In this week's episode, we discuss the latest in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, a potential cyber attack on Russia's infrastructure, and the possibility of China joining forces with the US in a new trade deal with Russia. We also hear from Ian Smith, co-owner of Attilis Gym in Belmar, New Jersey, and candidate for Congress, Andy Kim.
00:00:00.000You know, on this show a couple of days ago, we didn't expect it would get this bad in
00:00:10.000We had several conversations where, you know, I had said there's no way that Russia is going to move from the north of Ukraine or through Belarus to try and take Kiev.
00:00:23.000And I asked him, do you think Putin would move from eastern Ukraine up to, like, as far west as Kharkiv?
00:00:27.000And he's like, no, no, it's going to be southern Landbridge.
00:00:30.000Boy, were we wrong, because there's reported attacks as far west as Lviv, which is basically, it's very close to Poland, and things are getting, things have gotten really, really bad.
00:00:41.000So they're absolutely moving north through Belarus.
00:00:44.000Belarus has apparently been like, no, we don't know anything about it.
00:01:01.000But here's where it gets particularly worrisome.
00:01:03.000There's a few big stories, three in particular.
00:01:05.000One is that NBC reported Joe Biden has been presented with plans for the US to engage in cyber attacks against Russia, against their infrastructure, which would mean US directly and publicly attacking Russian infrastructure in response to the war in Ukraine.
00:01:21.000That is a dramatic and direct escalation.
00:01:25.000It's effectively This article is threatening enough, you know, but Putin's probably got intelligence, but if the U.S.
00:01:33.000were to actually publicly say, oh, we're gonna cyber attack your trains and your internet, we're gonna disrupt your economy, I don't see how that's not a declaration of war.
00:01:43.000The next big story, which is potentially worse, is Ukraine and Boris Johnson and many others, journalists, blue checks, all saying, ban Russia from the SWIFT payment system, that's international banking.
00:01:55.000If you do that, the US petrodollar is out.
00:02:00.000Russia is not going to cease to exist.
00:02:21.000caused this problem, and that Taiwan is basically the same as Ukraine.
00:02:27.000And it's now been reported that China is basically saying they're going to need Russia's support because they plan to do the exact same thing to Taiwan.
00:02:34.000This is everything we feared would happen, that if Russia moved into Ukraine, in the distraction, China would make its moves on Taiwan, and it seems like all of that is building up.
00:02:41.000Now, I don't believe that Biden will actually attack, or there will be cyber attacks, but even if they were to happen, we wouldn't know.
00:02:50.000They wouldn't come out and say, hey, we did this.
00:03:26.000I'm one of the co-owners of the Attilis Gym of Belmar, New Jersey.
00:03:30.000You may have heard of our story over the past two years when we reopened our business against lockdown measures in the state of New Jersey and Governor Phil Murphy threw pretty much all of the weight of the New Jersey government and legal system against us.
00:03:43.000We went to war with these people and 700 and some odd days later our gym still is open.
00:03:50.000We've amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines.
00:03:52.000We've had Pretty much everything thrown at us, but the gym stayed open, so we won that battle, and we remain open every single day.
00:03:59.000That was our mission from the beginning, so the rest of it will get sorted out in the court system, slowly but surely.
00:04:05.000And in the meantime, I have launched a congressional campaign in the 3rd District of New Jersey against incumbent Democrat Andy Kim, and we're gonna have some fun with it.
00:04:16.000The goal is to make politicians really uncomfortable.
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00:05:26.000This one's just for you guys to pay attention and to be safe.
00:05:29.000Make sure you have plans for the safety and security of your family.
00:05:32.000Make sure you know if you're in potential hot spots.
00:05:35.000Pay attention to what's happening around the world.
00:05:37.000I don't know if this goes global or whatever.
00:05:40.000I'm just saying, having some food, having some water, having a bug out kit, having a plan.
00:05:59.000One of the most shocking stories and I think, let me read the headline.
00:06:04.000Biden has been presented with options for massive cyber attacks against Russia.
00:06:08.000The options presented include disrupting the internet across Russia, shutting off power and stopping trains in their tracks.
00:06:14.000They say, Biden has been presented with the menu of options for the U.S.
00:06:20.000to carry out cyber attacks to disrupt Russia's ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, for people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.
00:06:27.000This is important because they're not talking about retaliation.
00:06:31.000This is not some story where they said, we've presented potential cyber attacks against Russia in the event they attack us.
00:07:10.000Yeah, I mean, it's no different than if we were to go and bomb these same train routes.
00:07:15.000There's less death and violence, but the same objective from a warfare standpoint is achieved, and that's the shutting down of the economy.
00:07:22.000And that has major repercussions that no country is going to ignore.
00:07:27.000So when you're putting these options on the table, you said it perfectly, are we thinking about retaliation?
00:08:15.000Putin, I was listening to an interview a couple years ago, he was talking to like a crowd and saying that America's military defense capabilities basically the last 20 or 30 years, they've been building up their defensive capabilities against intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile defense.
00:08:27.000And now that weaponry is so advanced and evolved that all that defenses stuff is obsolete.
00:08:33.000And so all this American, we think we've got these great, complete obsolescence.
00:08:37.000I mean, anyone that wants to kill right now, any government that wants to blow up a country can do it.
00:08:42.000I don't think they can, any superpower, US, China, or Russia, if they want to level something, they can level it.
00:08:47.000There's going to be consequences, obviously, but we're not safe.
00:08:51.000Like, we're not living in like a bubble here, guys.
00:08:53.000I don't... Well, just imagine if somebody were to shut off the The subway system in New York City.
00:09:00.000Imagine the type of chaos that would ensue from something just as simple as one target like that.
00:10:42.000Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dresden, the reason that the Allies firebombed Dresden in World War II, which was really one of the greatest atrocities of the war, Arguably had to happen because that's where they were, but it was a weapons manufacturing hub, basically.
00:12:43.000It just it seems it seems like a flagrant wag of the finger or a middle finger into the face of somebody who is clearly already easily provoked.
00:12:56.000Yeah, doesn't it seem strange that we are having this conversation about this?
00:13:00.000Doesn't this seem like something we should keep on the down-low?
00:13:48.000Yeah, look, there's something to be said for that.
00:13:51.000There's something to be said for the fact that throughout, love them or hate them, throughout the Trump years, we didn't have these type of situations bubbling up to the surface right in front of us where people seem to be able to do whatever they want without fear of recourse.
00:14:06.000I mean, there's something to be said for that type of posturing.
00:14:11.000And I think if you want to keep the world a safe place, You have to be able to do that to a certain extent.
00:14:48.000However, I do think, in my opinion, I think Trump was too erratic.
00:14:54.000I don't think that Vladimir Putin was like, finally a president who's going to work it for my favor.
00:14:58.000No, that makes no sense because he was moving on Ukraine under Obama.
00:15:01.000He wanted Crimea, the Eastern regions had already declared independence.
00:15:06.000He waited until there was someone weaker in office.
00:15:07.000And I think the issue is certainly maybe, you know, it may be that When Trump was questioning NATO and saying they should pay more, Putin was like, we'll see what happens.
00:16:40.000So, you know, I was talking to my friend from Kiev, and she was just telling me, like, all of these cities that were hit.
00:16:47.000So what it may be is that Russia's got special forces or some kind of ground troops who had already infiltrated Kiev and then staged these low-tier attacks to cause widespread chaos, confusion, and panic.
00:17:05.000I mean, it used to be part of the Soviet Union, and a lot of people in the Soviet Union felt a lot of kinship towards Russia, and it all kind of spawned from Russia in the beginning, the Russian Revolution and so on.
00:17:16.000You guys ready to get madder than you've ever been?
00:18:15.000The Biden administration is asking CBP officers to voluntarily deploy to Poland following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:18:22.000After being selected, volunteers will deploy within two or three days and work in Europe for at least one month.
00:18:27.000They say the Office of Field Operations is seeking volunteers to assist with the possible evacuation of U.S.
00:18:31.000citizens, lawful permanent residents, and their immediate family members in Ukraine, reads a memo sent to the agency's field operations executives and obtained by Just the News.
00:18:39.000So I don't want to immediately be like, oh, you know, shake my fist.
00:18:43.000We got to get Americans out of Ukraine.
00:19:03.000I think military police could probably do that, just to name a few.
00:19:08.000I'd like to present you with my vision of how this came about.
00:19:14.000So, you've got Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and they're in a room, and someone comes in, you know, and they're like, Mr. President, the situation in Ukraine is very serious.
00:19:22.000We're going to need personnel to evacuate American citizens, permanent residents.
00:20:01.000Can we coin the term for, like, the Russia-China alliance?
00:20:04.000You know, because, like, history will remember the name of the... They're going to call them, like, you know, like the Axis of Evil or something.
00:21:08.000This is what I tweeted, and it was a multifaceted tweet.
00:21:11.000I said, I'm gonna start an organization called Anti-War, and we're going to claim to oppose war, but we'll actively support any war that we're engaged in, because we're engaged in war for the sake of stopping war, so our war is justified.
00:21:23.000And then everyone was like, you're describing the United States and Antifa at the same time.
00:21:27.000And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
00:21:30.000The US is justified in engaging in its conflicts.
00:21:44.000It's back and forth and back and forth and when you're playing that game it's hard to point the finger because we don't have any right to say anything because we've been invading territories For our own reasons.
00:21:56.000We had weapons of mass destruction was the first reason.
00:23:37.000You know, from from us being the world police, from us funding NATO, from us funding all these alliances and acting like we're supposed to be, you know, regulating everybody's behavior around the world.
00:23:47.000It's it's a novel or excuse me, it's a noble cause.
00:23:51.000But how how successful have we been and at what cost?
00:23:55.000Nobody nobody wants to be the one to back down.
00:23:58.000You know, when I when I talk about, say, Antifa and the woke far left.
00:24:04.000Actually, I'll present you the conundrum.
00:24:22.000Even if it would come at peace, because it's peace at what cost kind of deal, because what comes after that peace?
00:24:28.000And so what happens with a country like Ukraine is people, you know, they say things like, we should just not have the war, you need to, like, we should do, and it's like, I know it's, yes, we don't want war, and it's really easy to say, but you've got Russia.
00:24:42.000Vladimir Putin looks at what's going on there and he says, I will not tolerate the U.S.
00:26:03.000I was going to say, shouldn't we secure our own oxygen masks?
00:26:07.000Could you imagine being one of the first people that volunteered to go to Vietnam because you didn't know what was actually coming and waiting for you over there?
00:26:23.000I was just going to say this to me seems like such insult to injury for Joe Biden to stand up there and say we're going to have to make sacrifices.
00:26:58.000And that's like, I've been thinking a lot of this came up a couple of days ago and was worth repeating that when Hitler invaded Poland, he was doing it.
00:27:04.000And he said, because they were after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles split a piece of Germany off, gave it to Poland.
00:27:09.000And then the Polish government was executing and committing genocide on these Former Germans, now Polish.
00:27:15.000So Hitler was going to liberate that area and bring peace back to those Germans.
00:27:19.000Putin's saying a similar thing with Ukraine.
00:27:41.000I would say I think the Ukrainians learned their lesson about Russian control from the Holodomor and probably are not too keen to be involved in something like that.
00:27:48.000But if we're drawing parallels, Russia doesn't need to be Germany in this.
00:28:08.000So if the Russians take a little piece, the Chinese psychotic racist, Han supremacist mentality might... Because Putin's not a psychotic racist.
00:29:53.000Now, the issue is, NATO, these Western European nations, want cheaper energy.
00:30:01.000Russia controls a lot of the energy flowing in.
00:30:04.000The craziest thing is, one of the moves that Joe Biden made in the past couple of days was to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which goes from Russia to Germany.
00:31:26.000He's like, we are so materialistic, we care about faster cars, we care about Levi's, we don't actually care about our country, or like any kind of overarching moral framework, and they do, and that's something we cannot understand.
00:31:37.000Because they've been struggling for how long?
00:31:42.000And if you're in the Russian government, and if you're Vladimir Putin, you're seeing this as a chance to, like you said, rebuild or restore whatever that empire was in his mind.
00:31:52.000And we're not looking at it from that perspective.
00:31:54.000In America, we've never experienced that.
00:31:57.000The worst hardship that we've experienced financially, in terms of hardship, was the Depression.
00:32:04.000And we made it out of that okay, and that elapsed far into our memories.
00:32:08.000These people have been living Under harsh conditions for a really long time.
00:32:13.000So they're looking at these opportunities to capitalize and become a more powerful country, become more economically stable.
00:32:22.000So what dog do we have in the fight here?
00:32:25.000I think if he was smart, Putin, and he is, that he would take what he takes out of Ukraine and then that's it.
00:32:31.000He moves on and he's remembered as Vladimir the Great.
00:34:54.000If you need our gas, we can take what we want.
00:34:57.000It's one of the reasons the US was like, hey, we should be working with our Western allies to move this pipeline up from, you know, the Qatar Turkey pipeline through Syria.
00:35:06.000But all of that does, all that does, If Vladimir Putin has control over your energy, and then you say, we're going to screw with your allies and build a pipeline to shut your monopoly on energy down, they're going to be like, you know I can see you doing that, right?
00:35:20.000Putin's like, I'm watching you attack my interests.
00:35:23.000I'm not going to sit back and let you do it.
00:35:25.000I used to play a lot of Civilization, and in the game sometimes I would choose to be like a trade-heavy country, and I'd have all these trade networks all over the world, but then every once in a while the world would be like, we're going to war.
00:35:37.000And as soon as the person would go to war with me, all my trades would end abruptly.
00:38:21.000America can have all the nukes in the world, it can be the most powerful MF around the planet, and it can sit back with its feet up and be like, dude, we're chilling, you guys leave us alone, and we're good.
00:38:42.000We invaded Hawaii and took it over from the natives.
00:38:45.000We invaded Wake Island and Midway Island.
00:38:47.000We were one of those conquistador countries with Britain and France and all them.
00:38:54.000Yeah, but the original idea was that we set out to be isolationists.
00:39:00.000We conquered, obviously, from sea to sea, and then we said, okay, this is our spot here now, and we're not going to go around the world, but we're going to show it off.
00:39:14.000You know, they sailed the Navy around the world originally.
00:39:17.000The Great White Fleet or whatever I believe it was called.
00:39:21.000You know, because to show off our might.
00:39:25.000And realistically, that should be the purpose of a military.
00:39:29.000You know what would have enabled us to maintain our isolationist policies would have been to have developed some form of energy independence, because this is a problem in Germany.
00:39:38.000They decided to shut down their nuclear plants because they had a whole lot of green guilt from a little Swedish girl.
00:39:43.000And now they rely so heavily on Russian gas.
00:39:47.000They're literally talking about blackouts and brownouts during the winter in Germany because they shut down their nuclear power plants and they rely so heavily on it.
00:39:54.000And when they sanction Russia, it is going to be a dark and cold winter.
00:40:01.000If you can't stand on your own two feet, whether that be at the level of a country or all the way down to the individual, you can't be free unless you can tell somebody to piss off.
00:40:12.000That you don't need them and that you'll do it yourself.
00:40:32.000If you think nuclear energy is too dangerous, but you're willing to threaten a nuclear war power for oil for your energy, you've missed the plot.
00:43:35.000I mean, that's that's something that's really important, because, again, it's it's if we
00:43:38.000are going to be the country that says you are wrong, you can't do this.
00:43:44.000We need to start working on our BS too.
00:43:47.000And like Tim was saying, in war, you know, how things change, maybe there was some value to interning the Japanese that may have been Japanese spies.
00:45:15.000I bet a lot of that's under the table.
00:45:17.000That's the problem with the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, where they kind of funnel money through, is there's no oversight, no governmental oversight in the world.
00:45:23.000It's a private company that's controlling this economy, basically, right now.
00:45:27.000So, I have a... maybe you'll have some thoughts on this, right?
00:45:42.000Yeah, they'll probably make it their national currency, a crypto.
00:45:44.000They'll probably create like one or use Bitcoin.
00:45:47.000Or that's an interesting, what happens with the crypto market then when an entire country says, all right, you'll kick me off of your traditional standard transaction system?
00:46:03.000Russia can just very easily say, we're going to now... Unless you shut off their internet in the entire country, I guess would be the only... That was a threat.
00:46:26.000They're probably saying, why should we rely on the centralized controlled payment system out of Western Europe?
00:46:33.000We can just use decentralized crypto to facilitate value exchanges and then have that be the basis for our monetary system in our own country.
00:46:41.000And again, you have talking from a crypto standpoint, you know, I have a very novice level of understanding of crypto, but they say, OK, we're going to adopt crypto.
00:46:51.000And then what happens when the entire Russian economy switches to mining crypto?
00:46:59.000They could do it up in those really cold Siberian places where it keeps the GPUs cold enough.
00:47:03.000We're in an interesting place in crypto where we're moving away from proof of work to create the crypto and it's moving towards proof of stake.
00:47:09.000So like the people that are rich are going to get more rich, but the people that are creating it are not really going to be the ones that make money on it anymore.
00:47:16.000It's kind of lame that they're doing that, but it's like a rich man's game.
00:47:19.000Well, it's what happens when government starts getting involved in these things.
00:47:22.000You know, crypto was, at least from my understanding, the The separation between government oversight and regulation and money.
00:47:31.000And now we're watching governments adopt it.
00:47:34.000We may provoke one of the world's largest countries to adopt it.
00:47:41.000I was thinking of the bastion of freedom in the United States that's now invaded and enslaved Iraqis for 20 years.
00:47:47.000It would be the pressure that would push a country to develop some sort of more free, equitable currency.
00:47:54.000When I saw the news about, you know, Ukraine saying we want to ban from from SWIFT, Kiev saying we want to ban from SWIFT, when I saw Boris Johnson saying it, I immediately bought Bitcoin.
00:49:56.000There was a, he recently, recently there was news, I should try, I'll try and find it in a second, recently issued a ban on producing natural gas in the United States.
00:51:11.000You know, look at our supply chain, look at our energy production, look at the value of our dollar.
00:51:15.000All of these things are moving in the wrong direction, and they are all the result of policy created by our own government.
00:51:24.000None of these things are happening to us because of outside influence.
00:51:28.000Yeah, sure, China is shipping drugs, but we have a responsibility to protect our own border.
00:51:32.000We're not doing any of these things, and all of the problems that we're facing today as a society, as an American society, are self-inflicted.
00:51:51.000From AmericanPress.com, Biden halts all new oil and gas leases.
00:51:55.000From Wednesday, February 23, 2022, reported by the AP, the Biden administration is delaying decisions on all new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world cost of climate change.
00:52:16.000Nobody, I don't think at this point, denies the fact that humans have an influence on the climate around them.
00:52:21.000But this idea that everything we do has to be renewable and this and that, it's a ruse to undermine all of these things that make us fiercely independent.
00:53:47.000There are a lot of things that I disagree with Donald Trump on, but he is unequivocally a better and stronger, and I think stronger is really...
00:53:59.000in terms of this topic an important characteristic. He is a stronger president. He projects strength
00:54:05.000in a way that Joe Biden I don't think ever could, nor Kamala Harris or nor really anybody on that
00:54:10.000roster on that side. I got to get a little real with it. It's not hard to be better than Joe Biden.
00:54:15.000No, no, no. We're not setting the bar. I thought Trump was great about not falling for this kind
00:54:36.000We don't have to bow to a corporation.
00:54:38.000That was early on World Economic Forum stuff.
00:54:41.000Um, and I think that what's happening is that there are corporate powers that are putting countries against each other so that they fight and then they can fall apart and be like, Hey, see, national governments don't work anymore.
00:54:54.000Let us come in and say, I told you guys this before the show, let us come in and save you with our corporate benevolence.
00:55:00.000I want to follow this story from the AP.
00:55:03.000Biden halts oil gas leases amid legal fight on climate costs.
00:55:08.000Russia just invaded, and this is February 22nd.
00:55:13.000When they were screaming, Russia was going to invade Kiev.
00:55:28.000What, what, beyond the headline, because it sounds, it sounds nice to your, you know,
00:55:33.000to your bleeding heart, you know, social justice warrior.
00:55:36.000What does climate cost actually mean in, in, in that discussion?
00:55:42.000I think the assumption is that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going to cause a greenhouse effect, which is going to cause superheating.
00:56:01.000Potential invasions are preeminent and forefront, I think.
00:56:05.000You should not be focusing on how bad things could get, but how to fix the problem, which is the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
00:56:11.000I just gotta step in and say, we've got the potential for total nuclear annihilation in the immediate, but we're looking at that clock about climate change.
00:56:21.000You want to talk about environmental danger?
00:56:22.000A nuclear bomb going off in the atmosphere?
00:56:34.000It's you know, the American military is like the biggest polluter in the world the amount of crap it dumps into the oceans with its Navy is And its army is like it as a core if it was a corporation, it would be the largest polluter on earth I'm sure probably is and and we're we're not even high.
00:56:48.000We're not even up there on the list of of The people that we're talking about in this discussion, Russia, China, all these are polluters of the world.
00:56:56.000These are people who don't buy this climate cost nonsense.
00:57:02.000And granted, China does a lot of things wrong.
00:57:03.000There's no acceptance of the way that they do things coming from me.
00:57:07.000But we are worrying about climate cost when these people are worrying about taking over entire countries.
00:57:15.000It's like what Ben Shapiro was saying.
00:57:16.000We're like, we're going to sanction you and then you can't use the bank.
00:57:19.000And Putin's like, I want to rebuild the empire and I'll kill anyone to get my way.
00:57:56.000Our priorities are, and again, it's not to say that these things are not important, because I'm not one to just spit into the wind, because that's what you're doing when you're ignoring Uh, the effects that you do have on the climate.
00:58:08.000However, we need to have some prioritization of, of what is important and what is not important.
00:58:14.000And, and we're, we've got it seemingly completely upside down.
00:58:18.000People are going to vote for the Democrats.
00:58:20.000Just, I'm just, in November, there's going to be a midterm and it's going to be close.
00:58:26.000I just, I just, if, if you, if you show this article to someone and you're like Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden decides to stop producing oil and gas.
00:58:37.000I'm just, how are you the party of Vladimir Putin is an existential threat and Trump was colluding with them.
00:58:44.000And also, let's shut down our energy production.
00:58:47.000It's like the people who are like, we don't like the government has all the guns.
00:58:55.000That's kind of par for the course at this point, you know, coming, coming from that side, you know, it's, it's the, it's the, the movement of doublethink and, and mental gymnastics, because somehow to these people, when they go to the ballot box, it makes sense to them.
00:59:09.000I'm going to buy a machete and a bunch of coconuts and I'm going to sit downstairs and I'm just going to machete open those coconuts and drop a straw in there and be like, I'm, I'm, I'm done.
00:59:17.000Well, before you do that, I have to say, I will say that I've not seen the term climate cost before, and that is really interesting to me because it is super vague.
00:59:25.000It strikes me a little bit as... Yeah, how's that calculated?
00:59:46.000They're not accounting for change in the progression.
00:59:49.000So if you develop a new technology that can recover the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into graphene, it dramatically changes the direction of our models.
00:59:59.000And I think it's been clearly shown, at least to my understanding, that of all the things that we can factor in to climate cost and climate change, we're only accounting for a quarter of the things that actually come into play.
01:00:14.000So this equation that we're basing domestic policy on is Not a very good one.
01:00:25.000It's just, it's, you know, it, again, you, you have to prioritize and this is, this is, this is pure, uh, this is, this is par for the course of what we're seeing.
01:00:34.000You know, what do, what do we prioritize at home?
01:00:36.000We're prioritizing, you know, all of these ludicrous agendas.
01:00:40.000Meanwhile, our country is legitimately falling apart from the inside.
01:00:56.000When you're a country that cannot put aside, you know, long-term climate goals to deal with present emergencies, existential crises, You're doomed.
01:01:10.000I mean, it's like the United States is looking at Russia and they're like, we would rather die than pollute the air.
01:01:18.000That's essentially what that headline reads.
01:01:23.000It is so strange to me that people who can't ever think past stage one are now thinking so far into the future that they can't look at an actual possible nuclear war and be like, oh, maybe we should put this on the back burner for Maybe a month or two while we figure out.
01:03:37.000I have to talk to you about a man named Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks and I don't want to because he's just a pundit.
01:03:42.000But when we're dealing with an internal conflict that is effectively an existential threat, you need to understand the sentiment that exists among some of these individuals on the establishment side.
01:03:53.000Cenk Uygur tweets, right-wing doesn't love Putin just because he is an authoritarian tyrannical leader.
01:03:59.000They love him because he's a white authoritarian leader.
01:04:02.000Race has become more important than even nationality.
01:04:06.000They've turned on democracy and now even America in favor of a white warlord.
01:04:11.000This may be one of the most insane things I've ever read.
01:04:14.000Nowhere in these incoherent ramblings was there even a semblance of a thought.
01:04:20.000Yet this man has millions of followers and does actually have influence over a large portion of the political discourse in this country.
01:04:29.000Joe Biden is an old white man who is leading the empire of the United States.
01:04:36.000According to the Young Turks themselves and many of the left, the U.S.
01:05:25.000You just declare that they are wrong and hate them.
01:05:29.000Yeah, I would like to understand Putin's side.
01:05:31.000I'm not like, yay, I wish he was my leader, but I think as a general goes, if I was playing a video game and I wanted to put a guy in command of my military, I'd pick him over Biden or Xi Jinping, who both are bureaucrats, This guy's got, like, military experience.
01:09:02.000You know, look, I hate to talk about him because he needs this kind of attention.
01:09:06.000He doesn't nearly get as much attention as he used to or whatever.
01:09:09.000He says, I'm sure the fake left in America, Tulsi Gabbard, etc., who are still pretending to be progressive, are livid about this attack on civil rights, let alone Putin's unmitigated imperialism.
01:09:18.000I'm sure those pundits and award-winning journalists are speaking out forcefully, right?
01:09:23.000Yes, Russia arresting protesters is wrong.
01:09:28.000What world does this man live in or his followers that they think the right likes Putin because he's a white tyrannical leader and that they're happy he's arresting people?
01:09:39.000Yeah, where where where's the evidence that that that thought even has been put out there by anybody credible that represents the right?
01:09:47.000I really don't like assumptions in general.
01:09:50.000I mean, that's just one of those things where it's like, at least show me a tweet from somebody who's got as many followers as you do that has that has said like, yeah, Putin, go get them.
01:10:34.000Obviously the right is not cheering for protesters being arrested who are opposing this.
01:10:39.000Obviously they're not out there supporting Putin.
01:10:41.000He's trying to make it seem like because Tucker Carlson says that Putin does not like Western influence in Ukraine, here's the perspective, that it's support of Putin.
01:10:49.000But then what happens is a bunch of other American establishment left personalities defend his insane idea for tribal reasons.
01:10:57.000Because the right now mocks Cenk Uygur, they're gonna come out and be like, he's right, it's a fact now.
01:11:02.000His psychotic statement is now a fact among these leftists.
01:13:02.000And Vladimir Putin sees that and he says, So the prosecutor in the administration is fired because Biden threatened to take away illegally, mind you, aid from the United States?
01:13:18.000It's so obviously an American puppet, that country.
01:13:26.000Now, just by observing corruption, you are now in support of Russian agendas.
01:13:34.000Technically, I said it first, so the Russian agendas are in support of me because it was my idea.
01:13:38.000I saw it coming two years ago, and I claimed it then.
01:13:42.000This Zelensky stuff is not... Dude, Biden goes in there.
01:13:46.000He basically, I don't know what you would call, browbeated the president to fire a guy that was examining a company that his son was on the board of.
01:14:27.000For uploading a video of herself reading a self-penned poem saying she wishes she'd been Putin's mom so she could have hugged him to stop him turning into a warmonger.
01:14:37.000Actress Anna Lynn McCord, 34, posted a bizarre poem online Thursday about her desire to be Putin's mother.
01:14:43.000Putin 69 ordered a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
01:16:28.000I mean, this is this is typical, like America, like the toxic American culture where we think like, you know, if enough hearts bleed and we, you know, and we shed enough tears and hashtag hard enough, like we're going to solve world problems like like this is going to come across Vladimir Putin's desk and a tear is going to like, yeah, just a single tear is going to just drop from his like stone stature.
01:16:55.000He's gonna slam the table And I too wish you were my mother I think this this reminds me of There's this like kind of idea like oh If I go back and help Hitler when he was a baby and I give him the kindness he needed to become an artist Maybe you wouldn't have become a psychoactive psychoactive psychological dictator, but I think that's this idea like drugs though Yeah, he was all on amphetamines not stop.
01:17:19.000Yeah Just shell shocked from World War One destroyed mind.
01:17:22.000This girl, I think, is doing that with Putin.
01:17:24.000She's like, oh, if I could have if somehow I could have reached his inner child, that maybe he wouldn't be so vile.
01:17:55.000So they're, they're trying, this is like, this is, uh, this is American, you know, uh, toxic culture trying or Hollywood culture trying to tie this to like toxic masculinity in some way.
01:18:22.000They say, although McCord blames the family matriarch, Putin's mother, Maria Shalimova, has been characterized by others as a kind factory worker who secretly baptized him.
01:18:34.000Could you imagine, you know, if anything, you know what's going to happen?
01:18:37.000Putin's going to be like, what'd you say about my mom?
01:18:41.000I understand wanting to emotionally connect with Vladimir Putin right now, and you have the technology to do it, so you may as well try, but don't read a script, man.
01:18:49.000A poem that you wrote that you're... Come on, do it genuinely if you're gonna do it, otherwise you're just burning the ground you walk on.
01:19:19.000And again, that goes to the, it just goes to highlight how little these people actually understand The gravity and the severity of the situation that is unfolding right before our eyes.
01:21:52.000This is why I'm talking about just buying all those coconuts and sitting back and just macheting them, macheting them open and see that straw in there and just sit back.
01:22:24.000I'm just thinking, you know, as it all comes crumbling down, maybe, maybe we should spend time with our loved ones and smile.
01:22:30.000And, uh, it's like, have you seen the movie?
01:22:32.000Don't look up at the end when they're all at the table holding hands.
01:22:35.000And it's like the world's about to end.
01:22:36.000I'm like, that's kind of how I feel right now.
01:22:38.000I know I feel very I made a video last night that I didn't end up uploading because it was so it got so dark like I I want to believe that We're better than animals, but we're just animals.
01:22:52.000Someone superchatted, she was trying to kill Putin by getting him to die laughing.
01:22:57.000Could you imagine if, like, this story comes out that Putin had a stroke, and then, like, there's a photo of him on the ground confirming it, and on his phone is a picture of the woman and a big smile on his face?
01:23:09.000And then someone's like, I think he laughed himself into a stroke and died.
01:24:32.000You say you put 50,000 troops there, okay?
01:24:35.000Then what happens when the Chinese say, okay, well, we see you have 50,000 troops in Ukraine, and we're gonna put 100,000 on Taiwan?
01:24:47.000What's America's next step in that situation?
01:24:49.000And how far do our alliances and entanglements go before we say this is not going to end well for anybody, and we're going to step out of this.
01:25:01.000But at the same time, how do you just let these things happen?
01:25:06.000If we're taking our border protection off our own border to go to Poland, China knows we are spread too thin.
01:27:12.000You know what I was thinking when we were talking about this stuff with the Soviet Union and the United States?
01:27:16.000You've got these two jocks on the playground fighting each other, and there's some fat Asian kid, chubby kid in the corner, who's not part of the fight or anything.
01:28:29.000I mean, if, if there's not, if there's not more of a dude, if you've ever seen the movie idiocracy, I mean, that is like, you're like, wow, we are, we are live in part two.
01:31:32.000They create fake restaurants that serve only a certain thing so that people who are like, I don't want Applebee's, I want wings, will still buy from Applebee's.
01:31:39.000And then I was like, it's actually pretty good.
01:31:42.000And so now we just straight order from Applebee's sometimes.
01:32:07.000We, we live, we live kind of in the middle of nowhere.
01:32:08.000So we have like, we have few options, you know, it's like either pick up from a local pizzeria or something, or you can order from like these medium sized chains.
01:32:16.000Can you give us a brief update on Attellus?
01:32:19.000Because we're about to go to Super Chats.
01:32:52.000We have an appeals process going on with all of the fines and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they fined us.
01:32:59.000We have an appeal process going on to sue the township so that we can get our business license back because we shut down our billing in March of 2020 and have not resumed it since.
01:33:08.000And then we're finally getting to a municipal court that was kicked down the road for two years because of COVID and that's where we can actually bring forth like legitimate arguments about constitutional violations and things of the sort.
01:33:20.000We've been narrowed to very, um, very narrow scopes of argument, um, being caught with court orders and stuff like that.
01:33:27.000And we also just pled guilty to criminal contempt of court for the heinous crime of taking our doors off of the hinges.
01:33:34.000And we got one year of probation for that.
01:33:45.000They pierced through the LLC for all of this.
01:33:47.000So we're all we're personally liable for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of fines.
01:33:53.000And they brought criminal citations against both Frank and I. To give context, Attila, you guys basically right when COVID came out and they started putting lockdowns and shutdowns, you guys just basically said no?
01:34:08.000Day three or four is when we decided that we were going to reopen, but we took our time over the next like six weeks.
01:34:15.000to develop a very comprehensive safety protocol program because we knew that we were going to get pushback.
01:34:21.000And we didn't want to just open just to, you know, just to open recklessly.
01:34:25.000You know, we wanted to open because at the time, we truly believed that COVID was a credible threat, but that there could be some sort of happy medium between shutting the world down and mitigating, you know, the spread of COVID.
01:34:39.000So we opened two months after, in May of 2020, and we've been open ever since, no matter what they did.
01:35:24.000This might be a video I think I saw from last October where Alex was like, uh, apparently my sources are telling me there's going to be some sort of military war conflict in February.
01:35:45.000You know, a lot of stuff he says is noise.
01:35:47.000Well, when you throw a lot of, you know, crap at the wall, you know, some of it will stick, but I think he's been right on some pretty important things, you know, along the way.
01:35:57.000Ryan Johnston says, as much as I despise the administration, I will go back into the USMC if we have World War III, because it is the best hope for the survival of the Constitution.
01:37:25.000But Biden giving a list of things not to attack was like just pathetic diplomacy, where he was like, all right, if you do attack us, just don't do these.
01:37:34.000And everyone's like, did you just give him a list of critical infrastructure to attack?
01:39:43.000I mean, look, I read a lot of different news sources and I try and, you know, when claims are made, I try and find alternate sources and I try and find root sources to make sure that I'm getting the real legit information.
01:39:55.000And, when a lot of the information is based off of videos on Twitter, it's like, how do you really confirm it?
01:40:00.000Like, when someone posts a video of a tank rolling in, I'm like, how do I know that's Russia?
01:40:03.000Yeah, you don't even know where that is, just because it says that.
01:40:07.000Luke tweeted out, like, airplanes flying overhead, and it was like the Russian invasion has commenced, and people in the comments were like, this is from a year ago, this is like a flying exercise.
01:40:15.000We, we, you know, this morning when I woke up, I heard quite a bit of air traffic.
01:40:19.000We're really, we're really close to DC out here.
01:41:29.000I think Vladimir Putin's exploiting a situation he's long wanted to pursue.
01:41:32.000I think a lot of the problems we've been facing with inflation is easily attributable to COVID, but I think Joe Biden's did a bad job as well.
01:41:38.000Yeah, and when it comes to the situation in Ukraine, Biden isn't entirely at fault.
01:41:44.000He's mishandling the situation, but a lot of the restrictions and the things you have to take into account are from years and years of foreign policy.
01:41:56.000You know, so he's even if he's making the wrong choices, he's operating on a playing field that he didn't necessarily lay out in front of him.
01:42:05.000No, but he's the one steering the ship.
01:42:07.000So I think that we should be looking towards him to make the best decisions that he can given the set of circumstances in front of him.
01:42:15.000And on top of that, I just want to point out, I mean, when have we talked about stripping out a nuclear power from the SWIFT payment system?
01:42:43.000Because he used to be a bully on the playground.
01:42:45.000He keeps rolling through Eastern Europe.
01:42:46.000You know, he's going to have a little bit more in that armory.
01:42:49.000And when you have China, who has clearly backed him already, I mean, that doesn't matter so much that he's got a small, smaller GDP.
01:43:00.000Also, if you're calculating GDP, if they've got a trillion GDP in fiat, you've got a trillion GDP in Bitcoin.
01:43:06.000Your Bitcoin trillion is worth a lot more than that trillion in fiat if you measure the calculate the way the fiat is headed inflation wise.
01:43:14.000So GDP may look small on paper, but it might be better currency.
01:43:17.000All right, Keegan Mooney says, fourth attempt this week.
01:43:20.000In the immortal words of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, watch Attack on Titan.
01:43:25.000Real quote, real life parallels are only getting realer.
01:44:32.000Christopher Massey says, as an Afghan vet, I feel qualified to say not only did the idiots in the swamp lose a winnable war, but it took 11 years to kill a guy that was living in caves.
01:44:49.000And these are the people that we should be listening to, not the girl reading the poem on the internet.
01:44:55.000These are people who have experienced conflict and who understand that there's really no winners in this situation and that we should be trying to resolve this as diplomatically as possible and with as few casualties as possible because Any American conflict in the past 20, 30 years has not brought this country any, any form of good.
01:45:18.000It's only, it's only hurt people like this, these veterans.
01:45:20.000And, and we know a lot of these guys, cause these are, these are the guys that come to our gym, you know, and these are the guys that have seen it and, and, and seen that these are not, these are not wars that we want to get involved in.
01:45:31.000We want to prevent these wars, if anything.
01:45:34.000We got Amy Beth Quinn says, Tim, can you give a big shout out to Wes, a fan of yours who is currently hauling my family's stuff in a semi from Washington to Tennessee as we move from tyranny to more freedom.
01:47:05.000Alan Rogers says, so much for 69th generational propaganda PSYOP digital warfare, eh, Tim?
01:47:10.000Looks like guns, tanks, and planes are here to stay.
01:47:13.000Oh, I never said they were gonna be gone.
01:47:15.000I was saying that a key portion of the war is gonna, like, like war will be fought through propaganda.
01:47:20.000But what you gotta understand about hot war with planes, tanks, guns, and all that stuff, is when the propaganda stops working, then you escalate your tensions.
01:47:28.000You know, are we gonna see nukes launched?
01:47:31.000We've seen gravity bombs dropped in World War II, and that was it.
01:47:34.000We gonna see ICBMs be actually used for the first time?
01:48:14.000Liven says, do you think this will result in Biden having to re-establish our energy independence, rolling back restrictions on fracking and restoring Keystone?
01:48:22.000Now, I did want to read this, even though we did address it, because I just want to reiterate, Biden recently, in the past few days, suspended leases on oil and gas.
01:48:45.000You know what we were saying the other day is, could you imagine if for the State of the Union he comes out and he's like, my fellow Americans, we've done a bad job.
01:49:52.000And then Kamala's like, is this thing on?
01:49:58.000What would actually be way better if he comes out with his aviator sunglasses, and he's got the ice cream cone, and he's like, and then instead of speaking, he just goes like, you're screwed, bucko, and he walks out.
01:50:14.000He should just come out with one of those stories where he starts just talking about like kids touching his legs.
01:50:19.000He should just come out right from the rip with something that has nothing to do with the State of the Union and just do one of those like shuffles where he walks away real quick as everybody's just bewildered trying to ask questions.
01:51:48.000Even if it's a... I mean, even if they don't go to crypto, they're going to go to some sort of other payment system, and you don't think that China would hop on board with that very quickly?
01:51:59.000So why wouldn't all these big economic countries in that part of the world say, yeah, we'll use that one too?
01:52:08.000You'd see American corporations spinning up Russian currency if they did that, and be like, But I'm playing both sides, just like Henry Ford did in World War II.
01:53:14.000You know, part of the problem I think that we have in our political culture is that people don't pay attention until it's time to go to the ballot box.
01:53:22.000So they haven't really, in essence, they haven't really selected their candidate.
01:53:26.000You know, such a small portion of people take part in the primaries of their parties that whoever's on the ballot, they just vote for, but they don't really know much about them.
01:53:35.000You know, there's so many better options that are not making it through that initial cut merely just because people aren't paying attention to it.
01:53:44.000You know, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's a dim percentage, the amount of people who pay attention in the primary.
01:53:52.000compared to those who show up in the general election. And that's, I mean, you want to start
01:53:55.000seeing change. You know, that's a good place to start as an individual.
01:53:58.000Tiberius says the real tragedy is that Hunter Biden lost his job.
01:55:47.000So, you know, if anything started to happen, you got surface-to-air missiles.
01:55:50.000I don't know if they have any way of stopping ICBMs.
01:55:53.000I'd imagine we've had to have deployed high-power lasers already, right?
01:55:57.000That can just track and target, like Iron Dome.
01:56:00.000If Israel's got Iron Dome, we have to have something like that.
01:56:02.000I'm fairly certain that if we wanted to stop something coming over the ocean at us, that we—
01:56:07.000Yeah, I don't think it's not the ICBMs.
01:56:08.000It's orbital strikes that are the next big thing They just come from above you don't see him coming rods from God or missiles from orbit that are straight down Yeah coming straight down at you to too high velocity to even detect coming in.
01:56:20.000Hmm I think that we may want to get involved with the military in the US.
01:56:24.000Actually, Tim, it's so weird to think this, but like we might be do a great service to our species if we like go to NORAD and help them or like go, we'd have to be invited.
01:56:33.000But I think that we could because you have a voice that people listen to which we need right now.
01:56:38.000You want me saying I should go to NORAD and broadcast propaganda for the government?
01:56:42.000Basically, if it comes to a war, a real war, yeah, that's the kind of thing you need people like me, or at least like you, thinkers that are outside of this woke crowd to save the lives of The US administration would be like, thanks so much for your input, Ian.
01:56:57.000I just read this script and it would be like, war is good.
01:57:00.000Vladimir Putin is evil and our war is justified.
01:58:49.000Trash Panda says, we are divided at a time where division is dangerous, and I can't see how we get reunited, seeing how insane leftists are.
01:59:42.000It's one of the craziest things that I've been seeing recently is, you know, I traveled recently out to Arizona for a speaking engagement, you know, and I used to live in Arizona and wanted to go to this old restaurant that I loved.
01:59:55.000Just this Mongolian grill, just, you know, real basic.
01:59:58.000We pulled up and it said temporarily closed due to employee shortages.
02:00:28.000If you stop seeking work, you're not even calculated as being unemployed anymore.
02:00:30.000No, and that's the problem, is you have a tremendous amount of people who are just not seeking work at the time, or not seeking work on the books.
02:00:38.000Because of, again... Because they're getting unemployment and they don't want to lose it.
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