Glenn Beck delivers an update on the events in the Middle East and the death of a 20-year-old Marine, Andrew Wilkow's phone call from a mother of a fallen Marine, and a call from the father of another fallen Marine.
00:04:17.280Got my son was one of the Marines that died yesterday.
00:04:22.560Twenty years and six months old, getting ready to come home for frickin Jordan to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son.
00:04:30.620And that feckless, dementia ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.
00:04:36.680I woke up at four o'clock this morning to Marines at my door telling me my son was dead.
00:04:44.940So to have her on right before me and listen to that piece of crap, talk about diplomatic crap with frickin Taliban terrorists who just frickin blew up my son and know nothing to not say anything about.
00:06:34.780From the Washington Post, this account of Kabul's fall, the climactic moment of America's longest war is based on nearly two dozen interviews with U.S. and Afghan officials.
00:06:45.760In both Washington and Kabul, the days and weeks leading up to the fall were marked by complacency.
00:06:53.360The United States was withdrawing its forces.
00:06:57.600But the prevailing view in both capitals was that there was still plenty of time before the insurgents might take over a city of nearly five million people that had long been the nerve center of America's presence in the country.
00:07:10.340President Ghani exuded that belief, according to Afghan and U.S. officials who, like others for the story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
00:07:21.940But reports from the field suggest that in some cases, Afghan government forces were not fighting at all.
00:07:29.280When the Taliban advanced on key border crossings with Iran in late June and early July, government forces abandoned their posts.
00:07:38.440The young Western educated official who served as Ghani's national security advisor, but who had scant experience in military or security affairs, told others the government forces would soon retake them.
00:07:50.760But no significant efforts ever materialized as the Taliban continued to accumulate gains.
00:07:58.120The American officials began to see the president's confidence as delusion.
00:08:04.360Then Gandhi's lack of focus on the threat that the Taliban posed mystified U.S. officials, in particular Marine General Kenneth Frank McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command and Ambassador Ross Wilson.
00:08:18.080In a meeting with Gandhi in Kabul in July, the two men told the Afghan president that his team needed a realistic, implementable and widely supported plan to defend the country and had to drop the idea of defending all 34 provincial capitals.
00:08:36.820They had to focus on what they could actually defend.
00:08:39.940All provinces are important, but some were more important to the defense of Kabul.
00:08:45.100Ghani appeared to agree, but there would be no follow through.
00:08:49.820And that seemed to be the case on all parts.
00:08:55.640They talk about how it was beginning to fall.
00:09:01.840On August 6th, two dozen others over nine days, two dozen other cities would fall.
00:09:10.460And Gandhi, I mean, Gandhi, Ghani would want to talk about digitization of money.
00:09:18.660Isn't that interesting that that's what he was focused on was the new digital money.
00:09:23.080An official who knew the president's plan for government salary payment system.
00:09:29.220It had nothing to do with the dire threat, he said.
00:09:32.660As late of Saturday afternoon before Kabul fell, Ghani did not suggest any urgency around the department departure arrangements or the safety of senior staff.
00:09:42.420Receiving one advisor in the palace gardens and speaking in his character, characteristic soft tones, he made arrangements to shore up the country's economy.
00:09:52.280He was supposed to address the nation later that night, but he never did.
00:09:57.720Americans, meanwhile, were suffering from their own delusions.
00:10:02.140In June, U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that the Afghan government would hang on for at least another six months.
00:10:09.000By August, the dominant view was the Taliban wasn't likely to pose a serious threat to Kabul until at least the late fall.
00:10:18.700So now, if this is correct, this is a massive, massive failure of the intelligence department once again.
00:10:30.160How are our intelligence agencies this wrong?
00:10:33.540American officials may have been urging Ghani to show greater urgency, but their own actions suggested no immediate cause for alarm.
00:10:42.320With the officials surrendering to the customary rhythms of Washington in August, on the Friday afternoon before Kabul fell, the White House was starting to empty out as many of the senior staff prepared to take their first vacations of Biden's young presidency.
00:10:59.440Early in the day, Biden had arrived at Camp David and Secretary of State Antony Blinken was already in the Hamptons.
00:11:10.140By Saturday, the fall of one city to Taliban forces convinced U.S. officials that they needed to scramble.
00:11:24.060How quickly was a subject of dispute between the Pentagon and State Department?
00:11:30.260So they couldn't decide on, should we scramble really fast or kind of fast?
00:11:34.720In a conference call with Biden and his top security aides, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called for the immediate relocation of all U.S. embassy personnel to the Kabul airport.
00:11:44.840Wilson's embassy colleagues had been racing to destroy classified documents and equipment in the compound since Friday.
00:11:52.680An internal memo obtained by The Washington Post implored staff to destroy sensitive materials using incinerators.
00:12:27.980Ghani and Blinken spoke by phone, hoping to avert a showdown in the capital.
00:12:31.920Blinken sought Ghani support for a U.S.-brokered arrangement with the Taliban in which the militants would remain outside of Kabul if the Afghan leader would step aside as an interim government took charge.
00:12:44.140The aim, said a senior U.S. official, was to buy time for negotiations aimed at forming an inclusive government that involved the Taliban as well as others.
00:12:55.600Taliban insurgents captured key eastern Afghanistan city of Jabal al-Jahalabad without a fight on July 15th when the news that Kabul woke up to Sunday morning was ominous.
00:13:11.620The overnight fall of Jabal al-Jahalabad had left the capital isolated.
00:13:17.000Many shops remained shuttered and people stayed home from work.
00:13:20.300This just collapsed so quickly and no one was paying attention to it.
00:14:15.400The president wanted to return home to gather his belongings, but told by advisers there wasn't any time earlier that afternoon, wearing plastic sandals and a thin coat.
00:14:24.880The president, along with the first lady and a handful of top aides, lifted off the palace grounds in military helicopters.
00:14:35.440From there, they boarded a small plane bound for the UAE.
00:14:38.660Gandhi aides, Ghani aides, who had not been part of the hasty evacuation, returned from lunch to find out that the president was just gone, his office empty.
00:14:48.680It goes on in this story to say he never called anyone at any time.
00:18:12.800They will lose the will to just go on.
00:18:16.180I decided to try Rough Greens, and I'm happy I did.
00:18:19.520With Rough Greens stirred into his food, Timmy was not only interested in eating again, he also wanted to go for a walk and play with his toys.
00:19:37.600And the beautiful story of the friendship between our two nations, the United States of America and the Jewish and democratic state of Israel.
00:19:48.580Both of us who seek to do good and need to be strong.
00:21:47.000She's just trying to stay out of the limelight, hoping that the stink from Biden doesn't reach her.
00:21:52.900Which I don't know if that's possible, but that's what I think she's attempting to do.
00:21:56.940Again, anytime you want to analyze an action from Kamala Harris, you just need to wind up thinking like she's always thinking about what makes her situation better.
00:22:10.120So she's always thinking about herself.
00:22:11.960That's always number one to Kamala Harris.
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00:24:47.900But we, I'm not going to be saying much for the next few days because the airport is officially closed now.
00:25:01.680Only the military side is getting anybody out.
00:25:06.320The commercial side is completely gone.
00:25:10.000There are about 12,000 refugees that groups like Mighty Oaks Foundation, the Nazarene Fund, and others have been working to get out together.
00:25:28.900We have taken 12,000 people out just arriving in two airports.
00:25:38.800That's quite a good number for something that is absolutely impossible to do.
00:25:44.960Do not take our blackout as anything other than we're keeping our mouths shut because we know that the Taliban is monitoring groups like ours for additional information.
00:26:04.600They are actively searching for people.
00:26:08.400They are now, you know, the good thing is they're in bed with the Russians and the Chinese.
00:26:28.580If you need to use passwords with each other so you know who you're talking to and pick maybe an hour a day that you're going to use your phone, but turn it off.
00:29:52.500All of these people are supposed to advise.
00:29:54.280And I'm not saying we've got to be in Afghanistan forever.
00:29:57.520But I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, the strategic airburys, before we evacuate everyone?
00:30:07.700And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, we completely messed this up?
00:30:11.820I've got battalion commander friends right now that are posting similar things, and they're saying, you know, wondering if all the lives were lost and if it was in vain, all those people that we've lost over the last 20 years.
00:30:26.140And he goes on to say that we're all part of a chain, while every link may not be tested, the strength of the chain is only as strong as each link, and you've got to be a good link, something like that.
00:30:37.760And what I'll say is, and from my position, potentially all those people did die in vain if we don't have senior leaders that own up and raise their hand and say, we did not do this well in the end.
00:30:54.960Without that, we just keep repeating the same mistakes, this amalgamation of the economic slash corporate slash political slash higher military ranks are not holding up their end of the bargain.
00:32:07.080He, over the weekend, put his rank on the table and said, I resign, and I want nothing except answers.
00:32:18.660Now, his latest video is a little weird.
00:32:24.140If you watch the full thing, and I'm not sure if it's because he feels challenged now, and he's trying to puff, you know, puff himself, not himself, but puff up just a bit to say, you're not going to take me out.
00:32:40.180Because he is now in a struggle for his life, because he is now saying he is going to say things and report things that will take down the corrupt military-industrial complex.
00:32:55.640And you should watch it, because I'm not sure yet how I feel on him.
00:33:08.020That's what we're looking for, is somebody who's willing to put their brass down on the table and say, I don't really care what you do.
00:33:16.020I just won't do this anymore, and I want some answers, and I'll tell the American people that you deserve answers.
00:33:24.760Here's a clip of what he said in his latest video.
00:33:28.720When I was a young captain, I worked for a man named Lieutenant Colonel Hobbs, and we went through some things together, and he, many people don't know, was actually relieved as an 06 for standing up for moral things that he thought was right.
00:33:45.180And he did it within the system, as a lot of people have implored me to do, and he was just shuffled out the door without really affecting any change.
00:33:53.180And then after he exited the Marine Corps, he's made a lot of controversy by talking about racial diversity and equal opportunity problems in the Marine Corps.
00:34:05.840And from that respect, I have adamantly disagreed with him.
00:34:10.580But just because we have different opinions doesn't mean I don't respect him.
00:36:06.320For people to comment on what I said and to say, yes, mistakes were made.
00:36:11.220And had they done that, I would have gone back into rank and file, submitted, and accomplished what I wanted.
00:36:18.580The morning after I posted my video and I came into work, my boss came in and he asked me, what were you trying to accomplish?
00:36:25.020And that was a very tough question for me.
00:36:27.000And my response was, I want senior leaders to accept accountability.
00:36:30.300I think them accepting accountability would do more for service members and PTSD and struggling with purpose than any other transparent piece of paper or message.
00:36:39.200What he said there, I 100% agree with.
00:37:27.720If you're you remember that teacher in Utah, I think it was last week or was it the week before where she came out and said, most parents are dumber than you kids.
00:37:36.640You don't have to believe everything your parents believe most because most likely you're smarter than them.
00:37:41.160That's a real quote from a real teacher.
00:37:45.120Thankfully, the school board fired that person.
00:37:48.960But I can guarantee you there's probably somebody like that in your school district that's saying the same kinds of things.
00:37:58.200Do you really know what your kids are being taught?
00:38:02.140Bad information is only effectively countered with good information.
00:38:07.880That's why I want to talk to you about the Tuttle Twins books.
00:38:10.560They teach liberty and and the republic and the free market in a fun way that kids can actually understand.
00:38:19.820And they start with young kid books all the way to young adult books.
00:38:25.280And really, I mean, I think a lot of parents are learning a lot from the Tuttle Twins books right now.
00:43:47.680As we are back from the Middle East, I have an update for you on the Nazarene Fund and some of the things that are going on and why we have to now remain quiet for a little while.
00:44:02.360But as everybody is bogged down in the Middle East and looking at that, one thing that we haven't looked at really is what does this mean for the U.S.
00:44:16.520Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party leader, is joining us next from, I believe he's in London now, to talk to us about what the British Parliament has said and done in 60 seconds.
00:44:32.500You know, they say the little things in life are the most satisfying, and maybe that's true most of the time, but sometimes the big things count, too.
00:44:43.640You know, really satisfying, like when you're buying or selling your home and it goes well, that's kind of satisfying.
00:46:08.700And listening to your introduction, I mean, look, you know, I've spent 40 years working for American companies in business, being allied politically with Donald Trump and many friends in the Republican Party.
00:46:21.440I mean, there's nobody this side of the pond who's more pro-American, more pro the special relationship than I am.
00:46:30.960But for Biden to unconditionally withdraw from a military mission after 20 years without any planning or any foresight as to how we get our nationals out in the case of a Taliban advance,
00:46:46.080and to do it without even consulting the British Prime Minister and refusing to answer his phone call for almost 48 hours, sends a message to us.
00:46:58.000And the message is we cannot trust America, despite being our closest partner for over 100 years.
00:47:05.340We cannot trust America with this man in charge.
00:47:08.680And it's a sad realization, but it's true.
00:47:11.800And I think it goes even further than the relationship between the UK and the USA.
00:47:17.440I think NATO, frankly, I mean, ceases to function.
00:47:21.000So the damage that Biden has done to America's international reputation couldn't be greater.
00:47:27.500Yeah, they were all yelling at Donald Trump, saying that he was going to destroy NATO.
00:47:54.300But it's also, isn't it, the way that international mainstream media wanted to portray the Trump movement, just indeed, as they did with the Brexit movement.
00:48:03.140You know, Trump is going to destroy NATO.
00:48:06.540What Trump did, he turned up at the NATO HQ in Brussels and said, and Obama had said similar before, but without any particular strength, that we cannot go on with a NATO where major countries like Germany are only paying half the membership fee.
00:48:22.740The NATO rules are actually very fair.
00:48:24.900Regardless of the size of the country, you must spend 2% of GDP on defense, and the Germans were spending one.
00:48:31.100So actually, in many ways, what Trump was doing was trying to make NATO fair, but it was willfully, willfully misportrayed.
00:48:40.260What Biden has done is to say, look, you know, we're the big guys in NATO, but hey, we just do stuff without consulting.
00:48:48.480Despite the fact you, too, have had many hundreds of people killed in Afghanistan and put big money into Afghanistan, but without even the complement of a conversation, we've decided that effectively the NATO mission is over.
00:49:01.900So, yeah, special relationship with Britain, completely in tatters NATO, I'm not even sure it can possibly survive what it's just gone through.
00:49:11.520And, of course, you know, when you look at those photographs today of Taliban soldiers now dressed in American military equipment with $85 billion worth of U.S. military hardware now in the hands of these people with the giant lithium reserves that exist within Afghanistan,
00:49:34.460now completely open to exploitation with communist China and warnings coming in the UK today that our terrorism threat is now going up directly as a result of what has happened in Afghanistan.
00:49:47.820And one of the most overused words in the English language is disaster.
00:49:52.240But believe me, Glenn, this is, on every level, a disaster.
00:49:56.740I heard things coming from the Parliament and the House of Lords that I never have heard before.
00:50:26.860I mean, look, ever since 1917, ever since America entered the First World War, you know, we have been beside each other throughout virtually every single major conflict.
00:50:39.100And, yes, of course, America is bigger than us.
00:50:42.320But it's been a very, very important relationship.
00:50:45.280And not just in terms of military, in terms of information sharing as well.
00:50:49.360I mean, that's where, in many ways, that's where our two countries are the closest in sharing intelligence.
00:50:54.820I'm not even sure right now that the British government or security forces would even share every piece of intelligence with an administration that has treated us with such complete and utter contempt.
00:51:10.420Yes, of course, it is right that any government puts the interests of its own citizens first.
00:51:15.220But you do that as well as consulting with your friends and allies.
00:51:20.120And when you work with the Brits, I mean, you know, I know 1812 did happen, but it's a long time ago.
00:51:24.560And I think we've been I think we've been forgiven.
00:51:29.360But literally, since April 1917, you know, we are the two countries and we've shed much blood and spent much treasure all over the world, defeating Nazism and other terrible regimes.
00:51:43.100And for us to have gone through those things together to now be treated like this, that is why you're hearing members of the House of Lords, members of the Parliament, senior commentators and people like me who are instinctively pro-American saying we have a real problem now.
00:51:59.360And, you know, something, America, Biden, whether we like it or not, is the leader of the free world.
00:52:07.480And it's him that we look to for really, really big things.
00:52:12.920And frankly, if America falls, then Western civilization falls.
00:52:20.920I have to say for my own part, I think he'll be gone by November, December 2022.
00:52:27.800I think it's very unlikely that he'll stay beyond that.
00:52:30.520And the Democrats will make him the full guy for some very bad midterm results.
00:52:34.960But I'm not too sure that Kamala Harris following it is going to be any better.
00:52:39.280So, you know, to think this three and a half years, three and a half years of this administration to run, I'm just beginning to ask myself, how much more damage can they do?
00:52:50.100If we had another September 11th, how hesitant, what would the world's reaction be to us right now, all of our allies?
00:52:58.120Well, I think, to be honest with you, even without a September the 11th, any increase in jihadi terrorism across Europe or in the United Kingdom or anywhere else for that matter, I think the finger will be firmly pointing to Washington, D.C.
00:53:17.160Because, you know, one thing that is true is that for the last handful of years, we've been remarkably free of these horrible jihadi attacks.
00:53:27.460British intelligence is now warning that we do now face we do now face a significantly increased terror threat.
00:53:35.060And that's because jihadi groups all over the world have taken great comfort from the way the Taliban have moved forward.
00:53:42.180And, of course, they know and they know that Afghanistan once again will be a place where international terror can be plotted and can be planned.
00:53:50.840Let me ask you something off the subject.
00:53:54.360America is not seeing the revolt of the citizens of France and of England to these draconian COVID restrictions.
00:54:05.980I mean, people in France are having picnics in the street in front of restaurants that are demanding you have, you know, a COVID passport.
00:54:59.660The level of protest against vaccine passports, which President Macron is trying to impose in a very draconian manner, the level of protest against it in France is very significant indeed.
00:55:12.980And I think Macron is facing a real problem across much of the rest of Europe, including the UK.
00:55:18.760OK, whilst there is dissent, it's on nothing like the scale that it's taking place on in France.
00:55:38.720You know, the idea that we have to show medical idea and goodness knows what else just to go and buy, you know, a cup of tea and a sandwich is frankly ridiculous.
00:55:47.980It's against everything we've ever stood for.
00:56:30.720Biden is the creation of mainstream media and the social media giants.
00:56:36.060I mean, they're the ones that allowed this man, promoted this man, made sure that there'd be no proper investigation into Hunter Biden, the laptop corruption, no question of tens of millions of mail out ballots being sent all over America.
00:56:51.720So, you know, congratulations to the New York Times and CNN.
00:56:57.900Look, I think the truth of it is that British people certainly and I think most Europeans, we're not going to lay the blame of this at the door of ordinary Americans.
00:57:06.960We can see that it's bumbling, incoherent Biden, a man who is not fit to be president.
00:57:13.540So I don't think I don't think all Americans are damned by the actions of that man.
00:57:18.900But I do think there are large sections of the media in our country, in your country that owe us the most almighty apology.
01:01:42.360It's really good to keep people, you know, locked into their home areas with only, you know, four hundred mile radius or three hundred mile radius for some of these cars.
01:07:50.400But as everybody was following this over the weekend, there's been some some other things that have happened.
01:07:58.180For instance, Twitter has permanently banned Alec Berenson.
01:08:03.860He is he is a guy who is anti covid vaccine.
01:08:10.420Yeah, I don't think he would describe himself that way, but he's been very skeptical about covid, you know, the mainstream coverage of covid and the mainstream coverage of the vaccines.
01:08:19.260OK, he said, according to him, covid vaccine.
01:08:23.360It doesn't stop infection or transmission.
01:10:31.460But the third week weekend victim of the purge is the former director of the Defense Intelligence Intelligence Agency and Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
01:10:48.880Now, Michael Flynn has already been wronged.
01:10:53.200He already has been cleared of all of the stuff that they said we've it was completely bogus what they said about Michael Flynn, completely bogus.
01:11:04.880But he just got a account notice from Chase Bank over the weekend.
01:11:38.380Wait, because General Flynn might be charging a stay at the Holiday Inn Express, that somehow or another is going to risk their reputation of Chase Bank.
01:11:56.440Just let me remind you, JPMorgan Chase, you know, the one that just wrote almost a billion dollar check.
01:12:06.000Almost wrote a billion dollar check to resolve federal wire fraud charges because the company in a separate criminal scheme defrauded the precious metals and U.S.
01:12:42.640It says you can't companies cannot do business with other companies that have a low ESG score.
01:12:51.520Now, while they're not counting on an ESG score yet, they are already doing it.
01:12:56.660And so you can't if you would have a low ESG score or you're unpopular, you're on the wrong side of whatever the administration.
01:13:06.460And I mean of the entire this new hybrid of corporate governance and corporate sleeping with the administration and governments all over the world.
01:13:20.820If they deem that you are not good, then they will cancel you and you won't be able to buy and sell things.
01:13:31.820Well, there's step number one to General Michael Flynn.
01:13:47.140One thing we have we should spend more time on, I think, is how to solve these issues.
01:13:52.540And look, there are some interesting things that people propose through the law.
01:13:56.920There are some interesting things that people propose about, you know, doing things on their own, starting your own company.
01:14:03.020All those things are part of the conversation.
01:14:05.820The part of the conversation that I think has received too little attention from the right is that almost every single one of these problems,
01:14:13.000when it comes to anything digital, almost every single one of them can be solved in the crypto space.
01:14:20.160There you can talk about creating your own social network.
01:14:26.220But again, as we've seen with places like Parler, you started and then, you know, you have all these these overlords that can shut it down.
01:14:34.440When it comes to the crypto space, it's basically impossible to do this.
01:14:39.360If you and all these all of these programs, when it comes to finance, when it comes to social media, when it comes to storage of files, when it comes to business loans and business arrangements,
01:14:50.680all of these things are either already created in the crypto space or are in the process of being created.
01:15:01.960There is no way to stop them like what we're seeing in these stories that happen every day.
01:15:08.720You can't take away Michael Flynn's credit card.
01:15:11.680They don't know who's paying for stuff.
01:15:13.080It's totally a different way of this stuff working, and it works totally outside of the system.
01:15:20.900And, you know, this is why I'm so, you know, so skeptical of governments and the way they're going to try to crack down on this stuff long term.
01:15:32.300But again, when it comes to actually being able to complete these transactions, complete these posts so they can never be deleted, they can never go away.
01:15:43.580All of that is already available with cryptocurrency and the not just the currency part of it, but blockchain.
01:15:52.220And it's all protected and everlasting.
01:15:56.520And it's a part of this equation that is really important for conservatives to get their minds around because there's going to be time, I think, where these other solutions aren't going to do anything.
01:16:07.820We can talk about changing the law, but we've seen what happens with the law.
01:16:11.380We have absolute rights that are violated all the time.
01:16:15.940You think some little, you know, communication section adjustment, it may help at some point.
01:16:21.820I'm not saying it's totally wrong to look at those things.
01:16:25.140But like long term, real, you know, life and death type of issues, a section 230 tweak is not going to bring us to the promised land, nor is even bringing up your own, building your own company.
01:16:38.840So let me let me pose an impossible question and and get your answer on it.
01:16:45.900I know my answer, but it's one that I'm really not comfortable with.
01:16:51.400But I think it has to be done and I'd love to hear your solution, because it is one that is currently kind of on the the edge of going mainstream.
01:17:18.400Yeah, that's the that's the title of the life story of everybody who's ever gotten him or herself in up to their eyeballs in credit card debt.
01:20:53.120But some of these big corporations, they're wielding so much power now because the government is putting small businesses out of business that I don't give you the same protections that I give the local mom and pop.
01:21:06.680Because you are you are so connected to the government that you are actually beginning to be part of the government.
01:21:16.680Yeah, I'm nervous about this on both sides, right?
01:21:19.780I'm nervous about saying every business we think is important is some public utility and we're going to start regulating it like it's an arm of the government.
01:21:28.800But I'm also very nervous about what they're doing with this association.
01:21:32.400And that's why you should not have these giant companies in bed with the government.
01:21:40.300This is back when Michael Moore did that terrible movie, Sicko, recently famous for praising the Cuban health care system and how wonderful it was, which didn't really turn out that well.
01:21:52.740But he also made the argument that capitalism, his big argument against capitalism, and maybe this was the next movie he made, but it was this big argument against capitalism, where he said, look at this company.
01:22:06.340This company's in bed with the government.
01:23:50.620All you have to do to find out is just go to the zebra dot com slash back.
01:23:56.180That's the zebra spelled like the and zebra.
01:24:01.260You know, if you're too stupid to know how to spell the zebra dot com slash back, you know, you should pay nine hundred and twenty dollars more.
01:25:08.300Elon Omar said she was surprised that President Joe Biden is not allowing the pressure that's being mounted in the media and in Washington to derail the mission that he set forth in Afghanistan.
01:25:20.860The level of evacuation that he and his administration has done and been able to undertake is really inspiring.
01:25:27.560Well, I guess if you're an enemy of the country, it would be inspiring.
01:28:12.860This is according to the people who are on the ground.
01:28:14.860An all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final mission on Wednesday night, dubbed the Pineapple Express.
01:28:26.260They took and shepherded hundreds of at-risk Afghans, the elite forces, and their families to safety.
01:28:35.320Moving after nightfall in near-pitch-black darkness, according to ABC, and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially, unofficially, in tandem with the United States military and U.S. Embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch.
01:28:58.880They moved them inside of the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Karzai International Airport.
01:29:06.180You know, by the way, Karzai International Airport, can we change that name?
01:29:09.240Because, you know, when you get a baggage tag, it says KIA, probably not the best luggage tag for the Afghanistan airport.
01:29:24.360There were wounded among the Pineapple Express travelers from BLAST.
01:29:28.640The members of the group said they were assessing whether unaccounted for Afghans they were helping had been killed.
01:29:35.200We're pretty sure that some of the Afghans that we were helping were killed.
01:29:46.600As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets, and enablers and their families into the airport overnight, handing them over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.
01:30:02.520There are a lot of people that are going in and doing what they can, and I would just, if you know somebody who is over in Afghanistan, because we are getting so many requests, please tell them.
01:30:28.620As this group just said, you've got to move in ones, maybe twos, but never as a group.
01:30:38.400And the Taliban and ISIS are tracking phones, they are tracking people, they are also looking to websites and to Instagram and Facebook pages like the Nazarene Fund, like the Mighty Oaks Foundation.
01:30:58.760And they are tracking them, and they are hunting for them actively.
01:31:07.260So please, if you know someone, tell them, please go to a secure location.
01:31:14.340Gosh, I almost said something I wasn't supposed to.
01:40:50.920You could literally open the window and throw cash out into the wind.
01:40:54.920And of course there's a granddaddy of them all.
01:40:56.920You could let your car's warranty lapse and then pay for uncovered repairs because all of the really expensive uncovered repairs happen after the warranty runs out.
01:41:07.920That's why getting a coverage from car shield is so important.
01:41:11.920I have, I've probably saved maybe $10,000 over the last five years or so just on my trucks.
01:41:19.920I've got old trucks that don't have warranties and I use them and they run hard.
01:41:24.920And I probably saved 10 grand in repairs because I had car shield.
01:42:54.920And we're going to remind them that their reputation suffers because of the billion dollars they just had to pay.
01:42:58.920And not because of anybody like Michael Flynn, who's a hero, by the way.
01:43:01.920So we've also we're going through refinance with Veterans United, who's a great organization.
01:43:05.920But my wife just hit them up, just sent a letter to them immediately and said, hey, we want to make sure you never do business with Chase Bank, because this is not something that a veterans organization should be affiliated with.
01:43:26.920We'll probably hear back from them today.
01:43:27.920But yeah, I just want to inspire everybody out there.
01:43:29.920It just takes five minutes to go do business with somebody that supports our veterans, that isn't part of the great reset, that doesn't invest in cancel culture, because this is the powers with us.
01:43:43.920In case you don't know what happened over the weekend, Michael Flynn, the former Defense Intelligence Agency director, was canceled by Chase Bank.
01:43:56.920They notified him, quote, after careful consideration, we decided to close your credit cards on September 18th, 2021, because of continuing the reputation.
01:44:08.920I'm sorry, because of continuing the relationship will create possible reputational risks for our country.
01:45:12.920If you find it offensive that a guy, Michael Flynn, who has served his country, you don't have to agree with him, but he's not guilty of anything.
01:45:22.920That was those were all I hate to use the expression trumped up charges against him.
01:48:39.920So there's a story here that with national attention riveted over the weekend on two major stories with the frantic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan amid the fall of the Taliban category for Hurricane Ida slamming in the Louisiana coast.
01:48:51.920Big tech and woke finance dramatically extended their reach of cancel cancel culture with brazen moves to silence and harass three profile high profile voices of political and scientific dissent.
01:49:04.920Now, this is the way it happens when the world is busy.
01:49:14.920So on Saturday, according to just the news, Twitter permanently banned Alex Berenson, who has built a large social media following challenging public health establishment orthodoxy on covid issues ranging from lockdown to vaccine mandates.
01:49:32.920This is one of the most important things of our lifetimes.
01:49:37.920And anyone who tries to shut down debate on what's really going on is is not only un-American, but a member of the dark ages church.
01:49:52.920They have just replaced the dark ages church that says anyone who disagrees with us is a heretic.
01:50:03.920That's not 21st century thinking by any stretch of the imagination.
01:50:09.920So they they said that he had posted some things that Twitter was part of their Twitter ban.
01:50:18.920In fact, they said to Fox News, the account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our covid 19 misinformation rules.
01:50:41.920Think of it at best as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness.
01:50:54.920And we want to make a mandate for it insanity.
01:50:59.920OK, apparently you can't say that on Twitter without getting a lifetime ban.
01:51:04.920Then Google shut down all of its ad services and Google is the largest advertising house now in the world.
01:51:15.920In the world, there is no one that does more advertisement placement than Google.
01:51:21.920Well, they just took and said no more advertisement for Gateway Pundit.
01:51:26.920All righty, that will put Gateway Pundit out of business.
01:51:32.920Most likely you you can't just shut down the the pipes of money overnight.
01:51:39.920And then the last victim was former National Security Advisor and director of the National Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration.
01:51:51.920Michael Flynn, he posted to his Telegram account a notice from Chase Bank notifying him of the cancellation of his credit cards.
01:52:01.920Quote, after careful consideration, we decided to close your credit cards on September 18th, 2021, because continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risks to our company.
01:52:16.920Our company. Chase, according to Flynn, in his reply, has gone full blown woke and quote, quoting, they need to deal with their own reputation instead of persecuting my family and I and quote.
01:52:33.920Flynn said, alluding to JP Morgan's agreement to pay nine hundred and twenty million dollars to resolve federal wire fraud charges against the company for its role in separate separate criminal schemes to defraud the precious metals and U.S. Treasuries market.
01:52:51.040I don't know. Paying almost a billion dollars in fines for screwing with the Treasuries market seems like a big deal.
01:52:59.820Michael Flynn wrote, Michael Flynn wrote, DOJ dropped my case for their own egregious government misconduct.
01:53:08.020It appears you weren't that lucky with the DOJ.
01:53:11.680I guess my America first political views don't align with yours.
01:53:20.600That if you look at the document from Chase Bank, it it blacks out the first name.
01:53:31.440Of who the letter is going to, and they didn't do a good job because you can see, I think, the last letter, which is not the last letter of his first name, not the last letter of his middle name.
01:53:44.580And we are thinking that this is his brother.
01:53:48.140And that's why he said, you're messing with me and my family.
01:53:52.860But I don't think this makes this any better.
01:54:26.340I mean, the claim is coming from the Flynn family, from Michael Flynn himself, apparently.
01:54:30.020So, I mean, I think it's appropriate to to report on what he's saying is happening to him and showing him as well.
01:54:37.260And showing the the actual cancellation.
01:54:41.300But again, like I, you know, I can look at I can go on Twitter right now and look at Alex, Alex Berenson's account and it is not there.
01:54:48.580So, you know, this is not it's a it's a you can look at any one of these individual things and it's important to make sure we get all these stories straight.
01:54:56.200But so many of these things are happening to conservatives all the time that you want.
01:55:01.440And I don't know that honestly, I don't even I don't know at all that Alex Berenson would even call himself a conservative.
01:55:06.580I mean, I think through covid he's been on on Fox News a lot.
01:55:11.240And anybody who disagrees Times reporter at one point, anybody now who disagrees, they can be a libertarian.
01:55:17.880They can be a left leaning libertarian.
01:55:20.920They can even be you could be a guy who's building spaceships to go to outer space because you're so scared of climate change.
01:55:27.760But when you say something bad about covid, you wind up getting in trouble, too, even if you're the richest person or maybe the third richest person on Earth, Tesla stock has dropped a little bit.
01:55:38.400But the point is, like, you could be Elon Musk, a guy who is so ideologically committed to catastrophic global warming that he's building spaceships to escape it.
01:55:50.220And even that is not enough for the left.
01:55:53.200If you're critical of one narrative, you're the enemy.
01:55:56.440By the way, can I change this subject dramatically?
01:58:23.380It's just impossible to make a car with a combustion engine that goes as fast as these cars because they have the power on demand whenever they want it.
02:03:17.940Watching the s*** go down in Afghanistan, I was reminded lately of every conversation I've ever had with an immigrant, almost all of which, if we got to really talking, included the notion, oh, you people have no idea.
02:03:32.500All you do is s*** about and badmouth your own country.
02:03:36.740But if you knew about the country I came from, you'd stop s***ing on your own.
02:03:48.260But any immigrant will tell you we've largely succeeded here.
02:03:52.300And yet the overriding thrust of current woke ideology is that America is rotten to the core, irredeemably racist from the moment it was founded, and so oppressive, sexist, and homophobic, we can't find a host for the Oscars or Jeopardy.