MAR 29 2022 - WAR IN UKRAINE - DAY 34 UPDATE
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As the war enters Day 34, we ve got a ton of news on the diplomatic front as talks are now being held right on the banks of the Bosphorus in Turkey, next meersheimer s 2015 warning is now being called out as an example of toxic masculinity, we ll dig into a third georgia and maryland become the first states to suspend their gas tax, and China enters a two-stage lockdown in the city of Shanghai.
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huge show today a lot going on on the ground in ukraine we're also going to get into the
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suspension of gas taxes in multiple states across the country but before we do that i want to let
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ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard today's edition of human events daily today's top stories first up
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the ground update in ukraine as the war enters day 34 we've got a ton of news on the diplomatic front
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as well as talks are now being held right on the banks of the bosphorus in turkey next
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meersheimer's 2015 warning is now being called out as an example of toxic masculinity we'll dig into a
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third georgia and maryland become the first states to suspend their gas tax what does that mean for
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you and finally china is entering a two-stage covet 19 lockdown in the city of shanghai all this
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are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt that america is back
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if some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back
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what's getting walked back it made it sound like just in the last couple days uh it sounded like
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you told u.s troops they were going to ukraine it sounded like you said it was possible the u.s
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would use a chemical weapon and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in russia and we
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know none of the three occurred none of the three none of the three well peace talks are being held
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between the russians and ukrainians today in the city of istanbul you know we were just talking about
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how yesterday was the anniversary of the changing of the name the official changing of the name from
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constantinople to istanbul well now we're having those peace talks today they're happening right on
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the banks of the bosphorus in an ancient palace that was once the palace of the ottoman sultans
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what's going on well we're seeing the reports and this is coming out live as we report this so please
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bear in mind that we're in the thick of things but what we're hearing is that russia's deputy defense
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minister has says that moscow has decided to fundamentally cut back military activity in
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the direction of kiev and chernikov in order to increase mutual trust for future negotiations
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to agree and sign a peace deal with ukraine as we said before the military advances on kiev and some of
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the other major cities of ukraine were done as a forcing function to enable russian military advances
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to capture other cities what did it do it split ukraine's defenses now we may be seeing indications
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and as we're getting the news in right now that ukraine is actually noting that russian forces seem to be
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falling back from the city of kiev and may actually be letting up that siege that blockade those that
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encirclement those positions that have been held for weeks at this point let's continue from the
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ukrainian side ukraine um there so the advisor to president zelinski says they're looking for an
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enhanced analog of nato's article 5 with the u.s the uk and other guarantors to be legally active actively
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involved in protecting ukraine they're offering to settle the crimea issue bilaterally within 15 years
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and vow to never make a fight over it so we're not hearing any specifics on the donbass region
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obviously that's going to be an area of great importance for the russians that the region
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that had the civil war going on for eight years at this point russia lavrov has said they were the
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ones who decided to intervene in ukraine's civil war over the separatist area and on the currency side
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we've talked so much about how currency plays such a role in this well the russian ruble has now risen
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to near pre-invasion levels from the massive massive plunge that it took just about one month ago
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we're in day 34 of this thing what does it mean well it means that the russian economy is now bracing
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right to be able to withhold withstand these economic sanctions that were placed on because
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at the end of the day they're the ones who hold the cards in terms of the raw materials here they
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have the oil and they know that western europe needs it from them this idea of getting renewables
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it's not on the table right now for western europe this idea of getting lng from the united states they
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don't have the infrastructure for it the only way that they can get oil and natural gas right now
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is through russia and russia knows that so because they have them in this vice grip in terms of their
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energy resources they knew that they held the cards on this that's why you're seeing on the backs of
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these peace talks and the possible withdrawal of the encirclement of kiev right obviously the threat
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was that they would go in for a full-on invasion of kiev and you can see the images coming out of
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maripol you can see the images coming out of harsan and harkiv right the understanding the psychological
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impact that that would have on the government of ukraine obviously nobody wants that to happen
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to the city of kiev so as we're looking at this now comes the question right now comes the question
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will ukrainian neutrality actually be on the table here will there be a hostile government
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in place in ukraine or one that's considered hostile by the russians or will we see a situation
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where ukraine is able to keep its sovereignty and how much land eventually is going to merge with
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russia we will continue to cover this here on human events daily as i've said this is a developing
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story but we are finally starting to potentially see some light at the end of the tunnel
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what's going on here is that the west is leading ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that
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ukraine is going to get wrecked and i believe that the policy that i'm advocating which is neutralizing
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ukraine and then building it up economically and getting it out of the competition between russia on
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one side and nato on the other side is the best thing that could happen to the ukrainians
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what we're doing is encouraging the ukrainians to play tough with the russians we're encouraging
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the ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the west because we will ultimately
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defeat putin and we will ultimately get our way time is on our side and of course the ukrainians are
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playing along with this and the ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with
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the russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy so that's professor john meersheimer eight
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years ago explaining the situation that we find ourselves in now the way the west destabilized ukraine
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built up a hostile government there instituted regime change and then led them down the primrose
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path without any plan to actually help them instead of having them continue to poke the bear
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poke the bear poke the bear vis-a-vis russia so they wanted the government of ukraine to become hostile
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with russia and then eventually to institute nato bases nato missiles nato military emplacements within
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the territory of ukraine territory that the russians feel in many cases that has a shared history with
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them in many in many parts of history was part of the russian state and certainly has a lot of spiritual
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history when you go into way way back a thousand years into the christianization of the russ people
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which took place on the banks of that very same dnepper river that we're talking about every day today
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so meersheimer is explaining this using history using logic using reasoning however u.s foreign policy
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journalist melissa chan has a different idea she has a different take on all of this she says
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meersheimer is saying well basically his view is that she wore a short skirt and so she deserves
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what's coming to her and this is amazing this is so amazing to me and she wrote she continued
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melissa chan wrote as a woman covering foreign policy and simply as a woman in society who sees
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regular justification of male violence that meersheimer's views are not just wrong but noxious in
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a wider sense too this is actually amazing to me because she's accusing meersheimer of toxic
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masculinity and saying anyone who believes this must therefore be what would you call that a toxic
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masculinist right so here's what she doesn't understand she's saying that meersheimer is arguing
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for aggression that he wants this that's not what meersheimer is doing he's not making a normative
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argument he's making a descriptive argument this is the difference between realists and liberalists
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when it comes to international policy but it also comes down to this idea of toxic masculinity versus
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liberal feminism so what melissa chan is trying to do is ascribe liberal feminism to world affairs
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so she thinks that you can make aggression go away just by saying i oppose i oppose aggression
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all right i that's why you see the flags and the ribbons for every single one of these causes
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you say i oppose this and we're you know we're going to sign a piece of paper that says we oppose
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this we're going to we're going to give a speech that says how much we oppose it right we're not
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actually going to do anything about the conditions that could potentially cause aggression or potentially
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that have we can see throughout history that have caused aggression in time after time after time or
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try to understand history competition over resources hostile governments versus neutral governments
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buffer states great power politics throw all that stuff out the window no no no no no no it's just
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people who are mean and nasty versus people who are good and virtuous and this is the problem right
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because meersheimer isn't saying that he supports aggression he's describing history for what it is
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right this is the hobbesian view again life is nasty brutish and short human nature exists it is
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period it is invaluable it is insoluble you cannot change human behavior you cannot change human nature
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you can't make us better people we are right we are but we can channel those decisions to different
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outcomes that's what this is all about and when you try to impose that vision of the world by force
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at the point of a bayonet whether it's in iraq libya afghanistan syria then you might just provoke a
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response you might get people from the other side saying i disagree and i'm going to show you how much
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i disagree when you continue to poke the bear so it's really amazing to me right so they've taken
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this idea of liberal feminism and they're trying to paint all of foreign affairs with it and they're
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saying that if you don't agree with liberal feminism this idea that you can make aggression go away that
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you can make competition go away that you can make that everybody can be friends and that everybody can
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get along but also by the way that if you don't want to be friends and you don't want to just get
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along and put yourself on the u.s dollar standard and make sure that you're you know you're capitulating
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the petrodollar and everything else well then we can destroy you right so that's where you get your
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madeline albright's that's where you get your hillary clintons from because we will destroy you
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keep in mind all of this stuff is connected there is a reason that some of the biggest proponents of
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liberal feminism like hillary clinton are also behind some of the most destructive wars of the last 20 years
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well we saw the pain at the pump with the rapidly rising prices that everybody across the country was
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seeing and we decided we wanted to take some you know urgent immediate action and this all came together
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really quickly uh within a week of us calling on our legislature to act uh they passed this unanimously
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across party lines in both houses uh and and so here in maryland instead of just arguing about who's
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to blame for it we decided to uh take immediate action to do something about it well there's
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governor larry hogan a guy who calls himself a republican but doesn't normally do very many
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conservative things this probably being one of the more conservative things that he's done uh since
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his term it started as governor of maryland then we've also by the way down in georgia the governor
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georgia has also suspended the sales tax uh or excuse me the gas tax in general for that state
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but only for a period of about 30 days they're trying to ease the price so maryland dropped it was
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a 36.1 cents per gallon tax and georgia waived its 29 cents per gallon tax on gas as well but because
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this is coming at a time where americans are now seeing price at the pump that are going up like
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crazy and the thing that i wanted to get into is like look we we talk about ukraine we talk about
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foreign policy we talk about president biden we talk about his failures on the world stage
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they want you to care so much about what's going on thousands and thousands of miles away and they
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say that it's your duty to care about this when your prices at the pump are hitting they're touching
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five dollars across many parts of the country in some parts of the country that's touching seven dollars
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like out in california i got people telling me meanwhile in the city of philadelphia
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you got a 15 year old kid going out in front of his house to get something from his dad's car
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shot in the head killed but the billboards all up and down the highways in pennsylvania say stand with
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ukraine stand with ukraine stand with ukraine don't worry about what's going on in your own cities
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don't worry about the violent crime that's going up across every major city in the entire united
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states for the last two years an explosion of violent crime people pushing criminal justice
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reform like katanji brown jackson by the way same same type of stuff we're talking about now we focus
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of course on those child porn cases but it's the same philosophy of judicial reform this idea that
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well we can just make people better that there's no such thing as human nature that's what meersheimer
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was getting at this that we can just make people better and that if we you know kind of wave our
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hands and put up billboards that the problems will just go away because we want them to and then
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you've got people in mainline pennsylvania who would happily step over an addict who was strung out od'd
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on fentanyl in the street to be able to get to their starbucks and see people doing that in san
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francisco every day with human feces on the ground so we're going to talk a little bit more here in
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human events daily about the things that are actually going on inside the united states while
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the media wants us to focus on the things that are going on at the edges of american influence all the
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way on the step of eurasia but so there's other people out there saying right now that the problem
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isn't the taxes and the problem isn't production no no no no they're saying it's not it's it's not a
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supply side problem obviously is they're saying it's a demand problem so i tweeted out this article
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yesterday and i put up the map of where the gas prices are and i got a response saying the problem
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is american consumption and if americans would just consume less than gas prices would go down this is
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by the way is the exact same argument that president jim carter made in his famous malaise speech back in
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the 1970s that americans just need to consume less you need to settle for less you know work work do more
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with less you'll be fine right and i'm not going to come out and knock that right because i do think
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that as a country we need to steer away from materialism but the problem is we don't live in
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that culture we live in a materialist consumer culture one that's been built up for 40 years at
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this point right we've turned away from traditional values we've turned away from traditional morals
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and we've gotten to this point of consume more more more you got to watch more things you got to
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go to more events you need to buy the latest game watch to see the latest movie whatever it is right
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streaming streaming streaming binging binging binging you can turn on you can hold a piece of glass in
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your hand and you can order everything to your home from food to sexual partners with the press of a
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button so when we live in that kind of culture you're going to come around and tell people to stop
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consuming no we have a problem of cultural rot that's for sure but we need to deal with these
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other months of saying that they won't lock down the entire city shanghai's government just locked
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down the pudong area behind me you'll be locked down until the first of april and after that they
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will lock down where i am right now the pussy area west of the huangpu river this is the first time
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the china's most popular city has decided to limit movements in such big areas since 2020 shanghai has
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been adopting a policy known as precise pandemic control local authorities often limit the scope of
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lockdowns which are sometimes as small as a single bubble tea shop but since the arrival of the highly
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infectious omicron variant shanghai's covid-19 cases have spiked on march 27th the city recorded over
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3 000 infections over 90 percent of them with mild or no symptoms so that's what's going on in the
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city of shanghai you know i um i always have this this weird spot in my you know in my background when
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i talk about shanghai because i lived there for two years right so i've spent more time in shanghai than
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any other major city in the world actually living there right um you know i work in dc but i live
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outside the city and in many ways it's weird because it still feels like the city where i've spent so
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much time in my life you know i lived in the puhtuo district which is part of pu uh puxi so you hear
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him talking about puxi there and the way shanghai works is it's broken up into two halves so puxi is the
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west side of the river pudong is the east side of the river it's a very safe city normally when you live in a
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police state the wanton crime and senseless violence that you see in american cities just
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isn't there right because people are terrified of the authorities um and this lockdown that you're
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now seeing that's going to be taking place and they're talking about this spreading to from the
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central districts so pudong that's your that's basically the wall street of china pudong and then
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it's going to be spreading into into puxi then minhang jinshan chongming island so the whole outlying
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districts basically the entire city of shanghai right this is the authoritarianism of the ccp
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they're talking about rounding people up for testing using drones to enforce the lockdown
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you're going to see people being locked back in their houses again this is the way the ccp deals
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with things and when it came to the lockdowns here in the united states and the way that our government
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started to be run suddenly people questioned wait a minute i thought we were a free country why is
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the government doing these things why aren't we following the actual science on this right this
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is all about omicron this is about the omicron variant we know that the omicron variant is not
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as bad as some of the other variants that have been out there people have been able to deal with it
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also last time i checked i thought china had vaccinated a great number of its people specifically
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in large population centers like the city of shanghai so shanghai is depending on the account
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either the largest or one of the top cities in all of china but understand this is the
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authoritarianism that we see being conducted by the ccp that came in and infected our own country
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our own ruling class whether you want to call it the great reset or the world economic forum or
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klaus schwab ism right this is the type of authoritarianism that has come to the us and this
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is where it's come from they have no problem with locking down their people and the people there
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you're seeing suicides skyrocketing inside the city of shanghai you're seeing people fighting back
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in places like shenzhen but there's nothing you can do about it because the government there is all
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powerful and you have to listen their facial recognition programs their social media scrubbing
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tracking your cell phones it's all done straight from the government they don't put a mask on it like
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they do here but mark my words it's what they want to bring here and that's all the time we have for
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human events daily today remember our promise our oath our solemn vow to you be good be brief be gone
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what did we talk about today massive diplomatic updates coming straight from the banks of the
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bosphorus there in the city of istanbul the palace of the ottoman sultans where russia and ukraine
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are sitting down for diplomatic talks today to hopefully end this war on day 34 we talked about whether or
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not professor meersheimer was conducting toxic masculinity uh in his 2015 warning on ukraine
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we got into georgia and maryland suspending the gas tax in shanghai entering stage two of a massive
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lockdown in the city before we go today today's history break today in 1973 american troops evacuated
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saigon later called ho chi minh city as the united states ended its involvement in the vietnam war
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they haven't won a war since 1945 understand that folks ladies and gentlemen as always you have my