Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 25, 2022


Episode 1665 Scott Adams： Ukraine Fights Back and Biden's Supreme Court Pick


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

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143.73425

Word Count

7,304

Sentence Count

522

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

50


Summary

Biden picks a Supreme Court nominee, and it's a doosey one. And Elon Musk is still cool, which makes me think, maybe not so cool. Also, a woman who was trampled by Trudeau's horses moved to Florida.


Transcript

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00:00:47.140 Ah, yeah.
00:00:50.360 Well, my favorite story of the day,
00:00:55.020 and a day with not so much good news happening,
00:00:57.880 is do you remember the Canadian lady who was a protester in the truck convoy,
00:01:03.520 and she was trampled by horses?
00:01:06.140 Well, I guess she's okay,
00:01:08.300 and she has a Twitter account called Trampled Lady,
00:01:11.380 or candy, parentheses, Trampled Lady.
00:01:16.440 And she tweeted today that after getting trampled by horses by Trudeau,
00:01:22.040 I decided I would be moving to Florida with my family.
00:01:26.400 Now, I wish I had a nickel
00:01:28.200 for every time somebody who had been trampled by Trudeau's horses moves to Florida.
00:01:34.340 I don't know, it's some kind of a trend.
00:01:36.340 You get trampled by Trudeau's horses, and you're like,
00:01:38.920 Florida, I'm out of here.
00:01:40.320 So I'll look for more of that,
00:01:43.240 because I expect Trudeau's horses will be doing some more trampling.
00:01:47.080 Well, here's the big story that's not Ukraine.
00:01:50.040 We'll get to Ukraine in a minute.
00:01:51.300 But Biden's nominating, it looks like.
00:01:54.500 Not looks like. He is nominating.
00:01:58.200 Ketanji...
00:01:58.800 I'll have to hear how her name is actually pronounced
00:02:01.960 before I know I'm doing it right.
00:02:03.640 But I think it's Ketanji Brown Jackson,
00:02:07.620 reputed to be a highly qualified human being
00:02:12.960 who, in any normal world,
00:02:16.380 would probably just glide right onto the Supreme Court.
00:02:19.440 But we live in a contentious system,
00:02:21.980 and so the Republicans will fight it to the death or something.
00:02:25.260 Do you know what they should do?
00:02:27.380 What's the smartest thing for Republicans to do?
00:02:30.080 Well, they should ask all the tough questions
00:02:33.320 that they're supposed to ask,
00:02:35.380 because some of those will become clips,
00:02:38.440 and they can use it for political reasons.
00:02:41.420 So they'll probably do questioning
00:02:42.800 that tries to invite some kind of an embarrassing
00:02:45.300 or compromising answer
00:02:47.460 to make Biden look bad, if nothing else.
00:02:49.980 But once they've done their questions,
00:02:54.080 anything short of unanimous approval
00:02:56.040 is going to look stupid.
00:02:58.620 Am I wrong?
00:02:59.900 Because I think everybody believes
00:03:04.180 that there shouldn't be any trouble
00:03:05.400 with the actual candidate.
00:03:08.700 Now, we could be surprised,
00:03:10.800 but assuming there are no surprises,
00:03:12.720 no surprises whatsoever,
00:03:14.740 aren't we going to be in a situation
00:03:16.480 where the Republicans are just going to look like racists
00:03:18.740 if they vote against her?
00:03:19.660 All it does is return the same balance
00:03:23.160 to the court that was there before.
00:03:25.940 Same number of liberals,
00:03:27.140 same number of conservatives.
00:03:28.680 And if she's not the one who gets
00:03:30.300 on the Supreme Court,
00:03:32.980 it's going to be somebody with similar views.
00:03:35.920 Because you can't keep the Supreme Court
00:03:37.440 unoccupied or a seat open forever.
00:03:40.500 And I don't think we're that close
00:03:42.060 to getting the next president.
00:03:43.180 So this is one of those cases
00:03:45.300 where we can see if the Republicans
00:03:47.660 are working on reflex or strategy.
00:03:53.320 This will be like the clearest example
00:03:55.580 I think you'll ever see.
00:03:58.060 If it's reflex,
00:03:59.380 they'll do everything they can
00:04:00.520 to stop the nomination for no good reason.
00:04:03.400 It won't be good for Republicans.
00:04:05.280 It won't be good for the country.
00:04:07.240 It won't be good for Democrats.
00:04:08.600 It won't be good for the candidates.
00:04:10.040 It won't be good for anybody.
00:04:11.080 So will Republicans do something
00:04:13.760 that is unambiguously bad for everybody?
00:04:17.480 I think they will.
00:04:19.840 I think they will.
00:04:21.600 I actually think that Republicans
00:04:23.340 will be so fucking stupid
00:04:24.880 that they fight this tooth and nail to the end.
00:04:28.160 What do you think?
00:04:29.600 I think I've lost all faith in everybody.
00:04:34.740 Just everybody.
00:04:36.920 Maybe not Elon Musk.
00:04:39.100 Elon Musk, he's still cool.
00:04:41.080 Right?
00:04:42.080 But everybody else,
00:04:43.700 just everybody else,
00:04:45.480 is useless at this point.
00:04:47.780 So,
00:04:49.220 by the way,
00:04:50.300 do you disagree with my analysis of this?
00:04:53.500 That fighting it tooth and nail
00:04:55.040 would be the dumbest fucking thing
00:04:56.800 anybody ever did?
00:04:58.800 Am I wrong?
00:05:01.440 I'm not seeing agreement or disagreement.
00:05:03.900 Okay, I see some agreements.
00:05:05.360 This is about the simplest political question
00:05:09.680 of all time.
00:05:12.420 Now, of course,
00:05:13.080 I'm making a big assumption here
00:05:14.500 that she's gone through some vetting before
00:05:17.340 and that there are no surprises.
00:05:20.540 I think that's reasonably fair.
00:05:22.760 But if there are no surprises,
00:05:24.960 the Republican strategy is crystal clear.
00:05:27.960 Because what do they want for their next nominee?
00:05:30.160 They want their next nominee to go through
00:05:33.140 because they know they're going to be in power
00:05:35.280 in a few years.
00:05:36.540 Do you think they want to not get their nominees through?
00:05:39.660 No, they want that.
00:05:41.040 So I think that the smart thing
00:05:42.340 is to give balance back to the court,
00:05:44.100 same balance they had.
00:05:45.560 They still have the majority.
00:05:47.940 Set a precedent that says
00:05:49.980 if there are no big problems,
00:05:51.120 you're going to vote yes.
00:05:53.560 Do your job,
00:05:54.860 which is vetting, of course.
00:05:56.980 And then next time
00:05:58.100 the Republicans want to pick somebody,
00:06:00.900 say, look,
00:06:01.780 when you had your candidate,
00:06:03.680 when you had your candidate,
00:06:05.460 we gave you 100% support.
00:06:07.560 We're looking for the same.
00:06:09.280 Now, that doesn't mean they'll get the same.
00:06:11.220 But I think it could help,
00:06:12.600 and there's no gain whatsoever
00:06:13.960 for fighting the nomination,
00:06:15.740 unless we have some surprises.
00:06:16.960 All right, Rasmussen is asking the American public
00:06:20.760 about Biden's handling
00:06:22.560 of the Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
00:06:26.300 49% of Americans who answered the poll
00:06:29.480 said he's doing a poor job.
00:06:32.980 And 53% said defending America's borders
00:06:35.580 is more important than defending Ukraine.
00:06:39.100 So normally when war breaks out,
00:06:42.240 it's good for the leader.
00:06:43.420 You know, even if it's an unpopular war,
00:06:46.900 at least the first week or so,
00:06:49.140 the leader usually gets some support
00:06:50.740 but it's not exactly our war, is it?
00:06:53.820 It looks like a war that we,
00:06:56.640 if I'm being honest,
00:06:58.860 I think the United States caused this war.
00:07:02.820 Does anybody else think that?
00:07:05.740 I think the U.S. caused this war.
00:07:10.500 I'm seeing some yeses.
00:07:12.680 Now, you know,
00:07:14.080 one argument against what I just said
00:07:16.160 is that it requires everything to be true
00:07:19.900 in order to get where you are now.
00:07:22.620 So the U.S.'s actions are just, you know,
00:07:24.780 part of the variables.
00:07:26.060 Everybody else would have to do exactly
00:07:27.500 what they were doing to get where we are.
00:07:29.960 So it's not like you could change one variable
00:07:32.080 and know what would happen.
00:07:33.620 You don't.
00:07:34.160 Anything could happen if you change one variable.
00:07:37.240 It could go the same direction.
00:07:38.340 It could go a different one.
00:07:39.540 But at the moment,
00:07:41.120 it looks like the United States created a situation
00:07:44.660 in which we said we would, you know,
00:07:48.620 guide and protect Ukraine
00:07:50.020 and instead we turned it into a threat.
00:07:53.920 Didn't we?
00:07:54.520 Did you see the video of Adam Schiff
00:07:58.060 in 2020, I think,
00:08:02.000 saying that we wanted to support Ukraine
00:08:04.400 so we don't have to fight Russia here?
00:08:06.820 We'll fight Russia there
00:08:08.160 so we don't have to fight them here?
00:08:10.280 That sounds like an offensive mood, doesn't it?
00:08:13.400 That sounds like an offensive mood.
00:08:15.460 So we've got a member of Congress
00:08:16.980 who said in public
00:08:18.280 that we have offensive intentions about Russia
00:08:21.620 and that we would fight them in Ukraine.
00:08:26.100 We actually said we're fighting Russia.
00:08:29.320 Like one of our politicians said that in public.
00:08:32.280 Oh, yeah, we're fighting Russia over there
00:08:34.080 so we don't have to fight them here.
00:08:36.780 How does that sound in Russia?
00:08:39.340 Sounds like an offensive move.
00:08:41.700 Do you think that putting a NATO cap on Ukraine
00:08:46.940 is a defensive move or an offensive move
00:08:49.440 in the comments?
00:08:50.140 Is that a defensive or offensive move
00:08:53.520 to bring Ukraine into...
00:08:58.100 I see it as offensive.
00:09:00.440 I see it as offensive.
00:09:02.520 Now, I'm not on Russia's side.
00:09:06.220 Do you believe that, first of all?
00:09:10.200 I'm not sure if anybody believes anything at this point.
00:09:13.320 But do you believe I'm not on Russia's side?
00:09:15.920 I hope you do.
00:09:16.860 But even though, to me,
00:09:21.620 it looks like America caused this problem.
00:09:25.280 I also think that Trump wouldn't have caused it.
00:09:28.300 I don't think he would have.
00:09:29.900 Because I think Trump can read the room better.
00:09:34.320 Right?
00:09:34.540 I'm not saying Trump is perfect
00:09:35.840 and Biden's all bad.
00:09:37.820 I don't do that game.
00:09:38.900 I'm just saying that Trump can read a room
00:09:41.580 like nobody can read a room.
00:09:43.360 Like, he can really read a room.
00:09:45.340 And I feel like he would have figured out
00:09:47.140 some way past this
00:09:50.180 because it's a psychological problem.
00:09:53.120 It's not a physical problem.
00:09:55.520 It's a physical problem
00:09:56.840 if the psychological part spills over into it,
00:09:59.540 which it usually does.
00:10:00.540 But if you solve it psychologically,
00:10:02.800 you don't get the physical part.
00:10:06.100 And I don't think Biden has those capabilities.
00:10:08.740 I think Trump did.
00:10:10.460 I think Trump had the ability
00:10:11.800 to just shake the box
00:10:14.100 until the box lined up the way he wanted.
00:10:17.800 So it's not like he would just do, like,
00:10:19.860 a strategy that's different.
00:10:21.480 I'm not saying that.
00:10:22.920 I'm saying that whatever Trump did
00:10:24.280 wouldn't look anything like this.
00:10:26.180 It would just be different.
00:10:28.260 He would say different things.
00:10:29.700 He would push different buttons.
00:10:31.480 What would we get?
00:10:33.300 I don't know.
00:10:34.240 I think he'd shake the box
00:10:35.400 and see what happened.
00:10:37.020 And if we liked it, we'd keep it.
00:10:38.940 And if he didn't like it,
00:10:40.140 he'd shake it again.
00:10:41.380 I think he'd just keep shaking it
00:10:42.700 until he got a situation he liked.
00:10:44.940 And that's just not a capability
00:10:46.620 that Biden has.
00:10:47.780 Biden has the,
00:10:49.260 we're the adults in the room.
00:10:50.620 So the way we've always treated things
00:10:53.420 is the way we'll continue treating them.
00:10:55.740 Be nice and predictable
00:10:56.880 so they know exactly what you're going to do.
00:11:00.020 Trump would have been unpredictable as hell.
00:11:04.480 Unpredictable as hell.
00:11:06.380 You wouldn't even know
00:11:07.460 what side he was on after a while.
00:11:09.880 You don't think that would help?
00:11:11.780 Of course it would help.
00:11:13.460 Of course it would help.
00:11:14.760 You don't think Trump could get a message
00:11:16.760 land in the,
00:11:19.740 that would land on the public
00:11:21.260 of Russia?
00:11:23.340 Yeah, he could.
00:11:24.580 Can Biden?
00:11:25.880 Can Biden create a narrative
00:11:27.540 that actually takes hold
00:11:29.460 in the people of Russia?
00:11:32.160 Maybe, but
00:11:33.040 he's not good at it.
00:11:35.540 Who's good at that?
00:11:37.820 Trump.
00:11:38.880 Trump is good at that.
00:11:40.860 Yeah.
00:11:41.080 He wouldn't have to get all of Russia
00:11:42.440 to believe him,
00:11:43.040 but if he got 25% of them,
00:11:44.660 that's a pretty big problem for Putin.
00:11:48.320 All right.
00:11:49.400 Now, of course,
00:11:50.080 it's always unfair to say,
00:11:51.660 you know,
00:11:51.920 the other person
00:11:52.680 would have done it better.
00:11:53.620 It's sort of the grass
00:11:54.380 is always greener
00:11:55.280 sort of thing.
00:11:56.220 So you should be aware
00:11:57.200 that there's a bit of an illusion
00:11:58.500 that follows all of this.
00:12:00.540 We don't know
00:12:01.320 that Trump would have done
00:12:02.380 a better job.
00:12:03.640 We don't know that.
00:12:05.040 It's just that his personality
00:12:06.360 appears more fit for the task.
00:12:09.280 That's all you can say for sure.
00:12:13.200 All right.
00:12:13.720 Here's the thing
00:12:14.480 that is making me wonder
00:12:16.860 how much our own fake news
00:12:18.800 is faking us on this story.
00:12:22.420 Let me do a fact check with you.
00:12:25.520 Fact check for those
00:12:26.660 who've been watching the news.
00:12:28.440 Is Ukraine infiltrated
00:12:31.460 or does it have too many neo-Nazis
00:12:34.600 in the government
00:12:35.420 and military itself?
00:12:37.520 Yes or no?
00:12:39.000 Is that a real charge
00:12:40.480 that the number of neo-Nazis,
00:12:42.660 actual neo-Nazis
00:12:43.860 in the Ukrainian military
00:12:46.020 and in the Ukrainian government?
00:12:50.120 True or false?
00:12:53.660 All right.
00:12:54.180 Most of you are saying no.
00:12:56.220 Oh, a few yeses.
00:12:57.560 Now, those of you
00:12:58.780 who are saying no,
00:12:59.480 where did you get
00:13:00.040 that information?
00:13:01.800 What is the source
00:13:02.840 of your information
00:13:03.680 that the Ukrainian government
00:13:05.660 and military
00:13:07.140 are not filled with,
00:13:12.320 but let's say,
00:13:13.220 let's say does not have
00:13:14.600 a significant amount
00:13:15.700 of neo-Nazis in it?
00:13:17.480 Where did you learn that?
00:13:19.360 Did you learn that
00:13:20.260 from Western press?
00:13:22.680 You did, right?
00:13:24.220 So if you believe
00:13:25.540 that there is not,
00:13:26.900 not,
00:13:28.660 an important neo-Nazi problem
00:13:30.480 with Ukraine,
00:13:31.220 you got that
00:13:32.820 from your own press.
00:13:35.620 Are they credible?
00:13:38.100 Not really.
00:13:39.960 Not on war stuff,
00:13:41.040 especially.
00:13:41.980 Anything about war,
00:13:43.080 there's no press
00:13:43.720 that's credible.
00:13:44.820 Basically nobody.
00:13:46.560 But we all believed it,
00:13:47.680 didn't we?
00:13:48.740 I believed it.
00:13:51.080 I would say
00:13:51.820 that it's just
00:13:52.300 one of those things
00:13:52.980 that didn't rise
00:13:53.840 to the level
00:13:54.520 of questioning it.
00:13:55.560 But here's
00:13:59.840 the counterpoint.
00:14:01.640 I got this
00:14:02.440 from Brian Berletic
00:14:04.680 on Twitter,
00:14:06.000 and I don't know
00:14:06.680 what his background is.
00:14:08.420 And let me say
00:14:09.100 something very clearly.
00:14:11.140 I don't know
00:14:11.680 who this individual is,
00:14:12.820 Brian Berletic,
00:14:14.160 but he promotes
00:14:16.280 an argument
00:14:16.820 or a point of view
00:14:18.120 that I think
00:14:18.820 you should see.
00:14:20.360 Now when I tell you this,
00:14:22.460 you might think
00:14:23.200 that I'm a Russian spy.
00:14:25.560 You might also think
00:14:27.480 that poor Brian Berletic,
00:14:30.000 who did not ask
00:14:30.960 for me to talk about him,
00:14:32.440 you might think
00:14:33.040 he's also
00:14:33.700 a Russian operative.
00:14:36.020 Just because of the way
00:14:37.020 the argument's going to go.
00:14:38.620 Okay?
00:14:39.060 Now I'm not going to claim
00:14:40.040 any of that is true.
00:14:41.140 Certainly not about me.
00:14:42.920 But I don't know
00:14:43.420 anything about Brian,
00:14:44.160 so I'm not going to
00:14:44.660 accuse him of anything.
00:14:45.840 I would just want to
00:14:46.960 acknowledge
00:14:47.640 that it's going to
00:14:49.140 look like propaganda
00:14:50.000 when I tell you
00:14:51.060 what he said.
00:14:51.680 Okay?
00:14:52.680 So he's using
00:14:53.620 only sources
00:14:54.340 from the West.
00:14:55.560 He's using
00:14:56.440 the United Nations
00:14:59.360 as a source,
00:15:00.520 Reuters,
00:15:01.420 you know,
00:15:01.620 basic standard news sources.
00:15:03.640 And he says
00:15:04.260 the following,
00:15:07.360 that Russia
00:15:07.840 didn't start a war
00:15:08.840 in Ukraine.
00:15:09.620 Again,
00:15:09.980 this is the part
00:15:11.140 that sounds like propaganda.
00:15:12.420 You can use
00:15:12.880 your own opinion.
00:15:14.600 He said,
00:15:15.400 the war has been
00:15:16.020 going on for eight years,
00:15:17.880 spearheaded
00:15:18.360 by literal Nazis,
00:15:20.320 killing 14,000,
00:15:22.220 including 3,000 civilians.
00:15:23.780 In other words,
00:15:25.340 that the Ukrainian military
00:15:26.840 has neo-Nazis in it,
00:15:28.940 or actual Nazis,
00:15:30.340 and they have killed
00:15:31.600 14,000 people,
00:15:33.120 including a lot of civilians,
00:15:35.000 in the,
00:15:35.960 I guess,
00:15:36.840 the so-called
00:15:37.400 independent zones,
00:15:40.060 the Donbass region,
00:15:41.160 I guess,
00:15:41.460 mostly.
00:15:42.480 Now,
00:15:43.540 is this true or false?
00:15:46.120 Is it true or false
00:15:47.640 that the Ukrainian military,
00:15:49.900 forget about the Nazi part
00:15:51.260 for a moment,
00:15:51.780 we'll get back to that.
00:15:53.100 But is it true
00:15:53.600 that the Ukrainian military
00:15:54.660 killed 14,000 people
00:15:56.700 in the Donbass area?
00:16:01.040 Now,
00:16:01.640 did they have
00:16:02.860 a good reason?
00:16:04.740 In other words,
00:16:05.420 if the Donbass,
00:16:06.720 if the Donbass area
00:16:08.920 was in fact,
00:16:10.500 let's say,
00:16:12.660 occupied by enemy troops,
00:16:15.380 doesn't the country
00:16:16.420 have a legitimate,
00:16:17.900 you know,
00:16:19.140 war there?
00:16:19.680 So I'm not sure
00:16:21.080 there's anything wrong
00:16:22.080 with fighting
00:16:23.060 to capture back
00:16:25.020 territory that was
00:16:25.940 captured from you,
00:16:27.700 but, you know,
00:16:28.340 Brian puts it in a way
00:16:29.300 that sounds like,
00:16:30.080 it sounds like
00:16:30.840 an offensive
00:16:31.560 instead of a defensive thing.
00:16:35.160 And then he gives
00:16:36.140 his sources,
00:16:36.740 BBC,
00:16:37.440 United Nations,
00:16:38.280 NBC,
00:16:38.940 et cetera.
00:16:40.280 So,
00:16:41.120 and,
00:16:41.560 here is something
00:16:43.420 that blew
00:16:44.200 my frickin' mind.
00:16:45.380 We're used to
00:16:47.680 fake news
00:16:48.860 and CNN
00:16:49.940 and other outlets,
00:16:51.640 so you know
00:16:52.100 what it looks like,
00:16:53.060 but when you watch it,
00:16:54.560 you don't always know
00:16:55.580 how fake it is.
00:16:56.860 Sometimes you need
00:16:57.520 some context
00:16:58.220 to know how fake it is.
00:17:00.020 But,
00:17:01.000 I was pointed
00:17:02.140 to the RT,
00:17:03.860 Russia Today,
00:17:04.780 RT,
00:17:06.000 website,
00:17:07.080 or actually
00:17:07.420 the YouTube feed.
00:17:09.080 And if you watch
00:17:11.360 10 minutes
00:17:12.220 of RT,
00:17:13.440 which is
00:17:13.980 a propaganda organ
00:17:15.820 from Putin,
00:17:18.400 which,
00:17:18.800 by the way,
00:17:20.380 can I,
00:17:21.000 let me pause
00:17:21.900 to give you
00:17:22.400 a full disclosure.
00:17:24.200 I have appeared
00:17:25.100 on RT.
00:17:26.840 So,
00:17:27.200 RT has interviewed me
00:17:28.420 and included my content.
00:17:30.720 Now,
00:17:31.060 at the time,
00:17:32.040 we were not
00:17:32.940 having this kind
00:17:33.980 of problem
00:17:34.360 with Russia,
00:17:35.460 and this was early
00:17:36.680 in,
00:17:37.920 I don't know,
00:17:38.360 if I had to guess
00:17:39.020 the year,
00:17:39.460 it might have been
00:17:39.780 2016,
00:17:41.280 something like that.
00:17:42.880 2016,
00:17:43.460 I'm guessing.
00:17:44.280 Now,
00:17:44.540 at the time,
00:17:44.980 I knew it was called
00:17:45.720 Russia Today,
00:17:47.140 so I wasn't really
00:17:48.360 surprised
00:17:49.800 that they would have
00:17:51.940 a propaganda element
00:17:54.100 to them.
00:17:54.920 But at the time,
00:17:55.800 I didn't have any trouble
00:17:56.620 with Russia.
00:17:58.520 And I thought,
00:17:59.100 oh,
00:17:59.360 it's just more publicity.
00:18:01.360 It doesn't matter
00:18:01.780 where it comes.
00:18:02.440 Right?
00:18:03.160 So I was just,
00:18:04.100 you know,
00:18:04.780 I was just doing
00:18:05.420 anybody who asked
00:18:07.060 at the time,
00:18:07.700 because I thought,
00:18:08.360 I thought what I had
00:18:09.020 to say was worth
00:18:09.740 saying,
00:18:10.200 so I didn't care
00:18:11.200 who asked me
00:18:12.000 to say it.
00:18:13.260 Now,
00:18:13.600 subsequently,
00:18:15.240 once it became
00:18:16.000 more obvious
00:18:17.200 what RT was up to,
00:18:19.340 they've also asked
00:18:20.180 me for content
00:18:20.840 since then,
00:18:22.200 and I've turned
00:18:23.000 them down.
00:18:24.480 So I want to give
00:18:25.480 you,
00:18:25.760 that's my context,
00:18:27.560 that I have appeared
00:18:28.360 on there,
00:18:29.580 completely aware
00:18:31.320 of what the situation
00:18:32.420 was,
00:18:33.040 and what the risks
00:18:33.860 and rewards were.
00:18:35.100 But at the moment,
00:18:35.880 I wouldn't take
00:18:36.360 that chance.
00:18:36.940 So I would never
00:18:38.800 appear on RT again.
00:18:41.840 Everybody okay
00:18:42.500 with that decision?
00:18:44.140 That makes sense,
00:18:45.000 right?
00:18:46.160 Now,
00:18:46.720 I'm not sure I regret
00:18:47.960 having done it
00:18:48.720 the first time,
00:18:49.600 because it worked
00:18:50.320 for me,
00:18:50.820 it worked for them,
00:18:51.700 and I got my message
00:18:52.980 out,
00:18:53.280 it didn't matter.
00:18:54.340 But I definitely
00:18:55.040 wouldn't do it now.
00:18:56.360 I mean,
00:18:56.740 I wouldn't give them
00:18:57.380 any attention
00:18:57.900 whatsoever.
00:18:59.520 By the way,
00:19:00.240 the only place
00:19:00.760 you're going to see
00:19:01.300 RT.com right now
00:19:02.820 is on YouTube,
00:19:04.760 because I tried
00:19:07.500 to look at their
00:19:08.080 website last night,
00:19:09.220 and it was in trouble.
00:19:12.520 So apparently,
00:19:13.520 Anonymous,
00:19:14.720 the Anonymous
00:19:15.400 hacker group
00:19:16.180 that is international
00:19:17.540 and don't know
00:19:18.640 too much about them,
00:19:19.840 have targeted Russia
00:19:20.980 and Russian-related
00:19:22.880 websites,
00:19:23.580 including RT.
00:19:25.220 So a number
00:19:26.020 of websites
00:19:26.480 in Russia
00:19:26.900 are down,
00:19:27.440 and I don't know
00:19:30.140 how long Anonymous
00:19:31.060 is going to keep
00:19:31.800 at them,
00:19:32.580 but that's worth
00:19:34.100 watching.
00:19:35.180 The thing I don't
00:19:35.940 know is,
00:19:36.460 does Anonymous
00:19:36.940 have the good tools?
00:19:39.420 Like,
00:19:39.880 how close
00:19:41.080 to a government
00:19:41.820 hack
00:19:42.360 could Anonymous
00:19:44.860 get?
00:19:45.420 Because I think
00:19:46.200 there's a big
00:19:47.600 difference,
00:19:48.060 right,
00:19:48.900 between the best
00:19:49.900 amateur hack
00:19:51.300 and the best
00:19:52.780 military hack.
00:19:54.400 There's no
00:19:55.000 correlation there.
00:19:55.960 There are like
00:19:56.700 worlds of
00:19:57.360 difference apart.
00:19:58.460 So I don't know
00:19:59.140 how much difference
00:19:59.760 they can make.
00:20:00.440 It's probably
00:20:00.860 just denial
00:20:01.500 of service
00:20:02.040 attacks,
00:20:02.580 that sort of
00:20:02.960 thing.
00:20:05.640 I doubt
00:20:06.240 they can take
00:20:06.740 equipment offline.
00:20:09.000 In other words,
00:20:09.520 I doubt Anonymous
00:20:10.400 could crash
00:20:11.200 their grid.
00:20:13.020 What I would
00:20:13.380 imagine,
00:20:14.500 oh,
00:20:14.720 RT is up again?
00:20:16.900 Let's see.
00:20:18.420 This will be
00:20:18.980 interesting.
00:20:19.740 All right,
00:20:20.060 let me test
00:20:20.980 it right here.
00:20:24.340 RT.
00:20:26.140 You're probably
00:20:26.800 doing this
00:20:27.260 right as I'm
00:20:27.900 doing it.
00:20:28.220 You already
00:20:28.580 are printing
00:20:29.480 the answer
00:20:29.900 in your
00:20:30.180 comments.
00:20:36.320 Nope.
00:20:38.240 Is RT up
00:20:39.520 where you are?
00:20:41.760 Because I'm
00:20:42.360 getting a blank
00:20:42.880 page.
00:20:47.320 Oh,
00:20:47.740 you're on it
00:20:48.100 now,
00:20:48.380 really?
00:20:48.860 Is it just
00:20:49.400 RT.com?
00:20:50.540 It's RT.com,
00:20:53.820 right?
00:20:55.280 So apparently
00:20:56.000 it's offline
00:20:56.960 in certain
00:20:57.400 places.
00:20:59.560 Let me
00:21:00.200 refresh,
00:21:01.320 see if it
00:21:01.920 changes.
00:21:02.840 Yeah,
00:21:03.040 no,
00:21:03.340 the refresh
00:21:04.300 didn't work.
00:21:06.360 It's up in
00:21:07.100 Florida.
00:21:08.760 I'll be darned.
00:21:12.220 All right,
00:21:12.740 so some can
00:21:13.380 reach it and
00:21:13.800 some can't.
00:21:14.420 So what does
00:21:14.880 that mean?
00:21:15.240 Does that mean
00:21:15.640 denial of
00:21:16.200 service?
00:21:16.540 your ISP
00:21:19.200 blocked it.
00:21:20.060 That's what it
00:21:20.520 looks like.
00:21:21.060 It doesn't
00:21:21.580 look like a
00:21:22.220 denial of
00:21:22.700 service.
00:21:23.060 It looks
00:21:23.300 blocked.
00:21:25.540 It looks
00:21:26.200 blocked.
00:21:27.140 Yeah,
00:21:27.340 it's up on
00:21:27.720 YouTube because
00:21:28.460 and why?
00:21:30.440 Wait a minute.
00:21:36.340 Wait a minute.
00:21:38.000 Are you
00:21:38.360 fucking kidding
00:21:39.200 me?
00:21:41.200 YouTube?
00:21:42.280 YouTube is
00:21:43.140 running Russian
00:21:43.820 propaganda during
00:21:44.780 the war?
00:21:45.140 Are you
00:21:46.620 fucking kidding
00:21:47.360 me?
00:21:50.700 Oh,
00:21:51.120 you think it's
00:21:51.540 only the
00:21:51.860 iPhone that's
00:21:52.600 the problem?
00:21:53.300 Maybe.
00:21:55.060 I mean,
00:21:55.400 I'm on Wi-Fi.
00:21:56.340 How should that
00:21:56.780 make a difference?
00:21:59.580 Wow.
00:22:01.980 I think you'd
00:22:02.800 have to say that
00:22:03.500 YouTube is
00:22:04.480 supporting Russia
00:22:05.520 in the war,
00:22:06.140 wouldn't you?
00:22:07.860 Isn't the
00:22:08.440 number one thing
00:22:09.160 that YouTube
00:22:09.640 does is get
00:22:10.540 rid of content
00:22:11.240 that's
00:22:12.580 inappropriate?
00:22:14.040 What is more
00:22:14.800 inappropriate than
00:22:15.820 war propaganda
00:22:17.080 during a war
00:22:17.960 from the
00:22:19.840 other side?
00:22:23.220 YouTube,
00:22:23.980 you've got a
00:22:24.380 lot of
00:22:24.620 explaining.
00:22:25.640 Do you know
00:22:26.000 who got
00:22:26.300 demonetized a
00:22:27.340 few times this
00:22:27.960 week?
00:22:29.340 Or last few
00:22:30.400 weeks?
00:22:31.100 I did.
00:22:32.280 I did.
00:22:33.760 YouTube is
00:22:34.620 censoring me?
00:22:35.240 Are they not
00:22:36.780 doing any
00:22:37.300 censoring of
00:22:38.160 war propaganda
00:22:39.400 from Russia?
00:22:39.960 like, I hope
00:22:42.800 I'm wrong
00:22:43.260 about that,
00:22:44.760 but,
00:22:45.760 hey, YouTube,
00:22:46.680 if you censors
00:22:48.140 are watching me
00:22:48.920 right now,
00:22:49.660 and I know
00:22:50.120 that they have
00:22:50.580 to do manual
00:22:51.420 reviews almost
00:22:52.180 every time,
00:22:53.460 but what the
00:22:55.460 hell is going
00:22:55.980 on?
00:22:57.040 I think you
00:22:57.600 need an
00:22:57.940 explanation for
00:22:58.700 the public.
00:22:59.040 I think the
00:23:00.300 public would
00:23:00.820 like to know
00:23:01.480 why my content
00:23:03.340 is often
00:23:03.960 demonetized
00:23:04.780 without any
00:23:05.680 reason that I
00:23:06.280 can see,
00:23:06.700 at the same
00:23:08.340 time that
00:23:08.860 RT is just
00:23:10.420 up and running
00:23:10.980 with their
00:23:11.400 feed?
00:23:12.640 Seriously?
00:23:13.880 And that's
00:23:14.580 okay with you.
00:23:16.380 YouTube's okay
00:23:17.100 with that.
00:23:18.060 Google is okay
00:23:18.880 with that.
00:23:20.540 I think we
00:23:21.620 need an
00:23:21.960 explanation.
00:23:23.580 Don't you?
00:23:25.100 Don't you
00:23:25.740 think somebody
00:23:26.440 needs to ask
00:23:27.140 YouTube what
00:23:27.760 the fuck is
00:23:28.520 going on?
00:23:29.940 What the
00:23:30.620 fuck is going
00:23:31.400 on?
00:23:32.480 Seriously?
00:23:33.980 And that's
00:23:34.280 mind-boggling.
00:23:35.760 Just mind-boggling.
00:23:36.700 Well, you
00:23:38.880 think this
00:23:39.320 war in
00:23:39.800 Ukraine is
00:23:40.300 bad, but
00:23:40.880 it's way
00:23:41.300 worse than
00:23:41.740 you think.
00:23:42.620 Joy Behar
00:23:43.580 is concerned
00:23:45.140 about the
00:23:46.220 effects it
00:23:46.680 will have on
00:23:47.340 her vacation
00:23:48.940 to Italy that
00:23:49.720 she's planning
00:23:50.200 this summer.
00:23:51.620 And she's
00:23:51.960 been trying to
00:23:52.900 get there for
00:23:53.420 four years,
00:23:54.180 damn it, and
00:23:54.720 the pandemic
00:23:55.600 slowed her
00:23:56.160 down, and
00:23:56.740 now, in
00:23:58.920 somber tones
00:23:59.780 appropriate to
00:24:00.920 the situation,
00:24:01.720 she complains
00:24:02.440 that her
00:24:03.500 vacation to
00:24:04.160 Italy might
00:24:05.640 be postponed.
00:24:06.700 It might
00:24:07.840 be postponed.
00:24:10.020 So, if we
00:24:10.960 could have a
00:24:11.380 moment of
00:24:11.800 silence for
00:24:12.460 Joe Behar's
00:24:14.360 vacation.
00:24:15.960 Moment of
00:24:16.420 silence, please.
00:24:17.820 Okay, that's
00:24:18.320 enough.
00:24:20.840 All right, here's
00:24:21.580 something else that
00:24:22.240 the fake news
00:24:22.900 caused.
00:24:24.780 War in
00:24:25.380 Ukraine.
00:24:27.180 War in
00:24:27.760 Ukraine.
00:24:30.440 Have you
00:24:31.100 wondered why
00:24:31.680 Putin can get
00:24:32.520 away with saying
00:24:33.280 ridiculous bullshit
00:24:34.380 shit about why
00:24:35.180 he's going into
00:24:35.800 Ukraine?
00:24:37.060 Have you
00:24:37.660 wondered why
00:24:38.120 he can say
00:24:38.520 such ridiculous
00:24:39.420 things that
00:24:40.700 are so
00:24:41.040 obviously untrue,
00:24:42.720 and apparently
00:24:43.200 half of his
00:24:43.800 country believes
00:24:44.460 it?
00:24:46.140 Like, half of
00:24:47.040 the country
00:24:47.340 believes it.
00:24:48.940 Now, why is
00:24:49.800 that?
00:24:51.060 Could it be
00:24:51.860 because there
00:24:52.420 are no sources
00:24:53.120 of legitimate
00:24:53.840 news?
00:24:55.640 Yes, it
00:24:56.320 could be that.
00:24:57.600 Because even
00:24:58.320 Russia has access
00:24:59.140 to the Internet.
00:25:00.620 You know, there's
00:25:00.980 some things censored,
00:25:01.920 et cetera, but
00:25:02.920 they can get to
00:25:03.560 CNN.com, can
00:25:06.100 they not?
00:25:07.400 Can somebody do a
00:25:08.120 fact check?
00:25:09.240 If you live in
00:25:09.900 Russia, you can
00:25:11.220 get to CNN.com.
00:25:14.460 Is that true, by
00:25:15.560 the way?
00:25:16.220 It is true, right?
00:25:18.420 So, if you can
00:25:19.540 get to Western
00:25:20.600 news sources,
00:25:22.420 why don't those
00:25:23.880 Western news
00:25:24.820 sources reprogram
00:25:25.980 the Russian public
00:25:26.920 into a more
00:25:29.100 accurate view of
00:25:29.940 the world?
00:25:31.460 Well, maybe it's
00:25:32.900 because when they
00:25:33.500 watch CNN, they
00:25:34.360 can tell it's
00:25:34.900 fake news.
00:25:36.480 Because it is.
00:25:38.480 Maybe there are
00:25:40.140 no sources of
00:25:41.000 reliable news.
00:25:42.520 So, when the
00:25:43.420 Russian public
00:25:44.140 sees RT, they
00:25:46.160 don't see it as
00:25:46.860 any different than
00:25:47.680 anything else.
00:25:48.880 Because everything's
00:25:49.780 propaganda.
00:25:51.500 That's a pretty
00:25:52.220 bad place to be.
00:25:54.080 Wouldn't it be a
00:25:54.700 better world if
00:25:56.060 there were at
00:25:56.520 least one place
00:25:57.360 you could see
00:25:57.840 both sides, and
00:25:59.160 the Russian public
00:25:59.820 could say, you
00:26:00.260 know, I don't
00:26:01.240 believe RT, I
00:26:02.680 also don't
00:26:03.140 believe CNN.
00:26:04.560 Can I just go
00:26:05.660 look somewhere and
00:26:07.160 find out what's
00:26:07.800 true?
00:26:09.580 I think that the
00:26:11.140 fake news industry
00:26:12.100 in the United
00:26:12.640 States, the fact
00:26:14.380 that it lost all
00:26:15.160 credibility, is a
00:26:17.840 much bigger problem
00:26:18.780 than we imagine.
00:26:20.280 It's not just about
00:26:21.340 who believes
00:26:21.940 bullshit and votes
00:26:22.860 wrong.
00:26:23.600 It's about starting
00:26:24.700 wars.
00:26:26.740 I would argue that
00:26:27.900 this is a war of
00:26:28.860 disinformation.
00:26:30.640 Meaning that the
00:26:31.620 soldiers fighting it
00:26:32.540 don't know why
00:26:33.060 they're fighting it.
00:26:34.880 Maybe Putin knows,
00:26:36.260 but he's not saying
00:26:36.920 it directly.
00:26:38.720 So, if you could
00:26:40.660 fix disinformation,
00:26:42.900 you could probably
00:26:43.720 take a big bite out
00:26:44.920 of any future wars
00:26:45.980 because they depend
00:26:46.820 on disinformation.
00:26:48.260 The entire thing
00:26:49.080 depends on that.
00:26:51.300 All right.
00:26:51.880 What do you think of
00:26:55.800 temporary sanctions on
00:26:57.280 stuff as a way to
00:26:58.540 stop a war?
00:27:02.040 It doesn't really
00:27:02.900 work, does it?
00:27:04.240 Because everybody
00:27:05.000 thinks, well, it's
00:27:05.620 temporary.
00:27:06.980 I can keep Ukraine
00:27:08.340 forever, but the
00:27:09.360 sanctions will be
00:27:10.040 temporary.
00:27:11.840 If I just told you
00:27:13.200 that, doesn't it
00:27:14.240 look like a good
00:27:14.880 investment for Russia
00:27:16.220 to conquer Ukraine?
00:27:17.560 If the only thing
00:27:19.000 you knew was that
00:27:21.000 the sanctions,
00:27:22.160 whatever they are,
00:27:23.080 are probably
00:27:23.680 temporary, but the
00:27:25.500 ownership of Ukraine
00:27:26.460 is probably closer
00:27:27.620 to permanent, that
00:27:29.720 looks like a good
00:27:30.340 deal.
00:27:31.340 So, why do we
00:27:32.340 create a situation
00:27:33.660 that makes it look
00:27:34.240 like a good deal
00:27:35.080 to conquer your
00:27:36.400 neighbor?
00:27:37.480 Maybe we should
00:27:38.320 create a situation
00:27:39.180 where it doesn't
00:27:40.140 look like a good
00:27:40.840 deal anymore.
00:27:41.400 Now, I floated
00:27:44.140 the idea that
00:27:46.140 maybe some of the
00:27:47.080 sanctions should be
00:27:47.820 permanent, like as
00:27:49.960 in forever, as in
00:27:51.920 never fucking change.
00:27:54.060 Now, one of the
00:27:54.460 questions somebody
00:27:55.100 asked me was, but
00:27:56.260 Scott, what about
00:27:57.760 if Putin leaves
00:27:58.900 office and if you
00:28:00.660 could imagine he's
00:28:01.500 replaced by somebody
00:28:02.800 who's not a problem,
00:28:03.700 we don't have a
00:28:04.220 problem with him,
00:28:05.900 then would you drop
00:28:06.860 the permanent
00:28:07.380 sanctions?
00:28:08.380 To which I say,
00:28:09.380 no, do you know
00:28:10.000 what permanent means?
00:28:11.740 Permanent means you
00:28:12.500 don't drop them
00:28:13.100 ever.
00:28:14.780 Now, the financial
00:28:15.860 ones, of course,
00:28:16.620 will get dropped
00:28:17.200 eventually.
00:28:18.520 That would make
00:28:19.060 sense.
00:28:20.680 You know, propaganda
00:28:21.820 could get dropped.
00:28:22.880 You know, there's
00:28:23.200 lots of things that
00:28:23.840 could get dropped
00:28:24.520 eventually, if the
00:28:26.400 government became
00:28:27.220 more friendly to the
00:28:28.100 United States, et
00:28:28.880 cetera, or to the
00:28:29.460 West.
00:28:30.640 But here's one.
00:28:32.020 I think you have to
00:28:32.740 give them one
00:28:33.340 permanent stain.
00:28:35.720 Take Germany as
00:28:37.100 an example.
00:28:39.240 Did Germany
00:28:39.940 bulldoze the
00:28:41.080 concentration camps
00:28:42.140 from World War
00:28:42.940 II?
00:28:44.100 They did not.
00:28:45.860 They did not.
00:28:46.540 And wisely, I
00:28:47.340 think.
00:28:48.440 Instead, they kept
00:28:49.640 the concentration
00:28:50.440 camps because they
00:28:51.460 never want to
00:28:52.060 forget.
00:28:54.040 And Germany,
00:28:56.420 rather than
00:28:57.080 running from its
00:28:57.860 history, has
00:28:59.140 simply embraced
00:29:00.140 the shame and
00:29:01.260 said, that's who
00:29:01.840 we are now.
00:29:03.000 That's who we are.
00:29:03.800 We just have to
00:29:04.340 deal with that.
00:29:05.420 That's who we are
00:29:06.140 now.
00:29:06.420 Meaning the brand
00:29:07.680 of the country.
00:29:09.720 And I feel as
00:29:10.720 though we should
00:29:12.140 consider, we, the
00:29:13.260 rest of the world,
00:29:15.320 banning international
00:29:16.620 sports from Russia
00:29:18.220 forever.
00:29:20.420 Because international
00:29:21.520 sports doesn't change
00:29:23.340 your finances or your
00:29:24.340 access to energy or
00:29:25.560 your, you know,
00:29:27.120 national security.
00:29:28.640 Those things have to
00:29:29.860 be flexible because
00:29:30.760 people are going to
00:29:31.360 do what makes sense
00:29:32.180 always.
00:29:32.600 But if you tell the
00:29:34.460 population of a
00:29:35.420 country that you
00:29:37.880 will be banned from
00:29:38.740 international sports
00:29:39.820 forever, that
00:29:42.420 actually is something
00:29:43.200 that will touch them
00:29:43.960 on a regular basis.
00:29:45.700 Because I'm pretty
00:29:46.460 sure soccer is
00:29:47.200 popular.
00:29:47.740 I'm pretty sure,
00:29:48.600 you know, sporting
00:29:49.780 and being part of the
00:29:51.060 sporting world is
00:29:51.900 important.
00:29:54.220 But if it were me,
00:29:55.340 I would say, and
00:29:56.480 of course there's no
00:29:57.080 way to do this because
00:29:58.000 all the sporting
00:29:59.020 groups are independent
00:30:00.160 people.
00:30:00.960 But I would say
00:30:02.420 there will never be
00:30:03.940 another international
00:30:04.820 game in Russia, nor
00:30:07.580 will you ever be
00:30:08.260 invited to any.
00:30:09.520 Not the Olympics, not
00:30:10.900 anything.
00:30:11.620 You're just out of
00:30:12.260 sports forever.
00:30:14.160 Now, you might say
00:30:15.500 to yourself, but
00:30:16.580 Scott, how much does
00:30:17.940 Putin care about
00:30:18.760 that?
00:30:19.740 That's not going to
00:30:20.420 change anything.
00:30:21.620 To which I say, it's
00:30:22.840 about the next one.
00:30:25.160 I agree that it
00:30:26.240 wouldn't change
00:30:26.700 anything on this
00:30:27.360 war.
00:30:27.780 You're right.
00:30:29.180 But it's about the
00:30:29.860 next one.
00:30:30.960 I think you have
00:30:31.620 to set a standard
00:30:33.640 that some things
00:30:34.520 are permanent, and
00:30:35.820 that those things
00:30:36.440 should be things
00:30:36.980 that affect the
00:30:37.660 public, but not
00:30:38.540 in a life-or-death
00:30:39.600 way.
00:30:41.780 Let me ask you
00:30:42.560 this.
00:30:44.460 Suppose you're just
00:30:45.200 an American sitting
00:30:46.000 at home watching
00:30:46.580 the Ukraine situation.
00:30:48.660 How much do you
00:30:49.440 care about it?
00:30:51.720 It's different,
00:30:52.520 right?
00:30:52.760 People care,
00:30:53.580 people don't care.
00:30:54.160 But suppose you
00:30:56.400 found out that
00:30:57.140 supporting the war
00:30:58.540 in Ukraine would
00:30:59.800 mean you could
00:31:00.820 never watch
00:31:01.280 professional sports
00:31:02.260 in America again.
00:31:04.600 How much do you
00:31:05.500 care now?
00:31:06.720 Well, you might
00:31:07.360 not care about
00:31:07.940 Ukraine at all,
00:31:08.940 or the war at
00:31:09.880 all.
00:31:10.700 But how many
00:31:11.440 people build their
00:31:12.320 lives around
00:31:12.920 watching sports?
00:31:14.960 A lot.
00:31:16.280 It would actually
00:31:17.200 really, really
00:31:18.140 affect people.
00:31:20.240 Now, it wouldn't
00:31:20.920 affect me, because
00:31:21.640 I don't watch
00:31:22.320 sports, but it
00:31:23.440 would really affect
00:31:24.220 a lot of people
00:31:24.920 who it's their
00:31:25.980 only entertainment
00:31:26.700 and it's free.
00:31:28.160 If you take
00:31:28.860 away their
00:31:29.280 only free
00:31:29.900 entertainment,
00:31:30.560 the thing they
00:31:30.960 care about and
00:31:31.600 look forward to,
00:31:32.620 it's a big deal.
00:31:34.220 It's a big deal.
00:31:35.380 It's just not
00:31:35.860 life or death.
00:31:37.300 So I think you
00:31:38.180 could find some
00:31:38.820 things which are
00:31:39.560 big deals that
00:31:41.360 you could say,
00:31:41.880 you know, this
00:31:42.540 one's just
00:31:42.900 permanent.
00:31:44.340 This one's just
00:31:45.200 permanent.
00:31:45.900 There's nothing
00:31:46.240 you can do
00:31:46.660 about it.
00:31:50.060 That might get
00:31:50.820 their public
00:31:51.500 involved, but if
00:31:53.580 not, who cares?
00:31:54.920 Who cares in
00:31:57.920 the sense that
00:31:58.540 it's about the
00:32:00.540 next public?
00:32:01.340 It's not really
00:32:01.860 about this public.
00:32:03.480 All right, so
00:32:04.160 Ukraine officials
00:32:06.680 have told the
00:32:07.400 public to make
00:32:08.100 Molotov cocktails
00:32:09.100 and get ready for
00:32:10.360 the Russian
00:32:11.080 incursion into
00:32:12.100 Kiev.
00:32:14.120 So it looks
00:32:15.420 like it's going
00:32:16.000 to be a trap
00:32:16.940 and burn
00:32:17.400 strategy.
00:32:19.400 And I don't
00:32:19.880 know why this
00:32:20.360 wouldn't work,
00:32:22.040 but if you
00:32:22.640 could imagine
00:32:23.160 that every third
00:32:24.340 window,
00:32:24.920 in Ukraine,
00:32:26.000 had a Molotov
00:32:26.740 cocktail, and
00:32:28.480 it seems to be
00:32:29.880 tall buildings on
00:32:32.100 the sides of
00:32:32.620 these streets,
00:32:34.940 wouldn't they be
00:32:36.060 able to trap,
00:32:37.520 you know, you
00:32:38.020 blow something up
00:32:38.880 in the beginning
00:32:39.420 and the end of
00:32:40.140 the troops coming
00:32:42.160 in, couldn't you
00:32:43.160 trap them there
00:32:43.900 and just throw
00:32:45.540 Molotov cocktails
00:32:46.820 out the window
00:32:47.380 until they're all
00:32:48.040 burned up?
00:32:48.480 Or, what is the
00:32:52.100 defense against
00:32:52.840 it?
00:32:53.800 Is the defense
00:32:54.700 that the military
00:32:56.180 would just like
00:32:56.880 blow up every
00:32:57.960 building?
00:32:59.220 Because they'd
00:32:59.880 have to, right?
00:33:00.600 They'd have to
00:33:01.000 blow up all the
00:33:01.580 buildings, or even
00:33:03.300 just like spray
00:33:04.160 gunfire into them,
00:33:05.660 but I don't know,
00:33:07.180 would that stop the
00:33:07.900 Molotov cocktails?
00:33:09.220 Would they just
00:33:09.880 blow everything up?
00:33:10.660 They'd probably
00:33:12.200 start executing
00:33:13.160 civilians or doing
00:33:14.480 something pretty
00:33:15.180 big.
00:33:17.640 Blow up the
00:33:18.320 pipelines.
00:33:20.180 Now, apparently
00:33:20.760 Ukraine has also
00:33:21.720 asked for private
00:33:23.240 drones to be
00:33:25.020 donated to the
00:33:25.920 cause.
00:33:27.860 So, one thing
00:33:28.660 that's possible,
00:33:31.120 will the city of
00:33:32.340 Kiev have
00:33:32.800 communication?
00:33:35.300 Because I'm not
00:33:36.420 sure that a
00:33:37.340 Molotov cocktail
00:33:38.480 attack works unless
00:33:40.020 it's coordinated.
00:33:40.660 You know, somebody
00:33:42.800 throwing one once
00:33:43.940 in a while doesn't
00:33:44.740 change anything.
00:33:47.060 But if you
00:33:48.680 trapped the
00:33:50.880 soldiers into a
00:33:51.940 street, you
00:33:53.200 trapped the
00:33:53.640 beginning and the
00:33:54.220 end, and then you
00:33:55.620 just rained fire on
00:33:56.760 them from above, and
00:33:58.580 you took video of it
00:33:59.560 on your phone, and
00:34:01.120 you made that video
00:34:02.040 available to the
00:34:03.160 Russian public, do
00:34:05.200 you think the
00:34:05.600 Russian public would
00:34:06.460 like to see their
00:34:08.060 young people incinerated
00:34:09.420 in a fire?
00:34:09.980 slowly on a
00:34:11.540 Ukraine street.
00:34:13.180 Because that's the
00:34:13.740 video you need.
00:34:15.200 The video you need is
00:34:16.900 of young Russian
00:34:18.560 soldiers on fire and
00:34:20.420 running around and no
00:34:21.560 place to go.
00:34:23.620 You give me that
00:34:24.640 video, and the
00:34:26.380 Russian public will
00:34:27.240 turn on Putin.
00:34:29.260 If you have more
00:34:30.260 than one of them, if
00:34:31.680 you can do that
00:34:32.440 twice, you probably
00:34:35.180 will protect Kiev.
00:34:36.200 Because I don't
00:34:38.200 know that the
00:34:38.660 Russian public could
00:34:40.040 handle watching the
00:34:42.660 slow-motion burn of
00:34:43.780 their young people on
00:34:45.160 the Kiev street.
00:34:46.400 I don't think they
00:34:46.880 could handle it.
00:34:48.820 And I don't think that
00:34:49.740 even Putin could keep
00:34:50.660 that image out of
00:34:51.440 Russia.
00:34:53.940 But we'll see.
00:34:55.640 Now, let me be very
00:34:57.500 clear.
00:34:58.540 I'm not even sure I
00:34:59.820 care who wins.
00:35:00.640 Is that fair?
00:35:05.420 Is it fair to say I
00:35:06.580 don't care who wins?
00:35:07.980 Because so far,
00:35:09.060 Ukraine has been
00:35:09.780 nothing but a pain in
00:35:11.400 the fucking ass to
00:35:12.360 America.
00:35:13.020 Am I right?
00:35:14.060 So far, Ukraine has
00:35:15.380 been nothing but a
00:35:16.400 thorn in our side.
00:35:19.000 If Russia owned it,
00:35:20.480 it would just be sort
00:35:21.580 of the same risk we
00:35:22.580 had with Russia, just
00:35:23.500 more of it, I guess.
00:35:24.980 But not more of it
00:35:26.080 enough in the way that
00:35:26.820 matters.
00:35:27.160 I don't know.
00:35:29.820 Are we worse off if
00:35:30.920 Putin owns Ukraine?
00:35:32.020 I don't know.
00:35:33.280 I have no idea.
00:35:36.460 But I do think it's
00:35:37.760 interesting that Putin
00:35:40.280 and Biden both shut
00:35:41.660 down each other's
00:35:42.440 banks.
00:35:44.260 You know what I
00:35:44.780 mean?
00:35:45.760 Biden shut down
00:35:47.100 business with a
00:35:48.940 number of the top
00:35:49.580 Russian banks, and
00:35:51.780 Putin is closing
00:35:53.300 Ukraine so that the
00:35:55.460 Bidens can't use it
00:35:56.340 as their personal
00:35:56.980 bank anymore.
00:35:58.240 They both ended
00:35:58.980 banking for each
00:35:59.740 other.
00:36:01.100 How much do you care
00:36:02.140 about that?
00:36:03.520 I don't.
00:36:04.900 I'm happy that Putin
00:36:06.180 can't bank as well, and
00:36:07.440 I'm happy that the
00:36:08.320 Bidens don't have that
00:36:09.140 bank anymore.
00:36:10.440 So, I don't know.
00:36:12.560 Does the United States
00:36:13.360 come out behind?
00:36:14.920 Check the stock
00:36:15.740 market.
00:36:17.360 Let's see.
00:36:18.080 How's the stock
00:36:18.620 market doing?
00:36:19.200 And I'll tell you if
00:36:19.780 the United States is
00:36:20.620 going to come out
00:36:21.400 behind.
00:36:23.600 It's up.
00:36:24.980 It's up.
00:36:25.580 So, Russians are in
00:36:27.240 Kiev, and the
00:36:28.100 American stock market
00:36:29.060 is up.
00:36:31.700 Now, it was down a
00:36:32.800 lot, so this might be
00:36:34.080 just a fluctuation.
00:36:35.460 So, you can't say
00:36:36.080 anything from this one-day
00:36:37.500 change.
00:36:39.640 But, is Ethereum up or
00:36:42.860 down today?
00:36:45.920 Crypto is up.
00:36:47.020 I saw something about
00:36:49.400 Ethereum as a
00:36:50.580 trending story.
00:36:51.980 How much is Ethereum
00:36:53.000 up?
00:36:53.520 A lot?
00:36:57.800 We'll find out.
00:36:58.860 Anyway, this Molotov
00:36:59.900 cocktail situation is
00:37:02.420 going to, if they need
00:37:04.260 to produce video.
00:37:06.420 It's all about the
00:37:07.340 video.
00:37:08.600 So, if you hear
00:37:09.240 Molotov cocktails, that
00:37:10.520 doesn't mean anything.
00:37:11.840 Molotov cocktails plus
00:37:13.380 trapping them, plus
00:37:16.760 getting phone video.
00:37:19.820 That's the way to
00:37:20.720 make a difference.
00:37:23.280 ETH isn't
00:37:23.780 mooning, if that's
00:37:25.600 what you mean.
00:37:26.120 It's at 2,800.
00:37:27.440 So, it's just up a
00:37:28.180 little bit.
00:37:29.260 Ethereum.
00:37:30.360 All right.
00:37:34.320 So, apparently RT is
00:37:36.260 showing a Tucker Carlson
00:37:37.600 show pretty much
00:37:38.500 pretty much every day.
00:37:43.920 So, that's
00:37:45.500 interesting.
00:37:47.300 The one thing I
00:37:48.280 think you can be
00:37:48.860 happy about in the
00:37:49.680 United States is that
00:37:51.420 you could have
00:37:51.880 somebody in this
00:37:52.620 country who's, you
00:37:53.940 know, that much
00:37:54.840 against war as
00:37:56.800 Tucker is.
00:37:58.100 And Tucker's been
00:37:58.880 pretty consistently
00:37:59.960 against war, so.
00:38:05.820 Somebody's worried
00:38:06.540 about being
00:38:06.940 getting canceled
00:38:07.500 for being a
00:38:08.060 Russian puppet.
00:38:10.400 I don't think
00:38:11.140 that's a risk.
00:38:12.800 I think you could
00:38:13.680 actually be a
00:38:14.360 Russian puppet and
00:38:15.160 you wouldn't get
00:38:15.560 canceled.
00:38:17.740 But I'm not.
00:38:19.940 All right.
00:38:21.000 One of the things
00:38:21.640 that Tucker mentions,
00:38:22.660 and there isn't
00:38:23.040 enough talk about it,
00:38:23.900 and I think it's
00:38:24.340 because it's
00:38:24.700 complicated, is
00:38:26.360 that the real risk
00:38:27.420 is to the
00:38:28.720 American dollar
00:38:29.580 as the
00:38:31.160 currency of
00:38:32.620 choice.
00:38:34.180 Because if
00:38:35.160 anything that
00:38:36.420 comes out of
00:38:36.880 this causes
00:38:37.740 China and
00:38:38.620 Russia to say,
00:38:39.440 you know,
00:38:40.180 let's use the
00:38:41.140 Chinese yuan
00:38:42.220 as the, you
00:38:43.760 know, the main
00:38:44.260 currency for
00:38:44.920 buying oil and
00:38:45.720 stuff.
00:38:46.080 And then the
00:38:46.460 Middle East starts
00:38:47.100 accepting the
00:38:47.800 yuan instead of
00:38:48.460 the dollar.
00:38:49.660 Then the value of
00:38:50.480 the U.S.
00:38:50.860 dollar tanks and
00:38:51.860 our debt crushes
00:38:53.600 us, and we
00:38:54.820 become a third-rate
00:38:57.720 country.
00:38:58.120 And it looks like
00:38:59.720 we're heading in
00:39:00.180 that direction.
00:39:00.660 So I'm not
00:39:02.620 smart enough to
00:39:03.940 know how big of
00:39:04.700 a risk this is.
00:39:06.260 This is a little
00:39:07.080 above my pay
00:39:08.600 grade, and I've
00:39:09.560 got a degree in
00:39:10.120 economics, and
00:39:10.760 still, unless
00:39:11.920 you're neck deep
00:39:13.300 in this stuff,
00:39:13.820 you don't really
00:39:14.580 know what's going
00:39:15.380 on.
00:39:17.400 All right.
00:39:18.520 So I guess that's
00:39:19.720 the scariest part of
00:39:20.580 this thing, at
00:39:21.540 least for the
00:39:21.880 United States.
00:39:22.420 Why did Russia
00:39:28.800 capture Chernobyl
00:39:30.200 early on in this
00:39:31.440 move?
00:39:32.200 So they captured
00:39:32.860 the, I assume
00:39:34.400 it's a completely
00:39:35.160 decommissioned
00:39:36.660 site.
00:39:37.340 There's nothing
00:39:37.760 happening there
00:39:38.300 now, right?
00:39:39.280 Chernobyl.
00:39:40.540 But one of the
00:39:41.620 things that was
00:39:42.060 reported is that
00:39:42.860 radioactivity is
00:39:43.720 higher in that
00:39:44.680 area, and that
00:39:45.980 might be because
00:39:46.780 the military
00:39:47.760 operations are
00:39:48.580 kicking up some
00:39:49.260 radioactive dust.
00:39:50.280 Are there
00:39:52.720 Russian soldiers
00:39:53.560 who are in the
00:39:54.260 middle of that
00:39:54.780 extra radiation
00:39:55.740 dust, are they
00:39:57.360 all going to
00:39:57.760 die?
00:39:59.800 Or, has Mark
00:40:02.740 Schneider been
00:40:03.320 right all along
00:40:04.280 that we always
00:40:06.000 overestimate the
00:40:07.720 danger of nuclear,
00:40:08.780 and it's fine.
00:40:10.800 Maybe you can
00:40:11.340 just, you know,
00:40:12.420 obviously the
00:40:13.040 Russian army
00:40:13.560 thinks they're
00:40:14.080 safe.
00:40:15.240 Why does the
00:40:15.800 Russian army think
00:40:16.540 it's safe to be
00:40:18.100 there, of all
00:40:18.720 places?
00:40:19.660 I mean, I don't
00:40:20.060 even know what,
00:40:21.100 I can't even
00:40:21.600 imagine what
00:40:22.240 military benefit
00:40:23.160 they get from
00:40:23.720 it, but it
00:40:24.400 must be some.
00:40:27.660 Or they become
00:40:28.460 Russian mutant
00:40:29.200 soldiers, and
00:40:30.040 they have spider
00:40:31.220 powers, and
00:40:31.800 they're even
00:40:32.140 harder to beat.
00:40:38.700 So, and I
00:40:39.860 also wondered if
00:40:40.800 maybe Russia was
00:40:42.040 capturing Chernobyl
00:40:43.140 to make sure it
00:40:44.840 didn't become a
00:40:45.440 source of dirty
00:40:46.220 bombs.
00:40:47.700 Is that even a
00:40:48.660 thing?
00:40:48.880 Is there
00:40:50.200 anything left
00:40:50.900 at Chernobyl
00:40:51.660 that somebody
00:40:53.560 could have, I
00:40:54.740 don't know,
00:40:54.920 harvested to turn
00:40:55.980 into a dirty
00:40:56.520 bomb?
00:40:58.040 I'm seeing a lot
00:40:58.740 of people say
00:40:59.260 yes, but I
00:41:02.180 don't think I
00:41:02.620 know enough to
00:41:03.300 confirm that
00:41:04.040 that's true.
00:41:05.220 I'm seeing some
00:41:05.760 no's, seeing some
00:41:07.140 yeses.
00:41:07.820 It sounds like
00:41:08.580 the technical,
00:41:10.960 without knowing
00:41:11.820 anything, I would
00:41:12.780 imagine that the
00:41:13.580 technical complexity
00:41:14.980 of that would make
00:41:16.820 it impractical.
00:41:18.560 I don't think you
00:41:19.480 want to let any
00:41:20.060 of that out.
00:41:21.080 You know, in
00:41:21.660 order to get to
00:41:22.400 it, you're
00:41:23.580 probably going to
00:41:24.020 let some of it
00:41:24.580 out.
00:41:25.640 And I don't know
00:41:26.520 that anybody would
00:41:27.100 take that risk.
00:41:29.640 Maybe as a
00:41:30.340 PSYOP?
00:41:32.980 Nuclear waste
00:41:33.720 from the leak
00:41:34.320 could be dispersed
00:41:35.360 if it's bombed.
00:41:36.460 dirty bombs are a
00:41:41.660 great terror
00:41:42.080 weapon, but
00:41:42.580 not great to
00:41:43.340 use them at
00:41:43.740 home.
00:41:44.020 Well, that's a
00:41:44.420 good point.
00:41:44.840 You don't want to
00:41:45.240 use that kind of
00:41:46.000 a terror weapon
00:41:46.600 at home.
00:41:48.120 But does the
00:41:50.200 Ukrainian military
00:41:51.280 shell the
00:41:53.000 Chernobyl to
00:41:54.520 kill the
00:41:55.400 military there?
00:41:58.560 What if they
00:41:59.160 did?
00:42:00.260 Is that even a
00:42:01.040 thing?
00:42:01.620 Or is Chernobyl
00:42:02.440 hardened against
00:42:03.320 attack?
00:42:04.420 Like if you
00:42:04.860 hit it directly
00:42:05.540 with some
00:42:06.840 shells or
00:42:07.400 some missiles,
00:42:08.600 would it leak
00:42:09.380 its contents?
00:42:13.980 Soldiers can
00:42:14.640 wear protective
00:42:15.280 suits.
00:42:15.740 There are not
00:42:16.040 enough protective
00:42:16.780 suits.
00:42:18.300 I don't think
00:42:19.060 they brought
00:42:19.400 enough protective
00:42:20.380 suits for that.
00:42:22.680 It gets
00:42:23.160 boomers to care
00:42:23.860 about war.
00:42:25.100 Boomers always
00:42:25.640 care about war.
00:42:29.100 You can't stay
00:42:30.100 in the Chernobyl
00:42:30.660 area for more
00:42:31.260 than six hours?
00:42:32.220 I don't know.
00:42:32.520 We'll find out
00:42:33.180 because I think
00:42:33.820 they will.
00:42:35.540 Watch the
00:42:36.380 mini-series
00:42:36.920 about it?
00:42:37.420 Okay.
00:42:41.280 All right.
00:42:41.840 What do you
00:42:42.120 think of the
00:42:43.760 usefulness of
00:42:44.540 temporary
00:42:44.980 sanctions?
00:42:45.840 You would
00:42:46.200 agree that
00:42:46.600 any temporary
00:42:47.320 sanction looks
00:42:48.040 like it won't
00:42:48.540 work, right?
00:42:49.740 Because if the
00:42:50.340 other side says
00:42:51.220 I'll keep
00:42:51.640 Ukraine forever
00:42:52.320 but your
00:42:52.840 sanctions are
00:42:53.400 temporary, okay,
00:42:54.120 that's a good
00:42:54.520 deal.
00:42:55.460 But what if
00:42:56.200 any of the
00:42:56.860 sanctions were
00:42:57.440 permanent?
00:42:59.340 According to
00:43:00.060 Jeffrey Miller,
00:43:00.840 he says game
00:43:01.380 theory says that
00:43:02.300 a permanent
00:43:02.960 sanction won't
00:43:04.360 change anybody's
00:43:05.120 behavior because
00:43:06.600 it won't
00:43:06.860 change the
00:43:07.240 sanction, which
00:43:08.800 makes sense.
00:43:10.000 Oh, well, if
00:43:11.140 the sanctions are
00:43:11.820 going to be
00:43:12.060 permanent no
00:43:12.560 matter what, why
00:43:13.180 would I do
00:43:13.560 anything differently
00:43:14.940 than I'm going
00:43:15.420 to do?
00:43:16.180 So I guess that
00:43:17.160 makes sense.
00:43:18.560 But it depends
00:43:20.140 on the sanction.
00:43:21.240 Like I said, if
00:43:22.100 the sanction
00:43:22.580 that's permanent is
00:43:23.460 no international
00:43:24.180 sports ever, that
00:43:28.000 might work.
00:43:29.440 That might work.
00:43:30.320 But at least work
00:43:32.580 a little bit.
00:43:33.860 Nothing's going
00:43:34.500 to change what's
00:43:35.260 happening.
00:43:36.300 All right.
00:43:37.320 Yeah, this
00:43:37.980 SWIFT, you know,
00:43:39.400 I think there was
00:43:40.500 never really an
00:43:41.440 option for turning
00:43:42.600 off Russia's gas
00:43:44.440 because we didn't
00:43:45.300 have a backup
00:43:45.840 plan.
00:43:47.160 There's no backup
00:43:47.880 plan.
00:43:49.020 Right?
00:43:49.180 Russia will sell
00:43:50.080 energy to Europe,
00:43:51.500 especially Germany.
00:43:54.060 That's just going
00:43:54.880 to happen.
00:43:55.180 And, yeah, and
00:43:58.400 blocking the SWIFT
00:43:59.240 could damage the
00:43:59.980 U.S. as well,
00:44:01.060 and blah, blah,
00:44:01.600 blah, blah.
00:44:02.000 And probably at
00:44:03.260 least part of the
00:44:03.800 reason that the
00:44:04.620 stock market in
00:44:06.200 the U.S. is going
00:44:06.960 up is that we, I
00:44:10.500 never finished the
00:44:11.180 Nazi story.
00:44:14.000 What part did I
00:44:14.960 not finish?
00:44:22.320 What did I not
00:44:23.260 finish?
00:44:23.600 I guess you
00:44:25.340 don't know.
00:44:26.420 Well, okay, let's
00:44:27.700 see if I can finish
00:44:28.500 it.
00:44:29.320 The point is that
00:44:30.660 Russia says it's
00:44:32.060 Nazis.
00:44:33.640 Maybe it is, maybe
00:44:34.640 it doesn't.
00:44:35.320 But since we don't
00:44:36.140 trust the news, and
00:44:37.960 we don't trust Russian
00:44:39.020 propaganda, I don't
00:44:41.900 know, how do you
00:44:42.360 factor that in?
00:44:44.000 Let me give you my
00:44:45.060 bottom line.
00:44:47.620 Because I have
00:44:49.080 literally been called
00:44:49.940 a neo-Nazi for six
00:44:51.220 years, or I guess I've
00:44:53.260 been called a neo-Nazi
00:44:54.460 sympathizer for six
00:44:55.740 years, because I said
00:44:56.780 anything good about
00:44:57.580 Trump once, that's all
00:44:59.040 it takes.
00:45:00.700 What do I think when I
00:45:02.340 see somebody else
00:45:03.100 called a neo-Nazi
00:45:04.120 sympathizer?
00:45:06.920 Right?
00:45:08.120 So this is another
00:45:09.100 cost of the fake news.
00:45:10.580 If the fake news
00:45:11.420 spends six years
00:45:12.340 calling people who
00:45:13.160 are clearly not
00:45:14.160 neo-Nazis, such as
00:45:17.060 myself, if you spend
00:45:19.380 that much time, that's
00:45:20.780 more social media
00:45:21.520 than the news.
00:45:24.060 But I think the
00:45:26.140 neo-Nazi lost all of
00:45:27.420 its power.
00:45:29.340 I think that in the
00:45:30.400 United States, if you
00:45:31.320 look at some other
00:45:32.000 countries saying that
00:45:32.900 there's some neo-Nazis in
00:45:34.080 the government, that you
00:45:35.320 just yawn.
00:45:37.140 Not because you're not
00:45:38.420 worried about neo-Nazis,
00:45:40.200 but because you don't
00:45:40.960 believe it.
00:45:43.060 Do you believe it?
00:45:44.040 Now I know there's
00:45:46.760 plenty of reporting
00:45:47.640 about actual Nazi
00:45:49.360 sympathizers in
00:45:50.400 Ukraine, but do you
00:45:51.540 believe it?
00:45:53.400 And what percentage?
00:45:55.520 Have you ever heard
00:45:56.100 of percentage?
00:45:57.860 Because do you think
00:45:58.760 there's, is there any
00:45:59.780 reporting that says the
00:46:00.820 number of neo-Nazis in
00:46:02.340 the Ukrainian military
00:46:03.500 list, for example, is
00:46:05.200 greater than the number
00:46:06.200 of neo-Nazis in the
00:46:07.300 U.S. military?
00:46:09.920 You don't know that,
00:46:11.000 do you?
00:46:12.200 You don't know that.
00:46:15.040 I'm hoping we have
00:46:16.480 fewer neo-Nazis in our
00:46:17.880 military, but if it's
00:46:19.340 1%, right, if it's 1%
00:46:23.360 in the Ukraine military,
00:46:24.740 and maybe it is, and
00:46:26.100 it's 1% in our military,
00:46:27.460 why are we even talking
00:46:28.240 about it?
00:46:29.120 Like, that's not the
00:46:29.980 key issue.
00:46:30.540 It's an issue.
00:46:31.660 All right, don't ignore
00:46:32.460 it.
00:46:33.200 But it has nothing to do
00:46:35.200 with why we have a war
00:46:36.140 or anything.
00:46:38.200 So my take on the
00:46:40.040 neo-Nazi thing is that
00:46:41.260 it's effective because it
00:46:42.440 gives Putin some
00:46:43.720 excuse to do what he's
00:46:45.060 doing.
00:46:45.520 I think some of his
00:46:46.420 public will believe it,
00:46:47.460 and that'll be enough
00:46:48.040 to cause confusion.
00:46:51.420 But I don't think it's
00:46:52.260 the real reason.
00:46:53.460 And I think the only
00:46:54.160 reason that he can get
00:46:54.900 away with it is that
00:46:56.420 we're so accustomed to
00:46:58.700 being, calling each
00:46:59.540 other neo-Nazis in the
00:47:00.720 United States, it just
00:47:01.560 lost its meaning.
00:47:03.180 I just don't think it
00:47:03.940 means anything in the
00:47:04.640 United States anymore.
00:47:07.040 Not compared to what it
00:47:07.960 used to.
00:47:08.280 Wake up, they are
00:47:10.860 desperate.
00:47:13.640 Doesn't the military have
00:47:14.840 1% of everything?
00:47:16.060 Yup.
00:47:17.800 Yup.
00:47:18.240 Okay, Oliver Stone has a
00:47:21.020 documentary on the 2014
00:47:22.400 coup in Ukraine.
00:47:24.420 It's called Ukraine on
00:47:25.440 Fire.
00:47:26.360 It explains the radical
00:47:27.600 right militias like
00:47:28.600 Azov Battalion, they
00:47:30.160 carried out the coup.
00:47:30.960 Well, the radical right
00:47:33.800 was instrumental in the
00:47:36.720 coup, but they weren't
00:47:38.120 the only ones in the
00:47:38.940 coup, right?
00:47:40.620 Did the Donbass get
00:47:42.760 controlled by neo-Nazis?
00:47:46.160 Actually, I don't know.
00:47:48.300 Let me ask you that.
00:47:49.240 So before Russia came in,
00:47:52.200 was the Donbass controlled
00:47:54.200 by neo-Nazis?
00:47:56.280 No, the opposite, right?
00:48:00.960 Yeah, yeah, define
00:48:04.200 neo-Nazis.
00:48:07.720 Ukraine is doing
00:48:09.340 memes about Russia.
00:48:11.520 Nazis were attacking
00:48:12.560 the Donbass.
00:48:16.360 All right.
00:48:17.960 Well, you know, this
00:48:19.980 whole Nazi thing works
00:48:21.140 so well for Putin,
00:48:22.440 because he can just
00:48:23.160 say, I'm getting rid of
00:48:24.200 Nazis, and 50% of the
00:48:25.720 public will just say,
00:48:26.500 that's fine.
00:48:27.500 I don't need the
00:48:28.300 details.
00:48:28.980 Get rid of Nazis,
00:48:29.960 that's fine.
00:48:31.900 So, it's looking like
00:48:34.600 Putin will be successful
00:48:36.060 in taking Ukraine.
00:48:38.620 I think he's, his
00:48:41.580 public opinion will
00:48:42.640 take a hit, of course,
00:48:44.740 but he'll stay in office,
00:48:46.760 looks like it.
00:48:51.000 All right.
00:48:53.960 Good day for a booster
00:48:55.180 sip?
00:48:55.620 I think you're right.
00:48:57.060 Shall we end today's
00:48:58.240 program with the
00:48:59.800 additional sip?
00:49:03.040 Yes, I think we should.
00:49:05.840 Oliver Stone's facts
00:49:07.020 aren't meant to be
00:49:07.800 trusted, somebody says.
00:49:10.140 I would echo that
00:49:11.620 thought.
00:49:13.280 A person making
00:49:14.440 documentary is not a
00:49:15.800 credible source.
00:49:17.660 This has nothing to do
00:49:18.860 with Oliver Stone.
00:49:19.580 In general, person makes
00:49:22.960 documentary, not to be
00:49:24.880 trusted.
00:49:25.900 Don't trust it.
00:49:26.920 And now, the closing
00:49:29.160 simultaneous sip,
00:49:31.340 in which afterwards I
00:49:32.460 will stay with the
00:49:35.140 locals people for a
00:49:36.140 minute and excuse you
00:49:38.140 on YouTube, but it's
00:49:39.700 time for the closing
00:49:40.640 simultaneous sip.
00:49:42.040 Go.
00:49:42.180 Of course my mug is
00:49:47.240 heated.
00:49:48.020 If you don't have a
00:49:49.020 mug heater next to
00:49:50.120 your computer, well,
00:49:52.760 you're not even trying
00:49:53.920 to work hard.
00:49:55.500 You're not even
00:49:56.140 trying.
00:50:00.060 A documentary on the
00:50:01.440 war that apparently just
00:50:02.380 started two days ago.
00:50:03.980 Well, that's not what it
00:50:04.980 is.
00:50:08.520 Just got back from
00:50:09.560 shoveling.
00:50:10.100 Oh, my God.
00:50:13.240 Oh, the Ember mug?
00:50:14.340 Yeah, I have one of
00:50:15.420 those, too.
00:50:18.360 Mug heaters exist.
00:50:19.720 Oh, they do.
00:50:23.960 All right, and that's
00:50:24.840 it for now, and I will
00:50:25.720 talk to you tomorrow,
00:50:27.160 YouTubers.
00:50:27.440 That's it for now, and I
00:50:29.520 will follow us on our
00:50:30.100 new levers.
00:50:34.620 Thank you,
00:50:39.700 members.
00:50:47.900 Thank god for joining me.