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#154: White House Correspondence Dinner Manifesto / Civil War Between Empire & Homeland · Come Together with Ephraim Herschmann

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Welcome to another episode of Come Together.
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What's up everyone, we are back for another solo episode.
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I can't believe it's already been 5 episodes since my last
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solo one, but cheers. And it's been a lot of fun.
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It's been an amazing week, week and a half.
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It's been truly, truly nuts. And I wanted to talk about some
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things, including obviously some breaking news over the weekend
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and a lot of, you know, President Trump getting there
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was a shooter rather at the White House correspondents
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dinner. And he wasn't actually, I don't
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think ever, I don't think he made it to try to get it to
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Trump, but obviously he was there for that.
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And actually as of just a couple of minutes ago, it's 2:45 on
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April 26th and Sunday afternoon, just a couple of minutes ago, I
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the manifesto of the shooter or the attempted shooter, I think
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he shot, he tried to shoot one person.
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He shot one person rather once, one guard, Secret Service
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member, That's the word. And yeah, but the guy's fine.
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He got shot in the chest, who's wearing a full of a bulletproof
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vest, thank God. And I think that was it.
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And the guy has been killed. I don't even think that he was
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expecting this to be a suicide mission as far as this manifesto
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goes. But it's also really interesting
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and important to note that the manifesto is only being released
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in part at the moment, as according to the New York Post
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two hours ago. And I want to read it and maybe
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talk about it a little bit, or at least kind of just.
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I think this is. Really interesting because his
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manifesto felt like it wasn't written by someone that was
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haunted by, you know, a chemical imbalance in their brain.
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Doesn't sound like someone who is on hormone blockers or is
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particularly unstable or unwell. And this seems to be pretty
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thought out and pretty intentional.
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And it feels a little bit more like the Luigi mangion guy, a
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little bit more down his lane than say some kind of mass
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shooter or some kind of even the kid that the kid that shot that,
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that that tried to shoot Trump or that hit his ear in Butler,
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that didn't feel like the same thing.
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And maybe it's because of the fact that there actually is a
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manifesto and because of the fact that we can get an insight
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into this guy's head. His name is the alleged, the
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alleged gunman's name is Cole Allen.
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And there's some crazy. Some.
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Crazy stuff on on X about an account two years ago that just
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tweeted his name. Just tweeted the name Cole Allen
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and like and that was it. And I don't think that tweet
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like was it had ever given, had ever been given any context.
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But that also doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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Again, anything in a vacuum, kind of anything in a vacuum
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could be portrayed or twisted however you want it to be.
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Just like I saw yesterday that Caroline Lovett said before,
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maybe an hour before the actual event happened for the incident,
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that that, that, you know, she goes, it's going to be a typical
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Trump speech. There's going to be comedy.
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There's going to be great bits. There'll be shots fired.
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And like, everyone on Twitter immediately went nuts.
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Like no. Are you kidding?
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She's in on it. But.
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Come on man, just twist the words in my opinion.
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I feel like that's something you could apply Occam's Razor to.
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Let's let's read this for a second.
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Hello everybody. So I have.
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So I may have given a lot of people a surprise.
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Today let me. Start off by apologizing.
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To everyone whose whose trust I abuse.
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On to why I did any of this I. Am a citizen of the United
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States of America. What my representatives do
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reflects on me and I'm no longer willing to permit PETA.
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Whatever rape, whatever is right, I guess.
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Rape is already said the word and traitor.
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I hope YouTube doesn't take me down and traitor to coat my
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hands with his crimes. So this is obviously very
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politically motivated. Obviously this gentleman, this
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person, this teacher, I think actually is, you know, obviously
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I think he feels a lot of. What the whole?
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Of a lot, a lot of the country that can't say anything feel I,
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I, I really believe that's true. I don't think that I think that
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it's very clear based on how unpopular Trump's become just a
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year and a half after his presidency.
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And apparently, by the way, this isn't just Trump.
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I want to make that clear. I'm actually reading this
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awesome book called Unstable majorities continue by Morris
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Fiona Fiorina. Excuse me.
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And, and this gentleman makes a really interesting point that
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it's extremely uncommon, at least in the last 20-30 years or
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maybe more 4050 years to, for a president to kind of make these
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promises that they can't really live up to.
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And a couple of years, you know, and, and even despite whatever
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popularity they had going into the presidency, by the midterm,
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people are usually pretty disillusioned.
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And obviously this seems to really strongly be the case over
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here. But this obviously I think is
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another step up because this isn't something say this isn't
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something that we're saying is like, Hey, you know, how how
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come you bailed out the banks, which was really a bad enough
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thing as it is, and that there were no arrests.
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It's not as bad as a 20 year Middle Eastern war for really no
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stated reason, even though it's pretty bad.
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But I mean, we're talking about like, I mean, the, the, I think
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the Epstein thing is too big to be pushed under the rug.
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And whether or not it's being temporarily kicked down the
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kicked down the even though the cans being kicked down the road
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a little bit with the Iranian war, I think that enough, I
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think that the same forces that swung the election towards Trump
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this past election, the same forces are going to absolutely
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crush the administration and in administrations to come.
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I think that the voice is, I think the voices on the Internet
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are so loud. And I think that events like
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this reinforce that. And listen, you know.
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I keep on, I keep on thinking. This every couple of weeks,
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every every month or two. But I just think about how many
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of these really significant events, the missing scientists,
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the Epstein list, Trump's. So this is Trump's third
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assassination. You know, third would be
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assassin. This is like a.
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Crazy historic time. I mean, this is this time period
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and, and we, we've kind of the only reason I think that we're
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really able to process. We don't even process it.
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I think that things are just so hard for so many people on a
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regular basis and people are so busy with their day-to-day lives
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and lives are getting harder and harder to live year after year
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that people are so focused on being, you know, on, on just
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trying to keep their head above water that they don't really
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have time or effort until they kind of snap.
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And when you do snap this, you know, I mean, we have, we have 3
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assassination attempts. I mean, this is it's nuts, but
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there's been very little response from any of the
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representation of the people, anyone that was, you know, that
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any accountability for promises that were, you know, made or
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broken. And, you know, Pam Bondi being
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fired might be one thing, but I don't think her replacement was
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much better. As he steps in and goes, we're
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closing the buck on the Epstein case and everyone else is like,
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I cannot believe that. Like, like that's what got
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bounty fired to begin with, you know, like, I mean.
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I mean, you can't. Really argue that she was like
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doing much else. That was like bad bad I guess.
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This is so blatant. It was so dumb and it was she
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looks so bad. And then the guy's going to come
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in. It's just basically swap.
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It's not swapping out of policy, it's swapping out of face and
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people aren't going to buy that. I don't, I, I don't know anyone
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that buys that for even a minute.
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OK, Anyway, so I'm a citizen of the United States of America.
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What my representatives do reflect on me, reflects on me.
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And I'm no longer willing to permit a whatever, whatever and
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a traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
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Administration officials not including Mr. Patel.
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They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest
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Secret Service. There are targets only if
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necessary and need to be incapacitated non lethally if
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possible. Akai hope they're wearing body
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armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who
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aren't. And interesting that he actually
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that that was released and that was actually the only case of
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any kind of damage was a non lethal shot.
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Because according to Trump, at least last night during his post
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event press conference, he he said that he said that that if
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not for the body armor that it would have been a lethal shot.
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So it's pretty crazy. He seemed to have thought that
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through. And then hotel security not
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targets at all if possible, AKA unless they shoot at me
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etcetera. Rebuttals 2 objections Objection
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1 is interesting. So he's already kind of planning
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out for people to just. Argue with him.
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Hey, you don't need to do it like this.
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You don't need the violence we don't need.
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We don't need this to be the case.
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As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
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As a Jew, I don't can't pretend to know what he should do or not
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as a Christian, so I'm not going to comment on that rebuttal.
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Turning the other cheek is for when you are your when you
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yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a
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detention camp. I am not the fisherman executed
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without a trial, right? Like I guess he's obviously
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talking about the fisherman from Venezuela that were allegedly
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bringing drugs which turned out to just be like marijuana and
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they were going to Colombia, not United States.
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But they were blown up obviously without a trial on the orders of
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Pete Hegseth, perhaps Marco Rubio too, I believe.
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I'm sure nothing happened to that.
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They say so anyway, and I'm not a schoolgirl blown up or a child
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starved or a teenage girl abused by many criminals in this
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administration. OK, that is fair.
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Again, this seems to emphasize, to me at least, the
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inconsistencies and what seems to be coming to our head, which
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is American, the America, the homeland in America, the empire.
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And the empire has its agenda, which is to survive.
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And the homeland now, I think is being woken up to the fact that
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if it does not act out or not or act back out, that it will not
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survive. And I think that just like, or a
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company or a corporation or an institution or a university or a
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government fights, it's not one individual person.
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You can't point to one person if you have a church or a
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synagogue, if you have a, a band, right?
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I mean, think about the Eagles that are still playing now and
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you have only a few of their original members.
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What makes them the Eagles, right?
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And that's a, and that's a, and that's a question that people
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have very strong feelings about. And I, I totally get that.
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America, the homeland, but the But the name the Eagles.
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Persists because. There's something about the
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existence of that music of the name that regardless of who's
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playing it, there seems to be something that that that like
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wants to keep that entity alive as long as possible.
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Maybe that's any original founding member.
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Maybe it's a founding member's family.
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I don't know. And I'm sure that it's a case by
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case basis. But the point is that America
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the homeland, I believe, I think that America the homeland and
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America the empire are coming to a conflict right now because.
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For a long. Time, America, the empire was
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able to thrive while America the homeland was doing relatively
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well and there were obviously little schemes to go ahead and
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make people think that things were going well.
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You know, obviously, and I heard this, I heard.
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Crap, I don't remember who said this.
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So don't take take this with a grain of salt, but that every
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maybe Scott Horton or Dave Smith that every for the last I think
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20 years, every presidency's stock performance, S&P 5, you
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know, whatever it is, performance was always breaking
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and always at all at all time high.
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It just keeps on happening because inflation is going up.
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But there has been a mass deceit of the public in the name of
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economic. Hey everyone, real quick, if
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Debt and slavery I think and you can and obviously you could talk
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about the fact that most Americans, I think 40% I saw the
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unusual whales that awesome Instagram, the awesome Twitter
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account posted the other day that nearly 40% of Americans
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don't have $500.00 cash for emergencies that's.
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Crazy, you know, and I totally and I actually totally hear that
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and I totally feel that, you know, I mean, I, I my life.
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Is such a fortune just to be able to?
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Kind of be an adult. I just kind of support two kids
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just. To support 3 kids just to be
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able to. Pay your mortgage and if.
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I mean, by some chance you want to try to scrap together without
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having family help or you, you know, try to scrap together a
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down payment. I mean it could take decades.
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Based. On how much money?
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People are are able to put aside.
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And if you look at. Where the you know where the
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money's being spent and where the budget's going.
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A lot of, A lot of. It is going to America, the
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empire. So what happens is, or what I
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believe is happening is that this is a civil war not
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happening in America. This is a civil war between the
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philosophies of what America is. And these are the actual
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casualties of war. Same way.
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And I actually, I can't believe that, you know, I'm saying that
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I'm just putting this together while I'm speaking right now.
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But the same thing with the missing scientists, you know, I
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mean, Trump announces a couple of months ago that he's going
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to, you know, and I mean, I know that it sounds crazy.
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I know that everyone's kind of quick, you know, like it sounds
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like sci-fi, but like this is real.
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I mean, the Pentagon, what are we talking about it if it wasn't
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real, you know, Obama and or at least that there is something to
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think about. And again, you know, whether or
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not anyone that is in politics, whether you like, whether they
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deserve to be believed at all is obviously not something that's
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taken for granted. But there's a reason why these
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slip UPS are happening. There's a reason why people are
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saying what they're saying. And when Trump says that, you
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know, Obama gave away classified information by saying the aliens
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are real and then goes ahead and orders the declassify, you know,
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the declassification of all these documents and then
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scientists, that's not true. I mean, you know, cuz scientists
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have been disappearing for since 2022, so it hasn't just been
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happening since then. But I think like four or five
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have have disappeared since. Then and like, and again, you
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know, and, and obviously we live in a time where all.
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Information kind of be. We have an abundance of
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information and abundance, more than we could ever dream of.
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And none of it is all, and none of it is completely true, and
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you can't believe all of anything at face value.
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And So what you? Kind of have to do is use that
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abundance of information and take bits and pieces and try to
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sort together some kind of narrative that actually, you
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know, lines up. I actually think that, excuse
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me, Tim Dylan is incredible at this.
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I mean, he puts together these these incredible narratives,
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but. And he and and he just puts
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together news and philosophies and perspectives.
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And is able to. Kind of blend them all into one.
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Coherent story as to what the state of America is today and.
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It's always changing and you can see through bullshit like I
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can't and one one of the. Reasons why I've spoken about
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before is because. I am very comfortable and I am
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very satisfied just kind of taking information.
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I'm not very sceptical. I I'm pretty accepting when it
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comes to information, and I've kind of had to learn to try to
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be more at least learn to listen to a couple of different
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perspectives before I even decide for myself what I think
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on anything. I'm back, I just took a quick
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break. I think that.
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I think that. You know, especially when we
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talk about having to be wary of information that's given to us
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and that none of it's true, I mean.
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Even this manifest manifesto, we have no idea how doctored it
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was. We have no idea whether anyone
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messed around with anything or the way that it was released.
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And I mean, even the fact that it was partially released
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already means that someone decided to censor or hold back
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something or some of it. And I kind of hope the rest of
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it gets leaked and gets out because I think it's important.
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It's always interesting to understand because these acts
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are obviously acts of terror. I don't condone any of them.
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I don't think. Obviously in a perfect world
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that would never happen. But I think that in order, I
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think that at the end of the day, information is information.
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In order to unders, in order to fix the problem, you have to
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understand what the problem is. In order to prevent more attacks
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like this, I think you got to understand the motive and the
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motive. Is very clear.
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The motive is super, super clear.
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And, and you know, the kids that he was talking about was the
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fact that we initially said that we're going to war in Iran to
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help liberate the people. And at least according to Glenn
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Greenwald's journalism or sources, that they were using AI
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assisted rockets. And that was one of the that was
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the missile that hit the children's school the first day
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of the war and killed over 120 mostly school kids.
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I think that Americans aren't for it.
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I think that I think unfortunately, so many years of
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war, America, the homeland is kind of sick of it.
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And so the America, the Empire. Looks like it's on the verge of
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falling and is doing everything in its power to not fall,
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everything in its power to stay alive.
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But at the end of the day, without support of your
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homeland, of your heart, of the, the source of your funds, the
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source, the people that I don't even know whether or not that
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hold you accountable, but hypothetically hold you
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accountable. You could demand evidence, then
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you destroy evidence and then you just lose more credit
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credibility and then no one's going to support what you do.
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Now, what does it look like for America, the empire to fall, you
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might ask? I think it means that our
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foreign policy and the people and the people that we have
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around the world, the military bases, our currency for American
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dollar ends up losing value. I think that I think that
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America, the empire is about to fall apart and America, the
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homeland is going to need some time to rebuild itself or
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redevelop itself. And it's going to take a lot of,
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it's going to take time because of such a what, what a
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precarious economic situation we've put ourselves into.
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Now, if America the empire fails and ceases to become a priority
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and America goes from being the world's policeman, which I
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remember even learning about in, in middle school.
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I don't remember if I talked about this in the podcast
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before. I remember learning about that
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in middle school in like a history textbook or something,
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or a social studies textbook. And I was, and I, I was even
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curious then I was like, why are we the policeman?
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Like who made us the policeman of everyone else?
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And I remember that foreign policy was explained to us
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pretty much as there are bad people in the world and we want
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to make their lives better, so we go there and we help.
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Make their lives better. And I never obviously I, I'm in
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3rd, 5th, 7th, 10, you know, 9th, 10th grade.
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Obviously this is all getting kind of, you know, I mean, this
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is the history textbooks, these are the, this is the American
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education. So it, you know, and, and, and
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I, I mean, I don't know whether I'm looking back on it now with
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my new lens and my new perspective and therefore
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ascribing A motive for my train of thought, because I don't
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think that I was really even thinking very much at that
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point. I was more thinking about how I
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hated school and how I want to be home and how I want to be
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playing, playing basketball and hanging out with my friends.
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But I did think like, it's kind of weird that like, like who
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made America as opposed to because we, you, you also learn
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about other countries and you also learn about England and you
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also learned about Europe and you also learned about Russia
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and China a little bit. You, you learn about the fact
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that they exist. You learn about the fact that we
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had a Cold War and that World War 2 was, I mean, I, my World
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War 2 education, unfortunately was primarily around the
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Holocaust and very little around the actual war, which is
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obviously important for some reasons and lacking for other
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reasons. Mainly the fact that if you only
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focus on one aspect of a World War, then you forget the context
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of the rest of it and allow history to repeat itself because
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you haven't learned from it. So once you can, obviously, you
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know, so it's important to revisit a war or revisit history
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and try to understand its fullest context.
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That's actually what I really like about a lot of Darryl
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Cooper's work. If you listen to the Martyr Maid
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podcast, it's really uncomfortable for a lot of
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people because he puts himself in everyone's shoes.
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And individuals, especially people who identify with the
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tribe or with a particular group or with a particular entity,
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find it very, very uncomfortable to hear that the entity, that
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they're a part of the organization, the life this this
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Organism that they're a part of could do something wrong.
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And so obviously they have a very vehement response, almost
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like an allergic response to any kind of concession that, hey,
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you know, the way that people that have historically been on
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my side have acted, acted in a way that I'm not comfortable
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with or think is appropriate. But I'll still support the idea
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if the idea is at its core is good and the way that it's
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meant, the way that it's carried out is bad.
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I heard a really, it was actually an awesome.
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It was a debate I keep on talking about, I guess, quote UN
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quote forbidding characters with Glenn Greenwald and Tucker
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Carlson. And man.
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However, I just mentioned a minute ago Darryl Cooper.
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Sorry about that. And he was happy 'cause I had
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this very, very interesting debate.
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And I kind of wish you would do more of these rather than talk
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about the war, though, you know, every three times a week.
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I understand from his perspective while he's doing
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that. But he had this incredible
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debate with a, with a company. In San Francisco.
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I believe it's near Silicon Valley.
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And the company helps you once you're going through the process
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of IVF pick, you know, with IVF in vitro fertilization, you get,
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it's artificial insemination and artificial, I guess it happens
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from, you know, externally, outside, you know, not
25:49
naturally. And you take the healthiest
25:52
embryos, the ones that have the highest chance of being healthy
25:56
and thriving and succeeding and living.
25:58
And you select it. And you could select whether
26:00
you're whether you're going to be a boy or a girl or if it's
26:04
going to, you know, maybe some certain characteristics, you
26:08
could weed out some genetic diseases like, or traits like
26:11
Down syndrome. And Tucker was having this
26:14
debate with this guy about whether or not we should be able
26:17
to kind of pick, for example, once we have that that
26:21
information, we could we also have information as to what the
26:23
kids jeans look like for height or for eye color, hair color,
26:28
stuff like that. And Tucker, you know, Tucker
26:32
was, was against the idea and the guy was essentially saying
26:36
it's not too different from what we're doing right now.
26:38
You're not altering any jeans. The only possible selection of
26:44
genes that you can pick from are still from you and your wife.
26:46
And you're not changing anything.
26:48
It's just that you have the, the information that you had before
26:51
is a little more detailed now. And so you could make a little
26:54
bit more the you as a parent can make more of a decision as to
26:56
what that's going to be. People don't like that.
27:00
People say that. It's kind of taking God out of
27:02
the equation. I don't know what I think of it
27:06
yet. I think I have to think about it
27:08
a little bit more. But one thing that they were
27:10
talking about, and this is where it ties into the, that is where
27:14
it ties into what I'm talking about the rest of the time is
27:16
the the, the guest and I. Have to pull up his name because
27:19
I don't want to not do him justice but he.
27:24
Here we go. I'm sorry, I'm just going to
27:25
call this yeah up real quickly. Kian Sadeghi, the CEO of Nucleus
27:34
Genomics. And it's an awesome podcast.
27:36
You should absolutely listen to it.
27:38
It's philosophical, it's deep, it's inquisitive, it's
27:41
speculative about technology and the way that it's implemented
27:44
throughout society, which is always a really interesting
27:46
conversation. And OK, I forgot his name
27:51
already, but Kian said there's, you know, there's three pretty
27:56
much more outlooks that people have.
27:59
And I hope I understood this correctly.
28:00
I definitely understood the 1st 2.
28:01
I don't think I understood the 3rd.
28:02
So I'm not going to try and explain it, do a bad job with
28:06
it. But the first idea was it's
28:09
basically consequentialism. And that is the concept that if
28:13
it turns out OK, then everything along the way is justified.
28:19
That kind of is the way of the Americans right now, I feel
28:22
like. And the way that America has
28:25
been implementing any kind of policy for at least as long as
28:29
I've been following politics. So maybe the last 7-8 years then
28:33
and you know, and I kind of heard that sentiment phrased by
28:36
Carmelo Anthony one time when and this was kind of always his
28:41
mentality throughout his career, whether he was on the Nuggets or
28:44
whether he was. On the Knicks or?
28:46
Actually, I got to see him in one of his first games at the.
28:48
On the trail. Blazers, which is a ton of fun
28:51
in Portland and that place. Loved him by the way.
28:54
I mean, there was so much love and respect for him, but.
28:58
He was known for being an audacious kind of guy.
29:00
He would take these high risk, quote UN quote clutch shots.
29:04
He'd put himself into relatively precarious situations in bass on
29:08
the court. And he said, and he said an
29:11
interview one time, it was there's no such thing as a as a
29:14
bad shot that goes in. And I fundamentally disagree
29:18
with that. I think that there's absolutely
29:21
such a thing as a bad shot that goes in, and that actually leads
29:24
into the next type of philosophy, which is that we
29:29
have no real control over the outcome.
29:32
And the only thing that we could really control are the means of
29:35
how we get there. And yeah, you can kind of plan
29:37
for something or plot for something.
29:39
But realistically, and I think that if one thing has been made
29:44
clear in the last 10 years, 15 years of our lives on planet
29:48
Earth, it is that man plans, God laughs.
29:52
It is impossible. It's next to impossible to
29:54
predict what the heck is going on and what the heck is going to
29:58
go on. And So what the moral philosophy
30:02
would be is we can't really, you know, we could try and steer the
30:05
ship in the direction that we want it to go, but ultimately
30:09
it's more important and most important that the way that we
30:13
get there is done in a moral way.
30:15
I definitely fall into that second camp as far as my
30:22
temperament, my philosophy. It's kind of always the way that
30:24
I was. I never really cared very much
30:26
about winning or losing as opposed to feeling like it was
30:31
close, it was competitive, it was fun.
30:33
I burned myself out of effort. You know, like the worst
30:35
feelings ever. Whether you're playing
30:37
basketball, whether you're rolling jiu jitsu, whether
30:38
you're in school, whether they're doing your job and like
30:40
you're just going through a slump and and you really feel
30:43
like, yeah, I'm kind of passing through.
30:45
But I'm definitely not living up to the standards of what I'm
30:47
able to contribute and what I'm able to do.
30:50
But because the. Standards are lower than what
30:52
I'm capable of. I'm just going to kind of lower
30:56
myself down to the bare minimum and get away with that.
30:58
And I really, really try. That's one philosophy that
31:03
scares the life out of me, scares the crap out of me.
31:05
And I work really, really hard to, to the best of my ability,
31:10
not live like that. To say that whatever, I, I don't
31:15
know what my life is going to end up looking like.
31:17
I don't know what the podcast is going to turn into.
31:19
I don't know what my family is going to end up looking like.
31:21
I don't know what I'm going to look like in 10 years from now.
31:24
I know that every step along the way is going to be intentional.
31:28
I know I'm going to put my all into the day-to-day.
31:32
Because if I'm not putting into my in my all into the
31:34
day-to-day, then what the hell is going on?
31:36
What am I? What am I even doing here?
31:38
And people are afraid of success, myself included.
31:41
And people are afraid to find out what happens exactly when
31:45
you kind of outsmart the system or what happens when you realize
31:49
that your job doesn't really mean as much as what you think
31:52
it does or it or doesn't even require your full capabilities
31:55
and your potential is so much more.
31:59
And how come you're not achieving that?
32:01
And what's filling your time instead of you achieving that?
32:03
And what's pulling at you? What will you know?
32:09
I mean, I mean, we're a nation that is addicted.
32:11
We're a nation that is divided and captured.
32:15
And again, I actually, I'm sorry, I wanted to finish the
32:19
the point that I was making on Tucker.
32:20
In this debate. The American empire tends to
32:24
look at decisions and I think a lot of people within America do
32:26
too. I'm not trying to make this like
32:27
a good guy, bad guy kind of thing.
32:29
I think that like everything in life, there are tensions between
32:32
philosophies where some aspects of it ring true and some of them
32:36
have a, a, you know, a, a second side to it that is not
32:41
necessarily great, not not really good, right.
32:46
And I mean, you can say that, man.
32:49
I mean, I don't even, I, I don't even have to give examples.
32:52
I think that if you're listening to this and you're even slightly
32:55
aware of the last 2025, thirty years of American or world
32:59
history, I think that what I'm saying generally tends to ring
33:02
true. And So what our values have to
33:06
be, and I think that, you know, and it's funny because that's
33:08
the sentiment you hear a lot of times from people that are
33:12
trying to preserve themselves are the ends justify the means.
33:16
It's all for the greater good. You don't really hear individual
33:23
great people say that. You don't really hear people
33:28
that understand the concept of accountability and
33:31
responsibility, say the ends justify the means in the same
33:36
way. Because I think that either if
33:40
they've lived their life through that, they would know that
33:43
that's not the case. And if they're not ready to
33:46
admit that yet, then they're certainly afflicting that type
33:48
that that perspective on another, on the next generation,
33:51
whether it's their kids, whether it's the people that are working
33:54
for them, whether it's their students.
33:55
But the people that focus on that look inward.
34:01
They said this is absolutely not acceptable.
34:03
You know, it is absolutely not acceptable to say that you're
34:07
going to liberate a people and blow up a school with 120 kids
34:11
in there. And I'm not justifying anything
34:12
that this guy did. I'm not justify and I'm not
34:14
condoning it. And I and, and, and I think he
34:17
was wrong. And I think that Carl Allen or
34:20
whatever his name is, is, well, it is and was wrong.
34:27
And I think he is a manifestation of some very, very
34:30
real sentiments. The interesting thing to me is
34:33
that it's pretty clear that as as far as the empire, America,
34:37
the empire is concerned, it's pretty easy to tell who they
34:40
are. The corporations that benefit
34:44
from the comfort of being able to essentially rule over other
34:49
countries and economies, banks, corporate news, Pharmaceutical
34:54
industry, obviously the military industrial complex, obviously
34:59
the oil, the energy and oil companies, obviously all of
35:05
these people that embody and make up.
35:08
And obviously there's there's, there's loads more and there's
35:11
loads that I'm not even aware of and there's load.
35:13
I'm sure that the more home, you know, I mean, there's, there's
35:17
nothing new under the sun. And you know, I don't doubt that
35:20
there is more than a lifetimes, there's several lifetimes of
35:23
investigation and learning to do on these topics, on the topic of
35:29
America, the empire versus America, the homeland.
35:34
But those people aren't the people, those entities, those
35:38
industries, the very, very short term Friedman esque economic
35:46
policy of short term gains as a corporate shareholder
35:49
responsibility at all other expenses is a philosophy, an
35:56
economical philosophy that clearly seems to have failed.
36:00
Case in point, it's not the best thing because and especially
36:05
when corporations. Aren't regulated and aren't.
36:08
Subject to, to, to public scrutiny the same way that
36:10
government is. They don't have the same
36:12
responsibility to answer a FOIA act.
36:15
They don't have the same responsibility to, you know,
36:17
appear before the Senate or Congress.
36:20
And then even if they're never held accountable, they're on the
36:23
record for the rest of time supporting whatever agenda
36:27
they're supporting. And people will know that for
36:30
all time. And whether they're not actually
36:31
held accountable, that still echoes, that still rings.
36:34
And it's, and you know, it feels like we're at the verge of a
36:37
breaking point. And I think that comes to show
36:41
you, or that comes to show us that the moral philosophy of
36:45
consequentialism is probably not the best one, or at least one.
36:51
That. Works for America.
36:54
That works for a For a country as enormous as America and
36:58
empire as enormous as America, the country of America is big
37:01
enough. That we do need some time to
37:02
rebuild and I think it could happen very quickly.
37:04
I started saying this earlier. But I mean, I think about all
37:07
the budgets and all the money that goes abroad in any
37:10
capacity, you know, and people are upset about cutting off aid.
37:15
I think that if we drove through Michigan and Wisconsin, the fly
37:20
over states, you go to New York, you go to Florida, we go to, you
37:24
know, Florida, which was so hot for, you know, for three or four
37:27
years already is too expensive people to keep on coming down
37:30
to. And California, I mean, even
37:35
Seattle, WA, which most people really don't.
37:39
I mean, most people that I've interacted with in my life don't
37:42
know much about or have much to do with or, you know, really
37:45
feel like it's one of the big quote, UN quote American cities.
37:50
It's unaffordable. It's crazy.
37:51
I would love, I would have loved to buy a home in Seattle.
37:53
It would have been awesome to move to, to, to Washington
37:57
state. I lived there for a year and I
37:59
had the best time of my life. And I'm going back this summer.
38:04
And you can't and you can't afford to live there.
38:06
And so I mean, you're looking at the poverty, you're looking at
38:09
the poverty of the fly over States and the and affordability
38:13
of the coastal States and the border states.
38:18
I guess those are the ones you kind of go do.
38:19
I mean, if someone wants to move to Montana, someone wants to
38:21
move to Texas, someone wants to move to Michigan, upstate New
38:25
York, you could do it. And those are also, by the way,
38:28
the awesome places for sure, but they're not the, you know, I
38:32
mean, but as far as cutting foreign aid, drive around and
38:35
see what Americans need. A drive around Asheville, NC,
38:39
which is an enormously liberal city and filled with very cool,
38:45
hippie, vibrant, creative, albeit expensive vibes.
38:51
The brewery District, the fashion district, the arts, the
38:55
you mean the music there? There's incredible music.
38:57
They have the, what's the name of the, the Biltmore, you know,
39:00
the Biltmore Hotel, which is, which is really incredible.
39:03
You know, the mountains are all around you and see what those
39:08
see. Those people need help.
39:09
Those people need aid. And one of the tribal things
39:13
that I think you know, one of the things that are valuable
39:16
about tribal, one of the aspects of being part of a community,
39:21
whether it's a country or religion, is that you help out
39:26
those that are closest to you if you can, how you can.
39:30
And then you keep on helping outward and outward and outward
39:33
more and more and more and more. And if you're lucky enough to be
39:35
able to support those that are closest to you and you still
39:39
have leftover or you still need more work than great, go ahead
39:42
and keep helping other people out.
39:44
But it's gotten to the point where this there, there seems to
39:46
be this inherent conflict. And most American people at this
39:50
point are, are so tired and are so overworked and are so
39:54
isolated and are, and are feeling, I mean, you know, I,
39:57
everyone I talked to about Epstein and everyone I talked to
40:00
about. Even like the.
40:01
UFO stuff recently and I, you know, I'm talking about, you
40:04
know, Orthodox Jews and very skeptical, sober minded people
40:07
of a lot of these kind of things and not even sober minded
40:09
because they're more skeptical than they are believing.
40:11
And people just don't know what to do with the information that
40:15
we're getting now. And what's interesting is the
40:22
development of the would be Trump assassins where for the
40:27
first one during his presidential run, while he will
40:31
campaign felt you know, one way it could have been, you know, it
40:37
could have been someone from the left.
40:39
It could have been someone from the deep state who is
40:41
threatening to dismantle could have been whoever.
40:45
I don't know, another country, right.
40:50
The second time seemed to kind of been tied in with Ukraine
40:54
somehow and some real deep state thing.
40:58
And now this seems to really be like in the same spirit of
41:05
again, I said this before like the Luigi mangion guy where he
41:08
says, what are you doing? You are not, you guys are not
41:12
accountable and you're killing us and you are making us feel
41:16
and look terrible. And again, whether you agree
41:20
with this guy politically or not, whether you, you know,
41:22
like, like whether or not you obviously you got you, I, I,
41:26
you, you should not condone this, but what do you think is
41:30
going to happen? I don't know.
41:37
Like 14 scientists are missing whistleblowers.
41:41
There's a whistleblower that was supposed to report to Congress
41:43
the other day found of a drug overdose.
41:46
So this guy that was, you know, had access.
41:49
To top clearance classified information was going to you
41:54
know, be go through the proper whistle blowing channels after
42:00
by the way, assuming that he has Trump's approval even because
42:05
Trump posted that he wanted to to release this this
42:08
information. So it looks like he has support
42:10
for the administration, ends up dead by drug overdose.
42:15
Is this guy a druggie? Is this guy a drug addict?
42:17
Is this guy, I mean, two weeks beforehand.
42:22
Now, it's hard to speculate because I think that humans are
42:27
humans. And I would be, for example,
42:29
terrified. I'm terrified of even recording
42:32
this kind of stuff and talking about this stuff.
42:35
I'm a scared person in general. I've talked about that before.
42:39
This guy just happens to be, you know, a drug addict.
42:42
Let me pull up. What the article I saw about
42:46
that said. OK, this seems to be a New York
42:52
Post article. The Air Force Intelligence
42:55
officer and would be UFO whistleblower Matthew James
42:58
Sullivan passed away from an alleged overdose.
43:00
Coincidentally, he was about to testify about the UAP
43:03
phenomenon. This is a 23rd UAP whistleblower
43:08
who has mysteriously passed away.
43:12
According to the Northern Virginia Medical Examiner, the.
43:15
Cause was ruled by accidental drug overdose, A fatal mix of
43:18
alcohol, Xanax or Alprozalam. OK, I'm not going to say the
43:25
pharmaceutical name, but muscle relaxant and imurpine.
43:28
Imurpine. I know what that is, sorry.
43:33
Sullivan had deep experience across Air Force Intelligence
43:36
Agency, National Air and Space Intelligence Center and NSA.
43:40
He claimed involvement in the government's secret legacy UFO
43:42
program, a crash retrieval operations, and said he had
43:45
personally seen non human craft in US possession.
43:48
Weeks before his death. He agreed to testify before
43:50
Congress in November 2024 to blow the lid off the program.
43:54
Representative Eric Burleson from a Republican from Missouri
43:57
called the timing of grave concern and referred the case to
44:00
the FBI, who is sure to be on top of it with Cash Patel out
44:04
the door. Suspicious circumstances citing
44:06
suspicious circumstances, potential foul play and national
44:08
security risks. Yeah, yeah.
44:18
But you know, you know, nothing to look at over here, nothing to
44:26
look at over here. I don't know.
44:28
This is nuts. This is nuts.
44:30
And we're kind of heading towards this.
44:35
There is going to be some kind of reckoning, some kind of
44:42
climax when people feel like they have really nothing else to
44:47
lose. It's really.
44:48
Interesting, I was actually thinking about this from a
44:53
different perspective, but this applies to this conversation for
44:55
sure. Our sense of morality.
44:58
Our morality could deepen based on our level of security and
45:02
comfort. So in places for example, where
45:06
everyone everyone has plenty of food, someone stealing a slice
45:10
of pizza is not the biggest deal in the world and probably will
45:12
be looked at as a misdemeanor. Whereas if you're in a society
45:16
where a missing slice of pizza could be the difference between
45:20
whether a kid makes it or not and whether or not.
45:23
And obviously that's a extremely dramatic case, but I'm just
45:27
making up a case in point that the morality, you know, the
45:31
moral consequences of someone stealing food is going to be
45:34
much graver. We have, I think, been Americans
45:39
have been particularly tolerant of the fact that our politicians
45:44
have been so full of crap because at the end of the day,
45:49
everyone could kind of still point to a system, a route to.
45:53
Success and say listen like whatever they're doing like I
45:55
don't like it. I don't like any more than you
45:57
do, whatever it is, but. I'm fine.
46:02
There's something really for me to fight, you know, like, OK,
46:03
fine, I'll vote the other way next time as if that will make a
46:05
difference. Or I'll post about it on social
46:08
media as if that makes a difference.
46:10
But when things become more extreme, when people are when,
46:13
when gas is so expensive, when people feel.
46:16
A form of economic slavery Between debt, nearly 40% of
46:20
Americans said they have less than $500 in cash savings.
46:23
That's one. That's one point.
46:25
And then the second point was the number of Americans using
46:27
buy now, pay later for groceries has more than doubled in the
46:30
last. Two years, as per the Hill.
46:36
Yeah, that's when morality starts to become a little bit
46:41
less liberal, and that's when behavior begins to become more
46:48
extreme. And when politics and
46:51
politicians go from screwing people's pockets to their kids
46:56
or trafficking their daughters, that's a different level of
47:01
morality. That's a different.
47:02
That's a different level. And I think that it's going to
47:04
keep. On going on.
47:07
The the LendingTree. Survey covered by The Hill
47:09
showing 29% of users now financing food purchases versus
47:12
14% previously Gen. Z leads in trend at 38% Gen.
47:18
Z 38% of them almost 40 almost 4 out of 10 people can't afford to
47:23
pay their grocery bills, which. Is why they're buying by now,
47:26
which is why they're paying on buy now, pay later.
47:29
That's not an economy. And so the Empire keeps on
47:34
trying. To do its.
47:36
Thing and it's starting to get a lot of pushback and you want
47:42
cooler heads to prevail. But when driven to such
47:47
extremes, I don't know that that's going to be the case.
47:52
And I want people to come together and I want good
47:54
conversations and I want healthy conversations.
47:58
But you can't be surprised when something like this happens.
48:02
Anyway, some food for thought. Just posting about this because
48:05
it's all happened last night and I had a lot of luck going around
48:07
in my head about this and. We will see you in another 5
48:12
episodes. Few more episodes coming this
48:14
week. I hope guys.
48:16
Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed that episode.
48:19
I'm going to read the full manifesto that was just
48:22
released. I just came across and if you
48:24
want to hear the full manifesto and not the short summary that I
48:27
posted earlier in the episode or I started elaborating on, here
48:31
we go. Hello everybody.
48:33
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today.
48:36
Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I
48:39
abused. I.
48:41
Apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview
48:43
without specifying it was for quote most wanted UN quote.
48:48
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a
48:51
personal emergency quote. Sorry, open parentheses.
48:55
By the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly do need
48:59
to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted
49:02
status. Close parentheses.
49:04
I apologize to all the people I traveled next, to all the
49:07
workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non targeted
49:10
people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
49:14
I apologize to everyone who was abused and or murdered before
49:18
this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt
49:21
this, to all those who may still suffer after regardless of my
49:26
success or failure. I don't expect forgiveness, but
49:30
if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would
49:32
have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies on
49:35
why on to why I did any of this. I am a citizen of the United
49:39
States of America. What my representatives do
49:42
reflects on me, and I'm no longer willing to permit a
49:46
pedophile rapist and a traitor to coat my hands with his
49:50
crimes. Well, to be completely honest,
49:51
sorry parentheses. Well, to be completely honest, I
49:54
was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first
49:56
real opportunity I've had to do something about it. close
49:58
parentheses. While I'm discussing this, I'll
50:00
probably over. I'll probably go over my
50:02
expected rules of engagement, probably in a terrible format,
50:04
but I'm not military. So too bad.
50:06
Administration officials not including Mr. Patel.
50:10
They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest.
50:13
Which is crazy that Cash Patel was not included in his list of
50:18
administration officials. Maybe because he knows that he's
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going to be fired soon and so he's not, you know, actively
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involved. I don't know.
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Or maybe there's other reason I don't know.
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Secret Service. There are targets only if
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necessary and to be incapacitated non lethally if
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possible. AKA I hope they're wearing body
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armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who
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aren't. Hotel security not targets at
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all if possible, AKA unless they shoot at me.
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Capitol Police, same as hotel security.
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National Guard, same as hotel security.
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Hotel employees not targets at all.
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Guests not targets at all. In order to minimize casualties,
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I will also be using a buckshot rather than slugs.
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Less penetration through walls. I would still go.
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Through most everyone here to get to the targets if you're
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absolutely necessary on the basis that most people choose to
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attend a speech by pedophile, rapist and traitor and are thus
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complicit. But I really hope it doesn't
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come to that. Rebuttals to objections.
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Objection 1. As a Christian, you should turn
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the other cheek. Rebuttal.
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Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed.
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I'm not the person raped in a detention camp.
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I'm not the fisherman executed without trial.
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I'm not the school kid blown up or a child starved or a teenage
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girl abused by many criminals in this administration.
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Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not
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Christian behavior. It's complicitly.
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It is complicity in the oppressor's crimes.
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Objection to this is not a convenient time for you to do
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this rebuttal. I need whoever thinks this way
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to take a couple of minutes and realize that the world isn't
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about them. Do you realize when I see
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someone raped or murdered or abused I should walk?
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Do you think rather than when I see someone raped, murdered,
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abused I should walk on by because it would be inconvenient
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for people who aren't the victim?
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This was the best timing and chance of success I could have
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come U with. Objection 3.
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You didn't get the mall rebuttal.
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Got to start somewhere. Objection 4.
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As a half black half white person, you shouldn't be the one
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doing this rebuttal unless anyone else picking up the
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slack. Yield under objection #5 Yield
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under Caesar's. What is Caesar's rebuttal?
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the United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one
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or several people. In so far as representatives and
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judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them
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anything so unlawfully ordered. I would also like to extend my
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appreciation to a great many people since I will not likely
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be. I would not be likely to be able
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to talk to them again unless the Secret Service is astoundingly
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incompetent. Thank you to my family, both
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personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
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Thank you to my friends for your companionship over many years.
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Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity
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and professionalism. Thank you for my students for
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your enthusiasm and love of learning.
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Thank you to the many acquaintances I've met in person
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and online, for short interactions and long term
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relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
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Thank you all for everything. Sincerely cold cold force
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friendly federal assassin Allen. PS Now that all that sappy stuff
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is done, what the hell is Secret Service doing?
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Sorry, going to rant a bit here and drop the formal tone like I
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expected. Hotel cameras at every bend,
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bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors
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out the wazoo. What I got, who knows, maybe
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they're pranking me, is nothing. No damn security.
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Not in transport, not in the hotel, not in the event.
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Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking to
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the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
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I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there
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considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
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The security at the event is all outside, focused on protesters
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and current arrivals because apparently no one thought about
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what happens if someone checks in the day before.
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Like this level of incompetence is insane and I very sincerely
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hope it's corrected by the time this country actually gets
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competent leadership again. Like if I were Iranian agent
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instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn MA
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deuce whatever that is in here and no one would have noticed.
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Shit actually insane. Oh, and if anyone is curious
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about how about how to doing something like feels, it's
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awful. I want to throw up.
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I want to cry for all the things I want to do and never will.
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For all the people whose trust is betrays.
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I experienced rage thinking about the about everything this
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administration has done. Can't really recommend it.
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Stay in school, kids. That is the full manifesto of
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the gunman, Cole Allen, as obtained by the New York Post.
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Take with that as you will.