Sunday Special: Globalist American Empire, FTX Operations and the CCP Cold War w⧸Darren Beattie
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On today's special sunday edition of Human Events Daily, I'm joined by Darren Beattie, editor of Robocode News, to discuss the current state of the Bitcoin ecosystem, the Bitcoin halving, and the rise of the altcoins.
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ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard to today's special sunday edition of human events daily i'm
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joined today by darren beattie editor of revolver news for a discussion on where we are what is the
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state of things and specifically the state of what darren has taken to use but you see this term
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everywhere you started i believe you coined the phrase but i've seen it all across the internet
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i've seen people mentioning this even in forums that aren't even remotely associated the gae
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the globalist american empire so darren what is the globalist american empire and what is the state of
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it as you see things today well first of all it is one of my uh prouder i would say the proudest
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coinages that i made the globalist american empire which um uh lends itself to a very convenient
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acronym and appropriate one and um so what is this indeed so what is the state of the globalist
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american empire well um i think we've seen a number of blows uh according to which um a lot of the
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possible alternatives to the power and preeminence of the globalist american empire have been neutralized
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and um you know i guess we're we're all looking to mar-a-lago today to see you know what trump does
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and how he does it but i would say it's fair to say that at least to some degree um the trump movement
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has uh been if not neutralized then diminished or crippled by the collective action of the regime
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and how trump responds to that remains to be seen and so that's one aspect um there was you know even
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though kind of ironically trump was very explicitly opposed to cryptocurrencies and calls it a scam and
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he may end up very well being vindicated by this he's actually yeah he's i remember i remember
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specifically when he tweeted that out i guess it was a couple of years ago now it was in 2020 when
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bitcoin was was on its way to the top of the charts everybody was talking about it became the hottest thing
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during because you know what happened was everybody had had those stimulus checks during the lockdown so
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bitcoin and and just crypto and the whole what they call the defi community was really taking off and
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then out of nowhere here comes that you know they were calling him boomer trump with his boomer take
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about crypto and bitcoin and the old dog just doesn't get it and now here we are two years later and we're
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seeing the collapse of crypto and then also seeing that these this ftx group which to me looks like an
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intelligence operation slash money laundering operation is completely falling apart all of
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these customers left holding the bag and then that tweet has resurfaced and said well maybe he was on to
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something there no and look i think he would be the first to admit that he doesn't understand it and
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that's probably why he was rightly skeptical and you know despite all of the sort of caterwalling by the
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crypto enthusiasts about oh it's not used properly it's a decentralized protocol and such and such and such
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you need to understand how it uses you know if you don't have your keys you don't have your coins like all those
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things are probably you know valid as far as i've been able to check but you have to look at sort of the reality of
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of bitcoin as a kind of semi mass adopted uh product and its use cases in that context beyond you know what
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people have called like nerd money or beyond the sort of more limited use cases that are confined to its
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more kind of secure um uh uh use and yeah the ftx may just be the tip of the iceberg and you know we can
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look at it and say this is a big scam which it obviously is um with it's a it's a big kind of money laundering
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operation that gets closer to the truth and so can it be a scam and a money laundering operation at the same
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time and you you really have to look at some of these things and why they're allowed to continue for as long as
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they are um and you kind of you get to you get to the root of the scam and i think things like ftx and
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perhaps other other crypto coins uh might be even worse especially the stable coins um we might have
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just seen the very beginning of the whole kind of crypto scam unraveling in so far as crypto has been
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but what's interesting is that to to your point though that it seems as though the regime was
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propping up this specific uh ftx and this this uh coin exchange which has always been a rival to
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binance binance was was the one that i was always familiar with as large one but they were using this
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one and then giving the guy the celebrity treatment the elizabeth holmes treatment and it wasn't that he
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was just um given this celebrity status but also there were exorbitant funds that were banked with
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him and deposited with him that were given to pass through he's suddenly given out of nowhere this
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this guy who comes in he's the son of two stanford professors and suddenly he's signing deals with the
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ukrainian government in the midst of you know these massive payments that are going through i said boy
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it looks like they found their new hunter biden yeah and i think it's it's very interesting
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yeah that that you mentioned that and again i think the appropriate framework for this there's
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an initial temptation to compare it to you know theranos with holmes but i would say theranos and
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holmes that's just a straight up scam that's just sort of playing off of these old dumb and decrepit
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sort of political figures but she was scamming them exactly who are who are drunk off the prospect of
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quote-unquote you know women women in tech and she very um cleverly sort of um engaged uh those kinds
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of delusional erogenous zones so to speak and effectively scammed people who are stupid and
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it's really you know in some ways we have to give her credit for scamming fools like uh um mad dog
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mattis the dog the litter box general um uh mattis but that was a straight up scam as you said she just
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scammed them and that's it there was really kind of nothing more to it and so i don't think theranos
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is really the right kind of framework for ftx i think the appropriate framework for ftx
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is closer to something like the bcc i bank and for those who don't know what this is the bcc i bank was
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a bank set up in the 70s and it had tons of scams going on through it was set up by uh allegedly set
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up by a pakistani but basically newsweek believe it of all places newsweek was actually doing real
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reporting then and they basically said okay every single hand that this has passed through has been
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intelligence connected and so long story short there was this bank that was engaging a lot of scams
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but whether it was set up by intelligence from the beginning or whether intelligence just exploited
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it it was used as a conduit for iran contra and to fund various other groups and became very useful and
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therefore the scam was allowed to go on for a lot longer than ordinarily it would have because it was
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useful to various elements of the power structure to take advantage of that kind of vehicle and i think that
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bcc i is probably the more um accurate framework to understand not only ftx but a number of other
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major things that have gone on in the crypto world and the thing that you know about the uh regime and
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and uh you know they don't reinvent their playbook that much no and if if something existed before and now
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it doesn't exist you can pretty much bet it does exist in some slightly modified form well my favorite um
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my favorite sort of take on this is that the the mainstream position on just say let's just take the cia
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right and it's more than just that but let's say that so we can say well the cia was uh was lying to the
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american people and spreading propaganda and conducting false operations in the 50s the 60s the 70s the 80s
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the 90s and the 2000s nobody was ever fired nobody was ever held accountable but they're perfectly fine
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now and if you suggest that they might be currently up to something bad then you're a crazy person with
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tinfoil on your head right right no absolutely and so you can just look to history for these antecedents
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and you know the bcci especially after all of the hearings sort of aired out the dirty laundry of the
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intelligence community and the fbi and so forth they needed um trickier ways they couldn't just
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straight up fund a lot of things because they were worried about another hearing so they needed to set up
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an infrastructure uh that would sort of take a lot of their activities off the book and could uh serve as
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kind of a money laundering conduit for various rebel groups and you know other projects that the
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um intel world was engaged in well the most famous one for you know i think a lot of our listeners i
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think the most famous one of these would be benghazi and operation zero footprint that was being run
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through there this manpad operation uh going from the libyan rebels to the syrian rebels and this guy
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uh the ambassador gets caught up in all of this they you know and then the the the terrorists decide
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well we don't want you to be running this operation and so they attack but i always point out that
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the one thing nobody of all the questions and benghazi and the movies and the hearings but the
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question that nobody ever seems to get to is why was a u.s ambassador at a cia black site in the first
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place right yeah it's you you run into these kinds of strange uh coincidences and um yeah so so my take
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on the ftx thing is it's it's i wouldn't say it's so much intelligence in this specific case of ftx but
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it serves that bcci function for major elements of that sort of clinton dnc type infrastructure it's part
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of you know it's it it became appropriated as a um as a major sort of money moving vehicle for certain
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nodes of the clinton dnc overworld infrastructure and uh there are probably other um crypto coins and
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institutions that serve similar purpose but for other elements of the regime as well
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well i couldn't agree more and and and you see this apparatus building and rebuilding and remaking
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itself moving from time to time from place to place and once the clintons go away there's going to be
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a new node that that essentially takes over it but the players will still remain on the table ladies
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and gentlemen we're coming up on our first break but stay tuned because i'm joined with darren beady
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revolver news and we're going through the state of the globalist american empire be right back
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and we're back here darren beady of revolver news we're talking all things globalist american empire
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darren you were just telling me about this bank bccci that was being used for intelligence operations
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but there was more to that bank than just use inside the united states because if i remember
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correctly weren't there cartels drug cartels in mexico and south america that were also using this bank
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and our intelligence community was also essentially being involved with these cartels
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nothing like that would ever happen again right no of course not um but yeah of course we're
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we have relationships with the cartels and that's one of the reasons that the war on drugs is such a
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um it's not a foolish prospect it's simply an ill-conceived prospect because it's you know
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the question is what are you going to war against and you know these cartels have become sort of
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uh parapolitical military entities unto themselves and kind of just the way we play in alliances with
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nation states we do the same with cartels and some cartels have a relationship with us and some
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don't and we're just talking about this great interview um and maybe you can link to where
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the expert journalist in mexico is talking about how china is making inroads to the cartels
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um but yeah there's been this long-standing relationship and you know it's a delicate issue
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and there needs to be some way to you know support these cartels that the government is supporting
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without being noticed ideally and um laundering money through banks like the bcci um that's one
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way to do it and in fact you know historically um uh that's basically what happened even though
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it was taken down largely by an undercover uh dea guy um as as had documented in a very entertaining
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movie called the infiltrator which you're talking about with the breaking bad guy well and and this
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is something that people need to understand as well and i can speak to this a little bit from inside
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the intel community that or if you've ever read the story about barry seal um another great movie by
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the way um with tom cruise um that 100 true by the way that even within the the intelligence community
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is not one entity that there are uh there are fiefdoms there's compartments there are secrets
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within secrets and uh put it to to put a blunt um name on it that the dea does not always know what
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the cia is up to and the cia does not always know what the dea is up to and the dea might be trying
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to take down one organization but that organization has the full backing of the central intelligence
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agency and then they might start fighting back against one another or you've got a pablo escobar
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situation where uh essentially it's united states special forces that take him out but they're more
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than happy to let the colombians get the credit for it and so i sort of just walk back into the come
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on that's nipershot um i've heard it described to me that there's there's definitely a hierarchy within
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the community and dh dhs is like my impression that's like the ultimate low iq that's that's
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just way out there and and that's way out there in fetterman zone dhs is fetterman zone but like
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certainly when it comes to intel i mean dhs has some decent um hsi their their law enforcement
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investigative angle and and custom sure they're they're you know they're fine in terms of what
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they do but in terms of this level of operations no absolutely not right and so it's you know cia
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naturally kind of at the top and um you know fbi and then dea and it was once described to me that
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basically the function of the dea is to go after the cartels that have fallen out of favor with the
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cia that's actually an incredible way to put it because uh not to confirm or deny but let's just
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say yes absolutely there are times when when things like that have happened and essentially and keep in
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mind at the same time look go back and look at the the case of the great whitey bulger who uh who was a
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direct informant under none other than robert mueller himself before he became special counsel before he
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became the director of the fbi he was up there in boston working for the doj and whitey bulger was
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this this is a great way to look at it so if people understand that story um uh johnny depp movie by the
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way black mass is about this where and they get into it a little bit but not into the full piece of it
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that he was an informant against other gangs but in doing so his gang was given free reign throughout
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throughout the city of boston united states city this is in the 70s and 80s uh to commit murders to
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commit drug operations money laundering operations political corruption political bribing his brother
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by the way was a state senate might still be a state senator now that i checked um all of this going on
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with the full endorsement of the fbi so not just under their noses he's allowed to do this and given a
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free reign for all of these other crimes why because he's going after rivals and so you'll you'll hear
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this phrase within the agency of well if we can't if we can't defeat the cartels perhaps we can control
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the cartels yep and it's not you know just for the purposes of controlling them to manage the violence
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at the level of cartels where you know you have basically narco states like in mexico and latin america
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cartels are very major players if not the absolute predominant players in the political process and so
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in that sense we're you know again they're they've become sort of political proxies for a sort of
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grand strategy almost you know now they're cartels that are aligned with us and they're cartels that are
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aligned with china and you know we want ours to predominate and and so forth and so it's a much
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more kind of complicated uh perspective than i think a lot of people view it and it involves so many
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kind of interesting implications uh that you know there's this kind of relationship again with the
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overworld and and the underworld and there are these fascinating sort of linking figures who serve
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as the liaison between the overworld and the underworld and um you know it's so kind of my view
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that the intersection of those um that's where really the interesting things happen that's where
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the magic happens and that's where um a lot of the things that end up having a big impact on the world
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uh happen um and that's just sort of a nice little glimpse behind the curtain and uh we don't
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often get those types of glimpses so it's always interesting to pursue the implications when we do
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no i agree and i think crypto and the ftx is a big deal that but let's let's tease out this line
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though of of china being in bed with certain cartels because you do see the rise of the chinese
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communist party and their influence throughout the world as a potential rival to the gae they
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certainly presented themselves and are increasingly presenting themselves with russia and bricks as
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kind of a block as an alternative right i think that's what they want to be seen as an alternative
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to the gae where they're saying look um the americans these westerners they're pushing uh ideologies
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they're pushing pride flags they're going to make you have pride parades in your in your town in your
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city in your state capital they're going to make you make you pass all these laws that are based
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around moral lines that they're pushing that may not go with your with your country we don't care
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we'll offer you a line of credit we'll offer you military supplies we'll offer you weapons we'll
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offer you technology and all we want in return whether you're looking at africa or uh
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or i should i could say you know the pacific or the indian ocean they're looking for resources
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resource extraction mineral rights they're looking for basing rights when it comes to a lot of these
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island nations in the pacific and in the indian ocean obviously sri lanka is a huge deal there
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with the ports at trincomalee and um and colombo that the chinese are building and so
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is it possible do they have the ability to actually become a global rival to the gae uh in terms of this
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or is it something where they're still building it up and they're never going to be able to attain
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the critical mass that they would require that's a really great question it's a really complicated
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question it's a really decisive question and you know i can't really claim to know the answer to
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that i've given it some degree of thought i will say that initially i was more i wouldn't say optimistic
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but i was i definitely thought that i put more weight into sort of geopolitical multi-polarity as one
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vector one of the very few vectors that might be open up some opportunities politically and what i mean by
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that is that some if if you agree that wokeness is sort of inextricably intertwined with uh with gays
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power and prestige and then um some kind of multi-polarity geopolitically some kind of counterbalance
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might serve as an infrastructure that could at least incubate something that might challenge the
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dominant ideology in order ultimately to correct america and set america on the course that it
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should be on um i'm much more skeptical of that view than i was just looking at what a just
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disaster you know russia i mean russia was never really going to be a major player it was always
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going to be a minor partner um but it's really kind of uh lost a lot of global cachet and um it's just
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hard to see how how russia uh uh manages in the future long story short is china will be a major
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political player but ultimately it will carve out its sphere of influence and have a defensive posture
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i don't see china having any kind of ideology or worldview that could seize the attention and admiration of
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the globe they simply don't have the charisma to compete with the toxic ideology of the globalist
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american empire well i certainly agree with that i mean there's no there's no grandiose universalism
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from china there's no innovative uh reach for the stars kind of explore the galaxy kind of charisma there
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you do see that a little bit with elon musk you see that with uh some of the tech futurism that comes out
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of you know i i i i hesitate to say silicon valley but i'll say certain areas of the promise of the
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global tech future but at the same time i don't exactly think those guys are uh are are anyone that
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we should be putting our chips on but certainly that is something that to your point uh will always
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give america and the west this edge the real correction might actually be something along the lines of
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if you look what elon musk is doing at twitter right now and essentially going through racking and
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stacking every single employee there and if you can't hold your weight if you can't pull your weight
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then he is decisively sending you to the curb darren beady let's hold it right there because we'll be
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right back i want to get into more of this as we return here human events daily
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and we're back here human events sunday special darren beady where we left off we were talking about the
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fact that the chinese communist party xi jinping for all the power that he has within china he doesn't
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seem to quite have the ability to expand and eclipse the globalist american empire at least not yet
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um of course i i have one of my contentions in terms of the you know the great reset or the you
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know klaus schwab and things we've talked about is that this is sort of their answer to the chinese
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communist party their uh sharing of best practices from xi jinping and their ability to impose that
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and impose their will on the west but at the same time it's a big argument over there there is this
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huge global system but who's going to be ultimately uh the junior partner and the senior partner in terms
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of that but to your point should china not actually be able to take over it and um one of the the elements
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that i think we should discuss there before we turn to elon musk is this idea of telecommunications
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because you've really seen the united states take this overt approach towards really going to all of
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the partner nations that kind of fall within the united states sphere uh across europe to to and
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europe canada australia new zealand the five eyes nations to demand that they do not work certainly not
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at least at a government level with huawei or anything to do with china and you're absolutely
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seeing a a falling in line of these countries in terms of that right and you know i very early on i've
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always resisted the ultimate kind of meaning of this sort of beijing biden epithet because my basic
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understanding for a while has been that there's essentially a consensus across all factions of the
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ruling elite in the globalist american empire that we're gearing up for some kind of major cold
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war situation with china we've seen it most uh pronounced in the telecommunications sphere but
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we've seen other examples of it as well and um and that's just kind of the new reality shaping the 21st
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century and the question is what you know what's going to happen with the third world countries you know
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third world country is a cold war term meaning non-aligned countries countries either the soviet union
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united states and you know the russia situation is actually you know illus you know illuminating um
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maybe mostly for just how subservient europe actually is you know europe is basically from
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geopolitical sense vassal state of the globalist american empire they have no real sovereignty of their
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own um at least in relation to russia but china might be slightly more complicated because
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again you're you're going against a lot of strong economic interests and um and basically our posture
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in relation to certain key elements of chinese telecommunications is you're either with us or
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you're against us it's you know it's back to george w bush in many ways in the economic sphere
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and you know china um has kind of gestured toward that posture as well and so you know basically a
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lot of companies a lot of countries are going to be forced to choose between china and the united
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states and that's going to be a very interesting dynamic shaping the geopolitical landscape over the
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next five ten years my take on the what a part of the huawei debate and this this started by the way
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under trump but it's continued under under joe biden to your point was that um you know how dare you
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let huawei into your country with the their 5g networks they're going to start spying on you
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and the darn don't you know that's that's that's what the nsa is for only we're allowed to do that
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you can't let no it's funny you know and along those lines i've said this along those lines i've had
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people say oh don't you know if you do this or that you know the chinese are looking at this i say
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look who would you to who would you rather have your data the chinese government or american
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journalists exactly right you know yeah that's precisely right i'm not i'm not some you know
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intelligence official i don't work for the state department i'm more worried about
00:29:00.200
these you know new york times journalists having my data than i am one one rogue employee at uh apple
00:29:08.080
or google or twitter who decides that they hate revolver news and they hate darren beady and
00:29:13.400
jack posobic and human events daily and all the emails suddenly just plop on somebody's hard drive
00:29:19.880
one day and all the text messages and direct messages and everything else and that's all it
00:29:24.160
would take that was all it would take as one person in china probably they probably wouldn't really care
00:29:29.600
they don't give a damn they wouldn't care one way or the other about about you me maybe a little
00:29:35.000
bit more because i i have been a little more outspoken about them but um you know when i when i look at it
00:29:40.200
though and you by the way one of the one of the key points to to bring up in this is that you do by
00:29:45.260
the way see people like george soros of of all folks come out and speak very aggressively towards
00:29:53.700
xi jinping and i wonder if american conservatives have ever taken notice of this fact to say well hold
00:30:00.380
on a second now here this is the guy who's supposedly our boogeyman he's the person who's behind
00:30:05.380
open borders he's the person behind uh the war zones he's the person behind so many conflicts
00:30:11.240
yet all of a sudden he's in complete lockstep with us in terms of xi jinping in terms of the
00:30:16.940
rise of china and my contention on that is that well sure but we we disagree for different reasons
00:30:22.380
for american conservatives it's because sure you might stand for freedom you stand for liberty you
00:30:27.040
stand for the expansion of that around the world george soros doesn't care about that george soros
00:30:31.440
cares about who's going to be in charge he cares about his power he cares about his money he cares
00:30:36.640
about his bottom line so what you're seeing there is as you were using the phrase the overstate and
00:30:42.120
the the overworld and the underworld that's an overworld fight that you're looking at um it's
00:30:48.200
more of a squabble between elites rather than you know who's going to be in charge who's senior
00:30:52.680
partner who's junior partner versus anything else in terms of it but another one of those very
00:30:58.300
interesting situations point on that yeah go ahead have a minute on soros so this this is not new for
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soros in fact the in the new york times there were accusations that appeared as far back as the
00:31:12.500
tiananmen issue 1989 that's correct blaming george soros for essentially fomenting a color revolution
00:31:21.240
type scenario in china china's been actually used the term color revolution in diplomatic communications
00:31:28.080
in his public diplomacy very recently they're very aware of um the what the quote-unquote open society
00:31:37.480
as the vector for color revolution type operations and that's why china has been very smart i i say that
00:31:45.120
there's only 2.5 sovereign nations on the planet there's the united states globalist american empire
00:31:51.500
there's china and russia's a 0.5 but maybe now they're demoted to a 0.2 but one thing that really
00:31:58.860
enables china to maintain its sovereignty is its complete emphatic rejection of the open society
00:32:06.560
and it goes down to a very deep level first of all they reject american big tech you don't have google
00:32:13.260
you don't have youtube you don't have all of these vectors of sort of epistemological subversion
00:32:20.160
that the u.s uses in order or you don't have ngos which are sort of the more um obvious vectors of
00:32:28.000
these things but arguably at an even deeper level you don't even have english the english language itself
00:32:35.060
is such a natural vector for the woke poison that can only be truly communicated in english it probably
00:32:44.060
doesn't even translate into chinese and so they have that linguistic firewall as well and i've never
00:32:50.840
actually thought of that but you know having lived in china for two years being a mandarin linguist
00:32:57.100
i wouldn't even know where to begin to try to train because i always usually think of translating
00:33:03.960
chinese into english it's yeah but how do you translate kendi or first of all in in china um everyone's
00:33:13.620
pronouns are the same it's ta right so your your pronouns are for for a man it's ta and for a female
00:33:21.340
it's ta now the written characters would include an element of gender uh the male ta would have a a male
00:33:28.440
uh sort of uh they call it a side character and then uh the female would have a female side character
00:33:35.020
but in in the spoken language there is no difference whatsoever this is why if you're if you're ever
00:33:40.740
talking to someone from china that has english as a second language or asia in general you'll notice
00:33:45.880
they sometimes might mix those up a little bit because they're not used to that in spoken language
00:33:50.660
they're not used to these this idea of gendered pronouns um in terms of speech and so
00:33:56.680
even as something as basic as that no it's it's completely not able to be translated right and and it
00:34:03.280
ties into an earlier point i made about their lack of charisma and universal appeal the very same
00:34:11.360
linguistic and epistemological firewall that at least up until now protects them from the open society
00:34:20.020
and american subversion is the same thing that makes them so clumsy and ridiculous at propaganda
00:34:29.480
appealing to a global audience that's right that's exactly right yes you know and i've seen um
00:34:35.160
one of one of the the the most obvious vectors of this is through hollywood um and you may have seen
00:34:41.680
there's there's been a slew of hollywood movies where at the end china is the victor because they've gone
00:34:46.840
in and financed some movie and it and it's always ridiculous it's always completely ridiculous it's
00:34:52.560
way over the top and uh interestingly enough and i i should probably do more reporting on this but
00:34:58.000
it the amount of uh money from the chinese communist party that they've been putting in
00:35:03.560
to finance hollywood movies has actually been going down and it's actually something where i believe
00:35:10.040
that the party has looked at that as a potential failed vector they were thinking they could change
00:35:14.640
hearts and minds when it comes to china um they were trying to act as though china and you'll see
00:35:19.040
these movies where it's set in the future and china and the the ccp is just some uh some uh global
00:35:24.840
partner that's directly working in concert with the united states through the auspices of the u.n and
00:35:30.480
it's and it's ridiculous the whole thing is complete always completely ridiculous if i were advising
00:35:34.240
them it's very heavy-handed if i were advising them i would say actually there is a lot of upside to that
00:35:39.940
but they basically need to farm that out to um westerners like they need the they need the hollywood
00:35:47.180
equivalent of those british pilots who are like training the chinese that they were that they were
00:35:52.780
hiring they need to get westerners to do it because oh yeah the trainers of that you know i thought if
00:35:58.120
you know whoever did crouching tiger hidden dragon that had some cultural cachet in the united states if
00:36:05.060
they kept doing stuff like that maybe they could make some inroads but yeah for the most their hollywood
00:36:10.420
type you know bruckheimer uh blockbusters um really don't have much appeal but i will just want to
00:36:19.040
conclude with a joke and make because people talk about the pressures of china and that's why we have
00:36:23.660
you know hollywood cowtown to china but if it weren't for the uh leverage of the chinese market we would
00:36:30.620
have a transsexual james bond by now absolutely 100 they're probably keeping idris elba out of the role
00:36:37.720
as well unfortunately because i think idris elba would be perfectly fine as as as james bond i've
00:36:43.180
always said by the way uh that there's a fan theory out there that i could subscribe to where you say
00:36:47.400
well it's easy you to to explain away these issues but obviously every james bond actor is quite
00:36:52.520
different well all you need to do is just establish that the name james bond itself is an intelligence
00:36:58.360
codename the same way q is the same way m is and now you can have an entire litany of james bonds
00:37:03.960
that'll that'll completely go through but as we're as we're ending out this segment going to break i'll
00:37:07.900
throw out there a piece of trivia for everyone that believe it or not i was in a movie that had the
00:37:13.840
exact same uh martial arts kung fu choreographer as crouching tiger hidden dragon yuen wu ping so i got
00:37:21.700
to meet him and i got to work with him in china very interesting stay tuned come right back darren
00:37:25.180
be okay we're back with our last segment here darren beady now darren we we've been talking
00:37:32.700
about how russia has uh essentially de-sovereignized themselves a little bit in in the course of this
00:37:39.940
war with ukraine they've lost their leverage with europe you and i have discussed that on war room
00:37:44.960
we've been in debates on that where we've said that you know uh russia's leverage is currently lying
00:37:49.760
at the bottom of the baltic sea uh vis-a-vis uh vis-a-vis europe i think that one of the last
00:37:56.000
pieces of this is should you know and and i'm just gonna keep i'm gonna say it and i'm gonna say it
00:38:00.060
again that if if this moves right if we move towards a potential and people have have talked
00:38:05.760
about all the time a world war three type scenario that if if china and the united states if that war ever
00:38:11.540
goes from cold to hot i would much rather i would much rather have russia fighting china than russia
00:38:19.660
on china's side fighting all of us and i think that rapprochement from the original cold war that kind
00:38:25.800
of mindset yes even though it comes from henry kissinger uh would would actually serve us well
00:38:31.160
in terms of thinking about this should it ever go hot and i'm just gonna leave that there but
00:38:35.520
since we only have a couple of minutes left with you i have to get into uh one of your sites
00:38:40.960
uh most famous readers probably the most famous reader of revolver news mr elon musk uh so he was
00:38:48.600
uh and people were very very upset that he was found in text messages to be uh very very naughty
00:38:54.420
committing a lot of thought crimes by going and reading revolver news reading articles about what
00:38:59.200
would happen if elon took over twitter well it turns out that he did take over twitter and so what
00:39:04.580
you had laid out before was this idea that twitter itself even beyond any midterm election or potentially
00:39:12.400
even presidential election it it really was this center of soft power it was the center of influence
00:39:18.680
because of its power for narrative creation across the west and then along comes mr elon musk
00:39:26.660
and with his power his station he purchases it and says i'm going to set the bird free he then starts
00:39:35.980
firing uh summarily anyone who crosses him anyone who questions him in public he's going through
00:39:42.320
internal message boards and sacking anyone who disagrees with him now of course all the tech companies
00:39:47.340
are going through layoffs right now darren is elon musk right and of course we don't know what'll
00:39:52.940
happen a year from now three years from now four years from now but in your estimation is he actually
00:39:58.800
returning twitter back to that potential sandbox for freedom of speech that's a great question the
00:40:07.580
short answer is it's too early to tell but early signs have been encouraging and um the early signs
00:40:14.840
are there's a lot of activity on twitter there's a massive influx of people on twitter he's firing a lot
00:40:22.540
of people including a lot of the people in the content moderation and so i believe all of them as a matter of fact
00:40:28.980
all of them and so he's taking out the trash and a lot of us on twitter have noticed you know spike in
00:40:37.120
engagement and and we can falsely infer that that has to do with some enduring and underlying
00:40:43.740
change of their content moderation policy that's not the case it's just they have fewer people on
00:40:50.540
the content moderation uh beat and there's a massive influx of people so the combination of those two
00:40:57.660
things creates the impression that um you know the content moderation policy is fundamentally changed so
00:41:04.620
i think those things we should be optimistic about but we need to wait and see what he does with certain key
00:41:11.920
major personnel decisions that will um materialize over the next couple months and see where the sort of
00:41:20.160
more permanent content moderation policy actually equilibrates because he's sort of a b testing a bunch of
00:41:27.200
different things um so that's why i would say we need want to be optimistic but cautiously optimistic
00:41:33.760
praise him when he moves in the right direction and um mock and criticize him when he moves in the wrong
00:41:41.660
direction you know i i remember it actually just occurred to me that one of his one of his text
00:41:47.400
messages and i believe this was the jack dorsey was they were asking who would you put in charge
00:41:52.740
of content moderation and his response very interestingly was to say a blake masters type well um it turns out
00:42:01.900
that blake masters finds himself uh as a free agent right now so that might even be a potential role for
00:42:07.740
him indeed no it could end up being a blessing in disguise i don't know if that's you know ultimately
00:42:14.740
going to happen but i hope that uh you know elon is not overly sensitive to having somebody who is
00:42:22.800
adjacent to the right and i'm totally happy with anyone who's free speech but most people these days
00:42:30.340
who are pro free speech are you you know unless there's some person who's secretly free speech
00:42:36.480
who it publicly seems to be a leftist he's going to take some incoming for senior major personnel
00:42:43.160
decisions he just has to be prepared for that and not going we miss about being associated with
00:42:49.440
the the right well and and and you see that with elon right you do actually see that because
00:42:55.420
elon and and and his his his uh even though he's got great friends like mr mr lex friedman who i know
00:43:02.600
is just one of your all-time favorite podcasters you wake up every morning and see what lex is up to
00:43:08.560
i i i hear that he's thinking about making it a condition of verification procedure that you have
00:43:15.980
to watch at least five episodes of at least five and with a with a test afterwards yeah this has been
00:43:22.820
by the way for those for the folks not listening this is sort of a long-standing uh inside joke
00:43:26.860
between me and darren because it it seems as though the the the youtube algorithm is just force feeding
00:43:32.080
lex friedman every time you go to try to watch something i i think i tweeted the other day i forget
00:43:36.880
if i sent it to you darren but uh um i can't wait for the lex friedman interview with sam bankman free
00:43:42.320
i'm surprised he hasn't even done one i bet he's done i was actually surprised i was surprised that
00:43:49.060
you would think that because he gets the you know and again this goes back to to lex having this um
00:43:54.980
this penchant for bringing on these huge uh controversial figures and sure he'll he'll rake
00:44:01.380
kanye over the coals but then he'll bring on the ceo of pfizer and won't even ask him if the vaccine
00:44:06.800
stops the spread uh and doesn't ask him any serious hard questions he just sort of he does exactly what
00:44:13.200
he says and you're what he's told to do and gets a pat on the head and goes on his way and uh and i i i
00:44:18.980
think elon's been on a few times so that's why i bring it up but you know when you're also looking
00:44:23.740
at at elon and you you mentioned before about how the chinese communist party doesn't have the charisma
00:44:29.540
to sort of uh just just just capture the imaginations of the west well elon musk certainly does
00:44:38.220
and i i would argue that by and large he has and i think that there are a huge swath of people family
00:44:44.540
members i know friends of mine from growing up even who are not interested in politics they're not
00:44:49.040
interested in partisanship but they do follow elon and they follow sort of this joe rogan bit um
00:44:57.740
you know barstool is kind of involved in that a little bit and when you look at those folks
00:45:05.000
following elon and elon says look i'm getting rid of the trash because not because it is woke but
00:45:11.300
because it is getting in the way of efficiency and because this has nothing to do with running
00:45:16.580
the business i mean that sounds to me like a very traditional generation x sort of motif
00:45:23.980
of we're just about business and the other stuff has to fall by the wayside
00:45:28.360
yes i mean i i think that that sort of technocratic approach um can be helpful um in terms of
00:45:42.320
riding or circumnavigating if not transcending certain uh you know political controversies
00:45:50.300
but i think there's there's limited that that has its limits because ultimately if you become
00:45:58.500
a real threat to the system the threat system is going to do everything it can to make you toxic
00:46:04.700
and so it's not like this static situation where for instance you know any sort of um you know barstool
00:46:15.140
type is you know simply you know has broader appeal by the nature of who they are you know once they
00:46:22.420
step outside of barstool talking points and barstool mindset and actually challenge the regime then
00:46:30.160
they become something different and face different types of um attacks and so um it's look at me bro
00:46:38.180
i'm i'm being subversive i'm i've got a fantasy football team i'm betting on sports right of course
00:46:44.860
you know that and and and and i'm not one of those folks who's like i'm gonna attack someone for
00:46:48.660
following sports but just understand that you you are not uh changing anything you're not you're not
00:46:55.200
uh changing anything to do with the system by by just you playing along with these barstool games you're
00:47:01.360
not right right and and so i guess the the point here is yes we notice that there are these groups
00:47:10.040
sort of like intellectual dark web and so forth that seem to have more purchase in sort of elite
00:47:16.940
sectors and there's something to that like the sociology of it um there was something sort of down
00:47:23.200
scale about maga that you know a lot of the elites would scoff at and so branding in this respect
00:47:30.080
makes a difference but i think people can overestimate that and um and ultimately it's the
00:47:37.120
substance that matters and if you're a substantive threat to the regime no matter what kind of superficial
00:47:45.080
um trappings you have um you're going to face what i call the pain box and elon's no exception
00:47:54.500
and his story is is not written yet it remains to be seen just how much of a challenge and threat
00:48:02.180
he is and he's still in this kind of game of footsie just seeing how he's going to position himself
00:48:09.420
and from the regime's side they're probably thinking oh is this you know do we destroy him or do we try
00:48:16.760
to co-opt and right now they're probably still in co-op mode and that's why they're not playing hardball
00:48:22.820
couldn't agree more darren we are just about out of time i want to encourage everyone go and follow
00:48:28.040
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00:48:34.260
you go to bed just make sure you're following darren thank you so much for joining us thank you so much
00:48:39.040
for being generous with our listeners and with your time darren beattie revolver news thank you very
00:48:43.780
much thank you jack ladies and gentlemen as always you have my permission to lay ashore