The full transcript of Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin is out, and it's a doozy. We'll talk about why the interview was a missed opportunity for Putin, and why he should have done something about it. And we'll also talk about Joe Biden's DOJ decision to drop his case against him.
00:00:19.000The first 30 minutes are a history lesson, very interesting.
00:00:22.000And I think Vladimir Putin missed a tremendous opportunity, a tremendous opportunity for him, but fine, so be it.
00:00:28.000Because Tucker Carlson does in fact ask about the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter, and he actually tried to get the reporter home, on the spot, and Putin said, nah.
00:00:39.000We'll get into all of that, and I'll talk about why there was a missed opportunity for Putin.
00:00:43.000But there are some interesting revelations that came out of that interview.
00:00:45.000Although Putin does say several times, these are not new statements.
00:00:49.000I do think in context with Tucker, there are some interesting things being brought up as to the perception of Russia.
00:00:56.000Of course, it's what most people said.
00:01:03.000That Vladimir Putin views a CIA coup, took over Ukraine, got rid of Yanukovych.
00:01:09.000And there's a lot more we'll get into.
00:01:10.000I don't want to break down the whole thing because again, a lot to talk about.
00:01:13.000But we do have big domestic news and that is Joe Biden.
00:01:17.000You know he had a bunch of classified documents and for that he was facing criminal prosecution.
00:01:23.000The DOJ special special counsel has said he has mental limitations and it would be hard to convince a jury that is anything but a dottering old man with memory problems who doesn't have the force of will to actually commit crimes.
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00:08:09.000So I did see a tweet from Jack Posobiec, and he was like, because of the classified documents, we may not get a prosecution, but we may get the 25th Amendment.
00:08:29.000It was like when they announced the 25th Amendment panel was being created, which the 25th Amendment says, like, you can basically remove an incapacitated president.
00:08:37.000So they're going to create this committee and then vote out in Congress that would have the ability to make the determination if the president was mentally unfit.
00:08:44.000Everyone's like, they're going to do this to get rid of Trump.
00:08:46.000And then within like 10 minutes, everyone's like, actually, they're doing this to get rid of Biden.
00:08:51.000Democrats are setting this up to get rid of Biden.
00:09:33.000Among other things, he mistakenly said he had a real difference of opinion with General Carl Eikenberry, when in fact Eikenberry was an ally who Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.
00:09:47.000This is the DOJ being like, uh, this guy has no force of will.
00:10:17.000I have to say, like, right now it's hard to believe because it's February and we're so close to the election.
00:10:23.000I think a reasonable conclusion is, man, if it came down to it and I had to put 10 bucks on he's in or he's out, he's out.
00:10:32.000I think they're gonna have him do some type of sympathetic step-down, where he's gonna be like this corpse figure, giving a speech, saying, I can't do this anymore, it's for the better of the country, and they're gonna do that to make him, yeah, like, sympathetic to people.
00:10:44.000Well, he won't make it through that speech.
00:11:18.000Coincidentally, that's the time frame when this broke out.
00:11:23.000I have no proof what I'm about to say, but it's not unreasonable to suspect that the Hamas understood what was about to take place and wanted to break it up before it happened.
00:12:21.000Yo, he's skipping the Super Bowl interview, which is like a big deal.
00:12:24.000I guess the second time he's refused to do an interview, like the president does a Super Bowl interview, it's like a big moment in the country.
00:13:14.000It's a story that I've told maybe twice on this show.
00:13:17.000When I was about 14, in my neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, there was a rumor.
00:13:22.000Don't know the exact details or how it went down, but this is the story that we were told when we were children.
00:13:28.000That a girl our age had been crossing the street when an elderly man blew the stop sign running her over.
00:13:36.000She was crossing in a crosswalk with a stop sign as an Oldsmobile was coming up, and she didn't think it mattered because the car would stop, but it didn't, and it ran her over.
00:13:47.000It was a very old man who was driving, and when he hit her, he stopped instantly.
00:16:17.000Well, I don't think he should be charged in that stupid case anyway, but not because of poor memory, just because why would you charge an ex-vice president for accidentally or for even intentionally maybe having a bunch of documents?
00:16:34.000Something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
00:16:48.000I'm an elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing.
00:16:51.000I've been president, and I put this country back on its feet.
00:17:48.000I think they're weaning him off all the uppers so he can melt into a pile of skin before they like sweep him off the stage and then let Kamala come in.
00:17:56.000When they're like, I hear your memory's bad, and he's like, yeah, my memory is so bad.
00:18:00.000He's doing the sarcasm thing, which is just indicating that he does believe he has a bad memory.
00:18:34.000I said he was addressing the North Pole.
00:18:38.000Most people don't know this, but the North Pole, the jurisdiction by which Santa Claus rules, is actually divided into seven different states with warring political factions between Republicans and the Green Party.
00:18:48.000Democrats don't exist up there for some reason.
00:18:50.000And so whether you're in a red state or a green state, this is not a joke.
00:18:59.000When I said, when I pushed all these programs, I said I'm going to be president for everybody whether they live in a red state or a green state.
00:19:09.000Yo, whenever I see stuff like this it just reminds me of, what was it, Dr. Strangelove riding the atomic bomb down.
00:19:18.000Everybody should watch that movie tonight.
00:19:20.000The upside is, Tucker's interview with Putin actually gives me, like, Putin's not demented at the very least.
00:19:26.000Maybe he's got ulterior motives that we don't know about, but he's clear.
00:19:29.000He's intelligent, but he's a good guy in every story he tells.
00:19:34.000Can we get, like, Seamus to make that joke where it's, like, Joe Biden standing at the stage going, I have a memory's good, you know, if you live in a green state, I told you.
00:19:57.000I do believe, I don't know if Reagan did that or not, I don't know, but when someone told me that he might have played up the Alzheimer's, he's an actor, you know, Reagan was an actor, the whole like, well, I might go to prison for life, or if I just kind of play along with the whole Alzheimer's thing, maybe I'll just get to quietly live out my days.
00:20:13.000And Biden's like, yeah, maybe I'll just play this character of like... Nate!
00:20:17.000They have to 25th Amendment him at this point.
00:20:20.000I mean, if they're not going to prosecute him because they're saying he's got a diminished mental state, if they're saying he lacks the will to be able to hold him accountable for his crimes, they've publicly stated he could do anything he wants now.
00:20:42.000Yeah, but this is why I say they're evil.
00:20:43.000Because when it comes to the lies from the corporate press about Elon and X, they immediately, like, they jump in line and say, oh, the media is lying about Elon!
00:20:52.000And then when it comes to Trump, they're like, they're telling the truth about him.
00:23:51.000I think when Putin, when Tucker was like, why don't you just call Joe and work some stuff out so we can avoid World War III, Putin was like, ah, it's already taken care of.
00:24:43.000The people contacting Vladimir Putin for interviews are not journalists.
00:24:46.000They're state actors and propagandists and smear merchants.
00:24:49.000Tucker Carlson may be one of the only journalists who's actually tried to get an interview with Vladimir Putin.
00:24:54.000So the issue is, when Tucker's talking about Western journalists, he's referencing, like, You know, Libby Emmons, or Stephen Crowder's team, or James O'Keefe.
00:25:05.000Like, why hasn't James O'Keefe tried to interview?
00:25:07.000Because he's not talking about the New York Times CIA assets, or the Daily Beast, or Rolling CIA Stone.
00:25:13.000I'm kidding, by the way, but like, as if anyone thinks these news outlets are anything but mouthpieces for the state.
00:25:21.000You can watch James O'Keefe, and what I love about how they go after James, Is that when he was doing these sting operations on, like, Google, they were like, he's far right!
00:25:30.000And he was like, are you implying that by going after Google, they're far left?
00:25:34.000Like, I don't understand what your point is.
00:25:36.000He goes after these big tech companies, and then immediately the media calls him far right for doing so, or they claim that he only goes after left, left, lefting organizations, and he's like, is, is Google left-wing, or are they just a big tech company?
00:25:47.000But they expose themselves when they do this.
00:25:49.000You take a look at, um, we can mention this briefly, like, I don't know if you guys saw this, NBC News advocated for putting Higher Right Chick of Libs of TikTok in prison.
00:26:49.000There's this kind of, like, the interesting thing about the fascists, and I should say, well, no, the Nazis is a better way to put it, is that it was a pseudo-market system, but there was an ideological capture, as opposed to communism, where you had state capture.
00:27:05.000So with the communists in Russia, they're basically like, you will do as you are told, you report to us.
00:27:10.000With the Nazis, they were like, how come you weren't producing steel for our effort?
00:27:42.000So they were, like, right there telling you what they were doing.
00:27:44.000And I will state this, too, with a caveat.
00:27:46.000I read one academic paper on it talking about the economic structure of Nazism and how it permeated through Germany, so it's probably much more nuanced than that.
00:27:56.000The Nazis had, like, no... I mean, they masked, like, a great revival of their economy, basically, by building tanks.
00:28:02.000And they were telling everyone they were building cars.
00:28:04.000And then they were like, we have no way to make profit on what we're doing, but we're amassing resources to build, build, build, build, build.
00:28:10.000Because their whole plan was just to conquer foreign land and then repay their debts through riches, you know, conquered.
00:28:41.000Forgive me, but I'm like, I'm falling asleep.
00:28:43.000Listen, it's like 1826, the state of Rus', and the baptism, and I'm just like, this is okay.
00:28:50.000Tucker actually caveats the interview in the beginning saying, We thought he was pattering for time, but there was no time limit to the interview, so... He's like, I genuinely believe Putin was expressing his statement that there is a historical claim to Ukraine we have.
00:29:18.000And that shows motivation for this conflict.
00:29:20.000But one of the biggest issues that we had mentioned leading up to this interview was whether or not Tucker Carlson would ask about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been in jail for just about a year.
00:29:33.000Turns out, Tucker Carlson not only did ask Putin about this journalist, but actually requested that Putin release him into his custody as a sign of good faith to return home.
00:29:58.000Interestingly, he went on to say that this 30, I believe he's 32, he was caught red-handed with classified information, and he was under the direction of US agencies.
00:30:09.000He may be a journalist, but we know who's really pulling the strings, and he was seeking secret government information, confidential classified information, which basically makes him a spy.
00:30:21.000The big narrative leading up to this interview was that Tucker Carlson was a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin, and that Vladimir Putin was going to lie, propagandize to justify his invasion of Ukraine, and not to believe him.
00:30:35.000The fear was that Tucker Carlson was giving a platform to a war criminal.
00:30:40.000Imagine how bad it would have been for the Western media and the press when they were forced to report Tucker Carlson returns home with Evan Gershkovich.
00:30:51.000Saving his life from Russian jail, Vladimir Putin agrees in a good faith effort and returns the American journalist home.
00:30:58.000Tucker Carlson would have taken the headlines across the board.
00:31:01.000The interview would become the biggest, bigger than it already is.
00:31:06.000And it would put everything Putin says on a pedestal.
00:31:13.000Putin should have just said, absolutely, Mr. Carlson, I want you, because then when Tucker Carlson's plane landed, every news outlet in the country would have a reporter waiting at the airport.
00:31:30.000And everything then said in the interview would be 1,000 fold.
00:31:34.000I think Putin's a straight-up extremely cynical political actor, however, and if he was able to get for Brittany Griner, he traded Victor Bout for that.
00:31:43.000I'm reading it was only in December 2022, so Putin knows he could get a lot for this journalist, and I think he knows, and we're going to be seeing more of this around the world.
00:31:53.000China's going to be doing more of this, or has been doing a lot of this, too.
00:31:56.000We're going to be seeing a lot of this happening in Iran, too.
00:31:59.000Kidnapping and then these rogue cynical political regimes trying to exchange those for political prisoners that are serving in the US who are actual criminals.
00:32:07.000I don't believe this Wall Street Journal.
00:32:10.000Evan Gershkovich, he's only I think 32, is any sort of spy.
00:33:28.000But just think about, I mean, in this interview, which we'll get into this in greater detail, he said that he approached Bill Clinton about joining NATO and that Clinton said, yeah, actually, yes.
00:33:38.000But then later that night came back and said, you know what?
00:33:43.000There were key narrative points Putin clearly wants to be heard.
00:33:48.000Unless, you know, to be honest, maybe he does not care at all, one way or another, what the American people think.
00:33:53.000I'd imagine that as the president of a country that is currently at war with the West, he would want to propagandize the West as much as possible to shatter sentiment, any favor towards funding and supporting Ukraine, which is actually just NATO war efforts.
00:34:44.000You think it's strength for him to be like, OK, since Tucker brought it up, it'll look good for me publicly to release someone instead of doing it on his own volition?
00:34:53.000If he's like, the good faith of you coming here is enough is all I need.
00:34:56.000You have come to me to allow me to speak to you and those who follow you to share the views that we have knowing that our countries do not agree.
00:35:04.000For your efforts, I will release to you Evan Gershkovich.
00:35:09.000And I'm telling you, like, every journalist would have ten photographers waiting at the airport.
00:35:13.000As the plane is landing, all the cameras are going to be filming it from every possible angle.
00:35:18.000It would have been the biggest story in the world.
00:35:21.000To be fair, it probably already is the biggest story, but it would have been substantially larger.
00:35:24.000And it's, I imagine, the worst thing for the West.
00:35:29.000That Tucker Carlson not only shared Putin's narrative, but that Putin showed to be amicable.
00:35:38.000Imagine coming back and saying, and Tucker saying, they are lying to you about the position of Vladimir Putin and why he's at war in Ukraine.
00:35:45.000They are lying to you about who he is.
00:35:47.000He has even, as a sign of good faith, released to us this reporter.
00:36:08.000I think he rehashed, too, that he is a Russian irredentist, and I know it's cliche to say at this point, but he does believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical strategy, and he was a part of- You mean failure?
00:36:21.000Failure, and one of the- Well, it depends on who you ask.
00:36:25.000So I do think he's still cynically thinking about these things.
00:36:28.000He wants as much of Ukraine as he's going to be able to take.
00:36:31.000And if there is a ceasefire in Ukraine, I'm sure down the line he'll be interested in taking another bite of it.
00:36:35.000And if there's any part of NATO that collapsed with Estonia and Latvia, I'm sure he'd want to take a chunk of those too.
00:36:42.000Because again, he sees those as a part of Russia.
00:37:22.000I don't think they have free speech and a free media in Russia, though.
00:37:25.000But it's the, you know, it's the subliminal, the liminal, and the superliminal, right?
00:37:31.000The subliminal, the superliminal being like, An American reporter working in Moscow, just quite literally reporting whatever is going on, making sure that information comes to the American public.
00:37:41.000Then you have people who like maybe at one point worked for an industry or whatever, and they're over there and they learn things and they post on social media.
00:37:48.000But the subliminal is like under the surface, one way or another, reporting to a US agency to deliver information.
00:37:55.000And so, you know, when we have like Shinhwa or RT or Sputnik, these are just regular journalists.
00:38:03.000Uh, to be fair, like Xinhua, they're reporting to the Chinese Communist Party, so like, there's no really, you know, there are, there's spies.
00:38:11.000But, their work is above board, it's super liminal, it's like they're quite literally saying, whatever you tell me, I'm gonna share with China and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:38:25.000So for this to happen, I gotta be honest, when they announced something like a reporter got arrested, my immediate thought is not, oh no, they've arrested an innocent journalist, they must be evil.
00:38:35.000My immediate thought is like, interesting.
00:38:37.000I need to hear more about this because Innocent until proven guilty.
00:38:41.000I don't trust Vladimir Putin, but at the same time, I don't see him creating this kind of problem, and PR problem, unless it means something.
00:38:50.000The arrest of Gershkovich means that people in the United States are going to be aggressive towards Russia.
00:38:56.000And he knows that, so there's a reason.
00:39:35.000Putin slams US and Bill Clinton for deceiving Russia over NATO membership, as he trashes Biden, praises Trump, and warns there's no stopping his supersonic missile system.
00:39:48.000Putin says that Bill Clinton offered Russia a place in NATO, but was overruled by his staff.
00:39:55.000So basically what happens is, Putin was like, look, in the 90s I meet with Bill Clinton, and there's pictures of it, he includes pictures in the interview, and I said, look, if Russia wants to join NATO, would that be possible?
00:40:08.000And Bill Clinton said, I think so, yeah.
00:40:11.000And then comes back later that night for dinner or whatever, I think that's what he said, and Clinton says, you know, we talked about it, it's not going to happen.
00:40:25.000Having a nation as powerful as Russia, as large, would mean that U.S.
00:40:29.000influence would be compromised to a certain degree within NATO.
00:40:32.000I'll say outright, that is Vladimir Putin's propaganda.
00:40:36.000Look, I'll tell you, first and foremost, obviously the U.S.
00:40:39.000exerts the most influence over NATO, especially when we're footing all the bills.
00:40:43.000But also, his reason for why he got kicked out of the club, I'm not gonna take it at 100%.
00:40:50.000I think there's some truth to it, but he's giving you the, I'm always the good guy narrative.
00:40:56.000Yeah, I mean, in terms of the Nord Stream stuff, did you see the... This was a while back, but the New York Times had a headline that was like, it's better that we don't get the truth.
00:42:29.000When NATO and the EU began knocking on the door of Ukraine, Russia said, this will flood our market.
00:42:36.000If Ukraine gets similar access into Europe, all of that labor and products and services will enter Ukraine and then with an open border on our side, for open customs border, we then have to deal with a flood to our market.
00:42:49.000So we told them, if you do this, we close our border.
00:42:52.000Yanukovych, the time president of Ukraine, had to make a decision.
00:42:55.000How much money is to be gained or lost due to these agreements?
00:43:00.000And we've actually talked about this quite a bit, because I was in Ukraine when this was all going down, when the Maidan protests erupted.
00:43:06.000And the issue was that Yanukovych was trying to figure out whose side to take.
00:43:35.000Didn't like what was going on with this.
00:43:36.000But a lot of people from Eastern Europe would move to Western Europe where the economy was better.
00:43:41.000So Yanukovych had to make the decision, and when it didn't look like he was going to make the right decision, Vladimir Putin's making the accusation, the CIA staged a coup to oust him.
00:43:50.000People stormed his house, his mansion, started going through his belongings, like, there were vice journalists walking through his house.
00:44:00.000He says that was it like they staged a coup and now here we are and then one thing led to another the U.S.
00:44:05.000says they're going to support the opposition against him and he's like why that means we're going to build missiles in opposition to you and then he's like we've got you know the best missiles and you can't stop us and and here we are.
00:44:15.000I will say though for what purpose maybe Eli wants to chime in on this one is the U.S.
00:44:20.000involved and at this point it is I would say 100% confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt to any sane human being, the United States is at war with Russia.
00:44:32.000For what purpose should we be engaged in this?
00:44:34.000I mean, I'm not saying you do have an opinion on it.
00:44:37.000I don't like to call it, I don't like to say that we're at war with Russia because we don't have boots on the ground fighting Russians, except there have been reports that there are some special forces, but I still think that those are relatively ambiguous.
00:44:52.000On paper, we're supposed to not have troops on the ground in Ukraine right now.
00:44:55.000Right now, we are just arming the Ukrainians to be able to fight back against the Russians that invaded them.
00:45:00.000The argument to continue supporting the Ukrainians is that if Ukraine falls, Putin will continue trying to push westward, as the Russians have been doing for centuries, and they'll eventually brush up against a NATO ally of ours, and if they do, that could trigger...
00:45:14.000No, brush up and be ambitious enough to try to invade one of our NATO allies.
00:45:18.000More borderland with Russia allows for more risk of that conflict escalating like that.
00:45:25.000NATO inducting Eastern European states into NATO put NATO on Russia's border.
00:45:31.000I think it's like, yes, in some areas.
00:45:33.000It's also like a chicken before the egg problem because Russia says that, hey, this is what's triggering us and heightening tensions between us.
00:45:40.000But these countries want to join because Russia is aggressive towards them.
00:45:44.000So, like, a chicken before the egg thing.
00:45:46.000I do think if Estonia, if the United States loses the political will to continue having NATO be a thing, if NATO ever dissolved, there's no reason for Putin not to continue to push westward.
00:46:00.000Definitely Latvia, Estonia, and as far as he could get.
00:46:18.000That's a great point actually, because Putin literally opens the interview by saying historically, and this is a fact, Kiev was the capital of Russia.
00:46:24.000And then after he breaks down in the first half an hour of the Tucker interview how the states broke apart and this resulted in the states of like Rus or whatever he said coalescing around Moscow thus the capital moved and Tucker even says right in the beginning Putin's position seems to be there is a historical claim to Ukraine as a part of Russia.
00:46:46.000And if that's true for Ukraine, I agree.
00:46:48.000Why would not it be true for the other Eastern European states?
00:46:50.000I think we liberated those countries during, I mean, during the World War II, and then By forcing the dissolution of the Soviet Union, we were able to liberate the Eastern European countries from communism.
00:47:04.000And I think that's something we should be proud of.
00:47:05.000I'm curious what everyone thinks about this.
00:47:06.000For me, that hour, maybe 40 minutes, of a long build through history that Putin gives, for me, leads up to this, like, denazification thing he talks about.
00:47:47.000Do I really want to get rid of the roaches?
00:47:49.000Yes, but the real reason I bought the house is to clean it up, take it over, make a profit, and the reason I'm getting the roaches is to that benefit.
00:47:56.000So, of course he wants to get rid of the Nazis and the Azov and those who have held those views because Soviets fought the Nazis, they were enemies, but it's just like, you know, you want the ass.
00:48:07.000It's dangerous too, because there's no limiting principle, because I'm looking forward to hearing about the Finnish Nazis and the Nazis in Estonia and the Nazis in Latvia.
00:48:17.000That's the crazy side of my brain when I hear Putin say that, and then you asking a lot about why are we at war with them?
00:48:23.000I'm like, well, Operation Paperclip, because we've got Nazis in the government still who want to fight Russia and take it back, you know?
00:48:29.000But cue the cutscene five years later, and it's like a bunch of Russian ships soaring into the shores of California and Florida, and we're like, oh no, it happened!
00:48:41.000Hologram Hitler standing on the shore.
00:48:43.000This is all a huge issue, and I mean, maybe we go back to Joe Biden, but I think the Americans really deserve competent leadership up top, one way or another.
00:48:51.000I know we disagree geopolitically, but we deserve Somebody who at least seems like they are actively making the decision with some sort of direction in mind.
00:48:59.000We're not only having conflicts right now in Russia, Ukraine's taking the backseat, but we just drone-striked Hezbollah's branch in Iraq.
00:49:07.000We just killed some militia leaders there.
00:49:09.000We had three of our service people killed in Jordan not too long ago.
00:49:13.000Also, I believe two of our special forces were killed somewhere in the Red Sea on a mission to try to prevent more arms going to Yemen from Iran.
00:49:22.000You said a word I don't really understand.
00:49:30.000I mean, like if you put a smart sounding individual in front of me instead of Joe Biden, who just seems like kind of blabbering and ridiculous, but I hate to say a Ron DeSantis like figure.
00:49:44.000I don't particularly like him, but Ron DeSantis generally sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
00:49:48.000He sounds like he has some direction more than Joe Biden.
00:49:51.000after running for president, not during his campaign.
00:49:56.000Honestly I can't think of a worse example.
00:50:00.000No, no, like, DeSantis is better than Biden, obviously, but in terms of a good salesman in government who actually can pitch something and make it sound believable, Obama was that.
00:50:09.000And right now, I don't know, I couldn't, I don't know if I can name somebody.
00:50:12.000Is there someone in politics who could really convince you of something?
00:50:38.000I think we need to be more cautious about very cynical political actors.
00:50:41.000I don't know if it was a full flip-flop though.
00:50:43.000I mean, I think it's possible on January 6th to see that it was kind of like, not a cool scene, but also not think that it was an insurrection.
00:50:51.000Like it's possible to have both of those.
00:51:02.000And I'm cynical, but like, yeah, I don't think they got, if he runs again,
00:51:05.000if he doesn't do like a rumble podcast deal, he won't be the same as a vacant 28 that I think he is.
00:51:09.000I think he had a good opportunity to run as like the Trump number two while Trump was.
00:51:15.000We need a competent leader that's going to be honest with people and be like, we're creating a new world order, this liberal economic order.
00:51:21.000The time is done of American dominance, military dominance.
00:51:37.000We're going to peacefully allow for this transfer to a new global ordinance, but we're going to make sure that free speech is at the center.
00:51:43.000I want to jump to the next story, but I do got to give a shout out to this one segment Cassandra McDonald posted.
00:51:49.000LMAO Putin called out Tucker Carlson for wanting to join the CIA.
00:53:47.000And basically, The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick off Donald Trump.
00:53:59.000A definitive ruling for Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine, and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot.
00:54:06.000The justices could act quickly, possibly by Super Tuesday.
00:54:09.000Conservative and liberal justices alike questioned during arguments Thursday whether Trump can be disqualified from being president again because of his efforts to undo the 2020 election.
00:54:18.000Their main concern was whether Congress must act before states can invoke a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who engaged in insurrection from holding office again.
00:54:29.000There also were questions about whether the president is covered by the provision.
00:54:35.000There's a lot of things that were brought up in this hearing the arguments that I didn't know.
00:54:39.000So, uh, under the United States is a statement in the 14th Amendment that, you know, you can't hold office under the United States or something like that.
00:54:47.000And Trump's lawyers argued the presidency is not an office under the United States or an officer under the United States.
00:54:56.000And the reason why that matters is because the impeachment clause and the emoluments clause, that if the Supreme Court were to determine that the presidency was covered by this, it would also mean The President is able to enrich himself through the Office of the Presidency being exempt from the Emoluments Clause.
00:55:11.000So the lawyer is like, you need to understand what this statement means and your ruling pertains to many other areas of the Constitution.
00:55:20.000The president is not covered in the 14th Amendment.
00:55:23.000And one thing Trump's lawyer said was, don't you think they would have explicitly put the president in there if they thought it was the most pressing office to bar for an insurrectionist?
00:55:35.000I think my argument as to why the framers of the 14th did not do that is really simple.
00:55:40.000The reason why you can't be a senator or congressman or hold any other office or be an appointed officer is because the other states, the North, did not have say in those appointments or positions or elections.
00:55:51.000So, if you are South Carolina, Civil War ends, then South Carolina says, okay, this guy was an insurrectionist who fought against the United States, let's send him to D.C.
00:56:01.000The North says, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, no, no, no, we say no to that.
00:56:04.000But we can't vote on that, so we're laying it out in an amendment to the Constitution to outright say, don't do that.
00:56:12.000Now, as for the presidency, well, we get to vote on that.
00:56:15.000So we don't need to lock out someone from being president because we can choose through the electoral college and through our system whether or not the president will be an insurrectionist.
00:56:23.000In fact, the 14th Amendment actually says Congress can, by two-thirds vote, override this restriction.
00:57:10.000The Democrats are arguing that on January 6, Donald Trump waged insurrection against the United States and for the next 14 days should not have been president and no one should have followed his orders.
00:57:21.000So what would happen in a circumstance where their view would be upheld?
00:57:27.000Someone goes, this was actually asked, I think Alito may have asked this, so when Joe Biden released the funds to Iran he waged insurrection against the United States and now nobody should follow his orders ever again.
00:57:41.000If the Democrats have their way, it is instant civil war.
00:57:46.000I don't know about civil war, but I mean it.
00:57:47.000The idea would be, the moment any actor in the government believes within their own person that a president engaged in an insurrection against the United States, they are duty-bound constitutionally to defy all orders, legal or otherwise, because they have disqualified themselves from office.
00:58:03.000That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
00:58:05.000That's the Democrat position on why Trump should be removed.
00:58:08.000And the justices were like, are you insane?
00:58:11.000And not literally saying that, but Gorsuch was just like, if you don't have an answer, that's fine.
00:58:16.000And the guy was muttering and didn't have anything to say to it.
00:58:18.000Yeah, I'm no legal expert, so I won't speak to the legalese involved here.
00:58:23.000But the strategy among some Democrats to try to disqualify Trump through legal means
00:58:29.000might actually be a threat to democracy.
00:58:32.000And if Trump supporters were as threatening and violent as they often imply, then I think this would be a more dangerous trigger moment.
00:58:39.000For somebody who is leading, is the presumptive Republican nominee, former president at this point, just something extremely dangerous over something as ambiguous as trying to call what happened on January 6th an insurrection.
00:58:51.000Completely outrageous, dangerous, and I mean, I hate to adopt their language, but an actual threat to democracy as people in our country understand it.
00:58:59.000That was the one thing I was worried about while I was listening to it.
00:59:01.000I think it was about an hour in, I was like, Are we not going to talk about what insurrection means?
01:04:11.000And we could maybe get a little card that says, like, on loan from Terrence and then, like, a link to their thing or something, you know, whatever.
01:04:49.000Slavery, the expansion of slavery, and the contention between free states and slave states, which had resulted in bleeding Kansas, widespread fighting that had been happening predominantly in the Kansas Territory, but also in other parts of the country, and ultimately led to an election where Abraham Lincoln didn't receive a single vote in seven, I believe, seven states.
01:05:07.000Or actually, I don't think he received a single vote in any of the states that eventually went on to secede, so I think it was eleven.
01:05:19.000And he said that the North thought they were fighting the Civil War and the South thought they were fighting the second, like, American Revolution.
01:05:49.000Like, I don't want people in the South being taught that it's a war of northern aggression because that's not... Well, what Shelby Foote meant was that there were people in the South who might have not had slaves and they just saw, like, marauders in their homes burning things down, like, with the total war from Sherman.
01:06:05.000Yeah, but they were fighting for the right for people to live.
01:06:08.000But they were fighting to survive Sherman doing, you know, total war.
01:06:13.000But that's not saying everyone in the South, but there were definitely people like I spent a year in Georgia where Sherman kind of went through, and sometimes it wasn't Sherman, it was people pretending to be with Sherman to go maraud and take over farmland.
01:06:25.000And those people started fighting to save themselves.
01:06:27.000There's a lot of people in the chat who are saying it was a state's rights versus federal issue.
01:06:31.000I strongly recommend you guys Like, read some academic papers and read the letters from many of the generals.
01:06:45.000This is what I love about Second Amendment.
01:06:46.000They have a musket in the kitchen for shooting critters.
01:06:49.000So, like, anyone could just grab it off the wall, open the back door, and then wait for a rabbit or something, or a beaver, or who knows, and just bang!
01:07:02.000But yeah, we went to their houses, I read their letters, learned about their wives.
01:07:07.000And certainly it is a very complicated issue with many different views.
01:07:11.000But while the general view most people would give you is it was fought over slavery, it absolutely was not fought over slavery.
01:07:18.000It was caused by the issue of slavery which, like, bleeding Kansas existed.
01:07:23.000Before there was a question of states' rights, people were murdering each other in the Kansas Territory.
01:07:28.000John Brown was blasting people in the face.
01:07:31.000Hans Christian was even an American and he came here as an abolitionist.
01:07:36.000Slavery was dissolving in other parts of the world as an institution.
01:07:41.000And so, it could not be an issue of states' rights when Bleeding Kansas was happening seven years leading up to the Civil War.
01:07:50.000Some argue Bleeding Kansas actually is the Civil War, and we just view the Civil War as, like, because it was when the government actually became actively involved.
01:08:01.000Seven years of bloody conflict and bloodshed.
01:08:04.000Abolitionists and pro-slavery forces were fighting in various territories over whether or not they would be slave states or free states.
01:08:10.000The slave-holding states believed that with Abraham Lincoln's election, he would not only stop the expansion of slavery, he would get rid of it.
01:08:18.000And I believe Lincoln's position was, no, no, you can keep it, we just won't have it in any new territories.
01:08:23.000So they were just like, nah, we're not going anywhere near anybody who opposes this.
01:08:35.000One guy was like, completely get rid of slavery.
01:08:38.000Abraham Lincoln was supposedly like the compromise candidate, where he was saying, you can keep it, but no more.
01:08:45.000As soon as he got elected, seven states said, this is it, we're going to secede.
01:08:48.000Before he even got inaugurated, the session started.
01:08:51.000And that's, so what ends up in the fighting over the Civil War is, the North invaded the South.
01:08:57.000Yeah, and I don't want to be an apologist for war, but I just want to give nuance to both sides of that war, and I'm talking about Georgia in particular.
01:09:06.000With the Confederates, these were people whose fathers were invaded by Britain and their houses were burnt down, not necessarily slaveholders.
01:09:14.000And then they saw it as a second, like, American Revolution because then they were invaded by... they saw the North as an invasion.
01:09:21.000But then, you know, there's people on the North in Sherman's army during the March of the Sea who, you know, weren't also angels.
01:09:28.000They were killing freed slaves who were following them just because they didn't want to be followed anymore.
01:09:33.000So that's not to say every person who fought in the Confederacy owned slaves or... 5% of the U.S.
01:09:40.000Yeah, but they were fighting on behalf of a government who was fighting for the ability for you to still have them.
01:10:57.000The fighting of the war was over for the North, the secession of the South, and whether they had the right to do it.
01:11:01.000So fair point to those saying it was states' rights to secede versus the federal, versus the Union, but that is why the North was fighting.
01:11:09.000Ulysses S. Grant said, you have a right to try.
01:11:12.000But if you lose, we own you, basically.
01:11:15.000And it's a brilliant assessment of the issue pertaining to the revolution and how we won, and the Civil War and how they lost.
01:11:21.000He was basically saying, the Americans, the colonists at the time, this is 80 years prior, so not even that long for them, it's kind of wild, right?
01:11:29.000He's like, they decided they shouldn't be ruled by the crown, they fought, they won, congratulations.
01:11:34.000The Confederates feel like they shouldn't be a part of the Union anymore, they fought, they lost, we own it.
01:12:00.000And why, and that's, actually I would say, why was there, why did the Civil War begin is states rights versus uh the federal issue and why was the war fought and that is an invasion from the north like plain plain and simple uh if if the union forces decided to let the south secede there's no war none secession is not war so what started this what started the war the northern invasion like i mean there you go they decided like you do not have a right to secede
01:12:29.000So, Mr. Oppmann, it sort of begs the question, did you bring this Union Jack flag to this former Confederate state?
01:13:16.000West Virginia was formed through a vote.
01:13:19.000Should we break away from Virginia and stay with the Union?
01:13:24.000It's really easy to win a loyalist vote when the young men are forced to go off and fight a war for Virginia to defend the state.
01:13:32.000And once all of the men had left to fight in the war, those that remained voted to fracture off the state from Virginia and join the Union.
01:13:40.000And when the young men returned after the war and were like, this is Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled, no it's not.
01:13:47.000Virginia, it's actually a big Supreme Court case that happened just after the Civil War.
01:15:18.000Isn't it wild that, like, if they just knew to pour whiskey on some guys, like, if they Take the bullet out, pour water on it, and then pour whiskey into it, you might be okay.
01:15:37.000Wash your hands was what, like 1907 or something?
01:15:40.000People didn't wash their, and that's like, I love the story of when they were discovering germs and the doctors were like, perhaps you should wash.
01:15:45.000It was because women were dying in childbirth or whatever.
01:15:47.000And he was like, maybe if we wash our hands before, that's crazy, what are you talking about?
01:15:52.000Like and then they did and then like women started dying less I'm I was watching it might be the Kings and Generals YouTube channel There's a few channels where they do like historical battle document nice and one of its Civil War.
01:16:05.000I don't No, no, it's like like um uh like a map and it'll show like the general's
01:16:09.000faces as the troops move around on the map and they'll tell you like from the south stonewall
01:16:13.000jackson came in and split his troops off general this guy and this guy but shermet or whoever
01:16:18.000and it it became very real like things started to seem like they were my friends and i was picturing
01:16:23.000them outside running through these hills and it's like just with bayonets
01:16:28.000That's something I walked away from that inverted world book that I wrote when I was in Georgia is like even those battles are so contested amongst historians.
01:16:35.000I saw two men almost get into a fistfight in a historic like museum because they were disagreeing on whether or not confederates and I'm sorry loyalists.
01:20:22.000I mean, West Point, they started the Association of Grads, I believe that's what it's called, after the war to be like, all right, we all fought and killed each other, but let's be brothers again.
01:20:35.000So Liberia, which is in West Africa, started in the 19th century, between 1822 and 1861, 15,000 freed and free-born African-Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia, gradually developing an Americo-Liberian identity.
01:20:52.000The settlers carried their culture and tradition with them.
01:20:55.000Liberia declared independence, uh, July 26, 1847, which the U.S.
01:22:10.000One of the things that happens is everybody sees these movies and these stories where it's a plantation where a guy's being beaten, which happened, it's horrifying, it's really bad, and it was a lot of slavery.
01:22:19.000But there were also slaves who worked in homes, there were slaves who worked in shops, and there were slaves who received pay.
01:22:25.000And there were slaves who bought their own freedom with the money that they earned working as a slave.
01:22:31.000And I think it's important that people understand the nuances and the context around a lot of this, because then you'll understand how it was possible.
01:22:37.000You know, like I read about Frederick Douglass and I read about these other freed slaves, and it's like, they bought their freedom, and I'm like, wait, what?
01:25:13.000If the 1964 Civil Rights Act says you cannot discriminate on the basis of sex or race, and we've determined that bathrooms based on race are discrimination, then it follows that sex bathrooms also are.
01:25:23.000But we also have a common sense and moral line where we're like, men and women are different, males and females are different, that's why we do this, to which the left has now countered the argument saying, that used to be the position.
01:25:36.000of the segregationists. That black and white people were different and so it was for safety
01:25:40.000reasons they had different spaces. They're trying to use the exact same arguments. Many
01:25:45.000conservatives and libertarians have pointed out the 1964 Civil Rights Act has created the path
01:25:49.000to wokeness to create things where like dudes are going in girls' bathrooms.
01:25:53.000Do you buy that it's on the same level?
01:25:55.000I do think men and women's bathroom is equal to segregation, but I support that type of segregation.
01:26:02.000Like, yeah, we are segregating people by gender.
01:26:04.000Right, but not gender, but like with, you know, say it was only a black area at a college.
01:26:27.000I'm saying, you know, if there was, like, what Brett Weinstein... You're saying, like, when they do these POC-only rooms, it's the same segregation?
01:26:34.000I'm saying, do you, I'm asking if you think it's the same level of segregation as it was traditionally.
01:26:41.000I think it was when it was institutionalized in every facet where like you couldn't go into a certain store or whatever that's a higher degree of segregation.
01:26:58.000If there's a hundred universities that have, within their university system, one instance where they've created a black-only space, that is factually less than the entirety of the country having segregation as a standardized policy.
01:29:33.000And I didn't know if he wanted me to tell the story or not, but I'll say his name because he made the point.
01:29:38.000But I've made this statement to a lot of people before.
01:29:41.000When, you know, it comes up to my ethnic background and being part Korean, I'm like, well, well, I'm, you know, I'm part Korean, but a little bit Japanese.
01:29:49.000Like, you know, my mom's 40% Korean, 10% Japanese.
01:30:03.000It's more like, Burn the house down and take the women kind of thing, you know, I mean it still causes tensions in South Korea and Japan The South Koreans are totally ethno-supremacists.
01:30:16.000Yeah, well many many people in those but I mean like South Koreans, the younger generation is moving away from it, but they are very ethno-supremacist.
01:30:27.000There's a famous clip now of from, what's it?
01:30:29.000I think it's called Bad Friends with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee, right?
01:30:33.000And then he's like saying, oh, Koreans never did slavery or whatever.
01:30:37.000It turns out Koreans had slavery for like over a thousand years.
01:30:40.000Bobby Lee constantly talks about how racist they are.
01:30:44.000I know, yeah, of course, but he's pointing out the fact that, like, that's the reality, is that racism's been around way longer, and slavery's been around way longer than just suddenly in the 1800s in the U.S., and everyone always gets that wrong.
01:30:55.000They're also a very patriarchal society.
01:31:01.000Yeah, they're mostly Korean supremacists.
01:31:04.000They believe that they are the best superior race on the planet, and they have no problem telling you that.
01:31:09.000They call it the Korean No-B system, which is commonly associated with slavery and social hierarchy in pre-modern Korea.
01:31:15.000And for people, the Japanese and Koreans, who should be allies geopolitically right now, especially considering what's going on with China, still beef with one another over the actions of the Imperial Army in Japan.
01:31:28.000Who they still revere over in Japan, but we don't need to shit on our allies now.
01:31:33.000When I went to South Korea, I went to this museum where I learned about a great general, a naval general, and it was really hilarious because each room you walked through depicted a great victory.
01:31:44.000But the funny thing I noticed was every great victory the size of the Navy was getting smaller.
01:31:49.000And so it's like in the first one there's these big fleets and it's like the great general routed the Japanese and forced their ships off.
01:31:56.000I walk in the next room and then it's like facing insurmountable odds he was able to drive back Japanese forces with a small force and I was like, interesting.
01:32:04.000And then finally in the end it's like him and like a small handful of guys and I was like, you mean to tell me like he was losing the whole time?
01:32:11.000But they like highlight the great stories of his successes, like Fairpoint, but it was an attrition, so... Yeah, sometimes a retreat can be what you call successful.
01:32:19.000If the enemy loses more than you lose in the retreat, that's a successful retreat.
01:32:48.000It's like you just live in Chicago, but then you move out to the East Coast and it's just like these plaques everywhere talking about the war.
01:32:55.000Out here, it's really crazy because we're like five minutes from John Brown Raid HQ, where John Brown organized the Harper's Ferry Raid.
01:33:01.000Like, Harper's Ferry's literally here, down the street.
01:33:27.000What's funny is the local casino, this is kind of wild, the local casino has their $25 chips at Charlestown, has John Brown, some of them have John Brown on it.
01:33:38.000And I'm like, it's kind of wild because like, depending on who wins the war, the most vile and despicable people will be heralded as heroes.
01:33:50.000Sherman's just another version of Brown, but on a larger scale.
01:33:55.000Well, John Brown was definitely a terrorist, although he might have been fighting for things that were morally right.
01:34:01.000And I think he's a dangerous person to idolize because, I mean, there are a lot of people who believe passionately some political things right now and shouldn't justify violence to try to achieve those ends.
01:35:52.000Um, it's over until it's not and how many hundreds of thousands of American troops lives are worth trying to invade the homeland where the Japanese were trying to say they're going to fight until every last life.
01:36:02.000I also think it's really easy for us looking back to go.
01:36:05.000Oh, well, maybe, you know, maybe you actually should have just invaded would have been the largest amphibious assault on the mainland ever.
01:36:12.000How, you know, it's easy to, I agree with looking back with 2020 vision or you have, you know, you have 2020 vision, but I also, I also just the war crimes.
01:36:21.000Is there any war where there aren't any war crimes, though?
01:37:10.000I still don't agree with everything Sherman did.
01:37:12.000And I don't know, totally, you know, and every war, not totally for the second part, you don't have to agree with every I don't know anybody who I could agree with everything they did, they did.
01:37:21.000But I think you could say Sherman helped and the war sooner than it would have otherwise, I feel like it's the same argument I'm using for Japan, actually.
01:37:29.000I don't I don't think I think if the context of the Civil War happened today, I'm not so convinced the North would be able to win.
01:39:23.000All of a sudden, he's wearing a Star of David and he says, what the is wrong with these people?
01:39:27.000That's opened a door for him to start exploring more about what they're doing.
01:39:30.000And now he's like, the cops are being beaten.
01:39:33.000When people realize Black Lives Matter was celebrating these paragliders, I mean, look, I got no beef with someone criticizing Israel's military actions.
01:40:46.000We just proved that they can't come in here.
01:40:48.000And then they came in and started just brutalizing the South.
01:40:51.000This mobilized the South feeling they were being invaded.
01:40:54.000And then eventually a turn happened where, I forget which general, it might have been, I don't know, Jackson, they felt that The only way to actually win this was to invade the North and put pressure on the North to stop supporting this war.
01:41:06.000Civilians in the North needed to understand what the war was, and it was an opportunity for them to seize resources.
01:41:11.000Unfortunately, they moved into Gettysburg.
01:41:13.000Didn't go too well for the Confederates, but I imagine what would happen if the international community was watching something akin to the March to the Sea.
01:41:20.000It is hard enough for US troops dealing with IEDs and strapping, like they strap bombs to kids.
01:41:29.000And then you end up with American soldiers being placed into a military tribunal or whatever,
01:41:35.000or court-martialed because of the perception of what they did, not what they had to do
01:42:36.000I think it was because I was saying, like, if I was ever, like, if I got elected president or governor, Trump, you ain't seen nothing with Trump.
01:42:54.000I would do a live stream and issue a statement about the requirement for this nation and the reasons why certain individuals must be criminally charged, must face an investigation and a trial by a jury of their peers.
01:43:07.000And I would formally declare like it must be done.
01:43:11.000Now I give it to those in the executive branch with the authority to make those positions happen, but let my intentions be clear to the American people.
01:43:19.000Certain people in this country must be criminally charged.
01:43:27.000And they use this documents case as the shield.
01:43:29.000He's not going to be criminally charged because he's a doddering old fool.
01:43:32.000And you know what they're really saying?
01:43:33.000He'll never face charges over Burisma.
01:43:35.000Nah, if I was I was saying like if I was the governor of West Virginia, I would make do a public assessment or a public statement where I'd say law enforcement of the state of West Virginia must immediately begin the process of a raid on CBP facilities in the eastern panhandle.
01:43:53.000And I have already called on, to the extent that I can, the Attorney General and our prosecutors to seek out warrants from judges allowing state forces to raid that facility for evidence of human trafficking and smuggling operations they have engaged in.
01:44:48.000I feel like, depending on the public and apparent crimes that need to be, you know, held to account, I don't know that Area 51 has those, and I respect the right of the U.S.
01:46:25.000It's not even, it's not even funny, like, I talk about the Quiznos subs, where those stupid rat things are like, ehhh, we like to eat sandwiches, or whatever, and like, everyone remembers it.
01:48:57.000That we're going to come to the point where everyone's going to be watching the news, and there's going to be a guy who makes arguments and says all these things, and he's going to be AI-generated and not real, but no one knows because everyone just sees him in these videos.
01:49:08.000Just like all the boyfriends and girlfriends right now.
01:49:10.000I'm going to take Bucko downstairs, so I wanted to say hello and goodbye for everyone that hasn't seen him yet.
01:49:33.000It's just impossible to know what to do, because he's on all these drugs, and the drugs do cause problems, but they alleviate some problems as well.
01:49:41.000We got him stem cells, and so I'm like, what if we got him stem cells and they're working, but the drugs he's on is actually inhibiting his potential recovery, what do we do?
01:49:49.000And so it's just like, stay the course, I guess, but he got real sick the other day, collapsed, pissed himself, couldn't move.
01:49:55.000So I've been giving him raw beef, which I don't know is the right thing to do, but I have two thoughts on it.
01:49:59.000One is, you know, if he's about to die, and he was supposed to die a year ago, Little man gets to have his last meal and it's going to be what he wants.
01:52:33.000Athlete Village or whatever is basically where like the dorms are and yeah, I've heard a lot of stories about that from the little staff over there.
01:52:39.000Tazewell says, why does Ian look like a character from Baldur's Gate 3 tonight?
01:52:43.000Because Richie Jackson gave me this, clothed me, well I clothed myself, but Richie Jackson gave me the outfit.
01:53:41.000That being said, I think the evidence here is this dude Evans got information that Putin's scared of.
01:53:46.000What I don't understand about that, though, is why they don't trade him and then Putin just scoop up another American journalist or another American in Russia, so.
01:53:54.000Big Fat Irving says Russia has Evan Gershkovich, Ukraine has Gonzalo Lira.
01:53:58.000Why is one reporter more important than the other?
01:54:49.000Alright, Stephen Scrace says, Ian Crossland started working out, found Jesus, and then realized that America actually should impose righteous, lawful, and proper rule upon the world.
01:55:03.000And yes, American constitutionalism is legitimate.
01:55:06.000Ian's been calling for neocon policy now for a long time.
01:55:09.000I just think we need to inspire people to do it for themselves.
01:55:12.000I don't think walking around being like, do my thing!
01:55:15.000That has not worked, and I don't imagine would.
01:55:17.000But when people have had enough and they're like, what they have is better, I want what they have, and they're looking at me and our country, then we'll see them have their own decentralized revolution.
01:55:28.000Eric Ellman says, for preserving the flag.
01:55:31.000Yes, and Devin Porter said, Tim, I'm a millwork drafter.
01:55:36.000I work for a company that builds casework.
01:55:55.000So Devin Porter, if you heard that, admin at scnr.com or hit up Ian on Twitter and we'll get to work on that display case.
01:56:04.000Yeah, you're probably better going with Bill since you know... I will also get one if you can.
01:56:10.000We have a Civil War Union musket, it's never been fired, not even dry fired, and I would love to get a case for that and put it on display too.
01:56:17.000It's right over there, it's just been sitting against the wall.
01:57:35.000The crazy thing is, uh, we went to an antique shop in Austin, and they were selling a bunch of swastikas, and it seemed like the guy who worked there actually got offended at the idea that it was offensive.
01:57:44.000I asked, I was like, don't people, like, freak out?
01:59:49.000So a journalist told me that if I went to North Korea they would be like super excited that I was there and try and ask me everything about my family and try and learn as much as possible.
01:59:58.000Still holding like a disdainful view of like, oof, but how did it happen?
02:00:06.000Maybe one day Donald Trump will get reelected and he will help bring peace to the Korean peninsula and then I can actually go visit the town for which my, I believe my great-grandfather?
02:00:48.000I go to Korea and it's like, I can't cross that line.
02:00:51.000So, uh, one side of my mom's side of the family was from the South and one side's from the North, but there was no North or South back then.
02:01:19.000You can now launch your own social network and app based on the Minds software.
02:01:25.000So, if you go to minds.com slash about slash networks you can launch your own app that is connected to the decentralized social web.
02:01:33.000That's what we've done with Scanner on scnr.com.
02:01:37.000So, it now has its own node of the decentralized social world and you can get all the scanner articles on there and apps are coming soon for scanner on both stores so keep an eye out and I have for those and then minds fast we got coming up April 27th at the Vulcan in Austin it's going to be