Episode 3061 CWSA 01⧸03⧸26
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Summary
Venezuelan President Maduro has been overthrown. What does this mean for the future of the country? And what does it mean for Venezuela? And who is the real leader of Venezuela now?
Transcript
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it is good to see all of you i apologize again for my sketchy voice
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all right once we get about a thousand people in here oh looks like we have what only three people on
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youtube all right come on in lots of news today but shall we start
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the dopamine hit it today the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous
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but let's talk about the news so i assume all of you know by now that there was some action in
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venezuela so i'll give you a little background on it as people storm in and then we'll talk about
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but i should tell you that after the show so after the podcast uh owen gregorian will be hosting
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um a spaces after party now the plan was to um which is very nice of owen to ask people how i had
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how i had influenced people but i think the venezuela story is going to overwhelm that
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and that would be okay with me so don't feel bad if you think talking about venezuela is more
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interesting so i woke up this morning thinking you know maybe it'd be good for me not to be in the
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headlines for once because i've been in the headlines for a few days and uh that look on x and dilbert is
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trending venezuela gets attacked and dilbert is still trending on x
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so i guess i'll have to go with it all right so you know i've often tell you that if trump has
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multiple options for doing something he typically picks the option that looks the strongest
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and he did it again so i'm starting to think that you could predict his actions
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actions fairly fairly accurately by just saying what's the strongest thing you could do now you
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might say that the strongest thing would be to send in the whole military but i would say stronger
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than that would be to send in special forces of some of some type and grab the leader of the country and
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take him back for uh for legal process to me that seems like the strongest thing i think so that's what
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happened so late at night um trump authorized the military specifically some helicopters so i guess we
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sat on our 160th special operations aviation regiment called soar known as the night stalkers so i guess
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we went in strong uh there's been a lot of practice a lot of preparation and allegedly
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no casualties on the american side none now i have not heard if there were casualties on the
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venice well inside but i imagine there were so trump watched the whole operation from you know some
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undisclosed place and watch them you know i guess we have the ability to go through metal doors
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um and get people so maduro and his wife have now been arrested and brought back to america now the
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all the people who don't know anything about the constitution um are going to be arguing with other
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people who don't know much about the constitution and i i'm sort of in that category i'm no i'm no
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constitutional expert when it comes to uh you know what we can and cannot do it militarily but the
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argument is that this is not a military action that is a legal action and that we can go anywhere
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alleged criminal and that this should be seen as a department of justice action that happened to be
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supported by a number of entities including the military so pam bondi is telling us what the charges
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are so the charges against maduro that the ex-head of venezuela um he's being charged with narco-terrorism
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conspiracy uh cocaine importation conspiracy possession of machine guns and destructive devices
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and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the united states
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so that last one's weird but apparently that gives uh that gives enough cover that trump can do what he
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did but if he had remained there and you know fought militarily and tried to defeat their army or
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something that would be an entirely different conversation now people who are my age
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um or in that zone you might remember that the us did this in 1989
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against the panama leader noriega and we went in but there was some there was violence and death there
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and we grabbed noriega we brought him back to the united states and he was prosecuted and put in
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american jail so this has some precedent in the sense that if you can if you can sell it as a
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a legal system and not a military system you could get away with it
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yeah there's some precedent that obama went after some individuals so it's different to go after an
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individual than it is to go after a country all right so apparently the operation was paired with a bunch of
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strikes on their military and um intelligence operations but that might have been a decoy
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um is maybe just a suppression suppressive action the reporting which you can't yet trust remember it's
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still fog of war right fog of war so you can't trust everything you hear about this so be cautious fog of war
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um but the the reporting at least on fox news is that the venezuelans put up no resistance
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do you believe that do you believe that the venezuelan military put up no resistance
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and they just sort of walked away maybe i don't know that one's a little hard to believe
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there may have been some people who walked away all right well so maduro is being in a larger sense
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accused of being the head of a cartel called the cartel de los souls
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so the the accusation is that he was never a legitimate leader um so he's it's also
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is not a true decapitation strike some would say because he was never really the leader of the
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country legitimately that's more of an argumentative thing all right so there was tons of um coordination
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between the dea and the military and the cia and the department of justice so that part's impressive
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and waiting in the wings this is probable or at least possible replacement a woman named maria
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carina machado who has won the nobel peace prize already for being sort of the opposition but um
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um she would not really been able to take over the country until maduro was gone so allegedly
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there will be an election allegedly that election will be unrigged
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the reality is that especially if trump believes venezuela was involved in rigging our elections and he
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might i don't know if he does uh there might be a little payback happening here the payback would be
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oh well good luck with your next election but we're going to make sure that it goes our way and when i say
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our way i mean america gets a leader that will you know be on our side essentially she will be called a
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puppet and maybe that's true feels like it would be yeah marco rubio has told us that maduro is not the
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legitimate leader so that's kind of important all right um now let's talk about the chessboard
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this is the part i find fascinating how long will it take before some part of social media says this
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is all israel and blames israel i woke up this morning thinking well at least this won't be blamed on
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israel but but it might be it might be blamed on israel we'll take you through it excuse me um so
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there are a number of chess pieces and one of them is that venezuela and iran have been historically
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they've supported each other to get around sanctions and to get around other big economic problems so
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iran would be weakened um by venezuela falling it would lose an ally it would lose one way that they
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could have made some money in case their other sources got dried up um at the same time by coincidence
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there's all these uprisings in iran and uh trump has said he would if the if the uh protesters get shot
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that he would intervene militarily now that didn't sound like as much of a uh it didn't sound like as
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much of a threat until you see what he just did in venezuela so if you're iran and you're the leaders
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of iran and you're wondering huh will trump really do that would trump actually attack us and depose our
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leader well nobody knows it could be a bluff but if you just watched trump go into venezuela as strong
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as you possibly could it would be reasonable to worry about it if you were iran so could it be that
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you know that uh trump's timing is either lucky because it would make things go better in iran at
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least for the american side uh or is that you know is it planned or just purely coincidence
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i don't know but it's definitely going to make people sorry blah blah blah you know he only did
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it for israel you know that's coming so that's not my claim by the way so i'm not making the claim
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that i know why it happened or what the timing was or anything but i do wonder if the only reason
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is about the drugs because so far the trump administration is making it all about the drugs
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but i've seen pushback where people say no venezuela is not our biggest problem when it comes to drugs
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so you wouldn't do all this if it's only about the drugs i don't know you might remember i always say
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he takes the strongest path so the strongest path would be this so that would predict that uh that
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maybe it was about the drugs and this is just the strongest path don't know then there's the cuba
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connection because cuba apparently relies on venezuela for you know some of their um energy slash economic
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survival i'm a little bit skeptical that cuba will fall because of this but things will get a lot
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tougher but maybe so my guess is there's not about cuba but it might be just might be one of the side
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benefits that could happen if you believe that cuba's um government falling is a benefit
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it would create a lot of pressure for uh the united states however also on the chessboard
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uh and this is not my own great idea uh it could strengthen trump's support among latino voters
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so especially the older ones they might say finally somebody did something about venezuela
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and that would that will weaken cuba and that's what we've been waiting for but i don't think you
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would do it just for votes again it could be that that would just be a side benefit
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so what's what's so hard about figuring this out is that all these countries are connected and it's not
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entirely obvious if uh doing something with one country is intentionally about the other countries
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or it just works out that way i don't know and then there's the china connection
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so china gets energy from uh let's see iran supplies 10 to 15 percent of china's oil
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uh and venezuela supplied or did about five percent of china's oil now if you added them together at the
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high side would that take china's oil oil oil supply down by 15 20 percent i don't know
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and and is that a goal or could could china easily replace that much oil maybe they just get more of it
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from russia or something so i don't know but uh next on the chessboard is mexico
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so the the head of mexico who is also credibly being accused of being um in the pocket of the cartels
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is of course reject rejecting this military action and uh but not very hard so there's a there's an
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objection to it but they're not going crazy about it and it could be that the leader of mexico is
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wondering if she's next because it does seem to me that if they if the u.s put together a set of uh
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indictments i guess that's what it would be against maduro don't you think they're also looking at
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um misbehaving by sean bob the head of mexico don't you think that some part of the u.s machinery
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already has evidence that she's part of the cartel so she's probably looking at this and say wait are you
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saying that they're gonna go nab the head of a country because they can they have a good case against
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that person because that would be her so whether or not we plan to do that it would put a lot of
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pressure on her to do whatever we wanted so we might say well you know maybe you're next how about
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you give us a good trade deal or maybe you're next maybe you pay for the wall whatever it is
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so that's part of the chessboard and then uh colombia which has so far not been part of the military
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action is probably a bigger source of drugs than venezuela so colombia would be also be in the chess
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board would also be wondering if they're next and i think they also have a leader who might be
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implicated as part of a cartel right i think so yeah it puts commanding on notice it basically puts
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all these countries on notice is so this action has been compared to the fall of the berlin wall
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in that it could have this ripple effect um that's pro-democracy or at the very least pro uh pro-american
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is this fun i i hate to say how much fun it is trying to figure out what's going on but there's
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a lot of moving parts here then let's talk about taiwan also on the chessboard if you were if you were
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china and you watch what trump is doing right now would you get going and attack taiwan or would you say
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holy shit we'd better wait at least three years until trump's gone and then figure out what we can
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do i feel like if china is smart and they are that they say oh step back step back this would not be the
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time to piss off trump because he always acts in the strongest path so that they wouldn't be able to
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count on him standing down i don't know if he was he would attack china if taiwan was attacked but
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they would have to be worried about it all right apparently the venezuelan defense chief
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uh put down a quote that said quote we will not surrender we will not surrender
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your leader is gone you don't need to surrender did we ask you to surrender i don't remember anybody
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asking but he has to say something all right so you might wonder in the broader context um what is the
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economic impact of this so i went to grok and asked that you know what's the economic impact on venezuela
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yeah this situation so apparently you know lots of energy implications uh it would allow other countries to
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be less able to evade sanctions because venezuela would help other countries evade sanctions if they
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didn't like america and uh let's see the geopolitical importance this is from grok so i just asked grok
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you know give me the context um venezuela has been a key part of an anti-american coalition
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so that would have included you know russia and china uh but if you take out venezuela
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uh it doesn't take out the whole coalition but it weakens it um we didn't want iran to have some kind
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of a friendly presence this close to our country and apparently they did because they were friendly
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with venezuela so if we remove the option for iran to have some kind of a fuller um anti-american
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presence in our hemisphere that seems like a good idea then there's military importance did you know
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that iran transferred a drone making technology to venezuela and they're training the venezuelans since
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2006. um so that's not good so that would weaken uh one way that iran could get at us
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yes yes my voice does seem raspy you're just noticing a good observation yes my voice is raspy
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yeah you may not have heard the news all right so um jonathan totally is reminding us that
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constitutionally this this should be fine but people are going to argue that it isn't
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all right um there will be lots more developing but did i hit i hit the high points right so i was
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trying to give you the quick you know chessboard view of it because it's going to be the only news
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today the news is just going to be about that um however you come here for more than just news about
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one story so with your permission because i don't have much to add to that besides what i said i'm
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going to talk about some other fun news stories i know i know this story is so interesting the
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venezuela one that it's hard to imagine if there's anything else happening but you want to spend a full
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hour here with me right so we'll do some other stories after i take a sip pause for a sip of whatever you got
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um so some other stuff i'm going to be at the risk of boring myself but
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it'll give us something to hang out and talk about okay
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anyway uh katherine herridge who many of you know as a you know notable important journalist
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she's talking about why x became the center of real journalism and that the mainstream media is no
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longer the dominant source of news basically so here's her take on it which i liked
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that reach meaning who sees what the reach is no longer about cable slots or front pages
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it's about access to decision makers and business leaders and highly engaged readers in the same
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place at the same time and that's why independent journalism didn't just survive the collapse of
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trusted corporate media it moved to x and took the audience with it
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uh now she says there's no question that x is the platform with the greatest reach now i agree with all
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that and here's the part i didn't fully understand that independent media could never have grown
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unless they also had access to important people and that they also had a way to
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publish to everybody who wanted to see them so x allowed them to have a way to get to everybody
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so that was automatically going to be better than you know a media source you have to watch a commercial
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i would add to this that on x it's very easy to not see any commercials so if you give me a choice of
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looking at the news with commercials or looking at the news without commercials that's not a contest
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right so x has an automatic you know business business model advantage but the part about access to
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decision makers that is entirely because the podcasters did a good job and they did a good job of
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networking and especially on x uh they would get boosted so do you think that benny johnson would have
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had such a big impact uh or megan kelly or your more controversial tucker carlson do you think any of
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that would have happened without x i don't think so and then once you get some credibility because you're
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doing good work then suddenly you can ask president trump for an interview and he says yes or you could
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ask you know lower level um admin people and they'll say yes because they're not going to be um
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they're not going to be stabbed in the back like the mainstream media would and they have huge audiences
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now bigger than the networks so yeah that's a good observation to katherine herridge and it doesn't
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look like there's any way that's going to reverse right and again like so many stories you have to add
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to it it's only possible because of elon musk thinking about how many stories you have to say that about
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now all the doge stuff all the fraud stuff um only possible because elon exists and was doing the right
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thing well here's a story from the college fix that more than half of uc berkeley disability accommodations
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are based on emotional reasons emotional reasons half right so there are lots of legitimate reasons for
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people with disabilities to want accommodations so if you want to ramp that's a good reason if you need a
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wheelchair access yeah those are perfectly acceptable and desired uh accommodations but apparently people
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are coming in with psycho psychological and emotional disabilities uh one student famously got a got
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approval to bring his mother to class uh and it's the most disabled people registered at uc berkeley
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since they started collecting data now the reason i bring this up is not this particular story the
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reason i bring it up is that uh looking for scams and frauds is now the new national sport so at least
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in my bubble every day i wake up there's somebody searching for a new scam or uncovering a fraud
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i'm really happy about that because that's the only way any of this gets fixed the only way it gets
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fixed is if people start thinking it's important to find fraud even i didn't think it was important
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a few years ago if you'd asked me a few years ago i would have said yeah i think it was said something
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like governor divine to wine or divine to wine said that it was just the cost of doing business
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you know i would have looked at it like a 7-eleven store and i said yeah of course there's theft
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yeah 7-eleven store of course there's theft but you know it's not that big a deal
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but today what we know is that it's the biggest deal it's a existential threat to the entire
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civilization and if we don't pay attention to it that's on us do you know why we're paying attention
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to it i already gave you a hint his name is elon musk who boosted uh um recent reports well he's boosting
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a lot of reports from independent media about how bad things are would we be in this situation where
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people are really really paying attention to fraud if elon musk did not do that or did not exist
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no i think he is full credit for that again it's really amazing
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um and then i'm having a problem reading the news lately because there's so many stories that look like
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what i've already seen but might not be so can you tell me is this a new story or did we already know
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that according to news nation that the assisted living facilities uh oh gateway funders writing
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about this um that the assisted living facilities are often just somebody's house and there's no
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service there at all did we already know that because it feels like a repeat but on the other hand
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maybe it's just a new place and a new new set of data but in my bubble every time i wake up
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somebody republican usually is uncovering something fraudulent and that's a good thing
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next you you may or may not be following the story of act blue
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if you went onto the street and randomly stop people and said tell me what you know about act blue
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now you're my audience is very uh plugged in so probably half three quarters of you would know
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what act blue is but if you don't they are a democrat organization that raises money for a variety of
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democrat candidates but what they do this special is that they take small donations
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i know i'll get to it i'll get to it they allegedly allegedly take only small donations
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from american to american sources and then they distribute it to candidates the reality and they're
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being uh investigated for this uh i believe trump has authorized the investigation uh the reality might
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be allegedly that they're a fraudulent organization from top to bottom and what they really do is they
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take large donations maybe from democrat billionaires maybe from overseas and then they pretend with
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fancy bookkeeping that it came from uh individuals now that would be really really illegal but that's the
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accusation so um what if and again this falls into that category of every day i wake up and there's new
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alleged fraud of massive scales we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars here and i do believe
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that it's been demonstrated correct me if i'm wrong there's plenty of evidence that one person's address
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has been used multiple times that would be illegal because it means it's not real or that people who
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are not actively following politics have been dominating allegedly small dollar amounts for years
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but they don't even know about it if you go to their house and say did you give money to um act blue they
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would say what's that no they didn't they didn't give any money so even though it's an allegation
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yeah it's called smurfing um i feel there's a hundred percent chance that they're a massive criminal
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organization i also wonder if it's big enough that democrats could not win anything without them
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what would the midterms look like without act blue being able to put big money into people's pockets
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different right doesn't mean that you know it will go a different direction but it wouldn't be the same
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so that's happening also good news is being investigated there's an article in hot air by david
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strong it gets to something i've been saying i didn't know if anybody else would have the same
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it goes like this but the psychology i'm this i'm going to paraphrase this is not what he said exactly
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but the american um psychology is that things were pretty good and our systems mostly worked and that
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we were not sitting inside a gigantic fraud well now that we know about the ngos and we know about
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the all the somalian fraud our brains are primed in a way they've never been before to imagine mass
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conspiracies being true because the the scope of how big the fraud is with the with the fake daycares
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and everything else the scope of that is so big that once you learned that was a real thing and
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that it's going on for years years and it's right under people's noses and people can see all the signs
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you can see the the smoking gun and it didn't matter you know there could be news reports and it didn't
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matter but now it matters and what does that do this is strom's observation and mine as well
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what does that new psychology do to how we think about the election integrity
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it changes it and i think we need a new name for this a name for the phenomenon where there's a whole
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bunch of bad things happening individually but when you catch them individually they don't seem like a big
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enough deal to you know change the world so if you looked at the uh let's say the minnesota fraud and
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let's say you heard a report that there was some fraudulent uh children's charity you would say to
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yourself well you know shit happens uh they should go to jail but you would think you would be isolated
00:37:00.080
but what really is happening is this it's an immense diversified machine in which you can't even keep
00:37:08.000
track of how many frauds there are within the larger scope of things now i would argue that the pandemic
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had that same quality that if you looked at the individual bad actors you would notice that there
00:37:27.120
are people lying and maybe people doing things for you know for money etc but you wouldn't necessarily
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see the scope of it the scope of it was unbelievable and also unbelievable i said it twice because it
00:37:43.760
mattered you wouldn't that's that's the problem i had in the beginning of the pandemic i would hear
00:37:49.840
reports of let's say data that was ignored and i would say yeah that can happen data is ignored somebody
00:37:57.760
would say this study was suppressed and i'd say yeah yeah things happen study could get suppressed but my
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brain was at the time incapable of imagining the vast scope of the fraud did you have the same issue
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you could tell that something was wrong and you could see the buckets of the wrongness but you just
00:38:22.400
couldn't wrap your head around how big it was now that's the same as these uh ngo frauds you really
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couldn't wrap your head around how big it was and therefore you were frozen into inaction
00:38:35.920
well back to david strom's point remember how there were many many claims of election irregularity
00:38:44.800
and i would hear them and i'm guilty of this totally guilty and i would hear a claim
00:38:48.880
and i would say yeah yeah maybe that really did happen maybe it did maybe it didn't but you know
00:38:55.920
it's in this little bucket then you hear another one you say all right well there's more than one
00:39:02.320
it's in this little bucket but it wasn't until maybe this year that we could understand that all the
00:39:09.920
different ways that the election was i think rigged in my opinion that you would never be able to put
00:39:16.880
your head around how massive the attempt at rigging was and so you can't deal with it so you default to
00:39:25.040
well it happens it's in a little bucket if we catch people doing things we'll try to take them to court
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but it's not really you know it's not about the whole system it is the whole system so there needs
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to be a name for these gigantic frauds that we can't recognize because we're only seeing the tree
00:39:47.520
and we're not seeing the forest oh wait we already have that all it is is another one of those you can't
00:39:56.320
you can't see the forest for the trees so you look at a tree you're like well you know kind of sucks
00:40:03.440
that that tree is unhealthy hey who cut down that tree but if you're looking at the tree you're
00:40:10.080
missing this the forest that might be a big deal so my recommend my uh prediction for 2026
00:40:20.640
is that the uh our understanding of the size of the election fraud and we might be finding this out
00:40:28.320
through act blue for example is enormous we might find out that it's not a coincidence that electronic
00:40:36.880
electronic voting machines are used in battleground states that might not be a coincidence
00:40:44.160
it could be that one of the benefits of trump will get out of attacking venezuela
00:40:49.440
um barking up the wrong tree it could be that we'll learn if something changes in the leadership of
00:41:00.400
venezuela imagine the imagine a new leader going in and then imagine trump saying all right
00:41:08.240
we we helped install you we are going to be your friend we'll help you rebuild venezuela but you're
00:41:16.000
going to have to tell us did you guys or any venezuelans have anything to do with rigging our systems
00:41:24.000
and then maybe we'll find out so prediction this will be the year we find out that the election was
00:41:33.280
more more than the trees that it was about the whole forest
00:41:37.360
well 2026 has started out interesting uh trump well in many ways but trump uh posted a meme
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that said we're entering the golden age and also separately that the hunter be the hunted becomes a
00:41:59.440
hunter so those are two big themes for uh 2026. how many of you think i had anything to do with those two
00:42:08.320
things because i've been saying for a while that uh we would be entering the golden age but then the
00:42:18.000
pandemic blew that off track and i've been saying for a while that republicans would be hunted
00:42:25.600
if um if biden had won the election and sure enough they were hunted january 6th etc oh add january 6
00:42:38.160
to the list of things that were too big to understand yeah the whole january 6 insurrection hoax
00:42:46.320
um it's just bigger than we can imagine it could be a hoax but that's what made it invisible
00:42:51.840
yeah the the scale of that hoax when in fact the real insurrection was democrats trying to remove trump
00:43:01.520
but they did such a good job of you know creating a this fake january 6 select committee and hunting down
00:43:09.200
all the the people that they took a thing that um they reversed it essentially they reversed reality
00:43:17.520
because at the time they had the power to do that they were the insurrectionists and the best way they
00:43:24.560
could cover up for the fact that they were the insurrectionists is by accusing the other side of
00:43:29.520
being the insurrectionists and that's what they did almost successfully
00:43:52.960
yeah the j6 thing was professionally produced that's another hint that it wasn't based on facts
00:44:00.400
well amazingly pg e the power company here in uh california is for the fourth time in two years
00:44:11.040
going to lower the rates so apparently they you know pulled a bunch of moves that allowed them to lower
00:44:20.000
the rates so good for them i was not aware of that but it will take it will allow governor newsom to say
00:44:28.720
that he lower costs now as far as i know newsom had nothing to do with the fact that pg and e lowered
00:44:36.320
their costs but whoever's in charge always gets the blame whoever's in charge always gets the credit
00:44:43.200
and if if californians think or even if the national if he runs nationally he's going to be able to say he
00:44:51.440
lowered rates and there's no indication that anybody but png he should he was behind the lowering of
00:44:58.640
the rates but i'm glad they did it's not a huge amount of money so but it's just now up it seems
00:45:06.320
like a big deal if it just doesn't go up new york post is reporting that a court has ruled in favor of
00:45:15.920
the second amendment uh an open carry in california so i guess there was a law um limiting open carry
00:45:26.240
of firearms and the uh which court was it the u.s court of appeals but the ninth circuit by two to one
00:45:35.680
said that was too anti-constitutional am i wrong in thinking that the ninth circuit is usually liberal
00:45:45.200
leading that's true right i don't really follow the course that much but can you confirm this in the
00:45:52.720
comments that the ninth circuit usually is left leading is that true um anyway so it surprised me
00:46:06.320
that they got a two to one ruling in favor of the second amendment i would say all right
00:46:14.480
um i'm going to follow this next story under the issue okay i'm getting confirmation thank you
00:46:25.040
yep well that's sort of a surprise um did you know news newsmax is reporting this that the department of
00:46:34.960
justice uh i think you knew this part uh as requested minnesota and uh i think 21 states in total they
00:46:46.320
look like they're all lefty states i think they're all blue states i'm just looking at it quickly
00:46:53.680
either all or most are blue states but they've been asked by the trump administration to produce
00:47:00.640
voting records because we want to see if there are any fake uh voters on the rolls what do you think
00:47:10.160
happens when you ask for voting records oh by the way i forgot to tell you the act blue
00:47:16.800
they changed their accounting so you can't tell what they were doing so as soon as the uh as soon as act
00:47:23.840
blue was investigated they immediately changed how they record things so you wouldn't be able to tell
00:47:30.720
if they're up to anything bad now that's pretty on the nose isn't it yeah by the way marcella
00:47:40.000
remind me that the on the nose thing is something i use a lot on the nose so that would certainly suggest
00:47:48.720
a possibility of guilt but what do you think is going to happen when the states are asked quite
00:47:56.080
reasonably quite reasonably to produce records that show that their voters are real eligible voters well
00:48:04.240
we don't know yet but they have 15 days to produce it and i'm going to guess it will be less produced than
00:48:11.280
the epstein files i do not think they'll produce it i think they will do everything they can
00:48:17.200
and lose the records you know maybe maybe what will really happen is uh they'll say oh we lost those
00:48:25.200
records all 50. i think all 21 states are going to suddenly have a problem oh yeah we had those records
00:48:34.400
but yeah they they weren't backed up but what i don't expect to happen is that the federal government
00:48:41.920
will get the records and why well obviously why because it's fraudulent obviously so i don't think
00:48:52.720
there's any other way this could go there's no way they're going to give them records that prove that
00:48:58.080
their their voters are not real right there isn't any chance that they'll do that so they're either going
00:49:06.320
to fight it infinitely in court or they're going to have a have a water leak or something but we're not
00:49:12.880
going to see this here's a weird story um i talk about this a lot lately but you know the defense um
00:49:22.560
the defense company called anduril that palmer lucky um is the head of apparently he's made the claim
00:49:31.360
the anduril has some kind of technology called the anduril's seabed sentry and he says and i quote i
00:49:40.080
swear i'm not making this up he says i can know where all the whales are the submarines boats where all
00:49:46.560
the divers are do you believe that do you believe that he has in place technology that can identify
00:49:54.880
where all the whales are and all the boats wouldn't that make it um he also says submarines now obviously
00:50:03.440
there's a great military value to that but here's my question are submarines stealthy enough that we or
00:50:12.480
anybody else could make one that's invisible to this technology or can you see everything
00:50:19.680
and if you can see everything does that mean we already know that there are no alien bases under
00:50:27.040
the ocean because i don't believe he believes there are alien bases maybe one of the reasons he doesn't
00:50:34.320
believe it is that he can see everything under the ocean and if any alien craft had had enter
00:50:42.080
um he would have seen it um he would have seen it is that possible oh that's a really interesting little story
00:50:52.400
well the washington examiner naomi lynn limb is writing about how the midterms usually go to the party
00:51:01.360
that's not in power and uh trump has has questioned why that happens why did it why does the other side
00:51:11.280
almost always not always but almost always how do they almost always win the midterm
00:51:18.080
and i don't know if we know the answer to that exactly it might be psychological it might be because
00:51:24.560
people only cared about the head of the ticket and if there's no presidential race you know the
00:51:30.720
devoted people don't show up is that it might be some combination of things but here's the interesting
00:51:38.240
part so his um chief of staff susie wiles who gets a lot of credit for being smart they say they want
00:51:48.080
to put trump on the ballot you know in the conceptual way not the actual way and her thinking is that the
00:51:56.320
democrats are going to put him on the ballot by just saying you know you have to thwart him or defeat him
00:52:03.760
because he's still president and the best way to do that would be to you know elect a bunch of
00:52:10.320
democrats in congress so susie says she wants to put trump on the ballot i think she says she hasn't
00:52:18.240
told trump yet but what she wants is for trump to um campaign like he is on the ballot but you know he'd be
00:52:26.800
campaigning for her surrogates and proxies and stuff um that will probably happen but in this story was a
00:52:34.320
little piece of data that i think was contradicted later in the story but i'd never heard this before
00:52:41.600
uh that people will vote for who they think understands their problem not who has the best solution
00:52:51.280
have you ever heard that it's the first time i've ever heard that and i i question whether that's true
00:53:00.400
but even if the republicans came up with a great plan um if they didn't show that they really cared
00:53:07.920
or really understood let's say affordability so you could argue that if trump does a great job on
00:53:15.280
affordability it wouldn't matter to us to uh the midterms partly because that would be the rear view
00:53:22.240
mirror by the time it happened right so people don't vote for the past they vote for do you understand
00:53:30.640
what i care about as their their way of understanding whether something would be done about it
00:53:36.800
so at the moment the democrats were doing a better job of acting like affordability is the main thing
00:53:46.880
that would beat the republican plan of saying oh we did a good job on energy and eggs and a few other
00:53:54.160
things so that would be a winning position so can trump reverse that can he can he show enough empathy
00:54:03.120
and enough of a plan going forward such as health care also in the article was the idea that if the
00:54:13.040
republicans don't have a health care plan any kind of health care plan or one that doesn't sound good
00:54:19.680
they can't win because that would show a lack of empathy the democrats still have the option of saying
00:54:28.640
we understand your pain uh we're going to do something about it and what we're going to do
00:54:34.640
about it is throw massive amounts of money at it and you know that'll fix it now if you're a voter
00:54:42.720
you say to yourself oh i don't like overspending but if they can immediately solve my problem
00:54:50.480
and they immediately understand it which is what it would sound like that's a winning play
00:54:55.120
winning proposition so at the very least trump would have to have a republican plan that doesn't
00:55:03.040
sound bad shit crazy and he would have to show that even though he got a few victories on affordability
00:55:10.960
that uh he has so much more to do so if he if he can sell both of those ideas we have so much more to
00:55:18.960
do it's a top priority i totally understand why you want more affordability you know we're going to
00:55:25.360
make it happen here's one of the things we're going to do for health care but short of that
00:55:34.480
all right um i saw this quote today from elon musk once again always in the news he thinks that
00:55:50.480
neural link that chip you put in people's head um in the future there's nothing physically to stop
00:55:58.240
them from being able to restore full bodily function so in other words if you had let's say
00:56:04.320
a break in your spinal cord at the moment there's nothing we can do about it but if you had a
00:56:11.680
neural link chip not yet not yet they can't do it yet but in the future it will be able to bypass
00:56:19.680
the uh the disturbance in your um in your existing nerves and just send the signal to where it needs to
00:56:27.840
be and that people who are paralyzed completely paralyzed could get back a hundred percent of their
00:56:34.320
function isn't that amazing that's so amazing now it'll be too late to help me of course but uh
00:56:44.240
just the fact that he's got that as a target and he usually hits his targets yeah it's just amazing
00:56:52.400
so thank you for that elon musk on behalf of all paralyzed and semi-paralyzed people like me all right
00:57:05.520
um immediately after the show uh owen gregorian will be setting up a spaces
00:57:12.960
event on x spaces if you didn't know is the audio only doesn't cost anything to participate
00:57:20.960
it's audio only and uh people will be invited up to make their points and say things now uh this will
00:57:28.320
happen immediately after i'm done you have to give them a few minutes just to fire it up so immediately
00:57:34.720
is not exactly immediately um but if you want to find it you if you follow me in x i've reposted it
00:57:42.960
the link to it and if you don't see that just look for owen gregorian and you'll find it quickly now the
00:57:51.840
the original plan that owen had was to ask people if i've helped them in some way and make that the theme
00:58:00.480
but that was before venezuela um got attacked so i would not be i would not be insulted
00:58:09.280
if the spacious event is more about venezuela because that's sort of a you know top of mind
00:58:14.480
at the moment but uh a lot of people love the spaces they sometimes they'll run two or three hours
00:58:22.240
because people just want to keep going and it's amazing all right so that is all i have for you
00:58:29.920
i think i made it about an hour didn't i pretty good timed it perfectly all right i'm going to go
00:58:38.000
private just for a minute with the locals um like i said people are locals probably want to head over to
00:58:47.040
to spaces pretty soon so i'll keep it oh hiccups so i'll keep it short but thanks for joining