00:04:05.120My essence has extracted this from him.
00:04:09.560So for people who don't know, Digital Archipelago, a show that we've been on, both of us, I was on a couple of times as well.
00:04:15.980One of my favorite shows with Prudentialist and Gio Pinaccetti.
00:04:21.000I don't know if this is kayfabe, but Prudentialist has marked that the terminus of Digital Archibelago, the last one that I was on, called Collapse, fittingly.
00:04:36.160I don't need Podcast Killer on my reputation.
00:04:39.500The way they started the show was Gio was very enthused about Kanye West posting interracial porn, which I have not seen, but I immediately believe that's something Kanye West would do.
00:28:54.480And by the way, Carney, he's the prime minister, and they're talking about him.
00:28:58.760They're not asking Polyev about this, obviously.
00:29:01.420So Carney said the White House has signaled to Canada that there may be more U.S. tariffs at a later date on other strategic sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, lumber, and semiconductors.
00:29:12.860um so it's it's a piecemeal sort of tariff it's like if it was just a tariff it would be a tariff
00:29:19.060but it's this other thing which makes it sound like yeah it's not real even it's like it's a
00:29:25.540i mean it is a tariff but it's a tariff on specific products which yeah i mean a a broad
00:29:30.500tariff on imports from the entire nation is a pretty aggressive thing to do but uh yeah well
00:29:36.860we'll see we'll see what happens honestly there's still not enough information you know what there
00:29:41.380is information on this i'm looking at wired trump tariffs hit antarctic islands inhabited by zero
00:29:47.740humans is that real though yeah the herd and mcdonald islands are among the dozens of targets
00:29:53.280of president donald trump's latest round of tariffs but there have been no experts because
00:29:57.420no one lives there this is a real thing so one would wonder was he trying to impose a tariff on
00:30:03.900the mcdonald's restaurant but i i choose to be optimistic i choose to say this is what i voted
00:30:13.520for i did not vote i want you and i saying not my president this is this is or is not what i
00:30:22.540voted for is just it really sums up the mood i think this is what i voted for i want him to put
00:30:28.900a hundred percent tariff on these fucking penguins goddamn penguins he assumes that in the next
00:30:33.700four years there will be significant industrial output from those penguins so he's jumping the
00:30:39.740shark here this is classic art of the deal it's a stir in the pot can i just say i just want to say
00:30:45.700it's 5d chess it's 5d chess yeah so the whole point of 5d chess is you can't see the other
00:30:53.320dimensions the point about 5d chess a lot people forget this is you never know what's going on
00:31:00.680yeah you're always confused and frustrated by definition it is multiverse chess
00:31:05.080you know instead of saying 5d chess you could say i'm confused and angry
00:31:09.820let's just go back through the the newsreel for the past 10 years and just swap that phrase
00:31:19.840how would you feel if you were actually playing 5d chess you'd be very today announced tariffs
00:31:26.320against all of his allies many of his supporters are now saying i'm confused and angry i'm confused
00:31:32.540and angry have you guys ever played 5d chess it fucking sucks um i'm also looking at this article
00:31:42.200here looking at the daily mail and i've only just caught wind of this and this is sort of a
00:31:48.900developing story, but outrage grows over Marine Le Pen's blocked presidential run. Trump and
00:31:55.700European allies offer support as tyrannical judges are accused of depriving millions of people
00:32:00.660of their representation. So what happened to Marine? Have you heard about this with
00:32:04.020Marine Le Pen? Yeah, I did. I didn't catch all the details, but I saw the headline.
00:32:07.300Until today, she was in poll position to stand in the next French presidential elections in 2027.
00:32:16.840And she was there as favourite, potentially a winner.
00:32:22.580But this court ruling has completely ruined her ambitions.
00:32:27.700That Paris court finding her guilty of embezzling European Union funds
01:02:12.860and i'd hate for it to be seen as a joke indefinitely because this is a very real thing
01:02:18.260and it fucking matters and it matters now more than ever maybe a few years ago it was chuckle
01:02:23.820worthy but now you're seeing results of this so check that out now i wanted to discuss this book
01:02:32.400you know i really liked the sequence of books we've done leading up until now and i wanted to
01:02:37.640take a break because i wanted to look into cartels mexican drug cartels yep and i hesitated for a
01:02:46.820while because do we need another investigation in the cartels because if you are of our generation
01:02:53.680or younger you've been overwhelmed with content constantly about mexican drug cartels in film
01:03:00.780and in shows and in the news if you're a maga person politically cartels are the top of your
01:03:06.140list to talk about but i'd encountered a phrase that i was rolling over in my head for a while
01:03:13.840and a lot of people took it very seriously and it was that cartels don't exist and i'd heard that
01:03:21.080and i didn't know what that meant and i wanted to get to the bottom of it but i felt that i needed
01:03:25.120to read a bit more deeply into the history of the cartels and not just watch narcos on netflix or
01:03:31.580sicario or any of these pretty valid uh films that really you know they don't just demonize
01:03:38.900cartels most of them actually demonize the american government if anything or they they
01:03:43.960show the situation as complex as it really is there really are no good guys or bad guys
01:03:50.320it's black ops politicians are compromised everybody's cynical government's working
01:03:56.960hand in glove with criminal organizations on both side of the border like it's messy
01:04:00.900so i don't think there's even a propagandist angle to it but there's gonna be two books
01:04:06.080this first one is just called el narco el narco inside mexico's criminal insurgency
01:04:13.280and that's the phrase that i like the most criminal insurgency describing what this is
01:04:18.400like a a mob of criminality that is insurgent against the government which i think describes
01:04:26.900what people's concern is you know and then the second book we're going to cover next time is
01:04:32.300just called drug cartels don't exist and it's more of a almost a left-wing media analysis about
01:04:41.200drug cartels but it kind of gets into here but i need to be like okay let's start from the angle
01:04:46.860of drug cartels don't exist if that's the case then what the fuck are they it doesn't make sense
01:04:51.060that they don't exist so i'm just going to read a bunch of stuff here and i'm going to try and avoid
01:04:56.100a lot of the trappings that you could fall into talking about cartels yes you could talk about
01:05:01.420headless bodies hanging from bridges you can talk about fucking babies boiled alive all the most
01:05:06.680extreme graphic content that everyone has pulled from lively that probably sits high in their mind
01:05:12.200about what these organizations are capable of so i'm gonna skip a bunch of that you can find that
01:05:17.680sort of shit anywhere but i wanted to get to the bottom of what do you mean by criminal insurgency
01:05:21.660and he starts by saying understanding the mexican drug war is crucial not only because of morbid
01:05:27.740curiosity at heaps of severed brain cases that's what he calls heads in this sometimes
01:05:32.700almost like a gen x thing to do trying to find cool ways to say severed head but because the
01:05:38.220problems in mexico are being played out across the world we hear little about communist guerrillas
01:05:43.060in the americas these days but criminal uprisings are spreading like bushfire in el salvador the
01:05:49.240Mara Salvatutra forced bus drivers into a national strike over anti-gang laws.
01:05:54.880In Brazil, the first command torched 82 buses, 17 banks, and killed 42 policemen in one coordinated attack.
01:06:04.000In Jamaica, police clashed with the supporters of Christopher Dudas Koch, leaving 70 dead.
01:06:11.000Are pundits going to insist that this is just cops and robbers?
01:06:14.380The Mexican drug war is a frightening warning of how bad things could get in other countries is a case study of a criminal insurgency.
01:06:23.060And I think that's one thing I wanted to discuss was actually the scale of this, because sometimes you hear about 20 people were 20 civilians were killed or these journalists are killed.
01:06:33.320You always hear about the journalists, but you don't hear about the coordination of these attacks almost as terrorist events or when they don't just attack civilians and they successfully kill like 70 soldiers in one go, which you wouldn't even hear about that from Afghanistan or Iraq.
01:06:50.360right so i just wanted to start off by just briefly what do you think about drug cartels
01:06:58.140what what are your thoughts do you know anything about them what are your what's your sense you
01:07:03.140think they're important or what do you think um yeah i'm just trying to look it up here for a
01:07:08.920second because is it called the it's called the iron river no it's a different book i can't remember
01:07:15.300what it's called it's called the river of iron or something like that but i read this book recently
01:07:18.580that was about gun running and the drug cartels and the the one thing that they kept coming back
01:07:22.200to this was a liberal guy who is pro-immigration and even he was saying like look the issue that's
01:07:29.400going on here is not only the savagery of the cartels but like the structure of them and the
01:07:33.760way that they are interrelated to each other the way they have a distributed cell network and the
01:07:37.940way that they're indirectly supported by the police and the government and by business like
01:07:42.820it's not the same thing as just being like random gangs on the street this is like fundamentally
01:07:48.200a huge interconnected web and you can't just shoot these guys because there's an there's
01:07:53.120infrastructure there that they are part of they're almost a symptom of and i don't want to get too
01:07:58.560liberal with it but it's in what he says makes sense to me and then talking about corruption
01:08:02.320in the mexican government like yeah anyways i'm sure this is the same thing that you're kind of
01:08:06.380talking about and we're going to get into that and you'd mention something there that i'll get
01:08:09.660to now before i move on one dimension of this that's always ignored is that yes there is a
01:08:16.380flow of drugs north of the border into America, but there is a steady flow of guns southward.
01:08:23.400The Barrett .50 caliber has become a weapon of choice for Mexican cartels.
01:08:28.280During the recent capture of El Chapo's son, Video Guzman, cartel gunmen used .50 calibers
01:08:34.180in a fierce firefight with the military. The Mexican government suspects these guns came
01:08:39.020from the U.S. Just some of the 200,000 weapons estimated to be trafficked every year into Mexico
01:08:45.420and then on to other parts of Latin America.
01:08:48.800Here in Mexico, at least 350,000 people have been murdered or disappeared since 2006.
01:08:55.560Official stats link at least 70% of the guns used in crimes here
01:08:59.780back to dealers or manufacturers in the U.S.
01:09:03.260That's the big thing that a lot of these Mexicans,
01:09:06.000they're getting armed in a couple of ways.
01:09:07.460One, they're just getting their guns from Guatemala.
01:09:10.560Two is that they're just robbing the military.
01:09:12.660but three they're getting a huge amount of their armaments from illegal gun trafficking to the
01:09:18.360south that was the whole operation fast and furious debacle under obama but there was like
01:09:23.640a lot of gun traffickers going south so that's often ignored the the american role in perpetuating
01:09:31.580that just from not from the government not even from the cia just from independent contractors
01:09:37.000so you can make a lot of money on that right but you don't get to something this size as you said
01:09:43.300without complicity with the government and in fact we'll get into the uh the zetas cartel later on
01:09:50.620they were sort of a latecomer in the mexican ecosystem but you know their story was that
01:09:56.040they were just uh former special ops guys and the mythology was there was a mass defectation that
01:10:03.900this huge collection of these guys just left the army and started their own cartel and it was
01:10:10.480actually one guy who like slowly by degrees recruited a bunch of people and they didn't
01:10:16.480start off like a street running gang for all they actually started more as an enforcement arm of like
01:10:21.280the sinaloa cartel and then just just doing assassinations doing kidnappings doing all
01:10:28.060like the really violent stuff that was that section of the organization that they broke off
01:10:32.100And then as you see, they do deal in drugs, but what they're most known for is just killing people because they are very effectively waging a very real war against the government.
01:10:45.120Los Zetas begin to morph into the armed paramilitary wing of the Gulf cartel before eventually splitting off and forming an entirely separate entity that would terrorize large parts of Mexico.
01:10:56.360They would go on to war with every rival cartel using shock and awe military tactics to gain new territory.
01:11:02.100At their peak, they would control the largest amount of territory in Mexico.
01:11:06.580And though the cartel was already known for its brutality,
01:11:09.400Los Zetas would escalate the violence and tactics to new, unseen levels.
01:11:13.580They would usher in a new phase in the cartel wars.
01:11:16.800Beheadings, leaving bodies in the streets,
01:11:19.240and senseless killings of uninvolved civilians would become their calling card.
01:11:23.540Are they really even a cartel the same way as these other ones are?
01:34:33.340Furthermore, geography would ensure this trade would bounce through Mexico, whichever traffickers got a helping hand from smiling spies.
01:34:40.660However, the role of the CIA is crucial in understanding the history of cocaine.
01:34:45.920It highlights how the U.S. government has failed to have a unified policy in its war on drugs abroad.
01:34:52.260While the DEA has had a mission to fight trafficking, the CIA had a mission to bolster the Contras, and they could not help but tread on each other's feet.
01:35:00.800fears are that such a situation has been repeated in various theaters of conflict such as afghanistan
01:35:06.820with members of the u.s ally and the northern alliance accused of trafficking drugs and that's
01:35:12.740even one more dimension here that i think is worth noting is that when you say the american
01:35:17.600government's what do you mean the american government it's actually the dea the cia maybe
01:35:23.140the fbi and maybe even the military all working seemingly independently all with different
01:35:29.280missions like the cia and arming the contras was operating with the mandate of the white house
01:35:35.760however it was kind of doing that on its own and that has nothing to do with the you know the
01:35:41.520mission of the military to secure the border you know and how many of these agencies are actually
01:35:46.560trying to stop the cartels and which ones are trying to work with them to stop something else
01:35:51.760yeah so it's such a multi-faceted problem because there's no doubt in anyone's mind
01:35:57.440that there's spies involved that there's funding involved even now right even the stuff we know
01:36:02.320about but accidentally arming the cartels but it's it's such it's to the point where you can't
01:36:10.080untangle this without untangling the mexican government really which is why they get defensive
01:36:16.480when america wants to step in and say okay we'll solve this problem for you no no what are we
01:36:21.920without this you know just to give one example here what we're talking about he says evidence
01:36:29.280of police working for the insurgent zetas cartel was startling but would soon become depressingly
01:36:34.920typical in mexico time and time again federal troops rolled into cities and accused local
01:36:40.760police of being deeply entwined with the gangsters officers no longer just turned a blind eye to
01:36:46.060smuggling but worked as kidnappers and assassins in their own right a gray fragmentation
01:36:51.540of the state to aggravate the problem many federal officers were also found working for
01:36:56.860gangsters normally different factions of the sinaloa cartel so as federal troops rounded up
01:37:02.520zetas observers asked whom they were serving the public or the sinaloan capos and this is a problem
01:37:07.860he expresses in the book which is like anytime they know that anytime they take down one cartel
01:37:13.680they're helping the other cartels it's it's a very difficult situation like you're destroying
01:37:18.620their competition so you need to take them all down
01:43:59.560These mind-bending substances have passed through thousands of hands in fields, laboratories, on ships, airplanes, and in trucks.
01:44:06.340And they all end up together in one room being shown off to journalists.
01:44:09.680It directly provides thousands of jobs, many in poor rural areas that most need them.
01:44:15.520Its profits spill over into a number of other sectors, particularly hotels, cattle ranches, racehorses, record labels, football teams, and movie companies.
01:44:23.580These cold figures have a frightening human implication.
01:44:27.020Mexican drug cartels can still operate at full capacity while they fight bloody battles with each other and the government.
01:44:33.640In the drug business, it seems a war economy functions pretty well.
01:44:37.440and i think that's a very fascinating opinion i never thought that before it's like
01:44:41.920as violence has escalated it doesn't seem to have really hurt the profits it seems that the
01:44:48.600drug industry operates independently of the personalities and the leaders right
01:44:55.260yeah and the argument that he makes throughout the book is that you know we get so wrapped up
01:45:01.060in the mythology and the wild tales of the industry you forget that these are just guys
01:45:06.920trying to make money selling a product right and at the end of the day the vast majority of them
01:45:12.680they only they only really do this sort of bloodshed in the interest of making more money
01:45:19.420and they would never ever do anything if they thought it really hurt their profits right it
01:45:24.240really is all they don't they don't believe in cocaine more than they believe in anything else
01:45:29.120like that's why they also do sex trafficking it's anything they could do but it's just an industry
01:45:34.700and you know once you view it like that it makes a bit more sense however he gets into something
01:45:41.780here which i don't really know what to make of it the um narco religions um here's one example
01:45:49.900because you hear about these narco corritos these songs glorify often commissioned by the gangsters
01:45:55.660themselves mythologizing themselves and there's these very unique forms of catholicism that are
01:46:03.980practiced by these people they have narco saints i'll give you an example here it says um the most
01:46:08.780virtual expression of narco religion is by la familia cartel in minochean la familia
01:46:15.500indoctrinates its followers in its very own version of evangelical christianity mixed with
01:46:20.460some peasant rebel politics the gang's spiritual leader nazario moreno el mas loco or the maddest
01:46:28.540one which is a great name for a spiritual leader actually wrote his own bible which is compulsory
01:46:35.860reading for the troops this sounds so nuts i thought it was just another drug war myth he says
01:46:40.640until i got my hands on a copy of the good book it's not an easy bedtime read many who follow
01:46:46.420these faiths are not drug traffickers or gun-toting assassins these beliefs all have an appeal to poor
01:46:52.060mexicans who feel the catholic church is not speaking to them and their problems but gangsters
01:46:57.900definitely feel at home with these new sects and exert a powerful influence on them giving a
01:47:02.800spiritual and semi-ideological backbone to narco clans jesus jesus it says jesus but i want to say
01:47:11.620jesus jesus malverde is the oldest religious symbol associated with el narco the real malverde
01:47:18.820is renowned as a cinaloan bandit executed a century ago images of his saintly face adorn
01:47:24.740amulets and statuettes, from marijuana fields in the Sierra Madre to prison cells in San Quentin.
01:47:32.220Devotees will also venerate the folk saint at shrines and chapels, which generally feature
01:47:36.340his iconic statue, easily recognized by his flamboyant mustache and dark eyebrows. He's
01:47:41.540always dressed in a white shirt with a red or black tie, and sometimes devotees will put a
01:47:45.160cowboy hat on his head or, more recently, baseball caps. They may offer candles or flowers along
01:47:49.720with their prayer or splash holy water on his image as they petition him. And they say that
01:47:53.560Malverde liked to live well during his lifetime, so practitioners will light cigars, cigarettes,
01:47:57.900or marijuana joints for him, or they might offer him tequila or whiskey. And because he's known to
01:48:02.220be a bit of a rogue, rumor has it that he occasionally asks for porn or even requests
01:48:06.980women to flash him. Devotees will also undertake pilgrimages to his chapel in Culiacan, even
01:48:12.380traveling long distances to the chapel to ask him for miracles. But they're not exclusive in their
01:48:17.000veneration. As a Catholic folk saint, most also believe in God and may pray to the Virgin of
01:48:21.940guadalupe for example i don't know what to make of that because that's interesting saying that
01:48:48.540there are these narco religions and they are just in my mind perverted forms of catholicism
01:48:54.380but they do seem to be popular with regular mexicans mexican peasants and this book is
01:49:02.000not a serious investigation in the narcos religions but i've heard references to it
01:49:06.960elsewhere and why would that not become a become a valid form of mexican christianity
01:49:15.460That is the folkish or vocish Christianity for these people, because Christianity, as we've discussed with the Germanization of early medieval Christianity, takes on the folkish characteristics or retains many of the folkish characteristics of those people that really adhere to it eventually.
01:49:34.380um and they they allow the evangelization process so it makes sense that the most popular form of
01:49:42.440catholicism one day could be the narco catholicism where they have like narco saints yeah and it's
01:49:49.920like skull cowboy boots and shit why why wouldn't jesus be in skull cowboy boots why wouldn't it be
01:49:55.240breaking bad yeah why not why not why is why doesn't jesus have goku hair
01:50:01.160he would he would why isn't it fused with fast and furious too by the way why doesn't he have
01:50:09.260a camaro why doesn't he have a fucking muscle car he's got he's got the boots that curve back
01:50:14.280around from the tip until they touch your ankle again yeah that is the only jesus that makes sense
01:50:20.320for mexico yeah and they call him jesus cocaine cowboy jesus
02:32:03.280And it was just literally two cameras on this one guy in a black room sitting on a chair, just expounding upon his theories of life, but also the damnable importance of oil in the world.
02:32:22.780But what I liked about it was, especially viewing it now, it's like a time capsule.
02:32:27.920So we can go back to all the claims he made back then about peak oil and other things and contrast that against what we know now. But Prude, I'm curious, what were your first impressions of this?
02:32:39.560so uh you know we've talked about a lot on the show in the past how the financial crisis and
02:32:50.280new atheism and that sort of like perfect moment of occupy wall street and the rest and that obama
02:32:57.220era of conservatism had really gave you two different ways to go you either had uh sort of
02:33:04.340the early alt-right or you had what we would kind of call wokeism today or just leftism or whatever
02:33:10.040you want to call it and so i i joked with geo before you came on uh backstage was that there
02:33:16.400is about a what 15 18 year time difference between a majority of what michael rupert is talking about
02:33:25.100in this documentary in comparison to what a lot of like maybe rizoma school raw egg nationalist
02:33:33.160types are talking about on twitter and i think that that's sort of an interesting k-line to
02:33:38.660follow uh because the first 25 minutes is very oliver stone early you know gen x boomer liberalism
02:33:49.420about the cia about why we invaded iraq and it feels very it felt like a blast in the past
02:33:57.280because it's 2025 and i'm listening to the late michael rupert say we're never going to leave
02:34:01.420iraq we're never gonna leave afghanistan and we have no presence in either country and we got
02:34:06.540jack shit in terms of oil in terms of deals out of either of those countries and both of those
02:34:12.240governments uh one of them is now still ran by the taliban and then the other one you know in
02:34:16.940the shadow of uh us leaving has got a lot of iranian influence in that country and it doesn't
02:34:23.340have the world's best relationship with us anyways and democracy is kind of a joke and so it's like
02:34:27.720well we're building all these things we have all these troops there we're never gonna leave
02:34:30.240this is like well you know um and then of course you know he this is right before this comes out
02:34:37.640it's really right before the shale oil boom with fracking and all these other famous documentaries
02:34:41.520like gasland and the rest come out and so uh you have this framing device for an existential crisis
02:34:48.620which regardless of whether or not you believe in peak oil or not um he is absolutely correct
02:34:53.740in the sense that like you know there's uh there's sort of this malthusian problem that we have to
02:34:58.540deal with and we have this population issue and everything's running on energy and we need to
02:35:03.060look at how the ways to get around it he doesn't go very in depth into some of these issues like
02:35:08.340you know why about you know nuclear or he talks a lot about the regulatory stuff i'm like well
02:35:12.900that's a good reason to maybe cut some of these regulatory issues but uh you know mainly wind and
02:35:17.460solar and then we talk about that and then but he just points out he loves wind and solar uh
02:35:23.680although it was really funny to me and i think i texted geo at the beginning i was like hey isn't
02:35:27.280it interesting that in the first 10 minutes of this documentary he kind of just tells me that
02:35:32.180he glows even though he doesn't glow you know like or maybe he does you know he says oh i was
02:35:36.500on the lapd for several years before i i resigned and i'm sure it's because of pressures both his
02:35:41.160parents were pretty high up in the italian yeah and he had q clearance and his you know his dad
02:35:45.960was a family was working with the government at one his whole family like his mother was uh worked
02:49:38.500but it's this idea that well if it's non-renewable it has to run out and there will be a time when
02:49:44.000we just pass that threshold yeah and there's some people that believe the opposite they believe
02:49:51.380that like campbot believes in the abiotic oil i'm i'm more of i'm friendly to that idea it's called
02:49:57.440the deep hot biosphere and for people who don't know that is just to briefly summarize it it's
02:50:02.360the theory that we actually don't know what creates oil um they would say it's it's from
02:50:06.880compressed biological matter from the earth or as the deep hot biosphere theory dictates
02:50:13.380it's excreted through processes we don't really understand somewhere in the earth's mantle and
02:50:19.840it's just a thing that the earth does and so there's quite a few people that believe that or
02:50:24.920the foundation of that theory is that we don't really know where it comes from and even within
02:50:30.640this documentary to give some credence to that michael rupert he was saying that well we don't
02:50:36.400know how much oil is out there but we have to assume we found all of it you know there's this
02:50:41.380comedy makes early on that we found all of the largest oil fields in the world right and this
02:50:46.800was at the time and then i think just last week china said it discovered some hundred million
02:50:52.740barrel oil patch somewhere in the china sea so it's like this idea that there's no more oil to
02:50:59.020be discovered is just factually incorrect right but i would i would say one one comment and it's
02:51:06.340kind of extraneous because it it reminded me a bit of um recently on tucker uh he interviewed
02:51:11.720our good friend andrew risker but notice how this documentary is a very much a product of the time
02:51:18.000like g watt was still in full force where people were starting to forget about it during the obama
02:51:23.000years because now no they weren't well i'm sorry i have to say i'm sorry i have to interrupt no
02:51:29.240they were not the war was the war was the central like ending the wars and closing gitmo were a big
02:51:37.440part of barack obama's campaign and then what comes right around in 2009 the troop surge and
02:51:43.440who is sucking barack obama's dick it's not mike it's lindsey graham the war was in everyone's
02:51:50.060minds no but it was everyone's mind for a different reason it wasn't about a crusade about
02:51:53.960civilization no it wasn't it wasn't about revenge it wasn't about 9-11 anymore at that point it was
02:51:58.600about nebulous reasons and if you want a good article about that i'd really recommend reading
02:52:02.740um data-driven defeat from the american affairs journal it came out a couple years ago
02:52:07.500so yeah i misspoke what i meant was that it was a different purpose but i think this
02:52:14.940documentary is a product of its time in the sense that there was still a sense of like okay
02:52:19.420The reason we're fighting wars in the Middle East is because there is going to be this glut of oil, all the glow in the darks realize that peak oil is a thing, and that basically a unified Western civilization has to eat up all of the resources before the Chinese or whoever gets it.
02:52:34.120But nowadays we don't have that narrative because I think there's a deep fragmentation among people on the left and right of our civilizational picture.
02:52:43.020And so, for example, we all know, like, without getting too, you know, into the weeds in a particular group of people, like, we know that there's obviously a lot of ideological and religious driven reasons for these wars in the Middle East because of one particular nation in the Middle East, right?
02:53:01.360and so i remember there was there's this a number of these antifa freaks one i'm not going to name
02:53:08.240the guy that go after andrew risker and go after his podcast with jay engel where they're like okay
02:53:14.940so the the political right in america either they're like rabid zionists that like want to
02:53:21.660let israel basically bomb children but when andrew risker talks out against dispensationalism
02:53:28.280and a lot of the like american protestant theology because he himself is a pastor
02:53:33.160when he speaks out against it he's being an anti-semite so it's like when the right critiques
02:53:40.060these expansionistic wars in the middle east to serve israeli security interests and the sort of
02:53:45.800theology that's been driving american protestantism to view uh design this project with
02:53:51.740such reverence they're anti-semites but when you have like the ben shapiro types they're also like
02:53:56.800evil fascists because they're ardently interested in the like ethno-nationalism of these people
02:54:02.700so it's like you can't win with the political left either like they they hound uh isker and
02:54:08.920other people that are breaking from the ranks but it all goes back to our sort of like foundational
02:54:14.820the world that was created even before the global war on terror the sort of like foundation of like
02:54:21.620why we were so heavily engaged and still to this day engaged in the middle east although it's less
02:54:26.380so because we have a war in eastern europe and we have you know maybe in the future um china may
02:54:33.500come down the pipe but you never know because now i'm hearing stirrings of uh israel trying to bomb
02:54:38.060around again so it's like it never ends right but it's very funny how the political left who was
02:54:44.140sympathetic to these type of ideas in terms of like anti-globalization peak oil getting out of
02:54:49.660the middle east now it's like okay during obama and even nowadays like after the 2010s it's like
02:54:56.260okay we have to fight it for a different reason now it's no longer about oil no now it's no longer
02:55:01.460about um you know israeli security interests now it's about like i don't know combating global
02:55:07.080extremism which usually means like right-wing chuds and it's like it's a very funny thing how
02:55:13.500it's like they want to suck and blow at the same time it's like you can't critique israel
02:55:18.880because you're anti-semite or or like you know you are a zionist so it's like that's also you're
02:55:25.020committing genocide and your white settler colonialism it's like you can never these
02:55:28.540people are never be happy with the what's funny is that when it comes to uh america's presence
02:55:33.540in the middle east they've actually tried every single narrative and they've dropped every single
02:55:38.780narrative the only one that's left is israel that makes any sense because if you're old enough and
02:55:44.420you've been through this ringer they've tried out they're misogynistic over there they're
02:55:49.760democratic do you want the old you want the old ancient giga chat are you ready you ready yes
02:55:56.120islamo-fascism yeah exactly that was it and then they tried out you know they hate us for our
02:56:03.060freedom they but barack obama was really the big one too and this is one of those things that glenn
02:56:07.220greenwald got famous for he was pointing out like oh yeah there was this memo that came around like
02:56:11.8402011 where obama was like afghanistan we got to focus on women's issues and i mean this was even
02:56:18.180before even before him like you know three cups of tea and true to their form the only people still
02:56:22.840using that are conservatives um you know the one the other one they had tried out at the time
02:56:29.600was if you were cool if you were young and cool it was the oil argument because that was sort of
02:56:35.400a bipartisan one that the hip leftists and the hip far-right guys they're like the cynical
02:56:41.140conspiratorial theory was that you know what's all fucking about oil and the only guy at the time
02:56:47.240that had the correct assessment and at least to my mind was patrice o'neill on the show tough crowd
02:56:54.660which was a comedy central show and he had just said this was during the iraq war
02:56:58.940he was out there saying america just needs to be a gangster for a while they were they were hit and
02:57:05.180they were embarrassed and so we need to get ugly that's also what dick cheney said by the way and
02:57:09.480he was right and whether or not you think that was you know permissible but that was what they
02:57:14.580were doing and that's what they're right also with the whole you know israel thing but it's like
02:57:18.340this is what you do when you're attacked on i let me just spaz out so no one fucks with you again
02:57:23.700and that that really is just the neo-realism position and you know said from an obese black
02:57:30.200comedian of all people but there was something that meanwhile the the crack addict skinny black
02:57:35.460comedian was doing the same thing on his tv show he's like well you and what army oh that's right
02:57:40.180as black bush um i mean uh but i think that's sort of the important thing to consider out of
02:57:47.060all this is that you're you're going back in time and even while 2009 seems not that long ago it
02:57:53.120sure as shit was um because that was 16 years ago and you know we had this idea that this uh you
02:58:00.240know this post-racial moment in america had been achieved it did not uh we were going to end the
02:58:05.200wars and close gitmo none of that happened and that somehow we were going to get meaningful
02:58:09.700change well we did get meaningful change we watched the left become uh more capitalistic
02:58:16.680in a lot of ways than its right-wing counterparts and that way i think the left are better
02:58:20.460capitalists than the right ever will be uh well i mean like just look at your masses now like
02:58:25.720you've managed to consumerize and commodify all leftist causes and you created the greatest
02:58:32.600ideological framework for it which came out of the barack obama era where it started getting
02:58:36.440implemented. I mean, yes, DEI is first put into policy technically under George W. Bush, I think
02:58:41.180in 2007 or 2008. But I mean, it really goes full strength under Barack Obama for obvious reasons,
02:58:45.880race grifting and everything. And what do you get out of that? Well, we watch everything come
02:58:50.420together under the banner of like intersectionality, DEI, ESG, and the rest. And Obama's
02:58:56.800giving you my favorite kind of trick in the book, which is the well-spoken black man, i.e.
02:59:06.160the really well nicely done minstrel marionette because Barack Obama did not have a teleprompter
02:59:12.400by God that man could not talk to save his life out of a paper bag he'd hyperventilate and die
02:59:16.700and so I'm listening to Rupert argue in the way that you only hear white boomers talk about things
02:59:23.760and with alarmism that in his lifetime would be commodified and sold back to the masses
02:59:32.660as consumer activism you know like the the old marxist talking point you hear from a lot of
02:59:39.920tankies there is no ethical consumption under capitalism well if you still believe that then
02:59:44.780like the devil's greatest trick is convincing you that there is and if i were like michael
02:59:49.280like rupert and i'm looking at where the left is going or i'm just looking at where the world is
02:59:53.860going and like these great existential issues climate change uh drugs the global economy
03:00:01.540things are getting crazy these days yeah i think wow you know all this is kind of crazy you know
03:00:07.480look at the weather and for him he's just like um oh wow all these issues have just been turned
03:00:12.840into marketable baubles and consumer identities where none of these issues are ever going to get
03:00:17.040solved that's a huge black pill yeah and he gets and he gets emotionally cries in this in this thing
03:00:22.780not just because of like all the shit he's been through i imagine he's been through a hell of a
03:00:26.660lot i'm not going to speak ill of the man he saw how the sausage was made basically but like he saw
03:00:30.720the sausage was made he was on the inside he was a cop for like a couple of decades like
03:00:34.640i would be ready to just say yeah it's done i hope someone listens to me and that's really
03:00:41.560the cry for this whole documentary is that listen um not everyone's going to be saved
03:00:46.440if you are capable if let those who have eyes let them see and let those who can hear let them hear
03:00:51.680uh he does that thing he doesn't call himself a messiah but he's just like listen i can see the
03:00:57.020writing on the wall please do something about it um and the only people who seem to have picked up
03:01:01.820the writing on the wall are internet schizophrenics and shit posters the fascists and fascists online
03:01:08.760some tankies i'll give some tankies credit um and so it's like oh uh the only ones who heard you
03:01:15.080are people who are either too young and too poor to understand how bad it is or those who do know
03:01:20.200how bad it is but feel like they can't do anything or they don't care and then you kind of find
03:01:24.460yourself just sort of fiddling on the uh on the titanic to borrow one of his yeah if michael
03:01:30.940rupert were around now he would be on twitter being denounced as a decelerationist and yes
03:01:36.100he's an he's an op right because uh he was not echoing but he was he would he would he would be
03:01:42.560quoted by mark andriason calling him a loser yeah yeah he would be a griper also as well i feel like
03:01:48.740you'd be anti-trump you understand that a lot of what he's saying is true and what he was talking
03:01:54.060but for the good chunk of the first half was that and this is what really stuck with me by the
03:01:58.760documentary is that how much of our society or civilization is reliant on oil and he goes into
03:02:05.540it's not it doesn't just power your cars you know there's so many gallons of oil per tire everything's
03:02:11.620running on everything's made of oil everything incorporates oil in some way and there's this show
03:02:16.780that's out just now starring billy bob thornton called land man it is not a terribly good show
03:02:22.560it's another taylor sheridan project but it stars billy o'thorn in midland texas it's about
03:02:28.740the oil industry in texas trying to tell sort of a crime drama there but he has one of fucking
03:02:35.260many monologues in the show where he talks about the scale of the oil industry saying that you know
03:02:40.800oil is like one of the top three industries in america and every industry around it is reliant
03:02:47.180on oil so it feeds every single industry in america and globally it's just this huge lumbering
03:02:55.560machine that no one can even dream of taking down and it's not portrayed as a villain in that show
03:03:03.580it's just a fact of life and that really was what he's trying to get at in this is like you have no
03:03:07.840idea how essential oil is to everything in this civilization so if it were let's not even say
03:03:15.900peak oil occurs let's say there's some sort of disruption that occurs $300 a barrel yeah then
03:03:21.880everything suffers everything starts to fall apart everything gets worse and that is true
03:03:25.820and i think if there is one message to take away from that it's to get you thinking about it on
03:03:31.320those terms have you ever watched the film hell or high water boys i just saw that like last week
03:03:37.200that's great i think it's still available on tubi but hell or high water there was this one scene
03:03:41.960because okay there was two scenes one was when um him and uh when when uh jeff bridges and his
03:03:49.560half mexican half native american deputy sheriff were talking about how his people's lands were
03:03:56.740taken over and destroyed he goes now the bank he looks to the bank the middle of bank he's like now
03:04:01.280those people are taking your ancestors land but there was another scene where they were driving
03:04:07.720through midland texas and there was a forest fire there was a sorry a brush fire and there was a
03:04:14.500number of ranchers that had a vast uh cattle yeah that was taylor sheridan acting in that scene
03:04:21.120yeah yeah a vast array of cattle that they were moving out of this uh fire zone and he goes and
03:04:26.800the cattle rancher goes with a bunch of his boys and they all have shotguns in the back of their
03:04:30.760back of their steers and everything he goes no wonder my kid doesn't want to do this shit
03:04:35.600you know and and then so um the deputy sheriff goes can't we call this in like they need help
03:04:41.000he goes no these boys they're on their own out here and there is like a storm coming and there's
03:04:46.520the fire in the distance in other words that was a metaphor for the precariousness of living in
03:04:53.380those conditions but also because this film was after 2008 the precarity of the average person
03:05:00.000in these places like in midland texas or like everywhere in the rust belt where you're literally
03:05:05.400on your own imagine that you're a cattle rancher there's a forest fire coming there's nobody coming
03:05:10.640to save you you're on your own so it's like i remember seeing that that was such a powerful
03:05:16.020scene it made me want to cry because there's a good couple of i'm not sure i liked the plot
03:05:21.060even but peppered in taylor sheridan does this a lot in his films where well he's stealing from
03:05:25.500the bankers and all that crap well also like this is basically taylor sheridan's version of no
03:05:29.200country for old men like i cannot stop comparing them to each other that and it's also uh because
03:05:34.600of how it's set and it's talking about the bank and everything it's also killing them it's also
03:05:38.140killing them softly jeff bridges as sort of the cop stuck out of time cowboy movie yeah yeah and
03:05:45.260there's a lot of these like interesting scenes that actually don't progress the plot but those
03:05:50.340are the ones i like the most yeah um like that one where they're in the diner with the old woman
03:05:54.920what don't you want like that i'm not going to recite the fucking movie but i don't know i'm
03:05:59.620trying to figure out if it's a good movie i'm not sure if it is i like it but i'm like i don't know
03:06:05.340there's something incomplete it does have like a leftist resentment against bankers it's true but
03:06:10.080like there is something powerful about it like i like that one scene in particular with the ranchers
03:06:15.580it is sort of like a metaphor for the the way that like global financialization essentially
03:06:21.780fucked over the american middle class and the fact that generationally you have this
03:06:27.140in america in the american frontier context it's like really the sacred pursuit of cattle ranching
03:06:33.340that was there from the beginning of the american frontier now it's like that whole industry is
03:06:38.760broken the fact that they're on their own and it's like these the boys that are stealing uh
03:06:44.100they're like modern cowboys because their mother got fucked over by a banker in 2008 it's like
03:06:50.420not to say i condone like what the the one what's the guy's brother he was in breaking bad
03:06:54.700what's his name evans something um he has a shootout with the police yeah oh yeah i know
03:07:03.960i know who you're talking about yeah yeah yeah the crazy brother yeah so like he has a shootout
03:07:08.620with the police like not that i condone that but like there is a very interesting story there in
03:07:12.340terms of the mid-2000s and the way that the world was shaping up that i think ties into this
03:07:18.000um movie as well when it comes to not just resource scarcity but also the very deep social
03:07:25.180impact of this disruption of people's traditions and livelihoods while they're doing it you want
03:07:30.900to know another perfect movie if you want to like a early to mid 2000s block of films
03:07:37.060also throw on killing them softly yeah that's a great one yeah this guy wants to fix america
03:07:44.100don't make me laugh america's a business but everyone remembers that scene but every entire
03:07:49.160movie like i forgot about how good that movie was but that movie's great and you're like this is
03:07:54.080this is one of the best movies i've ever seen and no one has seen it it's so when james gandalfini
03:07:58.580is talking about like when a fresh jewish hooker comes on the pipe he can't stop himself can he
03:08:04.500really can't look at this credible theory geo is the blood this is the best compliment i've ever
03:08:11.500received besides one that zero hp lovecraft when he said that i'm the catholic version of um of uh
03:08:18.460penn and teller of penn gillette because uh patrice is the black geo
03:08:25.120i'm the italian patrice that's amazing that's one of the greatest compliments i've ever gotten
03:08:33.000griping them softly bill wilson griping them softly you're not even throwing them up on the
03:08:39.220screen what are you doing just trying to get through the night i haven't watched killing
03:08:44.380them softly a long time though it's like yeah i watch it just i don't know like i'm just in the
03:08:50.280mood for that sort of like small town grimy texas sort of i'll watch everything from there just like
03:08:56.100anything set in louisiana i just dig it one of my favorite films ever wasn't in texas it was in
03:09:01.480california this was like peak early 2000s have you ever watched um this john favreau film where
03:09:07.880it's about alien abductions but it's like this like gritty noir film in this like trashy hotel
03:09:13.780room oh no what is that that sounds like i want to see that immediately what is that
03:09:18.940it's called um something like the big let me let me look it up let me look it up um
03:09:25.320it's called this is from 2004 the 2003 the big empty the big empty that's a yeah so i put up
03:09:33.360john favreau aliens that just came up with cowboys and aliens i'm like that can't be it
03:09:37.160that isn't it it's called the big empty it's incredible film really okay i'm gonna you you
03:09:43.760sold me just with that description alone yeah it's about it's also about it's it's very much
03:09:48.740like a like a rawly in like early 2000s conspiracy intersecting with the ufology thing but like it's
03:09:56.200essentially starts off as a very absurdist noir of him being like it is self-referential as a
03:10:01.180hollywood film like he's basically a failed actor that he's like given this mission by some random
03:10:06.160guy and that's such an early 2000s cover too i'm looking at the image for this wow it's incredible
03:10:12.500maybe we should review it times we should do this absolutely i'm down because i haven't seen this
03:10:17.240one i really want to i think it's still on tubi um i remember watching with my mother mother is
03:10:23.020like this is fucking boring geo just seething on the couch mom this is kino that was like the one
03:10:32.640film me and period reviewed i actually watched that with my mother the one what was it called
03:10:36.180uh not at the end of the world um the end of all things is that the post-apocalyptic one we watched
03:10:43.640yeah yeah yeah she said it was boring as shit and i'm like it kind of was it's a great concept
03:10:49.580that was stretched out for an hour and a half like that should have been a short film or a short
03:10:55.540story but instead it's like a student film that um this is how you know you've got a good woman
03:11:02.360to marry when you marry find yourself a woman that just cannot watch movies because they'll
03:11:07.600make great moms that's like well my gf hasn't watched a lot of movies so sometimes i like
03:11:12.720subject her to art house films and so like she like knows that i'm really like a huge vincent
03:11:19.000gallo fan so like we've watched almost like every vincent gallo film and then i remember we were
03:11:24.040watching johnny 316 and she's like well i think it's all right i like it because you like it but
03:11:29.540i'm like i could like literally write like a 10 000 word essay on this film and she's like i know
03:11:33.740you can i know you can g you want to know the first movie that i took mrs dimes to on her first
03:11:40.040day wall street 2 money never sleeps you want to know the second movie that we watched together
03:11:49.260harmony koreen's trash humpers whoa trash humpers it's the only movie she very politely but sternly
03:11:58.860asked me to turn off and this was early in the relationship when women are really trying to get
03:12:03.780into what their guys are into like just trying to like and that was just a hard hard no hard no
03:12:09.980i don't know i'm a fucking sociopath why looking back now what the fuck was i doing what are you
03:12:15.480doing it's like might as well make your gf watch gummo i watched that one later i'm like no you
03:12:20.900don't get it this is like mainstream curry no actually my gf actually did watch gummo back in
03:12:27.000the day she's like um i fucking hated gummo i'm like she's like it's a terrible film i go listen
03:12:31.980gummo is not a good film it's a great film she just like rolls her eyes um geomakies gf watch
03:12:38.300italian giallo films as their first film experience there was this one amazing giallo film i saw in
03:12:44.420tubi it's called the burial ground it's got everything it's like horny 70s italian it's
03:12:52.360got zombies for no reason it's got hot young people getting slaughtered it's got like illusions
03:12:58.880to incest it's everything everything look at him he's loving it yeah i'm gonna review that film
03:13:03.780the burial ground it's incredible um the more you said horny in italian i'm like oh no
03:13:09.020oh man please bury me yeah we have you guys have you guys ever watched shallow
03:13:17.340yes yeah yeah a long time ago i think that's like a young man's movie to watch i don't know
03:13:23.420if i could watch a film for sensitive young men um no but it's for the man who wants to
03:13:32.120take everyone with him there's sallow but no but to get back to collapse i think that yeah
03:13:39.560it really is a product of its time but but at the same time i i can't help but think that
03:13:45.420he was correct about a lot of things but like you were saying prude it basically is like
03:13:49.440the purview of the political right like maybe it's just that we're not in a lot of like
03:13:53.720contemporary leftist spaces but apart from like just observing them on blue sky or whatever
03:13:58.580like you the problem is is that a lot of contemporary leftist spaces and i think that
03:14:05.020anyone who's not in them and there are some like genuine lefties that i do follow on youtube and
03:14:11.940whatever like there's some like hardcore what you would call i guess like little o orthodox
03:14:15.860marxists and then some other guys that are really into uh media theory and just like psychological
03:14:22.780stuff so like there's there's like really just like parapolitics but like the academic kind of
03:14:28.920parapolitics they're like oh well these people influence this they're much more interested in
03:14:32.300the private sector they're much more into the californian ideology stuff then you have like
03:14:36.520the little o orthodox kind of um uh marxists like there's this uh he would laugh his ass off it's
03:14:44.160not like he pays attention to us but like the midwestern marx guy which i always find really
03:14:47.680funny to me when i see him because it's like oh this is a white guy he's definitely marxist theory
03:14:51.780and what's going on in the world and i'm just like dude you are a man out of time and i kind
03:14:56.600of appreciate him for that well i have a question prudent you know correct me if i'm wrong but when
03:15:01.220When I peer over the fence into what these leftists and even Marxists are
03:15:31.220also have this like very similar naive belief that boomer cons do that like if the institutions
03:15:37.300were just captured by our guys things would be better or if we just got the right person in
03:15:42.140like there's there's this bernie populist uh sort of naivete to them but then like you meet some
03:15:48.120really black-pilled leftists that are borderline preppers and they're just like listen um it's
03:15:54.120over for me and my gay son and we're prepping and we're trying to survive and they're prepping
03:15:58.520in more ways than one and it's uh it's interesting to peer over the fence sometime in more ways than
03:16:03.440one thank you for catching that um but like when i look over the uh look over the garden wall so
03:16:09.000to speak and i look at my neighbor's disheveled mess of a home of their political camp like so
03:16:14.380many of them are just like and i think a lot of it has to do with just the fact that millennials
03:16:18.420are getting older and that um yeah that the younger people and scott greer was talking about
03:16:24.120this uh on his show yesterday was that like um it really is it is a millennially driven movement
03:16:30.460like yeah there are zoomers that are progressives but it's it's very it's female it's it's like
03:16:35.100white liberal females and brown liberal females that are pushing for it a lot mainly for like
03:16:40.160the new generation they're all doubling down on the sort of woke sjw stuff that we kind of grew
03:16:45.260up like becoming inoculated against whereas um you know why is there all this big hullabaloo
03:16:50.820against like andrew tate and the rest of them i mean there's a lot of reasons to not like andrew
03:16:53.760tate but like the whole grind set you know john steinbeck we're all temporarily embarrassed
03:16:58.600millionaires thing has really kind of pushed a different cultural view because even like on the
03:17:04.600left even like like progressive zoomer women are so far off the reservation to like even like your
03:17:10.760average black guys politics that like yeah i'm more into andrew tate and fresh and fit and myron
03:17:15.960gains and the rest of it you're like well why and it's just like because like well you looked at
03:17:19.540these bitches they're crazy and it's just like okay well that's where politics is now because
03:17:23.340we've gotten so civilizationally dysfunctional this is what constitutes mainstream political
03:17:27.620discourse whereas you go back to a semblance of a wider and a more kind of socially agreed upon
03:17:34.660political standards of an Overton window um you know what were the issues that like people were
03:17:39.540pushing like I you know Howard like I just think about like Howard Dean or I think about Michael
03:17:44.680Rupert here and like you're pushing issues that genuinely kind of do matter and the problem is is
03:17:49.540that um just like some of the issues that you all three of us care about whether it's like
03:17:54.660immigration or foreign influence or deportations we're also kind of still far enough outside of
03:18:00.920any lever of power that we're kind of just screaming like Howard Dean and it's just like
03:18:05.540oh yeah right Michael Ruppert is is a relic from a time where you can discuss serious issues in a
03:18:12.980measured serious sense whereas if you were to discuss environmentalism now you're just going
03:18:18.160to have some fat bitch saying like at least i don't need to get into barson when i fuck a tree
03:18:23.040saying that you're subversive that you're like not getting it man well also but also keep in
03:18:32.900mind that like like this is a documentary this goes on for an hour and 20 minutes and it's pretty
03:18:37.980good and i would recommend that you watch it and i'll put the link in the description in the pinned
03:18:41.440comment when we're done with the stream but like the thing about it too is is that this was a time
03:18:45.700when documentaries and long form essays essays are still the essays are still a thing now because
03:18:52.060i mean uh the reading the people who still like pay attention to this side of things they read
03:18:57.020they don't really i mean tweets are great but um substacks are a thing like if you're followed by
03:19:02.380i don't know like ns lions and the upheaval like that's like you know substack royalty um like
03:19:07.960morgoth and i will share like screenshots when he likes um and i mean like so there's there's
03:19:13.320there's room for it nowadays like on twitter or even like internet blood sport culture from just
03:19:17.700like 10 years ago none of this shit gets talked about and what's even more depressing right this
03:19:21.680is that um sometimes the worst people you know will bring up a very good point case in point
03:19:28.100what happened a couple of years ago geo what happened to a certain person who was bringing
03:19:31.280up regenerative agriculture rizoma school rizoma school and what happened to her she got
03:19:37.580not just by gripers but i mean like by fucking everybody because they're like why is this woman
03:19:42.340getting published in the american mind hosted by the claremont review and it's just like well
03:19:47.440that's a great question we're going through all her tweets and turns out she was a bernie supporter
03:19:50.860a lockdown supporter a big black lives matter supporter why the heck is she you know getting
03:19:54.920on there when there are like other commentators on the right that have been talking about the
03:19:57.900same issues there was a great twitter space there's a whole great it was a great it was
03:20:02.700glorious it was wonderful you had to have been there it wasn't someone said they allegedly
03:20:06.220recorded it but like i hope someone comes out with it like there's a recording oh man i want
03:20:11.240there's a recording it's delightful um it was a great time you had to be there so but i mean like
03:20:16.160again like that the the time in place for you to sit down and talk about serious issues like even
03:20:21.180monsanto like no one talks about that anymore it felt like such a blast from the past to listen to
03:20:27.140someone talking about like franken seeds monsanto glyphosate and to talk about how we need to have
03:20:33.280our own seeds our own farms and it was really interesting to also hear him talk about the
03:20:37.600agricultural um the agricultural sectors in north korea and cuba after the soviet union collapsed
03:20:43.820and he was using cuba as a model and i was really reminded of what rye nationalist does in his in
03:20:50.180one of his books i think it's or the book he put out option either eggs benedict option where he
03:20:55.120talks about russian uh backyard and communal farming and he says that like this is a really
03:20:59.900good thing that americans should be doing to grow food at home and it doesn't take a lot of space
03:21:04.020And you should do these kinds of things. And again, you see that K line of the, you know, these major civilizational issues, oil, how industrial grade farming actually reduces our, our air ability and our arable land and how it's bad for animals, biodiversity of plant life, the amount of hormones we put into our food, all these issues have been adopted by either crunchy liberals that are either super boomer or they're like super white.
03:21:32.180and then you have like you know reactionary fascist adjacent right-wingers and they're all
03:21:37.280repeat people or repeat people and like repeat is the most famous stalinist i know outside of
03:21:42.800stalin it's also a generational thing because this is what they used to mock millennials for
03:21:47.620or the prototypical the prototype history yeah like what was the hipster the hipster was
03:21:53.220a young person who biked everywhere as there's nothing wrong with bikes by the way i don't
03:21:58.280then they go to farmer's markets and they shop organic like if you actually tally up all the
03:22:05.580stuff that this generation and maybe even yeah it's very millennial thing like the the farmer's
03:22:09.980market has two types like the crunchy liberal progressive millennial or like the alt-right
03:22:14.660fascist like there was no there's no in between and if you still go to a farmer's market today
03:22:20.120you're still going to see those yeah yeah like like leftists will sort of gesture towards this
03:22:24.960thing they believe to be climate change because they think that's a mark against capitalism but
03:22:30.000the only people i know who actually give a shit about trees and old growth forests and real
03:22:36.420sustainability tend to be far-right radicals and just this generation which we've kind of normalized
03:22:43.540it like we understand you don't need to explain to most young people that industrial farming is bad
03:22:49.840but we just we kind of put it out of our minds there was an era especially the early 2000s where
03:22:54.820we were talking a lot about industrial farming
03:23:16.180I'm a traditional neighborhood development kind of guy
03:23:24.620trish the neighborhood development environmentalist wearing my george lincoln rockwell outfit to the
03:23:29.780farmer's market groper oh god um no but do you guys want a nuclear black pill because this really
03:23:37.360does i think unite like schizos on the far left and far right when it comes to specifically like
03:23:44.240and listen i'm not buying all this again like i want to like i said last week on the show
03:23:49.660like i have to realize that i i don't want to be like totally critical of trump i don't want to be
03:23:55.700like resentment filled because i'm at leaf or whatever but there is definitely like something
03:24:00.000there so i saw this comment the other day under a michael mcfall tweet and by the way michael
03:24:06.360mcfall is a hideous ghoul that wants to glass the former ambassador to russia under the obama
03:24:12.240administration as well as biden no no just obama yeah yeah and he was the one i believe helped
03:24:17.920concoct my don if i recall um and he wants to glass moscow and you know you know so here he says
03:24:24.540why does vance loathe europeans so much i honestly don't understand it explanations now i'm not going
03:24:29.900to defend vance because he basically does have this thing against europeans and canadians i'm
03:24:34.980not you know but i i will say that there is a valid critique of the ruling class of a lot of
03:24:40.060these european nations in the eu but i think it does go back to like this sort of like american
03:24:45.440anti-european type of like stuff with the freedom fries and all that especially that
03:24:49.960have been harbored under g watt with the republican party but the reason i bring this
03:24:54.420up because there's this comment okay this guy uh what's that mama says some bullshit
03:24:59.680some fucking irony leftist i'm sorry i shouldn't swear i want to fuck up this
03:25:04.060i don't want to screw up your stream you know because geo i don't think you can apologize
03:25:08.360for anything you say after the first like 30 minutes of the show we're fine please get to
03:25:12.900please get to your point so he says if your goal but notice how this is an appropriation of right
03:25:20.420wing conspiracy talking points about the new world order if your goal per order from feel
03:25:25.740is to or teal however you pronounce it is to destroy centralized government that can push
03:25:30.920back on a new world order that allows oligarchs free reign without regulations slash taxation of
03:25:36.100the extreme wealth attacking slash destroying the eu is exactly what you want to do is this
03:25:41.900is happening in plain sight and people are focusing on cheap shiny objects this is minus
03:25:47.660defending and jannying for the eu because of course he would say it's a vector of the new
03:25:52.080world order this is almost like what something alex jones would say in 2009 2012 you know what
03:25:58.360i mean like there was this video i saw recently do you know this channel on youtube called europos
03:26:03.240i believe he follows me on twitter he's a great channel by the way not to say i endorse everything
03:26:08.000because whatever but he had this great video about the connections between um like trump and
03:26:14.940teal and palantir and how there's like sort of this restructuring of a model of global global
03:26:21.360governance that i think not to like go totally with the leftist line because they're delusional
03:26:26.400but there is definitely something to be said of like through doge and other things essentially
03:26:32.760like letting silicon valley hyenas control the government yeah yeah people understand how
03:26:38.980terribly dangerous this is yeah and this this is the part and perhaps we were not black-pilled
03:26:46.500enough when discussing this issue and we had sean went sean wyland on a couple of months ago
03:26:51.720when he talked about like this idea of the agenda being a leveraged buyout of the united states
03:26:58.600that's not a good thing by the way it's not a good thing um at all and i'm incredibly skeptical
03:27:04.360of these silicon valley fucks i think to some extent that like sam altman and that kind of co
03:27:08.900are the this generation's equivalent or this generation's antichrist but like i know that
03:27:14.420when you say that people get all like ah you know like oh this guy's a skit so this guy's
03:27:17.640donnie darken no no no no no no i'm simply pointing out that these people are evil and
03:27:21.760they want to do whatever that they can yeah and i've done you don't have to be a marxist or
03:27:25.700anything to go read what barnbrook and them put out with the californian ideology in 95 to be like
03:27:30.100oh a lot of this is still happening they're so pro-immigration they want their golem they want
03:27:35.180their agi and they only run to the government after proclaiming this sort of like laissez-faire
03:27:40.320libertarianism when they realize that they're getting out competed or outbid by a foreign power
03:27:45.180they want the right type of immigration quote-unquote yeah that's the right time they want
03:27:48.840their slaves they people and we discussed this with the california ideology thing group but
03:27:53.580people really need to understand that they are not on your side they will never be on your side as
03:27:58.940you understand your side to be i did a really a thorough i watched it that was good yeah oh yeah
03:28:04.700on real secret coffee hours about what peter teal's religion actually is because he purports
03:28:08.700to be a christian but if you actually listen to him in interviews he he uses christianity the same
03:28:14.600way jordan peterson does in a lot of sense where they're taking some of the archetypes and some
03:28:19.580of the elements of it but incorporating in the case of jordan pearson into sort of a psychological
03:28:24.340rationalist project and as if it were just mythology as well yeah exactly but then with
03:28:30.900the pure teal like when you hear him talk about it they're looking at it more like any sort of
03:28:35.520mysticism like well it seems that this produces the best utilitarian results atheism did not
03:28:41.020produce results so this is just a way for us to get leverage to get what we want and they're only
03:28:46.580they're borrowing bits and pieces from christianity to kind of corrupt it for their own ends but you
03:28:51.020have to understand that's what they do with fucking everything if you've ever think they've
03:28:54.800said a base thing you are wrong if you've ever thought elon musk agrees with you you are fucking
03:29:01.880wrong and this is such a meteor hurtling towards us that if you like fruit said if you bring it up
03:29:08.040you're called a fucking schizo and alarmist or you're not trusting the maga plan that's another
03:29:12.360I mean, the the the tectonic shift that occurred with Trump, with Silicon Valley, which was always a major political player, obviously, but stepping into the center stage of American politics with Musk, also with Zuckerberg, also with Bezos and all of them becoming very visible political players to the enthusiasm of seemingly most of the country.
03:29:36.100i'm like you don't understand what you should be terrified you should be absolutely terrified and
03:29:42.440any win you get is just to placate you now maybe there is some negotiation you can do with them but
03:29:48.040make a mistake these are global these are entities with a global scope they don't have any loyalty
03:29:54.660to you they actually i don't even necessarily think they want to get to mars but that should
03:30:00.240concern you because then they want something else and they're using that as a veil to get it well
03:30:05.680like i tweeted out dimes i said this guy this leftoid he loves the old version of the new world
03:30:12.840order which is lgbt race communism and he hates the new version of the new the new manifestation
03:30:17.960or framework ideological i said ideological framework of the new world order which is like
03:30:22.760you know silicon valley tech libertarian dystopia it's like take your pick right now maybe with musk
03:30:29.300like you're not going to get like the the foot on your throat as viciously in terms of you being
03:30:35.300like a you know um you know european north american but what did you see prude i said do
03:30:41.960you make this lie you know like yeah like the the the issues the yeah well musk wants to get to mars
03:30:48.560and i'm like okay sure maybe he does he's also the world's like he's also a large defense contractor
03:30:52.680with the united states government and he now is cutting and everywhere in there and in this very
03:30:57.500similar way to what clinton was doing in there and it's like oh so kind of what you're getting
03:31:00.780is newt gingrich era republicanism with 15 more nativist rhetoric but also like the gay race
03:31:05.980communism stuff they're never going to abandon like gay marriage is never going to get reversed
03:31:09.240or anything did they cut it did they cut off do they cut off kiev yet no no there you go that's
03:31:15.220your limit yeah to me as a zigger that's my litmus test just to address some of the comments here
03:31:20.980we got uh brastian sky warrior saying one elite's the same as any other elite i disagree you can
03:31:27.700have better or worse elites these elites they're cunning they want to sell you on transhumanism
03:31:34.540they want to sell you know they're trying to smuggle in race egalitarianism through a ascendant
03:31:40.760racialism like they're far more conniving than any elites you've seen before and they are not
03:31:45.580even pretending to be beholden to even the country that they're operating this is what the europos
03:31:50.520video said by the way like that they're going to sneak in a lot of these egalitarian narratives
03:31:56.280But also they're going to selectively abandon certain tenets of nationalism and patriotism to fulfill like a quote unquote efficiency.
03:32:04.840And you saw that debate play out over Christmas Day last year over the H-1B visa thing.
03:32:10.780I want America to win. America is a football team. America should get the best players in here.
03:32:16.480That's that's a very think global attitude. And that's not really going away.
03:32:20.660Also to a lot of people when they hear, you know, these guys will sometimes joke or speak very openly about using people as biofuel, right?
03:32:29.180And a lot of people think that's a dog whistle and say, oh, the lesser races.
03:47:04.620i love camille we did a whole episode oh geez it turns out i was i was doing a geo impression
03:47:10.500hey guys my name is geo i really like you guys i'm gonna laugh all the way to the bank when i
03:47:19.580go on red scare one day okay okay okay i'm i'm very clearly censoring myself
03:47:28.040i'm gonna just bite my tongue now should it be to jay dyer
03:47:33.900uh i i had posted the uh giga chad with the explosive vest i wish dasha was a dyer
03:47:41.460we could get dash on dire we could get dasha i'd rather not we get an oh no i think i like i prefer
03:47:50.840i'd rather not oh no sorry i'd rather not just be clear i was saying i wish she died
03:47:55.980i know you said that down anyways at home let's go back to the documentary
03:48:02.260yeah what what bank what bank i actually i actually feel bad for derailing a serious
03:48:09.580discussions so let me go back to seriously yeah all the reason why michael rupert is not alive
03:48:14.940anymore because he saw the future of this whole discussion and realized we were fucked because
03:48:21.280this is how you discuss long-form good ideas is that maybe you get 20 minutes of a good idea and
03:48:27.240discussion through and then it is totally ruined by everything else and honestly you know if this
03:48:33.220is what we get i hate to say i hate to sound blackfield but maybe we get what we fucking
03:48:37.960deserve oh hey this michael rupert guy had a few good points yeah hollow points
03:48:47.520oh that's like saying kurt cobain you know no well you know i mean i like to i like to tell
03:48:55.920people to set themselves off in a way that would make kurt cobain proud um they're opening up
03:49:02.520their case files on kurt cobain i think they're going to discover that oh my god it's going to
03:49:07.200be like the jfk files but for like a bunch of like angry gen x and millennial like old people
03:49:13.160yeah they're gonna be like i'll never accept the truth about kurt cobain until all the
03:49:17.680cobain files are released it's 20 it's 2045 the aging millennial hipster with his vinyl collection
03:49:25.840and his like ozambic face is like complaining on twitter that like the the kurt cobain files
03:49:32.300haven't been released it's 2065 the man is about to suck a shotgun like kurt cobain because kurt
03:49:38.400cobain files haven't been released i'm waiting for it i'm waiting for it i live in a cyberpunk
03:49:43.900dystopia i might as well get some entertainment out of it i just want to say bill wilson in the
03:49:47.960chat i'm a varga truther yeah release the uranus files yeah there you go no i believe alan wrench
03:49:54.540did it i think he killed kurt cobain but uh that because i just want to believe that like a methed
03:49:58.840gooner chud killed killed the fucking god of uh hipster leftoids everywhere so uh but anyways um
03:50:06.980i you know honestly the woke are more correct than the mainstream if cobain were alive today
03:50:10.620he'd turn out oh yeah definitely that's no no doubt about it um he played rock for choice he
03:50:15.880was a headline in rock for choice do you remember that with bikini kill yeah um so anyways like uh
03:50:22.160about this so i was listening to this europos video and they do talk about how for example the
03:50:28.520the co-chair of palantir talked about how they quote-unquote de-radicalized the far right in
03:50:33.960europe by essentially selectively lowering immigration but to frame that as a de-radicalization
03:50:42.060project really does make you think in terms of the type of politicians that musk and others have
03:50:48.220been supporting right so i do think that there is a lot of concern there um but to go back to like
03:50:55.340what michael rupert was talking about like how would you how would you boys say in terms of the
03:51:02.980more financial crisis stuff that he was talking about when they're going to like gear towards a
03:51:08.340cashless society that they're going to sort of like financialize the economy to such an extent
03:51:13.300that it's like we'll basically i feel like he was right on the money there we can finance my
03:51:19.480doordash orders and we've been talking about central bank digital currencies now for about
03:51:24.180a decade so a lot of zoomers and even younger than zoomers might be unaware that we have been
03:51:29.180talking about this for like even before collapse of course like we've been talking about the uh
03:51:34.060financialization of everything for like since like the 90s and even before so oh yeah it's just been
03:51:39.720the most i would say easily predictable thing if you are a true pessimist uh all speaking of
03:51:46.700pessimism um i was just tagged in this and so are you too um workout e-girls are using a down
03:51:52.340syndrome filter to generate traffic to their videos and we've got to be nearing the bottom
03:51:56.060right how much further can we go aliosha asks geo would oh my god no no that do you remember that
03:52:04.620video we finally found somewhere where geo is so down low he says no i'm just i'm just so blown
03:52:10.800away that reality has just become a blood satellite bit so like whores are making themselves down
03:52:16.480syndrome now for like money insane um the other thing too is is that uh i into back to the
03:52:26.020financialization of everything real quick it is radically important to consider the maybe like
03:52:30.82035 years ago how different it was in respects to you had like an evangelical uh charismatic
03:52:38.700eschaton where like the new world order bring about the antichrist left behind kind of idealism
03:52:44.300that came with like nafta and the global financial system david dee's um and then on the other side
03:52:51.700of the things you also have these protesters that were like very old school pro-union uh even like
03:52:57.720the cesar chavez types that didn't want to bring any any more immigration because like that would
03:53:01.380like hurt the grift of already the brown people that were working in the country there was this
03:53:05.160concern that like this was going to be the way in which you could never escape the man and that if
03:53:10.480you were to have progressive anti-war opinions or anti-trade opinions, that this is how they
03:53:15.880would track you down and do it. So we're all talking about the same things that we're talking
03:53:19.560about even today, like the 15-minute cities, the central bank digital currency, everything's going
03:53:24.020to be on a card. The mark of the beast will be your CBDC number, or it'll be your crypto wallet
03:53:30.180code or whatever. The financialization of everything has been probably one, as Dime said,
03:53:35.040the easiest to predict, but also it's the one that we've been talking about for the fucking
03:53:37.920the longest time, whether it be a bit since Bretton Woods or the collapse and the creation
03:53:42.760of the Fed and getting off the gold standard. Because what is he talking about in this
03:53:46.780documentary? He's talking about the need to buy gold, the need to buy silver, the need to have
03:53:51.260seeds as currency, things that still exist today in a lot of prepper and off-grid circles and with
03:53:56.440good reason because it's tangible hard currency, things that we don't have anymore. And overall,
03:54:01.320we've got 30 years of this discussion and a lot of it hasn't changed. It's only progressively
03:54:05.720gotten far more intense. My ability to quote unquote, get off grid or off the system is a
03:54:11.280million times harder now than it was 15, 30 years ago. Um, in the same way that it will be harder
03:54:16.700for any of our children to get off the system in 15 years from now, which is a terrifying thought,
03:54:22.080especially, uh, because you have a young son dimes. I'm, uh, preparing to ask an important
03:54:28.120question. And so it's like, Oh, like that's kind of a terrifying thing to consider for the future.
03:54:32.160And so overall, you're left wondering, well, what do you do? And the thing is, is that Michael Rupert kind of just tells you to kind of wait for things to end because he sees that is the inevitable conclusion of this society, which makes the kind of Trump phenomenon, especially with a quote unquote vibe shift, all the more interesting, because what is the vibe shift?
03:59:01.540It's so focused on South and Central America. Like, that's the thing. China has been getting more involved with the alternative organization that was started by the last Mexican president for the community. It's CELAC, the Community for Central American and Latin American States. You know, it's the anti-OAS because it's not ran by the Americans.
03:59:25.420um and you know china's been getting involved with that and then also like they've been heavily
03:59:29.820invested in the lithium triangle in south america uh and they even got i think it was uruguay to
03:59:35.340like change their position on recognizing taiwan as a sovereign country with money and vaccine
03:59:39.700diplomacy in the 2020s and so it's like that's insane uh and so like yeah america will have a
03:59:46.300renewed interest there and also it has to have a renewed interest there because uh unless i get
03:59:51.220my dream world and then like every you know person from the global south disappears from
03:59:56.220america to like in this administration which i know isn't going to happen but it would be super
04:00:00.020nice um i would like to be able to afford things at a reasonable rate so uh the the powers that be
04:00:06.220are gonna have to find a way to incorporate um all of these hispanics and all of these latin
04:00:11.340americans and all these indios into like the system that's here in america and like you kind
04:00:16.240of already have to see that as like the trump administration and the trump campaign in 2020
04:00:19.820and 2024 you know managed to get a lot of swing votes from like the rio grand valley and like
04:00:24.680cuba or the cuban votes in florida and the rest and parts of new mexico and arizona and so you're
04:00:29.640just like huh that's interesting um because you know virtually every right-wing conspiracy about
04:00:34.020like the asset law and plan and everything that was written about an insaturation and an american
04:00:37.920renaissance like 30 years ago is all come true and so how do you basically just like breed and
04:00:44.760immigrate so much that like the former mexican territories are effectively demographically
04:00:48.540mexican again and that's the whole reconquista movement i was speaking about this with a
04:00:54.920disgraced propagandist on issue of the carousel just last week and i made the assertion that
04:01:00.160ethnogenesis is something that actually just happens through synthesis and oftentimes people
04:01:05.620speak of it sort of like a centralized political project that you can initiate and i said well no
04:01:10.560it's actually kind of a passive process and that's how it's occurred all throughout history but
04:01:15.120that's what's so dangerous about it is that you get an ethnogenesis on a long enough timeline if
04:01:20.320you just have certain groups side by side they will begin to merge and so once you have that
04:01:26.280phenomenon you just described of now you have mexicans and indians voting for remigration
04:01:31.620well something fucking happened here and there actually is no way to turn that back because
04:01:35.660they are fully immersed in the american identity they have there has been an ethnogenesis the
04:01:41.160ethnogenesis is the american hispanic and without an insane unprecedented amount of violence that's
04:01:48.960not going to change well and also too like you have like a certain like there's there's the
04:01:53.380because like what wokeness did was and you could argue from like if you wanted to be like a civic
04:01:57.880nationalist you would argue like one of wokeness's greatest problems was that um it was that it
04:02:03.920forced because there was a trend up until about 2014 interesting time frame where a lot of hispanics
04:02:09.880america were purposely identifying as white because they saw that still as the cultural and
04:02:15.020still even in the american sense the way to get up in the world kind of like us italians yes kind
04:02:20.500of like you italians um i'm holding my tongue i'm biting my tongue um and it hurts hurts a lot
04:02:27.600uh so but the the point being that uh that stopped around 2014 and now you're kind of seeing this
04:02:33.860like renewed like hey we don't want your kind never go back where you came from and it's the
04:02:37.840meme of the two brown people arguing with each other it's two mexicans one's wearing an american
04:02:42.000flag t-shirt they own some mexican that's the republican party gop by the way yeah it's basically
04:02:46.940two brown different types of brown people arguing about yeah and so but like you see this like
04:02:51.840cultural divide where like um even though the fact that we have all this like long-term generational
04:02:56.740data of like people who've lived in new mexico from like generations since like we took the
04:03:01.420territory and the gadsden purchase and like the mexican-american war they're still less productive
04:03:05.920than like the whites that moved and settled the area but like regardless of that like there's
04:03:10.760also these internal cultural linguistic ethnic divides where it's like well um you know if you're
04:03:16.280like if you raise your kids and like you're mexican or hispanic or whatever and they don't
04:03:20.260understand spanish like all the other mexicans part of like a little in group they're like oh
04:03:23.580those are sabo kids like we don't want to talk to them because they're not like us they've become
04:03:26.600assimilated they're their own thing which is its own problem which makes the whole immigration
04:03:30.480debate even more awkward to watch play out on the main stage because everyone and their mother who's
04:03:35.900like a white commentator has basically taking the points of the alt-right from 10 years ago like
04:03:40.920i love wade stott's to death he all but didn't say like america is great because of white people
04:03:47.660and vivek rabbi swami's a retard like he he said that in a much kinder canon plus approved way
04:03:53.740so is sheinbaum also a china show or no uh i mean she's like a radical socialist nationalist i'm
04:04:01.420pretty sure she's friendly with china so she's sort of like a black jewish or indio-jewish
04:04:07.600it's hard no but sean wyland says 2014 was also when all the color revolutions happened whether
04:04:12.880it was in ukraine it was in the middle east uh in certain parts of asia uh was was um
04:04:19.940hosny wabarak overthrown in 2014 sean wyland uh i'm almost positive that is the case yeah yeah
04:04:27.420he was ousted no he was asked in like 2011 i think 2011 was the tunisian spring right
04:04:36.080well that was the beginning of the arab spring but okay so hasni mubarak died when did he die
04:04:42.400i think he died i'm almost yeah he died in 2020 in 91 wow he was sick so he was overthrown in
04:04:50.740the egyptian revolution and then he was followed by who succeeded him was the next question um i'm
04:04:56.840trying to remember well georgia was 2008 yeah and then i think it was another one in 2004
04:05:02.660uh so after that he was ousted and then replaced by muhammad morsi in 2012 or after 2011 and then
04:05:14.580you had the 2013 egyptian coup d'etat and then fatah al-sisi took in oh the umbrella revolution
04:05:21.140in hong kong and muhammad morsi died in 2019 was yeah morsi he was the uh the muslim brotherhood
04:05:28.460guy yeah if i remember that was a glowy yeah yeah yeah the revolution in hong kong i remember that
04:05:34.580in 2014 i remember your euro maidan was there was some wild the state department was on some
04:05:40.180really great coke when did a benghazi happen 2012 september 11th 2012 oh yeah 2012 yeah
04:05:48.280and basically they were trying to make that a big
04:05:50.980part of the election and Hillary Clinton fell on