On this week's episode of The Mug Club, we discuss the latest episode of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and the hearings in the Russia/Ukraine case. Plus, we have an exclusive clip from a new documentary on the CBC's 'Karen' and Gerald and I debate whether or not we think Russia will use nukes on the Ukraine.
00:01:45.000You left the pills that you need to take I hope you don't have another seizure You climbed down a rope, a blanket to cheat Evaded the guards, you called me to scream I wish I knew you were back in the home Corn's on your feet, and YouTube like crap
00:02:13.000Because you're so cheap, if I don't need a gun You don't need three homes
00:02:19.000Well, as for now, I'm gonna watch the saddest man And sit alone and wonder
00:02:43.000How you made it out Seriously, is there somebody anywhere who can explain how
00:05:50.000Okay, so my question for you right now, before we move on, is if you were a Russian citizen, would you be willing to be drafted and fight the war in the Ukraine right now?
00:05:59.000And not only would you be willing to be drafted, but Do you think you'd want to fight for the country at all?
00:06:05.000I think we're seeing a paper tiger being... That, I think, is the most important takeaway here.
00:06:47.000We'll be calling the balls and strikes before the stream.
00:06:50.000I'll tell you today on Mug Club what my anticipations are tomorrow.
00:06:52.000By the way, anyone who thinks that there might be some legitimacy issues in any election across the globe, they want to paint you as an insurrectionist.
00:07:00.000They're probably going to go into Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, all this crap that could not be less relevant.
00:08:23.000Yeah, we told you that a long time ago.
00:08:25.000This is a question I have for you too.
00:08:27.000Do you notice it's a rarity now to find someone, not only wearing a mask, but it's a rarity to find someone who, you know, full-fledged just supports retroactively all the lockdowns that we've done.
00:08:48.000So before we get to any of that, of course, the culture war is coming, and this non-binary soldier wants you to get... I guess I should have... I should have a trigger warning for this if you, you know, don't... if you're consuming food right now.
00:09:05.000So this non-binary soldier wants you to get locked and loaded.
00:11:51.000CBC in Canada, they released a documentary called Deconstructing Karen, and what it's about is white women attending a dinner party, and I guess they've actually willingly submitted themselves to this, where the white women invite, or pay, or render the services of black women, women of color, sorry, to chastise them, to berate them.
00:14:04.000First off, I don't know if this is taking place at CBC.
00:14:07.000I don't know if they're trying to say that the United States is racist or Canada is racist.
00:14:11.000A lot of people don't realize that slavery existed all across the globe, including places like Canada, including other British colonies.
00:14:17.000And by the way, can you guys bring up the definition of racism?
00:14:22.000A belief that a race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
00:15:15.000Now, if I were to say that Asians, on average, here in the United States, score higher on their SATs or IQ tests, typically, than members of all other races, as a general rule, of course you would have to accept it, because Brown and Harvard had to create a policy to say, no more of you, because that's the case.
00:15:28.000Now, if I were to say, hey, black people, the fastest black runners, tend to be faster than the fastest white runners, you would look at the world records, 1 through 25, and say, okay, all right, that makes sense.
00:15:40.000Now, if I were to say, Yeah, absolutely.
00:15:42.000on average score higher on the SATs or have higher IQs on average than black people.
00:15:46.000No, no, no, wait, then you have a problem.
00:16:33.000Well, the odds are, you know, he'll be looking just like you, but that's a stupid question because nobody Really understands what it would be like to trade places with any other human being, much less somebody of a different race or culture, right?
00:17:31.000And I got pulled over out of the car, searched the car, all this stuff, just because I had a late shift.
00:17:37.000I was driving at night a lot, so I got pulled over all the time.
00:17:39.000I'm like, you saw the same thing that happens to everybody else in the world, but you see it because you're black, you go, I am being racially oppressed.
00:17:51.000It's like, no, you're just experiencing life like everybody else does.
00:18:08.000She is the one making these broad generalizations.
00:18:11.000Now I get it, the white women, maybe they're dumb, granted, and they're oblivious, of course, but they're just saying, well, I'm not saying there's not racism, I'm just saying that, you know, I don't really, I don't see as much, or I'm not racist.
00:18:24.000Yeah, but this is an inherently racist country.
00:18:26.000Yeah, but white people have criminalized black people.
00:18:29.000Those are generalizations that, first off, are untrue, and also are intensely racist.
00:18:34.000I'm not saying that all black people are racist, just like I'm not saying all white people are racist.
00:18:37.000At that table, that documentary, the irony should not be lost on you.
00:18:41.000The only racist sitting there is the old slightly thicker hair jade up against me.
00:18:45.000We have some stats as well. So from Rasmussen, 18% of people polled said most white Americans
00:18:53.000are racist, but 25% believe most black Americans were racist. And then among blacks themselves,
00:18:59.000black Americans, 31% think most blacks are racist compared to 24% consider most whites racist. So
00:19:06.000even black people say that. There's a lot of like, even within, you can be 100% black and still have
00:19:13.000different skin tones. They can treat you differently because you have light skin or dark skin. It's a
00:19:19.000It's definitely a thing I saw that the other day, they were saying that about the light-skinned person, or the darker-skinned person was saying that a light-skinned black person doesn't have it the same.
00:19:28.000Yeah, they don't count because they could be white-aligned or whatever.
00:19:33.000It's like, these things don't make any sense.
00:19:35.000We need a chart of, like, skin shades and calipers.
00:20:22.000And if you're a young person right now and you're growing up and this is the kind of content that you are consuming, you are going to be more racist than millennials or older Generation Z who grew up where Fresh Prince, Family Matt, right?
00:20:33.000There wasn't a BET, it wasn't so fractured.
00:20:35.000If you grew up with a diet of this, you are going to resent people solely based on their race, whether they're white, whether they're black.
00:24:29.000So Obama's administration, the Bureau of Justice, decided when he was elected that we would stop highlighting that.
00:24:35.000I wonder if that cleared the way for some of the stuff that we saw after that, where, you know, we had Trayvon, and then we had all the other issues with Hands Up, Don't Shoot, and all this other stuff, and it's like, well, all we have is this as an example.
00:25:24.000I love the fact that she could ask like one simple question and then the whole room erupts into like, no, no, I'm not the bad one, it's not me, I'm not the bad, I'm not racist, no, no, no, and she's just sitting there like... That's why, by the way, on an unrelated note, and I'll get back to the question, that's why women are often angry towards, like, feminists.
00:25:39.000I think they hate men in a lot of ways because we're better than them at friending.
00:26:43.000Now let's look at this clip where a man tries to use an old lady, a grandma, as a human shield and with a firearm tries to knock over what looks like a bodega or a convenience store.
00:27:36.000That does not look like it, that's probably not a real gun.
00:27:39.000Especially when you look at how he drops it and the rate of fall.
00:27:40.000But then, what I love in particular is when the shopkeeper, who by the way didn't kill him, but starts shooting at him, his first thought is, I need to lower my visor!
00:28:21.000If you see that video and you say, oh, it would have been better if they resolved it without violence, you and I are not going to find common ground.
00:28:28.000I disagree with you because you can never know the intent of a criminal.
00:28:32.000You just know that they're willing to break the law, to hold you at gunpoint.
00:28:36.000When you've done nothing, you've not violated the non-aggression principle, and you don't know if that bet is going to kick you while you're down, causing a brain hemorrhage, as we just saw with the Asian jeweler.
00:29:15.000He could have been killed because we've talked about this all the time and it's stupid that we have to repeat it but criminals tend not to pay attention to the law, right?
00:29:24.000All you're doing is basically preventing people from defending themselves in these situations and I agree with you 100%.
00:29:29.000There are so many cases where I, I'm sorry, but I would be shooting a lot earlier in some of these cases because I have no idea what the intent is of this person and especially if my family's around, I am the last line of defense.
00:29:41.000If I go down, my wife and kids are now in jeopardy.
00:29:43.000I have no idea where you're going to stop.
00:29:45.000I have no idea if you're going to kill them, if you're just going to rob us.
00:30:05.000And by the way, a PSA for everyone, and this is 100% I'm being genuine here.
00:30:09.000If someone holds you at gunpoint in a public area and they want you to go into a private area, this is one of the first things you need to know.
00:30:53.000And by the way, this is one of those instances where you've heard also, this isn't the first time, the Walgreens, it was just recently looted.
00:31:01.000This is something, and I know you're saying, which one?
00:32:23.000Alright, so now we can, before we move on, you know, CNN right now is obviously talking about Russia.
00:32:28.000But before we show what CNN is talking about right now, I don't know if you've been watching this, they have a new installment on CNN and it's just a documentary about the least effective glasses ever.
00:33:29.000This is what everyone is talking about.
00:33:30.000And I think Gerald and I have a little bit of a disagreement here.
00:33:32.000Not a huge one, but the jumping off point, if you've been following this, is of course Vladimir Putin granted... and by Vladimir Putin I mean someone who's moving his corpse like, you know, Weekend at Bernie's.
00:33:53.000Right before we were coming on the air, Edward Snowden, we found out, is now a Russian citizen.
00:33:58.000President Vladimir Putin signing a decree today granting that citizenship to Snowden, the former NSA contractor behind what a House investigation found to be the most damaging leak, they said, of classified information in this country's history.
00:34:10.000Snowden had been in exile in Russia for nine years.
00:34:13.000But the State Department spokesperson saying today he's still a U.S.
00:34:15.000citizen too, they believe, while making this point about Snowden's new Russian citizenship.
00:34:22.000Mr. Snowden should return to the United States where he should face justice as any other American citizen would.
00:34:30.000Perhaps the only thing that has changed is that as a result of his Russian citizenship, apparently now he may well be conscripted to fight in Russia's war in Ukraine.
00:35:23.000And this also will tie into China here in a multitude of ways.
00:35:27.000Because we always thought that the Russians had a really strong military.
00:35:29.000And this is the myth of not only the Russian soldier, but we had this with the Russian athlete.
00:35:33.000Remember we thought you had the miracle on ice?
00:35:35.000You had Alexander Kerlin, probably the most dominant athlete in any sport of all time, until he got beaten by Rulon Gardner.
00:35:42.000If you guys haven't watched some of his highlight reels, this man was lifting and suplexing 300-pound men.
00:35:46.000We thought, the Russians must have this unbelievable training, until we found out that they were walking human pin cushions.
00:35:51.000We found out that they were cheating, they were breaking all of the rules, and if you take that away from them in any form of competition internationally, they don't tend to fare so well.
00:35:58.000So it's the same thing with the military.
00:36:00.000We thought they must have this incredibly powerful military.
00:36:56.000Whereas the Ukrainians, say what you want about them, they actually believe that they're fighting for something.
00:37:00.000Now unfortunately, the Ukrainian people aren't really accurately, or fairly I should say, represented by their leadership because it's one of the money laundering capitals of the world and corruption knows no bounds in Ukrainian leadership.
00:37:10.000But that doesn't mean that the Ukrainian citizens are not fighting for something that they believe in.
00:37:18.000Can you think of any examples of subjugated people waging an incredibly successful or making more effective soldiers than the non-subjugated people that they were fighting?
00:37:27.000Now, I don't mean subjugated people fighting other subjugated people.
00:37:30.000A tyrannical government, right, forcing people to fight for them versus another tyrannical government.
00:37:33.000I mean a free people losing en masse to a subjugated people.
00:39:33.000Yeah, it looks like every beginning to a zombie movie ever.
00:39:37.000Trying to get out of your country so desperately.
00:39:42.000Hey, sorry, really fast, uh, we are having a stream issue on Rumble and it's on their end because of the hurricane.
00:39:47.000So if anyone's watching and they're having trouble getting the stream, just let them know that, you know, they need to watch it on YouTube or Mug Club.
00:40:15.000I want people in the control room, there's another video that shows the line of cars from the air and I think it has like an overlay of like shot shot shot shot on it because it's somebody else's footage right so they wanted to have their like watermark basically on it so look for that one.
00:40:33.000No, but that's one of the videos that I want you guys to see.
00:40:36.000But Putin is losing his grip, it seems, on the Russian people, right?
00:40:42.000He's not the popular leader that he's always made himself out to be, obviously.
00:40:45.000But now that it comes down to, we have to go and die in another country for a failing objective that you guys... I mean, everybody thought that this would be a couple of weeks and Putin would take over.
00:41:40.000Oh, by the way, they can't do that because one-way plane tickets out of Russia have sold out.
00:41:44.000So again, you can look at, you can say that we have propaganda in media, of course, all across the globe, but these are objective measures that you see when you see the cars, right?
00:41:54.000And then you also see that the plane tickets have sold out.
00:41:56.000These are things that are pretty difficult to lie about, especially in today's information age.
00:42:00.000By the way, the Russian state media Is even starting to turn on, hey look, it's Wednesday Addams right there on CNN.
00:42:06.000That's a wonderful way for a professional broadcaster to look.
00:43:17.000I love how for people who are listening in audio, and I'll give you the translation, but I'll give you the translation with the accent because that's how they often do it.
00:43:23.000And she's like, he's like, why don't we shoot them?
00:43:26.000She's like, I am against shooting people.
00:44:35.000And they feel emboldened enough because they feel as though there's a groundswell in Russia, because a lot of people don't want to go and fight for a corrupt government.
00:44:42.000Yes, Ukraine is corrupt, but so is Putin.
00:44:44.000So is the administration that Russia is currently dealing with.
00:44:47.000And so people do not want to put their lives on the line for something that they don't believe in.
00:44:51.000Subjugated people typically, historically, not always, don't have the motivation to go
00:45:20.000Now, what Donald Trump did is he served a purpose in saying, no, we can have some sanctions, we can have some punishments, we can make sure that our trade is on an equal playing field with China.
00:45:30.000The reason the left would say, well, don't do that, don't piss them off, because they're all powerful.
00:45:51.000You've been building jeans and you've been building smartphones that you never get to use.
00:45:57.000What do you think happens when someone goes to war with that country and they say, wait a second, these people want to liberate us and allow us to actually have access to all of these things that we've been having to create through slave labor?
00:46:07.000What I am saying is the left, because of their globalist worldview, I don't want to use the term agenda because immediately this will be dismissed out of hand, but because of their belief in global trade, And of course, not wanting to piss off China.
00:46:19.000They've said, no, the consequences will be too severe because China's holding the cards.
00:46:42.000It could be bad, but maybe it's not as bad as the left wants you to believe.
00:46:45.000And certainly it's not a black or white issue where you have to kowtow to China at every single step, lest you piss them off because they have the upper hand on us in every single facet.
00:46:55.000This is where I see a parallel that I hope people can learn from this.
00:46:58.000We thought Russia was something that it's not.
00:47:00.000I am telling you, China is something we thought them to be and they are not.
00:47:05.000It was all about corporations and media kind of corporations wanting to have access to the Chinese market and to the Chinese people, like you said, the ones that were, I mean, they have so many people that, the ones that are the select few, they can drive an economy a little bit.
00:47:17.000They can make a movie, do very, very, very well over there.
00:47:20.000But most of the country lives, I don't know, I'm not saying most like a stat, but most of the country lives in abject poverty.
00:49:28.000That's a very large shift that they would have to make, and it would have to be a shift toward freedom, which they can't do if they want to continue to subjugate people and maintain an economy based on slave labor.
00:49:40.000See, they're stuck between a very little... they have their very little dicks in a vise!
00:49:43.000And I just mean the Communist Chinese government.
00:50:55.000Turns out Russia's sucked for a while.
00:50:57.000Yeah, and who knows how they would have done if they didn't starve their people to death through communism, Marxism, no, no, wait, sorry, that's right, you said that was Leninism, it wasn't communism tried right, so still waiting on that old swing at bat.
00:53:38.000So this is why I'm saying, like, he's just setting the stage.
00:53:41.000So you're saying you do think, and you guys let us know, we'll be taking a chat on Mug Club, you think, yeah, a tactical nuke, which by the way would be just, obviously just, you know, Ukraine is what you're talking about.
00:53:49.000Right, I think he would use a tactical nuke in Ukraine.
00:53:51.000I don't think there's any threat to any other country right now.
00:53:55.000It's really, I don't want to be a doomsdayer, but I would say probably somewhere around 60-70% chance, if, there's an if with this, if things continue the way they are.
00:54:05.000If they don't start making headway, but listen, I can't predict how these 300,000 people that have been dragged out of the streets... That's why it's called a prediction!
00:54:12.000So if things continue the way that they are, I do not think Putin knows how to exit the stage gracefully.
00:54:29.000Do you think he would have been able to exit gracefully and maybe been less likely to, in your estimation, you know, drop a nuke if the U.S.
00:54:45.000The only people that basically I think he's somewhat friends with right now are China, and I'm not even sure they're really that interested because look, look how long it's gone.
00:54:53.000Like, it's like, ah, yeah, we're friends with you right out of the gate.
00:55:28.000So you said this a minute ago, subjugated people, right?
00:55:31.000So when the leader of the country that subjugates people starts to show weakness, starts to show that there are cracks, all of the wolves come out. Every political enemy he's ever
00:55:42.000had, every person he's stolen a business from and given it to one of his buddies, every
00:55:47.000person that he has locked up and then, you know, sent off into exile into another country, everyone
00:55:52.000will be coming for him. The knives are out. His only defense is to say, well, okay. Yeah, exactly.
00:55:59.000His Edward Snowden. Saying that Pussy Riot is going to show up like a baseball Fury, he's
00:56:17.000At that point, it would be beyond the point of no return.
00:56:20.000It's like a puffer fish or some kind of an animal that poisons the animal who eats it.
00:56:23.000It's like, well, it's dead, but I guess it takes a little satisfaction in its last moments to know that you died, even though they don't get to see the smile on your face.
00:56:32.000Kind of like putting a razor blade in someone's apple.
00:56:34.000You don't get to enjoy it, but you know it happens.
00:56:38.000We're not advocating that, by the way.
00:57:55.000I think that's a very likely scenario.
00:57:57.000Whether they actually take him out physically or there's a meeting in the back room with, look, you want to say go away and don't ever let us see your face again?
00:58:04.000There's a very strong likelihood of that because I don't think...
00:58:07.000I don't think that the rest of the ruling class, who by the way, we're just talking about replacing him with an... It's a Russian political corruption nesting doll.
00:58:41.000Now, nobody in Putin's circle, nobody who's trying to gain power is going to do that.
00:58:45.000Militarily, I would hate to see a general have a military coup to take over, but I mean, it's pretty much who leads the country anyway, and say, I'm going You know who should take over?
00:59:18.000All right, look, we are going to be here tomorrow.
00:59:20.000It's at 1130 Eastern, the January 6th hearing, whatever you want to call it.
00:59:24.000We're going to be calling the balls and strikes.
00:59:26.000We'll have a drinking game, and it's something I think you need to watch.
00:59:28.000I expect there to be some fireworks here.
00:59:31.000I think I know what they'll be trotting out.
00:59:32.000We've been pretty good with our calls on this in the past, and so it's a way for you to watch it and not want to blow your head off tomorrow at, is it 1130, 1030?
01:01:16.000Please tell me Amy Klobuchar is because we have that ad for Amy Klobuchar that we just want to run and we haven't found the right fit for it yet.