• 24:54
  was built on a simple proposition.
• 24:58
  Whoever talks the loudest about uh
• 25:01
  sovereignty and independent politics,
• 25:05
  that person sooner or later will receive
• 25:09
  a colorful resolution, a color
• 25:12
  resolution or a serious pressure.
• 25:16
  Venezuela is in the list is was on that
• 25:20
  list uh long ago and quite seriously.
• 25:23
  And now judging from everything that has
• 25:26
  happened, the pressure has uh the
• 25:30
  pressure and the revolution or the
• 25:34
  change to a military uh sphere is
• 25:40
  uh is a is a is a great pinch uh that
• 25:43
  shows how far
• 25:45
  uh you can go without formal formally
• 25:48
  declaring war. How far can the US go
• 25:51
  without formally declaring war? Um
• 25:55
  on the whole we see a very similar a
• 26:00
  very familiar uh underline uh well a
• 26:04
  podor is um uh emphasis we see this
• 26:07
  emphasis strikes on infrastructure work
• 26:10
  on uh uh capital objects in the capital
• 26:14
  and maximum
• 26:16
  um
• 26:18
  maximum bringing up of chaos. The logic
• 26:21
  is simple. Show everyone around that any
• 26:25
  country deciding to play to not play by
• 26:30
  the rules of Washington risks sooner or
• 26:33
  later seeing in their own territory
• 26:37
  above their heads the
• 26:41
  uh helicopter of democracy and and uh I
• 26:45
  didn't that's not a that was a on the-ly
• 26:48
  not a great interpretation but uh that
• 26:51
  that That I thought was very telling and
• 26:54
  I'm sitting there reading it and going
• 26:56
  you know I get the feeling complet you
• 26:58
  know completely. So now we're we're
• 27:01
  bringing so so uh Venezuela was working
• 27:04
  with very seriously with China like I
• 27:07
  told you yesterday 100 billion committed
• 27:10
  paying off loans funding their
• 27:12
  governments giving a lot of things and
• 27:14
  uh they made no bones about it the oil
• 27:16
  is coming to the US it's not going to be
• 27:19
  uh uh developed and infrastructure
• 27:22
  developed by China. Nope. We're not
• 27:25
  doing it. Now,
• 27:27
  you can agree with that, but why in the
• 27:29
  world freaking lie to me about it? And
• 27:32
  now, see, I'm much more likely to be on
• 27:35
  your side if you don't freaking lie and
• 27:38
  and and and do what's called fraud in
• 27:41
  the inducement. Fraud in the inducement
• 27:43
  is a mil is a legal term that means
• 27:46
  somebody's trying to get you to to go
• 27:48
  into a contract. And if you lie to get
• 27:51
  him into this contract, it's called
• 27:53
  fraud in the inducement. And it's a way
• 27:55
  to avoid the contract. If you say,
• 27:57
  "Geez, I need to get a loan so that I
• 27:59
  can uh get a loan to, you know, build a
• 28:02
  house and then your nephew can live in
• 28:05
  that house with me." And then you get
• 28:07
  the loan, they give you the loan to
• 28:09
  build the house and instead of building
• 28:11
  the house so the nephew can live in it,
• 28:13
  you go on a world trip and you take a
• 28:15
  cruise around the planet for 365 days
• 28:18
  with the money. So the loan was a valid
• 28:21
  loan. It's a valid contract, but it was
• 28:23
  fraud in the inducement. You induced him
• 28:26
  with a fake thing. Well, that's exactly
• 28:28
  what they've done to us. They sell it to
• 28:31
  us and then slap the truth upon us at
• 28:34
  the end, which is And and they
• 28:37
  take this and they say, you know, oh,
• 28:39
  it's narco terrorism. We're we're we're
• 28:42
  they're they're killing us in the
• 28:43
  homeland, which is anyway. It's
• 28:46
  it's nonsense. It's not Venezuela doing
• 28:49
  that. If they are, it's very minimal.
• 28:53
  And he certainly isn't the narco
• 28:55
  terrorist Jesus. They're they're they're
• 28:56
  charging him with uh having machine
• 28:58
  guns. This is nonsense. And then we find
• 29:01
  out what the real deal is. Oh, you know
• 29:04
  what? This is anti-China. We're taking
• 29:06
  over the oil so China don't get it. And
• 29:09
  now they're coming out of the closet and
• 29:11
  telling us this. Why didn't you say that
• 29:14
  before? You know why? Cuz then you can't
• 29:16
  go and use the use of force. And and and
• 29:19
  by the way, that's another topic
• 29:21
  altogether is the use of force be
• 29:24
  declaring war basically. They've just
• 29:27
  done it and Lindsey Graham helped get
• 29:30
  away with it. They structured how we did
• 29:32
  this in Iraq. It's been going on ever
• 29:34
  since. We don't declare war in
• 29:36
  Afghanistan. We don't declare war in
• 29:39
  Iraq. We don't declare war in Venezuela.
• 29:42
  We certainly don't talk about the
• 29:43
  buildup that we did inside of Ukraine.
• 29:46
  But in the end, it's all the same.
• 29:49
  Congress Lindsey Graham is funding it,
• 29:51
  and he's making sure that your dollars
• 29:54
  are going to pay for the continued
• 29:57
  dominance of the elite oil company
• 30:00
  owners. We're certainly not doing this
• 30:02
  to protect Venezuela. This has nothing
• 30:06
  to do with dem democracy, nothing to do
• 30:09
  with taking care of or fixing Venezuela.
• 30:13
  All it is is a satellite.
• 30:19
  That's it. And we're go. But Trump, oh,
• 30:21
  not we. This sure as hell ain't me. We
• 30:24
  are going to force them. Who is the guy
• 30:25
  that moved out of the country with his
• 30:27
  wife and everybody's going, "Oh, good
• 30:28
  riddance." You know, try to fix it from
• 30:30
  within. I think it's too far gone to fix
• 30:33
  from within. It's too far gone. What's
• 30:36
  going to happen the next time? Some
• 30:37
  Democrat's going to come in and his
• 30:39
  favorite place is going to be France and
• 30:40
  he'll just go take over France. declare
• 30:43
  war without declaring war, by the way.
• 30:46
  You don't have to. Who needs
• 30:47
  congressional approval for that? This is
• 30:49
  a slight military. This is a law
• 30:51
  enforcement action. Oh, really? Why
• 30:53
  don't you send in 10 cops then? Why you
• 30:55
  send in the military?
• 30:59
  Small coffee break whilst I yell at
• 31:02
  people. Anyway, that really isn't what I
• 31:04
  wanted to talk about today, but I'm glad
• 31:06
  I have. And so, that is my thought on
• 31:08
  that. And I think you should uh follow
• 31:11
  along and I think that was a Judge
• 31:14
  Npalitano show that uh they were talking
• 31:17
  uh on the one that I told you about with
• 31:19
  these various speakers. Um
• 31:23
  you know
• 31:26
  I think we have to understand we had all
• 31:29
  these allegations about Hamas Hezbollah
• 31:33
  training camps. Not that anybody in the
• 31:35
  intelligence business believes that, but
• 31:38
  because that's how we sell it to the
• 31:40
  American people. I don't think anybody
• 31:42
  in the intelligence business believes
• 31:44
  the bit about Maduro is a drug kingpin
• 31:47
  either. We're interested in the most
• 31:50
  significant exporter of cocaine in
• 31:53
  modern history. Well, let's set aside
• 31:55
  for a moment that and chalk it up to one
• 31:57
  of many justifications for what's going
• 32:00
  on. But none of them are the correct,
• 32:04
  you know, they are, you know, only in
• 32:07
  the top five. But what you do have in
• 32:09
  Venezuela, oil reserves, natural gas,
• 32:13
  nickel, rare earth, and massive endowed
• 32:17
  gold, lots of gold, and one of the
• 32:20
  largest iron ore deposits in the Western
• 32:24
  Hemisphere. So all of those things are
• 32:27
  what's wrapped up in this. And now he's
• 32:29
  telling everybody, "We're going to
• 32:31
  rebuild everything. We're going to
• 32:34
  restore the health of oil structure,
• 32:37
  infrastructure." And he admits it's
• 32:40
  going to take a long time and American
• 32:43
  corporations are going to march into the
• 32:45
  country and everybody's going to get
• 32:48
  rich. No.
• 32:51
  No. No. No. No. Will Washington provide
• 32:55
  an economic package to lift Venezuela
• 32:58
  out of poverty? No. I don't think
• 33:01
  they're going to do crap about that. And
• 33:04
  and uh you know, they've taken it over.
• 33:06
  Now what? So, we just bought Venezuela
• 33:10
  or stole Venezuela. And I just want to
• 33:14
  go on the record of being against how
• 33:16
  this happened. If you wanted to fix it,
• 33:20
  then you support some kind of other
• 33:23
  person. And not through our shady CIA BS
• 33:27
  either. People have to I mean, who
• 33:30
  supported us on the way up?
• 33:33
  I mean, seriously, what what what
• 33:35
  happened when we wanted to depart from
• 33:37
  England? And I know it was 250 years
• 33:39
  ago. It's a different world. Now it's
• 33:41
  OG. America just comes in and bombs the
• 33:44
  crap out of people using Apache
• 33:46
  helicopters. and then uh uh takes a
• 33:49
  leader under false pretenses. We all
• 33:51
  know that's not what this is about. And
• 33:54
  they're saying it. They keep saying it.
• 33:56
  Well, just take the package we gave you
• 33:58
  and we'll send you off to uh uh you know
• 34:00
  a uh a uh an island somewhere where you
• 34:04
  and your wife can retire. That's why
• 34:05
  they brought the wife along. They don't
• 34:07
  believe the wife was a narco terrorist.
• 34:10
  They want them to be together. Take them
• 34:12
  out of the picture, pay them off, make a
• 34:14
  display. They perp they drove the guy in
• 34:17
  a van through the streets of New York so
• 34:19
  everybody could have a look at him. They
• 34:22
  did that. They did that on purpose. This
• 34:24
  was a victory lap. And it's
• 34:28
  That's not how you treat even an
• 34:30
  arrested head of a foreign state. These
• 34:33
  people have no idea what they're doing.
• 34:35
  And they're all they are is selling crap
• 34:38
  to the masses who will clap loudly and
• 34:42
  go, "Yeah, yeah, this is a guy at a
• 34:44
  football team cheering his team. That's
• 34:46
  it."
• 34:48
  And I think it's nonsense. The a real
• 34:50
  thinking population would be thinking
• 34:54
  far ahead of this. What do we look like
• 34:56
  to the rest of the world? We look like a
• 34:58
  bunch of clowns. We, you know, you try
• 35:00
  to try and I know most of you don't care
• 35:02
  because you don't travel, but if you go
• 35:04
  to other countries and you find out, you
• 35:06
  know, it's pretty funny because you meet
• 35:08
  people and then you're sitting there,
• 35:10
  you're having a good conversation with
• 35:11
  them and they go, "Where are you from?"
• 35:13
  And you go, "America." And you know how
• 35:15
  many times I get the you don't seem like
• 35:17
  the typical American to me. Even in
• 35:19
  Europe, I get that. It's you're not the
• 35:23
  typical American. Well, it's because,
• 35:24
  you know, a lot of Americans have no
• 35:27
  perspective other than the tiny bit of
• 35:32
  news they get from America. It doesn't
• 35:35
  make me a better person. I I not claim
• 35:37
  that at all. I'm a piece of crap in a
• 35:39
  lot of regards. You know what I mean?
• 35:41
  But but at least I have a different
• 35:43
  perspective. You know, I've gone through
• 35:45
  some crap in my life. And that number
• 35:47
  one has given me a little bit of a
• 35:49
  different perspective. But I've also
• 35:51
  been other places and seen other things
• 35:54
  and tried to learn how other people live
• 35:56
  and how they think. Our government
• 36:00
  doesn't do that at all. They didn't do
• 36:02
  this for Venezuela. Not remotely. This
• 36:05
  was not for Venezuela. Will they have a
• 36:08
  few a few that that will go, "Oh, yeah,
• 36:11
  great." Same thing, cheering their
• 36:13
  football team, waving the flag. Sure
• 36:15
  they will. Well, they have a whole bunch
• 36:17
  that are plunged into poverty that
• 36:19
  you'll never hear anything about. People
• 36:21
  that are killed on the sidelines, you'll
• 36:24
  never hear anything about that. The 100
• 36:26
  or so that were killed uh uh in this in
• 36:29
  this uh quest to uh advertise that we
• 36:34
  are doing the right thing and we're
• 36:36
  taking we're we're stealing your oil.
• 36:38
  That's that's not the right thing, by
• 36:40
  the way. you know, taking things that
• 36:43
  don't belong to you are never the right
• 36:46
  thing and they don't belong to us, but
• 36:48
  we've just stolen them. And Trump is
• 36:50
  proud of it. And they're very proud of
• 36:52
  the fact that we're we're we're thieves.
• 36:54
  We're criminals. We're robbers. We're
• 36:56
  imperialist
• 36:58
  bandits. That's what we are. And that's
• 37:01
  what this represents. We could have done
• 37:03
  something with diplomacy, but nope. All
• 37:06
  we have is force and the threat of force
• 37:09
  and parking our navy outside of there
• 37:11
  blowing up ships with zero and and you
• 37:14
  know what we watched them do that for
• 37:16
  two three months blow up ships and the
• 37:19
  uproar uh you know they were watching
• 37:21
  they're going oh well there's not much
• 37:23
  uproar about that there's some people
• 37:25
  bitching about it but not very many you
• 37:27
  know nobody's bitching about that what
• 37:29
  if we go in and kill a hundred people
• 37:31
  and steal a guy and claim it claim it's
• 37:33
  you can imagine him sitting in you know
• 37:35
  the back office of the White House with
• 37:37
  Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and
• 37:39
  Donald Trump all rubbing their hands
• 37:41
  together and uh uh you know like Dudley
• 37:45
  was Snidly whip Snidly whiplash or
• 37:48
  whatever sitting back there and going
• 37:49
  yeah yeah they won't you know we've
• 37:51
  convinced and nobody said anything we'll
• 37:53
  just go a step further and that's
• 37:55
  incrementalism going further and further
• 37:57
  and further and then you pull the rug
• 37:59
  out from underneath and you go oh by the
• 38:01
  way everything we told you the last
• 38:02
  three months was a complete lie this
• 38:05
  isn't about um narot terrorism. It's
• 38:08
  about nothing but stealing resources and
• 38:11
  keeping China out. Well, why didn't you
• 38:13
  tell me that in the first place? I might
• 38:15
  have been able to help you, you know,
• 38:17
  figure or at least support you in your
• 38:19
  effort to do it. I don't support this
• 38:22
  type of behavior and I think it's just
• 38:24
  wrong. And so, anyway, that's my rant on
• 38:26
  that topic. I really got to get off of
• 38:28
  it because I said I wasn't going to. I
• 38:30
  wanted to get back to the craziness
• 38:32
  that's going on here in Missouri
• 38:36
  and there's plenty of that going on. All
• 38:38
  of you know that uh uh well I only meant
• 38:41
  to spend uh 20 minutes on that and I
• 38:43
  doubled it. I spent 40. So So sorry
• 38:47
  about that. But we're going to continue
• 38:49
  on because there's there's something
• 38:51
  I've been working on for a little while.
• 38:53
  I've been involved with the group and uh
• 38:55
  I put a little ping and hopefully you
• 38:57
  know uh how you can get on case and you
• 38:59
  can uh tell it to uh
• 39:03
  what do you call it ping you when
• 39:05
  activity occurs on a particular case
• 39:09
  that's what I have done and I'm watching
• 39:11
  this case and I want to know where it is
• 39:16
  and uh uh so I'm
• 39:20
  um waiting for for this judgment and uh
• 39:24
  the hearing was December 3rd. the uh
• 39:28
  parties, the attorneys had to submit
• 39:31
  their proposed judgments by December.
• 39:34
  Turned out to be December 17th, I think
• 39:37
  is when they were all submitted. A
• 39:38
  couple weeks later
• 39:41
  and uh now, you know, with the holidays
• 39:43
  and stuff, no ruling's going to be made,
• 39:45
  but I've been waiting for a ruling. And
• 39:47
  it's on the or we have been waiting for
• 39:50
  a ruling. And uh we're very interested
• 39:52
  in in where we go from here. And this
• 39:55
  has to do with alcohol and tobacco
• 39:58
  control. Last week I walked you through
• 40:01
  the Chevron doctrine, what it meant, the
• 40:05
  overturning of that doctrine by a
• 40:08
  Supreme Court of the United States case
• 40:10
  called Loper Brightite. And and Loper
• 40:13
  Brightite overturned the Chevron
• 40:16
  deference. And deference was when a
• 40:20
  court
• 40:23
  was
• 40:25
  or had a case before it
• 40:28
  predicated upon agency action against
• 40:33
  you know somebody license holder agency
• 40:35
  action and I don't know what pick one um
• 40:40
  and people fighting a term of either a
• 40:44
  regulation a uh uh a an interpretation
• 40:49
  of a regulation, an action on a
• 40:52
  regulation, anything regarded to a
• 40:55
  regulation or a statute that was
• 40:57
  interpreted by an agency. The Chevron
• 41:01
  doctrine said that the court should
• 41:07
  defer to the professional bureaucrat,
• 41:11
  right? that well the professional
• 41:13
  bureaucrats been doing this for you know
• 41:15
  30 years. The agencies are usually built
• 41:19
  with people who know what they're doing
• 41:23
  which is totally wrong by the way.
• 41:26
  Thinking that agencies are built with
• 41:28
  people that know what they're doing or
• 41:30
  taking that as a presumed fact is not a
• 41:33
  good idea because it's not a you know a
• 41:36
  good fact. I have a lot of respect for a
• 41:38
  lot of government workers, but I got a
• 41:41
  lot of lack of respect for plenty more
• 41:45
  that uh clearly love their position more
• 41:48
  than they love uh uh you know the law
• 41:51
  and they truly love the fact that they
• 41:54
  were the ones interpreting the agency
• 41:58
  uh action, right? And so they would
• 42:01
  interpret the agency action and and and
• 42:03
  under the Chevron doctrine which was in
• 42:05
  place for I can't remember when Chevron
• 42:07
  came out 7172
• 42:09
  I really don't remember and I could be
• 42:11
  off decades in that I don't remember but
• 42:14
  I think it was in the 70s when the
• 42:15
  Chevron doctrine came about
• 42:18
  and uh from 19 40 50 years let's call it
• 42:22
  maybe it's long maybe it's less than
• 42:23
  that who who knows but some a decent
• 42:26
  period of time I could look it up but I
• 42:27
  I'm not going to cuz it's it it It's for
• 42:30
  for that period of time, courts would
• 42:32
  defer to the professional bureaucrat
• 42:35
  interpretation of whatever this um
• 42:39
  whatever they were interpreting. If
• 42:41
  they're interpreting a regulation, a
• 42:42
  statute, a uh a guide, a handbook, you
• 42:47
  know, whatever, an action against an
• 42:49
  individual, a business, or anything. And
• 42:52
  uh the court would say, "Well, these
• 42:54
  guys are the experts. I'm not the
• 42:55
  expert. I'm a judge. you know, I'm not
• 42:57
  the expert in uh in this case alcohol
• 43:00
  and tobacco rules. They are, you know,
• 43:03
  they're they're experts on alcohol and
• 43:05
  tobacco rules, not me. So, I will defer
• 43:08
  to their interpretation because they've
• 43:10
  been doing it a long time. And
• 43:12
  presumably they won't use the
• 43:14
  interpretation one way for one person
• 43:17
  and another way for another. What that
• 43:19
  allowed was exactly that to happen
• 43:22
  though. uh agencies could pick and
• 43:25
  choose who they targeted and who they
• 43:27
  and that's my biggest beef with
• 43:29
  administrative action. It it isn't given
• 43:32
  in a blanket manner to everyone. It is
• 43:36
  selective. These guys selectively go out
• 43:39
  and choose who to go after. They
• 43:41
  selectively pick and choose what issues
• 43:44
  they like and don't like. target. Target
• 43:47
  targeting is prevalent and in fact the
• 43:50
  preferred method of destroying people in
• 43:54
  Missouri and many other places. And so
• 43:57
  the Chevron doctrine
• 43:59
  kind of allowed that to happen, right?
• 44:01
  The Chevron doctrine would go cuz when
• 44:03
  you sued them, you'd get into court and
• 44:05
  the judge would go, "Well, you know, the
• 44:06
  the agency gets the uh you know, ties go
• 44:10
  in their favor, you know, if there's a
• 44:12
  tie." And so, uh, you know, we're going
• 44:14
  to go with their, uh, we're going to
• 44:16
  defer to their understanding. And, uh,
• 44:18
  you know, sorry, but your understanding
• 44:21
  doesn't count. You know, how what the
• 44:23
  statute says doesn't count. How they've
• 44:26
  interpreted it does count. Even if the
• 44:28
  interpretation is BS, you know, we we
• 44:31
  defer to what they decide. So, Loper
• 44:34
  Bright came along in 2024
• 44:37
  and uh
• 44:39
  changed all of that. Loper Bright on the
• 44:42
  Supreme Court of the United States
• 44:44
  overturned the Chevron doctrine and said
• 44:47
  what should have been said in my view
• 44:49
  all along. It said listen this is
• 44:54
  nonsense. The interpretation of the law
• 44:59
  is a legal matter and judges determine
• 45:04
  what the law is, not some bureaucrat in
• 45:08
  an agency. Even if they've been there 30
• 45:11
  years, doesn't matter. Law
• 45:15
  judgments should be interpreted by the
• 45:18
  court. the meaning of a statute
• 45:21
  shouldn't be interpreted by some, you
• 45:24
  know, I don't know, non- lawyer, you
• 45:27
  know, not mo, you know, all judges are
• 45:30
  lawyers and well, actually that's not
• 45:31
  true in Texas, but in most places all
• 45:34
  judges are lawyers and uh uh so when
• 45:38
  they make an interpretation, presumably
• 45:41
  they were listening in uh uh
• 45:43
  administrative law class in law school.
• 45:47
  I enjoyed administrative law class. I
• 45:49
  enjoyed going through all this stuff. I
• 45:51
  liked it, you know, talking about all
• 45:53
  those things and uh uh I I took a even a
• 45:56
  couple of years some advanced courses in
• 45:58
  it. I liked it, you know. Not that I
• 46:00
  ever wanted to be in an agency. Well, I
• 46:02
  thought it'd be fun to run the planet,
• 46:04
  you know, but I'm done with that, you
• 46:06
  know, let the idiots uh you know, uh
• 46:08
  like Lindsey Graham do that. I I can't
• 46:11
  kiss ass that much. I just I can't do
• 46:13
  it. Makes me wish I could. But uh look,
• 46:17
  look at me. I went straight back to
• 46:18
  Lindsey Grahams cuz he's such an easy
• 46:20
  target. Jeez, what a Oh, you know, I
• 46:25
  forgot to mention yesterday when I was
• 46:26
  going on about all the five things that
• 46:28
  he did. I forgot Afghanistan for that
• 46:32
  a-hole. You know what about Afghanistan?
• 46:34
  You know, he he Well, he was involved in
• 46:37
  that nonsense, too. You know, another
• 46:40
  big knife in the back to the American
• 46:42
  public. Another big stealing money for a
• 46:46
  failed mission by Lindsey Graham and
• 46:49
  company. And there were six, not five.
• 46:51
  Yesterday I went through uh uh five of
• 46:54
  them. And there were actually a sixth
• 46:56
  one cuz I I can't believe I forgot all
• 46:58
  about Afghanistan. He was out there
• 47:00
  talking about that too. 20 freaking
• 47:03
  years we were over there. Lost all kinds
• 47:06
  of stuff. And don't go acting like
• 47:08
  that's all Joe Biden and we can blame it
• 47:10
  on him. you know, Lindsey Graham, if he
• 47:13
  was the genius uh uh that that he
• 47:16
  pretends to be riding around in Air
• 47:18
  Force One, then that wouldn't have
• 47:21
  happened. Nor would any of the other
• 47:24
  wrong
• 47:26
  results, the absolute opposite of what
• 47:29
  he said on every single instance. And
• 47:32
  here's Trump listening to him. Anyway,
• 47:35
  sorry to get sucked back into that.
• 47:37
  We're going to go right back to our uh
• 47:39
  regularly scheduled programming and not
• 47:42
  rail about the federal government cuz I
• 47:44
  have no power against Missouri
• 47:46
  government, let alone the federal
• 47:47
  a-holes. You know, this is nonsense. And
• 47:50
  we just need to understand as Americans,
• 47:53
  they are not your friend. They are not
• 47:56
  your friend. Why do we have the right to
• 47:58
  bear arms? Because the government is not
• 48:00
  your friend. I don't even own any
• 48:03
  weapons right now. But but I tell you
• 48:04
  what, I feel like I need to go buy a
• 48:06
  bunch. You know, I I wouldn't pull the,
• 48:09
  you know, the actor thing and move to
• 48:10
  another country. Although I would do
• 48:12
  that just cuz I like other countries. I
• 48:14
  wouldn't do it to avoid the US. You know
• 48:17
  what I mean? That it's not that bad.
• 48:19
  Well, it's a great I don't mean it's not
• 48:21
  that bad. It's a fantastic. But, you
• 48:23
  know, I'm so tired of of of these
• 48:26
  negative things that do nothing for us
• 48:29
  and only line the pockets of a-holes
• 48:32
  like Lindsey Graham. Anyway, back to the
• 48:35
  other stuff. When you look, sorry, I
• 48:38
  sidetracked myself like a numbnuts and
• 48:40
  uh I I shouldn't do that. But but here
• 48:43
  we go. The so with Chevron being
• 48:46
  overturned by Loperbrite and then the US
• 48:50
  or here in Missouri the the statute or
• 48:53
  the Congress in its uh legislature in
• 48:57
  its wisdom which is rare too they
• 49:02
  codified it in 536.140
• 49:06
  which I shared with you last week and
• 49:08
  basically 536.140
• 49:11
  says
• 49:13
  that in the event there's a dispute,
• 49:16
  there's a question, there's an
• 49:18
  interpretation that needs to be ha uh
• 49:21
  reviewed that that interpretation
• 49:25
  is the realm of the judiciary of a
• 49:28
  judge. A judge when a dispute is brought
• 49:31
  before him, he will not defer to an
• 49:35
  agency. He will not he shall not defer
• 49:39
  to the agency and he shall interpret it
• 49:43
  denovo brand new you know as as if new.
• 49:47
  He will interpret it
• 49:49
  himself
• 49:51
  and say what it means based on what he
• 49:54
  knows of the law and he will do so. they
• 49:57
  added this key phrase and and and I'm
• 50:00
  paraphrasing the phrase, but the key
• 50:02
  phrase is and he will do it in a way
• 50:05
  that maximizes individual liberty
• 50:10
  and minimizes government overreach.
• 50:13
  That's basically the last line of this
• 50:16
  interpretation. And so what the what the
• 50:19
  legislature have done and I've got my my
• 50:21
  problems with the legislature and the
• 50:23
  idiot rules they put into place in a lot
• 50:25
  of respects but not that everyone you
• 50:29
  know what they used to say in the
• 50:31
  military you do something right and the
• 50:33
  sergeant look at you go well trap even a
• 50:36
  blind squirrel finds a nut every once in
• 50:38
  a while right well that's how I feel
• 50:40
  about the uh legislature even a blind
• 50:43
  squirrel finds a nut sometimes and
• 50:46
  there's the legisl E having done the
• 50:48
  right thing. Uh, wow. What a surprise.
• 50:51
  Uh, curious. They've done the right
• 50:54
  thing. We ought to write that down
• 50:56
  somewhere and go, "Look, they've done
• 50:58
  it. They've pulled their collective
• 51:01
  heads out of their, you know, each
• 51:02
  other's asses and uh, look where we've
• 51:05
  gotten. We've gotten somewhere
• 51:06
  positive." Uh, so this is positive.
• 51:09
  Okay. And I believe that we are the
• 51:12
  first to uh have this this this this law
• 51:16
  went into effect August 28th of this uh
• 51:20
  2025. I'm sorry, it's 2026 now of 2025.
• 51:23
  And nobody that I'm aware of and and I
• 51:26
  did some looking has has asked a court
• 51:29
  to uh rule or or to make a ruling based
• 51:34
  upon 536.140.
• 51:36
  I think we are the first. And so I think
• 51:38
  that the the judge in this case is going
• 51:40
  to be particularly careful with what he
• 51:43
  does. I mean, why not? He's gonna have
• 51:46
  to be particularly careful because
• 51:48
  somebody's appealing. Either way, it's
• 51:49
  going to be appealed. And I told you a
• 51:51
  little bit about the case last week and
• 51:53
  a little bit about what we're doing.
• 51:55
  Well,
• 51:57
  turning this Okay, so the alcohol and
• 51:59
  tobacco control, they have taken taken
• 52:04
  it upon themselves
• 52:07
  to say that uh and now did you know and
• 52:10
  and if you go out to civicwarriors or
• 52:13
  civicoutlaws.com,
• 52:15
  you'll see the start of a web page that
• 52:17
  we have going on. It's not finished yet.
• 52:19
  We have uh you know, we have a sample
• 52:21
  out there, but it's not done. Um, we're
• 52:24
  testing out the donation links and we're
• 52:26
  testing out a couple of other things for
• 52:29
  people to help us go after government
• 52:31
  overreach and uh to fund us going after
• 52:36
  government overreach which is rampant in
• 52:39
  America. Um it's it and and we believe
• 52:43
  that with the changes in the Loperbrite
• 52:45
  decision and with the
• 52:48
  uh 53640
• 52:51
  in Missouri that the the path is clear
• 52:55
  and it uh allows people to revisit
• 53:00
  issues where they're getting screwed by
• 53:04
  administrative
• 53:06
  governmental overreach everywhere.
• 53:09
  people taking authority that doesn't
• 53:11
  belong to them. The Department of Public
• 53:13
  Safety putting up cameras somewhere and
• 53:17
  spying on people now needs to be
• 53:20
  reviewed. They don't have the abil they
• 53:22
  don't have the right to do that. They
• 53:24
  they put up these traffic cams, but they
• 53:26
  don't use them for that. They don't put
• 53:27
  up traffic cams to uh I don't know to uh
• 53:31
  see what happened when an accident
• 53:33
  occurred. That's not why they're put up.
• 53:35
  That's one tiny reason. But what they're
• 53:38
  doing is tracking people. What they're
• 53:40
  doing is selling the information.
• 53:42
  Private companies are holding this
• 53:44
  information. We spent a lot of time on
• 53:46
  this when I got arrested for for being a
• 53:49
  forwardlooking and a and a and a good
• 53:52
  man and and took down that damn camera
• 53:55
  because uh the uh county has a rule that
• 53:58
  says you can't put them up. Uh you can't
• 54:00
  put him up. And yet the sheriff signed
• 54:02
  something that said that he could and
• 54:04
  then the prosecutor helped go after him.
• 54:07
  nonsense. And uh uh well, somebody needs
• 54:10
  to get that interpreted and do it do do
• 54:12
  it correctly. And somebody needs to file
• 54:14
  another suit like the one going on in
• 54:16
  Richmond, Virginia against Flock Cameras
• 54:19
  who now with u with gusto uh you know
• 54:23
  with with
• 54:27
  Sorry, excuse me.
• 54:31
  Maybe put on a song for you for a minute
• 54:33
  whilst I clear my throat. Oh,
• 54:37
  no song, just a sip of coffee. How about
• 54:40
  that? But anyway, the reason to to that
• 54:44
  the overturning of Chevron is so
• 54:47
  important and the reason that the um the
• 54:52
  cotification of that overturning to at a
• 54:55
  state level in Missouri is so important.
• 55:00
  still not out of the woods is that uh
• 55:04
  now courts have to determine you know
• 55:07
  what's the right activity in a case. The
• 55:11
  courts get to determine why uh a statute
• 55:15
  was written in this manner. They will
• 55:19
  look at the because one thing an ad a u
• 55:22
  ad administrative person a a a
• 55:24
  bureaucrat does not do has zero interest
• 55:28
  in
• 55:30
  is why they don't care that to them
• 55:33
  everything is black and white you know
• 55:35
  the true or or everything is according
• 55:38
  to what they think is right doesn't
• 55:40
  matter what the rules say this is how I
• 55:42
  run my ship this is what I do you know
• 55:45
  and uh so Now
• 55:49
  we see the path
• 55:52
  and the path allows us to go places for
• 55:55
  anybody and our start was I mean we wish
• 55:59
  to get into the cameras. We wish to get
• 56:01
  into things like HOAs and the overreach
• 56:04
  of HOAs that are approved by the
• 56:06
  government or uh sort of funding of
• 56:11
  housing by the you know the the the
• 56:13
  government. uh child care nonsense with
• 56:17
  money that is uh appropriated by the
• 56:21
  state. um
• 56:23
  name it anything administrative and and
• 56:26
  uh I'm I I'm interested in digging in
• 56:29
  and one of the greatest tools of that is
• 56:32
  sunshine law foya freedom of information
• 56:36
  act uh on the on the um federal side
• 56:42
  and those tools unfortunately are
• 56:45
  somewhat expensive. Um we have spent a
• 56:48
  great deal of money trying to get 36
• 56:52
  well what we've received so far is like
• 56:54
  4,000 pages of uh of records from the
• 56:59
  alcohol and tobacco control which um you
• 57:04
  know we have reviewed we have gone
• 57:05
  through we have combed through pretty
• 57:08
  deeply uh using some proprietary tools
• 57:12
  that that we have for that purpose and
• 57:15
  we're we're developing our methods to uh
• 57:18
  gather information. And we're going
• 57:20
  through it and and it's it's it's paying
• 57:22
  off big time because what we're finding
• 57:26
  and and what we're seeing is their own
• 57:28
  words are hanging them. Uh you know, at
• 57:31
  least in our view, and we don't know
• 57:33
  what the judge is going to say, but we
• 57:35
  think the path is pretty clear for what
• 57:36
  he has to do. But ATC has created their
• 57:40
  own definitions that don't exist in the
• 57:43
  statute. They have taken on power that
• 57:46
  was never given to them in an enabling
• 57:48
  statute. I went through a little bit
• 57:50
  last week of section uh uh chapter 311
• 57:56
  of the revised statutes of Missouri and
• 57:58
  chapter 407 of the revised statute of
• 58:00
  Missouri which is gives the enabling
• 58:03
  language to alcohol and tobacco control.
• 58:06
  And so alcohol and tobacco control, the
• 58:08
  only the only power you can take as an
• 58:12
  administrator is the power that is given
• 58:16
  to you. Let me equate this to you like
• 58:18
  somebody's power of attorney. Okay. Um
• 58:23
  when I'm old and feeble,
• 58:26
  I it's possible that I need to have a
• 58:29
  power of attorney because simply for the
• 58:31
  fact that I can't get around as fast as
• 58:34
  I used to. Okay? And so I can say
• 58:37
  something to somebody like, "Listen, I'm
• 58:40
  going to give you this piece of paper
• 58:43
  that gives it's a grocery list. All I
• 58:45
  want you to do is go down to the grocery
• 58:47
  store. Here's my credit card. I want you
• 58:49
  to use my credit card to buy this thing.
• 58:51
  Here's a grocery store. I'm going to
• 58:53
  write a thing on the bottom that says, I
• 58:55
  give this person the authority to use my
• 58:57
  credit card, but only to buy these 10
• 58:59
  items. You can't put on candy bars for
• 59:01
  himself." And I sign the bottom.
• 59:04
  Arguably, that's an enforcable power of
• 59:06
  attorney. I've authorized someone to act
• 59:09
  on my behalf.
• 59:11
  So, when you authorize an agency to act
• 59:16
  on behalf of the king, you know, the
• 59:18
  governor is the king in this scenario.
• 59:21
  And when the the governor has to be
• 59:23
  given that power, first of all, any
• 59:25
  power he gets is derived from the
• 59:28
  legislature giving him the power and
• 59:32
  he's kept in check by the the judicial
• 59:35
  branch, right? But the power comes
• 59:38
  through the law, through the statutes,
• 59:40
  through the things that are written,
• 59:42
  right? And then he can go through and
• 59:44
  and uh he appoints it gets even worse
• 59:47
  because now he appoints the head of the
• 59:50
  department of public safety and the head
• 59:52
  of the department of public safety has
• 59:54
  all of the rules that he has to abide by
• 59:57
  for the highway patrol, for the water
• 59:59
  patrol, for whatever, name it. One of
• 1:00:02
  those other ones is the alcohol and
• 1:00:05
  tobacco control folks, right? So the
• 1:00:07
  department of public safety, ATC is
• 1:00:10
  underneath them. So now you've got a
• 1:00:12
  power of attorney.
• 1:00:14
  Well, an authorizing statute. Now, we're
• 1:00:17
  not going to call it a power of
• 1:00:18
  attorney, but it's basically what it is.
• 1:00:20
  It's an authorization to act. And that
• 1:00:23
  authorization to act and to enforce or
• 1:00:26
  to uh carry out the law is given to the
• 1:00:31
  governor to carry out the law. The
• 1:00:34
  legislature created it. The governor has
• 1:00:36
  to carry it out. He does that through
• 1:00:38
  the Department of Public Safety head and
• 1:00:41
  that guy appoints somebody to run
• 1:00:43
  alcohol tobacco control. That person has
• 1:00:47
  500 others. I don't know the number.
• 1:00:49
  That could be a BS number. God knows how
• 1:00:51
  many there are that that that work for
• 1:00:54
  her in this case. And each one of those
• 1:00:57
  things has a level of authority of
• 1:00:59
  interpretation and of things like that.
• 1:01:02
  Well, at the core of it though, the only
• 1:01:07
  authority because what's what's happened
• 1:01:10
  is the legislature created the alcohol
• 1:01:15
  and tobacco control back in the ' 40s. I
• 1:01:18
  think it was back during right after
• 1:01:20
  prohibition or maybe even during. So,
• 1:01:23
  it's been around for a long time and
• 1:01:25
  they created it and over the years
• 1:01:27
  they've narrowed it down, but they've
• 1:01:29
  never the only authority they ever gave
• 1:01:31
  them is to enforce things under
• 1:01:36
  alcohol and tobacco controls enabling
• 1:01:39
  language inside chapter 311 and 407.
• 1:01:43
  What that means is they can't, we call
• 1:01:46
  it bootstrapping. You can't bootstrap
• 1:01:49
  and steal power from somewhere else that
• 1:01:52
  you don't have. Or you can't suck in
• 1:01:57
  uh I don't know um law from somewhere
• 1:02:01
  else that you cannot enforce. And we
• 1:02:04
  allege that's what they've been doing.
• 1:02:07
  And so over the years, ATC has gotten,
• 1:02:10
  you know, pretty proud of themselves and
• 1:02:12
  they've created circulars to send around
• 1:02:15
  and tell people that, "Oh, gee, you
• 1:02:17
  better watch out Hooters, and you better
• 1:02:19
  not have girls running around with the
• 1:02:21
  bottom with their butt cheek." You know,
• 1:02:23
  they call it, you know, the butt cheek.
• 1:02:25
  And oh, you people at uh Twin Peaks, the
• 1:02:29
  one with the girls where they all got
• 1:02:30
  big boobs, you know, cleavage is okay,
• 1:02:33
  but you better make sure that the
• 1:02:35
  underboob, you know, that the underboob
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  isn't hanging. You know, tube tops
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  aren't going to be okay. We don't want
• 1:02:42
  to see any underboob.
• 1:02:45
  Well, who gave them that authority?
• 1:02:49
  Who said that? I mean, what does your
• 1:02:52
  alcohol license, what does alcohol or
• 1:02:56
  tobacco have to do with whether a girl
• 1:03:00
  because they happen to be serving
• 1:03:02
  alcohol and she's got big boobs or a big
• 1:03:06
  ass and she can't have the the the the
• 1:03:10
  under, you know, your under part of your
• 1:03:13
  butt or your or your uh under boob can't
• 1:03:18
  be visible. And certainly a nipple can't
• 1:03:20
  be visible. You know, that's nudity.
• 1:03:22
  It's not allowed. But usually nudity was
• 1:03:25
  more of a local thing. I don't know to
• 1:03:27
  be I haven't done any serious research
• 1:03:30
  on that. But I remember the free the
• 1:03:31
  nipple thing that was going on in um
• 1:03:34
  Colombia several years ago and uh I made
• 1:03:37
  sure to go to this place cuz the women
• 1:03:39
  were all wandered down street topless.
• 1:03:41
  And I was like, well, you know what? I'm
• 1:03:42
  for this. Suddenly I'm for it. No, I'm
• 1:03:46
  kidding. I I I honestly don't even think
• 1:03:48
  I went to that, but I remember hearing
• 1:03:50
  about it. But um it it uh that's humor
• 1:03:52
  from a Sam side, and sometimes my humor
• 1:03:55
  kicks me in the butt. But uh uh at any
• 1:03:57
  rate, the whole point of saying that is
• 1:04:01
  who in the world gives you alcohol
• 1:04:05
  licensing people the authority to go
• 1:04:09
  into Hooters and say, "Gee, don't hire
• 1:04:13
  girls with big boobs." you know, um
• 1:04:16
  because you know, or make sure that when
• 1:04:19
  you do, boy, they better have them
• 1:04:22
  propped up correctly and you know,
• 1:04:24
  nothing is hanging out below the top or
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  if they happen to have a big butt in
• 1:04:28
  their uh uh butt cheek, you can see the
• 1:04:31
  bottom of the butt cheek. What the
• 1:04:33
  hell's a difference in the bottom of a
• 1:04:35
  butt cheek? Is everybody supposed to
• 1:04:36
  wear underalls? You know, you know,
• 1:04:38
  instead women don't do that. that you
• 1:04:41
  can go to any swim up bar in this place
• 1:04:44
  and the girls that are serving alcohol,
• 1:04:46
  the waitresses or the the the servers
• 1:04:49
  that are running around uh providing
• 1:04:51
  stuff uh are are wearing bikinis and the
• 1:04:54
  bikinis are bikinis. Women don't wear
• 1:04:58
  the ones that, you know, they don't wear
• 1:05:00
  shorts for for uh uh
• 1:05:04
  I don't know, bikini bottoms. They don't
• 1:05:05
  do it. They they it doesn't cover the
• 1:05:08
  the under cheek of the butt. It doesn't
• 1:05:11
  do it. And but but that is what you know
• 1:05:14
  there's a story going around and this is
• 1:05:16
  true. We can get an affidavit for this.
• 1:05:18
  This is this is disgusting to me. Okay.
• 1:05:21
  Now, personal grooming is definitely a
• 1:05:24
  personal matter. You know, how you
• 1:05:26
  choose to groom is a personal matter.
• 1:05:29
  And I remember being in the army years
• 1:05:32
  and years ago and I was on a three-man
• 1:05:34
  team on a on something called quick fix.
• 1:05:36
  And quickfix was something way back when
• 1:05:39
  when you could uh when it was hard to
• 1:05:42
  target where a radio signal was coming
• 1:05:45
  from. And so what you would do would be
• 1:05:47
  you would triangulate uh there would be
• 1:05:49
  three quick fix units and each one of us
• 1:05:52
  had a Tilki 17 alpha that would uh jam
• 1:05:56
  and a a collection module a 32 Victor
• 1:05:59
  that would uh uh collect radio signals.
• 1:06:02
  But these s and then later in a
• 1:06:04
  helicopter we did the same thing in
• 1:06:06
  helicopters. But in order to get it to
• 1:06:08
  work and today this is not the case. But
• 1:06:11
  uh uh way back then you had to have uh a
• 1:06:14
  mile apart on three different hills,
• 1:06:17
  three separate apparatus and I'd be in
• 1:06:19
  one of them and I'd have two more on on
• 1:06:22
  hills a mile on either side of me.
• 1:06:24
  Right? And when I pushed a button, I
• 1:06:26
  could triangulate a position and catch a
• 1:06:29
  radio signal from an enemy and pinpoint
• 1:06:32
  to within it had an arrow of
• 1:06:34
  probability, but to within so many feet
• 1:06:36
  of where that guy was standing. And I
• 1:06:39
  could call in artillery and go take out
• 1:06:41
  this guy. He's bombing the hell out of
• 1:06:43
  people. You know, that's triangulation.
• 1:06:47
  And uh so you could you could put that
• 1:06:49
  into place and have that. And the the uh
• 1:06:54
  the point of that
• 1:06:58
  for for this sort of thing is I came
• 1:07:01
  over a hill one day inspecting one of my
• 1:07:03
  teams and it was in the middle of the
• 1:07:05
  Mojave Desert. And so that part of the
• 1:07:07
  story was really not relevant at all.
• 1:07:09
  But I come over the hill. I had a girl
• 1:07:10
  on my team. And this is back when girls
• 1:07:13
  couldn't be in combat, but they could be
• 1:07:15
  in military intelligence. And so we were
• 1:07:17
  out in the field, uh, two guys and a
• 1:07:20
  girl. And this girl, uh, I come over the
• 1:07:22
  hill and she's laying out on a on a
• 1:07:26
  beach chair in the middle of the desert.
• 1:07:30
  And I'm going and she's sunning herself
• 1:07:32
  wearing a bikini and I'm like, you can't
• 1:07:34
  do that. And I was sent there by a guy
• 1:07:36
  named Figaro. He's like, "Sergeant Trap,
• 1:07:38
  you got to go over and check her." Oh,
• 1:07:40
  she's beautiful. I can't go see her. And
• 1:07:42
  she was not beautiful. But that's
• 1:07:44
  neither here nor there. When you went
• 1:07:46
  over and you saw this girl,
• 1:07:49
  it has to do with grooming. I'm telling
• 1:07:52
  you, this girl was wearing a bikini and
• 1:07:57
  everywhere she did not shave. She was a
• 1:08:00
  pubic hair heaven. You know, he it was
• 1:08:02
  everywhere. Some women are that way. And
• 1:08:05
  who are you to determine who gets to do
• 1:08:07
  it? Well, a story goes that here at the
• 1:08:10
  lake,
• 1:08:12
  one of the owners of a club here, an ATC
• 1:08:16
  guy was inspecting him on a day when
• 1:08:19
  there were a lot of people out. And
• 1:08:21
  there was a middle-aged woman eating and
• 1:08:24
  having a drink on the side of the pool,
• 1:08:27
  the swim up pool at the bar. And the
• 1:08:30
  woman
• 1:08:31
  was similar to the girl I just told you
• 1:08:33
  about her grooming. She wasn't one of
• 1:08:36
  those that shaves everything. And the
• 1:08:38
  ATC guy made the owner of the bar go
• 1:08:44
  over and tell this woman she had to
• 1:08:47
  either put on some shorts or leave the
• 1:08:52
  facility because there was pubic hair
• 1:08:56
  coming out the side of her
• 1:09:00
  um bikini.
• 1:09:04
  Now, let that sink in a minute. Okay, I
• 1:09:06
  I'm I'm I'm not for against I don't
• 1:09:08
  care. People's grooming is their own
• 1:09:10
  grooming. But who the hell made you in
• 1:09:14
  charge of determining what somebody gets
• 1:09:16
  to wear or not wear based on your arcane
• 1:09:21
  view of grooming for women or anything
• 1:09:24
  else for that matter. If you're going to
• 1:09:28
  target a facility because it allows
• 1:09:31
  middle-aged women to come and sit on the
• 1:09:34
  side of a pool unshaven.
• 1:09:38
  That is not what you were enabled to do
• 1:09:41
  by the legislature of the state of
• 1:09:43
  Missouri. That's the issue. Who in the
• 1:09:47
  world told you? And he and the
• 1:09:50
  justification is that is lewd. That's
• 1:09:53
  lewd to you. Who allowed you to come in
• 1:09:57
  and interpret that LWD is there? Where
• 1:09:59
  did the legislature write a definition
• 1:10:01
  for LWD that said if a woman is showing
• 1:10:04
  pubic hair and she's a middle-aged woman
• 1:10:07
  sitting on the side of the pool drinking
• 1:10:08
  a a drink, you can kick her out of a
• 1:10:11
  bar. That's nonsense. It's crap. And the
• 1:10:15
  legislature, if they're doing that, I
• 1:10:17
  would target that, too. But the
• 1:10:19
  legislature isn't doing that. This is
• 1:10:21
  some over the years, many years of
• 1:10:24
  interpretation.
• 1:10:26
  The ATC has created these
• 1:10:30
  rules that they created, they
• 1:10:33
  interpreted, they bootstrapped from
• 1:10:37
  other places and said you can't do it.
• 1:10:40
  You can't because all they can enforce
• 1:10:43
  all they can enforce is laws having to
• 1:10:47
  do with alcohol or tobacco. They weren't
• 1:10:52
  they're not the pubic hair police. What
• 1:10:55
  is this nonsense? This is ridiculous.
• 1:10:59
  And it is it is a terrible story. It's
• 1:11:02
  it's a shame that you have to report
• 1:11:04
  that the guy uh uh I won't I won't say
• 1:11:09
  who it is, but you know, if he ever
• 1:11:11
  wants to, you know, we'll let him come
• 1:11:12
  on and uh and chat about it. But but
• 1:11:15
  these are whether they're important
• 1:11:17
  issues to you or not, they're certainly
• 1:11:21
  important
• 1:11:25
  real issues about the overreach of
• 1:11:28
  government everywhere. Everybody knows
• 1:11:32
  that I believe I I detest
• 1:11:35
  government overreach. I detest
• 1:11:38
  government stretching
• 1:11:42
  their authority. And you know, the
• 1:11:45
  president can declare war. Well, but
• 1:11:48
  over the last 30 years, we've discovered
• 1:11:52
  that he doesn't have to do that. He can
• 1:11:54
  create war in many, many places and
• 1:11:57
  never declare it. That way you can
• 1:12:00
  always claim that the US hasn't lost
• 1:12:02
  when it's a war and we leave a place in
• 1:12:05
  ruins worse than we started with it. The
• 1:12:09
  goal should be that we leave a place
• 1:12:11
  better off than when we came in. That
• 1:12:14
  ain't going to happen in Venezuela.
• 1:12:17
  You know, the people that'll be better
• 1:12:19
  off will be the board of directors of uh
• 1:12:22
  you know, Chevron. Again, a new Chevron
• 1:12:24
  doctrine is
• 1:12:26
  we give you we give you Venezuela, you
• 1:12:29
  know, that's the new Chevron doctrine,
• 1:12:31
  right?
• 1:12:33
  Nonsense. And uh uh at any rate,
• 1:12:36
  government overreach is where I like to
• 1:12:40
  spend some time. And one of the ways to
• 1:12:42
  do that is through uh sending out of
• 1:12:47
  Sunshine Law requests.
• 1:12:50
  and we sent out a sunshine request
• 1:12:55
  and I want to share with you
• 1:13:01
  this comical response.
• 1:13:04
  Uh where is it?
• 1:13:09
  Let's see if I can bring this up without
• 1:13:13
  uh hurting myself too much.
• 1:13:17
  Um
• 1:13:19
  cuz it is downright
• 1:13:22
  comical what they uh responded here and
• 1:13:27
  and and this I target. This I do not
• 1:13:30
  like. This is foolish. Um
• 1:13:36
  did I and and I may have uh have uh
• 1:13:41
  shared some of it with you.
• 1:13:45
  Um, where is it? But I don't think I
• 1:13:49
  shared all of it with you.
• 1:13:52
  And I need that letter. And I think I'm
• 1:13:56
  going to have to search for it in my
• 1:13:57
  drive here. It'll take me just a second
• 1:13:59
  to get there. And uh,
• 1:14:03
  but it's I find it to be entertaining.
• 1:14:08
  You may not, but I like it. and it is
• 1:14:12
  the response to a request for
• 1:14:15
  information from alcohol and tobacco
• 1:14:18
  control.
• 1:14:20
  And we had asked for a number of
• 1:14:26
  uh documents, certain topic areas,
• 1:14:30
  and what we got in return,
• 1:14:35
  where is it? Come on, give us the long
• 1:14:38
  one. So, they sent us two on the same
• 1:14:40
  day, and I keep opening the the first
• 1:14:43
  one, and I can't find the second one.
• 1:14:47
  And uh where in the world is it? Hello.
• 1:14:52
  How is the family?
• 1:14:55
  Um,
• 1:14:58
  come on, come on, come on, come on.
• 1:15:03
  Let's see here.
• 1:15:06
  I think I have found it. Here
• 1:15:10
  we go.
• 1:15:12
  This is a long letter, okay? And so I'm
• 1:15:15
  not going to share all of it with you,
• 1:15:17
  but uh basically we had requested a
• 1:15:22
  number of documents and
• 1:15:25
  the request was uh responded to as
• 1:15:31
  follows.
• 1:15:34
  We received your December 4th and
• 1:15:36
  December 9th letters which include
• 1:15:38
  additional requests.
• 1:15:42
  Since August, we have in good faith made
• 1:15:45
  every reasonable effort, and I'm
• 1:15:47
  paraphrasing. I'm not reading all this
• 1:15:49
  to you, to fulfill your request in an
• 1:15:52
  organized manner.
• 1:15:55
  To date, more than 3600 pages of records
• 1:15:58
  have been provided.
• 1:16:00
  Our communications with you have in cons
• 1:16:03
  consistently included clear estimations
• 1:16:06
  of dates on when the records would be
• 1:16:08
  made available for inspection. Detailed
• 1:16:12
  explanations when appropriate for why
• 1:16:14
  access was delayed. specific statements
• 1:16:17
  of the provision of law under which we
• 1:16:20
  closed our records when applicable and
• 1:16:23
  clarifications regarding which of your
• 1:16:26
  expanded requests the documents produced
• 1:16:29
  pertain to. We believe our team's
• 1:16:33
  extraordinary efforts to fulfill your
• 1:16:35
  request demonstrate our respect for
• 1:16:38
  Missouri's policy favoring open conduct
• 1:16:41
  of business.
• 1:16:44
  Despite our good faith efforts, and
• 1:16:46
  remember, I'm paraphrasing because this
• 1:16:48
  is a long letter, but I'm not adding
• 1:16:50
  anything. It is plain from the
• 1:16:52
  increasingly hostile and argumentative
• 1:16:56
  tone of your communication
• 1:16:58
  and the overly broad unduly burdensome
• 1:17:02
  that's a legal term nature of your
• 1:17:05
  repeated demands particularly those made
• 1:17:08
  in October 3rd 7 10 November 10 December
• 1:17:11
  4 and December 9 that your invocation of
• 1:17:15
  Missouri sunshine law is intended not as
• 1:17:18
  a tool to examine in public meetings and
• 1:17:22
  records, but as a weapon to harass the
• 1:17:25
  division, burden the government, and
• 1:17:28
  strain agency staff. It seems to the
• 1:17:33
  division
• 1:17:35
  that due to the obvious connection
• 1:17:37
  between the record and the nature of
• 1:17:39
  your pending legal action, these
• 1:17:41
  requests are in retaliation for
• 1:17:43
  administrative actions taken against
• 1:17:46
  your liquor license and a means to
• 1:17:50
  conduct improper discovery.
• 1:17:53
  Okay.
• 1:17:58
  The estimates below provi provi provided
• 1:18:02
  below are calculated assuming at this
• 1:18:05
  time that the requests are completed
• 1:18:07
  using currently available agency
• 1:18:10
  resources. Historically the division has
• 1:18:13
  not received sunshine requests in
• 1:18:15
  quantities or volume necessary to
• 1:18:18
  consider the assignment of additional
• 1:18:20
  employees or resources. Therefore, as
• 1:18:23
  currently staffed, ATC's capacity to
• 1:18:27
  process requests of the size you
• 1:18:29
  submitted will unresolve in a very or
• 1:18:32
  will unfortunately result in a very
• 1:18:34
  lengthy fulfillment time.
• 1:18:38
  When upon receipt of payment, ATC
• 1:18:42
  commences with processing the requests
• 1:18:45
  outlined below, the agency will explore
• 1:18:49
  avenues through which it might reduce
• 1:18:52
  the time and expense estimated to
• 1:18:54
  fulfill the request. Such possible
• 1:18:57
  solutions might include, but aren't
• 1:18:59
  limited to, outsourcing review to a
• 1:19:02
  private firm. Well, if you're going to
• 1:19:04
  do that, why don't you just let me in
• 1:19:06
  there? I'm a private firm. I'll go have
• 1:19:09
  a look at all of your records and decide
• 1:19:11
  what it is. If you're going to hire
• 1:19:12
  somebody outside anyway, why wouldn't
• 1:19:14
  you just let me do it? Anyway,
• 1:19:17
  continuing. Employing additional
• 1:19:19
  temporary or part-time personnel for
• 1:19:21
  document review or hiring a full-time
• 1:19:23
  employee dedicated permanently to
• 1:19:26
  matters related to Sunshine Law. We
• 1:19:29
  caution, however, that requests of this
• 1:19:32
  nature must be formally submitted and
• 1:19:34
  approved as budget items. So now, me
• 1:19:38
  requesting a sunshine item or anyone, we
• 1:19:41
  cannot guarantee either their approval
• 1:19:43
  or timeline within which they would be
• 1:19:45
  considered if submitted. Thus, the time
• 1:19:47
  required to fulfill your request stated
• 1:19:49
  below should be assumed
• 1:19:52
  should not be assumed to change unless
• 1:19:54
  indicated otherwise by authorized agency
• 1:19:58
  personnel.
• 1:20:00
  Any expenses approved will be build to
• 1:20:02
  you as allowed prior to completion. So
• 1:20:06
  the remaining records
• 1:20:09
  encompassed by the letters the previous
• 1:20:12
  letters we have processed all portions
• 1:20:15
  of these records sought.
• 1:20:18
  Okay. Communications we we asked where
• 1:20:22
  they get the authority to uh uh patrons
• 1:20:26
  are served alcohol by uh servers wearing
• 1:20:28
  bikinis or attire that is deemed to be
• 1:20:32
  lewd. Right? We want communication,
• 1:20:35
  email, text message enforcement,
• 1:20:37
  discussion or actions regarding bars,
• 1:20:39
  restaurants or other establishments
• 1:20:41
  licensed to sell alcohol where servers
• 1:20:43
  are wearing clothing deemed lewd by ATC.
• 1:20:48
  So the request is go out and tell us
• 1:20:54
  every instance where you have targeted
• 1:20:56
  somebody's license because of lewd
• 1:21:02
  clothing by a woman. Okay,
• 1:21:05
  this is what they with respect to these
• 1:21:08
  records.
• 1:21:09
  We indicated in December 7 uh November 7
• 1:21:13
  correspondence that the division doesn't
• 1:21:15
  categorize lences in this manner, but
• 1:21:19
  they have a piece of paper that judges
• 1:21:22
  people according to it. One of the check
• 1:21:24
  marks on the inspection sheet is
• 1:21:28
  lwdness.
• 1:21:30
  They check every less lency for whether
• 1:21:33
  or not they are lewdw. You can't go
• 1:21:36
  through and tell me how many people
• 1:21:38
  you've punished or questioned or or or
• 1:21:42
  fined for being lewd.
• 1:21:46
  Apparently they can because listen to
• 1:21:48
  what they say after this this list and
• 1:21:52
  they they gave all of these things,
• 1:21:54
  right? Keyword searches.
• 1:21:57
  LWD
• 1:21:59
  the list resulted in the retrieval of
• 1:22:01
  691,463
• 1:22:05
  email files alone.
• 1:22:08
  We conservatively estimate estimate the
• 1:22:12
  cost associated with fulfillment of this
• 1:22:14
  portion of these records will total
• 1:22:19
  $368,0007
• 1:22:22
  $368,783.77.
• 1:22:28
  And the earliest these records will be a
• 1:22:31
  be available for for you for your review
• 1:22:35
  is 44 years 3 months and 26 days from
• 1:22:42
  the receipt of payment.
• 1:22:45
  44.32
• 1:22:47
  years. Should fulfillment of this
• 1:22:50
  request result in fees lower than those
• 1:22:54
  estimated here, the difference will be
• 1:22:57
  credited to you. And they want to uh the
• 1:23:00
  the party requesting to pay this amount
• 1:23:04
  upfront, right?
• 1:23:10
  Yeah. Okay. No. No. Hey, this is going
• 1:23:13
  to cost a lot of money. No. Hey, we got
• 1:23:15
  personnel problems. No, you know that.
• 1:23:17
  No, they nothing in the sunshine law
• 1:23:20
  says that you know you get to do this
• 1:23:22
  when when the this is one of your duties
• 1:23:24
  and responsibilities by the way. This is
• 1:23:27
  one of the things you are required to do
• 1:23:30
  under sunshine law.
• 1:23:33
  And
• 1:23:35
  somebody would, you know, you would
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  normally somebody would send not this
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  accusatory letter, but something to say,
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  hey, you know,
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  maybe we could tailor that a little bit.
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  Maybe we could
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  come up with something like that. Um, we
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  also asked for another another document.
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  Uh there was another request in a
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  December 9th letter requesting any
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  documents including incident reports,
• 1:24:04
  investigative reports, forms, memoranda,
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  emails in which any of the following
• 1:24:10
  phrases appear in the heading, title,
• 1:24:14
  body, footer where they define
• 1:24:17
  themselves because what they have done
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  is they have taken the authority not
• 1:24:21
  given to them and called themselves the
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  alcohol and tobacco control police
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  department and we have several examples
• 1:24:29
  of this or the ATC police department or
• 1:24:33
  the alcohol tobacco control police
• 1:24:35
  department. We explained in an email
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  dated October 10 that the division does
• 1:24:41
  not identify itself as division of
• 1:24:43
  alcohol tobacco control police
• 1:24:45
  department. They actually do. To
• 1:24:48
  clarify, this phrase appears only at the
• 1:24:51
  top of specific printed investigative
• 1:24:53
  reports entered into the computer
• 1:24:56
  assisted report entry database, the care
• 1:24:58
  database. The header of these port
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  reports is autogenerated by the database
• 1:25:05
  which was built by the St. Louis County
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  Police Department and is used by
• 1:25:09
  multiple government agencies and appears
• 1:25:12
  only when reports are generated
• 1:25:14
  generated from the database in current
• 1:25:16
  printable format. Several report formats
• 1:25:19
  accurately populate the header using the
• 1:25:22
  correct identifier division of alcohol
• 1:25:25
  tobacco control. It is a bug in the
• 1:25:28
  system that resulted in the alternative
• 1:25:30
  header for some entities and accounts
• 1:25:33
  for ATC's oversight of this discrepancy.
• 1:25:38
  In the previous 5 years, 8,428
• 1:25:42
  approximately reports have been entered
• 1:25:44
  by ATC agents. We conservatively
• 1:25:47
  estimate that the fee for producing
• 1:25:49
  every care report bearing the phrase
• 1:25:52
  alcohol and tobacco control police
• 1:25:54
  department in the associated emails in
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  the last 5 years will be
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  $34,000
• 1:26:03
  $34,83945.
• 1:26:09
  The earliest we estimate these records
• 1:26:11
  will be available to review is 4 years,
• 1:26:14
  2 months, and 2 days from the receipt of
• 1:26:17
  payment.
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  Yeah,
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  seems odd, doesn't it? So, who is being
• 1:26:23
  rude to whom is the question.
• 1:26:28
  Who is using fees as a deterrent or
• 1:26:32
  responses to sunshine requests as a
• 1:26:36
  deterrent?
• 1:26:38
  And you can't just go out and maybe you
• 1:26:40
  should only search for the word alcohol
• 1:26:42
  tobacco control police department. And
• 1:26:44
  why deny it if you know damn well it's
• 1:26:47
  on your reports and has been. They knew
• 1:26:50
  about this and they were coming up with
• 1:26:52
  a reason why. This is bureaucracy.
• 1:26:55
  Friends and neighbors. You create you
• 1:26:58
  create
• 1:26:59
  defenses to yourselves later. And one of
• 1:27:02
  the defenses is to scare people off with
• 1:27:05
  large amounts of money. But you can run
• 1:27:08
  in a in a shoddy fashion and take power
• 1:27:11
  that doesn't belong to you and nobody
• 1:27:13
  can question you because you're not
• 1:27:15
  permitted. You're just a riff raff out
• 1:27:18
  there.
• 1:27:19
  This is international flavor. I am
• 1:27:22
  Samuel Trap. I appreciate you having
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  been here today and uh listening to my
• 1:27:28
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  to be a great week. Let us uh continue
• 1:28:02
  on on this fabulous I think it's
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  Tuesday, isn't it? Let us continue. Hope
• 1:28:08
  you all have a very good week. I know I
• 1:28:11
  am going to talk to you later.