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Where Is Mitch McConnell? Plus Gen Z Silence and a Strange Insomnia Cure | TMI Ep 456 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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That's every Friday with me and Scott Stantus.
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Today we'll be talking about bad editors. Today's
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Q &A show has to be canceled because of doctor's
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So that's not going to be happening today. No
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left in the day. And then you're free to go do
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what you want. All right. So let's talk about
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the I'll set up the board, the game board here.
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JD Vance saying some pretty Rumsfeldian -like
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things. Sometimes things happen when you kill
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innocent people in a foreign country. Germany
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and Russia, all sorts of tensions rising there.
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The arch, the triumphal arch is going to break
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ground in within two weeks according to Donald
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Trump. And last and not least, Argentine President
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Javier Malé seems to want to provoke another
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Falklands war, perhaps, and Donald Trump is playing
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a role in this. I mean, Donald Trump, next time
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I look in my catch -letter box, and it's really
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gross in there, I'm going to expect that somehow
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Donald Trump is responsible. He's involved in
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everything. Anyway, JT, good morning. Nice to
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see you. And please put your questions and comments
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in the live chat if you're watching live in the
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9 a .m. on Rumble and YouTube. We will, of course,
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answer your questions. Priority goes to the paid
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super chats on YouTube and the Rumble rants.
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But we do, obviously, as you guys know, if you're
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watching regularly. By the way, the show is growing.
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Yesterday, we had 7 ,000 views on YouTube. That's
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definitely really high. That's for a normal.
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That's no clips. No, like nothing unusual. Nothing.
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No major news story. So that's great. Yeah. So
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the show. So we're things are moving in the right
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direction. Yeah. A bunch of people on YouTube,
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about 4 ,000 getting skill. Like what was the
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program before and what is it? Between three
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to 4 ,000. So yesterday it was just going, it
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was just going good. We're getting a lot more
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impressions. So what an impression is, is basically
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how many people YouTube shows a thumbnail to.
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That's an impression. YouTube has almost tripled
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our impressions. The analytics are going up.
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More people are picking up on the shorts. Uh,
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even on rumble, uh, it's starting to kind of
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cover over there. Now what that means to a monetary
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standpoint, who the hell knows at this point?
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Nobody knows. But from a, but from a numbers
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standpoint, it's making a difference. And YouTube,
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because YouTube pays more for ad revenue than
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what rumble does. Those clicks actually are meaningful.
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So that's good. That's damn good. Yeah, it's
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good. The last, the last payday was pretty shitty
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as, uh, as we just know. So hopefully. of that
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will change. No, I mean, hey, that's always I
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started to start doing the whole gaming thing
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over on YouTube and rumble just to help pick
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up the slack because just really appreciate it
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here. So we really we appreciate you, Robbie.
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By the way, I don't want to get into that. But
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there was some question as to whether that phone
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call with John ever happened. Yeah, it happened
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with me and Robbie and it went well. So that's
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it. So it was good. It was good. So hatchet buried,
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not in anybody's head. She's just buried. So
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that's, that's what needs to happen. Okay. All
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right. I don't want to, this is like, you know,
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people have commented, we've talked too much
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about that or on the show. I don't agree, but
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I think we have certainly it's run its course.
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And so, um, okay. We, and that's what the Q and
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a show is for anyway. All right. So what do you
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want to talk about? Well, because yesterday,
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but we have walked into the tiger cage and closed
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the door by which I'm more than happy to do that
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again, like multiple times. I like pain. That
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would never, that would never happen. with the,
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with the previous coached, uh, co -host. That's
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why I like you being here, JT. What do you mean?
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Well, I guess I have, you asked me about the
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Kung Lao, whatever the hell that dude's name
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is. Hung Kow. How did you forget Hung Kow? Seriously,
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I don't believe you forgot that. I think you're
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making it up that you forgot that. That's not
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true that you forgot that. That's the most memorable
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name in the world. Yeah, it's just great. Listen,
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you snot sucker. I'm two hours behind you. I'm
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tired of only having one cup of coffee, so screw
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you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get that 1775 coffee brewing
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up. All right. No, no. Actually, we're getting
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so... Where's Jeff's coffee, man? I have been
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hounding him about it. I said, listen, I want
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to promote it because I am a coffee connoisseur.
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Anyway, the point I'm trying to get to before
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I derail the show again is that that would have
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never happened with John because he won't jump
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on you the way that you would. He's too agreeable.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And so I enjoy that. I
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love it. And so having your year is objectively
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wrong yesterday. So you had to be objectively
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wrong. I was having only factually you were objectively
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wrong. You were sorry you were which is why I
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bought this shit. I mean, it's like Vietnam is
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different. Listen, we have way too much to talk
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about today. Okay, that's another show. Another
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day. Yeah. I'm trying to say is though, I'm glad
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you're here because that would have happened
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otherwise. Well, thank you, Robbie. And by the
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way, I wasn't trying to be a dick to you. I just
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was like, wait a minute, this is weird. Why is
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Robbie taking this position on this? Yeah. If
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you took offense, Robbie, you would be wrong.
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Well, I'm not a xenophobe. I mean, I get why
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people think that. I'm really not. But a lot
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of people who don't know me, though, think that.
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Well, I mean, tone counts for a lot. Tone bites
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me in the ass a lot when people are listening
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to the way you say something more than they're
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listening to the content of what you say something,
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which is something I don't know. I'm 63. I don't
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think I'm going to get better at it any time
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soon. I've worked on it my entire life, but I
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get it. All right, let's talk. All right, let's
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do Vance first. Let's get that. JD Vance is trash.
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He's such a hypocrite. He's a scoundrel. So obviously,
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everyone remembers when If you're old enough,
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when the US invaded Iraq and one of the many
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atrocities that happened was the trashing of
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the Baghdad National Museum, which contains priceless
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or contained priceless antiquities, which are
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now sitting in rich assholes like lofts in Soho
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and in Bel Air after they were looted and obviously
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went to the scatter to the four winds. Donald
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Rumsfeld was asked about this. It was the requirement
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under international law, which I know you don't
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believe in tomorrow. But it's also under American
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law that we have to, you know, everyone sees
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the monument's men, right? Like, oh, we care
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so much about, like, precious cultural artifacts
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and treasures. And anyway, he was asked about
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this looting. There was no American troops were
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sent to guard the museum. It was a free for all.
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And as the looters ransacked the place. Rumsfeld
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said well stuff happens and So that I had a total
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flashback. Yeah, Dady Vance was asked about this
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Bombing of an app of a rock. I want to say Afghan
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wedding party because we did that so many times
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it became a joke But this Iranian wedding party
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It's been independently verified by journalists
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and other independent NGOs and stuff. It happened.
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It was the US. It's our fault. They were civilians.
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There's no excuse for it. The end, right? JD
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Vance was asked about this at a press conference.
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He said, well, sometimes things happen. Well,
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that's for sure. But in this case, it was the
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US that made this thing happen. I mean, he's
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making it look like he walked on gum and he has
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it stuck on his shoe or something. This is this
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is not like a random incident And I mean, I know
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nothing will come of this, you know, nobody cares
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about you know, the loss of life among Americans
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I mean except for anti -war activists But he
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should I mean that should be disqualifying for
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a run for president like he should it's it's
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so disgusting and he claims to be Catholic fuck
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him I mean If this was disqualifying, every president
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would have been disqualified. Yes. Yes, yes,
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they would. Like all of these people are murderers.
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And, you know, when I keep pointing out, they
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hit that school on purpose. I don't believe that
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this was just a targeting error. And how can
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we say that when, as you pointed out, all the
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wedding parties that we were hitting in Afghanistan,
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Donald Trump celebrating when they murdered all
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of those people in Yemen who were at a religious
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ceremony? And he puts it on Twitter and Twitter
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allows it mass murder to remain on Twitter because
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the president is friends with Elon Musk who owns
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Twitter. Like thinking if that was anybody else,
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any random person putting up celebrating the
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murder of a bunch of, you know, six people or
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seven people, they would never allow that or
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at the very least it would be flagged to death.
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I'm saying they hit that party on purpose. They
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knew what they were doing. I don't believe it
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was and even in his dismissal of it where he
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even seems at some points is skeptical that the
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U .S. did it and makes the point the U .S. doesn't
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target civilians. That's news to me. It's news
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to all the dead civilians, too. Yeah. Yes. Especially
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all the drone strikes where the majority were
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civilians. I mean, look, you're right. Obviously,
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it's bullshit. But like, let's just say for the
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sake of argument that it was true. How is that
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an excuse? Like, you know, if I go, if I get,
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if I'm a fucking retard driver and I keep running
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people over with my car, how long am I keeping
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my license? How long am I still walking free
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on the streets? Right. I mean, I might not, it
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might not be treated as, as first degree murder,
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but I am going to go to prison. I mean, they're
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going to say this Ted Rawls too dangerous to
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drive. He's too dangerous to be out on the street.
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I mean, the U .S. obviously can't be trusted
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with bombs. You know, we hit too many civilians
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by our own standards. And look, it's not a good
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look, or maybe it is a good look, that Hegseth
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got rid of this Obama era board, sorry, Biden
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era board that was established to try to reduce
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civilian casualties in situations like this.
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I mean, of course, obviously the main issue is
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we're bombing countries that we have no business
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in and have no truck with. And so therefore it
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wouldn't happen if we didn't have illegal wars.
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It couldn't happen. But aside from that, when
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we do do an illegal war, Um, we should be trying
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to mitigate civilian casualties and like the
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message that hagseth is sending is We don't care
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about civilian casualties. That's why we're getting
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rid in a 1 .5 trillion dollar defense budget
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That's why we're getting rid of this tiny little
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office with not even 200 people in it Just to
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be clear. Did you say? When we're in an illegal
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war, we should try to cut down on civilian casualties
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Well, we should just not be in a legal war. Jamal,
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if you and I are going to go rob a bank, we should
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try not to kill anyone. We shouldn't rob the
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bank. We're already doing something legal, right?
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Right. And I think that needs to be highlighted.
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Some people would say, well, it's a war. And
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in war, some people die. And that's kind of true.
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But as you point out, it's an illegal war. It's
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a war that we started. It's a war where we have
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an aggression, where we attack a country. Everyone
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who gets a bunion because of us, that's our fault
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because we shouldn't be there. It's our fault.
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Yes. Anything that happens, any civilian that
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dies in the buildings that's blown up, any person.
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Anyone who gets an asthma attack from the dust,
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it's our fault. It's our fault. Meaning everybody
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in Iran on this case is innocent. 100%. We have
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no business being there. We have no business
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being there. There's nothing more hypocritical
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than a pro -life Republican. And that's just
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true. I mean, these same people, they'll condemn
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women for having abortions. Rightly so, in my
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opinion. Well, then turn right around. I've done
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cartoons about that. But if the fetus is inside
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a pregnant Iraqi lady, oh, tough shit. She's
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fair game. Or if it's in a hospital, it's three
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days old. That's okay. Or if you're an eight
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-year -old girl at a school, sucks to be you.
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Or if you're in the ICU in Gaza, tough shit.
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Or if you're starved to death because of sanctions,
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that's okay. I mean, Republicans are not pro
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-life. And that's why liberals, and I think they
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have a point here, they say that they say Republican
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opposition to abortion is largely about controlling
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women. Because if it wasn't, we wouldn't be able
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to point out these these hypocrisies. Yep. Yep,
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they suck. Well, I mean, I always make the argument
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Republicans care for babies up to the point where
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the baby is born. Didn't they tell a baby fuck
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off? And even then only under certain circumstances,
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they don't care about the baby if it's inside
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the belly of a homeless lady. They don't care
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if they don't care about the baby if it's inside
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the belly of a poor person, which is at least
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one out of four Americans. They don't care. I
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mean, if it comes out malnourished or fucked
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up in some way because the mother is poor and
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can't take proper care of her own body. It's
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like, how do you care for a baby up until the
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point where it's born? I had a conversation with
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a guy who was anti -abortion, but he was different
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though. His thing was like, yeah, women, abortion
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should be illegal, but we need to take care of
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the babies that we have. basically meaning this
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idea that the baby is born and all of a sudden
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you just kind of don't care anymore. It's nonsense.
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He thought the Republican position on this was
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insane. Scott Stantus has your friend, the dude
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who you talked to, same position, right? He's
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like, you got to take care of people from conception
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to death. And you've got to, and also he's consistently,
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he's opposed to capital punishment. He's opposed
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to illegal wars. I mean, wars of aggression.
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Yeah. That position I understand though. To me,
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that is a pro -life position. Like, dude, we
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should protect life. If it matters, it matters.
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Which, by the way, I agree with. Me too. Like,
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this idea of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
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I mean, it's fucking written into the Constitution.
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They didn't put that there for no reason. There
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is something to be said for society. They worked
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long and hard on that draft. It was not a two
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in the morning bender with a pot of 1775 coffee
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on, like making it go. They were literally 1775
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coffee. They thought long and hard about this
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shit. Yeah, it matters. Life, liberty, and the
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pursuit of happiness. I mean they put it in the
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document pursuit of happiness. That is mind -blowing
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Yeah, like also said and they also said all men
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are created equal which at the time meant human
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beings right human beings and That is interesting
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because they didn't say all citizens all American
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citizens all Americans They said all men because
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it was about a bigger issue. It's like We're
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all as human beings. We're all equal Yeah, the
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document is profound We don't pay attention to
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it, right? Like they don't believe that shit.
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And this is under, like my hypothesis is the
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further away you get from a revolutionary drive,
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and I know people will say that wasn't a revolutionary
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thing and I accept that. But there was a revolutionary
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spirit, right? I mean, yeah. But the further
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you get away from it, the less people believe
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it. At that point, it becomes more cynical. And
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then this one, Dune gets in and Dune would say,
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well, that's why you need a religious tradition
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to buttress any governmental system that you
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run with. You need a belief set built into it
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in order to keep people all under the same thing.
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Congress doesn't believe it. Like those people
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for the most part are just corrupt and they believe
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in doing whatever is necessary to maintain their
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power base. I don't think they believe this stuff
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in earnest. What they believe in is power and
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using a mechanism in order to gain power. And
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these walls of aggression just kind of spring
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from it. Yeah, I mean, it would be fun to do
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a remake of like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
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and he immediately starts getting visited and
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paid off by lobbyists. Did you ever see, by the
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way, the Eddie Murphy film, A Distinguished Gentleman?
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Yes. It's like a documentary, I mean, of the
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way the system works. Right? I mean, it's like,
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and even the guy that they get, I forget the
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actor's name, that they get to play the majority
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leader of the Senate, or maybe he's the Speaker
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of the House, he looks just like Bob Dole, right?
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But the thing is, it's like, holy shit, like,
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this is like, it's like, idiocracy isn't fiction.
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Not today. No. Not today. Comments, shall we?
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Yeah, okay F you say oh cartoon idea Charlie
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Brown and the kite -eating tree, but Charlie
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Brown is a Palestinian child and the tree is
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Israel Well, I never take ideas from anyone else.
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But thank you for that. I have done more than
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my fair share I've had some I have I actually
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have one Charlie Brown trying to kick the football
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one that is like kind of like a meme it keeps
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coming up and over and over and repurposed online
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I can't say Don't know if I should be flattered
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by that or annoyed by it. I just sort of just
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is what it is Okay, if you so thanks for the
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dollar I watch on YouTube as a member on my TV
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fire stick on the big screen I chat on rumble
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because of censorship you get two active viewers
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from me and we love you if you so and we'd appreciate
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your comments if you so also n times Vance is
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the I don't know what that is. In Dune, Quinzac
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Haderach. Quinzac Haderach was a super being
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that was being genetically, God, man, I can't
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believe you haven't read those books. No, I've
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got to. My ex -wife loved them. They're so good.
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The Peter Peele sleeper has awakened. The writing
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in it is breathtaking. Do you like the first
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movie? Because I didn't. Well, it's like a political
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philosophy book. Dune, God Emperor Dune, even
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Messiah. I mean, although Sting looked cool.
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Yeah, it's really looked cool is peak sting All
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right, John Park. It's always a heavyweight title
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fight between Robbie and JT when it comes to
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religious and sexuality lol We just disagree
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that's fine Alexander Berg, I'm a straight -up
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xenophobe. I don't mind tourists, but Norway
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is for Norwegians Norway is a beautiful country.
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I enjoyed it Blake I missed theater Thursdays,
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so I'm just here for Teddy on flash me Friday.
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Let's go $5. You're getting close only $4 ,972
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to go Indiana let's not forget our shit infrastructure
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states have no money for their residents, but
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plenty of money for Israel True if you said odds
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they kill Trump and make it look like natural
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causes to install events I mean... Low. What
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do you think Vance's chances are? Trump shits
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the bed. From my point of view, he shits the
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bed in the presidency. Yeah. And I mean it metaphorically.
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By the way, today he had some good news. The
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new jobs numbers, as anemic as they were, were
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not as bad as expected. What were they? 166 ,000
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new jobs created. But you know why, don't you?
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They're counting people pick up second and third
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jobs. Yeah. The quality of the job doesn't matter.
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It's like, you know, if you get hired as a CEO,
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it counts the same as if you get hired as a,
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you know, I don't know, some shit. Well, it's
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not one person working. So like, so if you're
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one person and you're working full time at Walmart,
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but then you have to pick up a second job, or
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then if you're picking up doorjacks or something,
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those all count as new jobs. Oh, that's insane.
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That's how they pad the numbers. And the quality
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of the job doesn't matter. If I'm not mistaken,
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correct me if I'm wrong, it's like 80 % of the
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jobs are service. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which, if you
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think about that, that means that's just 80 %
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of the population. Low pay. Yeah. A more accurate
22:01
number. Also, $166 ,000 isn't good anyway. No.
22:05
We've lost 27 ,000 jobs per month on average
22:09
since Trump's been in office. Yeah. But I mean,
22:11
obviously he I mean, look, if I were him, I'm
22:14
going to make the most of the of these numbers,
22:16
you know, today. Well, he doesn't care. Yeah.
22:20
I mean, that's the I mean, well, I should say
22:22
his team cares for the midterms. Right. I mean,
22:25
you know that you know that Republican House
22:26
members are shitting bricks. True. They care
22:29
because they're on the line. Yeah. Donald Trump
22:32
is not running for the election again that we
22:33
know of. What is his incentive? Right. Well,
22:37
I mean. Okay, all right, but let's go back to
22:39
your question, right? So he shits the bed. What
22:42
are J .D. Vance's chances for what, the nomination
22:44
or for? Yeah, for the nomination. I mean, because
22:47
from my point of view, he is going to be fruit
22:50
from the poison in his tree. I could be wrong.
22:52
I think all of them are. Okay, so I'm going to
22:55
repeat the same advice that I gave the Democrats.
22:58
Okay, the right play here is to shoo Trump out
23:02
in January or February. Okay, like after the
23:06
after the midterms say we have heard you America
23:09
Oh put in vance put in vance let vance be present
23:12
president for a year and a half before the election
23:15
That's the play then. Okay. I mean it either
23:19
flies like sores like an eagle or dies like a
23:22
dog But you get him in office He has an opportunity
23:26
like Kamala would have had or Al Gore would have
23:28
had after Monica Lewinsky to make a name for
23:31
himself. Look, he could. He is a very smart man.
23:35
I mean, he could maybe figure out some ways to
23:37
make some inroads with Democrats and get some
23:41
shit done on Capitol Hill. Maybe. Certainly,
23:43
he's much more mentally competent and politically
23:49
competent than Donald Trump. So I'm not saying
23:52
he would be able to pull this off. But given
23:55
what you've got, if you're the Republicans, that's
23:57
the play. Have him resign or have him resign
24:00
due to health issues or have him fall down the
24:03
stairs of airport swine and crack his noggin
24:05
whatever if I can figure something out but like
24:08
You know get vance in there asap. So he runs
24:12
as an incumbent the way lbj ran in 64 agree That's
24:17
a great idea. That's a fantastic idea. You're
24:20
right. I mean because that was If you can make
24:23
trump the senator Basically, all sins orient
24:27
with Trump. And Democrats are howler monkeys
24:30
against Trump. And you get him out. Obviously,
24:35
Vance issues a full pardon. Yeah, he probably
24:39
does, even though he should. In fact, any agreements
24:43
that Democrats make with Vance should include,
24:46
we're not going to accept that. And by the way,
24:47
to your point, Vance would need to work with
24:49
Democrats. Hence, what is he willing to give
24:52
in order to get something actually done? To better
24:55
his chances when he runs again, but like okay,
24:58
but I mean for example social security is about
25:00
to shit the bed in 2032, right? Yes, so I mean
25:03
what if what if he what if like what if vance
25:06
was able to bring in democrats and say listen
25:08
guys um, you know Let donald off the hook. Let's
25:13
put donald in the rearview mirror. That suits
25:15
me as much as it suits you Let's do a let's do
25:19
a grand bargain. We'll save social security And
25:23
we'll do Medicare for All. Is Jamaral Thomas
25:27
happy with that? He just lost me, because they're
25:29
not going to do Medicare for All. Well, no, they're
25:31
not. Because the Democrats are against it maybe
25:33
as more so than the Republicans. Yes. You're
25:35
never going to get it. Yes, yes. Because it's
25:38
all the pharma money's coming in, yeah. Yeah,
25:41
that's never going to come up as a thing. It
25:43
would have to be something else. Any deal that
25:46
democrats make with vance on social security
25:48
is not going to be a deal that jamal thomas and
25:50
most of the public is going to be okay Yeah,
25:53
no, it's going to be it's going to suck ass I
25:55
mean as the resident as the resident person who
25:58
currently qualifies to apply for social security
26:00
here Um, yeah, i'm i'm terrified of what they're
26:03
gonna fucking do to it Yeah, um, keep in mind
26:06
bill clinton was trying to get rid of it if it
26:08
wasn't for monica luinsky True Yeah, a little
26:13
privatizing. You know, precariously placed. OK,
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26:40
Berg. I'm a xenophobe, but there are nuances.
26:42
He's our resident Norwegian. As adopted foreign
26:45
children, which I don't encourage, but I don't
26:47
advocate sending them back, and marriages between
26:49
Norwegians and foreigners. This is too much detail.
26:54
Okay. That's cute. He's like, yeah, I can accept
26:57
marriage. So if I married a Norwegian, he'd be
27:01
okay with it. That's good. He'll come to your
27:04
wedding maybe if you invite him. Trash Panda,
27:07
thanks for the $4 .99. Did you see Trump's tweet
27:09
about Americans having too many paid holidays
27:12
off? Thank you for bringing that up. Yes, I did
27:14
right before Labor Day, by the way. Good timing.
27:16
That's amazing. Jimmy Carter gave that speech
27:21
that pissed off Americans where he was like,
27:23
look, we've become too infatuated with TV and
27:26
blah, blah, blah. The malaise speech, although
27:28
he never said malaise. It's a great speech. It
27:32
is a great speech. It's a very honest speech.
27:35
It's an honest speech. Trump is doing something
27:37
else. Right? Like that's not like this is not
27:41
God, man. And even going from like the Malay
27:44
speech and the competence that that speech was
27:46
delivered to rando tweets about Americans working,
27:51
not working enough. Or I don't know if you heard
27:53
about the house speech, the house thing where
27:55
Trump was like, no, I don't want house prices
27:56
to fall because I don't want basically lazy people
27:59
getting their hands on houses. They're too lazy
28:01
if they can't get a house. He's a psychopath.
28:05
I mean, even just thinking something like that
28:08
is psychotic. And by the way, objectively, the
28:10
United States might have the lowest, but it's
28:13
certainly one of the lowest number of vacation
28:16
days. in the country. Yes, it's right in the
28:19
world. I mean, we have like nine paid holidays,
28:22
nine national holidays a year. Like Iran has
28:25
like 44 or something. It's like we have like
28:29
Europeans all get six months paid vacation and
28:33
they get to travel the world and all that. It's
28:36
no. I mean, we have to tell Americans that they
28:39
don't work hard. How is it that like Hillary,
28:45
I don't want to defend her. But I'm going to
28:47
defend Hillary Clinton, even though I hate her.
28:49
How does she catch so much shit for a basket
28:52
full of deplorables? How does Mitt Romney get
28:55
to catch so much shit for his 47 % comment? And
28:59
Donald Trump gets just no shit for telling some
29:03
of the hardest working people in the world that
29:04
they're fucking lazy? Yeah, the hardest working
29:08
people in the world. Not some of the hardest
29:10
working. Like when I was in Spain and it was
29:14
during the election with, what is his name? Beto.
29:20
Beto. Beto O 'Rourke. Who's using the term Beto
29:23
even though he's not his man. Whatever. But I
29:26
mean, I think it was given to him. But it's weird
29:29
because it's like Beto O 'Rourke? Yeah, it's
29:32
like his wife or something like that gave it
29:33
to him. It was a very strange thing. People were
29:35
like, he was taking it just because he was trying
29:36
to get the... He's such a fraud. But that being
29:42
said. I was covering that election because he
29:45
almost beat Ted Cruz. It was close. And my wife
29:50
went out early in the morning in Spain in order
29:53
to get the internet card that allowed me to continue
29:55
to do the reporting on it and the coverage of
29:58
it because mine effectively was going to die
30:00
out. Spain, as you know, during air siesta are
30:04
off like three hours of the day. Yep. God bless
30:08
him. And as a lefty, I'm like... What the eff
30:11
is this? What the eff is this? I need to get
30:13
my video card. It's good for their sex lives
30:15
too because there's nothing like afternoon delay.
30:18
Yeah, fair enough. I needed to get my video card.
30:23
It puts you in the mind of like how different
30:25
this is. That would have never happened in America.
30:28
Well, as you know, you've traveled all over the
30:32
world, right? It's like, okay, so we're the only
30:35
country in the world. Where you where you beat
30:38
someone you don't know know that it comes up
30:40
in a conversation. So what do you do as in? What's
30:43
your job? I brought that question up at a you
30:46
know I was having a great round of drinks at
30:49
a punk club in the 80s with some Brits in London
30:53
and We're just getting along and they were like
30:56
they were they knew they knew I was an American
30:57
because I tried to order a screwdriver And it
31:00
was like, hey mate, you're at a bar, not a hardware
31:04
store. Because it's not a drink in England, right?
31:08
And I didn't, I don't know, I was 25. And so
31:11
we started talking and someone said, so what
31:13
do you do? And they're like, what do we do? We're
31:16
here drinking, mate. And I'm like, okay, okay,
31:19
but I mean like for a living. And they all started
31:22
laughing. They're like, this is England, mate.
31:25
We're all on the dole. Yeah, they all were laughing.
31:34
That's what it means, like in America, that conversation.
31:36
My ex, I remember her and I got into this, for
31:40
one, just to give perspective. They give them
31:42
like a month vacation at like a spa and stuff
31:45
like that. Like some of the stuff is just, from
31:47
my reference point, it's just so extreme. And
31:50
I remember, like her and I got into this argument
31:53
that was purely an argument based upon her being
31:56
in Austria and me being an American. And her
31:58
thing was like, you just care more about money
32:01
than us being together. And I'm like, dude, there
32:06
is no safety net. Like what are you talking about
32:08
right now? Like you are living in your nice welfare
32:11
state, that if anything goes wrong, they'll pay
32:13
for your living expenses, they'll pay for your
32:15
housing, they'll pay for all that stuff. Worst
32:17
come to worst. Capitalism is economic terrorism.
32:20
You wake up in the morning. Terrified that you
32:24
may not like be able to eat in the future. Yeah,
32:26
actually you dream about it. Well at night, too
32:30
There's no way out that like it's It is a very
32:35
difficult country very like I get all of the
32:38
thing about optimism and Opportunity and all
32:41
of this other stuff and blah blah blah as if
32:43
that's not necessarily offered in other countries
32:45
I'm just kind of point out that it's It's a capitalistic
32:49
country capital is king. If you don't necessarily
32:52
have it, you're not necessarily high up on the
32:54
totem pole in regards to what can take place.
32:56
And the people who have it, especially in the
32:58
context of a political power, don't ever use
33:01
it to the benefit of us. It's almost like they
33:04
use it to add detriment. And that's not necessarily
33:07
true everywhere else around the globe. him making
33:12
that point like it's just it just smacks you
33:14
in the face whether it's the argentinian cows
33:17
whether it's the b1 visas i don't know if you
33:19
were running i mean when they were running during
33:21
the race they were like well americans are dumber
33:22
and this is coming from a foreigner that's living
33:25
in america like out of curiosity okay i know
33:28
why republicans are shutting up about this although
33:30
they should freak out but okay it's team blue
33:32
i mean team red whatever okay but Why are the
33:35
Democrats making hay out of this? There should
33:38
be ads. They should be showing this all the time.
33:44
Because they agree. They're paid by the same
33:48
people. Y 'all keep acting like there's a difference
33:50
between the Democrats and Republicans. Oh, I
33:53
don't act like that at all. They are paid by
33:54
the exact same people. That's why they're not
33:56
squawking. Seriously, that's exactly why. I don't
33:59
think that's true. They're both interested in
34:02
being, you know, in running the show. Otherwise,
34:04
there wouldn't be elections and they wouldn't
34:06
campaign against each other. Elections don't
34:08
matter, Ted. That's for public consumption. You
34:11
get to vote by whoever is selected by the oligarchs
34:15
you control. That's all true. Elections don't
34:19
matter. Donald Trump is going to shoot Liz Cheney.
34:23
Like that's extreme Hey, like that's not like
34:26
there is a contest. I mean look there's a real
34:30
contest Does it really matter for our lives?
34:33
No, but there's a real I mean there is a contest.
34:37
It's Coke or Pepsi I mean come on. It's like
34:40
in sports. I mean, you know sure most of the
34:43
New York Knicks only one of them's a New Yorker.
34:46
So it's all fake. But the New York Knicks play
34:51
hard, they are trying to beat whoever else. I
34:56
do have a question though, and I'll go away.
34:59
JT, especially if you're talking about Europe
35:02
and Austria and stuff. Could Austria have a welfare
35:07
state? Could France, for that matter, or these
35:10
other European countries, if there was not a
35:12
NATO? So, if they had to defend themselves, could
35:17
they have a welfare state? But it's surrounded
35:23
by NATO countries. I mean, there's no one going
35:25
to screw with it. I guess the point I'm trying
35:26
to say is, without that security blanket, would
35:30
Europe be able to afford the welfare state that
35:33
it has, or would they become more capitalistic
35:35
like what we are? Who is attacking Europe? Nobody,
35:39
but Europeans fight each other all the time,
35:41
at least they used to. Not anymore. But they
35:43
don't now. And for the most part, they cooperate,
35:46
especially under the European Union. I get your
35:48
question. Your question is basically, hey, if
35:50
America wasn't defending, it had to put money
35:53
into a military budget. Yeah, we're subsidizing
35:54
them. Could they do it? We're subsidizing them,
35:57
so therefore they have money. I mean, it's easy
35:58
to have a welfare state if you don't have to
36:00
pay for your own defense. Yeah, but if you don't
36:03
need that defense that's being provided, it's
36:06
a service that you don't need. It's like it's
36:09
like a magazine that you're subscribing to and
36:11
you never read and then like you can't afford
36:13
it anymore And you cancel the subscription nothing.
36:16
It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't like they're
36:18
not nobody's at their gates Like let's we're
36:22
paying for this expensive service. They don't
36:24
need the wars that are taking place are backed
36:27
by the US Like meaning if the US wasn't a part
36:30
of this there will be no enemies at anybody's
36:33
gates in real terms, at least on a global scale.
36:36
That's true. The war in Iran, the war in Europe,
36:39
even hell, the fact that the Israelis run them
36:42
up is all based upon the United States and their
36:44
global, let's say, positioning around the globe
36:47
and using the military assets in order to try
36:50
to affect change globally or at the very least
36:52
prevent this idea of a multi -polarity state.
36:55
Nobody is at Europe's gates. And the same thing
36:58
is true for America. Nobody's at our gates. We
37:01
don't have to spend a trillion dollars for our
37:02
military. We choose to spend a trillion dollars
37:05
for our military. You read what's left, Ravi,
37:07
I mean several times. It's like, you know, Brazil
37:11
only spends 50 billion dollars a year on their
37:14
military. They probably spend more than they
37:16
need to because they have grift and graft too,
37:19
right? That's one to what is that one two hundredth
37:24
of a trillion dollars and there and they have
37:27
bigger defense needs than the United States does
37:30
they have hostile borders They have big borders.
37:33
They have borders that are geographically almost
37:36
impenetrable along in very difficult terrain
37:39
We know for they do it for 50 billion. We can
37:43
do it for 30 billion. Oh for sure No, just the
37:49
reason I'm asking that is, up until 1940, Europeans
37:55
just traditionally, every generation, they get
37:58
bored. Someone just starts fighting somebody
37:59
else. It's not the Russians. Europeans fight
38:02
each other all the time, at least they used to.
38:05
And so, no, you can make the argument that -
38:07
But the US has no role in preventing that now,
38:10
as Jamar pointed out. Of course it does. We are
38:13
in the military. Well, they're not we're not
38:15
we're not like if let's say france goes back
38:17
to war against germany the us isn't weighing
38:20
in Well, yeah, you do us you would ever allow
38:25
it to happen in the first place But i'm saying
38:27
is that the u that would never the existence
38:29
of the eu is meant to make sure that never happens
38:31
again the us is a non -fact NATO in the us is
38:36
is about supposedly about defending russia from
38:39
the big bad ruskies and maybe some arabs, right
38:43
but It's not about internal European conflicts.
38:48
Like, you know, NATO is kind of, I mean, I guess
38:50
the only exception there would have been Bosnia,
38:52
but. But we obviously had a point of view on
38:56
that one. I mean, did you think that the Russians
39:00
might look across the border at Prussia? I think
39:03
we want that back. Do you think that the Europeans
39:06
have evolved past that point? I think the European
39:10
Union is a stabilizing influence on Europe. That's
39:12
what I think. And I think the European Union
39:14
on some level prevents. It's not foolproof. It's
39:17
not fail safe. Right. I mean, I don't think anything
39:20
is fail safe. Like any conflict can erupt between
39:24
nations, depending upon what takes place in a
39:26
material sense. But it is a constraint. Let's
39:33
talk about some related matters, the Falklands
39:36
and Germany. Let's nail Germany and Russia down.
39:43
So Russia is going to shut down German cultural
39:45
centers, according to Sergey Lavrov. That's in
39:49
retaliation for Germany blaming Russia for these
39:54
drones that were found at the Leipzig airport,
39:57
sort of near and bouncing against Ukrainian.
40:00
planes, if we believe that story, which there's
40:04
reason not to. And in Munich yesterday, a couple
40:09
of IEDs were thrown at a construction site where
40:13
some defense companies were. A couple of Bulgarian
40:16
dudes were arrested. We don't know if they're
40:18
just people of interest or witnesses or if they're
40:21
suspects. I'm going to say they're probably suspects.
40:24
The implication there is that the Bulgarians
40:26
might have some kind of Attachment to Russia,
40:30
but look, let's face it. There's no no I mean
40:33
to me with that rung like it looked to me just
40:36
like Obviously more info we need more information
40:39
there, but there's a lot of people in Germany
40:42
who are not happy with Germany's warmongering
40:46
stances against Russia and Generally remilitarization
40:50
and all that shit. So I this a lot of this probably
40:54
doesn't have anything to do with Russia But it's
40:57
probably domestic domestic politics. It's like
41:00
if someone throws an IED at Lockheed Martin's
41:04
offices in the United States, it's not Russia
41:06
or China that did it or Iran. Just to piggyback
41:12
on that, the AFD may win because of that. Meaning
41:16
the AFD numbers wouldn't be gaining and wouldn't
41:19
be growing if Germans weren't expressing certain
41:24
amount of discontent against the government.
41:26
if that makes sense. They're the party that is
41:28
asking questions like, why are our businesses
41:30
closing? Why aren't we using Russian energy?
41:32
Why are we fighting this war? Why are we doing
41:34
this? In which case, the population says, yeah,
41:37
that makes a lot of sense. I mean, to put it
41:39
in perspective, the German government spying
41:44
on the AFD or using the powers of the government
41:46
to try to keep them out of office, it's kind
41:49
of an indication that their numbers are growing.
41:52
They just shut down four Volkswagen businesses.
41:55
in Germany. I mean, it originates in Germany,
41:59
and yet they can't even keep their plants open
42:01
because the costs are soaring to such a degree
42:03
that it's not just for companies, that is for
42:05
everybody. And I can tell you, when I was there,
42:08
I was in, God, man, I think it was less than
42:11
10 years ago, a beautiful country, expensive
42:16
regarding energy. The fact that they shut down
42:19
Nord Stream kind of gets across. what the energy
42:22
numbers may be looking like now as opposed to
42:24
what they were looking like even when I was there.
42:26
And winter is coming to use it. Winter is coming.
42:29
So a drone that apparently a limp drone at that,
42:34
I think it was like three of them, apparently
42:36
tried to take down a cargo plane in Germany.
42:39
And I kept thinking to myself, are you telling
42:41
me that the Russians who are blowing the shit
42:43
out of pretty much anything and everything in
42:46
Ukraine using jet powered drones, the GERN drone,
42:51
that they couldn't get one right when it hit
42:53
the plane in Germany. It was like, okay, this
42:56
makes sense. Good point, very good point. They
42:59
specialize in drones. Well, not to mention, right,
43:03
drones don't travel hundreds and hundreds of
43:05
miles. They can't. And that they have a limited
43:08
range in which they're going, meaning unless
43:10
you have an airplane. They were launched domestically,
43:12
had to have been. It had had been somewhere close.
43:15
And yet. the drone was poorly constructed and
43:19
it's like the Russians did it. And even the other
43:23
idea was like we found a weapons cache. If I
43:25
were the Russians, I'd be insulted. You'd be
43:27
like, you don't think we're better than that?
43:30
We have been hitting Ukraine every day with drones.
43:34
We've been blowing up. Everybody knows Russia's
43:37
drone game is excellent. Yeah. And yet the Germans
43:40
looking at a poorly constructed drone is thinking
43:42
the Russians did it. The weapons cache that is
43:45
apparently was set up professionally for russian
43:48
spies to get their hands on in order to assassinate
43:50
germans again they're not even assassinating
43:54
ukrainians who they're in a war with but by the
43:56
way if the russians want you dead you're gonna
43:59
have a cup of polonium tea or you're gonna go
44:01
out a window or whatever or you get or your plane's
44:04
gonna have a problem like hey that's what's that
44:07
funny sound from the engine right it's gonna
44:09
be right yeah but go to learn that the hard way
44:11
right um but it was an accident classified as
44:14
a mistake It's fucking stupid. Listen, it's perfectly
44:22
normal for there to be a grenade on a commercial
44:25
plane that just happens to go off at 40 ,000.
44:29
It happens all the time. That's true. I mean,
44:32
who can't say that hasn't happened to them on
44:34
a plane? Of course. I mean, it's kind of like
44:37
an average passenger. Just last week, Clovis,
44:41
I mean, we say no more. Right. All right. Let's
44:44
let's move on here. Crown Heights Brainiac. Thanks
44:47
for the $4 .99. Mr. Bonespur is calling Americans
44:50
lazy. Oh, the irony. So true. Effy So thanks
44:54
for the dollar and an explanation. Kite eating
44:56
tree cartoon idea was because you love peanuts
44:58
like me. Yeah, I'm gay for peanuts. And Israel
45:02
banning is Palestinian kids flying kites, even
45:06
killing them. Yeah, you've heard about that,
45:09
right? They banned it's amazing the politics
45:12
of kite -flying whether it be Afghanistan or
45:15
or that it's for the Israelis It's so absurd
45:19
Have you ever had a conversation with Israeli
45:21
like where they're talking to you and they're
45:25
I wasn't heading up to Nepal my entire trip.
45:29
I was sitting beside two Israelis Both were IDF
45:33
members and at the time it wasn't overly political,
45:35
but I had been traveling through Egypt for the
45:37
good three, four weeks, I've been in Egypt for
45:41
like a month. And so you see like a lot of stuff
45:44
that they show you on air that they would never
45:46
show you in the United States. And so by the
45:48
time I'm talking to them, I'm like, well, dude,
45:50
you're destroying olive trees, you're destroying
45:52
this, you're demolishing this. And at some point
45:55
he was like, you're right, I can understand why
45:58
people would think about us in that particular
46:00
way. And even with Fertle, he was like, I lived
46:02
in some of the occupied areas where they had
46:04
to put up like Bob wire and stuff like that in
46:07
order to keep people from throwing things at
46:08
him and everything else. He's like, I get it.
46:11
I was like, thank you for being honest. This
46:13
fits within that. It's just ways of punishing
46:16
people. Just ways of making people's lives miserable.
46:19
Yeah, they're sadists. And yeah, I mean, the
46:22
thing is when you look, the thing is anybody
46:24
who is radical, who is totally Zionist just needs
46:29
to go to Israel. Go to Jerusalem and just look
46:32
at the checkpoints and the way that they treat
46:34
the Palestinians. Just do that. Just do that
46:38
and tell me that it's okay. As an American, I
46:41
go through in two minutes, Palestinians wait
46:44
six hours in it. Yeah, and it's on purpose. You
46:47
know, I mean, they're fucking around. It's like
46:49
it's a system, right? Okay, Douglas Hoban. Robbie
46:55
still believing in the US is paying for Europe
46:57
propaganda. um richie dupe i think the algo has
47:02
picked up deprogrammed this is on youtube it's
47:05
a feature channel on my feed on my feed today
47:08
what's the algo the algorithm oh oh okay he said
47:13
the algorithm that just picked it up yeah well
47:15
that that would explain the big jump that's good
47:17
i mean yeah that's good better better a year
47:22
and a half late than never but right thank you
47:26
youtube it never hit that number oh no no really
47:30
no no i mean there was the crazy there was the
47:33
crazy month uh that you know when he first hit
47:36
and was going viral and stuff like that um and
47:39
the numbers got like up to 5 000 something like
47:42
that so this is a this is a new level i mean
47:45
i think if it stays here if it does if it's anything
47:48
like this will it's a it's a new it's a new level
47:51
for sure um It's good. All right, two more stories.
47:55
I'm glad we're hitting our targets a little faster
47:58
than yesterday. Okay, so the triumphal arch,
48:03
which by the way violates DC law because it's
48:05
going to be higher than the Washington Monument,
48:07
right? Then you're not supposed to... It's supposed
48:09
to be that high. 250 feet. I don't know what
48:13
the height of the Washington Monument is. I'm
48:15
looking that up. Well, no, I just mean this arch
48:17
is going to be like the one in Paris. At least
48:19
250 feet. OK, OK, I'm lying. It's not taller
48:22
than the Washington Monument. Not even close.
48:24
But it's shorter than it's half the height of
48:27
the Washington Monument. But anyway, I love how
48:30
Trump said this is going to honor the Arlington
48:33
National Cemetery because it'll be near there.
48:35
I'm like, the Arlington National Cemetery is
48:38
already an honor. It's its own honor. It is an
48:44
honor to be buried in Arlington. It is an honor,
48:47
right? I mean, it's like, it doesn't really need
48:50
to be honored and also do justice to the Capitol.
48:53
I'm like, it's already the Capitol. I mean, you
48:56
know, what's this adding to anything? It's also
49:04
so ugly and you know, look I'm gonna I'm gonna
49:08
go full Jamarro here. This won't happen I mean,
49:12
I remember I had a professor Robert Paxton fascism
49:14
professor and he told me that there's a He was
49:19
like well, the thing is in a revolution, right?
49:21
Like the revolutionaries never tear down the
49:24
old shit. They move into the infrastructure,
49:26
right? So Like, you know, the Soviet, the Bolsheviks,
49:30
they move into, you know, what's it called? The
49:34
presidential palace. Into the Kremlin. They move
49:37
into the Kremlin, right? In France, they move
49:42
into, you know, the Elysee Palace, right? They
49:46
just, everybody just sort of moves into the old
49:48
shit. And that's kind of like, Democrats will
49:53
at some point, presumably, be in charge again.
49:56
They will not come with a bulldozer and knock
49:59
down this ugly piece of shit. It'll stay there.
50:02
You know, everything just stays. Even temporary
50:05
shit. The Washington Square Park Arch in New
50:10
York City was meant to be temporary, but it was
50:13
like, ah, we're just gonna keep it. Eiffel Tower
50:15
was meant to be temporary. Eiffel Tower was meant
50:18
to be temporary? Meant to be temporary. And it
50:20
was like, oh, we like it. We're going to keep
50:22
it. So, you know, are you sure about that? I'll
50:26
look it up again, but I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
50:30
I will. Because I thought it was an artistic
50:32
thing that people hated in the beginning, but
50:34
it was built for a fair. It was for the 1889
50:38
World's Fair. Yeah, it was never it was intended
50:41
to be taken down when it got done. But the people
50:43
was supposed to be taken down after 20 years.
50:45
Oh, I didn't know that. 20 years? Nobody's taking
50:48
stuff down after 20 years. Nobody's doing that.
50:53
20 years. Also, by the time the 1909 permit expired,
50:57
because it was built in 1889, the tower had proven
51:01
too valuable as a radio antenna to tear down.
51:05
During the wars, that's right. Well, before the
51:07
war, yeah. But yeah. Yeah, so. So, yeah, I mean,
51:12
the point is nothing. I mean, I would love it
51:14
if just for once Democrats were like, We're tearing
51:16
down the ballroom. We're putting down, we're
51:18
putting, we're putting this wing back up. We're
51:21
rebuilding Jackie O's, uh, you know, Rose garden
51:23
and the, and the arch, we're calling out a fucking
51:26
airstrike on that. Do it Trump style where it's
51:29
like, we're gonna do it on national television.
51:31
We're going to, everybody can come and watch.
51:33
Cool. Yeah. Blow that fucker up. Tear down the
51:38
ball from, they should do that just out of malice.
51:41
Yeah. Out of malice and out of principle. Um,
51:45
But anyway, so but okay, so this is a for people
51:47
who are watching overseas You might say well
51:49
why who gives a fucking shit and that's a fair
51:51
question And look this what this is is this is
51:54
a this announcement is a direct response to the
51:57
supreme court allowing trump to Even though the
52:01
supreme court basically said it's illegal to
52:04
build the ballroom at the white house without
52:07
congressional approval They basically punted
52:10
on separation of powers and now The now trump
52:14
is on the loose. He's like, all right Well, i'm
52:15
gonna fucking do whatever I want so he's building
52:17
this with taxpayer money I mean, you know look
52:20
it's hardly the biggest waste of taxpayer money
52:22
going on. That would be the wars but it's still
52:26
interesting and um, you know, it just shows that
52:30
when you You know, it shows that when separation
52:33
of powers crumble And you have an asshole in
52:37
charge who's willing to take advantage of it
52:39
that like all decency and self -control Goes
52:42
out the window and yeah, that's that's what we
52:46
have now. I mean god knows what this fucker is
52:48
going to build now I don't think I would care
52:53
so much if it wasn't for the other stuff Like
52:57
I don't know like this seems like an ego thing.
52:58
This is like penis envy I don't know what this
53:00
well if he wasn't blowing up iranians for israel
53:03
I I might not care but yeah, but he's building
53:06
random stuff almost as if a distraction like
53:10
hey Look at this new arch. Look at this new ballroom.
53:12
Look at these things that I've added. It's like,
53:14
dude, you've cost us literally somewhere like
53:18
a hundred billion dollars. He's like Saddam,
53:21
like during the Iran -Iraq war. The country's
53:24
getting fucked up, and he's building monuments
53:27
to himself all over the country. Well, it's what
53:29
Caligula did. I mean, how does this any different?
53:32
Seriously, I mean, the man burned down half of
53:34
Rome so he could build a palace to himself. Yeah.
53:38
I mean, that's what Trump's doing. We should
53:40
call them boots. That's what Cleggula means,
53:42
by the way, in Latin. Oh, I didn't know that.
53:44
It means a little shoe. Boots Trump. Yeah. Well,
53:49
no, but Mr. Bonespurrs does need better arch
53:51
support. So he's getting an arch. He's getting
53:54
some arch support. I can see it. It's so pathetic.
53:57
Like he has literally cost each American around
54:01
the neighborhood of like a thousand dollars.
54:03
because of the inflation and everything else
54:05
as a result of the wars that he's effectively
54:07
running. And he's building the stuff. And as
54:10
you point out, attacking, basically saying Americans
54:12
aren't working hard enough. Oh, we have to help
54:15
the Argentinians over American farmers. Diesel
54:18
is like six bucks in Richmond. And if it's six
54:22
bucks in Richmond, who is typically low in regards
54:24
to the gas prices across the United States, what
54:27
is it in other locations? And again, this is
54:30
farming. Fertilizer anything that you're going
54:32
back from the store from the standpoint of grains
54:34
and wheat and those type of things. That's what's
54:35
gonna go through the roof Totally. We got to
54:38
talk about the Falklands. So in 1982 if memory
54:42
serves the Argentinian Argentina invaded the
54:49
Falkland Islands, which is a British colony and
54:53
obviously Understandably the Argentine's Argentina
54:57
claims it it's obviously much closer to them
55:01
than it is to England. Things of, you know, the
55:04
Brits under Maggie Thatcher successfully kicked
55:08
the Argentinians out. It still remains a point
55:11
of conflict. Malay basically is once, is now,
55:17
you know, as a nationalist, is saber rattling
55:20
over Argentina. The official U .S. stance is
55:24
neutrality, like. you know, well, whatever you
55:27
guys work it out has nothing to do with us. Trump
55:29
said that he might reconsider that for Argentina
55:32
and then end up, you know, basically supporting
55:35
Argentina's claim. I'm very torn about this.
55:39
He's, Millet, by the way, is basically trying
55:42
to sort of very trumpily go after a British oil
55:46
concession in the Falklands. which he claims
55:50
is also draining Argentina's oil reserves, which
55:55
are partly also under Argentina proper. And so
56:00
he's trying to block it with sanctions and with
56:02
a military blockade. So obviously tensions are
56:07
rising there. I'm really sympathetic to Argentina's
56:11
claim over the fault loads. You know, I'm anti
56:14
-colonialist and I think Probably the Falklands
56:16
belong to Argentina properly, but the same time
56:20
I hate Malay because he's a right -wing shithead
56:24
and he's like it and he's imposing massive draconian
56:28
Austerity cuts on the Argentine people for no
56:32
good reason while he lines the pockets of the
56:34
wealthy elites. So he's an asshole This is one
56:37
of those cases in my view that like the asshole
56:40
happens to be right. What do you think? I Think
56:43
the asshole happens to be right. I think those
56:44
are Argentinian lands, meaning taking the layout
56:47
of it for a second. Those lands are far closer
56:51
as opposed to British colonialists who are like
56:54
thousands of miles away who've decided that these
56:56
are now British colony. Okay, well, that's interesting.
56:59
They look nothing like Britain. You're nowhere
57:02
near Britain. Yeah, if you could take it back,
57:05
it's fair game. It's Argentinian. Why don't you
57:07
just let the people do their vote? I mean, do
57:09
you want to live when you all would be part of
57:11
the United Kingdom or the failed imploding nation
57:14
of Argentina? Have you seen the UK recently?
57:18
That's a dumpster fire for sure. That's what
57:21
I'm saying. But the UK is not the one having
57:25
the American president bail out their food industry.
57:28
The problem is that you would have, there's a
57:30
lot of Brits who live there and they'd be allowed
57:32
to vote, right? So the colonists would be voting
57:35
too. It's a lot of Brits there. Let's be honest,
57:39
it's a colony. They're right beside Argentina.
57:43
I don't care about Britain's claim on colonies
57:47
thousands of miles away. I just don't. If Malay
57:51
has the power to take Falklands back, God bless
57:53
them. If Trump helps them, even more so. I don't
57:55
care about the Brits. Right. Right. No. Yeah.
58:00
So it's obviously... And by the way, the United
58:06
States was involved here. the Argentinians took
58:09
it back from Spain in 1811, and then the U .S.
58:14
in 1831. Would this have been Andrew Jackson,
58:19
Robbie? The U .S. sent a warship down there to
58:22
bomb the Argentinians and turn it over to the
58:26
Brits. Maybe when we want brown people controlling
58:28
their territory. God forbid. Well, that's probably
58:35
because of the back then it doesn't have been
58:37
the negotiations were happening, but when they
58:39
were trying to figure out the border between
58:40
Canada and the United States, that might've been
58:42
a concession that like San Juan Island and all
58:44
that shit. Yeah. Yeah. That, that could have
58:48
been like a, like a, like a trade off, like a
58:52
game of like a playing the game, the board game
58:55
risk or something. Um, yeah. So that Trump is
58:59
going to back the Brits for some reason, I feel
59:01
like he backed my leg. I mean, he's backed them
59:03
in everything else. Although all he said is I'm
59:06
willing to reconsider. Like, yeah, it's not.
59:09
Yeah, whatever that basically pay me. Who's going
59:12
to give me what? Exactly, exactly. All right,
59:16
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