00:00:15.000If you are looking for clarity on the Ukrainian issue, this episode is for you.
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00:02:28.000This is a family dispute between two countries, one rather strong and one very corrupt and weak, that they're going to have to figure out for themselves.
00:02:40.000But American politicians have been in Europe.
00:02:44.000In fact, there's a list of Republican senators, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Mitt Romney, and Senator Inhoff, who found that this was more important to go to Munich for some security conference to try to hold Vladimir Putin in check than actually be in the United States Senate in a must-fund, must-pass bill that could have very well defunded the vaccine mandates.
00:03:12.000And so that really kind of goes to my first point, which is in life, when we have scarcity of resources, scarcity of time, you have to make priorities.
00:03:25.000Mature people know you must make decisions based on what matters more and where are you going to dedicate things of value.
00:03:36.000Now, the issue is that we see across the board, we have leaders that act as if we can saber-rattle in Ukraine while also facing our own issues.
00:03:51.000Million people cross the southern border every single year, and somehow we're really worried that Vladimir Putin is crossing a border in Ukraine while our own territorial integrity is violated.
00:04:04.000But let me ask a question: for those of you that have lost your jobs, that have been kicked out of the military for not getting a vaccine that does not work and might harm you.
00:04:13.000Do you care more about senators being in Munich trying to send a signal to Vladimir Putin or senators being in Washington, D.C. to do their job?
00:04:22.000That is a great and clear-cut example of exactly why we should not get involved in Ukraine.
00:04:37.000Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff from Oklahoma made a decision to go to Europe last week.
00:04:47.000When they went to Europe, they were not allowed to be in person at the United States Senate.
00:04:52.000The United States Senate had to pass a bill, and in the bill was a measure, an amendment, to defund vaccine mandates from the federal government.
00:05:05.000Because of the short time period, because of the crunch associated with it, we very well could have passed this, and Democrats didn't show up.
00:05:14.000So if Republicans just would have showed up and they would have put America first, not Ukraine first, we could have defunded vaccine mandates from the federal government, could have done it.
00:05:22.000Then that's a great example of how your elected leaders in Utah, Oklahoma, and South Carolina cared much more about some weird border dispute in a kind of inner family argument going back to 600 years than actually our own citizens and our own sovereignty.
00:05:41.000And I have an open invitation to any lawmaker that can come on this program.
00:05:59.000This part of Ukraine that he has decided to advance into is a highly disputed, century-old line dispute between people that have crossed relatives, crossed histories, and that's somehow our concern.
00:06:18.000And so you're going to hear a lot of people throughout the next couple days say, well, you know, it's America's role to put Putin in check.
00:06:26.000It's America's role to have our obligation to our allies.
00:06:32.000Well, we're going to dive into that and how flawed that was from the first part.
00:06:36.000And Vladimir Putin gave a speech yesterday.
00:06:38.000And again, I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin.
00:06:40.000I mean, last week I spent a whole segment talking about how that figure skater who illegally doped is an awful representation of anyone who cares about ethics or what is virtuous.
00:07:12.000But it is true to say that Ukraine is a fixture.
00:07:15.000It's a creation of the post-Romanov 1917 Russian Revolution Vladimir Lenin regime, where some of these lines in some of these countries, as they were drawn post-Soviet fall in mid-1990s, are very flawed.
00:07:31.000It was a pressure cooker waiting to explode.
00:07:36.000And what's really bizarre to me is you have Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff leave America because obviously defunding vaccine mandates is not as important as going to Munich and saber-rattling Vladimir Putin.
00:07:50.000So if you wonder why people are going to keep on losing their jobs federal government-wise and military-wise from vaccine mandates, all you have to do is like, oh, now I get it, because they had to make a choice.
00:08:03.000And this goes to the core point of why I have been against intervention with Putin and Ukraine since the very beginning, is when you have multiple crises looming at home, you must order them.
00:08:17.000And when you order something, you must know what the ultimate good is, and then you must say, I'll get to that later.
00:08:26.000In Western society and in America, we've decided to prioritize things that have no relevancy at all whatsoever, such as can men get pregnant or not, being like the most important conversation ever.
00:08:40.000And we have completely turned it upside down where the really big stuff, the civilization defining issues like open borders, fentanyl overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, families being torn apart, these things get cast aside.
00:08:56.000But don't worry, your leaders are out playing, let's say, a video game type posture in the Eastern part of Europe.
00:09:06.000How does this intervention impact the United States?
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00:10:44.000We've been told for a while by Republican leaders, yeah, we can walk and chew gum, right?
00:10:48.000Like we can hold Vladimir Putin in check and we can govern ourselves, but we can't even govern ourselves, obviously.
00:10:54.000We have so many problems in this country, mounting crises, inflation, prices going through the roof, our educational system is collapsing in front of our eyes.
00:11:05.000And this story of, and I missed one actually, Richard Burr from North Carolina, shows exactly why.
00:11:44.000And this was a specific loophole that Schumer put forward because they needed to get the votes.
00:11:51.000So I'm reading here from Breitbart.com.
00:11:53.000Four Senate Republicans failed to show up to an amendment that would have voted to defund Joe Biden's remaining vaccine mandates, thus ensuring its failure.
00:12:03.000However, and this was Senator Mike Lee's amendment to the continuing resolution.
00:12:11.000which would defund Biden's remaining vaccine mandates.
00:12:14.000The measure failed 4647 with Mitt Romney, Jen Inhoff, Lindsey Graham, and Richard Burr failing to show up, depriving Senate Republicans a potential majority to pass the amendment to the continuing resolution.
00:12:28.000Chuck Schumer sent the vote threshold to a majority, and it remains possible that he could have set the threshold to 60 if Republicans had enough votes to pass.
00:12:36.000However, Democrats broke and voted to defund Biden's private employer mandate the last time they voted on vaccine mandates.
00:12:45.000You have to choose, and they chose Ukraine.
00:12:49.000Now, I'm not going to get into the speculation of the psychology of a late 70, early 80-something aging male who's done really nothing relevant or meaningful in his life of why he likes to play war games in a distant 5,000-mile away country while his own voters are suffering under drug addiction and all these.
00:13:09.000It's kind of really weird and creepy, to be perfectly honest, why they like playing action-figure war games with real lives in villages they can't even pronounce, in lands they can't even find on a map.
00:13:19.000It's like, yeah, we're going to go defend Ukraine.
00:13:25.000Like, how about you actually serve your own constituents like defunding vaccine mandates?
00:13:30.000Bill Hemmer, who's terrific from FoxNews.com, walks through the map of where Russian troops are, where the fighting will start if they move past the demarcation line.
00:14:25.000If our border was secure, our budget was balanced, inflation was under control, if we didn't have a drug overdose epidemic, if we didn't have a war on early treatments, if we didn't have children wearing masks in California,
00:14:40.000if we didn't have small businesses crumbling over rising prices, if we didn't have our neighbors to the north becoming a fascist third world dictatorship, if we didn't have the American family falling apart or a suicide and drug addiction crisis with young people, then I would be open-minded to potentially posturing a little bit more.
00:15:01.000But even then, I don't think it's the right role.
00:15:03.000But if you don't even have the fundamentals right and you invert the entire paradigm, then it really begs the question, who are our leaders representing?
00:15:14.000I can't imagine the good people of North Dakota really care about Kiev more than whether or not the oil and gas industry is actually going to be able to survive, which is a perfect segue.
00:15:28.000One of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is able to do this in the first place, one of the reasons why he feels emboldened, is because of a set of energy policies that Joe Biden put forward.
00:15:41.000Cheap oil is a deterrent from tyrannical third world dictators from invading other countries.
00:15:49.000Could it be that Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio actually might be to blame for what Vladimir Putin is doing?
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00:18:12.000So, in a time when the entire planet is locked down due to the Chinese coronavirus, finally, the world is reopening, there's one number in particular that Vladimir Putin is looking at that his entire economy is organized behind, and that is the petrodollar.
00:18:32.000Vladimir Putin and Russia has designed their entire economy around the price of oil.
00:18:38.000Now, you might remember back in January of 2020, about two years ago, there was that famous meeting that happened in Vienna between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
00:18:50.000This is when Trump was still president.
00:18:52.000And President Trump had a belief that the lower the price of oil, the better for the consumer.
00:18:58.000Now, President Trump was so far in that direction, American producers were even getting upset.
00:19:07.000And it was a pro-fracking policy, pro-energy exploration policy.
00:19:13.000And because of this, oil went to dramatically low levels.
00:19:18.000The price of gas fell to historic levels.
00:19:22.000And Vladimir Putin and Russia were poorer than ever.
00:19:26.000If you wanted to break the back of Russia, if you wanted Russia to be weak, then you would want cheap oil.
00:19:34.000Now, if you want Russia to be strong again, then you'd want a high price of oil.
00:19:38.000Well, from day one of taking office, Joe Biden has done everything he possibly can to destroy America's energy supremacy.
00:19:50.000We had energy superiority and energy supremacy under Donald Trump, from liquid and natural gas fracking to new areas of development.
00:20:01.000We were expanding leases for the first time since the development of oil and natural gas.
00:20:08.000not the development, but the exploration of it, we were able to have a set of policies that made us an energy exporter, not an energy importer.
00:20:22.000First time we've seen anything even close to that.
00:20:25.000Now, the significance of that, because I grew up saying, you know, hearing from the left, we have to have our own energy so then we won't go invade other countries.
00:20:32.000Okay, well, we have that now, like Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever, because we need it for the oil, even though we really didn't take much of that oil anyway.
00:22:15.000Well, the less oil and natural gas that you're developing, the less LNG that you're exploring, then all of a sudden the countries that are going to exploit that are going to be richer than ever.
00:22:34.000Putin now knows that since oil is already high, that if he quote unquote invades Ukraine, oil will spike even further and making Russia even richer.
00:23:18.000This is something I can agree with establishment Republicans on.
00:23:22.000All they want to talk about is Ukraine and Russia.
00:23:23.000Okay, well, how about one point of agreement that I think we can all have together is that if we put our country's energy production first, this wouldn't be a problem.
00:23:59.000They don't listen to the federal government.
00:24:01.000They do sanctuary cities and policies in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and L.A. Why doesn't North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas have sanctuary cities for energy independence?
00:24:13.000You want to really stick it to Vladimir Putin?
00:24:16.000Don't go send javelin missiles to Ukrainians that don't even know how to use them.
00:24:23.000You want to break the back of Vladimir Putin and also benefit your country?
00:24:28.000Open up the oil and natural gas market.
00:24:31.000But this is part of the Biden strategy is raise oil prices, and therefore Americans are going to want, in an overwhelming way, we're going to want solar panels on everything, and we're going to want green energy, and everything will be good.
00:24:51.000Now, make no mistake that Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and all these climate change activists, maybe realizing it or not realizing it, were actually playing into the aims and ambitions of Russia.
00:25:03.000Now, I'm not saying that the green energy movement is funded by Russia.
00:25:10.000I'm not saying that the Leonardo DiCaprio movie on Netflix, Don't Look Up, which was very difficult to get through, is somehow financed by a Russian oligarch.
00:25:23.000I'm not saying that AOC's Green New Deal was created by the Kremlin, but the Kremlin is a big fan of AOC's Green New Deal.
00:25:30.000The more green conversation that we have, the more propaganda that is put forward around destroying American energy independence, just plays right into the Russian superiority supremacy agenda.
00:25:44.000And so in a backwards way, think about how interesting this is.
00:25:48.000If our leaders actually put our country first, we could have broke the back of the Russian Federation without ever having to supply a missile, a troop, or a press release.
00:26:01.000Russia was on the ropes under the Trump administration because of abundant, cheap oil.
00:26:09.000Now, of course, MSNBC is saying, well, most of the fault of this lies in the Trump administration.
00:26:17.000I think it's also important to remember, going back to something that we talked about earlier, that Putin has made various efforts to undo Western military support for Ukraine, including during the Trump administration.
00:26:31.000If you remember the argument over Trump's first impeachment.
00:26:37.000So why didn't Putin do this during the Trump administration?
00:26:40.000Because he thought Trump was weakening Ukraine, especially on these grounds.
00:26:44.000So the problem of Ukraine being unfortified goes back several years, and much of the fault lies in the Trump administration.
00:27:09.000Because we allowed ourselves to be energy independent.
00:27:12.000Now, mind you, you know that Joe Biden approved Nord Stream 2, the pipeline from Germany to Russia.
00:27:19.000If Biden was so afraid of Putin, why did he just help him be flush with cash and resources and lines of energy from Russia into Western nations?
00:27:32.000If we're supposed to be so afraid of Russia, why would Biden do that?
00:27:36.000The answer is he's actually not that afraid of Russia.
00:27:39.000Vladimir Putin is a substitute for the villain the media needs while Trump is golfing and starting a new social media app and speaking at events.
00:28:24.000Trump was actually engaged in diplomacy.
00:28:30.000Trump went to Helsinki under massive scrutiny and condemnation from every major leader, including many on the right, to actually have a summit with Vladimir Putin and look at him in the eyes.
00:28:44.000Was Putin annexed in Ukraine during that time?
00:28:59.000Some terrorists are not worth talking for very long with, like Al-Baghdadi and Qassam Soleimani.
00:29:05.000But when you're in control of the world's energy reserves and you're a country as powerful and as widespread as Russia, I think speaking is a good idea.
00:29:26.000And dare I say he's made Russia rich again.
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00:30:51.000In a time of crisis, what is the human being's natural way to react?
00:30:59.000What's the proper way to handle something that has gone wrong when there's many other options in front of you?
00:31:07.000Well, an analogy that is used quite often, but I want to think deeply about it for a second, is what do they tell you every time you board an airplane?
00:31:15.000When you board an airplane, they're very explicit that if you're traveling with a child or someone that is dependent on you, that if the oxygen masks come from above, you put your mask on first before you help somebody else.
00:31:32.000Why would they tell you to put your mask on first?
00:31:34.000Well, because if you pass out while putting the mask on somebody else, then you both will have passed out and you both might die.
00:31:43.000Now, it's very logical when you think about it.
00:31:45.000Okay, you take care of yourself first, and then you could take care of other people.
00:31:51.000When there is something that is a crisis or unraveling, you should always care about yourself.
00:32:00.000Handle yourself first before you can handle anything else.
00:32:03.000When things start to fall apart, your circle needs to get smaller, not bigger.
00:32:08.000It seems as if our leaders are doing the opposite.
00:32:10.000It seems like the more crisis there is at home, the more they care about completely irrelevant border disputes on the other side of the planet.
00:33:10.000So, when you can't agree on things as simple as is there a higher being, is there a spiritual dimension to existence, or is it just all material?
00:33:22.000You can't agree on biological truths, such as men and women, and you can't agree on historical truths, then why do we think we can agree on going into a potential war with Vladimir Putin?
00:33:48.000It's a much needed ratings boost for a group of people that are increasingly irrelevant.
00:33:55.000But for those of us that are here to be able to look at this as it is, we need to be very careful and prudent about how we approach this.
00:34:05.000Putin is going to keep on trying to reunify what he thinks is the family of Russia or the Soviet Union through Ukraine or the Eastern part.
00:34:15.000We made Putin rich through the ridiculous energy policies we did here domestically via Joe Biden's promises and executive orders.
00:34:27.000But as our nation continues to go into turmoil, into a death spiral, I want our senators to put the auction mask on America before caring about Ukraine or some far distant land that I can't pronounce and have difficulty finding on a map.
00:34:48.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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