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the one with the technical difficulties (ep. 9)
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From about minute 38-50 there are technical difficulties, I left it in bc there is some half heard good points in there, were I a better editor I could have saved the audio fully, alas
indiana child labor
trump lies to congress
20,587 federal workers fired, how it effects you
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGuN8mpNK7f/?img_index=1
measles outbreak in texas
measles outbreak in texas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html
trump revokes leqagal status
stock market performance by president
https://www.macrotrends.net/2481/stock-market-performance-by-president
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Transcript
Introduction and Weekly Preview
00:00:04
Speaker
The whole intro music is gone. is the vibe now. Welcome to Oh Brother News. I'm Gabe. I'm James. And we are brothers.
00:00:16
Speaker
That's enough sad piano music. It's time to be angry. ah This week, um we're talking about everything. The Dow Drops.
00:00:28
Speaker
thousand points in two days, actually 1,300 points in two days. Trump is opening up the national forests for logging sidestepping endangered species protections via executive order.
00:00:42
Speaker
In Indiana, 16 and 17 year olds can now work the same hours as adults. 14 and 15 year olds can now work during school hours. a little more on that later.
Impact of Wage and Tax Policies
00:00:53
Speaker
We're going to talk about the Elon Musk Starlink Ukraine mineral deals connection.
00:01:02
Speaker
ah We're going to talk about how the bloodbath at the FAA is even worse than you think. How the Kremlin ah um could not be more more pleased with all of the decisions of Donald Trump.
00:01:21
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ah We're going to talk about this God, how to describe it? This hit job, um this great television, this
00:01:36
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sickening display of childish fuckery that Trump and Vance pulled when Zelensky was here.
00:01:47
Speaker
um We're going to talk about the Department of Education closing tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. It's related to the Dow dropping off a cliff. um Trump lying to Congress for a few hours in a row.
00:02:04
Speaker
We've created a game. You can bet along with us. It's how are we all going to die? It's a fun list ah lots of ways we might all die. um They are coming after Social Security with a new big lie. We're going to dig into that.
00:02:22
Speaker
We'll get into some of the details on the purging of 20,587 federal workers and how that's going to affect you. There is a new measles outbreak in Texas, or rather i should say a continuing growing measles outbreak in Texas. And ah RFK is recommending people use olive leaf.
00:02:45
Speaker
Take vitamin a Yeah, he's recommending that they fuck themselves and die, basically. um written a big I went to a protest over the weekend. Saw both of my congresspeople and my senator.
00:03:00
Speaker
i called my reps. We're going talk about how that went. Didn't go as good as I wanted it to go but I did see them in person, so there's that. um We're going to talk about this no taxes on tips thing and how it's a fucking giant scam.
00:03:13
Speaker
Where do you want to start? Oh, oh man.
00:03:21
Speaker
you You decide, man. It's all magic.
Federal Cuts and Socio-Economic Impacts
00:03:24
Speaker
let's you know Let's just start from the bottom. I'm ready with the so no taxes on tips rant. Everybody thinks it sounds so great. Yay! No tax on tips. Everybody started talking about it.
00:03:37
Speaker
Everybody sounded like they liked it. the I mean, it sounds really great until you call it by its actual name, which is no taxes on slave wages. That's what tip works that's what ti workers are actually making.
00:03:53
Speaker
$2.13 an hour. In Indiana, the minimum tipped weight $2.13 an hour. And when you make that little, you get a check that that is for $0 that says this is not a check. You're just paying whatever goes to the government. for Even if there's no tax, you're still paying Social Security and Medicare and state tax.
00:04:13
Speaker
And yeah, 37% of people who make tips, who work on tips, don't pay federal income tax because they make so little already. Yeah. And the thing with this is, the thing with this is, is that, so like, it sounds great until you realize two things.
00:04:28
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Okay. So like the first one is of what I'm talking about. The, that the tips are ah slave wages is the proper name for tips. Okay. Because a lot of places it's not even just like the server getting the tip.
00:04:43
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It is, um
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They're having to tip out other people in the restaurant, right? They're tipping out the busboy, the bar back, the ah kitchen staff, et cetera. So say you get like $100, $100 back and they have to tip out 5%. If they don't leave a tip, they're just paying $5 to wait on those people.
00:05:07
Speaker
And this will this will continue. And the only way that this is ever going to stop is if we collectively, everyone all at once just says, yeah, we're never fucking tipping again. Zero tips from now on. That's it. You know, pay your people enough for them to live or close your business because no one's going to work for you for free.
00:05:23
Speaker
Like that's basically what's happening. um The second reason that no taxes on tips is super not great is because what they're going to do, and I guarantee you this is what they're going to do. And this is why Trump is pitching it in the first place, is that instead of giving ah CEO a stock bonus,
00:05:45
Speaker
that is the majority of their compensation, they're going to start giving these guys $38 million dollars tips. And then they're not going to pay taxes on it. That's going to be the majority of their compensation. and They're not going to pay taxes on it That's exactly the plan.
Logistics Challenges in Postal Services
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Well, I see other things on there, like in like Connecticut, there's a lot of places are all talking about it. And a lot of places do have bills. This has a limit, the the damage of it, you know, right? Like saying, okay, people who weren't or who earn over a hundred thousand dollars annually would have to pay taxes on it at income, right?
00:06:16
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But the real part they want to do, I think, is another thing. The earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. That is dependent, like people who make tips.
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Like, so if somebody makes $18,000, right, they get a full $4,200 earned income tax credit, right? But if that income is from like, say, two thirds of tips, and now $12,000 that $18,000 is no longer taxable,
00:06:44
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then their earned income tax credit would drop by $2,000. So in other words, you're literally taxing the poor. By taking away their no tax on tips status, oh you take it out of taxable income, which means they lose all their earned income tax credits. They learn lose all their child tax credits. And now they just are, you know, four or $5,000 poorer at the end because they didn't they didn't make enough in tips anyway to pay federal tax. But now you have their less, you know, taxable income.
00:07:19
Speaker
You'll own nothing and love it, slaves. Yep, exactly. And that, I think, is the bigger thing. That's a way to really screw out a lot of people in the earned income tax credit. that Wow.
00:07:31
Speaker
They call it no tax on tips, but what they're really doing is giving a massive tax increase on the poorest people. So let's let's use this as a lead-in to jump over to another way that they're taxing, that they're just screwing over poor people, and that is they are coming for Social Security.
00:07:49
Speaker
Oh, you know what? The other thing forgot to put on here that actually that we're going get into is they're coming out to the post office also.
Debunking Social Security Fraud Myths
00:07:56
Speaker
Yeah, they've been doing that. Of course. I mean, hey, if you could have a you have one part of the federal government that is completely self-sufficient, better get rid of it.
00:08:06
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. has a 91% approval rate. It's like 20% the cost of the competitors. sending Christmas present to of you know the competitors like i was sent in a christmas present And like the Christmas present itself was like, was like $30 and the shipping to send it, like we wrapped it ourself and put it in a box and then shipped it.
00:08:29
Speaker
The, the shipping to send it was $25. twenty five dollars And that was only because i was like, they were like, Oh, we have to put it in this giant ridiculous box that costs $10. It was going to be like $40. Like why the fuck would I spend $40 to ship a $30 present? Like, this is ridiculous.
00:08:48
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Cause I went to UPS, but yeah then I get home and my wife is like, Oh, if you had gone to the post office, like i thought you were going to do, it would have been like $7. that, if the Yeah, our post office. I love the post office, man. You take it there. I'll bring stuff in there.
00:09:01
Speaker
I'm like, I have no idea what I can put this in a box. And they'll be like, oh, let me see. Let's see if we can can do this. We can just actually, no, hold on. I like might have some stuff here, like, you know, some an extra bubble wrap or something laying around, you from scratch from something else. And she'll like, hey, we can do this. And here goes And then, yeah, five bucks. Here you go I love the post office.
00:09:17
Speaker
I mean, the ones in Chicago are not like that. The ones in Chicago are. But you will never find a UPS or a FedEx like that anywhere. Because, yeah, no, they're all about the money.
00:09:28
Speaker
you know Yeah, I know. Yeah. I mean, it's they'll help you. They'll be really helpful, but you're going to pay like four times the price for that help. But OK, Social Security. So we all remember the big lie of ah I didn't lose the election.
00:09:45
Speaker
Right. And now we have the like, i don't know, i guess we call it the small lie of I won by a landslide. Actually, you won by a margin less than Hillary Clinton beat you by less than Joe Biden beat you by.
00:09:58
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you know, less than Obama won by. It's not that you actually won by a very thin margin. You just, you just won all the swing states.
00:10:08
Speaker
Um, and just to every episode of someone's first episode to quote my, ah our older episode, uh, a big part of that was a massive voter suppression effort that, uh, that, that, that worked, that kept two and a half to 4 million, ah people from voting specifically in swing states targeted at black people. And, uh,
00:10:28
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people on the Democrats, registered Democrats. So um he, he, he squeaked out, ah he eked out a squeaker, you know, pulling out all the stops, not a mandate. That's a small lie. The big lie is fraud.
00:10:45
Speaker
And idea that like social security is just riddled with fraud, that's a, take it away. And it's just wild to me that like, People are cheering this on because like if anyone who knows someone who was getting social security and then they died, the checks don't keep coming.
00:11:01
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No,
Dismantling Public Health Safety Nets
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but they're pulling out all of this stuff. They're like, it's like this weaponized ignorance. So like the social security database, whatever reason, probably because it's really old. It's written in the in the language Cobalt. In the language Cobalt, this is a common thing in programming languages where if they have no date for their date, they'll default to some old date.
00:11:21
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So in Cobalt, when you default to the date, it like it puts in like a super old date. I know in Unix, it was like or 1-1-1970. It's May 20th, 1875. May 1875. if have no date information, defaults that. So that's why there's millions of people on Social Security...
00:11:38
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may twentieth eighteen seventy five so if if you have no no date information it defaults to that and so that's why there's like millions of people on social security who are 300 years old or 200 years old, it's because they just don't have their date.
00:11:55
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Like they don't have that their actual age. Like they don't have their birth date. So it's like, a it's an issue. And like, they know this. There's no way that like Elon Musk and his tech genius dipshit kids, like they know this. They're just weaponizing the ignorance of America so that they can call it fraud so that they can gut it and kill it and privatize it And instead of giving you like $1,200 a month for like 30 years, they're going to give you a $5,000 check one time and everyone's going to be like, oh, yay, money from Trump.
00:12:28
Speaker
Even as like, you know, and it's the same shit they're doing with all the with all the other with all the other government agencies where those things actually provide you a whole lot of value and they're just gutting them and giving you this like tiny little Amount, ah you know, maybe like they're talking about it. Who knows if they're actually going to do it because they talk about shit all the time. They don't actually do it.
00:12:52
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But they're talking about giving you this like this like bullshit amount of money as they're taking away something that benefits you for like way, way way more money. You know, like the Consumer Financial Protection Board like had $770 million, but it's like it's returned billions to people. Billions each year. Yeah, billions every year.
00:13:10
Speaker
And they took like, oh, well, we got $770 million. We're going to give everyone what? A fucking $2 check? Are you shitting me? Yeah. A one-time $2 check rather than billions and billions of savings every single year. from we Yeah.
00:13:22
Speaker
It's all smoke and mirrors. It's all just a bunch of bullshit. It's all saying no tax, no tax, no tax on tips. It's Donald Trump at this at that address talk bringing up some you know kid who beat cancer while slashing all of the cancer research money and gutting all the cancer research money from all the other kids.
Trump's Economic Policies
00:13:41
Speaker
you know yeah That's what it is. it's oh and they close they close They're closing OSHA, by the way. that They're closing OSHA. so If you've never worked in like a factory or somewhere that does like like labor kind of a job, OSHA is ah is the government agency that manages workplace safety standards and regulation violations.
00:14:02
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So like if your workplace doesn't require hard hats and something drops on your head and the re the regulation was that like, yeah, you're supposed to have helmets, you can sue them.
00:14:14
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If your workplace doesn't you know follow all the appropriate safety standards and have their equipment up to date and do things in the the way that's specified and you get hurt, you can sue them. And like they're getting rid of OSHA so that they're not going to you're not going to be able to sue them. They're not going to have any way of enforcing the safety standards. So we're not going to have safety standards.
00:14:33
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You're just going to get broken.
00:14:36
Speaker
And you're not going to have Medicare or Medicaid because they're coming for those. So just go fuck yourself, I guess. Just go die in a hole, poor person. Like that's all we want from you anyway. What they'll probably do is they'll start a war. They'll probably start a war with like one of our allies and be like, oh, you broke your legs. Well,
00:14:52
Speaker
ah yeah We'll pay you to go be in the military. Go walk in front of some fucking bullets. I mean, we are following after Russia's example on everything nowadays. so
00:15:05
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Yeah.
00:15:09
Speaker
Yeah, there's an article in Tennessee Lookout. you know because They were talking about that. Like, oh, hey, wait a second. What's going on here? All the IRS, OSHA offices, their social security offices, they're all getting closed down.
00:15:21
Speaker
Because Doge is saying they don't need their offices. They're in remote areas. there and These are small sites. Or they're co-located within other federal spaces. So it's wasteful to have to have room for OSHA because there's already a federal building there. it doesn't They don't need their own office. They're closing them there. So Tennessee... they that They're using the same space?
00:15:46
Speaker
Oh my God. I mean, go fit go i mean ah figure, right? Yeah. but So they're like, oh, they're they're being consolidated into other nearby locations. We're, you know, we're just closing down all the Social Security offices and OSHA offices and the IRS offices. And, you know, yeah, they said they're they're saying they're doing it to save annual lease payments like in Nashville.
00:16:11
Speaker
Closing the Nashville Social Security Office, and this is from the Tennessee Lookout.com, you know, Tennessee Lookout. It says last week, you know, the Security Administration announced it's reducing its number of of regional offices, you know.
00:16:22
Speaker
Closing the Nashville Social Security Office will save the government $712,000 annually in lease payments, according to the Doge website. Yeah, it says a dozen other federal offices are also targeted for lease terminations there in Tennessee.
00:16:36
Speaker
whole bunch of them, you know, but they're doing it everywhere. It's just... little place where you can see where it happened. We're, you know, oh local papers. They're just like, oh well, they're closing this. They're closing this. It's happening everywhere. People, know, and like all of these are, you know, it's the same thing where they're like, Oh, you know, we're going to, we're going to save every taxpayer 50 cents a year.
00:17:02
Speaker
And we're just not going to have air traffic controllers and national park rangers. By the way, we're like, before we move on from OSHA, just last thing, you know, yeah. First Donald Trump put up to run OSHA is a guy named David Keeling, K-E-E-L-I-N-G.
00:17:21
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He was the former director of global road and transportation at Amazon.
00:17:27
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ah Oh, well, that's, that's exactly how you. and He's the vice president of global health and safety at UPS.
00:17:37
Speaker
Amazing. They didn't put him in charge of the post office. Yeah. hey god there's a like this kind of related so there's this uh book um it's like on my like know i want to read it soon like shortlist it's called poverty by america it's by matthew desmond think it uh came out pretty recently because no actually i'm totally wrong i'm just i'm looking at i have it pulled up and i only just heard of it recently actually came out march 2023 so it's not not recent
00:18:10
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um I just started seeing it. So I thought it was recent, but, um, I saw a snippet of an interview he did, I think on the daily show where he's talking about how, uh, excuse me, said a cough, um, where he's talking about how, if we like, like the amount of people who are under the poverty line in America, um, you could bring everybody up with $177 billion dollars a year.
00:18:35
Speaker
So it's imminently doable. And if you just taxed, um, all of the ah millionaires and billionaires at the rate at which they are already supposed to be taxed. If they just paid the tax that they already owe under the current tax code.
00:18:54
Speaker
Okay. we We just got, we didn't we don't raise taxes. Do we just get everyone to pay what they owe? It would cover raising, ah raising everyone out of poverty in America and an extra hundred billion dollars a year without even raising taxes.
00:19:12
Speaker
Like it's wild to think that like, that's how much money we're leaving on the table. And like, that goes back to like the IRS, which is, you know, they're gutting the IRS, which um we know every dollar you spend on the IRS returns you $73. Yeah. Oh,
00:19:30
Speaker
yeah I'm breaking up a lot. Oh, sorry. You are. i' say I'm reading. Yeah. But um yeah, I mean, it's,
00:19:42
Speaker
I mean, it's going back up. It went down for a while under Biden. It went down a lot, actually, under Biden. And, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if when it explodes the few years.
00:19:57
Speaker
So talking about stuff under Biden, why don't you talk about the the stock market? Oh, the stock market? You mean, like, the best, you know...
00:20:09
Speaker
Oh, God. Best indication of how the rich people in the businesses are doing. Stock market was great under Biden. Stock market under Biden. By the way, and let's see. Hold on one second here. I didn't know you were just going to go right to the stock market.
00:20:29
Speaker
Where is that nice Dow Jones? All right. Let's see. Dow Jones, I guess. Yeah. so Average. So i know from a picture, like, oh, I'll give you some time to get to to pull up some facts.
00:20:43
Speaker
I know from a picture doing in the rounds that at some point in the past, let me see if it's got a date on it, actually. At some point in the past, which was, ah, yes, November 6th, 2012, Donald J. Trump, at RealDonaldTrump on Twitter says, if the Dow drops a thousand points in two days, the president should be impeached immediately.
00:21:09
Speaker
Today, or this is a couple days ago now, but like now the Dow tumbles again, loses more than 1300 points in two days as Trump ignites trade war live updates.
00:21:21
Speaker
This is. and sweet numbers you can look at here It seems like he's just trying to destroy the country, almost as if he were, i don't know, like a like a Russian puppet, maybe, for example.
00:21:44
Speaker
I think he is. Oh, here we go. Macrotrends.net. Here we go. Stock market performance by president. Oh, that is great. There we go. This is a great website.
00:21:56
Speaker
Let's see. where did it go up? Let's see. Where is it at? Term length. All right. So at...
00:22:09
Speaker
How is this working? wish you could see my screen right now.
00:22:18
Speaker
Well, use your voice and read me through your screen.
00:22:26
Speaker
It's an interactive chart. It's an interactive chart. as a running percentage gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by presidential term. Each series begins with the closing value of the month of inauguration and runs through the closing value of the next month ah the of the term.
00:22:38
Speaker
The y-axis shows a total percentage increase or decrease in the Dow Jones. And the x-axis you know shows the term length in months.
Economic Performance Under Different Presidents
00:22:46
Speaker
And when you go through here, doesn't make any sense, though, because...
00:22:55
Speaker
okay, wait.
00:22:59
Speaker
This doesn't make any sense because Donald Trump...
00:23:04
Speaker
Whatever. Sorry. No, and we can edit this out. Take your time. Here, you know what? Or actually, sit send me the link. Yeah, I'm going to send you the link right now because it doesn't make any sense. And it makes it look like you can see the green where it drops down. Like you can see where Biden, you know, like at Trump at one point, da jones ah mean it's just a percentage change.
00:23:24
Speaker
Let me put it. Increase or decrease. Okay. Anyway, like like ah Trump, like Trump and Biden, right? During the same period, 36 months into their presidency, Biden's Dow Jones was up 27% and Trump's was up 42%.
00:23:39
Speaker
But then Biden's, you know, at 38 months in, he was up 32.8% from when he started. Trump's had a big hit. And now he only had a 10% increase from when he came into office, you know? Oh, yeah. i see. This is really cool. Yeah. So like it shows, but
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah, so the x-axis is time and months. The y-axis is a percentage of gain in the Dow. And you can see, so you can toggle people on and off. So you can have like Ronald Reagan.
00:24:12
Speaker
So, but like right now it's got in the link you sent, or like the way you sent in the link at least. it's And again, i'll I'll include this in the show notes, but it's got like, it's got Donald Trump's second term, Donald Trump's first term and Joe Biden's term all at once.
00:24:25
Speaker
yeah So like you can see a 49% increase, 49% increase from when he started when he left in four years. Boom. A 49% increase in the du and stock market. Well, so it's like, so just right now, right? So at this point at like two months in on yeah Biden's presidency, it was up 10%.
00:24:43
Speaker
um present yeah At this point in Trump's first presidency, it was up 4%. And at this point in Trump's current presidency, a second one, it's down four and a half percent. So he's only 14.5% below Biden ah in the first two months. If you keep going, it's going to get an even worse because then like you're going to have to compare Trump to Biden. So the place where you're going to get like a real inflection point is if you get to, don't know, it looks like it's around like nine or 10 months.
00:25:12
Speaker
That's where they kind of flip, right? And Biden starts to dip and Trump goes up. So like... And then it goes the other way, though, too. And then Biden's... Yeah, so those are like... After about, after 22 months in, Biden's really took off.
00:25:27
Speaker
And Trump's hit a little peak and then boom, plummeted COVID, you know? And then he lost the election. And then he lost the election. The re stock market is started to rebound, you know? but And that's where Biden came in.
00:25:40
Speaker
So it's a little bit hard when you have it a site like right on top of each other during the same thing because you figure it's one before the other. Yeah. Yeah. It's still pretty interesting though.
00:25:51
Speaker
looking at it. Yeah, that's really cool. we'll so We'll definitely send this. And you can compare with like all these other presidents, like all the way back to like Harding and Calvin Coolidge and everything. It was really good. It's compared Donald Trump to Barack Obama.
00:26:06
Speaker
Never even came close to Barack Obama. Never even came close. Barack Obama dusted him every single way. Wow. ah Jesus. And let's let's see Bill Clinton.
00:26:17
Speaker
Holy crap. Look at Bill Clinton. No wonder people were so happy in the ninety s Wow. Yeah.
Elon Musk's Ventures and Geopolitics
00:26:23
Speaker
Bill Clinton is like, the chart like has to become larger because Bill Clinton went up 225%. Obama went up 147%.
00:26:32
Speaker
When people talk about Reagan, like, oh, Reagan did everything. Look at Reagan compared to Clinton. Look at everybody. Look at any anybody. Only Jesus. Nobody's even close.
00:26:43
Speaker
Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt was doing the, doing damn thing. that was about it So the the guy who they had to invent term limits to stop because he was so wildly popular.
00:26:53
Speaker
Franklin Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, man. No wonder they were just like, find anything. He's too popular. You remember Bill Clinton got the got the net got the deficit down to zero.
00:27:06
Speaker
i know. but we hey ah had ah We paid all our debt and had extra money to just pay down debt. don't know. yeah ye Oh, man. It's almost like the but the Democrats are better at the economy.
00:27:20
Speaker
It's almost like the Democrats are the fiscal conservatives. Imagine. Yeah. But it's cool map, though. Sorry. Yeah, but mean, it's basically like, you know, he announced that he's doing tariffs and then the stock market jumped off a cliff.
00:27:37
Speaker
Tesla in particular is doing really bad. and i saw this really interesting video. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Tesla's. Oh, yeah. You go. You sent me the video. watched it. Yeah, I sent it to you. Yeah. So, like, it was a video about, like, how, like, it's kind of had two two things that are related, right? So, one is, like, if you want to know how we're going to hurt Elon Musk, this is the answer.
00:27:57
Speaker
And the answer is, like, well, Elon Musk is actually, like, not doing great in terms of his finances. So, like, Elon Musk elon musk had, well, okay, so he wasn't, then he was, and, you know, it's kind of tending is trending back towards Not great. So like take one of his companies. So take SpaceX, okay, which is privately owned.
00:28:19
Speaker
um It doesn't mean that it doesn't have like value, just means you can't buy the stock. So you have to be like a big investor to privately invest in SpaceX, okay? But SpaceX has, um there's a way that they value ah companies. And it's basically like, what is the multiplier of your annual profits? Okay.
00:28:38
Speaker
Right. So like you the amount the company is worth is some multiplier of that. So SpaceX does, um you know, the rockets and does Starlink. And SpaceX is valued at 350 billion and they make 10 billion a year.
00:28:56
Speaker
But then they just lost contracts equaling 7 billion a year. So they lost 70 percent of their revenue. What do you think that's going to do to the value? I don't think it's going to make it go up.
00:29:07
Speaker
Right. So then Starlink starts pushing for these deals. Starlink starts pushing to like make a telecom deal and provide Wi-Fi to everyone with um ah T-Mobile.
00:29:18
Speaker
That's like a coming soon thing. ah Starlink then goes and is like, oh, well, we need some short-term cash too. So we're going make a deal. We're going to edge out Verizon because now we're in control of the government. We're going to edge out Verizon. So they're not going to rebuild the FAA stuff. We're going to do it all with Starlink starting fucking yesterday because need the cash.
00:29:36
Speaker
so where those then you you over to like well He will not do anything if it's a conflict of interest. He promised. My ass. Yeah, like, you know what? The prisoners promise to, like, never leave the prison if the guards all just look the other way. they you know, what could go wrong? letting the prisoners the prisoners The inmates run the prison.
00:29:55
Speaker
um
00:29:58
Speaker
Yeah, but like then you move over to Tesla, okay? and You look at Tesla. Tesla sales in Europe are, like, eating shit. Right. There's i can't remember which country it was, but like some country was like, yeah, 100 percent tariff on Tesla's because they realize that Elon Musk is the president and he's fucking everyone over. Yeah, I was doing that, too.
00:30:17
Speaker
Yeah. um But like sales are down. Sales are down in the U.S. Sales are down in Europe by like 70 percent. Sales are down in the in the U.S. by like 40 percent. ah figure It's almost as if people who cared about the environment were the ones who used to like to buy Tesla's.
00:30:31
Speaker
And now the only people buying Tesla's MAGA fans who are real crazies. and crypto bros. Oh my God, there's a, we're going to get to that. Let me just put that on the list too. Cause we're going we're going to get it. We can talk about something next week too.
00:30:46
Speaker
Oh man. But, but yeah, I mean, Tesla, yeah. Pissing off people, pissing off his top investor, pulls out $7 billion. dollars And so lo and behold, oh yeah, we got to get rid of this deal that Verizon made a couple of years ago with the U S government, you know, coordination with everything else.
00:31:04
Speaker
Because, uh, I need money. He doesn't really have cash. his his He basically takes loans against the value of his stock. So if the value of his stock goes down, then he has to sell some of it to pay off his loans and then take new loans at a lower value. So he needs his stock to keep going up so he can keep doing stuff.
00:31:23
Speaker
like And he's really leveraged into into Twitter also, which is losing valuation. like like Basically, immediately after he bought it, it was worth like half what he paid for it. like Actually, before, it was like when like when he was like going to buy it, they were like, actually, it's worth half what you offered us.
00:31:40
Speaker
But he had already offered it in writing, so we had to pay it anyway. But yeah, and then like it immediately started losing revenue and like losing sponsors. So his companies are actually not doing great.
00:31:52
Speaker
And then like you know the FAA is investigating ah Starlink for shit that they were doing. OSHA... the osha violations in the auto industry even though tesla makes has six percent of the workforce of the total auto industry they had 70 of the osha violations i wonder why osha's gone right so then like and we can like kind of lead into our next ah segue here like there the other thing is like you know what uh what are the teslas use well they use lithium-ion batteries
00:32:32
Speaker
And how do you make lithium ion? Well, you need lithium, don't you?
Trump's Controversial Mineral Deals
00:32:37
Speaker
And who has a lot of lithium? Well, wouldn't you know that Ukraine has a lot of, of lithium and Donald Trump ah slash president Musk just started being like, you know what, what if we made a minerals deal where for all the help we already gave Ukraine, nevermind the fact that like the reason we gave them that help is because was an exchange for the 1900 nukes that they gave up in 1994.
00:32:59
Speaker
ah what What if instead of that, we we said, oh, just for the help, we've already given you no new help, no security guarantees. We'll get 50 percent of all of the mineral wealth of your country for all of time.
00:33:13
Speaker
Cool deal. Are you cool with that? And they invite Zelensky over and they're like, hey, what if we fucking raped you? Is that cool? Like, we'll rape you. You smile. We'll rape you. And then will then we'll send you out there to get fucked by Russia.
00:33:26
Speaker
Sound good? You cool with that deal?
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:36
Speaker
Man. So, yeah. And yeah, so we cut off Ukraine. Remember, we didn't. Trump did. Illegally. Again, it needs to always be reminded everybody.
00:33:48
Speaker
It is illegal for the president to just stop dispersing money that Congress has appropriated.
00:33:56
Speaker
Again, it's illegal, but he said he'll revisit it. you know He'll think about it if they sign the mineral deal. It's kind of like Russia saying that they will think about a ceasefire.
00:34:08
Speaker
They might talk about a ceasefire if Ukraine just unilaterally gives up everything that Russia wants. That's the thing with this deal. They're like, oh, what's Russia going to give up? you know What concessions will Russia make? They're like, well,
00:34:25
Speaker
I'm a Russian puppet, so nothing. You know, they're just like, what if what if Russia just like, I don't know, owned the United States instead of giving something up?
00:34:38
Speaker
How about that? No, but no, we're not asking anything of Russia. We're just asking Ukraine to give up, you know, the resources and
00:34:52
Speaker
give up your resources you know Give up you know your land. Give up everything you want. And maybe we will talk Russia into stopping for a few years. Maybe a year or two to rearm.
00:35:11
Speaker
Oh my god. Okay, hold on. ah Let me pause the stream here. Alright, We're on the other side of the pond. There was a technical difficulty with microphone.
00:35:26
Speaker
It has been resolved. So, yeah. Yeah, so Trump and... Yeah, Trump and J.D. Vance bring Zelensky in, expecting him to, you know, basically fuck his own country over and give away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions and about $500 billion their resources.
00:35:49
Speaker
you know of their resources In exchange for nothing. In exchange, it's a tip. As a tip. You know, we wanted him to give away everything to tip the U.S. government for the $100 billion dollars you've given them.
00:36:07
Speaker
You know, you've given me $100 billion in needed weapons. Well, as a tip, I guess I will have to give you the next $500 billion resources my from Oh, and you're not going to give anything further to me. This is just to pay you back for the sputtering help.
Geopolitical Dynamics: U.S., Russia, Ukraine
00:36:25
Speaker
Okay, so Zelensky... You're kind of cutting in and out occasionally. Oh, seriously? Okay, so Zelensky was not happy with that, you know, quote, deal.
00:36:36
Speaker
It wasn't a deal. And so then Trump and Vance decided to sit there and lie and castles. And a lot of Russian talking points and acting Zelensky doesn't want peace even though Ukraine is the one putting forth peace plans.
00:36:55
Speaker
Russia is the one that wins and has no interest in peace and has said so publicly.
00:37:05
Speaker
Trump Yeah, like if if Ukraine stops fighting, there stops being a Ukraine. If Russia stops fighting, the war stops. Yeah.
00:37:13
Speaker
Yeah. so So... They started... like First, I watched like the last 20 minutes of it, you know which contextualizes enough like the like what a hit job it is J.D. Vance instigates and Trump piles on.
00:37:26
Speaker
But if you watch the full like hour, they were just sitting there taking fucking like petty pot shots at him the whole time and just like talking shit to reporters.
00:37:38
Speaker
And then like you know somebody from... like this is a room with like the president, the vice president and the secretary of state. And, uh, you know, the leader of another country that is at war with Russia.
00:37:54
Speaker
If ever there was a room to secure, this would be it. And they let into the room, a member of Russian state media. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:05
Speaker
Task media. And, when they about they're like, oh, that was an accident when we noticed that we got him out of there right away. Like, good thing he wasn't in a fucking assassin. It wasn't an accident.
00:38:17
Speaker
I mean... Yeah, no, of course not. Of course not. But, like, they're they're giving him shit, like, from the beginning. They were like, oh, why aren't you wearing a suit? And, like, this, you know, this fucking smarmy bitch in, like, a fucking blue suit sitting off to the side of Trump grinning like a like a fat piece of shit.
00:38:36
Speaker
is just like, oh, oh, why why don't you wear a suit? and And everybody i can step back and think about this for a second, too. Because everybody remember, he did wear a suit when he was president of Ukraine. He was always president Ukraine. He was He was of Ukraine. James, you're so cutting out that like it's half of every word comes in.
00:39:03
Speaker
I mean, we're going to need to pause because can't.
00:39:09
Speaker
All right. All right. After the second set of technical issues, we're back again like a bad habit.
00:39:19
Speaker
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00:39:27
Speaker
Yeah. Really? Wow. You know, me and you are at least two of them. there somewhere I am not subscribed. well, okay. So that's at least like seven people who are not me.
00:39:43
Speaker
I do not want to hear my voice. Oh, I just want to subscribe. i just subscribed to the network. Okay. Let's get back to Let's get back to Russia. So yeah. So they, there's there's a series of like, of shitty little comments, you know, from the time that they first get in. um It's just like a small petty things. Like, why aren't you wearing a suit? And like, you know, for reference, the reason he's not wearing a suit is because he's at, he's at war.
00:40:06
Speaker
You know, if you if you look back at 2019, when he wears a ring of suit. Yes. Yeah, he was always wearing a suit. In 2019, there's a picture of him with Merkel and Macron and Putin, where he's signing the ceasefire after Putin invaded in 2019. He's wearing a fucking suit then, you know?
00:40:29
Speaker
Yeah. When he stopped wearing a suit, when they left their government building and for but for weeks, he was living in a bunker in the woods. They were trying to assassinate him.
00:40:41
Speaker
yeah Yes. And you know what? it you know It wouldn't be a very good look you know to be going out there and Brooke's brother suits and looking like a you know best suits and look how much money and I look really good right now. Yeah.
00:40:57
Speaker
and your people are at war, people are getting they're going out there, it's like, you know what, I'm doing this with you was up I think it also helps when they have a body double you know, can blend in with the other people, but also like Winston Churchill visited the United States during World War II, you know he didn't wear? A fucking suit Yep You know what Elon Musk didn't wear when he's in the Oval Office with his kid, costing out Trump for a black ball didn't wear cap and a t-shirt and a coat and to support t-shirt yeah yeah
00:41:35
Speaker
yeah you know what trump has never worn in his entire fucking adult life tie that fits but i digress he's probably been wearing diapers quite while so like so there's there's this litany of like of petty bullshit every time like the woman from cnn asks a question they're like oh we don't like you your network's pathetic we're not going to answer your question and their questions are like are like, so when it was the last time you talked to Putin? He's like, oh, just two days ago. Well, the White House didn't announce that they talked to the that Trump had talked to Putin two days ago, and they always announce whenever they talk to foreign leaders.
00:42:05
Speaker
They didn't announce it. Huh. Then they're like, oh well, what did he say in that conversation? Oh, he didn't say, well, ah change the topic. what what did What is it that that Putin said that makes you feel like you can trust him?
00:42:20
Speaker
and like Zelensky like makes a point. So like J.J. Gates comes in there and he's just like, well, all the time for it's time for diplomacy. Like we tried war under Biden and it was bullshit. We're trying to do diplomacy. And he's like, what what diplomacy are you talking about? Because we had an agreement in twenty nineteen.
00:42:34
Speaker
Macron and Merkel and me sat across the table from Putin and all three of them assured me Russia would never come into Ukraine ever again. Yeah, we signed the agreement.
00:42:45
Speaker
Oh, they didn't. And like, just to just to run you through ah Russia. Okay. Russia. I'm pointing out the premise. 1939. Russia invades Poland. Russia invades Finland. Russia invades Estonia. Russia invades Lithuania.
00:43:06
Speaker
nineteen fifty six russia invades hungary nineteen sixty eight russia invades czechoslovakia nineteen seventy nine russia invades afghanistan ninety ninety four Russia invades Chechnya. 1999, Russia invades Chechnya again.
00:43:20
Speaker
hu Huh. 2008, Russia invades Georgia. 2014, Russia invades Crimea, which is fucking Ukraine. 2015, Russia invades Syria. 2022, Russia invades Ukraine.
00:43:33
Speaker
Fucking imagine. yeah but Donald Trump, Zelensky shouldn't have started the war with Russia. Are you fucking kidding me? It's like it's like it's like right after Donald Trump rapes a child with Jeffrey Epstein, he looks at the little girl and he says, you know, you probably shouldn't have been here if you didn't want to get raped.
00:43:52
Speaker
It is so fucking insulting. It is so fucking disgusting. Mm hmm.
00:43:59
Speaker
Yep.
00:44:07
Speaker
Yeah, and what they're not talking about, what they're not doing, they're not saying, hey, Russia, you need to give back tens of thousands of Ukrainian children that kidnapped. God, that's the other he yeah. Russia, you need to give back tens of thousands of Ukrainian children you've kidnapped. You need to give back these people.
Global Military and Economic Strategies
00:44:25
Speaker
Well, none of that.
00:44:28
Speaker
but No, Trump actually does. Russia's fought very hard for those gains. they They fought really hard for that land. They threw lot of bodies those bullets. They've lost a lot of people. Yeah. they but they they they They really worked hard to flatten completely, turn it into like a moonscape.
00:44:47
Speaker
All that land. They worked really hard to do that. So, you know, we've got to live with the reality of the situation. Which actually the reality the situation is, if we kept giving Ukraine weapons, Ukraine has been really turning in the last couple months, you know, with a lot less people. And then, yeah, I wonder what kind of information we're giving to Russia too.
00:45:12
Speaker
I mean, Donald Trump has history of giving classified information to the Russians, you know, and I'm not even talking about, you know, Mueller investigation and that stuff. i'm talking about when he was president the first time.
00:45:23
Speaker
And he went in there and he had Sergei Lavrov and what's the other fucker's name? that at The fat guy, the big fat guy, you know? and um yeah And Sergei Kislyak and Sergei Lavrov were in the Oval Office and he had everybody leave.
00:45:38
Speaker
And Turns out he gave up you know class classified information from Israel you know to the Russians. you know And I wonder what information we're giving to Russia because Ukraine's really been doing good the last couple of months. push back with mouth post cro proco and And then like he's announcing, well, you have a real problem with your recruitment. You're having real problem with you know getting your troops here. And then suddenly, right after that, Russia changed tactics.
00:46:08
Speaker
Instead, mean, they're still bombing civilians and churches and hospitals and grocery stores, you know, legitimate military targets, you hospitals and schools. But they also did something else different.
00:46:20
Speaker
They started using their hypersonic missiles, right, their ballistic missiles, and going after training facilities of Ukraine, way deep beyond the front lines, which they hadn't done. Sorry, say that again more slowly.
00:46:39
Speaker
They use the Kinzolov. Yeah, okay. You gotta disconnect. You gotta reconnect.
00:46:49
Speaker
Okay. yeah sort of was think Prior to some technical difficulties, you were talking about Russia. Just give me Russia from the top. What's what's Russia doing to Ukraine? Well, I was saying, well, they've been getting pushed back for the last like month or two straight. you know They've been losing ground in Ukraine.
00:47:08
Speaker
You know? um And while they've still been doing their normal bombing of hospitals and schools, you know, one thing they recently started doing after the Oval ah the oval Office meeting with Zelensky and J.D. Vance and Trump, and this is one of those, you know, what again, information that's been speculated about, but no one had actually said it in an official capacity about Ukraine having a real hard time with its recruitments and troops, right?
00:47:37
Speaker
And after he said that in the Oval Office, you guys have a problem with your recruits. You guys are you know having problems with people. Russia changed tactics. And they started sending their ballistic missiles, their hypersonic you know missiles, deep into Ukraine and going after training sites where they were getting fresh conscripts.
00:47:58
Speaker
They hadn't done that. They hadn't been doing that, you know, and somebody had to give them the intel. I mean, it's very possible that somebody inside of you you know Ukraine's military. There's been a couple of instances where it's been really fishy how Russia was able to know where some things were. Right.
00:48:13
Speaker
There were some instances of like. um Yeah. of like citizens like telling Russia and then like trying to escape the country or whatever. And like getting arrested. Like there was a lot of, sure. A lot of people are like turn-toting and talking about military stuff. I'm talking about like when there was like, a like arms deliveries. Right.
00:48:31
Speaker
And they have these trains that go and trains are actually, you would think about it. You'd think trains are easy to hit. They're not, you know, cause there's a lot of different stations. There's different routes. There's, you know, it's not all,
00:48:43
Speaker
know, it's not on a necessary set schedule when you're getting, it's not just like predictable track that doesn't move. And there was a couple of times like, like in like in the last year where,
00:48:56
Speaker
during like a 15 minute window when a train went there and stopped and they were shifting stuff like that, boom, they got hit, you know, which was like, that's interesting. How the hell would Russia have known, you know?
00:49:08
Speaker
So like that, things like that or things like this, things like this makes me think, I wonder, which makes me think about worst case scenario. Like, are they actually going to feed Russia Intel?
00:49:19
Speaker
I don't know. You know, I wouldn't put anything past these guys, you know, they're, russian puppets man well they wouldn't have to because pete hexeth secretary of defense has stood down u.s cyber command we're not monitoring for russian attacks we're not retaliating against russian attacks we're not proactively trying to stop russian attacks and we're certainly not planning or executing any counter attacks so if russia wants to hack whatever they can i don't think they have to I don't think they have to hack anything. without without that I don't think they have to. be That's why fucking Tulsi Gabbard is there so she can just hand it off to him And Trump. I mean, and Trump will hand it off.
00:49:58
Speaker
I mean, God. Yeah. So anyway. No puppet. No puppet. You're a puppet. Yeah. No puppet. No puppet.
00:50:09
Speaker
That's a quote. That's Trump. That's a a Trump quote from the debate with Hillary Clinton where she said, you're going to be a Russia's puppet who's going eat you for dinner. no puppet, no puppet, you're a puppet.
00:50:20
Speaker
That's like the the art of the deal right there. You know, you just say some dumb shit, no puppet, no puppet. So going back to like this, this like Zelensky shit show. So like, yeah, Zelensky's like, yeah, you know, JD Vance is like, oh, you know, your country has all these problems. JD Vance is like, have you been there? Like, how many times have you been to Ukraine? Come to Ukraine, I'll show you.
00:50:37
Speaker
He's like, oh, I've seen the videos, is all propaganda tours. Like, your country has problems. And he's like, yeah, of course my country has problems. We're at war. Like, yeah, every country has problems at war. Like,
00:50:48
Speaker
You would have problems too, but you have a big, beautiful ocean. And this is because this is him quoting Trump because Trump was just the other day was saying like, oh, we don't give a shit of what happens over there because we have a big, beautiful ocean separating us from Russia.
00:51:01
Speaker
Yeah. You know? So then like, then he's like, he goes on and he's like, he's like, but you will, you know, you will feel the influence you'll feel.
00:51:11
Speaker
And then Trump jumps in and just starts yelling at him. Like, don't tell me what I'll feel. Don't tell me what I'll feel. He's like, I'm not. I'm answering his question. He just asked me a question. But this whole thing was brought about because Zelensky was like, what diplomacy are you talking about? You know, Russia doesn't russia doesn't do any of their agreements.
00:51:26
Speaker
And see in the point he was trying to make, they wouldn't let him make, was that like a ceasefire is only going to help Russia. Because with a ceasefire, you're going to stop the sanctions, which, by the way, they're already stopping the sanctions. yeah no got rid of the They fired the lawyers who were who were handling the sanctions.
00:51:40
Speaker
They fired the lawyers who were handling the sanctions. you know, keeping foreign and influence out of elections because obviously they want Russia to help. That's been the fucking thing all along, you know, and they're, I feel like they announced somewhere that they were getting rid of the sanctions. they did They're not just like doing the things. They're also like announcing like, yeah, we're not, we're going to try to get rid of these sanctions. I can't remember if if that was a story or something I heard, but. That's one of the meetings they were talking about. They, that's what their meeting was. Their first peace negotiations over Ukraine had nothing to do with Ukraine.
00:52:09
Speaker
That's what it was when they wrote met it and when they met in, in Turkey. It had nothing that, or Saudi Arabia, sorry, Saudi Arabia. Or was it Turkey or shit? I think it was, I think it was.
00:52:21
Speaker
think it's Saudi Arabia. Was it Saudi Arabia or was it Qatar?
00:52:29
Speaker
to to do it it was in It was in Saudi Arabia a couple weeks yeah All right, so it was in Riyadh, yeah. So, um yeah, where Ukraine was not invited. Yeah. They said it was a talk about, you know, peace talks, you know, for Ukraine, but they didn't talk about peace talks between Ukraine. They talked about a resuming flights between us and Russia, which by the way, all of Russia's planes are stolen planes because what?
00:52:53
Speaker
Yeah. They're stolen planes. You know, when, when, when people were not allowed to fly there, you know, like when Boeing or these other places and these airlines flew into Russia and then they're like, they were grounded and and you know, Hey, we're not doing the flights.
00:53:06
Speaker
They, Russia took the planes. They're stolen planes. So we're going to let Russia have these stolen planes fly back into the U S then now, you know, um wow. Uh,
00:53:18
Speaker
Talk about reopening embassies. And by the way, the whole thing, like if you if you caught that during the address to Congress, talk about how we're going to start selling citizenship, you know, for $50 million dollars a pop. you can be Oh, he's he said in the – Yes, for Russian oligarchs. these sanctioned The sanctioned roleland Russian oligarchs don't have to worry anymore because they can just buy their citizenship in the U.S. He was like, you know, there I know some ah some russian some Russian oligarchs who have quite a lot of money, not as much as they had before. ho, ho.
00:53:48
Speaker
But yeah yeah, they got plenty of money in the, you know, we'll sell them a citizenship for $5 million. Yeah. yeah The gold card, you know, to be like a really premium experience. Or $5 million. $5 million dollar gold card.
00:54:00
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah, I know some Russian oligarchs. I mean, the $5 million thing is... They're very nice people. He says the Russian oligarchs will possibly be eligible for new gold card visas. Yes. Donald Trump's very nice people list.
00:54:12
Speaker
Russian oligarchs. Nazis. Nazi protesters. Yeah. just what a great list to be on. Definitely no deplorables anywhere near it. Certainly not like a basket worth of deplorables per se.
00:54:25
Speaker
You know, just to like go totally off topic for a second, like that whole like basket of deplorables thing that pissed me off so much because it's like a inclusive, exclusive sets thing. Like she didn't say that like everyone who supports Trump, is it a basket of deplorables?
00:54:40
Speaker
She said, that everyone in the basket of deplorable. So everyone who is a fucking deplorable human being supports Trump. That's what she said. She didn't say everyone who supports Trump is, is awful.
00:54:50
Speaker
She said all the people who are awful exclusively support Trump. I wonder why, yeah you know, like, Oh my God. Like that was like the most, you know, should have been the most telling thing because, you know, I feel like it's always pretty telling when someone can't understand an exclusive, inclusive sets sentence.
00:55:09
Speaker
It shows you that they're a fucking moron.
00:55:21
Speaker
So yeah. Yeah. So like, you know, Trump goes on starts yelling, him like, oh, you don't have any cards. You don't have any cards. And ah and he was like, Mr. President, I'm not playing cards. This is about the lives of my people.
00:55:37
Speaker
No one wants a ceasefire. What's the point of doing a ceasefire without security guarantees? We tried that last time. You don't want peace. And it's just like, no, like I only want a meaningful peace. I don't want to just like let Russia gather its footing and, you know, come back and attack and three to seven years.
00:55:56
Speaker
You know, like ah as I've given away, you know, like basically let America come in for five years, take all the minerals out. And then let Russia roll back in and attack again with no security guarantees. Like it's just a, it's just a shitty deal.
00:56:11
Speaker
And like, you know, the thing like then JD Vance is like, oh, you know, have you even said thank you once? have you said thank you? And like Zelensky has said thank you to the American people so many times.
00:56:22
Speaker
And this is like the thing, like, because, because this, this tells you about how Donald Trump and how by extension JD Vance sees America. Okay. Because he doesn't see America as like the people or the nation. He sees it as the leader.
00:56:40
Speaker
It is like the property of the leader. So like when what happens in America, like respect for America isn't about what another country thinks of America. It's what they think of the leader. What do they think of Biden?
00:56:50
Speaker
What do they think of Obama? What do they think of Trump? And when you're saying like, oh, thank you to the American people in a joint session of Congress, for example, like not thanking him personally. Like like Zelensky did in 2023 or, you know, like so many other times where he's like on camera thanking the United States. Like every year he does his State of the Union, um like around ah New Year's.
00:57:15
Speaker
And he always thanks the United States and like the European partners. And like like he said, thank you so many times, but to America, not to Donald Trump. right And that's exactly what they're talking about. Why haven't you kissed my ring?
00:57:28
Speaker
We don't give a fuck about anything you've done, deals you made with the country. You didn't make the deal with me. We don't give a fuck about like you saying thank you to the country. You didn't thank me. um Yeah. and
00:57:43
Speaker
And new news today because he's really trying to pressure Zelensky to give him everything he wants and start kissing his ass and sign away all of his mineral rights.
00:57:55
Speaker
ah He announced today that he's planning revoking temporary legal status for about 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia and came here to the United States to boost his deportation numbers.
00:58:09
Speaker
heard that. Revocation expected as soon as April and can set up the Ukrainians for deportation. Yeah, i heard about that and i'm worried about it. Yeah.
00:58:22
Speaker
And I mean, like this is another thing where it's like, People, when he was talking about deportation, he was like, oh, we're going to, we're going to take all of the, all of the criminals. You know where there's a lot of criminals. There's like a place in Brighton beach, New Jersey, where there's, I think it's New Jersey somewhere thereabouts where there's like known to be like a whole bunch of Russian mafia who are not citizens. no They didn't go in there with ice and deport any of those guys. No, like they're not just coming for the criminals. They're coming for the enemies.
00:58:54
Speaker
Criminals was just how they sell it to you because criminals sounds more palatable. yeah Really, they're coming for everyone who's poisoning the blood. Who's poisoning the blood? Everyone who isn't them. If you're not white and rich or rich and willing to bend over and kiss the ring, you're on the list.
00:59:10
Speaker
They're coming for you. yeah It's just a matter... It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. And they do seem to be in a fucking hurry.
00:59:22
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:27
Speaker
Yeah, put that up. It's not just the Ukrainians. He's on the executive order on January 20th saying the Department of Homeland Security had to terminate all categorical parole programs, which would also revoke temporary legal status from people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, along with that. It would 530,000 Cubans, 77,000 Afghanis, you know, Afghans, Asians, Nicaraguanans, Vilans, Vilans, and the 200. Oh my God, 77,000 Afghans?
00:59:55
Speaker
You know who probably a lot of those people are? We know who all of them are. They're like the translators. though They're the fucking translators. Yes. they're yeah so that left all we left and We left like 100,000 them or 80,000 of them behind yeah to get killed by the Taliban. Now we're going to take the ones who made it over here and we're going to ship them out.
01:00:12
Speaker
yeah Yeah. So that's what you get if you if you make a deal with the United States. You're going to get fucked. Yep. And the only way to keep yourself safe is don't give up nukes.
01:00:25
Speaker
Get a nuke, make nukes. The only thing that will keep you safe. Which is why ah tell us about Ursula, what's her name, and the European Union?
01:00:37
Speaker
Oh, yeah. um Yeah. Well, luckily, Europe is... Yeah. because they realized that trump is on the side of russia you know's something that people have been talking about and yes they agree um yeah we go says the and a watershed moment eu leaders agree ah agree on the plan for huge rise in defense spending that's an article in the guardian um all the leaders endorsed her proposal as french president calledlyburn putin an imperialist who seeks to rewrite history
01:01:09
Speaker
So they are the 26 EU leaders, right? All firmly supported the statement, right? They all said, hey, there can be no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine, right?
01:01:22
Speaker
um And... World's most obvious statement. Yes, I know. Well, ah so the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who presented to leaders an 800 billion euro plan to increase European defense spending,
01:01:38
Speaker
um So yeah, they went over the next few years to start spending what the United States spends on defense. um Because they need to ramp up and they need to rearm Europe.
01:01:51
Speaker
Because if you don't, well, they need to because you got Russia on one side and you have the US helping Russia. so Or at least looking the other way. So. um Yeah, it just like feeds into what you were telling me before about how um how it's like also bad for the economy. So like, Oh yeah. The United States being in NATO, right? Like, so NATO has this thing where everything has to be interoperable. So like the parts for the ah military vehicles, the ammunition for the guns and the, um you know, the artillery rounds and the tanks and the missiles for the planes, like all the mechanics have to know how to fix all of the U S equipment. So they have to buy U S equipment.
01:02:37
Speaker
which comes out to like $220 billion dollars a year yeah in buying American weapons to NATO member countries. Well, if the United States leaves NATO, that's no longer going to be the case. If they, if they can't rely on America to be an ally, they're not going to rely on America to be a weapons supplier either.
01:02:56
Speaker
so they're going to have to like, stop buying shit from America and build it themselves. And like, they can buy it. That's a bell that you can't unring. And by the way, do you know whose defense industry has really, really taken off? It's been increasing like 30 times over each year, year over year.
01:03:14
Speaker
Israel, Ukraine, Ukraine. Yes. Their defense industry is been, I mean, they have to, obviously they're at war. Makes sense. But they've been ramping up, ramping up, ramping up.
01:03:26
Speaker
And that would be a really good thing for Europe. You know, they could help fund and help Ukraine. Ukraine has been making weapons like far and away, you know, faster and in in ramping up faster than anybody else in Europe, you know.
01:03:44
Speaker
And yeah, it'd be good for our all involved. They could have a really and yeah remember, Russia has, i think they said Russia has about 600,000 troops, you know, something like that. 600,000 troops like in in in Ukraine, right?
01:03:59
Speaker
Roughly. Who knows exactly how many it is. It could be like 400, 500, but it's about 600, they said. They've killed 700,000. Ukraine is estimated have about 300,000 400,000, right? Nobody else in Europe even comes close. yeah ukraine is estimated to have about three hundred to four hundred thousand right nobody else in europe even comes close not even remotely close.
01:04:20
Speaker
I feel like ah um United Kingdom, I think, has 138,000 troops. And thirty eight thousand yeah tro and there their Air Force, ground troops, a Navy, like the entire entire thing.
01:04:34
Speaker
like like that's not That's not like combatants. That's like you know the whole, the full military, the mechanics, the cooks, everybody everybody everybody all in.
01:04:46
Speaker
138,000 people. Because like Ukraine's military is over a million people. It's like, i think it's like a million and half or 2 million people you count everybody, but it's like 300 to 400,000 is troops is like dudes holding guns.
01:05:00
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Yeah. Germany has 183,000, you know? I mean, yeah. So, i mean, kind collectively, obviously they they have some strength, you know i mean There's a lot of strength there, but, um,
01:05:13
Speaker
But yeah, they need to really ramp up. They're going to start spending the levels that the United States spends. And a lot of that money is planning to go into Ukraine. They have big plans along with the 800 billion. They have plans to be able to... because ah um Here's the other thing.
01:05:25
Speaker
The United States, oh they estimated we've given about 100 billion dollars. Ignore what Donald Trump says about $350. We've given about $100 billion. And not all of it is weapons.
01:05:36
Speaker
When it comes to weapons, actual weapons, we've given about $67 billion dollars worth of weapons a year. right But then we bought new shit for our ourselves. It's our garage sale. It's our garage sale. cleanup is our Clean out the closet.
01:05:51
Speaker
But we've given about $67 billion dollars worth of replacement costs of weapons over three years. Everybody acts like if we cut off Ukraine, they're screwed.
01:06:02
Speaker
They're not necessarily screwed. Europe could make up $20 billion dollars worth of equipment. It's all about the will to do it. You what mean? And how fast can they ramp up and how can they source the stuff? alexy Yes, because like they, they don't, they literally cannot make enough bullets or artillery shells. Like their current ability, all of Europe to make yeah artillery shells and bullets is not insufficient to just to supply Ukraine.
01:06:26
Speaker
at the levels they need to continue the war right now. Correct. but they But they could buy it. They could buy the artillery shells. And so it's unclear yet whether or not they will be able to purchase the artillery shells from the United States.
01:06:40
Speaker
i mean To your point of about about Russia not doing good, like you know what I heard the other day, um my wife was telling me, but like they send Russia is using mules. Yes, they're using horses, mules, donkeys, horses.
01:06:54
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. And like the, like the the reports are coming in from the drone operators. Yes. The droner operators are like, for the first time in the whole conflict, I feel guilty blowing shit up because they're killing the horses and the mules to stop them from, from using them to transport, you know, weapons and ammo.
01:07:10
Speaker
Yeah. And food. Yeah. And, you know, probably diesel, whatever else, but like, yeah, like that's where Russia's at. Russia is at the, I guess we're going to send in the fucking horses.
01:07:22
Speaker
Yep. So Russia not doing great. No, which is also why it said i saw an article that China is in talks to send their military in also to help Russia against them.
01:07:36
Speaker
um What would be it for China? Training against a Western trained military because they want to go and do Taiwan.
01:07:46
Speaker
Wouldn't it be easier to just go into Taiwan and be like, is Donald Trump going to like go to war with China over Taiwan? Probably not. Probably not.
01:07:59
Speaker
like Wouldn't that just be easier? ah Maybe. but like i don't see it. and I don't see Donald Trump being like, oh we have to honor the treaty that someone else made a fucking long time ago.
01:08:13
Speaker
With Taiwan. Well, here's the the the weird thing about this. And here's another thing that's weird. And we didn't talk we say we're going to talk about this. But it also just doesn't make any sense, even from an America first point of view, right?
01:08:27
Speaker
One of the things he talked about in that address was getting rid of the chips. You know, the chips in science acting now? Yes! Didn't make any sense at all. Because, I mean, the whole point of that is getting unrely you know like ah Stop relying on imports for you know semiconductors and chips. right All these you know and processing chips. and you know We import everything, all of them from Taiwan. right
01:08:57
Speaker
It doesn't make sense to cancel that or scrap that because that whole thing is an investment in making them ourselves, which would be America first. America, go America.
01:09:08
Speaker
doesn't make any sense except the fact that China, China is not happy with it because China, you know, wants to start giving ships. And if they took over Taiwan, they'd be in a really good spot in the, around the world.
01:09:19
Speaker
Like what if we're just like super underestimating the level of treachery of Donald Trump? Like um' Donald Trump, Donald Trump was saying ah before the election, like months before the election, he was at like a conference with like a bunch of Christian groups, I think. And he was like,
01:09:35
Speaker
um i'll find the video and link it but like he was saying like literally these words like he was saying um look go out there and vote you got to go out there and vote but just this one time yeah because after this we're gonna rig it we're gonna fix it and you won't have to vote anymore after this it was one you said one time that's all you'll have to do and we'll fix it so good you won't ever have to vote again yes we'll fix it so good you won't ever have to vote again okay And so the assumption was that they were going to do something that like keeps them in power. It's like a voter disenfranchisement. they're go to just
01:10:06
Speaker
They're going rig it. They're going to take over Dominion. They're Russia hack it. Whatever the fuck it is. But that was the assumption. But if they're to the extent that they're dismantling this country, what if the actual plan is to like sell America for, like I don't know, $500 billion dollars to to Russia or China or split-seas to both and be like,
01:10:29
Speaker
you know, Trump just like goes off and fucks off to wherever and is rich and like sells United States to them. And that's why we're not voting because he just sold the whole fucking country. He's like, yeah I'll just dismantle the military, take off the cyber comms, put in puppets everywhere, get rid of the FBI, take out all the social services.
01:10:47
Speaker
It'll be fucking chaos. And you can just sweep in, pay me with, you know, crypto fuck boy coins and then take the country. Yeah. i don't know. I mean,
01:11:00
Speaker
i've You say that, you know, what if we've been underestimating him? I mean, I've been thinking he was a totally wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin the whole time.
01:11:11
Speaker
So that that's not shocking to me. I don't see how he could I don't see how he could act any more in Russia's interest if he was like Boris on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
01:11:24
Speaker
I mean, like the Kremlin's literally publishing news newspapers with the front page says like the U.S. s foreign policy aligns with our vision completely. It's... I
01:11:41
Speaker
i can't believe it's not obvious. i yeah That's all I can say. I mean, it's so obvious that if it were anything else, it would I would be shocked. I mean, I think he's stupid, but...
01:11:55
Speaker
I find it hard to believe somebody that stupid. I think it's easier to believe that he's bought. It's 69th, or it's 45th dimensional chess, James. Because he's the forty five the forty fifth president.
01:12:13
Speaker
it's forty five degree degree dimensional chess that's what it is
01:12:23
Speaker
no sorry dead air we shouldn't have dead air on here no it's fine we can actually just like remove dead air there's like a like like a one button dead air go bye bye yeah but okay let's just come back to like some you know fun with all right hold on i'm getting this just in let's see ah russian propagandists are still saying the usa is an enemy and they discuss uh Should they send a rocket to Paris or Washington?
01:12:55
Speaker
So, yeah, I mean, this is a common thing in like, like Russian propaganda state media where they're talking about like, like They talk about nuking Europe and nuking the United States all the time.
01:13:06
Speaker
I saw something with like a Colin show where they were like, call in and tell us, what do you think, random Russian citizens? Should we nuke Washington or California? like Should we nuke Paris or should we nuke Germany? like where should we look Where should we nuke first?
01:13:22
Speaker
like you know That's them having fun. And these are the same fuckers who like like go to a post about missile... ah ah missile hitting an apartment building and killing like a bunch of children and women and like families, just pure civilians. And they'll put fucking like laughing emojis and heart emojis on Cause they're fucking monsters.
Proposed Cuts to the U.S. Department of Education
01:13:42
Speaker
Like, like you couldn't kill them in in so disgusting a way that it wouldn't be a net positive.
01:13:49
Speaker
Okay. But to come back to, to come back to, um, domestic issues. Okay. Okay. ah related, you know, these kind of like, these kind of it all goes together, right? So like, these two go together.
01:14:08
Speaker
Department of Education closing and Indiana changing the child labor laws. He put that off for a month, the Department of Education thing. but Linda McMahon was like saying how, you know, former wife of the head of the WWE, w e Linda McMahon, now Department of Education secretary,
01:14:29
Speaker
ah which just sentences I never thought I'd say. ah Just wow. um
01:14:40
Speaker
Idiocracy is too real. ah Like idiocracy wasn't fucking dumb enough for reality, but it's a whole other thing. ah But no, she was saying how they're, they're winding it down. They're like, they're closing offices. They're letting people off. They're firing people. They're getting ready to close it. So like, if you like things like Pell grants or student loans that are, you know,
01:15:01
Speaker
kept at a lower rate by the government at like seven percent so you can pay seven percent on your two hundred thousand dollar education instead of 27 like a credit card loan or 22 like a personal loan or 15 like a personal loan you know you're the high student loans are like eight percent the rest them are like two to three percent even if you don't have credit because you're kid so if you think that's a good thing or pell grants which are like grants like the government's gonna give you money because you're poor you know oh you make 50 your parents make less than 60k a year combined like yeah, we're just going to give you money to make your education possible to like help people climb the social ladder, like get an education and make something of themselves. That's what we want. We want people to like live the American dream, like grow up, learn something, contribute to the economy, build something. That's what we want.
01:15:44
Speaker
So we fund it, except no, we're not. That's the part of education and it's DEI. And they're, you know, they're telling us they're to let the kids read Tony Morissette. And they're telling them that like, slavery was real bad and and that ah the founding fathers owned slaves and like, oh, we we were murdering those Indians real shitty. Like, oh, we can't yeah have these narratives about America and the shit that that we pulled and like understanding like critical thinking and the truth. So we're going to call it DEI and we're going to defund it.
01:16:11
Speaker
You know what else they fund? They fund um every special needs program in every state takes money from the Department of Education. So all the kids who really need help ah yeah, they're just going to, oh, I guess the states will take care of it if they can. But you know what the states can't do? They fucking can't take care of because the states can't take care of everything.
01:16:33
Speaker
They the money. like The federal government like takes in a whole bunch of money from California and then it says, oh, we're going set aside this much to like educate everyone because everyone needs to be educated.
01:16:44
Speaker
Having an educated population benefits the workforce. It reduces crime everywhere. It's good for the country. It allows us to have innovation and and progress and extra productivity. So we're going to invest in it because like we're investing in ourselves, we're investing in our future.
01:16:58
Speaker
But now they're just, they're calling it to yeah and they're getting rid of it. They're going to put it back to stage. They're going to let them, they're going to push these fucking voucher programs, which are just a way of saying like, instead of, instead of the, the federal government paying, you know, so that this, the local high school near you or the local school system near you gives you an education where you can go from K through 12 for free.
01:17:22
Speaker
for free and just get a full education. Okay. We're going to give you a voucher for $500 a year. And then you can choose who gets that $500 a year voucher from like a list of the public schools or the private schools. Of course, the private schools are going to cost you way more. And the $500 voucher isn't even enough to cover your end of like the public school, but I'll go fuck yourself.
01:17:43
Speaker
We got rid of the department of education because it's a war on poor people. Yeah.
01:17:50
Speaker
Republicans have been at war with poor people for decades. That's nothing new. The only thing that's new is how far and how fast and how obvious they are being at doing it. and What's amazing to me is how so many of them still are drinking the Kool-Aid while they are being fucked.
01:18:14
Speaker
It's like Stockholm Syndrome, man. like like At what point You know what I mean? like You see the people who are like, who are like i voted for Trump, and now that like there's like some personal harm has come to me, now I'm dissatisfied.
01:18:34
Speaker
you know it's like the The psychology of these people is such that like they were perfectly
Voters' Regret and Political Shifts
01:18:38
Speaker
happy with anyone else being hurt by these policies. But as soon as it comes to them, now they're dissatisfied. But oftentimes, they're not so dissatisfied that they're like,
01:18:49
Speaker
I regret my vote. I regret my vote. I shouldn't have voted for him. I should have listened. I should have informed myself. I should have not believed the sources I believed. I should have believed the sources I didn't believe.
01:19:01
Speaker
There is some of that. There's a lot of that, but there's also a lot of people who are just, I'll just deny reality. yeah Like I drank, i already drank the Kool-Aid. So I got to believe it's going to work out.
01:19:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. it's like all those people in Dearborn, Michigan, all the huge, huge, you know, Palestinian community, the Muslim community in Michigan, who or voted for Trump.
01:19:24
Speaker
Big, huge swing. Went from a Democratic, you know, it's like a plus 20 or 30 point swing, you know, from Biden to Trump. because gen is Genocide Joe. yeah i joke And then, you know he's like, oh, yeah, we're going finish job. They need to do more and take him out. They beachfront property. We're going to take over Gaza, blah, blah, blah. you know And they're like, well, that that is...
01:19:46
Speaker
I disagree with that. That's horrible, but I still support him. my you know I don't regret my vote. Somebody said that he's going to he's going to deport Palestinian protesters. He's going to jail them, and he's going to deport them.
01:19:59
Speaker
yeah He said they said if people are – if you're protesting in favor of Palestine on a college campus, we're going to jail you, and we're going to deport you.
Protest Rights and Political Engagement
01:20:07
Speaker
yeah He called that illegal – remember, said do we want to stop.
01:20:09
Speaker
Illegal protests. What is an illegal protest? That would be that would be the actual the actual freedom of speech is that you can go and protest. He restored freedom of speech right before they, you know, yeah the Sergeant of Arms arrested Al Green for saying that he does not have a mandate to cut Medicare.
01:20:30
Speaker
yeah they didn't they didn't ah They didn't do anything to Marjorie Taylor Greene when she screamed about how Joe Biden was a liar. Her and Lauren Boebert screaming like, know, yeah but like who could be smart like this is the guy who in his last presidency used tear gas to clear protesters from in front of a church where he had scheduled to have a fucking photo op hold a bible up upside down so he could hold a bible upside down like a fucking moron
01:21:01
Speaker
free speech yeah and free speech and um yeah They also everybody that they're not allowed to... Federal government. Federal employees are no longer allowed to read any news at work.
01:21:15
Speaker
They're not allowed Yep. no They're no longer allowed to look at the news.
01:21:24
Speaker
Jesus Christ.
01:21:28
Speaker
Anyway. Yeah, so like, i don't know. we we're not There's no way to get to everything. Because... It's just a shotgun approach to dismantling everything at once. So much, thrown around so much, you can't focus on everything.
01:21:42
Speaker
Okay, so let me get into this last thing. So Saturday I went to a protest. So it was a protest, had probably about 4,000 people in downtown Chicago.
01:21:54
Speaker
And Senator Durbin, Congressman Mike Quigley, um Congresswoman think Delia Ramirez. I apologize if I'm getting that name wrong.
01:22:08
Speaker
um But the three, i'm trying to think if there's anybody else there. So the three of them were there. Okay. And um my wife made a bunch of the posters and she actually made the the banner for the social media campaign.
01:22:21
Speaker
She's been a part of the ah fundraising and protesting thing um since the start of the Ukraine war. And actually we met at one of her fundraisers. And so I've done a lot of protesting.
01:22:37
Speaker
um But so we went to this, this protest this past Sunday. and um she asked me like, you know, what do you want your poster to say? And I thought about it. And, you know, if you listened to last week's episode, you listened to this week's episode, you know, I'm fucking pissed and I just want to like torture them all to death because they're evil.
01:22:54
Speaker
So. and so pay for that yeah so she So I pared down my anger and I said, i want my poster to say, um only filth supports Putin, only traitors support Trump.
01:23:12
Speaker
And she was like, she was like well, the senator's coming early. we don't know how if like all the people are going to be there because people usually get there like 20 to 30 minutes after what we say the time is. But the senator's going to be there early. so the press is going to be there early.
01:23:26
Speaker
so we have to be on brand so i made you a less angry so i had one that said trump equals a puppet and it had like two political cartoons and one of them was like was like um was like putin had had his hand up inside of a trump puppet and the trump puppet was saying your fingers are so big as putin is fisting him and then the other one was um Actually, can't remember the other one, but it was some similar idea about how Putin is like the real president of the United States.
01:23:57
Speaker
um And so like that was my poster, right? Trump equals puppet with these two pictures. And as we're getting ready for the protests, like the news cameras, like ABC, NBC, CBS is there. Indivisible Chicago was there.
01:24:11
Speaker
good um Yeah, she's like, she's like, go stand on the stairs because like that's where the speech is going to be Just show the poster. Make sure it's make sure it's visible. So I'm standing there and I put myself right next to where, so I was literally standing right next to Dick Durbin and then Mike Quigley was right behind him.
01:24:27
Speaker
So like, as they're giving their speeches, i like, I was like sitting there, I'm like holding my sign and like, we're all packed in there. Everyone's got a sign. Everyone's trying to like, to be seen as a bunch of us up on the stairs and like, we're all, we're all like, ah you know, contributing our signs. And I'm like, I have to choose, right? Like, do I hold my sign so that like, maybe it'll be in the camera shot. So it's like right next to the Senator.
01:24:49
Speaker
Or do I like hold it next to my face so you can see me? I'm like, i got to sacrifice my face. The sign must be in there. So I looked at the coverage and like, I didn't really love any of the coverage from what I saw of it.
01:25:01
Speaker
um They were really like under representing the number of people. one said 400, one said a thousand. It was easily, it was easily 3000, probably closer to four. Some people are saying it was the biggest protest in American history.
01:25:17
Speaker
Exactly. So people are telling people were telling me it was millions. It was more like a billion man march. It was more like a billion man, a billion Ukrainian march, basically.
01:25:28
Speaker
um we solved We solved all the issues in this march. But no, um it was really cool seeing the seeing the senators and the congresspeople give their speeches. And like, you know, they went in order of of seniority, like rank. So like Durbin was first, then Quigley, and then Delia.
01:25:45
Speaker
and like they were like reverse order of energy, you know, like Durbin has been a really good supporter of Ukraine for a long time. And then Tammy Duckworth, our other Senator from Illinois goes in on him with the bills.
01:25:58
Speaker
So like both of them were there, or I'm sorry, like, but you know, both of them have been big supporters, but like Durbin was good. Like his speech was pretty good, but it was like low energy. He's an old, he's an older guy. He's not like a super rabble rouser. He never was. Yeah.
01:26:12
Speaker
And then quickly comes in and quickly starts with a joke. And he's like, well, I guess I'm never wearing a suit to the white house again. um which was great for the crowd. And then, you know, he goes on and he's like a little bit more angry. He's a little bit more riled up.
01:26:24
Speaker
And then Delia comes in and she's like, you can hear how fucking pissed she is and how much bullshit this is. This disgusting, like this administration is just like throwing away America, just bending over for our allies. Like it's completely and unacceptable. Like she had the fire that I'm looking for. ah And it was like, that was the thing I noticed. Like the youngest people had the most,
01:26:47
Speaker
had the most energy um but it was really cool it really humanized them to see them there and it was cool to see like the indivisible group um and it was really nice like it was nice to have like a really huge turnout we had a huge turnout like and actually a while ago i wrote um i wrote a thing that we disseminated i think i didn't put it i had more ideas than i actually wrote but i we disseminated what i what i actually wrote down it was like a protest pamphlet and so it was like going to so many protests and seeing oh these are the things that work and it was stuff like you know like have a specific list of chants and give them to all of your people who are going to lead the chance have the chance be short have there only be this many of them have it be the same thing say the chant three times in a row then say the next one uh you know use a qr code so people know where to donate and where to get more information um there's like you know like use this way of like
01:27:40
Speaker
of of arranging people, have people to arrange people, have people to um to facilitate you know how we're going to march, tell people what the agenda is for the for the program, you know for the whole thing.
01:27:52
Speaker
So they did all those things. And I was so i was so like pleased. I was like, man, they really crushed it this time. And Katya was like, yeah, i gave him the protest pamphlet. was like, I had totally forgotten about it.
01:28:02
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. But it was like, you know the stuff you do The stuff that you do has an impact and it matters. and I got to tell you, like it felt, I was feeling real bad. i was feeling, I saw the thing on, you know, we had our episode Thursday.
01:28:18
Speaker
I saw the stuff with Zalinski on Friday. And I just had like, was it the week before last one i talked about Indivisible, like reaching out to Indivisible and like that? Yeah, it was a week before that. It was, it was the, it was the last episode seven, think. Oh, the last episode. The last episode. We'll re-talk, we'll re-talk more about Indivisible. And actually Indivisible has ah a Tesla protest,
01:28:38
Speaker
this Saturday that I think I'm going to go to. I said on the, on the last, on the missing week, I was at the end, when we were talking about what to do. It's like indivisible people forgotten about indivisible. It was so huge. It was so, you know, impactful in 2016, you know?
01:28:52
Speaker
So, so I called all of them also. I called the white house. The white house only accepts calls Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. To 2 p.m. Cause they're on fucking Trump's golf hours. Apparently like the voicemail doesn't even take voicemails except like,
01:29:08
Speaker
you know, this tiny sliver of time on a few days. And then I called Durbin. Durbin's like, ah, call back during the, during work hours and like a staffer will answer. They don't let you leave a voicemail. Same thing with Tammy Duckworth. Doesn't let you leave a voicemail.
01:29:21
Speaker
Then I called Mike Quigley and Mike Quigley's office lets you leave a voicemail. And I'm like, all right, bro, I'm going to call you guys every day. And actually I failed. I still need to get back to it and can actually call them every day. I've just been, keep being busy with work and forgetting to do it until it's like too late in the day. But you got to call, you got to call like,
01:29:39
Speaker
I don't know, like nine to five, but like Eastern time, because like some of them um are going off of like the Washington, like the D.C. office time. I think Duckworth goes off of the other one. but anyways, so did you call yours? Did you how did it go with you?
01:29:55
Speaker
I did not. I have not had. I have not. And yeah, I'm a bad person. OK, you're not a bad person. You're just busy. But can you commit that you'll call one this week?
01:30:06
Speaker
Yes. Okay, I want to hear about next week. okay Okay, so we're going to save we're going to save fun ways to die for next week, which will give you some time to contribute some ideas, because you didn't pitch in any.
01:30:18
Speaker
I have one fun way to die, but if the Secret Service hears it, I'll be in trouble.
01:30:26
Speaker
No, these are ways that we'll all die. like the one ah The one I didn't put on the list that I'll give you for free right now is that you know that ah the meteor that has a 3% chance of hitting the earth will hit the earth and will although that one it's not big enough to to be a planet killer it would just like you know wreck a town
01:30:50
Speaker
or cause a tsunami or something it wouldn't it wouldn't ah yeah it wouldn't it wouldn't wipe out the planet but it would it would ruin a small town um okay yeah we didn't get to everything but it seems less and less doable we We got into a lot. You can't do it you can't do everything on a weekly thing.
01:31:10
Speaker
You have a small shot of getting to everything if you did it daily. ah We don't have time for that. We got other jobs. Not yet. Maybe if the maybe we get to the Joe Rogan level, we can go more.
01:31:24
Speaker
Joe Rogan. Maybe if we get to the Mr. Beast level.
Zelensky's Minerals Deal with the US
01:31:27
Speaker
Maybe if we get to the Bulwark level. Bulwark. I like them guys. I like those guys. And the Republicans.
01:31:34
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, give me your give me your clothing closing thoughts and then give me your what could go right. What could go right? JB Pritzker could be the next president.
01:31:47
Speaker
That'd be ah you all right. That'd cool. but be good That'd be right. Let's see what else could go right. It looks like Zelensky is willing to sign this deal anyway.
01:31:58
Speaker
He left early and he wouldn't do it because they were being such pricks. You know what mean? But it looks like Zelensky, it's not good But what could go right, you know, signs a deal. Yeah, it sucks.
01:32:11
Speaker
It's $500 billion. dollars But, you know, if they survive as a country, $500 billion in minerals, they'll still have a big country. You know, you can still get through it. And they'll have their defense industry and everything else.
01:32:23
Speaker
Maybe you never know, man. You never know. i think he's a puppet. I think Putin's hand is up his ass. ah Trump's ass. But you never know. possible
Speculations on Ukraine's Future
01:32:35
Speaker
They sign the deal And it looks like some big win for Trump He can look like a tough guy And they unpause the military aid That's already been appropriate by Congress Because they're going to have to give it out anyway Or defy the courts again and they can just defy the courts Yeah, but mean Maybe that could go right okay Maybe they sign that They keep getting their weapons
01:33:02
Speaker
That's what could go right that's not much my what could go right is uh europe could sign a security ah could sign a a deal with ukraine um that negotiates ceasefire with security guarantees by europe and cuts out the united states out of any mineral deal and out of any security deal and out of the deal completely well Zelensky already said he's going to sign this deal.
01:33:32
Speaker
He didn't sign it. so He didn't say he'd sign it. He said he's ready to work with the leadership of the president. But here's the thing. I don't think that Zelensky is willing to sign any deal that doesn't come with security guarantees, and I don't think that he should.
01:33:46
Speaker
No, he actually did say he's going to sign it. um Yeah, he said he will sign it. um Where is it at? Here, he said he would sign it.
01:33:58
Speaker
Zelensky to sign mineral dealer. Yeah. After he says, after they left the White House, he said he is ready to sign the stalled minerals deal the United States.
01:34:13
Speaker
Yeah. So he said he's ready to sign it. so is He said he's grateful to Trump and Congress for bipartisan support for Ukraine throughout the three year invasion, acknowledging tough dialogue in his Friday meeting with Trump in advance.
01:34:25
Speaker
He said he's ready to sign the minerals deal. which they did not sign after their meeting Friday, but he said the deal is not enough. Saving a ceasefire without security guarantee is dangerous for Ukraine. But he said, I want the U S to stand more firmly on our side.
01:34:39
Speaker
You know, it sounds like he's going to sign it with, that's what I'm saying. Like he's willing to sign it. If there are security guarantees, he's not willing to sign it without it. ah He is willing to sign It,
01:34:51
Speaker
since the meeting, it sounds like he is willing to sign it and he's being encouraged by like Starmer and everybody else in Europe to say, dude, just sign it, sign it, try to get him on your side, you know, try to get him, you know, sounds like he's going to sign it.
01:35:03
Speaker
and Always pull up Putin and like not honor the deal later. That's true. Actually, that would be the best thing from the two. ah You know, maybe like the next, you know, maybe like Trump just like eats so much shit, like a Democrat wins the next election and like, you know, we still have elections and then,
01:35:19
Speaker
the Democrat can just undo Trump's deal. be Like, yeah, Ukraine can keep their, their fucking minerals. Cause we're not monsters. We'll just invest in the company and we'll, you know, we'll take some, but we're not going to take all their steel, all their fucking minerals. It's like, imagine if we told Europe like, Oh yeah, we'll help you in world war two, but you have to give us all your shit.
01:35:38
Speaker
Like half the wealth of all your nations forever. Yeah. That was the original deal. Give us half of everything forever. Any other third party countries that come in or you other the thing, they have we they have to give us half of everything.
01:35:50
Speaker
like It is the most shit deal.
01:35:55
Speaker
God. That's how they rebuild. It's that money. They're going need all of it. yeah Anyway.
01:36:06
Speaker
Hopefully something good happens this week. Oh, there was one good thing. Hey, I can do this. no what Trump did one thing since he's been president that I actually liked.
01:36:18
Speaker
Oh, there was something I agreed with. i can't remember what it is, though. What's yours? What's yours? they They got rid of their their long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes.
01:36:30
Speaker
I can keep smoking my menthol cigarettes.
01:36:34
Speaker
When were they banned? No, Biden had it. and they they were pushing and They were going to ban menthol cigarettes, and then they delayed it again, you know, because the election was coming up.
01:36:45
Speaker
And so they delayed it by a year or two. don't pause because he wouldn't look at in the election you're so you're so stockholm syndrome man like he was trying to force a few more years of healthy life on you yeah i would have just smoked something else but you know i prefer my menthol cigarettes it's not stockholm syndrome man it's i mean you know it's like drugs some alcohol man none of them are good for you people like doing them there's a reason this is how dopamine works but okay yeah
01:37:17
Speaker
yeah All right. All right. Good night and good luck, everybody. Good night and good luck. For another week, we still have a country. Hopefully.