Robbie 'The Fire' Bernstein
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The Signal Disaster
I was just somewhat shocked that it's not much of a strategy conversation. It's more of an optics conversation. And I would just think that, you know, for the pitch of maybe we don't always see the geopolitics behind what these conversations actually are. No one's coming in and going, well, we've planned this out in strategic strike and we know that we can have blank result.
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The Signal Disaster
Or, hey, this is a clear directive from the president. It's a very loose conversation of it's almost like the way I would go with, hey, I don't know if we need any TVs in the studio, but I saw a good deal over here. Oh, yeah, maybe maybe that's a good idea. It's a very casual conversation.
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The Signal Disaster
There's not a lot of, hey, I just got the military intelligence on this and we know that the bad guys are hiding out here and we can have a real impact, but we got to act quickly. There's no like significant intelligence here. It's mostly a conversation about, hey, should we go? I think we're going to go and do this. And I think the optics match the president's agenda at the moment.
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The Signal Disaster
Des Moines which apparently is supposed to be pronounced differently but I give up on getting names right I always thought it was Des Moines I don't give a shit anymore however the fuck it's supposed to be sounded out in the most logical way is now the name of your city and I will make that if I have to run for government in order to get that law passed that it needs to be spelled the most logical way that it should be read or we just get real angry Jew about it and we call everything New York
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The Signal Disaster
And then also up in Steamboat. And I think I have my entire porch door mapped out. And so that will be announced shortly. Ooh, new spots, same spots?
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The Signal Disaster
Mix of both. Mix of both. And then hopefully we'll be able to tack on some porches as more people reach out and extend their yards to the cause.
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The Signal Disaster
I mean, if anything, what an endorsement that our own government relies on the software of Signal to keep its messaging safe and secured. Who would have known?
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The Signal Disaster
I just can't believe that this is happening one day later. I mean, the way that I've seen government operate, usually after failures, it's five, seven, eight years later, after three months of a Durham or two years of a Durham thing. When have you ever seen a day after a mess up that all these people get pulled in? Or at least I can't think of other examples of that off the top of my head.
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The Signal Disaster
it's time to discuss the strategic asset that we're investing in of Al-Qaeda.
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The Signal Disaster
That's the congressional hearing that we need, is finally coming for the American people and making the Al-Qaeda pitch.
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The Signal Disaster
Because Al-Qaeda and going against them was the failures of the prior administrations. Yeah, right, right, exactly. Such as Obama and Biden, who did such terrible work against our best adversary, I mean, our best ally in the Middle East outside of Israel.
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The Signal Disaster
You see, if they could just wait one day, you could say after they saw the American might in Houthis, they feared the Russian, the Ukrainians to respect us enough to make a deal. If they could have just delayed this hearing by one day and gotten their story straight.
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The Signal Disaster
No, Europe only backed us because we said that if they go along with our peace agreement, we would take care of their problem in Yemen and no one else has the strength to do so. Yeah, there you go. I'm for hire. I got to pay later.
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The Signal Disaster
Well, first, I'll just say that it's odd that our world leaders are discussing bombing Yemen like it's planning a barbecue amongst friends.
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The Signal Disaster
And the casualness and the way that it's in this group. J.D. Vance, hell of an employee. Hey, I don't agree with this, but if that's what you guys want to do, I'll back it. What's most surprising to me about the story is as to how this guy was added and no one realized amongst that group of people to go, hey, who's this other person in our group?
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The Signal Disaster
I mean, just think of you're talking secretary of state. Yeah, it's a pretty exclusive club. It's a pretty exclusive club for someone to be like the CIA director. I mean, if that was the room of people that get together, minus the president, I guess, to make really big decisions, it's remarkable to not go, hey, who's the other name here?
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The Signal Disaster
The other part that's just really shady about this story is usually when there's trouble in an administration, it's a very long time before anything gets investigated. Think about the lapse of time between the Hillary Clinton email scandal and when she was actually brought in front of Congress. Or think about how little we've seen of Fauci as we unwind this COVID story.
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The Signal Disaster
I was unable to watch the hearing because it was while I was driving here. But the fact that they had a hearing today to address what happened yesterday, when is the last time you saw that happen in government?
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The Signal Disaster
Now, there's... I still can't believe that government relies on private technology for secret communications.
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The Signal Disaster
Well, I understand that there's supposed to be, I guess, the Presidential Records Act. And I also understand that if you're working a government job—I mean, I've worked at sales jobs, and I don't want a record of every conversation I'm having about every sale. And so you use your own email.
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The Signal Disaster
And I get that she's not allowed to do that. I also get why she's doing that. Sure. And it— Anyways, if I'm working there, I don't understand how first day you're not calling up CIA and going, hey, where's my BlackBerry for communicating with my team? It's shocking that it's a public app that's the best technological option for these people to have a private conversation.
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The Signal Disaster
I'm doing well. I'm excited to head up to Boston, work on some jokes.
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The Signal Disaster
I've literally had friends. Firstly, I don't do any group messages. I just mute it. I can't stand it. It drives me nuts. It's too many notifications. And then I start getting too concerned about what I'm saying in a group format. Ten years ago when I partook in group messages or group WhatsApps, I always check the group to make sure, hey, wait, who's in this group?
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The Signal Disaster
Even before just saying some offensive, stupid remark, I would check that. It seems very remarkable to me that they're having their exclusive group of, what, 10 names that are supposed to make these giant decisions in a secretive way. And they're not just checking, wait, who's this other name?
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The Signal Disaster
Either the Trump administration is being undermined by the walls guy. I hadn't even I'm not I wasn't too familiar with him or his name. Or this is classic Donald Trump administration where there's some good and then there's some reckless slop.
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The Signal Disaster
And I also just can't believe the way that foreign policy is being implemented based off of the scattered screenshots. There were apparently I guess he put enough screenshots over to go. Look, I was in this conversation and I couldn't believe I was and that the details turned out to be true. And then he took out all the military details. That's the way I understand it.
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The Signal Disaster
the conversation flow of jd vance pointing out hey our entire messaging right now is uh we need to do things that are in the strategic interest of the united states why are we doing this when it benefits them no conversation at all about civilian casualties oh that's yeah well let's let's get into that in a second because i do think that's really worth diving into um i will say the only thing
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The Signal Disaster
Well, it was paywalled and I couldn't... Maybe you're more sophisticated on getting around paywalls.
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The Signal Disaster
We've never done that. In the past, we did Nick's Comedy Stop.
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The Signal Disaster
You know why? It was because Radcliffe at the CIA said, hey, guys, I just got my orders from the Jews that, you know, run things.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Don't from what I recall, it was just that steady 10 to 12 percent. Which is what sold the storyline was just that for so many years he was so consistent and deemed to be so safe. I believe, but... You might be right about it.
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Joy Reid is Fired
And the news shows do well. I mean, Glenn Beck did great after leaving Fox News. Megyn Kelly's doing fine. Tucker Carlson's doing fine.
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Joy Reid is Fired
So you are welcome to put your show up on the internet and get all that value for yourself without having to share it with MSNBC. And as for that lady, Maddow, you know, you could leave in solidarity. If you honestly believe that... Yeah, I mean, you're working for racists. Yeah.
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Joy Reid is Fired
If you honestly think you're working for racists or it's inappropriate to have a network that doesn't have a showing amongst minorities. So I guess as the white person, you can make a difference and say, I will stand with the minorities until they have a better showing on this network, because otherwise what we're doing is wrong.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Because I guess it's not even it's because we're clearly being racist and overlooking the talent pool that's out there that should be contributing. Right. Yeah, I mean – So, I mean, how dare her be a part of such a racist institution?
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Joy Reid is Fired
Let's do Crenshaw-Ukraine. I feel like the two go hand in hand.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Yeah, it's very leftist to go words or violence. That sounds like dude bravado to me and does not actually sound like a threat.
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Joy Reid is Fired
And out of support for the prime minister, I'll be performing in blackface.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Yeah, I haven't seen or I don't think the full details on it are available. At first, it seemed to me that perhaps we were going to continue to back the war. But we were saying we want mineral rights in return for backing. Now it sounds like no war's over and we still want the mineral rights.
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Joy Reid is Fired
which either sounds punitive or perhaps Donald Trump has some different play in mind, which is specifically to get Zelensky out and then maybe cut a better deal with somebody else. But I also don't understand the security guarantee. So they're not going to be a part of NATO, but the US is going to be more invested in the country and Putin's going to be OK with that.
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Joy Reid is Fired
And I don't understand how you don't end up with essentially the relationship we have with Taiwan, with the semiconductors, where we've stupidly Rely on the semiconductors there, but we're not actually in it. We're not we don't actually have the ability to defend. Right. So why would we have the strategic asset there?
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Joy Reid is Fired
So on the same note, if we're not actually going to go to war with Russia over strategic acid in Ukraine of minerals, then firstly, it's not a guarantee. And then it's dumb to be relying on that or cultivating it as a strategic asset.
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Joy Reid is Fired
And just to speak to the stupidity of the Biden administration, the whole idea was we need to enforce country lines because if not, we showcase American weakness and we live in a more unjust world. So I guess our inability to do so now proves that to be true. And that's on the Biden administration.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Now, I don't want to give Putin too much credit here. And maybe this is just my lack of actual foreign policy information. It's a little bit unclear if it was more of a siege than it was a...
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Joy Reid is Fired
Sorry, you go ahead. It's coming soon. I got to actually take some Adderall and get that done. But shoot me emails. Rob's newsroom at gmail.com. If I haven't responded yet, it's because I haven't taken my Adderall.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Can I register a complaint? Go ahead. You know, my apartment's not clean, my studio's not clean, and I don't own this desk, and it's not my desk, but I'm still annoyed by all the shit on it.
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Joy Reid is Fired
Well, lucky for her, unless she has a non-compete clause, she can take her show to the open market, she can put it out on YouTube, and she can see how much the market actually values her programming. And maybe she'll make more money because she doesn't have to pay out a cut to MSNBC and she doesn't need that fancy studio and quite that roster of producers behind her.
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Joy Reid is Fired
You got all the you got an open contract now or someone else might just come scoop you up if MSNBC is not seeing it. But I think we all know. I think the gravy train of full-scale socialism has come to a halt.
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Joy Reid is Fired
And as the Biden administration was ushered out and people had placed their bets on a continuation of socialism and that the internet was going to be censored and that there would continue to be state-run propaganda and that they'd figure out how the pharmaceutical companies or whatever else were going to keep buying out these ad contracts that were going nowhere.
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Joy Reid is Fired
So that you could pay for your propaganda. It seems like that's over. And I guess even networks like MSNBC are going like Zelensky at this point. They bet on the wrong administration and the profits aren't coming. So they got to figure something out.
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The Dems Are Lost
I guess that's the... Yep, I'm smart enough to learn no more porn on the pillow with the this, and then you got to go to your desk like an adult. I guess at a recent age, you just learned you got to make these adjustments. We run a classier show, and you guys want to hear the news.
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The Dems Are Lost
I agree with you that in the first half of this, he absolutely says nothing of substance. But the second half, I thought was interesting.
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The Dems Are Lost
I've got a steamboat. And now I'm confused because I got it wrong the last time. Idaho and Iowa, it's all kind of the same state to me. I think it's in Idaho. I don't know. Just go to my website, Rob Bernstein, comedy dot com. I got two dates coming up and one of them is in a state that starts with an eye. And I'm really looking forward to being there.
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The Dems Are Lost
Honestly, I don't feel that comfortable with this toxic masculinity being exuded by him. It really, I mean, the fact that he'll threaten physical violence to try and solve political problems. I mean, what happens giving to tampons to boys? I thought that's what we were about.
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The Dems Are Lost
do you think i agree with everything you just said that was the most interesting part of it because uh tim wallace is literally saying hey why what happens the old playbook where we call these people mean people and then uh we censor them and then we don't contend with any of their ideas and uh gavin newsom's actually contending with reality which the democrats are particularly not good at which is why they'll tell you that we're winning the ukraine war which will why why why they will tell you
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The Dems Are Lost
that it's better for your health to not go to work not have your kids in school and not to see your loved ones and to wear masks uh because democrats they like to take a narrative pick the narrative and then shame you if you don't agree with him and they did that for how many years that was the last 10 years
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The Dems Are Lost
was uh shaming everyone that didn't agree with their opinion and then censoring them and trying to pretend like you were an evil person if you didn't go with the democratic narrative and so that's all tim walls knows and he's sitting here and he's going news him you're not playing by the book you're actually giving these people uh their day to share their opinion you're legitimizing them we got to do everything that we can to push them back under the rock
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The Dems Are Lost
But Newsom, like I said, he's actually better at sales and he knows he got to answer the phone. You can't fear it. And so we have to actually have these conversations. And if you've ever seen two people auditioning to try and be a part of the next election, I mean, Newsom is clearly... Thank you.
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The Dems Are Lost
A couple years ago when you said that, it was very obvious, and now there's a couple different options on the table.
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The Dems Are Lost
Was he at one percent in the polls? It's it's worse than that. I mean, I've said it that the Democrats listen, we'll see. They might do all right, depending on how bad Trump does. But at the moment, they have nobody on their bench. And the fact that they have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders trying to be out there selling the Democratic message just speaks to currently how doomed they are.
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The Dems Are Lost
But when you start talking about their social media presence, and we played some of the horrific clips that they had over the last couple of weeks, Cory Booker had a particularly bad one where he wrote that script where everyone, here's the thing, like they're trying for all the talk that they did of Donald Trump and the dignity of the office.
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The Dems Are Lost
Now they're trying to be cool and like throwing curse words, but it just doesn't match their style and it doesn't fit for them. And also the internet has picked up on, oh, everyone's reading the exact same script. What is this? And so it was something I think the line was like, that shit just won't stand or something. Just it was not good.
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The Dems Are Lost
And Cory Booker had to come forward afterwards and go, yeah, I wrote that. And so the fact that that's the name being thrown out there right now of, oh, I got this guy and he's running our social media strategy. Talk about not adapting. of that you can't find a single marketing company with the millions.
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The Dems Are Lost
I mean, the fact that I guess it speaks to the 100, what was it, $1.2 billion that Kamala Harris spent not being reelected and how much the marketing companies failed her in trying to put together a strategy and what she paid to digital marketing companies. But to sit here right now, right after Cory Booker had a big swing and a miss and go, don't worry, our bench is doing okay.
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The Dems Are Lost
We're getting, we're getting the social media thing that the kids like. And I've got Cory Booker working on it. Just sounds like such a, it's like the guy trying to flip a burger. That's got a piece of cheese on it in the oven's not on. You don't, you do not know how to do this.
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The Dems Are Lost
The fact that you would take your entire party to just unite to undermine another person. That's not a very good message. How about trying to make a better life for the working class? And so there's it's just the wrong message. You're not supposed to be in front of us talking about the team sport aspect. And we're just here to undermine that guy.
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The Dems Are Lost
what's up what's up hello everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein how are you doing today good sir you know i snuck i slept on my neck weird last night and uh i don't like being old if we have to start pitching wars to get the baby blood i'm in just as someone in the deep state can reach out and let me know
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The Dems Are Lost
Even this, it seems like he was being cut by a commercial break. And so he didn't get to quite explain what he was trying to get out. And so he he basically just pitched it backwards.
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The Dems Are Lost
All right, I got a lot on this. All right, let's have it. You know, there was a time in this world where you had to put on a suit to look like you were in the professional class and go and get a job. And this speaks to the degradation of the news networks where it used to be. In order to be treated seriously, you needed to have...
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The Dems Are Lost
an academic standing or you needed to look like you're in this beautiful studio and that's why people took you seriously and those guys so eroded their credibility that suddenly doing the makeshift thing that we all did because we couldn't afford to be in the big news studios and we weren't given those opportunities but then we brought something different to the market which was truth and now this is almost the suit and tie of truth dude it's such a good point rob yeah
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The Dems Are Lost
He's not he's not in the big studio. He's doing the makeshift thing, which almost signals to people, oh, this this might be truthful. So that's one element.
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The Dems Are Lost
And then there's two more qualities to it. The next is, I think, in part, Donald Trump became president because he's incredible at television. And television is a talent. I think that goes all the way back to, I think it was when JFK beat Nixon because he looked good and Nixon wouldn't wear makeup. That's right.
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The Dems Are Lost
there is a quality to the way that we consume information now now uh ideally you would just be a great governor and you would go sell look at how well i've done in my state and that would be the way and go to sell yourself but that's not the he's a terrible governor that's not the skill set that he has and so as we come into the next election cycle and you basically have to be great at radio now because that's going to be the new place that you go to to try and sell yourself
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The Dems Are Lost
Um, it's, it's almost smart to get good at radio because, and I think that might be why Michelle Obama is trying to launch a podcast too, which she's terrible. And it's, uh, it's, it's unbelievable how bad it is. And maybe, maybe we could delve into that one on another episode. Cause it's shocking. And you know what?
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The Dems Are Lost
And just on that topic, it's odd how much her brother looks like a lady shaved her wig. So backwards that apparently that's a man and she's a lady, but I guess just bad genetics going back to going back to Gavin Newsom. I think in this media climate, it's good to practice podcasting. If you want to be in politics, I think it's probably a necessary tool.
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The Dems Are Lost
i don't agree with a single one of gavin newsom's policies i think he's an evil and bad person with that said he is a fantastic salesperson and a fantastic liar and there's kind of a rule in sales don't fear the phone and there's like a human nature if things aren't going well you don't want to you don't want to talk to your customers but there's a signal and people the the most d the
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The Dems Are Lost
The people with devil skills are the best at this. When things aren't going well, you'll see more of them because it kind of showcases the confidence that they're still willing to take your calls or still be in front of the cameras and saying everything's going great.
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The Dems Are Lost
So Gavin Newsom's actually very smart and very skilled that he's willing, and unlike anyone else in the Democratic Party, and we're going to see in this clip, he's willing to talk to people with very different points of views, and he's willing to engage with those topics, and it's...
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The Dems Are Lost
It's it's actually very it's a very smart sales and persuasion technique that he's willing to actually engage and get in front of this stuff and not go and hide after you had these forest fires incidents.
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The Dems Are Lost
Gavin Newsom can literally be standing in front of a state on fire and going, we're doing the best possible job of anybody who's ever stood here. He's got that Trump quality, but it's a different style of lying.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
And there's that draconian rule. I'm not gonna get this phrase right, but there's some line like ignorance of the law isn't an excuse for violating it, which is wild.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Which is wild that there can be laws that you're not even aware of and now you're responsible for it. So in this case, I mean, if the law doesn't allow you to plead negligence, And not only, you're way past that, because you were claiming elite knowledge authority.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
I don't know, there's probably a better way to put that, but you were saying, I'm the most knowledgeable, so everyone needs to listen to me. So for one, you shouldn't then be able to claim negligence later because you actually exerted elite knowledge authority, and then you were actually just lying.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
So yeah, there's absolutely no excuse for being this lady and feeling comfortable just coming out on television and now flipping the script and like you said, Goebbels just joining the allies and going, why would anyone say that about Jews? That's terrible. You can't say such things.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Turns out it was short sighted and it might have actually harmed pharma profits as more of the country doesn't trust them. And now the outsider that was criticized them has gotten the government post. Maybe the short sightedness of two years of great profits wasn't worth ruining our entire industry by forcing everyone to get one of our things that wasn't that good.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
I got some new sketches out. So if you don't already, follow me on YouTube, Rob of the Fire, all one word. And start emailing me with those porches, robsnewsroom at gmail.com. We're putting it together. It's nearly the season of porches.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
I'm sure it's not criminal because it's got the old Fauci. I was just making recommendations. Sure, I was the head authority and I took the authority and I got on television. But me, I never said the things I was saying. That was the CDC. I was that guy. I was that guy. You know, I'm sure she's got the same plausible deniability of I was just making recommendations.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Well, the things that really jumped out at me was first her complaint about the transparency of how Elon Musk is doing the slashing. Yeah. She doesn't seem to be concerned with the transparency of how the money's being spent. If anything, he's bringing transparency to fraud and abuse, but you don't seem to be concerned with government just having $4 trillion going to unknown places.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
So, and we're also, we're still at the start of this one. So I don't want to, I don't want to jump too far ahead and endorse too much of Doge because we'll see how it plays out. And if they continue to spot fraud, great. And if this seems to be some sort of a data collection scheme by Elon Musk, then bad, but we'll see.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
It feels to me like at the moment I'm watching the makings of another Russia collusion story where they're very specifically saying that they're not looking for people's entitlement programs. They're looking for fraud and abuse. They're coming out with stories of finding fraud and abuse. And then you get these people on the news that are going, no, they have no interest in fraud and abuse.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
They're really going to get rid of your entitlement programs.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
And like you were pointing out, they're literally telling you, hey, and we're engaged in propaganda because it's our job not to report the information, but to re-educate the American public that there's risk here that they can't even fathom, nor am I able to articulate, but just everyone trust us that what's happening here is not what they're telling you and we need to put an end to it, even if it looks helpful.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Uh, it's amazing to me. And I hope same as Deborah Birx, this lady should be held responsible because if you're working at the New York times and it turns out that they're actually just cleaning up fraud and abuse and you're telling people we need to put an end to it because they're coming for your entitlement programs. That's a pretty bold lie.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
I just can't stand boogeyman logic of what was going on during the election, Project 2025, and if it's enacted, well then what? What exactly is the risk? Or in this case with the IRS audit, it happens to be, from what I understand, there's one person on the Doge team that has security clearance that will then be able to, I guess, review the IRS and do some sort of audit.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
and all of the complaints are about, well, the big data, the big data. The big data has already been collected. It's already in government hands. So now it's another person with government security clearance that's going to review it, I think in my interest to see what the IRS is up to. Can you explain to me what the risk is here?
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People Need to be Prosecuted
I'm open to the storyline, but when it's just boogeyman logic of, if it's a complaint about data collection, well then why aren't we complaining about government data collection? And why aren't you writing newspaper articles about the relationship between AT&T and all these other companies that sell big data to the government? Or what about all the data that they harvest offshore?
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Remember what happened with Tucker Carlson when it became clear that they were wiretapping him? So if the complaints about big government data collection, where are all those news stories? Why is it suddenly when there's one person assigned by the government with security clearance that's going to review what they're doing, that the data collection's a problem?
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People Need to be Prosecuted
This one is so irritating because if you wanted to give a one minute summary of my position on the COVID vaccines, it's what you're about to hear from this lady. And it's five years too late. And when you were saying it at the time, you were being pulled down from the internet.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Now there might be a little bit of variation in that I also talked about, you know, the emergency authorities government was seizing, but in terms of just the vaccine, this is nearly exactly what I was saying five years ago in two sentences, except coming from one of the people that was responsible for everything that was not this information five years ago.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Any thoughts, Rob? I think this is going to be the new Russia collusion story with just the level of lying that's coming from the press. You know what's most interesting about that clip is she says that the political story is not true. So somebody's blatantly lying.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Either Politico had a newsletter that was $40,000 subscription that the US was paying and they were giving them, what was the, I forget the number. Was it 4 million a year? I forget the number, but either there was a number that the US government was paying to Politico or not. So like that one should be black and white.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
If you're a journalist, do you have the receipts for why Elon Musk was just lying on that? Because it was reported by a number of news outlets. Or are you literally just lying? Because if you're just on the news lying, shouldn't there be, I don't know, a defamation or something? How do you just get up and say that's not true? They are lying to you.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Politico is not getting money from the United States government. Because then you're leaving me here. I don't know how to research these things. Who's on?
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People Need to be Prosecuted
Hey, man, it's like sniffing your own farts. You know, at some point you get used to hearing yourself talk and you kind of prefer it.
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People Need to be Prosecuted
So I didn't catch this the first time. The lady's pretty slick with her words. So some of the things that just catch me is at the time I was saying, hey, this isn't really a vaccine. They're just using the word vaccine as marketing purposes. And she still calls it a vaccine, but she augments it now to an mRNA vaccine to let you know.
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So that's the first one. Then the second one is, and she's already come out and said this since, but never studied for infection, not supposed to work for infections like you said, then that's not new information. I didn't even catch this the first time watching it, but she's being slick by saying we should have given it to the elderly first.
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So she's not really walking back that we gave it to the young, but she's being a little bit slick in the way that she's describing it of that the young didn't really need it. The reason I, you know, this is old news. We've covered this a lot of times. It's just how flagrant it is coming from her.
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And as you're hearing the entire system yell about both that we can't end the Ukraine war because it makes America look weak and that's a mistake and we're just giving it to Putin, blah, blah, blah. or that Doge is not actually unraveling any fraud in government whatsoever.
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And that there's a danger of Elon Musk having sets of information and that this is actually the, you know, them trying to ruin our government and take away your entitlement programs. It's good to see the extent by which the entire apparatus will lie to you and not to rely on the machine.
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I've got a... Iowa for some state convention. And then I've got a steamboat, Colorado. You come out, you come ski with me. There's always fun shows with Kyle rough. And then other than that, trying to put porch story together, you can email me your porches at Rob's newsroom at gmail.com.
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Yeah, this seems... like this is free speech censorship to me. I mean, you got a couple actions that the Trump administration has taken. First is last week they said they were going to cut federal funding to colleges that allow for illegal protests. So the first problem you have in there is what quantifies an illegal protest. Does that mean they're breaking the law?
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Does that mean that they're trespassing? Now, cutting federal funds, I've spoken about this before, but there was this odd case at Yeshiva University
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that they were going to lose federal funds for not having a gay club and the ridiculousness of going to the one orthodox school but also having a gay club just go to any other university no one's even mad at you for it but like you can either keep the religion or not it's it's like having the bacon club there so So that kind of gets wrapped into cutting federal funding to to for your agenda.
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Most of the agenda is kind of, you know, is the covid regime or was the woke insanity. So there's always kind of been there's a problem with federal funding in general. So we can we can put that to the side. It's a tool for government to be able to essentially enact whatever their propaganda is on universities if they want to continue to get federal funds. That's like that's just a bigger problem.
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And this is just a symptom of that problem in terms of this particular individual. Firstly, not only does he have a green card, he also is married with a child. So I think there's a little bit different.
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Yeah, but there's something different to if you just have a green card and revoking a green card to someone who has become that much of an ingrained citizen. That's almost like having a sponsor. If someone from the United States has picked you as their spouse and is going to have a child with you.
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And then I got some cool run your mouths going on this week, including guest professor, David column, which is always fun.
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And so now in this case, this is where all just like the gray areas come in of, did this guy break the law? And then if you have and then if you have the ability to remove anyone under the it's a very loose I forgot the exact terminology, but it's basically a loose terminology of if they think that you're going to undermine the foreign policy.
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And then there might even be more extreme turns in there of like abiding the, whatever, but it's just, they're very loose terms. If you give the ability of government to censor you because they think your speech is dangerous or it can lead to danger, then you just don't have free speech.
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So in this case, I understand if you're in the country illegally, then or with just a green card status, maybe the same free speech protections don't have to be extended to you. But in this case, I mean, if you're married to someone who lives in the country, I don't understand why you shouldn't have free speech. And this is certainly just I mean, this is egregious censorship, in my opinion.
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And look, again, I don't know. You've got to combat free speech wherever it is, even on the topics you might not agree with. If you're going to empower government to censor speech and deport people because they're saying things that they don't like. And, you know, that's just that's the pathway to hell. And we just went through it over COVID. I mean, how much COVID speech was removed over dangers?
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I think this is such a missed opportunity for the Republicans. There's been more press about reckless government spending over the last two months that I've seen probably in the last 10 years. And now's a great opportunity to run with the doge ball and say, we can't increase spending. We need to limit what's going out to NGOs. We got to limit USA ID.
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There's a lot of conversations that we had and to have one Republican standing up and saying, we're not just going to increase spending once again. We at least have to review some of the reckless and fraudulent spending that's happening. And then Donald Trump to turn around. And of course, it's just very salesy. Now's not the time. We need full compliance.
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It's like the chick you broke up with years ago and still has some expectations. Like, why do you have these expectations? They're not owed to you. Uh, in this case, uh, you know, you, you don't work the club, never worked the club. He's not your boss. We have no relationship with the comedy seller. The comedy seller does not produce this podcast, uh, in, in the sphere of a comedy club owners.
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He's probably the most successful in the country in the sphere of podcasters. He doesn't produce this. He doesn't have a bigger show than us. And he's not the leading authority on these disputes or the condemnation court of America and seems to keep tabs on who's been condemned by who and how come the proper condemnations aren't in line, like some sort of OCD librarian of that.
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You have not read, you haven't met your condemnation quota of who known would like to see you of having condemned. These are all odd expectations. Maybe it's just good marketing and that he's, uh,
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Or or it's just and maybe the arrogance is what will carry him to you guys sitting down and having some conversation. Who knows? Maybe I'll win that one, which I don't see happening. And then it was all, you know, like the Shannon Briggs thing, getting his title opportunity and he got the fight, pissing off Rocky.
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But it all feels like he thinks he's owed some sort of a courtesy from you that feels unearned.
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I think I've done 15 debates. I don't think the audience wants to hear about this topic from us anymore.
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I don't know. The golden cage comments infuriating because this podcast was built from nothing. And it was by being honest. And if we want media jobs by just parroting something that a audience would like to hear, there are much quicker pathways to success. And we've pissed off the audience at times by taking positions that I actually think we lost.
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I mean, we might've attracted some audience, certainly lost some audience over the Israel Gaza takes. I know when I was criticizing RFK Jr. on one episode, I've never once taken into consideration the, Oh, I don't think the, or I've even said, I don't know if the audience will agree with me on this one. And I know you're exactly the same way.
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There's zero consideration for the preference of the audience in terms of what we're talking about. It's what we're seeing and at least our honest opinion as we're exploring something. So just the idea that we're imprisoned by the audience that we built by being honest, that's just not true. That's not the way this podcast works.
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I got nothing on that on the closing remarks, but I think we hit the fair criticisms all around. And who knows? Maybe we'll move on and scream at someone else to start condemning people.
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There's two topics that Donald Trump's really bad on. One of them is government spending. And I don't mean in trying to reduce fraud. I more mean in, hey, let's have the lowest possible interest rates and spend as much as we possibly can. And the other topic, and there might be some others. I've also put the trade and tariff things in with the government spending, just kind of bad economic policy.
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And then there's Israel. And Thomas Massey kind of highlights both of those divides from if you were really into America first and freedom. And Donald Trump's brand of better on some things, but real bad on some others. Yeah. And so the fact that I'm just surprised that because I'm surprised that Donald Trump wants to pick this fight this early on.
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But that's because he's riding high and he's looking for full compliance. And he might actually learn that this one is a not worthwhile fight because it showcases Donald Trump's weaknesses.
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I was reading a piece by Stockman, which I got to always reread those just because of how dense they are. He's a dense writer. He's the best, though. From what I understand, this continuing resolution would refund everything that Doge just cut, including USAID.
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So that just doesn't even, that is flagrantly offensive if you even want to claim that you're just trying to get rid of the fraudulent spending. If you want to just pretend like you're reducing spending and that there's some spending that just works against the will of the American people because it's going to NGOs and just crazy shenanigans. And so you just made a big stink about reducing that.
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Why wouldn't at a minimum there be a conversation about, hey, in this new bill, we're not going to refund those things? I mean, that doesn't even make sense. Yeah.
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That's the missed opportunity here is that let them all get voted out of office then that they're just that the people that are supposed to keep an eye on the purse are just spending recklessly spending even when it's become unpopular and the American people stand against it.
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Constitutional Crisis
It makes sense to me. And I don't understand the—Donald Trump has not, I would think, violated the law yet where he took someone who was born in America, declined their birthright citizenship, and ejected them from the country. Yeah. So it sounds very early if it and I would assume the birthright citizenship, it seems like Donald Trump does have a bit of a claim there.
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So my guess is that's going to advance past the first court. So until he actually violates the like, if he just wants to say, hey, I want to end birthright citizenship and a court comes along and says, well, you can't end birthright citizenship. That's not the end of that process. And he hasn't actually violated the Constitution, it would seem to me. Yeah.
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Whereas in all of your examples, they actually did take away protected rights, such as going to a synagogue. And so I think that plays into what you're saying of you didn't really care about the Constitution there.
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I'm talking a little out of pocket here. But firstly, there's something different about executive powers that restrict the monster as opposed to like build the monster. And by monster, I mean government. But more specifically, there was that law last year that Congress couldn't just outsource like the the regulation of businesses because they had been doing that. That was like a big hearing.
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Right. And it sounds like some of this U.S. aid stuff. It's not like Congress specifically – it seems to me delegated money, for example, to give it to Politico. They didn't specifically give – they were just giving money over to the agency. I don't know. Is Congress allowed to do that?
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Is that the proper use of congressional funds that they can just fund an agency and then an agency can go spend it however they want? I don't know enough about this, but it would seem to me like that almost sounds like the regulation thing where they're not actually doing the job. They're just handing it to someone else to do it.
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So he said it's part of liberty that a person should be able to make their own blah, blah, blah. And he didn't own up to, hey, I'm an idiot with bad opinions and no one should have fronted me.
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I think there's a lot to be said for that. Firstly, there was the cartoonishness of you coming in with the largest coalition and being called divisive. Yeah, right. And the unity of the party and whatever that nonsense was. And then one of the things that was or the two most annoying things about that. Well, there's the autisms and lack of women.
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But once you move past that, the most annoying things about the Libertarian Party, especially with Joe Jorgensen, is that they absolutely flaked on the COVID thing, which was, you know, I mean, talk about a libertarian issue. Oh, yeah.
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And then there was this kind of underlining of the old guard that felt like they that we needed to appeal to the liberal stupidity and the anti-racist, whatever that I don't know, even know what that means. But whatever that thing is, it felt like the Libertarian Party thought that that was the direction it needed to go in.
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And as the ESG scores and all this forced socialism starts washing out and what's actually popular can can rise up and no longer needs to be shamed away. I think it just showcases the stupidity of those libertarians that thought that that was as opposed to just being more macho and what Donald Trump is and just preaching.
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We've got the message that everyone wants, and that's that freedom is awesome. And we never should have shied away from it and trying to pretend like we're left makes no sense. That shit was always gay. Listen, there's no better way to say it.
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And I think you're 100 percent right that Trump winning and all these other conversations happening now kind of showcases just how wrong that old guard of the libertarians were.
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Constitutional Crisis
If he starts calling you a self-hating Jew, you should just whip it out and go, I love that I don't have foreskin. You see this college-aged woman who came out today for this debate?
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I think those kids are smart enough not to protest. Well, just like we'll go make money and not do stupid things.
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And that's where they're dumber. I don't know why, but they are.
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you're a fruitcake smart kid you go to columbia and if you're just uh hey i want to go make some money smart kid you go to like warden or princeton you should work for princeton dude that was the best uh sell ever i'm you know i was just gonna go there and tell them you all wasted your money on tuition you're listening to me like engineers mit if you're a little more fruitcakey you might try for harvard or brown you see yeah and if you just want to like drink other dudes piss you go to yeah
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Constitutional Crisis
Another head for the mantle. That's what you need. You need someone to make prosthetic heads that you can hang over your fireplace.
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Constitutional Crisis
I'll be curious to see if there's any noisy protesters. or any real elite college professors just standing on the side with, I should be in there. Why is this guy in there?
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Constitutional Crisis
Well, I'm just happy that people are talking about how presidents aren't supposed to do executive orders and not supposed to have wars and Congress is supposed to allocate the budget and no one else is supposed to do that.
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Constitutional Crisis
You got to look me in. What is Trump ignoring? I don't know how I missed this.
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The New Trump
That's it. There I do think that there is I'm neutral on Elon Musk. He clearly did us a big favor with Twitter and restored free speech to the Internet. So and, you know, what's the problem?
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I know, but I do think he's a defense contractor and he's made some of his wealth off of Twitter. favorable government contracts and being in on credit schemes. So I don't think he's an entirely neutral or good force. And there is something odd about, you know, a billionaire who still has his own private businesses having access to government data to making decisions.
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Now, you could say if he's just acting as a hatchet man, then there is no conflict of interest and he's actually working as a force for good. The big claims was that he had access. It's always funny when they tell you that there's a massive threat, but they won't tell you what it is. It's kind of Project 2025, the boogeyman of Project 2025, Project 2025, Project 2025.
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Well, what exactly is the threat of Project 2025? No one articulated it. I mean, how many news stories were there? Oh, my God, if Donald Trump comes in, Project 2025 will be enacted. And then what? What is the bad thing of Project 2025 I'm supposed to fear? And so in this case, they're screaming about the data breach of Elon Musk having access to this information.
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and explain to me what is the issue is that that now he's gonna incorporate that into x he's gonna have user data like if there's a data breach i'm all for hey i don't like you know people having my data i try and can to the extent that i can opt out of collecting my data i do
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But can someone if it's that he just has 19 year olds taxpayer records, they're all trying to make like paint it like it was some sort of like not quite a pedophilia thing, but like he's endangering our kids. If he can see 19 year olds tax returns and it's like, well, can you explain can you explain to me what the risk of that is? Where's the data breach here?
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If he's just looking at the information to actually axe people, what is what's the threat here? What is the data breach? And I've yet to hear it articulated.
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And it's also incredible that if you just desire to clean up some of the mess, how easy some of the mess is to clean up. So the fact that some criminals are actually being sent out of the country, that's common sense. Or the fact there was some guy who's making a $10 million salary a year like in Kentucky on like farm construction equipment or something, and he just got fired.
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Elon Musk came back that the people that process payments in the Treasury have never declined a payment ever. Or in this case, the fact that this organization was responsible for sending money over to Wuhan. We never heard about that. And I can only imagine how much fraud and abuse is in the USAID. I can only imagine. So, I mean, we're only a week in.
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I don't I don't believe that, like, they have enough time to clean them up after holding them for 40 years. The fact that they can't just be brought out of their file and released after the president says they need to be released is insane.
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Oh, I'm excited for some Key West. Going to swim in the ocean, drink out in the sun, hang out with Tom Dustin. It's going to be a good time.
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Yeah, it's also pretty telling with with the fact that they were involved in the creation of the virus, that there's a freak out over the agency being absorbed by anyone else. It really seems like people that had their hands in that pie and that payment processing are a little bit concerned that they just lost a piece of pie.
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I don't know that I agree with it, but it certainly makes sense. I get where you're coming from.
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It certainly sounds like the wrong pitch instead of, hey, 90 million people are unengaged in our political process. And so I think we need to figure out how to speak to these other individuals. What are the rights that will get them to show up and vote for? How do we compel these people to engage? And then make up some bullshit of, I know that these are the people that would...
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be better represented by the democratic party and so we just have to figure out how to reach out to them but to just say hey we have to make it easier for these people who are unengaged to show up that's not that's not firstly it doesn't seem like a winning strategy i don't think the voter registration is what's getting in the way of these people voting so you're just talking nonsense here but now you're also just thinking like how do i just get bodies here
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Like, how do we not change any policy? How do we not change what we're doing? How do I just figure out how to win this game and get more bodies showing up? Because we can't vote the corpses anymore. We lost that one. We did it once and it worked for us. So what's our new scheme? We can't get immigrants over the border because we're not in control anymore. We were trying that one.
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So what do we have left? I don't know. We can make it easier for the other 90 million people to show up and offer them some free stuff and maybe...
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I hope he returns to the Dilbert cartoon in which he came.
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i didn't realize bill maher was such a libertarian hey this is my roof why do i need the government coming in here and tell me how i should operate my own roof uh it is uh it is uh i i i guess i should dig in a little bit more on just uh how much uh migration there's been from these large states i'm sure that the problem for the democrats is going to be amplified if there actually is uh
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a mass movement of illegal migrants out of the country. And I'd love to see actual figures on that of exactly how many people came over and what that means for congressional seats, particularly as a lot of them did make their way to New York because there were good social services for
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a period of time including hotel stays and then even uh republican governors were just busting them right up in there which was actually a good strategy for educating the public at large but it might have been a bad strategy for uh congressional seats um but anyways it is uh i i think one of the um it happened in new york state they got a massive federal bailout uh during uh covid
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And I thought that that was bad because we need to showcase bad liberal policies in order for people to actually realize that they're failed policies and to make the correction of people leaving these areas because it's corrective. And I think, you know, it kind of showcases the bad policy failing when it actually fails.
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Um, and I guess that this is a pretty good storyline that Republicans are going to pick up this many congressional seats. I didn't realize that it was, uh, that it was that big. What's that? It was like 12 seats. You just mentioned it's pretty big.
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Oh, this is, this is the most highly produced stupidest thing I've done yet. Check it out. Newsroom on YouTube. It will be out this week.
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should be able to basically overrule the president. And that becomes an issue because, for example, when Joe Biden was saying you're not allowed to evict tenants and then a court overruled him, I thought that that was illegal of Joe Biden. And so there needs to be some sort of a mechanism to check the president.
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I think you almost need a secondary federal Supreme Court that has multiple judges on it versus single courts and a single Democratic judge. I believe this might have been a different case, but I think this guy was the guy who gave a soft sentencing to Ray Epps. So that's a little bit shady. And so...
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I think single judges from Democratic districts that were appointed by Democratic presidents checking the current president, that doesn't make a lot of sense. And now there needs to be a mechanism for policing the president if he is engaging in illegal behavior. I think we need a different system than district judges.
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So I think it's a problem that a district judge is giving him a hard time about it.
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But what they did here of just taking people that they're saying are Venezuelan criminals or gang members, not even necessarily that they committed a crime other than being in a gang, and then just depositing them in a jail seemingly for life, that doesn't seem... Like, if you want to just ship them back to Venezuela and then Venezuela process them directly into jail, that's on Venezuela.
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That's not on us. But for us to just take people and never perform a court case and just putting them directly into a jail that's not even their country of origin...
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and i made a joke on uh run your mouth that if you're in a gang you should get a tattoo that just says not a gang member because i was i was just saying these are for sure i'm sure that there are some people that ended up in there just because of their tattoos and there's one lawyer claiming that a guy was a fan of soccer and just got the wrong tattoo we'll find out whether or not that is a true story or not a true story uh if as a betting man just with the way the government operates if you take 300 people without a court case and you just throw them into a jail how many people you think are going to be innocent
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I mean, if you had to throw a number on, it's going to be more than two. Do you want to take the over under on 25? I might even take the over under on that. I'll probably take the under on 50, but I'm just saying that there's some people that just got sent to a jail in a country that they're not from for life directly from the United States government.
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And now this is the video of him defending his reason for doing this. And I don't think it's much of a defense.
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here's another just interesting thing to note uh i've seen in the past where they'll use a law that hasn't been enforced for a long time and then you go hey that's kind of corrupt we don't usually use this law the last time the alien enemies law was used was when we interned the japanese during world war ii
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uh and i don't think there's a lot of people that are pointing to that and going that was a good american policy this is a good rule on the books so when he when he when he goes hey there is a law in the books that gives us the authority to do so uh from what i understand and i think i read that in the new york times the last time that log was used was interning the japanese and i don't think people look at that now and go hey that was uh that was very moral and just what we did during that time
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someone go ahead if someone stuck into the country illegally and you want to deport them i think we should go after the criminals first but i and i i've also said just make them second class citizens where they don't get benefits they can't vote i think everyone wins but fine you want to deport people back to their country of origin go ahead and do so you want to go after the criminals first great
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He can't just take people and deposit them into a jail without any sort of a court process whatsoever. That's just not what we're talking about here. And that's not even what you're saying when you go where we're going to continue to go after criminals and deport criminals. Great. Deport criminals, but don't deposit them into a jail without a court case for life.
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and what he's really explaining here are suspect suspected gang members yes that would be until you go in front of a judge and you go here's all the reasons we think this person is in this gang and it's well we actually bust him at the headquarters the other people testified then fine now you've got evidence that the guy's in a gang and then the next layer to that is there that's the problem with these terror designations is that once you label a group as being terrorists and in this case you know
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I still think of terrorists as being they belong to Al Qaeda. They came into this country and they're trying to blow up our buildings. I'd like to hear a little bit more clarification on why Venezuelan gang members are considered terrorists now.
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Now, you might say that they're undermining our society through drug trade or that the Venezuelan government specifically wanted to deposit violent criminals here. But just the fact that you can throw in the terror designation and then go, well, you just belong to this group.
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It might even be worth playing without commentary, but the next part is he does get questioned directly on what was the due process, and essentially says there was no due process, but the Americans that have been victims of gang members, what due process did they have?
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You can't just throw Muslims in jail after 9-11 and go, well, what the victims of 9-11, what do you process that they have? Well, the answer is we got to make sure that these are the people that actually perpetrated the crime. Otherwise, you just have a mechanism for free people being in jail or innocent people being in jail.
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Well, that certainly stood out to me when he said that there were 90 million voters, I guess, who decided not to vote against, what did he say, tyranny? He didn't quite use that word.
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but that's what he's implying it was the end of democracy and 90 million people just didn't show up i mean clearly it wasn't the end of democracy because i'd have to think that 90 million people if all they needed to do was register to vote and we could keep our democracy they'd probably do so uh so speaking to that i mean this guy who looks like he was drawn by dilbert like he's just a cartoon character and this is clearly nonsense that you know it was the end of our democracy and just 90 million people weren't engaged no you didn't earn those people's votes
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Yeah, that was clearly nonsense. He didn't sell those people. And, you know, you and I have done hundreds of episodes explaining why the Democrats were not the better option in this past election. So the starting point of your analysis just being 90 million people were uninterested in keeping the democracy. It's because you're lying. With that being said, I think that there absolutely should be...
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a requirement to show your identification in order to vote and there should be a mechanism that ensures the fact that you're actually a u.s citizen uh my entire and the fact that apparently acquiring ids is racist is something that the government should fix because there's so many other activities that you require id for
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So if you would just think about all of the ways that our society seems to be racist, because apparently people can't drive cars, they can't purchase alcohol, they can't check into hotels. And the fact that the government doesn't want to fix that process and make it easier for people to just partake in civil society.
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Game Over For The Dems?
I mean, we should be addressing the racism issue of our government, that it makes it hard for minorities to acquire IDs. With that said, removing voter registration but keeping the fact that you have to have your ID to prove you're a U.S. citizen, I don't care if there's a registration process.
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Game Over For The Dems?
I got a steamboat. I think it's April 5th and 6th. Then the weekend after that, I've got a Des Moines. I think I finally got that right. Hanging out at a libertarian event. Scott Horton's there the next night. I think Josh lives out there. He got some cool stuff going on. So, uh, come hang out. I'm doing a standup Friday night.
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The Left vs. Reality
off the bat when i saw that he requested everyone in government has to send a short email with five things they did in the prior week what they were working on and if they don't it's considered as if they're handing in their resignation and as much as i like what doge is doing that is some you boss activity because firstly you can fire me or i can quit not doing something is not me resigning
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So that's just like a nasty boss move of no, you have to do this or you're resigning. Like, no, you can fire me for not doing the thing. It's not considered. So I don't like that little game. And there's also just something about the pettiness of having to sit down and just do homework because the boss says, hey, I need you to do this homework.
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so at first even as much as i don't like government employees and a lot of them shouldn't have their jobs i saw that from elon musk i was like you boss i'm not writing this email uh then elon musk claimed because that was the attitude of a lot of people of this is boss behavior
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that uh they're trying to clean i don't know if this is true he said they're trying to clean up for fraud and they think that there's a lot of dead email addresses that are collecting paychecks and that this was a simple way to at least figure out who's on payroll and who might just be i i i i don't know that that's true and then you had uh cash it's also unless that's one's coming from donald trump that seems crazy to automatically fire government employees if they're not doing a specific elon musk
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regarded homework assignment that doesn't seem like the best way to be finding fraud and abuse that seems like boss behavior for hey i'm in charge here and you're going to be compliant towards me uh so it it's tough to get elon musk back on this particular way of finding the fraud and abuse i'm all for finding the fraud and abuse i'm all for firing you know shitty government workers i can't imagine that this is the most sophisticated way to do it
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I think that's a nonsense weasel out from her. I don't think Elon Musk is actually looking for progress reports as much as, hey, here's your weekend homework assignment. And I think you could sit there and say, I was working on five classified debriefings, and that would be the end of the homework assignment.
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The Left vs. Reality
I think cash and Tulsi were basically going, Hey, we just got here. We're going to run our departments. So lay off.
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The Left vs. Reality
I do like the back to work or get fired. That one seems fair. of, Hey, if you don't even want your job enough to figure out how to report in for it, you can't have this job anymore. And then you could have the boss that comes forward and goes, no, this guy's a high productivity worker and he's autistic. He doesn't work well in the office.
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Who those people are. But that one, that one feels like a very fair bitch out of, Nope, we're coming back to actual in office work. And if you don't want this job enough to show up for it, you can't have it. But that's being fired. That's once again, it doesn't have that thing of, well, then you're resigning.
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The Left vs. Reality
So anyway, how many people went into chat GPT and said, give me five things. A person with this government title might've worked on last week.
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The Left vs. Reality
I agree. That seems like Javier Malay on this one when Hawk to a coin girl, but I, and at least from the Hawk to a girl, it's the fucking Hawk to a girl. Why are you taking investment advice from her? I could see why there's a slightly more of a fraud element. Well, all right, here's the real fraud element.
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The Left vs. Reality
is that you think if the government's backing it, that it might become something that the government's actually working on. And then same as like the U.S. dollar as currency because I can use it on my taxes. So you might actually think that there's value there. But then you're still trying to front run the government.
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The Left vs. Reality
It's no different than having gotten suckered into putting all your money into a windmill company because you thought that the government was going to continue to buy windmills. So, you know, it's almost no different than any other government policy that tries to get people excited that the government's backing some particular technology or industry or buying additional defense contracts.
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The Left vs. Reality
It's not that much different, except in this case, I don't know what the inherent value... Like, at least you can argue the plane contracts that got canceled to Boeing that you thought were going to drive profits for Boeing...
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The Left vs. Reality
there's a physical good there i don't know why he's backing libra i don't know anything about it or as to like if it was you know if you wanted to claim it was some sort of a payment processing that they were going to incorporate i have no idea but i don't even know what the argument is for why if you're the leader of a country you're backing some fringe cryptocurrency i don't even like it just it seems
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The Left vs. Reality
Okay, what I think he gets incredibly wrong is that the regulation of the stock market, the way that the Fed exists, the way the entire game is played is more similar to if you thought you had brakes on your car, and then when you went to press the brakes, it turns out that you just injected NOS into the engine.
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The Left vs. Reality
And this is the big wet dream of liberals everywhere is that we need government to protect us from corporations, except government is the tools that the corporations use that they don't have to actually compete and create value in the marketplace and so that they can do everything themselves.
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The Left vs. Reality
that the left pretends that they're afraid of corporations doing which is exploiting us all for money in an honest market they have to create value and that's the only way that they can extract money from you is if they are giving you something of value in return government is what steps in and changes the rules of the games that they can just extract wealth yes look there is a tendency
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The Left vs. Reality
So I'm sorry, but anyway, just about coffee Zilla, who I never, I think I've heard of before and blast for being a dumb ass.
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The Left vs. Reality
Also, just to expand a little bit, it's all in the back of fractional reserve banking and the ability of the Fed to bail out Wall Street every single time that they explode one of their credit asset bubbles. And so the point being, if you think you're being protected by government while it's only throwing fuel on the fire, that's not more helpful.
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The Left vs. Reality
Firstly, Bongino getting in there is a big win for bald loudmouths. So in terms of, you know, just looking at the economic landscape and seeing what your career trajectory could be, the fact that a bald podcaster who talks a lot of shit just got a job in the political administration and a real job at that is pretty cool.
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Well, I was just kind of thinking in my head, you know, idiots are going to idiot. And that doesn't mean that you should go out and scam people. But if someone decides that, you know, there's people that lose money in casinos every single year. And I don't know why some people should have the right to operate a casino and other people shouldn't.
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The Left vs. Reality
It's just that government gives a handout to some people that they get to have the business of a casino and other people can't.
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The Left vs. Reality
if i want to have meme coins and sell you meme coins and you're a person that wants to buy meme coins why is a government regulator coming into that market how does that help if there's a market for meme coins and people are going to buy meme coins which is essentially hey i'm going to gamble on which one of these artificially goes up and when i could sell it why does it help to just let single individuals and companies work in that field under the guidance of government
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Exactly. I mean, just a couple of years ago, they were keeping us out of all jobs and industries. And you know, it's nice to see a turnaround as we get rid of the DEI. So that, that makes me feel good. I I'm not too familiar with his work, but I know he talked a lot of shit about when they tried to kill Donald Trump and And I think he really dove into the Russia collusion story.
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The Left vs. Reality
So I just think and then you look at like health care. So I guess on you could have products that just don't do anything for you. I saw you flower petals and I tell you they're good for your health and you purchase them. Lavender oil doesn't matter. Just something that doesn't work. And then the worst version of that is I gave you something that can actually be bad for you.
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And then you go, oh, I can't have people just selling things that might actually be bad for people's health. We need a regulator in. But then look at what the regulators have done. They forced people to get COVID vaccines. How's that helpful?
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The Left vs. Reality
And not only that, but they keep products off the marketplace that would be more cost effective or could like, I don't want to sit here researching what peptides actually have healing properties that the FDA won't allow me to have. or whether or not their painkillers are better than like a Kratom, but that's, that's the way we work.
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The Left vs. Reality
And are those regulators actually to my benefit or would be better if we got rid of that signal completely. And so that, you know, people with better incentives came into like, I used to keep kosher. There was this organization called the OU. And if you go look at packages, there's a little thing that certifies, Hey, that's kosher.
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The Left vs. Reality
maybe be better off with independent regulators on all this stuff that are actually paid for by the consumers that go hey we went in we did our homework on this it's actually pretty good for you because it seems like uh the market mechanisms of the government regulators just favor large corporations yeah yeah no that's exactly right exactly right all right let's let's keep playing
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The Left vs. Reality
And so I think Trump's doing, like you said, a much better job of making sure that he has loyalists around him. And, I mean, we're seeing him actually push forward with his agenda this time around in a way he never was able to when they concocted that bullshit Russia story the last time. And it's also fun to have all these just good-looking television personalities surrounding him.
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like from one end to the other, but like imagine this one, I have the technical, it's there's a protons, uh, neutrons and come.
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The Left vs. Reality
I think you're right. And it's probably owed to the American people in some capacity with these picks. However, you know, there's that old saying the best revenge is a life well lived.
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And I think if the FBI were to turn its focus into actually prosecuting all the pedophiles that exist in this country, maybe cleaning up the fentanyl and then just reporting, you know, there was a, I forgot what the number was, but there was a massive amount of the FBI that was allocated just to prosecuting and rounding up the January six people.
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And now, four years later, let's just say you put 100,000 pedophiles in jail and are able to go look at what the Biden administration left on the streets. And so I think if they, while prosecuting, there's a lot of mess to be cleaned up. And if I had to pick what should be prosecuted, it would be the COVID-19 scandal and going after Fauci and the relationship between big pharma and government.
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In terms of the FBI and CIA, I think a lot of those people will probably get fired. And if you actually just start using those agencies for good, I think that becomes the like just the biggest condemnation of the way that these agencies have been used in the past.
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Because look at the terrible crimes that went unpunished and unnoticed as you just use the resources to basically prosecute political prisoners.
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Anyway, I can't complain. Pecan pie from the supermarket and went to sleep around 9 PM. It was great.
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Another Stupid War
Okay. On that note, if I can let everyone know, I did a Run Your Mouth with Professor David Collum. We threw some bombs. You should go check that one out. I don't do a lot of long-form interviews. And then I think April 5th and 6th, I'm in Steamboat, Colorado. And the weekend before or after that, doing the convention out in Idaho. I got a new website up. It'll be probably up there by now.
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Another Stupid War
I hadn't quite considered, I guess, the Houthi-Palestine tie-in and that this was in response to what was going on over there. I guess I was more just looking at it from the, why are we now in the business of killing innocent civilians? And I just find it surprising that if there's these...
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I'm doing well, Davey Smith. How was battling everyone on Piers Morgan?
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Another Stupid War
multi-billion dollar trade routes and it's important to multiple countries that there's not a way of securing the trade route i mean if you're telling me that we're both aligned with china and nearly every country in the world about keeping this trade route open there's really no way of just sending a bunch of ships in there or a bunch of submarines in there
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Another Stupid War
and maintaining the trade route without having to bomb areas of yemen that include killing civilians it just and and speaking to your point of what does this actually accomplish so are we starting a war with yemen are we just it seems like the strong man of hey we're gonna bomb innocent civilians in your territories and maybe take out a couple leaders here and there until you actually acquiesce and give up it doesn't seem to work or i don't know where's the example of that working so far
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Another Stupid War
RobBernsteinComedy.com has the dates. Come hang out. Hit me up to ski.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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While it's good politics, I'd like to actually see some execution on, I guess, because I've been joking that Donald Trump, it's a lot of just clickbait presidency. We'll float a storyline like this and you'll get really excited like, wow, are they actually going to prosecute Fauci? And then that'll be the end of the conversation about it.
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Another Stupid War
uh specifically talking to biden's dementia i was saying while it was happening i think you guys can probably find clips in year one and year two of his presidency of uh whoever's around him that is masking for this should be held criminally responsible and i'd love to see you know those people brought in front of congress and giving testimony about what his actual behavior was because if you've been around people with dementia
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it can become very obvious. Like they have moments where like, oh, the guy's still there. And then when you put him down in a chair and he's like, are we still going to that dinner? And you're like, I just brought you back from that. Oh, okay. And I'm willing to bet that people were around him and saw moments like that.
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Another Stupid War
And, you know, I don't know if you were a surgeon, let's say, and you were an alcoholic and I was your wife and I wanted you to continue to have that job. And so in the morning, I'm helping you get dressed up and I'm giving you some alcohol so that you don't have your wobbly hands. And then you kill someone in surgery. That's an accomplice at that point, because you're masking it.
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Another Stupid War
And so maybe there's no crime of being president with dementia, but I think there should be. And I think if you're incapable of doing the job and you're making decisions that are harmful for the entire country, there should be accountability for that. And whoever's masking it, particularly if the guy has dementia, then he doesn't really have agency.
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Another Stupid War
I mean, that's not a guy who's really using his higher consciousness to mold or make decisions. So whoever's actually masking it for him is the person with agency. And those people should be held accountable. And then whoever was actually running, you know what I mean? All of this should be investigated or at least paraded in front of the public.
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Another Stupid War
Well, it's infuriating to listen to. Firstly, he's such a dumbass. And it's funny the way that Bill Maher is a little bit cunty because off the bat, he's like, wait, you don't know the answer to that? How do you not know? You were there.
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Another Stupid War
They totally do. told you the ratings and you can look at your YouTube counter and you can probably speak to a better expert of how accurate the CNN ratings are and how much of it is a gyms and airport and how many people are actually watching it versus the accuracy of the YouTube counter.
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Another Stupid War
And then also when he talks about that during the COVID era, it was exciting because so many people were tuning in, but then also the profitability I don't know that that's all ratings as much as that could be the pharmaceutical companies were pretty interested in the continuing selling of that story. And you kind of see the circle of interest all getting along there of CNN sells the story.
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Another Stupid War
They make more money, more people tune in, more people are scared, more people tune in. They make more money. The advertisers want to spend more there.
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And I'm not saying that Don Lemon's smart enough to participate in that circle as much as be the face that they'll slap on the screen and say, read these words and only these words, because if you say anything else, it's pretty clear that you're Anchorman.
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But, you know, I think there's something gross about the casualness and all of a sudden him being pragmatic and going, well, it was fun to be there at that time because everyone was tuning in for manufactured nonsense. Yeah.
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Another Stupid War
What am I going to say that's better than fuck off, Don Lemon? I think you nailed it on that one.
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RobBernsteinComedy.com. I'll get the links to those two dates in the episode description. And check out the Run Your Mouth podcast. Just did a really great interview with David Collum. I think you guys would like it.
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Another Stupid War
I think that that's all fair. And what I would take the biggest issue with is just when we're out in the world and we're murdering innocent civilians.
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Another Stupid War
Yeah, when we're out in the world and we're murdering innocent civilians, I don't really see the distinction between us and terrorists.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
It's really incredible what the media will try and sell you on. And I'm loving the storyline of them outraged over what's going on with Doge and them trying to say they're not actually finding fraud and abuse. And it's such an odd approach from the media because we're spending too much money as a country.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
And if there's actually massive amounts of just fraudulent payments that Elon Musk is able to clean up and maybe get us out of this mess without having to even cut back on too many entitlement programs, that would be such a massive win. If you could cut the budget deficit by 20% because it turns out it's just going to faulty social security numbers and just sporadic bank accounts abroad.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
Wouldn't that be a great turnaround story that someone managed to clean that up? And it's amazing how the entire media apparatus is screaming about how even though he's got the power of the president and the president won in part because he was going to do this. And it's no different than when governments create agencies and nothing's happening without the authority of the president.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
They couldn't be more outraged over the fact that fraud and abuse is being discovered. And they're trying to spin every story as no, it's not actually be uncovered or
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The Dangers of Free Speech
that's minor or that's impossible the government has other other agencies that would spot this if it was there it's such an amazing thing that they want to sell you on no they can't possibly be covering unfraud and fraud and abuse well it's also like um the the you know like so many of the responses to the doge stuff are that right one of them will be there's there's a couple that i've seen they're all just
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The Dangers of Free Speech
That's like the newest thing out of Europe is Europe needs to be at the table for the negotiations in order for us to have a long-lasting peace or a solidified peace.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
I forget the bullshit word that they're using, but they're admitting like, oh yeah, Donald Trump could probably get this done, but their new bullshit, the same as that Putin was gonna take over all of Europe is that it won't be a lasting peace unless Europe's at the table.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
And it's like, what exactly is Europe bringing to the table in this discussion that will make it a lasting piece that Donald Trump... Yeah, of course it's bullshit.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
Also, if the U.S. is pulling support, good luck, Zelensky. What does Zelensky do then? If Donald Trump goes, hey, I put together the peace agreement. You're giving up these territories. The war is over. You're not getting into NATO, and here's a security guarantee, which will be a nonsense whatever guarantee that the Russians won't continue to take territory. But what's Zelensky going to do?
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The Dangers of Free Speech
I don't take the offer. And then Donald Trump goes, all right, Putin, you can have it. We'll stop you if you get to Poland.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
i watched three quarters of it just to see what people were upset about i thought it was fine and funny i didn't think that there was the character type was i i it seemed like uh woke karenism from the right that they seem to have been upset with the sketch or the parody i thought it was actually funny i thought like the game of the scene in sketch terms was funny that uh conservative right-wing people
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have the same thoughts and attitudes as like black people on certain uh distrust of government i didn't think it was i i don't even know why people were bothered by it maybe maybe you felt otherwise but let's let's play the clip and then and then let's i mean i guess it was a little similar to his forrest gump character and then maybe that was uh what people were taking issue with but i did see a little bit of that you did see forrest coming up a little bit in that character here let's play the clip and then we can discuss i don't entirely disagree with you
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The Dangers of Free Speech
Yeah, all right. You're welcome at Black Jeopardy anytime.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
obama supporter or something like that but they will kind of take the gloves off with trump support it's like yeah and that's why they're less and less relevant than they've ever been before it's like i don't know i guess i'm more or less with you i will call things out for uh for not being funny and uh we certainly have seen a lot of comedy where there was no comedy uh we've seen it with the late night shows where there's no joke there it's just might as well be the news telling you why they don't like trump there's literally not the structure or
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The Dangers of Free Speech
In this particular sketch. Listen, I'm not ever going to work at SNL. I don't know that I'd be qualified to work at SNL. They spent too much time with the two black characters playing their silly game of, you know, I guess what's relevant to black people. Maybe I'm starting to sound racist. That was not that funny. The actual Tom Hanks lines in the sketch. I was like, OK, I get the joke here.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
There's a joke here. It's not just woke agenda nonsense. Like there was an actual joke there of that. The conservative Republican has the exact same distrust as government as these black. Like and it was that was actually I wasn't laugh aloud funny, but there was enough of a joke there. I'm like, all right, I don't this last piece a little bit more agenda, but I didn't even make it that far.
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That's how interested I was. I watched the first 40 percent to go. This is nonsense Republican complaints.
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And it's all lame. Everything I tried to check out just wasn't hitting. And they're rehashing old bits and it's just not fresh and funny. And you know, it was interesting for me because I've never watched SNL. I've never watched it. It's never been a show that I watched. And the wealth of talent that came off of that show and then went on to do the funniest things in the entire world.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
And then I go back and watch this and just, listen, it doesn't appeal to me, whatever. But then it's funny because everyone's celebrating the thing and you're like, all right, let's go check it out. It's the best comedians in the entire world. These are the most talented people in the world.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
And miss after miss of lameness and lameness where you're like, all right, this is why am I even trying to get into this? I might watch the show when it's the show.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
There's a great thing about radio, which is it is its own medium. And Louis C.K. is one of my all time favorite comics. He actually did this three hour stint. Firstly, all of his appearances on Opie and Anthony are incredible.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
One of the best one is with Donald Rumsfeld when he keeps asking Donald Rumsfeld if he's a lizard.
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and then also you can find this if you want to do a deep dive he once on the ona channel like hosted this three hour thing on a saturday night and he's just kind of uncomfortable doing it and talking about how he shouldn't be there and there's this weird meta moment where someone calls him in to try and coach him with how he should handle the show and the listener's so stupid that he doesn't realize he called into something while it's live and louie's just like agreeing with the guy of like yeah you're absolutely right i should probably incorporate if that i'm gonna do like it makes no sense
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Anyways, with all that said, Louie's a super talent. They try and launch people into the podcast space all the time, and they're not radio people. That's what this is. And they stink at it. So, like, you're just objectively wrong. You can bring the biggest Fox News anchors and hand them podcasts, and you're going to find out, oh, they're not that interesting or good.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
They were platformed by Fox News. And you can bring, by the way, I think Bill Murray is one of the funniest people ever. He's a movie star. I don't think he'd be a great podcaster.
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The Dangers of Free Speech
It might be interesting. Like the first episode, Bill Murray sitting down for drinks with someone. That might be interesting. I don't know that he really knows how to conduct an interview or that he's not good when he's kind of just responding and doing the sarcastic Bill Murray aloof thing. I don't think he hosts a show. That's not what he does. So it's just dead wrong when people look at it.
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You know, it's like throwing a boxer into MMA. He might be a great boxer. That doesn't mean he can do MMA.
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the fact that a brilliant wizard kid who once at 12 years old had a name harry balls like well then where are you going to find a good artist to work at your company if everyone who had a funny uh twitter handles out off the off the books you're gonna have to hire from india
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Well, unless he's actually afraid that some dollar figures are going to come out of what he was paid by the CIA to back Zelensky or whatever the fuck he did during COVID. But it's so funny with the funny people. Like he's a super fucking talent. And I've heard him talk about how he couldn't make Tropic Thunder today. That's not because of the Republicans.
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The Republicans aren't the ones that try and say that comedy is violence and we can't have jokes in this style. That's not that's not coming from the conservative party anymore. No, that's right. You got to pretend like you're living in a different time period. If you want to pretend that the exactly right Republicans are the ones keeping you from this stuff.
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We take Native Americans. Yeah, they got in the way of expansion.
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Well, I saw some of the freak out in the response and that I was certainly entertained by.
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I think their jobs rely on censorship. So they're going to they're going to preach the dangers of free speech because it's their competition is people giving you the truth.
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There's also just something so batshit crazy that you're supposed to be neutral or pretending to be neutral if you're on one of these news networks. And forget asking non-neutral questions, but dramatically crying as if...
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some new i don't know regime is taking over like it's it's the next level of trying to sell bullshit is also dramatically pretending like all of our lives are going to be ruined because of the other person on the screen and yes you know what i mean it's like that's a different level of spin they're going more crazy girlfriend on us there yeah that's a good way to put it all right let's let's play this clip and then we will uh discuss the historical accuracy of the claim being made
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I have to disagree with you. Can you pause? I don't know if we can pull up the transcript of that, but that's like seven degrees of bacon to not even being able to make a point at the end of that. And you know that. What, the four layers of random things you tried to bring together to claim that there was a dog whistle here?
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From what I remember, they burned the books that more people couldn't read and would be forced to speak. And so it was actually an amplification of freedom of speech as they motivated people to speak more.
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But this is so – so what she's trying – And they congregated them on trains so that they would be closer together and forced to have discussion. Once again –
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
Yes, she's a senator from the chat. I didn't just thank you.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
Put out the cool ad of look, I can drive backwards. I learned all sorts of cool shit.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I don't think you're missing much. And it's incredible how poorly she speaks the English language for being a Congress lady. And she's not from Jamaica. She's almost talking like and dressed like a Jamaican lady. That gets a little bit confusing.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
But yeah, I don't think lecturing to individuals who don't like everyone pouring over the border and wanting to control who's in the country and screaming at them that they're racist is a very good way of marketing this.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I don't know about you, but I always thought the rent was too damn high.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I think not only are they floundering on all the policies, they don't have a good salesperson for it. And whatever marketing companies they're overspending money with, as you saw with Kamala Harris, I think she ended up, she spent the most money ever and then still ended up in debt. And in part because they spent a shit ton of money on television advertising. Who was even watching that?
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
And so whoever behind the scenes is going, oh, well, this will be fun. This is how we get the kids back on our side.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
It's with these goofy TikTok videos because they're looking at Trump and Trump just has that cool factor that they tried to whine him out of office with the dignity, dignity, dignity, as if jumping in front of a camera like a, I don't know, a fourth grader could come up with something more creative than that and probably did on a school project for TikTok. This is that they're just floundering.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
They're just trying to figure out how do we sell our message? And apparently being the adults in the room includes jumping around and putting a what is that a tech and tag song? I don't even know. But it's terrible.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I can't quite peg what experience this was or what this archetype is, but I remember I'm going to call them the pedophile moms that instead of working jobs like the hangout at the school for the school plays or the school pictures, and even as like a third grader, they'd come up with some idea and you'd be like, yeah, I'm not doing that. That's terrible. That's what this video feels like.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
Yeah, the worst idea from the theater kid mom that did not go that route and is now, you know, doesn't work and shows up to the school to volunteer for these things and just has the worst idea so she could have her one moment in the director chair with three third graders. But even those kids are smart enough to be like, Oh, this lady sucks. I don't want to do that.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
It's like that humor with the hamburgers when it was clear that he eats lizard food and he's never cooked a burger in his whole life. Hey, I'm a human just enjoying Memorial Day like the rest of you.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
So we're saying the reason they have socialism in Canada is that despite them being kind and upbeat people, they're rather stupid.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
They're gullible but nice up in Canada. I guess that's what we learned from our one-hour excursion over the border.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
um okay i got dates too oh oh libertarian party uh state convention out in iowa in april i'm also doing a steamboat if you want to come ski with me and do some skiing you can also email me your porches at rob's newsroom at gmail.com putting all that shenanigans together and then of course the run your mouth podcast
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I told a lot of Canada jokes that were doing very well. This one got nothing, but I still just think it's true of the country. is that every time I meet Canadians, they're very nice people. I don't understand how they seem to all come together to forge that socialist shithole. Like, there's something odd about when Canadians combine, it's like a bad Power Rangers or something.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I think it's unbelievable how poorly the Democrats are operating right now. The best messengers they have are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. They're not doing a particularly good job. Then they had that incredibly cringe video with Cory Booker that they were all reading the exact same script and they're like, trying to be edgy for all their thing of the dignity of the office.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
Now, like they're trying to figure out how to use curse words, but they don't know how to, they, like you said, they just don't know how to be cool. It doesn't fit their personalities. Also the democratic senators blocked the bill to keep women out of men's. I mean, men out of female sports. I think the trans issue is such a loser for them.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
And their old guard, they're still trying to pitch Ukraine war to the end. And then when they're putting out social media videos, you got that lady who looks like a witch. She put out a weird video last week. They seem to be just at a total loss for how to. And by the way, the branding for them is easy.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
We're supposed to be the party of the people and we're supposed to make sure that you guys have good jobs and great benefits. So we're going to go back to what we're doing, except that they seem to be so in bed with the deep state and to be on that side that they can't not pitch wars. And I think as Elon Musk, we've said it before, has returned freedom to the Internet.
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How Can the Dems Come Back?
I don't think that they have the propaganda tools to just try and shame us into, if you're not listening to us, you're not nice, and you want to kill grandma.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
One of the parts of the freak out, which is incredible is the people going, Hey, this is such a small portion of our, uh, of how much money we spend. And he goes, wait, so are you against cleaning up fraud and abuse? You think we should just let that slide? Uh, I mean, it seems like the low hanging fruit to clean that up.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
And where's the Bernie Sanders screaming about with the millionaires, the billionaires? Well, what about the people who became millionaires because of a government check that just goes into a thing? What about those people? You got a problem with the free market millionaires, but not The Green Energy New Deal people, the Obama thing that just went under in California.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
What about all the people with favorable government contracts? What about all the people that constitute the 1% because they're just getting these government checks through backdoor handouts for transgender research in Jamaica?
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
I remember that guy was a real douche on COVID as well. I'm sure. I'd like to see him regrow his hair because I don't like him bringing such badness to our bald community.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
He's not representing our community well. And so I'd like to disavow him. And same as I've disavowed some Jews and said, I don't like those Jews. That guy doesn't represent me or my fellow balds. That guy does not represent true baldness.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
Now, my second thought on this is that. You know, like I kind of look at Doge if I worked in an office, some boss came out and said, hey, we're selling the following product. And you think they're a little bit being a little bit too aggressive with the marketing. But then it turns out the customers are real happy with the product.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
And you go, all right, I don't really like the way we marketed this, but I guess everyone's happy. So it worked. I don't know that I love the Doge mechanism. I don't know that it like look at what happened with the Biden Hunter Biden thing. He had the Republicans investigating that forever. I listened to that cattle rancher a million times talking about 20 companies, this, that or the next thing.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
It could be. Elon Musk, with his three wizards and some AI algorithms, can actually cut through the entire government's budget and tell us where all the fraud and abuse is going to. And I don't understand how you take the other side of that we should not get rid of the fraud and abuse from government. Like you were saying, where's the Q? Like, if that's the end result, so fine.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
Maybe there would be a better mechanism for how to clean this up. And maybe Elon Musk, even if he's appointed by the president, shouldn't be allowed to have a private company also. Thank you.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
It seems particularly cruel. And for as much as I fought back on the sanctity of borders and Putin talk because of all the things we've been doing in the world. And there was, you know, I think we provoked him and, you know, we're moving a military close to him.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
But the idea of Israel being able to bomb its neighbors out of the territory and then just keep it seems seems like it shouldn't be part of the world in 2025. Yeah.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
Some of the things he was saying in the Netanyahu conference also where he goes, the Palestinian people have just been unlucky. And no matter how long they're going to be here, it's like he's just describing as if this was the result of an alien invasion. But you're sitting next to the guy who did it.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
Also, there's a lack of conversation about the Israel responsibility for all the homes that they've demolished. I mean, human life is an issue, obviously, but all these people, they lost their homes. Like, they're just returning to nothing. Yeah. Like... And then when the ceasefire is over, do they go back to the south?
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
They just keep like, well, I don't even you know, I mean, there's not much of a conversation here about Israel responsibility or what the plan is.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
It's amazing. I understand going, hey, I'm not too familiar with this person. Of course. But let's get into what they said. And we do that quite a bit, particularly me. I'm more guilty of that when you bring something up. Oh, I'm doing it right now.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
And to speak so authoritatively to go, I know that he's a leftist and he specifically voted for this reason.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
This is too inside baseball, but that guy's like if you combine the ShamWow guy with Modi.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
What's more interesting to me than the poll number is just... During COVID, they lied and they pretended like everyone was getting vaccinated. You're crazy if you weren't. They lied to pretend that Donald Trump could impossibly win against Hillary Clinton because they wanted to convince you, don't waste your vote, be on the winning side, vote for Hillary Clinton.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
We know now from USAID, Politico was getting checks, BBC was getting checks. Their entire game is to try and pretend like everything is in the world of normal. And if you don't agree with them and that's why they repeat things as much as they do, that's the propaganda machine. Uh, it's interesting that CNN would get any favorable coverage to him whatsoever.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
And I'm almost surprised to see them reporting on this same as they didn't report on border stats for a long time during the Biden administration. So it's almost more surprised, like more than, uh,
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
the indicator of the poll, the fact that CNN is forced to cover it in a favorable way and not just go, my God, I guess 5% more of the country's racist now that he's actually ahead in the polling, to me is the more remarkable story.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
If I went to a town in Russia and there were like 97-year-old women and they're all sitting around smoking cigarettes, I'd be like, cigarettes aren't that bad for you. They're all doing it here. Yeah, obviously. I mean, they're fine. And then you go down to Key West and they're all like 65. They look okay and they're drinking for breakfast. You're like, this can't be that bad. Yeah, it was...
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
We're also not three weeks into hearing about how he's a Russian asset. So it's it's I mean, they're also the polls just started. Let's see if he goes and he redevelops Gaza and what that does for his polling. Well, we'll get into that in a second. Obviously, we have to weigh in on the. But if you just think of how much of a change it is from.
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Trump's Delivering on His Promises
cooking up a fake Russia collusion story to actually reporting, hey, the American people like this guy so much. That to me, that's a massive change. Going from the entire media apparatus just undermining you to actually giving the honest information of, wait, people like this guy?
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Zelensky is sitting there and he's trying to play the card of, hey, I'm doing you the favor here. And he clearly isn't. And that's where Trump finally steps in to go. How dare you? We are completely fine. We do not need you. We will be OK. And speaking to your other point of if we don't stop Putin there, he's going to go take over the world.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
That is going to age about as well as the domino theory in Vietnam. And for everybody who is claiming, oh, we are going to end up in a war with Putin. I mean, I really just have two questions that no one has yet to articulate. One is, what is the pathway to victory of it?
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
giving more arms to ukraine what what exactly because we're bleeding ourselves dry and spending money too so it's not like we provoked a war between an enemy and some random people and they're both going to fight each other and that's how we crowed the empire we're not doing that because we're involved here and we're spending our money so what is the pathway to victory and then if it becomes that we're trying to escalate it how do you have a war with russia that doesn't end up in nuclear war
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
So I don't even understand for the people that want to remain in this war and they don't want to acknowledge how many people have died for absolutely no reason and that Putin is just slowly taking territory. And if anything, your entire agenda was to show people how mighty America is and the sanctity of borders.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
you've provoked the opposite where now you've showcased oh no you can get away with land grabs and actually walk away with some goodies that might have been that might pay off the war debt because there's trillions of dollars worth of rare minerals there so and we're coming to a point now where it does actually feel like the most insane claim i heard that was opposing this war was that it would be the end of nato and i gotta say if after zlinski showed up here and he was this disrespectful and then he goes cries to europe and europe goes we're gonna back you
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I don't know why we wouldn't turn around and go, fine, you guys are on your own and we're getting out of this NATO thing. So for everyone that is still backing this talking point of, and now they're trying to sell the, well, you see Donald Trump's been working for Russia the whole time, which I knew they would go with that nonsense.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
But can anyone articulate a pathway to victory of why spending a single extra dollar for more Ukrainians to die makes any sense?
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Uh, it's even better on a second watch. And, uh, Zelinsky's, I mean, this is literally me when I got caught in high school, spending my parents' money on marijuana and you got to sit down with them and they're giving you shit and there's nothing you can say, but you just got teenage energy and you'll say whatever. Yeah. That's what he's doing. He's just sitting there.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
He's been called into the principal's office. He's trying to spin whatever he can. And Donald Trump's just too good that even his little comedic trick of, you don't have to yell at me. He's not, he's not yelling. That's not loud. Yeah. Donald Trump just jumped right on that. He didn't give him an inch.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I guess if you break it down, what he's trying to negotiate for is more of a commitment from us for what we can't do. We can't have Ukraine and NATO. That's what started this mess was Biden's stupidity of saying Ukraine's going to be a NATO. So that's not on the table. And it's true.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
There could probably be a ceasefire tomorrow when Zelensky is in the way because he wants some sort of a security guarantee from the U.S. or a commitment for more money. But what cards does he have to negotiate that if we're saying no? So, yes, Zelensky is literally sitting there and getting in the way of peace. And that's what Donald Trump's calling him out for is we could have a ceasefire.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
And he goes, well, it's a ceasefire without you guaranteeing me more free stuff. You're not in a place to ask for more free stuff. Yeah. we're offering you a way out here. We can discuss a way to get this done. And, and, and by the way, you know, I was giving Trump a hard time last week over the mineral deals.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
It actually, there's a problem at the moment that things are kind of half reported, but from what I'm understanding, it would seem like it was a fair deal of that. We were just guaranteeing a right to buy the minerals. And then 50% of that country was going to remain in us control to be reinvested in Ukraine and,
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
to essentially, it seems like just guarantee that the money wasn't just stolen and we have to spend more money over there so that there would actually be built-in funding for security or other purposes controlled by the US that isn't actually, well, it's actually our money, but it's our money being spent for minerals as opposed to handing to them to be lost.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
But just the point being, Zelensky does seem to be showing up trying to figure out how to provoke and remain in this war and force either us or Europe to be paying for it. And, you know, throw them out. End the relationship. I said it's like the scene in Casino when Sharon Stone goes and sucks Joe Pesci's dick, and then Joe Pesci turns around and goes, man, that was a mistake.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I never should have gotten involved with this crazy broad. And I think that's what Europe's about to discover.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
You know, Friday was one of the most exciting media days. We do this all the time. We're commenting on things all the time, and it's always exciting. But very rarely do you get a WWF showdown like what we saw in the White House. And I did an episode about it yesterday. I'm excited to get into it with you now. And we've got fun stuff to get into.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
How do you know that that doesn't escalate to a war with Russia? Well, that's why we won't do it. Right. How do we have a direct confrontation of sending an hour military into Ukraine to be on the border with Russia without provoking strikes on America?
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Well, I think that's the genius of Donald Trump is that he knows television. And I think they did not actually have a deal going in. I know that they're claiming that they did, but I saw Zelensky saying last week it was more of a preliminary discussion. And it seemed like they were assumptively closing him of... Isn't this great?
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
We got the television cameras here and we're ready to get the deal done. The Trump team is claiming that it was a done deal and they wouldn't have brought him in without that. But I'd seen comments from Zelensky beforehand that sounded like classic sales. Hey, I got to speak to my wife. I got to talk to talk to my business partner. Didn't seem like Zelensky thought it was a done deal.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
was intending at least to come in and make a last pitch for let's fight him or I need a security guarantee. And so they sat him down to go, all right, we're here for the signing. Let's take some questions. And I think Zelinsky probably has been a difficult partner and they knew exactly how he would behave. And Donald Trump is a genius for putting it on television.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
And Zelensky, I was comparing him. He's got childhood star energy because they brought him out on the Oscars. They did the cover with him. Apparently, the Democrat senators sat down beforehand to blow a bunch of smoke up his ass and tell him how great he was. And then he showed up for the Donald Trump meeting. And it was, you know, and J.D.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Vance was there playing mom, go, how dare you speak to your dad this way? And I don't think he could have done anything worse to get more of the American public to go, let's just be dumb with this country.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I'll say something real crazy. Sure. I feel that both Europe and the American left, and by that I mean the senators and politicians and some of the vocal voices of the deep states, such as Mustache Man and Brennan, who are all on the news, seem to be working against the American interest in trying to keep this Ukraine war going. And here's my tinfoil hat theory, is that I think...
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
listen there's been a big charade of endless money that's available for everyone all the time courtesy of the fed that gives a signal into the system of wealth that doesn't actually exist and i wonder if we actually have a splintering where we go hey we're not doing this nato thing anymore and then all of a sudden europe goes broke because they're responsible for their own security
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
And you end up with some big worldwide financial depression because the signal of endless money, which that bill will come due at some point, there's going to be austerity nationwide. I mean, worldwide, because that money just you don't you can't endlessly print money.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I wonder if that if that's kind of what I don't usually use this term, but almost the globalists are contending with is that America is going, hey,
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
we don't want to spend money everywhere for everyone all the time we're running up too much debt this isn't going to work long term and one of the easy things to kind of get out of might be security guarantees for the entire world because that doesn't make a lot of sense particularly when the rest of the world is talking us into fights that we don't want to be in in this case it's zielinski trying to get american support to continue the ukraine war and then europe stepping in
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
really contending with what looks like our budget because they got us back in them through NATO. So I guess they can go pick the fight, which just keeps us in the fight, which is why we need to walk away.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
But it would seem to me like the biggest risk on the table there might be Europe not actually being able to fund it and then signaling the issues that have kind of been in the financial sector forever.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
But default would probably have to come with austerity measures after it.
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Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Look forward to the next one. And we can look at the all the senators, the liberal senators getting on the news shows to go. Donald Trump, we told you he's a Putin asset and that's why he turned on Zelensky. And this is an embarrassment for the American people. So, oh, my God, that would be the card. And who knew that they would actually pick it up and play it?
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Nicole Shanahan
I think very well said on the economic development that comes from free trade and being able to acquire things for cheaper. My general takeaway from Trump is that it is the – I don't think he inherently thinks tariffs are good or there might be select industries that he'd rather treat those industries well and give a payout to some loyal people or to some workers within the United States.
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Nicole Shanahan
I think more what he's going for is the threat of tariffs to try and push his agenda. I don't think, like you said, if Mexico is going to cave in on stuff, I don't think he's going to keep tariffs because he actually thinks that benefits us.
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Nicole Shanahan
So the framing here is almost more I don't like I don't prefer not free markets and I don't prefer the president have to step in with central central planning for how to grow the economy. But like looking at this way of England were to say, hey, we're going to start doing 20 percent tariffs on all American goods.
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Nicole Shanahan
Would it be beneficial for the United States president to go find that we're going to respond with 40 percent tariffs? I said threaten. So the answer is maybe it's worth saying the threat. And then if, you know, England doesn't cave, then maybe you don't implement it. But it was worth the threat.
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Nicole Shanahan
Now, then the next the next question then becomes and this is where it sounds like a bit of an endorsement for central planning. But it's almost like when you're playing poker and you're chasing a straight and then it becomes a question of risk and reward of, well, if I hit that straight, I might win really big.
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Nicole Shanahan
So if he's threatening everyone with tariffs and you have some wins and some losses, I don't know, a central planner has to actually sit down and tell you, did the wins of other people getting rid of their tariffs or stop stealing our intellectual property, did that benefit the economy more than the other couple countries that we ended up in trade wars in?
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Nicole Shanahan
What I'm more saying is if Trump is enacting a policy of tariffs to try and get concessions from other countries and that strategy is working, it's hard to criticize while it's working.
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Nicole Shanahan
Where I agree with you is, I guess, the bad education of the public and the public thinking tariffs are just a good policy, not realizing it's for the threat of it. It's similar in nature. I was watching Leslie, I think General Wesley Clark, he was debating Scott Horton.
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Nicole Shanahan
And it wasn't really an honest conversation, or at least my takeaway was, because it sounded like Wesley Kark was almost going with, I can't say that I agree with you on everything you're saying because it's bad for the negotiating table if America is saying, hey, we lost in Ukraine and we have to give up.
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Nicole Shanahan
And so you're not really having an honest conversation because you're just saying we can't admit to these defeats because it's bad for negotiating.
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Nicole Shanahan
But that kind of does filter down to the American people of, oh, we need a strong military and we need to be out there doing all these things that we have better leverage in negotiating, which just advocates for basically what the military is there to do. And potentially it's the same argument.
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Nicole Shanahan
Almost we got a wife, a dictator off the off the face of the map every once in a while to keep everyone in line. So, yeah. I guess if you want to – you're better at the bigger picture.
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Nicole Shanahan
I guess the long term, even if Donald Trump is having a win on tariffs now, it might educate the public to, hey, it's better if we have a strong United States that's just threatening people with bad economic motives because sometimes it wins. So maybe you're more right in the long term that this is – Well, I just –
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Nicole Shanahan
OK, I agree with you that I mean, our Pentagon fails audits internally. So the idea that we're just sending money over to the Ukraine for war and massive sums of it aren't just disappearing to generals. We all know that it probably went straight into the Biden family fund for all I know. To be a little bit more specific about what he's describing there, though, is it's the accounting scam of that.
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Nicole Shanahan
He's not just receiving cash. He's receiving military goods that have an internal price tag on it, which means that the military industrial complex can charge the United States government, you know, let's say a billion dollars for munitions that China can actually produce or Russia can produce for 10 cents on the dollar. And so it's it's not like I'm receiving a billions dollars worth of weapons.
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Nicole Shanahan
I might be receiving rifles that, you know, I could have bought in the free market for a thousand dollars. But the United States itself charged itself three thousand dollars a piece for. So really, he's I mean, he's most of the money that he's saying we never received is really just lost. The accounting scam of the United States government overpaying on on items.
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Nicole Shanahan
And aside from just overpaying on items. You know, in Israel, they're sending over the Patriot missiles now because they're basically sounds like they're bad technology at this point and they don't really do all that much. I hear that. I'm like, oh, it sounds like the United States government wants these items off their books because they're old technology.
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Nicole Shanahan
And so this is a way to essentially write it, write it off or, you know, sell it to somebody, the Ukraine or whatever, and you get rid of it. I think a lot of it, the antiquated tank technology that finally went over there.
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Nicole Shanahan
I think a lot of this is just the military industrial complex, you know, cleaning up its books and, you know, overcharging the United States government for items that make it over there. And then there's a wash of some people just getting money. I'm sure Zelensky walked away with a nice paycheck. I'm sure of that missing hundred billion dollars. Some of it made it into his personal fund as well.
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Nicole Shanahan
I mean, like I said, our own Pentagon can't pass audits. When we did the PPE loans, I think half of them went to fraud, including a lot of the money that was just sent abroad. Made no sense. And then on top of all that, I believe it was Rand Paul when they were first sending money over to the Ukraine.
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Nicole Shanahan
He said, we need some sort of a special inspector or other mechanism to actually see where these funds are going once we're sending it over. And that should be included in this aid package. I seem to recall this. Natalie, maybe you want to fact check me on the specifics.
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Nicole Shanahan
And no one cared to enact that because of first sending a whole bunch of money over somewhere to help out our military industrial complex and the Biden family. We don't want to keep tabs on this. That's not that's not that's not what about all the payments we got to make to everybody who's going to look the other way and make sure everyone wants their piece of the pie.
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Nicole Shanahan
The generals want their piece of the pie. Zelensky wants his piece of the pie. We can't be tracking this money.
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Nicole Shanahan
this weekend ooh rob's gonna be in his speedo drinking a drink out of a coconut really living life how are you sir uh yeah come uh come party down with me in fort way uh wait we were just in fort wayne super shockingly good run still trying to relive those fort wayne days
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Nicole Shanahan
I think if the strategy is working, I support it. It's not the move that I would play on the chessboard. It's not the way that I would like to play the game. But if it's working, I can't fight. You know, it's like when it comes to foreign policies, things I judge them on two basis. One, is it moral? Like, you know, is it necessary?
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Nicole Shanahan
And then there's a secondary one, which is does it even serve our strategic interests? So almost in every the last 20 years, I can't think of one of these skirmishes that even served our strategic interest and really just helped, you know, the the war machine when it comes to tariffs. Yeah, it's not better for the economy, but it doesn't have the same cost of morality of war.
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Nicole Shanahan
So like goods will increase in price. So if Trump wants to play a tariff game and he's actually bullying smaller countries and he's getting his way, I can't really criticize the strategy if it's working.
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
On the... Topic of not cleaning up the deep state and all of the problems in government. You know, Donald Trump was scorned by Netanyahu in that Netanyahu was the first one to back that Joe Biden had won the election. And then even during the campaign process, you know, he was inviting him to Mar-a-Lago.
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And then even when they attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, he didn't really want to explore the storyline of who was trying to assassinate me. And he wanted to thank the Secret Service. So it's not completely surprising that they just seem to be moving on with status quo. I still have some hope for cleaning things up, particularly RFK Jr. I hope he doesn't use all the resources just to...
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find out about this anti-Semitic health issue and maybe goes after. But the other thing that's just interesting to me about the Iran situation is my read was he was trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war and perhaps get a pass from Putin to be a little bit more aggressive towards Iran.
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It's a little bit surprising to me without that being wrapped up and also with Donald Trump saying that he's fuming with Putin at the moment, that now he's willing to ramp up the Iran pressure because that seems like a bigger problem than just isolated Iran.
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If he's duking with both Putin and then maybe goes back into Ukraine and says we are going to support Ukraine and then also starts going after Iran, that sounds to me like a much larger war than just us bombing Iran.
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
Well, who knows? Maybe that's just channeling Israel. Hey, go for it. Now's your window. We're not going to get mad at you.
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
i i agree with everything you said and this is uh this is compliance talk this is i'm gonna lord over you and you're gonna be out because our agenda is so important that even if you're pointing out true information if it gets in the way of our agenda it needs to be censored this is the kind of stuff that they did with uh green energy and the existential crisis of global warming and this is what they did through covid would we be the even better example because they stripped us of more of our rights and they censored us more on that particular topic
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
Although it did happen with global warming. You get the little fact check on the bottom. Uh, but that's what this allows for is that anything that you say, even if it's truthful information, if we have an agenda of that, we have to be anti anti-Semitism. So then even if you're pointing out true information, uh,
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that doesn't help us eradicate the anti-Semitism or might lead to anti-Semitism, such as criticizing Israel, which might lead to people also conflating Israel with the Jews. So then we can't have that. And so, yeah, this is that nonsense compliance talk. And it's this fake, hi, you're either with me or you're against me. You're allowed to be neutral. You're allowed to have your own interests.
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We have this sometimes with... Or at least I've confronted this sometimes where people... I really like telling jokes and I'm really interested in the Fed. And sometimes people get really upset that you're not more passionate about the thing that they're passionate about. And it's like, well, I'm not forced to use my time to pursue your agenda.
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If you have an agenda that you're really interested in sharing the narrative about, go ahead and do it. Yeah. But I'm out here and I'm trying to work on jokes because that's what I love doing. That's the value I think I bring to the marketplace. How much time should I give up for my passion to pursue this other thing that's less interesting to me?
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And that's what this kind of falls into is I understand that it's in this rabbi's interest to protect the Jews from anti-Semitism as much as possible. And that's his passion. But to be standing up in front of the United States government and preaching some sort of a anti anti-Semitism, whatever. I mean, you're just forcing your thing on us. That's all this is. It's compliance talk.
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We had a sold out show Saturday night, packed weekend fans coming out, slinging some of these teas at a great time.
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such clear bias if you turned to your liberal friend and said hey i'm interested in learning more from a liberal liberal perspective they'd say well are you listening to npr it's been around for a long time it's really one of the best outlets or if you're like hey there's so much conservative radio and so much conservative podcasting where do i get more of like the liberal voices and more of the liberal arguments to understand these things well have you checked out npr i mean they've been around for 60 years doing great liberal coverage
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
Also, there were both PBS, Newswire, NewsHour, and NPR were better pre-Trump. And then when Trump won, the media landscape changed where the media companies, Week Magazine, there were a bunch of them that were, I'll just say, better.
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Trump Flirts With Disaster
And then they stopped reporting actual information and started reporting spin because they realized that they didn't have enough control over the narrative by just reporting actual information. That that wasn't enough in terms of just kind of picking the topic and the lens. They had to actually report you spin.
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And so you'd be more instances of like what we saw with Rachel Maddow when in the middle of a Donald Trump speech, they don't give you the actual news because they don't want you to see the information.
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see it yes they'll have to stop because actual information became dangerous for people to know uh so particularly in the last you know decade these people have engaged in doing intentionally biased media because they thought that their agenda was so important that they had to be biased
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Can you just pause again? I think this is really important. Not coming out with information soon enough is as good as not coming out with it at all.
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that story was relevant prior to the election and then it got suppressed because it would have influenced the election once that information it's almost like if you had information about why i should sell a stock because the it's going to crash and then you tell it to me after it crashes that's no longer valuable information the thing that i needed it in order to or if you told me that there was poison in my water after i got poisoned by it that doesn't help me i needed to know that information before i consumed the water
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No, you're there with the festival and whatnot. But I'm going to be in, where am I this weekend? I'm in Steamboat and then Des Moines. And then we're in wherever.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
What makes you even think you should have an opinion?
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
And so if we aren't experts, we should be very easy to dismantle. And if anything, we're round one. And if you can't get through our questioning or your questioning, then there's no even reason to have to escalate it to having a conversation with an expert because, wow, this is the degree by which the expert class is lying about a topic that someone as dumb as me... Take COVID. Take green energy.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
Take a lot of these topics that the expert class told us we weren't allowed to question. Take the track record of this show. If anything, it's showcasing the degree by which the expert class is lying and abusing that title that they fall apart under questioning and they need to appeal to authority and go, hey, we can't have other people questioning this stuff.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
No one else is supposed to have an opinion. We need you to trust the experts. That's the only way that society functions. Well, then if you guys are the experts and we're not, you should be very comfortable to hop into the ideas, have the arguments, and dismantle them. And if you're unable to do that, maybe you shouldn't have the expert title or maybe you're abusing it.
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You've also never seen the border crossing. So why would a firm analytics like that even be able to compliment your analysis? Yeah.
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Am I allowed to give my opinion? I mean, I watched it, and I have thoughts, but where do I get credentialed?
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I've never stepped foot in the Rogan studio, so I guess I haven't... Yeah, unless your feet touch the ground, you don't really absorb the information.
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I'm doing well. I'm so close to being done with having to take Adderall and put together these Porsche tour dates. And I'm very excited to be done with it. Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida is the start of the tour. And you can find that at PorscheTour.com.
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It's so funny to go, that's a great argument. And people should really have that discussion. It's like, that's what we're here to do, I thought.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
Yeah, I got one other thought. I might not articulate this in the best way. And I don't know, maybe, maybe it's a, it's a little bit too complicated. So I don't want to steal any shine from your brilliant performance. And listen, there were very flagrant tricks that he pulled. There was the appeal to authority right off the bat. Well, if you're such an expert, why don't we discuss the ideas?
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There was the, well, if you've never seen it, you can't have an opinion. Just to speak to how much nonsense that is, I'm in New York City all the time. I don't see an immigration problem. If I was just going off of what I see, I'd go, there's no immigration problem here. But I can then read an article about the cost that it's done to New York City, and it's clearly a problem.
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So I actually have better information from what I've read than from what I've seen. I mean, that's just one example, but that was like, that's just such a, that one's stupid. Also the argument of like selectively picking from government sources, you know, like, I don't know if during COVID the New York times said, Hey, the Johnson and Johnson shot is bad.
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And I go, look, even the New York times is telling you that this one's bad. And you go, Oh, what suddenly you believe the New York times? No, I think the New York times has been shilling a narrative the whole time. And when even they're going to concede this, That's when I'm going to go look, that's how flagrant this is. And so there's a bit of a flip on that one.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
Um, and then there was also just a lot of just wasting time and pulling a little finicky or we, we, you know, like that kind of, that kind of stupid thing. Uh, there was one other thing that stuck out to me and maybe you can better articulate this than me, but, um,
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I feel like on some of this, like some of these topics, all that you're really left with because the government does a good job of not leaving a clean track record of its own crimes. Like even look at Pat Fauci post COVID. I said that I said that I was a recommendation. I was passing this to that.
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Like, so you take the situation in Syria in which he was trying to make the case that we weren't involved or that's, you know, why are you looking at us?
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I can't, I I'm not an expert. I can't point to specific proof of the fact the United States government managed to overthrow Assad at the end of the Biden administration.
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But the fact that there was Ukrainian stuff over there, that Israel stepped in, took over military bases and the relationship that we've had in the past, working with groups such as Al Qaeda in the region while saying the moderate rebels. Yeah, I can't prove to you that that was America.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
State it a little bit differently, and I'll give another example. If we can only trust the expert class and we can only criticize government if there's direct government evidence, how do you ever question government policy or if it's in our interest? And so another example would be there was a long discussion about, you know, Israel's tactic in terms of what it's been doing in Gaza.
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And, you know, I've said it a lot. I actually don't know the history of the situation, but I look at what's going on there. And I just don't think you can kill civilians in the way that the Israeli government has been doing so. And so he's trying to walk the line of, well, although they're doing it, they don't intend to do it. And now I'll insert conjecture once again.
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I've heard of programs like Daddy's Home, which they're specifically waiting until someone goes back into a building. I'm looking at all these homes being bombed. And then he wants to say, well, that's because the booby traps after the fact. Well, I've even read stories of and once again, conjecture. I've read stories of the Israeli government sending Palestinians in to set off the booby trap.
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But just to take it as a given with all the death that's happened in the area at the beginning of the war, I just remember this example where they bombed that first hospital and they said it was a main base and they were pointing to the tunnels. And then it turned out that Israel had the tunnels.
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And then when they said, look at the military gear, it was less than I've seen in police raids in New York city on gangs. So it might've been a presence there, but to say it was the main base and then to just say, well, I should just give it as an absolute given that, that Israel's working in a very moral capacity. Yeah.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
so sure i'm working off conjecture when i go firstly i think that this death is outrageous and yes i also just can kind of deduce i think they're lying about the morality that they're handling it in the most honest and firstly just telling someone that they can't be in their home and then just sending them off with no resources to return to empty rubble like i don't even think that's acceptable
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
But there seems to be like, how do you criticize anything if the government works with the expert class and you need an expert class and then government doesn't keep perfect records of its crimes? So at some point you have to kind of evaluate the conjecture of the situation.
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And so if you're and then if you're just going to label that as conspiracy, which I would just say it's more just critical thinking, then how do you possibly criticize government from his perspective?
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I think I got a week in a comedy festival all in the span of about five days.
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I don't know how many more, I don't know how many more purchase I've left in me. I don't, I don't know that I got another year of taking Adderall and coordinating dates.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
I don't, First, it did an excellent job. It was a, it was a fun watch. I, I knew that this was happening for a while and I was very excited for it. And that was a good recap there to hop into the Paul Wolfowitz thing, just cause it's the last thing you said. And then maybe we could address some of the others cause they were all just such a fascinating points.
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Thoughts on the JRE Debate
But let's start with the Paul Wolfowitz one. You mentioned the name and it was so not the point of what you were trying to address. I think you guys were having a conversation about the regime changes in the area and in the agency. And you were trying to say, no, America's clearly had an involvement. And he said that as an aside and he scoffed and you're like, well, why is that part funny?
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And then he circled it. He circled it back into an argument with himself about the detail that he picked up, which was the guy's name. And then saying, well, what you're doing is bad for the Jews because it creates this narrative that the Jews run the world, blah, blah, blah. And it's like that was a minute side point from the bigger thing that you guys had been arguing with.
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He managed to circle himself into his own argument, which I thought was...
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I thought you crushed him on that one and it actually got kind of dropped because But I think if you can tell me if maybe I miss if I misheard this because it kind of moved quickly. He had said that you need to be there. You had a great point about the Nazi Germany thing.
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But then you had a secondary point, which is weren't you there at the beginning of the Ukraine war and said we could win it, which is well, then I thought that was such a bombshell of you were on the ground. Oh, yeah. On the ground reporting. And you got the story wrong. So what what is being there do if that just gives you actually a bad take?