The worm came out of his nose. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Wednesday, January 24 2018. This is your award winning give our
nation media assassination episode one double O two. This
is no agenda.
With my special box of iPhone tools in hand broadcasting live
from Amsterdam, Netherlands. I'm living in a mall everybody in
the morning. I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, we're in my hands. I'm
holding a bag of sword gum. I'm John C. Dvorak. Buzzkill. Well,
we
are quite the pair. I've got iPhone tools and you've got
sorghum.
Yes, I have a somebody sent me this never said who it was. But
it's a bag a sealed bag from gerbs GRBs. ancient grains. Oh,
Georgia. Yes, they are ancient grains. Non GMO vegan.
So I'm, I'm at the airport. John.
You're at the airport hotel.
Yes, I'm at the Schiphol Airport which has been very interesting.
It's like living in the mall.
Yeah, I said airport hotels are kind of late. But
the Schiphol Airport is a huge shopping plaza on the non air
side. And people actually come here to go to dinner, to do
shopping to get groceries because it's right on the
highway. So you don't have to, you know, you don't have to go
into the secure area of the airport. It's huge. It's really
big. And people just come out. Yeah,
it's a very I've been there a couple of times and it is very
large and has lots of stores and places to eat. It's a it's
almost like a destination.
Yeah, it's a destination for people. So it was so I left
yesterday morning at quarter to 11 from Austin through Atlanta.
This is a really crappy flight because you get in at six or 6am
But wait as the as the captain came on. As we're flying.
Ladies, gentlemen, this is your decision. Speaking here from KLM
good news. Yay. When you want to sleep you don't want the plane
to be an hour early on upon arrival because of the tail
winds
and slackers do they wake you with that announced yet which is
about an hour before the start the land? Yeah,
so I slept about an hour on the plane got in like oh crap. So I
got my SIM card to figure to get that and then just hit the hay
for a couple hours. I've been prepping since noon. And it's
now what is it now? 10 after 7pm As you know, it's like It's
great here because you Well, first of all, it's a total
MacGyver show. This is the first time with the mobile Windows rig
and it's been performing reasonably well we've had a
small couple of small issues on the technical side. The internet
here although it has 30 megabits up and down is of such
incredible crap quality. We had to had to use my my Dong already
gigs just 30 gigs. 30 Meg's No Yeah, no 30 Meg's but 30 Bad
makes Yeah. 30 Meg's 30 crap Meg's Hey man, you're cutting
your stuff up. So I got a SIM card and I got to 5g goes have
upgrade we went through that whole process before we started
the show. I had to enter 14 numbers five times to get that
but the big problem was I have a you know so I have this this USB
interface that kind of runs the show that all the everything
runs through. And what comes out of that isn't is the headphone
amplifier is just a little No, it's too weak for me for my ears
as we know mine are blown out and I have a little headphone
amplifier and that's the one thing I guess I misread it I
looked at the at the power supply 110 volts only. No, yeah,
what makes that any more China.
So go ahead I defy you to find in the entire airport of people
all of their great shops. You want charges we got charges for
everything. But you want one of those things. What century you
from sun. The Impossible used to be able to get like a little
adapter. You could switch the voltage it had different plugs
on it. You know what I'm talking about? reverter Yeah, well, it's
not even a inverter, you know? No, not even that. Just a
replacement. Power supply.
Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, no,
they don't know what that's
because it's assumed now I had I don't know if I can even find
anything that's 110 only.
Yeah, it's assumed that everything is 110 to 20, which
is kind of what I switches. So I'm like, Okay, this is going to
be a problem because I really need to hear the sound and if
it's, if the volume is just too low for my ears, is going to be
irritating. So I wound up buying for nine volt but it's a 12 volt
power supply. So I figured let me test it got four nine volts.
And I just cut the cut the wire got some scotch tape. And so the
amp is running on
jerry rigged your own power supply with nine volt batteries.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm a guy who did good. So that's working. And then as the
internet was no good, I needed to activate the SIM cards, but
you have to do that on a phone and not in the dongle that I
have this Wi Fi dongle. And of course, try and get your SIM
card out of your iPhone. You need the special iPhone tool,
which is a paperclip, which I don't have. So I went downstairs
front desk, and I said, Hey, before I could even finish my
sentence like oh, here and there's a box that says iPhone
tools written on it and magic mark. box full of paper clips.
So yes, there it is. So we're all set. We should be okay.
Yeah, I guess.
Thanks. And this is the this is the part where you go Gee, Adam,
I'm so happy you did that for the show.
I'm happy. Yeah, that you did that for the show. Adam. Yeah.
Very good, John. So do you have a report from anything that's
going on over there getting a sense of the goods? I do, Mr.
Good.
I do. I have a couple of things going on. First of all, Davos is
in full effect. So the news is all Switzerland. It's all Davos.
This is the world's most this is the World Economic Forum. And
there's a number of interesting things going on. The number one
thing is whenever you see a report of someone talking about
climate change, and they're in the middle of a blizzard in
Davos, it's just that's just a funny to watch.
I every single time I just have to lie, the irony is fantastic.
One before I play a couple of these EU, Euro land clips coming
in here, and you know, people are texting me and it's kind of
interesting to see how the, the fist emoji you know, the one the
where someone's like punching you punching out the fist, the
fist punch
fist coming at you that's just going up.
The one guy is going up. Now the one coming at you.
Okay, this is
this is this is used to an extreme here in the Netherlands.
Why? It's instead of where we were like, okay, or thumbs up
here, they'll do fist in your face. That's just one of those
little cultural things that I noticed that a boom, yeah, yeah,
kinda like a boom.
So, anyway,
very surprising to hear about the people showing up at Davos
this year. And Italy is kind of front and center. There's a lot
of issues. They have the election coming up in March, and
the Prime Minister spoke, we hope
that this will not be the case. And that the central left that I
represent will have a majority. In any case, I think we will be
the pillar of a possible coalition in our country, we
have certain expertise in flexibility in politics in my
country. So I think that what is clear is one that the populist
anti EU position will not prevail. And second, that Italy
will keep its stability. You know, we had frequent change
went in governments in my country. But if you look to
fundamentals of our foreign policy, our economy, we are a
very, very stable country.
I thought that was just funny. Yeah, we're a stable country.
Please don't look at our bank account. But we're a stable
country. Everything's good. The anti EU people will never win.
Okay. Yeah. And here's the guy who's on the scene now who is
hopefully going to save Italy from the far right crazies,
ex Premier. Unfortunately, Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi
is in Brussels with one eye on a political comeback and Italy's
March general election, despite currently banned from holding
office, it's his party which might just win so he was there
to get the lowdown on how Brexit was going. Yes, euro to to incur
far too, okay. I've been reassured of the fact that the
Europeans and the 600,000 Italians who are in England will
enjoy the same rights they have now, even when the UK will be
out of the EU. And this is very important. migration was the
other issue given the approach of the sorry.
Before you go on, I just want to ask you a question about this.
This guy supposed to be in jail every day. like child rape, all
kinds of other things that happened to start cozy to add
the Boombah Boombah parties. But these guys never go to jail Of
course not there they both be in jail now it gets better.
We'll enjoy the same rights they have now, even when the UK will
be out of the EU, and this is very important. migration was
the other issue given the approach of the Metropole.
Italy's been at the forefront of the Mediterranean route to
Europe, and Berlusconi wants help with boosting controls at
the border, the number of border guards can be increased. But
there's also an idea to increase the number of guards to create
hotspots in Italy, where international border guards can
operate. Berlusconi was given a warm welcome as many in Europe
see him as the man who can save Italy from populism in March.
He's going to save Italy think populism
is some horrible thing.
I guess. There's no one else who can save the country but they
have to bring that guy back. As far as interesting is to open
their arms come on back in you, they'll be fine. You can hook
everybody up.
Well, this is definitely more entertaining than these other
guys.
This is true. on Brexit. Theresa May was doing a lot of
interviews, just tons. EURO NEWS is pretty interesting. Just tons
of interviews. And I didn't know this but Theresa May speaks
German and this Yes, it was a rehearsed little bit she did at
the beginning you'll hear in this clip, but it's pretty good
accent wise.
Listen da you either need to Roper
Did you hear that?
For us in the EU, so we're going to surprise the EU
SMD au
bobbin at Roper that will be no second referendum on Britain
leaving the EU that a parliament decided that we would give the
British public the choice and they made their vote they made
their decision and I think it's important that politicians then
deliver on that for them. So no
second Brexit Brexit according no vote, according to Theresa
May. We'll see. Yes. And the final clip I have that was kind
of interesting was Well, besides that, you may have seen in
Dusseldorf airport that there were two protest groups one
Turks one Kurds, have you seen any of this footage? They they
they went at each other
either Yes. Or it's actually all over you yet. I actually to read
a tweet. It's some of it is all over the YouTubes is pretty
funny.
Yeah. hitting each other with flags. And flagpoles is not
Yeah. This is Poland. Now. You remember Poland. They wanted to
change their constitution so that they can have more control
over I think was it their judges? I think they wanted to
do something in the in the court system. And France Timmermans
part of it. Yeah, France Timmermans. My buddy, they're
the big good Bilderberg elitist. He said, Well, you know, if you
guys don't play ball, then we're gonna have to punish you and
find you and this has not been resolved as of yet.
So Poland, the message from nationalist protesters in
Warsaw, they're outraged after the EU said it would take legal
action over Polish plans to give politicians more power in hiring
and firing judges. Their angers aimed at Donald Tusk, among
others former Polish Prime Minister now head of the
European Council, Poland's Justice Minister turned his
wrath on the European Commission's Dutch vice
president. We all know from history class, the Netherlands
has a long experience in colonialism. Bad habits must be
stamped out. And I'd like to ask Mr. Timmermans to stop speaking
with such insolence or against amounts polish and polish the
Polish authorities because we deserve respect your company
expect and demand respect. The Commission gave one month for
Poland to allay concerns France Timmermans and others in
Brussels say the reforms undermine judicial independence.
After protests in Poland by those who see the reforms as a
power grab. The country's president vetoed the most
controversial part governing Supreme Court nominations.
Nonetheless, the government seems determined to
press ahead.
So that is the the update on the rift with Poland who still do
not have any visa waivers from the United States. Thanks
President Trump.
And Obama
Well, yeah, thanks Obama too. But Trump promised within two
weeks of being elected he do it and remember that Yeah, I do. I
do by I think it's shitty that he's done that. He's a liar.
He is.
And then I have one more. One more EU clip here. As the
crackdown is taking place on Bitcoin, it is over here.
Want Europe to embrace the opportunities the EU Commission
vice
president, what's his name? Valdis Dombrowski on a taste
of blockchain and this is technology underlining
cryptocurrencies blockchain. But to do so we must be vigilant and
prevent cryptocurrencies from becoming a token for unlawful
behavior. In December, I wrote to the European supervisory
authorities to ask them to update their warnings from the
financial stability and investor protection perspective. So, this
will happen shortly as the updated rules against money
laundering, which we agreed in December will put cryptocurrency
exchanges and custodial wallet, providers within the scope of
money laundering, supervision. That means less anonymity and
more traceability through better customer in suffocation and
strong due diligence.
Yeah, this is going to be great. The exchanges will all have to
comply with EU regulations for you to get your money out.
Great. Yeah, well, you
won't be able to get your money out. That's part of it.
No, I'm just saying on the Bitcoin topic I, from what I
understand I'm sure a lot of people will correct me on this.
Apparently the guy is just some guy in an apartment who was
running the crypto CAP website website that shows you the the
market cap of each cryptocurrency. Key pulled when
Korea when I think was was South Korea said, Well, we're we're
not gonna allow this anymore. We're cutting down we're going
to close the exchanges. He pulled the numbers from the
Korean exchanges out of his index. And that's when enough of
course the numbers start to tank because, you know, there was
just the whole piece of data was omitted all of a sudden, and
then it just didn't it just became a domino effect rather.
This thing is, I can't believe anyone put a dime in this. This
is so corrupt.
Well, we did get some Davos news here that played big in the Bay
Area. All right. Apparently, Marc Benioff was over there.
blabbing away about one thing or another. And I don't know what
the grudges or anything but he's, you got to play this
Benioff story. By the way, this story is the worst story because
it links about 10 different stories in a very haphazard
manner.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff comparing Facebook to
cigarettes. Good evening, I'm
Veronica Dela Cruz.
Mark video we have made his billions in tech but he says it
is time for the feds to start regulating Silicon Valley. Yes.
Hi Susie STEIMLE on how Benioff is comparing social media to big
tobacco, Suzy Welch Allen
and Veronica, not just big tobacco, but also sugar.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says tech is addictive, bad for you
and needs regulation. He says CEOs aren't doing enough and
that politicians need to step in. It's stunning many in
Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Salesforce CEO Marc
Benioff today said tech should be regulated like tobacco.
Well, I think you'd do it exactly the same way that you
regulated the cigarette industry. You know, here, here's
a product to cigarettes, if they're addictive, you know,
they're not good for you. Maybe there's all kinds of different
forces trying to get you to do certain things. There's a lot of
parallels.
Benioff made this comparison at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland today on CNBC. This comes on the heels of
investors attacking Apple earlier this month, saying Apple
is responsible for teenagers being addicted to smartphones
and harming their mental health. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
says he doesn't support any regulation.
But I think it's a very dangerous game when politicians
start determining the veracity of truth. You got a president
that's about to announce fake news awards. I don't want to
walk down that same path,
our exclusive KPI X survey.
First of all, that's a whipsaw.
Oh yeah, that's a total whipsaw. Let's let's listen to it.
It had nothing to do with the topic. This gentleman is a new
it's an it's also an old whipsaw. It's an old clip
because he's talking about the fake news Award, which was a
week ago.
Yeah. But this woman is a new beat that just got on there and
she's trying to put this she's like the tech reporter. And
she's got kind of a voice like this. Yes. And she noticed
throwing this information together in a haphazard manner.
Newsom says he doesn't support any regulation.
But I think it's a very dangerous game when politicians
start determining the veracity of truth. You got a president
that's about to announce fake News awards. I don't want to
walk down that same path.
Our exclusive KPI X survey USA poll showed recently 49% of
registered voters in San Francisco say tech companies
have too much influence over local government. 54% say tech
companies have been mostly good for San Francisco 30% say
they've been mostly bad. While Benioff calls CEOs complacent.
Newsom says the companies should self regulate and not get
government involved.
Obviously, it's incumbent upon these platforms to figure that
out internally in terms of their algorithms in terms of the
technology itself.
The Washington Post just reported Google for the first
time outspend any other company in 2017. To influence
Washington, DC, Google allocated more than $80 million to lobby
Congress and the White House, Facebook, Amazon and Apple also
all broke company records in lobbying, lobbying expenditures
this year.
You know, we've been hearing this type of noise for several
weeks now that probably longer than that. And I've been I think
we've both been saying the media certainly wants to regulate
Facebook.
So somebody does. But let's go over this particular report. It
started out with Benioff in Davos, and this was actually him
bitching about Facebook. She kind of made it general. He's
bitching about tech. No, no, he's pitching about he was
pitching about social media. Yeah, specifically, and
everybody else who reported on this story said that, but she
didn't. She didn't she didn't switches it to Apple somehow.
But Apple smartphones and how people are jumping all over that
which is a different story and completely different addiction.
Yes. And it's a different addiction and a different story.
It's not the same stories, what benioff's talks are just as
addictive as cocaine. That's our own whipsaw.
And then she goes, and she changes the topic to influence
peddling. By starting off about what San Francisco's San
Franciscans think of the tech industry in the city with a
bunch of different surveys, which is a different story at
third story. Yeah. And then she switches again, to how much
money that tech companies are spending on lobbying, a fourth
distinct a story. And she jumbles them all together with
phony clips, especially the Newsom stuff, which had nothing
to do both Newsom Newsom clips had nothing to do with any of
those four stories. They were about two other stories. So she
has six stories, all different packed into one report. They got
to deal with this over there, KPI X.
NPR did a story on this as well. And although there's there's
multiple, there's the addictive nature of social media, the
addictive nature of the phones and likes and all this stuff.
And then there's the fake news, which I think is what Benioff
was. Well, that's how the story started out. You're right. It
was four different stories.
But none they have never told you about fake news. Right? She
did. She did.
But this, this whole fake news thing, the M five M is picking
that up. And they are going after Facebook and Twitter and
Google all under the guise of PA, the Russians, the Russians.
Oh, it's crazy. But it's not about that, as you'll hear in
this report. Well, none
of the tech giant's claims to be ready, okay. They each have a
version of we're getting there, but only for ads explicitly
about candidates like Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, not
ads about issues like DACA, or global warming. Facebook says
it's creating a new documentation process where
advertisers may be required to verify who they are and where
they are.
And then I suppose there's the process of verifying that
they're telling the truth, which is
getting it exactly.
Facebook. Last week said it's going to start picking and
choosing what news to show us was we're gonna see this is
related to the quest to show us less fake news.
No CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he posts Facebook page that the company
is going to start showing more news from sources that are high
quality in his words, and push down stuff that purports to be
news, but maybe lower quality.
This is the same. Can you explain to me John is a longtime
newsman. How does one discern between the regular good and
lower quality news?
I would say that good would be one of the I'd say the local
daily, Metro daily would be a good source. And a bad source
would be the local high school newspaper, that would be a
mediocre lesser source.
Okay, but all right. And your CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, he posted on his Facebook page that the
company is going to start showing more news from sources
that are high quality in his words, and push down stuff that
purports to be news, but maybe lower quality. This is the
single biggest announcement that companies made directly in
response to the fake news controversy. And you know, it is
important to point out that many experts say that this is how a
powerful tech giant censor speech on the internet. Now
granted, Facebook is not zapping away articles. They are what
they're doing in an attention economy, right? It's about a
competition for people's eyeballs here is that the
company censors by pushing things so far down a bottomless
feed that eyeballs never get to see it,
which of course prompts the question of how Facebook is
going to decide what counts is high quality news and what's low
quality news.
They're going to let the crowd decide they're asking Facebook
users to vote on it.
What's been the reaction? Oh, dig mainstream news media?
Well, veteran news leaders are to put it mildly horrified that
Facebook would take an important decision like that and throw it
to popular vote. There's another kind of criticism among
conservatives who are concerned that liberal Facebook will push
down right wing content. And meanwhile, Facebook has decided
they're not offering interviews to talk about the rationale for
their move.
This, of course, is not at all about fake news. This is only
about the advertisers, the advertisers have revolted. And
they've said we don't want our ads next to bullcrap. And you
have to make sure that doesn't happen. And people are posting I
did people you can check it out yourself on your secret Facebook
page. I know you have one. I don't
have one. You put me in a lie detector.
Well, I'll do why don't you just grab your meter right now.
I do want to talk about later this is
people have been you know, have seen posts removed. And you get
a little nice little notice saying Now this was fake news.
This is not good. It's been removed and you have a strike.
So if you strike Yeah, I got a strike the other day from trying
to get a ball skiing and balls and strikes. I got a strike from
YouTube. What? Well, a year ago, maybe longer than a year ago.
Christina was doing some documentary. And she said Daddy,
do you have any? Do you have any old videos of me when I was a
baby so yeah, I got some so I went down to the storage room. I
got out the VHS I got a VHS player from Goodwill. I hooked
it all up got a legato thing to digitize it and it was of her of
a baby and there was this one sequence where she then she's
she's just barely walking so she's now two years old. And her
mom is running behind her she's naked from behind and mom is
running behind her with little potty to make her sit on the
potty and it was it was a cute little sequence no removed
because that is against our guidelines against our community
standards. Like wow, okay, and I gotta strike a permanent strike
to stretch and you get three because it's
like around in California or I think Comcast I don't know who
it is. But you get you get seven strikes before you banned
now it's three strikes and you're out on the road what
happens then you get the they turn off your account
permanently and you may never participate in anything ever
again. You're shy. You're vain. You're shunned
Palace it's harsh. A little bit especially just a kid walking
around but oh no, that's probably child porn. You got one
girl
porn no explanation no child porn is seems to me.
But anyway, this is about the advertisers has nothing to do
with fake news and they can't the reason why they're
crowdsourcing it Yes, hello Digg, but how about Reddit?
Reddit does the same upvote downvote
upload daily? Yeah. If you can't vote the truth.
There's your quote of the day. You can't you cannot vote the
truth. I agree. But they're going to do
it let's do since you're on that topic, but said let's just play
this so we get to keep stay on this topic for a second because
there are some comments Schiff versus the Russian bots.
Yes,
thank you, Susie. Tom. Democrats are also calling out social
media companies. Congressman Adam Schiff, and Senator Dianne
Feinstein are demanding Facebook and Twitter. Investigate Russian
bots for encouraging the release the memo campaign online. The
memo was written by the House Intelligence Committee about
alleged misconduct in the Russia investigation. In a joint
statement Schiff and Feinstein wrote if these reports are
accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian
government through Kremlin linked social media actors
directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic
process. They have requested a report my Friday Facebook and
Twitter have not responded
Did you see that? No. Did you read that that pathetic memo
they sent I've only seen pieces of it. Oh, it was like please we
we we you have to do this as you know it's your patriotic duty.
Because you know this is horrible what's going on? The
Russians are taken over this hashtag and you have to work on
it. Please, Mr. Issa. koeberg It's really pathetic.
No, I did not see that at all. I thought you're talking about
something else. I will say this that everybody that I was
looking at on Twitter. I haven't seen any bots. It's mostly
people. Denise D'Souza, half a dozen congressmen are these all
bots? Yes. They're all demanding that they release the memo.
Yeah. And I have not seen any bots demanding it. Where are
these? You know, I think what we're witnessing is a battle
between, you know, kind of a battle between two, two while
besides the Republicans and the Democrats is really these are
both Democrats that are saying making these claims there's no
Republican saying this. That is a bunch of Russian bots. And
Feinstein is lost and she's she's become pretty much like,
she just looks like she's gone.
Well, she's in her 80s Now, isn't she she's
Schiff is just an evil prick. You know, there's nothing much
you can say about him. Right? So not a big fan.
Yeah, no, I don't I don't think I have it on hand. I'll see if I
can find it real quick. Someone sent it to me. I was laughing
like cheese.
Well, that's why they didn't respond. I'm sure. They said
what is this? We're not gonna we don't have to respond. They have
lawyers, you know, get her high end, guys to get paid lots of
money to do very little work. Yeah. So they get to sit there
and just, you know, no, you don't have to do it don't
respond. To me, it's like the lawyers for Uber.
No, don't. We're not gonna do that. We're not going to talk.
And we're not talking at all. No. No, I don't I don't have it
handy. I don't know where it is. But yes, like, it's like a five
page memo outlining these bots that are propagating the
hashtag. Release the memo. I mean, how pathetic do you have
to be if that's if that's what you're sending to Zuckerberg is
bad?
Yeah, you're right. It's about the advertisers has the whole
thing about it. Nobody cares about what news phony news or
real news that they're sending around on Facebook.
And the thing that gets me is the perception is being created,
that there's nowhere else that you can be social. There's
nowhere else that you can communicate with your friends.
There's no other place on the internet that that can be done
or could you couldn't even build it. There's no way you're not
Mark Zuckerberg. Whereas of course, there's tons of places
that you can do that. And these plate though, they'll never be a
Facebook, because you can't just can't it doesn't work that way.
The I've always said you can't monetize the network and
Facebook, look, they're not going away tomorrow, but they
have a real problem. They have a super problem. And they're
actually they're cutting themselves in you know, they're
shooting themselves in the foot. You're removing popular
articles. Popular articles is clicks, clicks equals eyeballs,
nice. Addiction and addiction for advertisers. And so they
they now have to go against that very thing that has made them so
wildly popular Google same. And boy now I'll tell you, I'm just
going to keep harping on the C or x.me I really love not using
Google and Yahoo and Bing and all those search engines I
really I'm really enjoying what the results I'm getting. It's
it's really phenomenal. I know you've probably had the same
experience
I would say except for images. Which are just piss poor on that
thing. I agree. It's very good. It gets you a lot it gets you a
kind of alt dash results and particularly
if you're looking for something like from a year ago, and
it's very good about older stuff, but again one of the
things I used to always check these things I don't do it so
much anymore, because there's not that many searches they'll
get gobbled up by the other search engines but when there
was a lot of search engines, I would always do a vanity search
because I know what I want to see if I look myself up right I
want to see my profile on PC Magazine or maybe I linked to PC
magazine I want to see you today I want to see the no agenda show
Hi, Top Five were on my blog. I want to see my wiki page I want
to see maybe a few articles I know exactly what I'm looking
for on my own vanity search that should show up right with search
x m e whatever it is. It shows up beautifully Yeah
it does.
I talked and you can tweak it you can tweak stuff and taste it
anyway my point is the Internet is a pretty big system and this
idea that we it's it's nothing it's useless without Facebook is
is pathetic
it's pathetic was peculiar take for somebody like myself who
doesn't use Facebook in any way no matter what you might think
because I know you're a gas you and everybody else who are big
Facebook addicts or a gas okay, I'm going to stop and not stop
right there. No stop. right there. The only reason I still
have a face bag account is for this show. I'm not an addict to
stop there. Second, you posted a link on Twitter to something on
Facebook. So either you you're tweeting stuff you're not
looking at or you or you
posted no link to something on one. There's a lot of notes that
a link it was a retweet.
So did you read it? You just retweeted something you didn't
read? Ha.
That's actually true. Okay, well, then that's fine.
I'll accept that.
I do that a lot. I retweet. Oh, this is interesting. And I will
just retweet I'm, I'm a Okay. I will admit it. I am an
irresponsible Twitter user. I constantly do that you
are a boss. That is the definition of a bot. You just
retweeted something without even looking at it. You're a bot.
It seemed interesting. Maybe my followers would be interested?
Do I do that? Cause Yes, yeah,
busted. Or?
I go back and sometimes pull the pull the retweet, which is that
you just click Yuri, click on the retweet?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course it goes away.
I don't do nothing. So there is there are there goes a pipeline
on where on rails going by the most dangerous thing you can
imagine on interstate commerce.
So that there is some Russia collusion update stuff to talk
about? And I think I have a I have a little background or
here. Let me see. Yeah, yeah, I have a background or home. Oh,
let me just get it here. Which one was it? I'm really missing
my screen real estate today. Can't can't seem to see
everything.
Can you imagine people who do all their work on a phone or an
iPad, and this is a 16 inch screen?
It's just that's too small. For this job.
I had a background or oh, here we go. No, that's not it. Now,
why can't I find it now? Emmett? Well, I will skip the background
her and I will go straight to the secret secret society, which
you've probably heard about by now
does make you wonder again, it's a strange coincidence. Just as
you know, it's possible that these text messages that are
missing perhaps they really were lost. Perhaps it is another
strange.
This, by the way, is a representative Ratcliffe. And
he's, he's there with Gowdy. Coincidence,
the problem Martha is for former prosecutors, like Chairman Gowdy
and myself that worked at the department and worked with the
FBI, it makes it harder and harder for us to explain away
one really strange coincidence after another. Look, the point,
I think, with respect to the issue of bias that Chairman
Gowdy mentioned before we knew that struck and Paige had an
intense anti Trump bias. And that's okay, so long as they
check it at the door and do their job. But we learned today
and in the 1000s of text messages that we reviewed, that
perhaps they may not have done that there's certainly a factual
basis to question whether or not they acted on that bias. We your
we know about this insurance policy that was referenced in
trying to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. We
learned today about information that after in the immediate
aftermath of his election, that there may have been a secret
society of folks within the Department of Justice, and the
FBI to include patient struck that would be working against
him. I'm not saying that actually happened. But when
folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain
the context with which they use those terms.
I really liked this new twist in the story that there was like
this to your current society. This is fantastic. Yeah, I'm
not I'm not buying into that so much. But I will I do want to
make some comments on it. Because I have worked for the
government long enough to know that people that are supposed to
be doing their job a certain way we'll get we'll pick up a
grudge. In fact, we're watching this in National Basketball
Association play with the referees, and again, the
grudges, they're starting to pick up against certain players
really a problem. And but you'll see it you see some guy does he
go in and we go into a company and there's a CEO that somebody
doesn't like, and they take the assignment and they really go
after I'm on purpose, to screw with them. And they do it and
you see it constantly. And it's not as though it wouldn't be a
surprise to me if these two guys are doing everything they could
do submarine Trump's campaign while in the FBI a show if it
wasn't happening. In fact, if it wasn't happening, I've
done I agree. I agree. But the minute you bring in secret
societies Shoot, what is that you didn't Kennedy? Till Kennedy
say something about that and one of his speeches,
he talked about secrecy. Let me
let me see. Let me see. Let me see if I can find here. Let's
see if this is it. We decided
long ago yes, that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted
concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which
are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in
opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its
arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in
ensuring the survival of our nation. I think this is the
speech five traditions do not survive with it. And there is
very grave danger that an announced need for increased
security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its
meaning to the very limits of official censorship and
concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent
that it's in my control. And no official of my administration,
whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military should
interpret my words here tonight, as an excuse to censor the news,
to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold
from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and
ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for
expanding its sphere of influence. Was that about Russia
infiltration, instead of invasion? On subversion of the
communist commies? Yeah, on intimidation, instead of free
choice, maybe it's here by night, instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted vast human and
material resources into the building of a tightly knit,
highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic,
intelligence, economic, scientific, and political
operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its
mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissent is a
silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned. No
rumor is printed. No secret is revealed. No president should
face up public scrutiny of his program.
Clow. It wasn't really about secret societies, but kind of
interesting in in light of what's going on today.
Yeah, now that's been switched over to Soros.
Exactly. But former US Attorney Joe Digenova. Who I don't know.
But he was a US Attorney. He's making the rounds he's showing
up everywhere. And he is talking about this secret society stuff
in a whole different way. Genova is a former US Attorney in DC
and I apologize. I got this off the TV and joins us
tonight. Joe, thanks for coming on. My pleasure. So on special
report a little over an hour ago, Ron Johnson, senator who's
headed to the Homeland Security Committee, suggested that the
secret society referenced in these texts may have been an
actual thing and it may have meant off site away from the FBI
secretly. We don't know more than that. What does this
suggest to you? It suggests, as we've said from the beginning,
that there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary
Clinton. And if she didn't win the election, to then frame
Donald Trump with a falsely created crime, everything that
we have seen from these texts, and from all the facts
developing shows that the FBI and senior DOJ officials
conspired to violate the law and to deny Donald Trump his civil
rights won't be the motive for that. The motive would be that
they didn't like Donald Trump. They didn't think he was fit to
be president. And they were going to do everything within
their power to exonerate Hillary Clinton. And if she lost to
frame Donald Trump with a false crime, because they didn't think
he should be president.
What do you make of the claim that five months of text
messages between strzok and Lisa page or some have disappeared as
Lois Lerner's emails did as Hillary Clinton emails well
as as an old United States attorney who has watched
obstruction of justice is over the years. That explanation from
the Bureau is ludicrous. Those texts were either purposely
destroyed. period they were purposely destroyed. Moreover,
they exist somewhere, I can assure you, the NSA has them.
Other companies have them Verizon has them, at&t, and if
the bureau can't figure out how to get them, they're in worse
shape than I thought they were.
How do we proceed if the country's chief law enforcement
agencies itself guilty of that
well, the Attorney General needs to appoint a special counsel and
if he doesn't want to God, that's all when you are that the
criminal division of the Justice Department and panels a grand
jury immediately and start starts putting in that grand
jury under oath. Comey struck page Baker, McCabe everybody is
and senior Justice Department officials Sally Yates, Bruce
Orr, and others, John Carlin, the head of the National
Security Division. All of these people need to be in front of a
federal grand jury. We have long since passed the time when we
need to have just Congressional investigations for this, that
make no mistake about it. A group of FBI and DOJ people were
trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime
strucken page apparently still working at the FBI headquarters
here in Washington Does that strike he was odd
strikes me as very odd. I cannot conceive of circumstances under
which agents in these conditions with the kind of text messages
that the exchange knowing what we know now, about the criminal
activity involving the compromising of National
Security Agency intercepts of 702 data involving involving
private American citizens. I can't imagine how they can still
be on the premises would they be cleared to see classified
information? I certainly cannot imagine how they would still be
clearer to see closed, they
have access to former colleagues, of course or their
their present colleagues in the building. Yes, members of the
secret society, no doubt continue to still talk to one
another.
I don't know about this guy being
well, a couple of things that brings to mind. Remember that
right after the election, there was just before the election, I
think it was the Podesta group or somebody in that group says
that this guy gets a lecture or going to hang out was
Hillary and she said, we will all hang from the same noose. It
was Hillary.
It was Hillary. And then then when talking about secret
societies, do you remember a couple campaigns ago would and
we discussed it on this show? The list of journos they had
this little secret. Oh,
yes, yes, yes. Yes. That shouldn't grow. They had their
little email server, their little listserv.
Yeah, they had their own listserv, and they were doing
this. They were working with each other and lot of them are
still working today. They were working with each other to us to
make sure that Obama got reelected and by writing,
complimented your articles doing it, just that we're working for
the Democrat Party is what they were doing Democratic Party.
Yeah, yeah, I do remember. Yeah. And I remember that. And then
also in the texts going back and forth between this guy and his
girlfriend, these two FBI, people that are still working
there. They talk, they discuss something about insurance. If
Trump got elected, we have this, this thing for insurance, and
they refer to this third party McCain, or whatever his name is.
And they were talking about insurance. And that and the girl
returns right, don't worry about there's no chance everybody
knows he's not going to get elected. But this together guys
working on insurance. So that's still Yes, it has yet to be
revealed. In other words, they somehow can get themselves off
the hook from exactly what this guy's talking about. This was
grand jury.
This was the journalist. It was a private Google Groups forum
for discussing politics and news media with 400 left leaning
journalists and reading from the book of knowledge, academics and
others. Now, this is interesting. Who created this in
February of 2007. What I recall as recline the bastion of NPR
truth, ladies and gentlemen, Ezra Klein. People go gaga for
this guy. So he's front and center.
It's really a mess.
It is it is but it's a good mess. Hey, we're living off that
mess. I'm liking that.
Well, we're kind of living off it. We weren't living it off off
it on this show. We'll get to that. He's done that you got
donations a little early.
Just a little bit unnecessary.
I do have the car. Did I find that rundown? No, no, it's
probably probably wasn't that good. But it's just I mean,
what's the status you're there in a in in America? What's
what's the next step in all of this? What's going to happen in
this FBI? Are we going to see an investigation are we going to is
just going to twaddle along what's going to happen? Well,
nobody
really knows because the reporting that we get is pretty
well, let's get an idea. I have a couple of clips that maybe
bring us closer may see where my clips are turned mayor. Okay,
but anyway, I'll play this as little entre mom play this KPS
third Mayor ISO and just listen to the way she says her words
Cisco could soon habits third mayor. Mayor mayor would have a
third and that mayor will have a cost
could soon have its third Mayor Are the car.
Jeez, okay, let's start with ABC. JK on Trump Mueller, molar
molar meeting. Thank
you. And as I mentioned, we have also learned tonight of two key
issues Robert Muller would like to ask President Trump about. So
let's get right to our chief White House correspondent
Jonathan Karl, who's with us here in New York tonight. And
John, what are you learning?
Well, we know that two of the issues that Comey What did
Mueller wants to focus on are the firing of James Comey and
the firing of Michael Flynn. But I've got to tell you, David,
there is no guarantee this interview will happen. In fact,
I think this could become a big fight. I have spoken to people
very close to the president who say that he should do everything
he should do everything possible to stop this interview from
happening that it could be a disaster. Even though he told me
back in June, he would be 100% willing to do it. Yes,
we remember that. And
so what are they trying to say that he's being advised not to
do?
Well, this is this is ABC versus CBS. ABC has this they tried to
make it appear that ABC has been doing this they they they make
it appears that Trump is lying about everything, and that's
that in this case is they make the clear that he promised he
talked to Moeller and now he says he's not going to talk to
him under any circumstances. We don't know one way or the other.
But if you listen to the same time, the same real time report
done by CBS on the same day listen to CBS snip on the Trump
investigation. Former Director
Comey and others he empowered have tainted the agency's
reputation for unbiased pursuit of justice. At the White House
meeting Ray also protested the pressure sessions was applying
to fire deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe over the tech
scandal. reporters asked the President if they threatened to
resign in protest.
No, he didn't. He did not even a little bit and they're just
gonna do a good job.
Moeller and the President's attorneys continue to negotiate
over how and when Mr. Trump will be interviewed by Robert
Mueller. The White House lawyer Ty Cobb TOLD US President Trump
is quote, very eager to be interviewed by Mueller, and that
such an encounter will likely occur in the coming weeks. Jeff,
all right, major carrot at the White House.
So one side ABC says there's no chance he's going to do it and
his sources blah, blah, blah, Trump's Trump's promised he'll
do it but he's not going to do it because ABC. He's a liar.
He's a liar. So we can listen to a couple of things here that are
kind of interesting.
What can I found my background are on the memo. The memo? Yeah,
so let me play that for you
there shortly. The government shutdown did not shut down GOP
efforts to undermine the Russia investigation may bypass the
executive branch's declassification process to
release a classified memo on the FBI as alleged surveillance
abuses and are now considering releasing some of the underlying
intelligence behind the memo committee will come to order
spearheaded by House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunez, who recused himself from the Russia probe last year
after coming under investigation for unauthorized release of
classified information. The memo alleges that the dossier on
President elect Trump was used as part of the justification for
a secret FISA court warrant right to monitor the
communications of former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter
Page. This according to sources familiar with the document,
Democrats note that the FBI used other intelligence in its
warrant application calling the memo and attempt to undermine
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Republicans are also seizing
again on text messages between two FBI officials with a new
cache of 400 pages handed over to lawmakers in one exchange and
official says it is quote unbelievable that Trump and
Clinton are facing off in the presidential race. The other
official response quote, now that pressure really starts to
finish.
I love their little cyber effects they're using in the
background you hate that I think that represents text messages
are also seizing again on text messages between two FBI
officials with a new cache of 400 pages handed over to
lawmakers in one exchange and officials says it is quote
unbelievable that Trump and Clinton are facing off in the
presidential race. The other official response quote now the
pressure really starts to finish my II and apparent reference to
the mid year exam the FBI investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server. Neither effort has
interrupted the special counsels work. Donald John Trump won new
potential focus for investigators though.
That was a whipsaw.
Totally What was that about?
That was great, but I'm going to add a little cyber effect to it
off in
the presidential race, the other official response quote, now the
pressure really starts to finish my II and apparent reference to
the Media exam the FBI investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server. Neither effort has
interrupted the special counsels work. Donald John Trump.
Potential focus for investigators though as Trump
took the oath of office at least half a dozen Russians connected
to the Kremlin were in Washington to celebrate his
inauguration as first reported by The Washington Post and
condemn Russia intelligence source to CNN. Including Russian
pharmaceutical executive Alexei repik. And his wife Polina, who
receive tickets to watch the inauguration right in front of
the US Capitol. also attended events surrounding Trump even
getting close enough to shake the President's hand. According
to the post, also in Washington, where Viktor Vekselberg a
businessman closely connected to Putin, Taya vessel nets kya, the
Russian lawyer who attended a meeting at Trump Tower in June
2016, with Donald Trump Jr. Offering damaging information on
Hillary Clinton. The Post reported and CNN has confirmed
that FBI counter intelligence officials were concerned about
the attendance of some who had also surfaced in the
investigation of potential ties between Russia and the Trump
campaign. The post did not specify which attendees raise
that concern. Isn't that
great. So they actually the whipsaw clip is where they turn
the story around into look at all these Russians who were
there.
Yeah, that was a fascinating structure. And then they bring
all this Russian is Oh, seven, Dara seven Russia to Washington
DC area. Factor. The east coast in general is crawling with
Austin. He got a lot of Russians. There are two lungs of
Russians. Yeah. Yeah, there are Russians
everywhere. So what so they go to this thing? Yeah. But okay.
You want that CNN, they made it in Washington Post the worst.
And they made
it sound like and they sat front and center. Well, don't you
remember there was nobody there. So it wasn't that hard to get a
ticket.
They were there. They were the only ones there. So back to back
to my point, which is they're trying to make
good day structure. The stories are obviously on CNN, they do
that but on ABC. They do it too. And I think this is this the
whipsaw that I have not the ISO, but to have ABC dreamers
whipsaw. And this is the great this is a great, not only a
whipsaw, but on it's on the surface this the story itself is
a lie.
But everyone will be trying. Could this White House envision
a scenario in which these dreamers are deported? Would
that be something the President is okay with that this
point, the President is willing to sign something to find a
permanent solution? Is
the White House using these dreamers as a bargaining chip?
Is that the strategy?
Not at all but you can't fix the problem if you just tinker with
the immigration in a small way.
Just a few months ago, the President said the dreamers need
not worry, be worried.
We love the dreamers. We love everybody. Thank you. We love
the dreamers. We love everybody. It's a bill of love. He
says specifically play this ISO of the same thing because I want
to make it very clear what's going on here.
Just a few months ago, the President said the dreamers need
not worry, be worried.
We love the dreamers. We love everybody. Thank
you very much.
He didn't say that.
He didn't say that at all. She says a few months ago, the
President said, quote, she didn't say quote, but it would
be go like this, the President said and so expect to quote, The
Dreamers need not worry. He never said that. He says he
loves the dreamers. Just if he didn't say they need not be
worried.
The president said the dreamers need not worry. be worried.
We love the dreamers. We love everybody.
Wow. And I think it's maybe it's because it's her question. I
think it's her question, because you hear her saying should the
dreamers question right? So it's her question. And so she in her
mind, as the good journal that she is, this is what she heard
him say,
just a few months ago, the President said the dreamers need
not worry. be worried.
We love the dreamers. We love everybody. Thank you very
much. Now it's it's obviously it's a nitpicking but really,
this is ABC News. This is the news. That's been this is how
this is how it works. Number one, by the way, ABC
number one news right now, really?
An evening broadcast. Yeah, that must irk the
CIA.
And will CBS has really toned it down they have gotten two sons
up because they're not pulling the whipsaws at all. I haven't
caught him. I've been listening to him. I haven't caught any ABC
just doing a story after story. It's It's outrageous. I had a
couple of Mike one of them. I lost somewhere in the clip edge.
But this one here was outrageous. Outrageous. It was a
lie. But, but it was, it was set up in a way to make it look like
he's the liar. Yes.
Yeah. What in her mind is?
That's the sad thing. journos are people to John. They're just
people. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage
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Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. Let's see. I have a
couple. I have a just a little compilation. Little collage
collage, which I did not make. Because it
was I have a comp lodge that I did not make and I'll play it
after your collage that you did not make.
This is the M five M. who pretty much in unison agreed that
Schumer caved on the shutdown. And they kept using the word
cave. Did he cave? Did he cave? We know he caved he just no
good. He caved. Everybody was talking about it. So the
shutdown is effectively over because Democrats
caved White House was taking a victory lap after Democrats in
the Senate caved and voted to reopen the government. They got
a deal to make a deal. Maybe
Democrats on Monday after a three day shutdown, have
relented accepted nearly all White House terms.
That's when the Democratic base is clearly worried that they are
getting played. Is this a
good deal for Chuck Schumer?
Now, it's a terrible deal. It seems like everybody was losing.
It seems like Democrats maybe lost this fight.
Democrats lost the shutdown war.
Democrats wanted a deal on DACA. But all they got was a promise
they are getting their butts kicked. The
truth is the Dems got spooked. And the GOP got a boost. Their
progressive groups are very unhappy. But we know the DACA
folks lost Democrats, lots of the Democrats lost their
leverage, at least in this next window until the next shutdown,
Schumer
sell out the perception is he got rolled and the left is not
happy. I'm just not totally sure what Democrats got here. Why
didn't they shut down the government in the first place?
There is some anger on the left that the Democrats in the other
mind may have saved on this shutdown. We are
outraged that millions of people went out into the streets in
support of dreamers as Senate Democrats chose to vote against
dreamers
leader Schumer. What one thing did he get, you know, from
Republicans to justify shutting down the government in the first
place. They
agreed Democrats to fund the government through February 8 in
exchange for a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell that they would have a debate and a vote on DACA.
In other words for nothing people are
saying Democrats caved in a surrender.
A lot of your members say that leader Schumer cave, did he do
you think Senator Chuck Schumer caved good
Senate Democrats key
another Senate aide told NBC News quote we caved we lost the
Democrats don't
want to fight then let's find some people who will. Is it fair
to say that the shutdown the government shutdown backfired
for Democrats
in Washington, there are winners and losers and Democrats wanted
a DACA fix. They didn't get it. The Democrats lost.
No point did I hear anyone say the Republicans won, which I
thought was kind of interesting. But now they don't want to do
that. Although here's Schumer quickly reason
the Republican majority had such difficulty finding consensus is
they could never get a firm grip on what the president of their
party wanted to do these days. You never know who to deal with.
When it comes to the Republicans. President Trump
turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each
would have averted this shutdown. President Trump's
unwillingness to compromise caused the Trump shutdown and
brought us to this moment from shutdown will soon end. But the
worst Yeah, he go on.
Yeah. And he was fighting with this Trump shutdown meme against
the media. Associated Press in particular Trump already called
it Yeah, they blamed it on the Democrats and it called the
Schumer shutdown is what it became. Yeah. And so once he
realized he'd lost the me more Yeah, he went from me because it
It's just gonna get go bad.
Now what do you think happened? First of all, what they did I
think is despicable because what they do they just said, Oh,
we're going to we're going to keep it going until February 8
or something.
It's just another to do it again.
Yeah, we will go through this whole rigmarole. Again, it's
tiring people.
But the problem that we were also noticing is it with the
propaganda machine out there. This DACA thing is, is an issue,
but they're making it any premature issue because it
faculty, in fact, the doc doesn't. It doesn't expire until
March, right? So they can actually get a budget in place
and then working on DACA after the fact because March is a ways
off. But if you listen to ABC and you listen to this, this
looming deadline, they make it sound as though the aid is the
dot deadline government
shutdown now over after three days and costing the US taxpayer
millions. And a reminder tonight that spending they agreed on
only lasts about three weeks, then what? Tonight Democrats are
demanding action on the dreamers and what they've now pulled from
the table. Here's ABC senior White House correspondent
Cecilia Vega.
After sitting on the sidelines for much of the shutdown fight
today, President Trump jumped back in the fray. But he would
not promise that Washington will actually reach a deal to save
the dreamers by the looming deadline. He tweeted me nobody
knows for sure that the Republicans and Democrats will
be able to reach a deal on DACA by February 8. Everyone will be
trying big lies.
ABC is becoming the worst. Is there a fake news operation?
Yes. It does not expire on February 8.
No. And I had a I had a hard time via you know, I like Tucker
Carlson. I like watching him. Although he's been getting he's
been he's been very boring the past couple of months. Because
all he's he keeps asking his guests the same question. Like
why do you put immigrants before American citizens? And it's only
about votes. And yeah, the only about votes thing? I'm like,
Yeah, possibly. I don't know. I mean, our voting system is
definitely has holes in it. Oh, we could probably use some
comprehensive reform for that. But when I heard Judge
Napolitano talk about this new bill that is being introduced in
the California government, I might be a believer now
proposal is that if you get a driver's license, your own rent,
you are automatically registered to vote. Unfortunately, it is
not unconstitutional, it would be unconstitutional. If and this
is very difficult to Police Story. It's going to it's going
to aggravate you we've it's impossible. It would be
unconstitutional if it permitted you to vote in a federal
election. But it is not unconstitutional to vote in a
state or local election. So what happens when they're held at the
same time, in the same booth, where you would vote for Mayor
San Francisco and a local official, but also for President
of the United States, they are creating a monstrosity that will
be impossible to surveil impossible to enforce and will
result in rampant voter fraud. So long time I had a green card.
And I never voted because I didn't think you were allowed to
race. There is currently no state that permits that this
proposal which the candidate for Secretary of State, in my view
quite properly criticizes would be the first in the Union where
that would happen. So let me get this straight. You are an
illegal in California, right? You go to the DMV, I want a
driver's license, right? I need to get one I need to get to
work. You get one where you get that they propose that you
automatically are registered to vote. Yes. And you could indeed
vote in a local state election. Yes. Somehow they're going to
have to distinguish inside the ballot booth or have separate
ballot booths for local and state and federal the next
federal election is this year. Yes, in 2018. I don't know when
this thing is going to become law and what the lead time will
be. But if this does become law, you can bet it will be in place
by the presidential election and 2020. They're salivating over
that in California.
Well, few things.
The presidential election in 2021, and 2020 is going to
California is going to vote for the Democrat doesn't make any
difference that they give you just give those votes up no
matter where they have this in place or not. Yeah. Because this
is the way it works is that I can even let the Republicans
come out here and speak like they did with Trump. They
wouldn't let him speak he just gave up on the state, then
that's why he lost the popular vote because California
delivered 4 million more votes for Hillary right. But dreamer
dreamers are not just in California. No, no, but this
we're talking about Cal California. Yes. True. With this
couple of things. Another thing. The California just passed a
bill about the next driver's license around is going to be
real ID. Yeah. I'm not sure you can give a Real ID which is the
federal identification for Since an old story, we talked about it
from the beginning of the show a federal identity so I get on an
airplane. I'm not sure that that will be applied to aliens a
illegal immigrants, I don't think they can get a Real ID.
Now that would be interesting if they could. And then the other
thing that the last thing, which is that it's going to create
voter fraud or it's going to because everyone's now
registered to vote, just because you're registered to vote
doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean you're going to go
vote. I would assume that we already have voter fraud in
California. I don't think it's to the tune of 4 million votes.
But that's probably substantial in some areas.
But remember, we're all going to be talking about the we live in
a democracy, we no longer live in a republic, at the most votes
wins. You know, of course, it's not that way with the Electoral
College, that is not likely to change before the 2020 election.
Yeah, it will. It's not going to change we'll use used and abused
over and over again. Yeah, as the popular vote.
Yeah, no, the popular vote coming out of California will be
used as leverage to get rid of the Electoral College at some
point in the future. The The problem is, it would have to be
an amendment. Yeah. And I don't think the other smaller states
are going to vote the end 75% of the states to agree on it. They
have to do a little convention and they vote. I don't think
they'd agree to it. Because it's like, why don't we just give the
whole country over to California, whatever they say
goes? Yeah. So the Electoral College, if the, if you can't
get rid of it in any other manner, I've always believed
that it's the media that wants to get rid of it more than
anybody else. Because of the distribution of
money of money. Yeah, advertising money. Yes.
Yeah. So nobody's throwing their money at the San Francisco
Chronicle for Hillary or Trump. I agree with you, because it's
just, it's just why this already a done deal with Hillary, why
why should we spend any advertising money with the
Chronicle?
Now on on the deal, the deal that we don't really know what
the deal is, but what we understand is, Okay, we'll do
something for the DACA kids kids in return funding for the wall
ending chain migration, which is an issue with or without DACA
children. And the third one is the is the diversity lottery
lottery. What do you know about that? Because I've looked all
this up because it was bothering me because I know a number of
people who have done the diversity lottery and and have
gotten in. Yeah, and what do you think the requirements are? What
qualifications do you need? I mean, this, I'll ask you that
first. And I'll tell you my conclusion. What do you think
that you need to be in order to qualify for this? This lottery,
which is like a game
show, you have to be literate? No, to be able to fill out the
form? No.
No, in fact, the diversity lottery should be done away with
because it's, it's racist.
Yeah, there's been arguments that it's racist, you need a
high school education. Successful completion of a
formal course of Elementary and Secondary Education comparable
to completion of a 12 year course the United States. If you
are qualifying with work experience, you must have two
years of experience in the last five years in an occupation,
which by US Department of Labor definitions requires at least
two years of training or experience, as this debt is
designated as job zone four or five, I can look that up for you
classified into specific vocational preparation, you
know, some schmuck in in some African country probably is not
going to qualify. Well, and so what is the big deal with this
lottery? This this, this, in fact, this is a merit based
system. I don't understand why we do away with it. This
actually makes sense. Hey, you want to come here? You need at
least High School? Or if you're going to work, you need
qualifying work experience. What's the problem with it? I
don't think anyone's read this thing just talking crap. Sure.
Somebody's read and other people who commented on the racist
nature of it.
Just recently,
okay. But still, I mean, this is this is, to me the the lottery
is the way it should be run.
There's probably some I don't know what the counter argument
to that is.
Probably. So there's none of this. I don't think there's any
counter argument. I don't think people know the people who are
talking about this. The Talking Heads. They have no idea. They
haven't looked at
it. No, I'm sure that somebody who's looked at it has a counter
argument. I'll have to dig it up. Okay.
I was just surprised. I thought this was like a you just sign
up, fill out the form. You're good to go. No, you have to
qualify. And I think it's a lottery. I think it's a yes,
it's a lottery but the qualifications are a merit based
system.
To join the lottery, but if you're gonna Why don't you just
take people by merit and skipped a lottery? Of
course, of course, but it's being portrayed as is just a
giveaway and it even has limited arrest. And yes, while
terrorists go to school, and it has it has limitations as to how
many per country you know, certain countries are no longer
eligible, because they've already had their their fill of,
for instance, Canada, no one from Canada can come in on the
diversity lottery anymore because we've had too many of
them. Those Canadians are always taking advantage of us and you
still gotta be up. We just the list came out the top 10
countries in the world. Our foam finger is now eight fingers
we're number eight it's eight for what we're number eight on
the list of best countries in the world. We've never been in
what's your best country Switzerland was number one
country Now certainly not happy. Switzerland is number
one and number two is Scandinavia. And then Germany
really
wow that is these are bogus lists. Yeah, they are.
But they're propagated by the M five M as if true I just thought
the diversity lottery I just thought that was an eye opener
like this is this is not a true giveaway you can and it's not
for everybody
something to get should be skipped. You get dropped from
the debate. All right. I think that chain migration is an issue
Yes.
And well that's how I brought two people into legality through
marriage there's a
funny show I just never watched the show I recommended it I
couldn't stop watching it. I only watched a couple episodes
but it seemed by people in the biz It seemed as one of the
reality shows that people like it was just called short. Eight
days. Three weeks bride or something like that. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, no, no, I watched that. You told us to watch it.
Is that eight week I think it's eight week bride is that it?
Yeah. Thanks. So we
ate we made or something? Yeah. Yeah. You liked that kind of
funny, but it's you know, these all these reality shows are just
so bogus. Yes, you know, they're not reality at all. There's you
there's you got a camera in your face, and they're telling you
what to say.
Yes. Your point
is, point is bullcrap. Your point
would be. You want to hear some bullcrap. I got some bullcrap
for you. Here's Dan Rather.
Hello. I'm doing rather hoping you will join me Mondays at 530.
Eastern for the news with Dan Rather. At youtube.com/the.
Young Turks. The Young Turks. Really
cool. Dan, rather joining the ranks of Young Turks watch on
YouTube.
They must have some money over there.
As far as I know, they have well they do have money. They have
Soros money, I believe.
But that's really Yeah, he's doing. He's doing a half hour
shot. I'm
at the barrel as far as I'm concerned going to Young Turks
worse than podcasting. I think is below buck. This is the
lowest rung.
I mean, if you didn't if you thought that podcasting was the
lowest rung on the show business ladder, oh, no, ladies and
gentlemen, the Young Turks on YouTube, that would be one rung
lower. You're pretty much slipping off into the abyss
after
that for Dan to let you know, because Dan Rather was kind of
supported. The way I would put it with good income and a decent
operation. A good show on HDTV or whatever it's called the
Yeah, the Cubans thing. Mark Cuban's operations got two
televisions, networks or whatever it did. Stations are
what they amounted, but they're on the dish. They're on a cable.
Ah, I forgot the name of HDTV or something. Yeah,
I think it was it was a TV Yeah,
they vote they they've changed the name of one of them. But
they both came on early in their home HDTV era and he wanted to
promote the idea of HGTV so he started a little station net
stations slash network. And I do have an issue with the with HD
HD which is a tech TV. When I was there, they always like to
call it a network. Yeah. It's a station that happens to be on
the cable it's not a network where's the where to get network
I don't understand is the all HGTV Home and Garden Television.
They call that a network not a network is a show is ours not a
show. It's a series of shows on one station. Well, you're kind
of where where does the network moniker come in? I don't get it.
I understand. But it's you know, yeah. Just sounds good. Sounds
official. Okay,
whenever you said I was gonna follow up your
yes
Yes, Jimmy, Jimmy Fallon has a they have a lot of guys that do
all these shows have so many producers and people working for
him we have we have a lot of volunteers. And but we would
never be able to put something like this together, it would
take forever. And this is an exact then they run this and
maybe about once a week where they take a bunch of just words
in the news. Yeah. And they, and then they make it into a long
poem. And it requires both the writing of the poem and then
finding these clips putting them together. And it's, I imagine it
takes days. Just kind of go. Yeah, it was the keyword news
this week. It's something we call this week in words hope you
enjoy a doctor's visit for
a Trump himself. They've checked the President's
mental and physical health says incredibly good genes but no
self control. There's a beautiful country, which he just
call it a poll of America
is open for everyone. We shouldn't treat people based on
where they come
from certain countries
other than Norway. Polls, as our president likes to say, global
outrage on a daily basis.
Donald Trump is not a racist, vague denial from doth protest.
I
am the least racist person.
People are judged by who they are. I made
a six figure payment to silence a porn star hush money deal so
she doesn't speak. It's not even the craziest thing that's
happened
this week. Hawaii, and this concern after that incoming
ballistic missile alert,
there was a flaw in my wise emergency plan. Someone pushed
the wrong button some crazy stuff, man.
We have a great shot. Damn, that's good. The cadence and
everything that's phenomenal. That's really good.
It did that has got to be a full time job. I was just making
those things and it
brought up two topics.
Because we have something new in the Trump rotation
well before you go into the Trump rotation I do want to
mention some of that was in that clip set they had for that for
box at one of the clips where he says I'm the least racist person
person you'll ever meet. Yeah, and it was for Trump's all
different moments all saying the exact the exact the exact same
cadence exact it was just like his boom like a robot
is great Tam. I gotta I gotta see the video that
yes in rotation and I think this is about to pop. Okay. What did
we learn from the rear admiral his doctor, we learned that?
Well, we know that he takes Propecia, and we know that that
might have been an issue with his with the Sudafed, or
whatever he was given. But now now now now that's not it. I can
tell you why the President is crazy.
This is from Scientific American. Hello, headline. Oh,
yeah. It's not dementia. It's your heart medication.
Cholesterol, drugs and memory. Why cholesterol drugs might
affect memory. And this this whole rundown. It's in the
showcase crest or takes crest story. Yes, sir. Cholesterol
Lowering statin such as Lipitor, Crestor Zocor are the most
widely prescribed medications in the world. And although they're
credited with saving millions of lives, they can severely affect
your mental well being. I'm surprised surprise that isn't
everything from big pharma the isn't there always a possibility
of you dying from it or at least getting some anal leakage?
But I think that this, this will be the next, this will be up
next in the rotation. It's his it's his craft store. That's
making him crazy. I'm going to disagree with that. Okay. Why?
Because it's Big Pharma. I think
I think the Big Pharma is not going to let anybody say that.
Well, it's mostly the mainstream media that is promoting the
rotation. I understand immediate needs Big Pharma.
I understand what you're saying. But politicians, I think they
will go as far as they can. And they will take on big pharma if
they can if they if they think it can get rid of Trump.
They get tons of money from big pharma No. We'll see. This is
you you just drew out the good thing that could go in the
rotation possibly just went down into a whirlpool down black
hole. And God just just
it's all down the drain Cosmos
back down the drain. Yeah. down the drain. Well, I
wanted to bring it to your attention because you know
Scientific American. Yeah. They don't They also claim that steel
melts jet fuel when America same guys right used
to be this really good science magazine. And then it got taken
over by some editors and some it's for somebody with a
political agenda. And it's been agenda iced. Ah, and so you
can't it's not really respected as much as it used to be like in
the 70s and 80s, let's say 60s and 70s. In particular, right.
We'll see. I mean, we'll see if the story gets any legs at all,
because you're right. I don't have this from mainstream news
media there. They haven't certainly not reported conjured
it up. I didn't conjure it up.
Well, I mean, you read that there and you, you said, aha,
you had an aha moment? Yeah. Without thinking that No,
I thought about it. Because I'm always thinking about Big
Pharma. I didn't think about it, but I thought, you know, they,
we'll see, we'll see.
I made a list the other day, I should go print this list out.
And we'll talk maybe on the next show. I made this list of all
the Trump rotation stuff that from the list that we have added
some new stuff. And I've decided that this laminate, right, maybe
a little bit on this in the next newsletter or somewhere, I've
decided there's so many items on the list. And it's so long and
they can't keep track of which ones in play. That is just it's
a mess that can't add any more stuff to the list, because
they've already got too much stuff on the list. So that's
another reason
why I suspect that's why they rotate it.
They don't do a very good job I've decided
and could you tell me what they do a good job of? Lying?
Exactly. Oh, speaking of lying. Oh, man. I just got to stay on
the story because I think we still haven't seen the end of
it.
Hawaii's governor made an embarrassing confession in the
wake of the false missile alert that sparked widespread panic.
Governor David Icke says he knew that the alert was a mistake two
minutes after it was sent, but he could not tell the public
right away, because he forgot his Twitter password Womp womp
telling the Honolulu Star advertiser, quote, I have to
confess that I don't know my Twitter account log ons and the
passwords. So certainly, that's one of the changes that I've
made. I've been putting that on my phone so that we can access
the social media directly. There had been growing questions since
the false alert on January 13. When the governor was noticeably
silent for 17 minutes. This answers that question of
silence. Governor aij says he was making calls to the
emergency management teams during that time.
Lies.
So he knew within two minutes, he knew it was a fake warning.
But he couldn't communicate that through Twitter, which is how
you do it. Because he didn't have his password that no one
could do and no one could do anything. Yeah, only only he
could do it. Which just wait wait, wait, It just strengthens
it strengthens my my theory that this might have been a hack,
because I think they were locked out. And actually we got a note
from a dude named Ben anonymous dude named Ben, who said I
worked for famous IT department during Katrina. The password
requirements for many government systems are ridiculous. high
minimum character count a number of symbol minimum to uppercase
to lowercase characters and the password is very often generated
for you and unable to be changed. This of course means
nobody can remember the password. I took quite a lot of
Forgot My Password tickets out responded out responding to
other tickets I saw passwords on posted stuck to monitors very
frequently. The other one is under the keyboard or pasted to
the back of the keyboard. Next most. next most common is inside
the main desk drawer. There's no password security and famous
filled with fairly clueless boneheads had to clean a bunch
of malware off one guy's computer because he'd been
looking at porn. Even saw a DOJ employee who was staging there
for a few weeks with a password posted on the monitor. You think
those guys would really know better? Bottom line. If someone
has access to the building, they can have a field day on the
emergency management networks of just about any government
agency. Pretty sure visiting local emergency management
centers while covering Ivan for the year before that I saw that
most of their employees were anything but tech savvy and made
the FEMA crew look like savant. I'm sure the human side of their
InfoSec was and still is absolutely piss poor. Thank you
very much dude named Ben. And I will say that there was you know
who was in the facility, just hours before that alarm went
off. Because we played the clip, CNN. You remember CNN
goofball could be could be
if they were just sitting there. CNN was in the building filming
hours before this happened.
And we have a picture phony or not, but it does corroborate
what our specialists here says that passwords are just
everywhere.
They're useless. It's a bad technology. Well, I don't know
what you're gonna do about it. That's not my point. Wait
Okay, but this the story is full of holes.
Yeah, it is. Well, there's that I think that thing that kind of
overshadowed is the tsunami warning. Yeah, that was a
question about so here's play that clip tsunami question.
Were jolted awake overnight by a powerful earthquake in the Gulf
of Alaska and sirens warning of a possible tsunami. Jamie Lucas
is in Anchorage tonight. Oh my gosh, it's
an earthquake First came the shaking than a dire warning.
Dire magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck a half hour past
midnight, well off the Alaska coast to quake itself far enough
away not to cause major damage, but in the worst spot for a
potential tsunami. This area within minutes the roads in the
seaside town of Kodiak, Alaska, were filled with cars heading to
higher ground.
This is not a drill. This is an actual tsunami warning
that warning covered not only most of coastal Alaska, but also
the entire coast of British Columbia. Tsunami watches were
posted from Washington State to California and even Hawaii and
as far away as American Samoa. For two harrowing pitchblack
hours, many brace for the worst. But by 4am, less than four hours
after the quake hit. All warnings were lifted. The only
tsunami an eight inch wave in Kodiak. Still, almost every
Alaskan felt that initial jolt.
Just kept going and going and going and going kept going
geologists
Peter hoist
an eight inch way. They measure that.
As you know, it was it was it was completely
calm. And boy, and the boy went up by eight inches.
Now a couple of things. First of all, just as an aside, at the
beginning of that clip, you hear somebody say, oh my gosh, it's
an earthquake.
Yes. Oh my god. And you see,
let me play a little piece of something that was aimed at the
ABC report. This from ABC play the OMG earthquake ISO.
Nope. Sorry. I dumped it instead of playing it. Oops, here we go.
Oh, my
gosh, it's an earthquake.
Clip. Really? The same clip as CBS played. Now, so where did
where did that come from?
It must have come from YouTube, I'm guessing. And what it was
was a movie it was a woman saying oh my gosh, is an
earthquake and she's got a camera. That's that's that's
aimed at her wall. Why this cameras running? I don't know.
It's a meter wall. And they've and the mirror is wiggling a
little bit.
And oh my gosh, it's an earthquake. Oh my gosh. That
sounds like something from a TV movie from TV. Well, sounds
acted.
Sounds. That's because I believe it is. And both the network's
use that I don't know if NBC used.
Let me hear it in the original report. People in Alaska was in
the beginning, which isn't the beginning of the report. This is
very close
overnight by a powerful earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska
and sirens warning of a possible tsunami. Jamie Lucas is in
Anchorage tonight.
Oh my gosh. It's an earthquake.
First came the ShakeOut. Yep.
Let me see. Where could that have come from?
Well, that'd be sick. Couple things. I think this is an
opportunity for anybody. I was looking around the room here and
I've got us a couple of lamps. You could take your camera and
shoot a picture showed the lamp just show the lamp and shake it
with your fists. I know where you're going. Where your hands,
your hands, not visible. You're shaking, shake, shake it real
hard and go. Oh my gosh, it's an earthquake. Oh
my gosh, it's an earthquake.
Yeah, you can get on TV
and post it. Post it on YouTube. And you'll get on TV.
I'll do it in Austin. Next time. There's an earthquake. Yeah.
Yeah, that's funny.
It was bullcrap.
The other thing both good.
I'm saying both those networks used it and I think has been
used elsewhere. Let's find
out where that's from. That's really sounds like it's from
some TV drama.
I think it's maybe it could be but it was really lame that
wouldn't amount of wiggling that the mermaid was nil. Just a
little bit. And the other the other thing that by the way, she
specifically normally if he was a shin, it's an earthquake. But
no, she was comissioned Oh my gosh. And she didn't say God.
She said gosh, oh my gosh, it's an earthquake so we can make
sure it got on somewhere. Yeah.
Ah ha. Interesting. Also, they once again, they say this is not
a drill. Now I don't understand of a tsunami It is not a
military action, though, if you look up the etymology of drill
and look up the definition, it specifically is a military type
action. It is not a natural disaster. So appropriate would
be the word. This is not a test of the system. But to keep
saying this is not a drill. I can't tell you why exactly. But
besides that, I think it's incorrect. And I know that
practices, standards and practices says you shouldn't do
that. But is this the total militarization? We're just
everything is a drill, everything is military? Well,
it's fun.
You answer your own question. Yeah.
Well, it's no good. This is not real. It's no, it's not a drill.
Of course, it's not a drill. It's a natural disaster is not a
drill.
So here's the big question I have about this event. Didn't we
just drop
millions and millions of dollars for these tsunami buoys that are
supposed to be all over the place where there's big quakes
and those tsunami buoys gonna bounce around? And we're just
going to tell us if there's a real tsunami? Yeah, let's
remember this discussion of the tsunami buoys and the tsunami
early warning system.
Yeah. Let me see. What where's that in play? That's a good
question. Yeah, he got an eight inch bump.
And we have a clip of that lately, because Mother, I
thought might have a clip of that, but I don't might have
a clip of his somewhere. But but we all know about it. Because
we've heard no, and they got to that big Whopper that took place
in New wherever it was in Japan and in Japan. Oh, you mean that?
Yeah. Or the Japan went to but when the other one did
earthquake one. Yeah. Oh, they got the buoys early warning
system. We got tsunami buoys all over the place, that there's a
tsunami, we're gonna know about it. And you wouldn't know about
it hours in advance. But no, they jumped the gun right away.
To hell with that. If it's even existing, it probably doesn't
even work, then just made this announcement immediately,
not a drill.
So I found that I found this to be sketchy because
we need to give me see if you need a staff have journos to go
out and investigate this stuff.
There's been too many of these little, you know, phony
announcements. There was one I think, besides the one and the
one that you cited earlier with the Hawaii missile coming in and
they got this tsunami alert. There was a couple other ones
too. It's like they're trying to scare the public. They get no
other way of scaring. Oh, yeah. Or having the was the CDC or
somebody warning us about our nucular nuclear explosion in the
East Coast. Right. You know, and there's a lot there's too much
of this. What is going on?
Well, I think the Lear foundation is added again, I
think we caught him. Yes, but maybe, maybe not. The Lear
foundation may be just direct funding. That's also possible.
The Oscars came up, or the Oscar nominees and movie Get Out is
nominated. It's comedy by the way, in case you didn't know.
They were still sold to me as a comedy medium was sold to me as
a comedy.
I think it is a comedy appeal is the guy he's a comedian. Well,
this clip is about peel. Near the
beginning of get out one of the main supporting characteristics
of smoke break outside an airport. He's wearing the blue
uniform at the Transportation Security Administration and he's
chatting on the phone.
Okay, how can I get in trouble? A pat down Oh,
no spoilers but this TSA officer will become incredibly heroic.
He's the first to realize bad things are happening to the hero
and he rushes to the police
just do the missile for six months right? So I do all my
research, you know, cuz as a TSA agent know you guys are
detectives. I got the same training. You know, we might
know more. Yeah, sometimes. You know,
all this raised the question. What did real TSA officers thank
you for the film? It made me proud. She Kenny Gibbons has
worked for the TSA in Atlanta, Georgia for years. She loved
this character and get out
he took his job seriously. There was pride in what he did. There
was a mockery made of him getting
used to seeing her profession maligned off the top of her
head. She rattles off numerous commercials where TSA officers
are irritants incompetence or perverts in this commercial for
lint chocolate to female officers pat down a handsome
man,
I think we should do a strip search season
definitely, definitely strip search. So if you could take off
your pants.
The pigeons like these as Givens do not make it easier to deal
with the 1000s of stressed out passengers she helps every day
and who often treat her and her colleagues with disrespect. But
Victor pious Martinez says Get out has actually changed that to
an extent. He's a TSA officer in Los Angeles.
I definitely think we've had an increase that by just making
reference to the movie and open up some people to say, you know,
these guys until
bad unsurprisingly, get out has led to numerous in jokes among
TSA officers themselves. There's a memorable one That phrase
spoken by their onscreen brother in blue, and warning, it is
blue.
I don't think I can say it either. But yes, that's
definitely something that's caught on TS
money. We had TSA officers like Martinez are among the lowest
paid federal employees. They routinely deal with travelers
showing up with loaded guns or people in the midst of crises.
during the government shutdown, they're required to come to
work, but no one pays them until the shutdown is over.
So was this funded by a TSA? This movie? Was it is this just
a storyline that was put into humanize the tea? I mean, listen
to this, this is NPR follow up story. The whole thing was six
minutes about how great the TSA is.
Well, I would say it's, it's it's not unlikely. I mean,
Peele, this is a first time director. And, and a kind of a,
you know, not a normal movie. Right? And it's, you need a lot
of fun. You need funding to make any of these movies even though
it's low budgets, a low budget film, but you need money, and
you gotta get it from somewhere and is, and these guys peel in
his partner, are so creative that they could work with you
want to give his money went to TSA look good. We can do it.
They're like a couple of guys that can probably do propaganda.
That's what I make him do if I had him working in the
government. And so yeah, I think it's well within the realm of
possibility.
It's funny, yeah. And it worked.
It worked. I liked that the TSA people love it. Like, oh, we It
makes us look great. Fine. I'm sorry.
I shouldn't I definitely not Lear. No, no,
I take that back. But I think that funding may have come from
them. Yeah, exactly. The way you describe it, like yeah, we'll do
it for you. I should have played this clip. Just before I played
this one. This was the BBC about the Alaska quake. And it's
actually pretty funny because they bring in what's the our
favorite guy? Michio Kaku, Kaku. Oh, that guy. Sounds like shit.
Forget about it. Nevermind.
That does sound Yeah. Sounds. Summarize what'd he say?
Well, he kept saying, you know, we don't know how that we don't
have no idea how earthquakes take place. I'm like, really?
I'm pretty sure solar arrays has a lot to do with it. Because
let's put it this way. There's a very definite correlation. I
have that earthquake prediction app, the Disaster App. Whenever
there's a kornell injection they warn you and then boom, two days
later, you get boom, count one. Two days later you get a an
earthquake with associated tsunami. But the BBC this poor
lady at the end she she's kept trying to do it. She really
wants to know if climate change was responsible for the
earthquakes. But sadly, the clip is just not good enough to play.
Oh, that's too bad. But
global warming is responsible for something else
is global warming causing goats to shrink. That's what
researchers from the UK is Durham University are claiming.
Researchers say smaller goats are evidence that global warming
is impacting animal size. Gurram, researchers studied the
body size of alpine shammy mountain goats over three
decades and found that young shammies today weigh 25% less
than their peers did in the 1980s. Researchers linked
shrinking body sizes to increasing temperatures.
Goats shrinking due to climate change. Wow.
It is a problem with the climate change advocates. These days,
they're reaching for all kinds of crazy stuff and it's just
doesn't make any sense. And this is a 30 year study. So what
right? I like it.
Okay, what I got a couple of things here I want to play off.
Let's discuss a little bit about these poor gymnasts who were who
were we've not talked about I've
been skipping that story because it just it's you know, I got I
got a daughter, man, as I can't look at it just makes sure this
matches
this guy. Now this is a little angle. This is a newer angle
that you had that obviously most people know about the story.
This doctor that worked for Michigan State University and
also the US Olympics. gymnasts organization was a pervert, who
had defiled all these little girls that were gymnasts, and
you know, gymnasts, wannabes, and superstar champions and they
finally busted him after all these years. And when we say
after all these years, this was going on in the 90s. And then
you have to start looking at the complicity element, which is not
really discussed enough by these these carping women who have the
Women's March and all the rest of it. And by that I mean the
Harry Harvey Weinstein thing. There's two stories in
particular, one. A talent agent sends the poor girl up to meet
Harvey Weinstein in his hotel. The Talent Agent is a woman. She
knows what's going on. She does this. Incident Number two was
the one of the actresses. I think it was Gwyneth Paltrow or
somebody at that level. So she wasn't going to go up there
unless her agent which was also a woman went up with her. And we
have the clip somewhere and we don't need to play it. But she
goes up with the agent of Harvey comes out in his bathrobe and
glares at the woman for showing up with do we need to play our
jingle? And now it's time for your sexual harassment? Update?
I think so. So let's listen to the story about Michigan State
University and choose two anecdotes amongst all these
women they collected. I think it was on CBS not sure. But this is
Nasser MSU one I'm
possibly the last child he will ever assault.
15 year old Emma Ann Miller was one of the youngest people to
read her statement. She saw Nasser monthly for five years
and a few sports medicine charged me for those
appointments. My mom is still getting billed for appointments
where I was sexually assaulted.
Today a Michigan State University spokesperson said
patients of NASA will not be billed MSU has been criticized
for their handling of complaints against Nasser
this one I wanted to separate out because they were billing
the girls against your athletic program for a university and
you're getting billed for the normal medical guy that's
they're just supposed to check you out to make sure you're you
know you're healthy. I don't know that's this is beyond me.
So I would and they're still getting billed apparel and they
even though they say they're not gonna get billed. Okay, so this
is the clip two is the one who's got the important info
MSU has been criticized for their handling of complaints
against Nasser. We sat down with four athletes treated at MSU.
Among the survivors providing victim statements during
Nasser's sentencing hearing gymnasts Larissa boy says in
1997 when she was 16. She complained to MSU coach Kathy
Clegg is that she suspected Nasser was abusing her.
Kathy came back in the room and said, Well, I can file
something. But there's going to be very serious consequences for
both you and Dr. Nasser. And I said, Well, I don't want to get
anybody in trouble. I just felt humiliated. I felt silenced. I
felt embarrassed.
Coach Plagueis was suspended and then resigned from MSU. Last
February. Her lawyers declined to respond to CBS News citing
ongoing litigation.
Our stories are so eerily similar like it makes my Chester
Tiffany Thomas Lopez played softball for MSU. She says she
was abused by Nassar from 1999 to 2001, following a back
injury, and that she complained to an MSU athletic trainer.
She says, you're going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. You
can do this, you know, she made sure to tell me like you can do
this. You can file a complaint. Like this is going to be big
news. What's going to happen to him? That's what it was just all
about, like, you know, yeah,
in 2017 MSU. Police did an investigation into NASA. In
their report. They say that the MSU trainer said she has never
had an athlete tell her that NASA made them uncomfortable.
Back in 2014 and MSU investigation into a complaint
against Nasser cleared him of sexual harassment, but led to
guidelines that included having someone in the room and little
to no skin to skin contact in sensitive areas. After then MSU
police say at least 12 assaults by Nasser were reported
still just stunning details coming out on this channel book.
Thank
you very much.
So even though we we need to remind ourselves that it was a
man who abused these girls. It does stick out like a sore thumb
that there's women at every intersection of this type of
abuse who are condoning it and not reporting it and maybe even
trying to suppress any reporting of these events.
I think there's a genuine hatred between some of these female
coaches
and the girls No, no, there is no okay, go ahead.
I'll tell you why. I think that is because if you look at the
girls are all these cuties you know, they're gymnasts, and he
had them. The one coach they showed she's very large woman
that looks mean and she looks like a lesbian to me.
John at the vortec.org Yes, and she
does and And if she just looks resentful, she looks totally
resentful as far as I think the way some of these coaches think
about a.
So what? How can that be? That's not the camp, as we heard from a
woman herself, if women were running everything it'd be much
better. Last
thing I'm gonna do is put myself in a position to appear to
defend Al Franken might know well and have never cared for
don't think he's a good senator think he's kind of creepy. This
is all plausible as far as I'm concerned. But I'm very struck
by a couple of things. And one is the pivot that the entire
Democratic Conference in the Senate seems to have made a year
and a half ago, they were defending Hillary Clinton,
whoever would knows attacked, the women's or I should afford
into I didn't know where it was coming from. She tack them
belittled them. And they were defending her and today they're
saying on the basis of anonymous accusations that they can't even
bear to serve with Al Franken, where were they a year and a
half ago? Okay, so
there's a couple of things wrong with that statement. First, I
think we can all agree that we'd be better off if the women were
in charge.
There you go. We can all agree on this. It'd be much better if
women were in charge, because women
are an indication of these poor little athletes. The women were
in charge and
I'm going to tell you that this is the reason why I'm
disagreeing with you. Although you make I didn't know about the
the physical differences, which could be something that would
irritate someone. Women are mean to each other. And I brought
this up before with the whole today show thing. This is
expanded and women are calling each other names now on
television. This is this is this rift between Megyn Kelly, and
hold on. Yes. And this is just ongoing. So Ann Curry, not
related. She was and she's with it today show now which made it
even more awkward. This conversation came up on the
view. She is sitting on the view and listen to this exchange.
She's mentioned that Jane has several places now how
uncomfortable that was. But yesterday, man Kellyanne
defended herself she said fine, just been very candid about her
surgery in the past. This
is about the Jane Fonda and the the plastic surgery comment
right? The
facelift? Yeah, yeah. has been she didn't stop there.
I have no regrets about that question. Nor am I in the market
for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not appropriate.
After all, this is a woman whose name is synonymous with outrage.
Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam War.
Many of our veterans still call her Hanoi. Thanks to her radio
broadcast. This attempted to shame American troops. She put
her plastic surgery out there, she said she wanted to discuss
the plight of older women in America. And honestly, she has
no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive. Nor
do
you? Wow. Nor do you mean really?
I mean, yeah. Do you want to talk about drag the Vietnam War
into a plastic surgery conversation? isn't a real
stretch Megan. Okay. And also, why are people more angry with
Jane Fonda about the Vietnam war than they are with Nixon and LBJ
and people who lied about the war and sent boys as cannon
fodder to that in unjust and filthy war. And what bothered me
is you know, I've never seen a journalist do something like
that journalists well, to journalists. Because journalists
are not supposed to be the story. Where's the post to be?
And it's a struggle, I think, for everyone to be but we're
supposed to be humble. We're supposed to use whatever time
we're given to shine a light on other stories. I mean, there are
so many stories that we're not covering, and to take time with
this. Feels Exactly. Just said to her, and how much work have
you had this? There you go.
There you go. Women are no no better or worse than men. today?
Oh, wow.
wasn't even expecting it. Thank you very much. I'll tell you,
you know Adam Curry's rule, women don't suck. Men don't
suck. People suck. They just suck. And but this is horrible.
These women are calling each other bitch on television now.
That was terrible. That's uncalled for. First of all.
First of all, they go on about off on her and then they I mean,
they go off on her worse and she goes off on Jane kind of
exaggerated
even saying next level human who was the journalist? And who's
the bitch.
Now that was that was a horrendous exhibition right
there. I did. I don't know if I can see why you're not backing
me up on what I think is going on with these athletes. No, I
I agree. I agree with that part. But I'm just saying that there's
something else. Yeah, there's that too, because, you know, we
had the Women's March and everyone's got Rate and it's all
fantastic and more women than ever women should be everywhere.
Davo it's like all women everywhere as women. But do you
know better than men get just as shitty as we are?
at a military base of these poor athletes, yeah, the women's
coaches and trainers, I think you'll find it a shame to
themselves and also should be the people that brought
everybody to Harvey Weinstein on a on a silver platter. They were
all women mostly.
I guess you could say that you saw I haven't seen the movie.
But I guess you could say the same for the elitist skating
organization. I Tonya, was that also women hating women? There
was a
Yeah, it's kind of a comedy. It's a mom hating women more.
There was a lot of women hitting me up. Definitely. But it was
good. But it wasn't a competition thing. You don't
think as much of it?
I'm just disappointed, because I really want to see it. I really
want to see it. I would like the days as Cleopatra. I know, hey,
I'll just look good and serve you. Fine. You take care of me.
I'll just service you. I'm looking forward to those days,
but women can do it.
So looks like
No they can't. I don't think they necessarily want to
shoot. Well. If you listen to mainstream media, you'd think
differently. Well,
mainstream media wants to but there's not I don't think
generally speaking women are that nuts about the idea. I
wanted just to change the topics completely. Fine. I got
something here that I dawned on me what might be going on with
this. This is the guy this is a newscaster pronouncing
Putin. Okay.
I play like Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin
expressed admiration for each other today while also promising
to build up their country's nuclear arsenals.
Putin. Yeah. Yeah, but that was the girl from RT used to say
Putin. Putin. Yeah.
I think that this is gonna this is not a bad way to go if you
want to use associated associative thinking pute I kept
concerned every time I hear Putin, to what does that remind
me It reminds me of Rasputin. Oh, yeah. Rasputin no evil
character. If you want to do this sociation everybody knows
Rasputin. I mean, not some youngers. But yes. So start
calling him Putin. And you end it'll start to associate with
Rasputin that is that's the way to ruin Interesting.
Interesting. Yeah. Rob Rasputin. Yeah, like that.
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I want to play the oil report because I don't think people
realize what's going on here.
America this year could become the world's leading oil
producer. The International Energy Agency predicts the US
will hit historic highs topping 10 million barrels a day that
would overtake oil giant Saudi Arabia and Russia, which have
agreed to limit production to keep prices up.
Is this really true?
Yeah. Is that all the shales are the gas is good? The gas? Yeah,
it's all thing that's interesting is that we start to
see some evidence now that the Russians have been interfering.
And there's some reports out there that the Russians have
been putting a lot of money into the anti fracking people. Oh,
really? Oh, yeah. Including, you know, all these environmental
operations of Sierra Club on down that are against fracking
regressions or financing a lot of this with bots. Not that
Soros the Russians with bots. Think about it. Why Why would
they do that? Yes. Not that sense with me.
And yeah, with bots, so women so when it comes to when it comes
to this type of propaganda, they're not doing it on Twitter.
I don't see any of this on Twitter. They just get
no they don't need to do they aren't doing anything. They're
not doing propaganda. They're given money away. But
that's my point when they really want to do something they don't
put stupid bots on Twitter. Exactly. They give money to
people and where's mine?
Where's your money?
Where's where's my money? Where's my money? Here's how the
West does it with with Russia. We like to do it with our we'd
like to do real propaganda and really piss them off. Russia
has canceled the release of the black comedy death of Starling.
After officials and top art figures label it offensive and
extremist. The release of the film had already been postponed
to avoid it clashing with the 75th anniversary of the end of
the battle of Stalingrad. undoubtably such a film should
not be on the screens of our country. Because of the first
place insults are people in Japan. No, not just those who
lived at the time, these people featured as characters of this
film. But even for instance you and me, the film from British
director Armando Iannucci focuses on the infighting of the
Soviet leaders closest allies immediately after his death.
Russia's Communist Party called it a form of psychological
pressure against the country. Through its preview, a letter
was sent to the culture minister, urging him to check if
it broke any Russian laws.
The comedy is all about what's going on inside the Kremlin, the
power struggle, you know, the frantic fight for survival
really, that's where the comedy calm is, and the paranoia that's
going on as well.
The death of Stalin, which was released in the UK in October,
picked up for British Independent Film Awards last
year.
I like it. I got to see this movie now. It's a psychological
psychological pressure. It was a sigh
up. It was again, it's a comedy about Stalin's death. Yeah.
Brother.
The little business Oh, look look reasonably funny.
I didn't see it listed as an Academy Award nominee for best
foreign film.
I have you looked at all the all the nominees I pretty much yeah,
I've
checked that list over a couple of times,
who's the big guy who was the big favorite?
But depends on how it's gonna go. If you looked at the way
that the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards went, it's probably
going to go toward either the billboard movie, because what's
never such a good actress?
Well, she's not acting crazy. Yeah, I
know. She has nuts.
I like her a lot, though. She's really she's, you know, that's
someone you want a lot
of Broadway. She's been doing a lot of Broadway work too. And
it's like, she seems like she's borderline nuts. You want to
have a beer with that woman. And then of course, the other good
actress is the one who plays Tonya Harding is mom and I think
show with everybody. I don't think anyone can beat that
performance. The male looks like it's going to be again, it's
going to be Gary Oldman. Who became Winston Churchill. Yeah,
that was very good. Is the one who wins the best movies is
really up for grabs, but the best I was hoping to see. And I
know it's not going to happen. But he puts on such a great
performance. Generally speaking as Christopher Plummer, I mean,
this guy's just want to watch. But they're not Danny. He's
nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but there's no way
because I said, Well, he should win. There's no way he's going
to win the award. There's absolutely it's politically
incorrect to give him that award. Because he did the whole
movie in nine days.
Oh, he didn't really work. He didn't
know he's doing No, no, that's not that's not like a thespian.
Yeah, he should. He has to work harder. So he did they did
replaced Kevin Spacey, nine days of reshoots, nine days of
shooting. And how can we be heard given?
How can we never hurt how much money he made?
Now nobody's talking? He's probably well, though I do know
this. The whole reshoot was 10 point 5 million. So I assume
they gave me a couple mil must. Must, but no one talked about
that. But it was only nine days work.
But he's Yeah, he's not gonna get an award because he didn't
work hard enough. And I believe that. I think you're right.
Yeah, no, I'm
totally right. And then the director made the comment that
he said she comes walking in this is like, the Krusty the
Clown thing where he comes in and he's and I'm in I'm out.
comes in and he says, Would you like to see the Kevin Spacey
performances that you'll be replacing? And plumber says,
nope. Yeah, well, rightly so. Just give me this grip. Let's go
cool. Guys. Cool. He's like so honey badger. But again, no
chance of winning anything because like nobody, nine days
is gonna. No, no, no shakes things up.
We didn't even talk about it that there really wasn't
anything to talk about. I watched the sag AFTRA awards.
Yeah, I
did. too. Boring. Yeah, I thought that Kirsten was just
her I thought she was great. He's very funny. She's great job
good. Yeah, she did a good job. But again, you're right. And
then
and I think everyone was so disappointed about Morgan
Freeman. There was God God should have denounced Trump and
said something about you know, he just made his little last
joke at the end was you know, the statue was a is clearly a
guy so it should be more gender non conforming or some shit like
that. You know? It was
gender non conforming. Didn't you say that? Yes. I'm like
that. It was just
boring though. And I think ratings were down for it anyway.
The ratings are down and television is going away.
Shows never a big ratings grandma. Yeah,
it was just it was just really more than shouldn't even put it
on TV. TNT is where it belongs honestly.
It is It's a network you know? Yeah network
asked me how I want to ask you how this works but interested
about this kind of thing because I I eat a lot of sushi.
I want to get into another subject for you because this is
something stood out for me. There's a story is a bit stomach
churning and people may not sleep well at night when they
get into this story but a Fresno man out in California, he was a
lover of salmon sushi. He ended up playing a five and a half
foot long tapeworm out of his own body
and then took it to the hospital. First question, we
mentioned sushi is this. Could this be a problem with sushi?
The report goes on and sounds like crap. So five foot
tapeworm?
Well, salmon is the real problem with sushi a lot of people don't
realize it. This is one of the reasons you never want to get
sushi from anyone from bissap The Japanese sushi purveyor and
you don't really ever ordered salmon you order Saki which is
salmon. But Saki salmon is different than just plain raw
salmon which is on the right this does Saki salmon is a k is
what you order. And Saki is not like a type of salmon it is the
way this Hammonds treated generally speaking salmon is is
the way to go right get around this so by the way just gamma
radiation and then you not to worry about it but they don't do
it that way. They will see
that 200 year old Japanese tradition to gamma radiate your
sushi
is a shame. So you you smoked salmon to kill off the promised
salmon is that Scott pest parasites generally a lot of I
don't know if it's the freshwater or the ocean salmon.
I don't know what it is which specific salmon but a lot of
salmon has parasites. And so you smoke the salmon and then you
treat the salmon in Saki Lee's which is the glue that's at the
bottom of a sock a tank with that they make sock a with and
it's this goop you can buy it at the Japanese stores called suck
a sh e Lee's L E S which is the GU dead yeast and all kinds of
stuff. That was the salmon is treated for I don't know how
long it softens up and becomes just like regular salmon. The
smoke flavor goes away. And it seems like you're eating raw
salmon but you're eating Saki which is that we reasons called
that I believe some places I don't think everybody does it
does that that traditional is a very traditional method of
making sure you don't have bad salmon. And they specifically
said salmon in that report for obvious reasons because it's
salmon that's the problem you can just get by with never
eating salmon because you don't know if a Frenchman cooks does
suck it is or I'm sorry, the salmon or any of these raw fish
at their restaurants. I do not trust them. I only trust a
Japanese sushi chef that knows what he's doing. Period.
Well, this is this is good knowledge you could save lives
with this.
Well, it doesn't really. Tapeworms don't necessarily kill
you. But So my story is if you're ready for a divorce
story, yes. So I'm working for the air pollution district and
I'm working with the health department in Contra Costa
County. We had who did all these guys their health department
guys are all freaks all they have health department
inspectors they tend to be because they've been looking at
rat turds I mean their whole life is just miserable. So they
see everything is toxic and I don't know what they personally
what they eat when they get home. But he says this guy says
I would never eat raw fish. And he says it's so dangerous to eat
raw fish as it really is and then he tells me this story
apparently a big sushi fan judge now I don't know if these these
any of these details are accurate. A judge in Marin
County's ate some some sushi. And in some of those sushi
that's contaminated with parasites. There's this really
little worm, it's like a little inch worm that gets in the fish.
And it's not harmful. It's not a tapeworm, it's nothing really
major. And what it tends to do is always searching for higher
ground it creeps up your esophagus and then gets into
your mouth and most people most people won't even know it's in
there when they're just be chewing that bite into something
they didn't they just you know, they just think it's a food
scrap. And that's how these worms always end up at a dinner
party in Marin County. The judge was you know, holding court as
it worried with all his buddies and friends of the family having
dinner. And he's talking about something and one of these worms
that's apparently he contracted, worked its way up this esophagus
and took a wrong turn. Oh, well, everybody was watching him tell
the story. The worm came out of his nose
that sounds like horseshit. That can't be true It could be a good
story. It's possible. Yes, it's
a good story story of the day, my friend. Alright, let's wrap
up some loose ends here.
I have
let me see. I got Oh, yes. What's not really a loose end?
What do you like? Yes, Cape Town, been looking into this
because you know, I'm interested in all kinds of war war on weed
war and then war on women war and everything. Water wars are
going to be really big. We have some of them going on already.
And this Cape Town Zero Day, which coincidentally is exactly
what they called it last year. And the year before, they call
it zero day, every single year.
So now talking about peak water. And
so I found a YouTube of two guys and they it's it's a little
overproduced. But they decided to go and check the dam out and
see what's going on. Because there were rumors that the water
was just flowing freely out of the reservoir. Cape Town
is in the middle, or even the end of the largest water crisis
it's had since records began.
And we're here to like scrub down one of the major water
supplies. And we're here to debunk a rumor that millions and
millions and two millions of liters of water are being
purposefully released downstream millions.
And guess what, it's true. The Department of Water and
Sanitation have had their sluices open since the first
November. And there's no plans to close them anytime soon. So
wait a minute, we have
a water crisis. And they're releasing water downstream. The
reason is very simple farms.
So what does that mean? That means that 60% of water in this
dam is allocated to farms. So that poses a very big ethical
question farms versus humans, because Cape Town has four
months left
before we run dry. So
it appears that a lot of the water is going to irrigate the
farms, which is a lot like a California issue actually. Yeah.
So actually, most of the water's not irrigating anything in
California, it's just going
off into the ocean. And I got a couple of notes from producers
saved the smelt. They say Off we go through this every year. And
it's just the incompetence of our stupid local government.
These guys actually went much further with a video and they
say, Well, you know, to to create one cup of coffee, it
actually takes 300 gallons of water to grow the cocoa bean,
please. Shit. Yeah,
I know. But they have all these stats. So you know, it may have
been may even be a propaganda video, but I think it's probably
true that the that the water is flowing into the farms. So
that's just the full story. You know, not like, whatever the
news reports conjured up in your imagination. So this, you know,
they got to make some decisions over there.
Or down there. Well, I have my last clip.
And I just thought that just took me aback because I didn't
know this was going on. And I don't know what it means.
Generally speaking, but this is the clip millennial saving
money.
Millennials are
becoming good savers. So Bank of America survey finds 16% of
Americans ages 23 to 37 have savings of $100,000 or more.
That is double the percentage two years
ago. Hmm. Too bad. It's all in Bitcoin.
Well, assuming it's not in Bitcoin, I think these guys you
know, these guys are susceptible to stupidity. No offense at all.
We have a lot of millennials that aren't that way that listen
to the show. And I can see them getting, you know,
taken a lot of money
for a kid sounds sounds doesn't sound right to me. But I mean,
so where is the universe? All right, Jimmy,
where's that?
Where's the college loan pay off? I mean, where does that
isn't everyone under extreme duress from that and yet they
have 100 grand?
Well, I think a lot of people are but I don't think everyone
is.
That's not what the report said, though.
This is 16% of millennials. Oh, okay. Well, it's not that big of
a number. I mean, still seems high. No, that's the report from
Bank of America. And Bank of America would never lie.
All right. Let's see have Yeah, maybe just this last thing. So
it's a little it's more depressing than anything, but
I'm very annoyed by Rex Tillerson. The status of Syria
is completely we've gone back to zero like we have a Syria
rotation. But I thought we kicked ISIS has asked I'm just
going to tell you the ways to proceed. We kicked ISIS as
they're out Russia Shut up. Go away. Iran be quiet. We're in
control. Everyone's dead. It's all good. Everyone can go home
now citizens were Turn to your homes.
But that's not your son's mess. What?
I'd say that that is the mainstream media merican
mainstream
message American. Well, here's Rex Tillerson, not
true. But the years the Syrian people have suffered under the
dictatorship of Hafez Al Assad and his son, Bashar Al Assad,
his dad, yeah. But his son, not necessarily. And maybe it's just
ask Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie who hung out with him all the
time before it wasn't cool.
The nature of the Assad regime like that of its sponsor, Iran
is malignant. It has promoted state terror. It has empowered
groups that kill American soldiers such as Al Qaeda. It
has backed Hezbollah and Hamas.
Wait a minute,
what did he just say? Iran
is malignant. It has promoted state terror. It has empowered
groups that kill Americans. So this out kinda
guy got it? Well, I don't believe the al Qaeda thing, by
the way, but okay, go well, it
kind of it kind of depends on how you want to interpret what
he said. either. He's saying it empowers groups like ISIS to
kill American soldiers. But if you listen to it, you can also
hear him say they fund groups to kill American soldiers like
groups of American soldiers like groups like ISIS,
which is not true. Sir, Iran does some funding but these guys
aren't funders.
No, my point is, you can listen to what he's saying and
interpret it as him saying American soldiers are ISIS.
Oh, this on is malignant. It has promoted state terror. It has
empowered groups that kill American soldiers, such as Al
Qaeda
just depends on how you want to listen to it, I guess. But it
kind of sounds like that.
It hasn't backed Hezbollah and Hamas, and it has violently
suppressed political opposition. Bashar Al Assad's grand strategy
to the extent he has won beyond his own survival includes
hosting some of the most radical terrorist elements in the
region, and using them to destabilize his neighbors.
Assad's regime is corrupt, and his methods of governance and
economic development have increasingly excluded certain
ethnic and religious groups. His human rights record is notorious
in the world over such oppression cannot persist
forever. Finally, reducing and expelling malicious Iranian
influence from Syria depends on a democratic Syria. For many
years, Syria under Bashar Al Assad has been a client state of
Iran. A Syrian central government that is not under the
control of Assad will have new legitimacy to assert its
authority over the country. The reassertion of national
sovereignty by a new government, along with de escalation efforts
and new flows of international aid, will lower violence, set
better conditions for stability, and speed up the departure of
foreign fighters.
So unless I'm missing something, he's saying they need to get him
out. He's saying the same damn thing we're saying the same for
the past four years? No past eight, eight years,
or 12. Maybe I don't know when Obama first came. No,
no, no, no, because Brad Pitt was still hanging out then. No.
Okay. No, these days and and Assad's wife was on the cover of
Vogue magazine in 2010, maybe 2012. I think they say
so whenever it started, it's been a waste of money, lives
blood and treasure.
Who haven't heard that one for a while. Have we? What happened to
blood and treasure
was just dropped it they dropped it some reason?
It was January 2012.
Okay, that was right after that it started. Yeah.
Then all of a sudden, they weren't cool anymore. They were
evil dictator. She's Imelda Marcos.
Without this us,
Alright, final final one, just because it's a little dig from
NBC at Trump
holding its breath. So we're an Olympic piece breakthrough. A
senior North Korean government official tells NBC News its
nuclear program will continue. You think the North Koreans will
launch one of these this year? Oh, certainly. I think they may
take a break
for the Olympics.
But I don't see any reason for them to stop testing and
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis specializes in Non Proliferation. We met with
him in California before our trip. He showed us exclusively a
detailed model and technical assessment of North Korea's most
advanced missile tested last November any doubt that this
missile that you think you replicated can reach the
continental United States? No
doubt whatsoever?
No scary largeness? Oh,
all the way down to mar a Lago
all the way down to mar a Lago.
Oh please you want to play the North and South Korea Olympic
update that I have here on the list
and I just want to say stack a campaign if your clips anymore
man, you got it. You got Gotta get this ship Fix You gotta get
it working it's no value either
have a patch cable you
that's what I tell him. He won't listen to the phone. He has the
best clips but he doesn't have a patch. He's just hoping these
are useless clips. They're hard. Very hard to understand. You
need a direct clip to the audio stream you don't need these.
SPEAKER
No, I agree. And just I told him get a cheap mic recorder with a
cable stick it in your TV beat sends dynamite clips. Anyway,
here's your North and South Korea clip
along the border between North and South Korea today the
Olympic torch was carried across the unification bridge near the
demilitarized zone. So bitter enemies, the north and south
will march together at the opening ceremony in three weeks.
You
who this bitter enemies thing work with this particular story.
The need to say it's the need to create the drama everybody's in
show business. And that's why we're here to break it down for
you each time. But if you really want to be healthy, add to your
no agenda diet, a healthy dose of getting the fuck off Facebook
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It won't hurt that's for sure. All right, everybody. Over the
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