'Reconnect and Celebrate' - 5⧸1⧸18
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1 hour and 54 minutes
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Summary
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx! The New York Times wishes him a happy 135th birthday, and it's not even close to being the first person to do so. Glenn and Stu are joined by Jason Berker, an English-born philosophy professor at the University of South Korea, to talk about this and more.
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.
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Thank you so much for article wishing me happy birthday.
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Have to say, 135 years, I've been boiling here in the bowels of hell.
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While your piece is fairly written well, it does contain weird tangents and a fanboy approach.
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Especially considering the death toll of my, quote, philosophy, has accrued roughly 150 million.
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I find the inclusion of your exclamation mark a bit much, no?
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I mean, what happened to old New York Times, which was respectful?
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You emerged from early days of Penny Press' fostered impressive career, I saw.
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We denizens of hell absolutely adore the divisive tactics and unabashed elitism you've developed over years.
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Lucifer himself loves reading hateful Trump articles on account of all the money he's helped you make and all.
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He's an English-born associate professor of philosophy at University of South Korea.
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First, he's done wonderful work keeping my work relevant with his expertise in post-Marxism.
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And all the time I spent worrying that capitalism had ruined it for me.
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I actually loved capitalism, privately, because it's what allowed me to have a lifelong freeloader about ideas like haves and have-nots.
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I can't believe you people actually believe this stuff.
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I did not like Mr. Baker's alternative history novel, Marx Returns, which pretends to watch my process during composition of Dos Kapital.
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My screed against capitalism, slightly more subtle than the Communist Manifesto.
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Lost count of how many cigars and bottles of expensive wine I had while writing those.
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Most important, I would like to thank you, New York Times, for so shamelessly selling your soul on my behalf.
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I only hope you have a long-term plan, because I can tell you personally, the whole communist thing does not end well.
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I realize my hand gets really tired when I write now.
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If you're watching on The Blaze TV, you can see the scribbles.
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And that makes as much sense as most of Karl Marx's writings.
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It's behind the paywall, if you want to read it.
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Safeway, that's a grocery store in the Pacific Northwest, and I think a lot of the West.
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Safeway warns Seattle new employment tax could turn neighborhoods into actual food deserts.
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Now, Stu, do you remember the report we did on food deserts when Barack Obama said,
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Yeah, I did a whole series called Deserted, in which we investigated communities that had
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absolutely no access to food, which was interesting because all of the places we looked at had
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multiple, not just one, but multiple grocery stores in them.
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Yeah, but they didn't have a place you could get a salad.
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Yeah, thousands and thousands of options for fresh foods and vegetables.
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Well, apparently, those who care about food deserts no longer care about food deserts because
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New employment tax, which has been proposed by the Seattle City Council, will charge roughly
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Although it would only apply to the city's largest companies, you know, the ones that provide all
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Many of them are complaining to the press, some with good reason, about how the tax would
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discourage employment and ultimately damage the city's economy.
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The tax is only going to apply to businesses earning $20 million in revenue within the city
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limits, a group that includes 585 companies, 585 companies.
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Can you just get out your calculator here, Stu?
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Businesses would be required to pay $0.26 per man hour for every employee that works within
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the city limits, excluding vacation pay and sick time.
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Now, let's just say Amazon, Seattle's, but one of Seattle's, if not biggest employers,
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you know, in the top five, they only have 45,000 employees in Seattle.
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That's going to be a little, that's a hefty tax.
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That's the tax that Amazon has to pay every single year for employing people in Seattle.
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So they can afford it because remember, this only applies to businesses earning $20 million
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So that means that's, they sell all their stuff, they have to make at least $20 million.
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Because one thing you know about taxation is when you tax something, you get less of it.
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That's what you, that's what the point of it is.
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For example, a vice tax, like cigarettes, alcohol, right?
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You tax them because you want more people to smoke.
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In theory, you tax it so less people will smoke.
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So then why, why are we taxing marriage so high?
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Because we have, we have that marriage tax I've heard of.
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Because theoretically, you're trying to encourage it.
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So you're now taxing people extra for hiring more people.
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Which again, like, so it would make more sense, for example, to give a small raise to an employee
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Put those people, you want to lower, you want to, for example, great argument for automation.
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Why wouldn't I replace a worker with a robot when they're going to charge me an extra $500?
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I can take that $500, I'm going to pay the employee anyway, that's extra, and put it towards the robot.
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Well, I will tell you, Europe is ahead of us on this.
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They're already, they're already, they already have a robots are people to tax.
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So if you replace somebody with a robot, you have to pay the, you have to pay the tax on that.
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And that is one of their goals, is to make that common.
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And I will tell you that you'd still pay it because it's cheaper to have a robot than it is to have a human being.
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From California, Oregon, to, to, to the Canadian border.
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It's just, it's the, it's, Carl Marx was right.
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Jonah Goldberg's new book is called Suicide of the West.
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Foxconn just built that, or is just breaking ground on that new, um, plant up in, where is it?
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Because Scott Walker gave them like a $3 billion tax break.
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Why is, why is Boeing, why is it they're not running corporate headquarters out of Seattle anymore?
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What do you, you think that he, oh, we're just so special.
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They're just going to keep, they're just going to keep building.
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They're going to find places that are nice places to live and won't tax them to death.
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Why do you think, why do you think Texas is growing and everywhere else is shrinking?
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I mean, remember the, the New York plan, uh, that, uh, that they were running for a while?
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I don't know if it's still going on, but it was like, move your business to New York and you don't have to pay taxes for like eight years.
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Instead, why not just make your business environment rational?
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I mean, you know, I mean, they all know it when it comes down to it.
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They all know if they want more of something, you take the taxes, a pen of punishments away.
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Yet in places like Seattle, they still go down these roads.
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Of course it's to make money, but it's also in theory to get people to drink less soda, right?
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And what they're doing in Seattle and so many places around the country is trying to punish the employer for hiring people.
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They go, they promise so many things to their, to their left-wing voters.
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And when it comes down to it, they have no way to pay for any of it.
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I mean, how are they going to, how, if without this tax, how are they going to buy all of those tents that those 45,000 employees are going to have to live in?
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All right, I want to talk to you about Mother's Day.
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Well, you know, I mean, moms, I mean, I hate to say, you know, I mean, I had a, I had a great mom, but as I get older, I'm kind of like, did I?
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I mean, you know, it really, you know, it really turns me, you know, it turns me around on my, on my mom, on whether she actually loved me is rice pudding.
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My mom would make instant rice and then she'd pour milk on it and she'd put some cinnamon on it and she'd throw some raisins in it.
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When I said to my, my wife, Tanya, I said, Hey, uh, have you ever had rice and raisins?
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And I said, you know, you've put it in and you just stir it with the milk and stuff.
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And I'm like, my mom, she was like, eh, he's worth a treat, but not all that time.
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I mean, that's just way too much effort for him anyway.
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But I'd still, I'd still love her and, uh, and, and she's worth celebrating.
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So yesterday, I'm in the office and working on the Mercury One Museum that is going to open here in the studios for just three days, June 15th.
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That's a Friday, June 15th through Sunday, June 17th.
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And this year, it's about the rights and responsibilities.
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And yesterday, I'm like, you know, we need a guillotine.
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We need, you know, the gallows or something like that because I want to start it with tyrants, kings, and bloodbaths.
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What the world was like before people recognized that men had certain inalienable rights.
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And so, all day yesterday, I'm like, where do I get a guillotine?
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Where are we going to find somebody who has a rack?
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Hey, does anybody have a guillotine we can borrow?
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It's the type of thing that gets you thrown in prison asking that question.
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And so, yesterday afternoon, Suzanne from Mercury One writes, and she said, there's this guy, Glenn, he has one of the largest collections of, you know, torture devices from the medieval times, from Spain, from the Inquisition, and from England, from the witches and everything else.
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It was the most bizarre thing ever that, out of the blue, this guy writes.
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Like, the idea that people are just like, I've got an extra guillotine.
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See, he put this whole thing together, and now I guess he's looking for a place to house it or something, and Ripley's, believe it or not, is into it.
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And I'm not, I mean, I think he's a more serious individual.
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He doesn't, you know, it's not like, hey, look at this.
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You're like, all right, we just saw, we just saw the Alamo.
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No, that's how people, so people just sound like that when they walk through the doors.
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So anyway, so if, I don't know if we can borrow his torture stuff,
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but if you happen to have a guillotine, and I mean a real one,
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I don't mean a magic guillotine or one that you've just built,
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but we need it for the opening of our museum this year for,
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this year is going to be really spectacular, really spectacular.
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I want to show the difference between the American Revolution
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and I also want to show, because we just purchased something.
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We have the letter to Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Paine.
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Because after he writes, you know, his treatise on God,
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I'm trying to get the French to understand the God.
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Michael Matt, he is the editor of the Remnant Newspaper.
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He is a guy who I wanted to talk to because there's a couple of things
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going on with the Pope that concern me and concern, honestly,
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For instance, the Pope is playing footsie with the Chinese,
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which is essential for Catholicism or for Christianity to make it.
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is really important in China, and he's dismantling it.
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It's an interesting, it's going to be an interesting conversation.
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He now says, I should have done that differently
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and he says the real thing is absolutely terrifying.
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I have not seen it yet, but I've seen several interviews with him,
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Let's spend a few minutes talking about Benjamin Netanyahu
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and what he did last night, 8 p.m. Jerusalem time,
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where he gave a speech to the country and the world.
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He started it in Hebrew, and then he said in Hebrew,
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I'm going to say the rest of this in English for the rest of the world.
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He is our lead researcher and also military affairs and foreign affairs.
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and it's story after story after story with headlines like
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Benjamin Netanyahu gives a bizarre presentation saying Iran is cheating on the nuclear deal.
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and it could bring one of the worst wars the Middle East has ever seen.
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Iran, nowhere in here is a story that is actually talking about what he said
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Iran never shares the culpability in any of this.
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Well, the reason is is because people in Israel,
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They had to switch that into English because that we have been duped.
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We were duped by Ben Rhodes, the Obama administration.
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about two years trying to get this thing through,
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Now, all the pro-nuke deal people are saying this morning that,
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What's funny is the Iranians at the same time are saying,
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And the weapons-grade nuclear weapons, so you know,
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he described a weapon that he claims they now have, right,
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that is a missile that it is tipped with enough firepower
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that it is three or four times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
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He said that they have the schematics and everything basically done,
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Basically, the actual plans and schematics are sitting there.
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And they went to great lengths to preserve the knowledge, too,
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And so now we're getting into information that we didn't know.
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So we knew all of that information already about Project Ahmad
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And a lot of people are not talking about that.
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why Netanyahu and the Israelis did not like this deal,
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There was no guarantees that it was going to be re-upped at the end of it.
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It was basically kicking the can down the road.
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we're about maybe seven years to go or something like that,
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they can instantly start creating those missiles,
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those nuclear missiles that you were just talking about.
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The other thing that we did not address in the deal
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was the aggressiveness of the Iranian regime right now.
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We are having kinetic Israeli-on-Iranian conflicts.
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On Sunday, like I said, over 20 Israelis were killed
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in an Israeli F-15 strike inside Western Syria.
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Like, we're getting closer and closer to the Golan Heights.
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You think that would make a little bit of news?
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You get the Golan Heights, it's over for Galilee
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and all of that part that Christians know and visit
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When you're up above, if you've ever stood on the cliff
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I can't remember the city, but there's no way to defend it.
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The Golan Heights strategically are extraordinarily important.
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It's so critical to look at both Iran and North Korea
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like they revealed yesterday, that everything's done.
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So it was very beneficial for them to enter into the JCPOA
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and actually say, okay, fine, we'll hang back a little bit,
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Let us initiate stage two and start moving into Syria
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They've done about six nuclear tests, missile tests.
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an actual physical nukes on standby, ready to go.
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I would argue that Israel maybe, I mean, Iran is a little bit further into that
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because they've got a program that they're ready to initiate and start
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And it all revolves around a failed nuclear deal.
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One's from the Clintons, one's from the Obamas.
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So what people are not connecting is the press refuses
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And perhaps we should be ringing this bell every single day.
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But this is something that they have to understand,
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because that is all that the Iranians are talking about with their people.
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And it's what they're using to whip up the Palestinians.
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I think something around the 70th of Israel is coming.
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I think, you know, May 14th, Donald Trump is supposed to be there.
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They're expecting 100,000 protesters just on the border.
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It could be really, truly a nightmare scenario.
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And they believe when the world is washed with blood,
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the Imam of time will come back and then he will rule the world.
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You know, the good thing is Donald Trump was there with me
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and Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina and most of the candidates for president.
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trying to get Congress to stand up and not take that deal.
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So Donald Trump was clear on this deal back then.
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I would like to know, where did the president get the money from?
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why doesn't Donald Trump just use that slush fund to build the wall?
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Because the president's not supposed to have a slush fund.
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So they could fund terrorists all around the world.
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But I would not want to be in the Iranian intelligence
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because they're probably doing a heavy, heavy purge.
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a lot of the information that Netanyahu talked about
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but we kind of knew what was going on there a little bit.
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that will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
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Here are the answers to a few questions you might have
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Netanyahu's documents back all of that up in spades.
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you'll be introduced to the best agent in your town