#242 America Unplugged -$5,000 Bribe or Baloney? Trump, Tariffs and the MAGA Promise

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Donald Jeffries, Donald Jeffries, author of Hidden

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History and Survival of the Richest, host of The Donald

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Jeffries Show. Billy Ray Valentine, Billy Ray Valentine,

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host of The Infinite Fringe podcast,

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researcher, truth seeker from the Bronx, New York.

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Tony Arterburn, Tony Arterburn, radio host,

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combat veteran, precious metals analyst, and alt historian.

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Together they take on the headlines of the week, decode the information

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and plow through the mainstream propaganda,

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unauthorized, unscripted, and unintimidated.

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This is America Unplugged.

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What is going on? How is everyone doing today? Hope everybody

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is doing well. My name is Billy Ray Valentine, the War on Reality Report.

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It's America Unplugged. Tony Arterburn is back from the Crusades.

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How are you, sir? Tell Tell the people what's going on.

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It's good to be back. I got a chihuahua on my lap.

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I've got some coffee. Maybe, uh, maybe I'll start smoking again.

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We'll see. What, what will

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we be smoking? Oh, that, that's good. I don't know if that—

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should we censor that? Either or, whether it's tobacco or non-tobacco

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product. On, on America Unplugged OnlyFans, we will divulge what Tony

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Ardaburn will be smoking. And, and if,

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if, um, you pay for it, you can smoke with

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Tony Ardaburn virtually, of course. But if you have enough money,

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Tony Ardaburn may come out to you at some point and

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you guys can smoke together. Much like my affinity for old TV shows, I only

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smoke non-filtered cigarettes like Rod Serling. I mean,

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if we're gonna do it, we got to do it all the way, right?

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So that's what I do. All these barriers— non-filtered, damn it, no filters.

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Just like America Unplugged, the legendary Don Jeffries is here today.

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No glasses, but, uh, but you know, they're coming back at some

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point, you know. And it looks super cool in them last week. Tell the people

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what's up. Yeah, not much. The eye is healing. Uh, yeah, I, I don't

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know if you guys heard, Pat McAfee on ESPN, uh, was caught smoking— it

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looked like a joint— on air. So constantly, but you know,

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everybody knows. Although Twisted Pistols says you can't smoke weed in Texas, it's a felony

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now. I didn't know that. I thought it was legal everywhere. I don't know what

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they're doing down there in Texas. Good thing I don't smoke it anymore. I wouldn't

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know what to do. It's a different world down there in Texas, man. I don't

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know, Tony Arterburn might know something about that, man. Um, I, I don't know what's

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going down there. What's, what's up, Twisted? What's going on,

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Pat McAfee? Uh, it's Disney, damn it. It's, it's a Disney—

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it's a Disney-owned station and you're smoking a joint. Think about that.

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I'm sure he won't get fired. I'm sure he'll be fine. And if he does

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get fired, his, uh He'll just have a bigger show online. So yeah,

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that's right, they have to, they have to hold on to him. They have to

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keep him. All right, man, a lot of things have gone— are going on in

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the world. I do want to talk about Russia a little bit and the tensions

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with the EU and NATO, um, but I think we'll start

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off— and the $5,000 that we, we're gonna get.

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Everybody's gonna get blessed. Everyone. We just have to

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make sure that, uh, Republicans win

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the midterms. So there's a prerequisite here.

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The Republicans need to win the midterms in order for everybody to get 5 G's,

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man. So I'm down with it. You know, I think whatever happens,

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it's gonna go to hell anyway, so I might, I might as well get paid.

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Um, so I'm down. Let's all do it together.

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$5,000, and that's what it takes to buy my vote.

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Tony Arterburn, the wisest of all the wolves. Let's start off with

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the 5 G's, and then we can go over to Mr. Trump banning

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more news outlets from the White House. I, I know, uh, Hegseth did the same

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with the Pentagon at one point. I think as soon as they came into power,

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they, they kicked CNN out, right, and replaced them with OAN or somebody,

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or Newsmax or something. I don't know. Um, but the, the pattern continues

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regardless. $5,000— can you use $5,000?

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What will you do when you see these $5,000 extra in

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your account? You're like, oh my God, there's an extra $5,000 in my bank account.

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How did it get there? And, you know, then you see, courtesy of Donald

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J. Trump, what's the reaction? Well, if you're tracking in,

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um, ounces of gold, you go back about, uh, 80 years

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and that's, uh, $35 that you get instead of $5,000.

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So, I mean, uh, that's what's happened to our dollar. I, I,

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I'm gonna take the, the Doge, uh, rebate plus the tariff

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rebate plus the $5,000, uh, bribe Yes,

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vote bribe. And I'm going to put those together. I think that'd be a great

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investment. Unfortunately, it will all total zero because you will never see

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the $5,000 either, even if you do take the MAGA bribe. And I

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think that's where we— I think we are, we are end-stage,

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uh, democracy, if you want to put it that way.

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Um, I think it was Alexander Hamilton that said that democracies were

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as short in their lifespans as they were violent in their deaths.

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That's why the founders didn't want a democracy. That's why they wanted a constitutional

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republic. That's why we're framed that way. And every time you hear the word and

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they use the, the, the mass voting thing,

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um, this is bribery. And of course, Trump's using that.

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And whether or not it'll come true, I— it's very low probability.

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I mean, I'm almost— we're in agreeance that's pretty much a zero,

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right? I mean, it's not like you're never going to see that rebate.

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Oh yeah, no, I mean, we're just— we're arguing about

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fictional, fictional things, but I think that's just where we are.

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I mean, it does turn some heads. People, wow, that's, that's crazy, you know,

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we're gonna get $5,000 just like we got none of the other rebates.

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Uh, we're, we're in a bad fix economically,

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you know. The, the Federal Reserve just raised rates against

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Trump's protest. I don't know if you're following me this, but like Trump nominated,

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uh, Walsh to head the Federal Reserve after he,

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I mean, badgered and harassed Jerome Powell, even putting in

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criminal indictments to the Federal Reserve for like over— cost

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overruns on the, the wing of the building they were putting together. I mean,

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this is unprecedented. So he nominates a new guy because he wants lower rates,

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he needs the weaker dollar, we got to keep the casino open. And unfortunately,

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his war of choice in the Middle East with Iran, with the closure of

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the Strait of Hormuz, has driven the prices of energy up so high That

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it's causing the economy to overheat, not because it's doing great, but because

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the cost of everything. So the Fed raised rates,

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and the reason they do that, it, you know, contracts them— in theory,

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contracts the money supply, can slow down inflation. So we're

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not, you know, just having a, a great time here economically.

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And you offered the $5,000. People could really use the $5,000 because now

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we have diesel prices at a record high. Never seen that.

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I mean, I, I drive a diesel pickup. So now, I mean, it's like

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$6+ a gallon. And in some places, like you go out in California, it's $9.99

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a gallon. And the machines don't

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even track that. The machines aren't built— the meters on them to show,

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kind of like the, the Y2K thing where there's not enough zeros,

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you know, to roll over. And they, they don't know how to— they're gonna

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have to put new, you know, measurement systems up there on the pumps

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to show the new prices of gas for Trump's war of choice. So All

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of this is pointing to me just something that goes back, you know, the,

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the old Greek philosophers that talk about, uh, democracy and

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how it works, uh, is a, you know, as it swings towards tyranny.

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And I, I want— wasn't it de Tocqueville, uh,

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Don, that talked about, you know, a democracy, a republic

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can last so long as until people discover they can vote themselves something

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from the treasury? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I think that's,

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that's where we are. Unfortunately, you can't even really depend

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on that because Trump lies. I mean, it's, it's, uh, the grifter-in-chief

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is gonna— is not gonna give you your $5,000, unfortunately, even if you do,

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uh, succumb to the bribe. Well, you made a really good point,

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several good points, but I'm, I'm going to highlight one because we've been following

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this here on America Unplugged since the beginning because I

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personally am very interested in money. So if they want to give

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me money, you know, even, even though I don't agree with anything that

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they're doing, but if they're going to send me money, I'm not going to give

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it away, right? I'm not going to say you take it back, or I'm going

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to— I'm not going to say somebody else take it. I am going to take

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that money. So right now, as, as I— as far as I can tell,

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I am owed about, about $15,000 by

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the Trump administration, give or take, right? Maybe more. It might

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be about 17. It— I might be underestimating the amount of money he's promised

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the American people at this point. I want my tariffs,

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I want my Doge, I want my $5,000 now,

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and whatever else he, he promised. I think there was something else that I'm forgetting,

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but those are 3 things and probably something else that I'm

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forgetting that he promised money that we have not seen, you know.

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So I, I want my freaking 20 grand.

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I want— I want it, okay? Like, I am owed this money.

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The American people are owed this money. So that's $15 grand with

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interest. If we take a loan out in the— from the

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bank, we're gonna— we're gonna be charged interest on this. I think we should

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do the same on the money that is owed to us from the Trump administration.

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So that's $20 grand for BRV. If all of you

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want to sit down and say, no, we're good, you know, whatever, whatever,

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that's on you. Send me your money.

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I'm— if 4 of you send me your $20 grand, I'll be in a really

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good place, you know. So that's what I want. I want my money,

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Donald Trump. Where is my money? You promised me money

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and I don't have it, and I want it now. Don Jeffries, what's up?

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Yeah, no, certainly. I, I think that, uh, this may be the

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way to get a lot of us to vote. Uh, I, you know, if they,

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you know, they show me the money and, uh, yeah, they're all terrible.

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So I'll vote for any of them. If John— if they resurrect John McCain,

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I'd vote for him for $5,000. I mean, it doesn't matter who. I mean,

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that's more money than I've gotten from my government my entire life.

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Somebody said on, on the chat that that's about the average property, personal property

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tax, and mine's more than that, but that's pretty

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much what we're at. And Trump hasn't talked about eliminating that.

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I'm looking at Jackson T. Barrett's comments. Jackson, why don't you come

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on my show You know, when I have a show Friday, I put— I invite

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people in the second half. You can come on and say whatever you want.

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I don't know why. I don't know what you're talking about half the time.

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Just do it. You're invited to I Protest. Yeah. Every Friday. Why are you sitting

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there like a— 5 PM Eastern. Yeah. Listen, like a lumpy— I, you know,

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well, I'm, I'm, I'm, uh, I don't interrupt people. So what do you— and,

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you know, but I was agreeing with what he was saying there. So, but I,

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you know, this is, and I, I think it's unfair to the Republicans

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who are loyally voting that why should the Democrats who vote against them be paid

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$5,000? That doesn't seem right. So, you know, I don't think that's—

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I don't know how you're going to determine who voted what, but I mean,

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the whole thing is just so stupid. But if you look online,

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his cult, the people, what's left of it— and it is a cult now

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because that's the only people left— they believe it. Sounds good to me.

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Everybody complaining, you're complaining the Democrats want to throw money around all the time,

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but you're not going to get the money. It's not here. I'm all for giving

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because the money— the government's a joke. Whatever they give me, I don't care.

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I tell people Take advantage of anything you can.

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Absolutely. Get any government perk. It's all a joke,

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and it's, it's all counterfeit money anyhow. If you can get anything out of this

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crappy government, get it. Don't sit there and stand on principle. Well,

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that's not right. None of it's right. Yeah, but they actually believe that.

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And they, they, the same people, they're posting all this stuff about the gas

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prices. And now the new tact is that, uh,

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I'm, I'm willing to pay a little bit more for gas so that Iran doesn't

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have a nuclear weapon. Well, I— yeah, well, I'm not, and I don't

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think very many people are. So that's where they're at, and that's what they've

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made. They've rebuilt MAGA to that.

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That, and I guess painting the reflecting pool and

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the big beautiful ballroom. That's what it's become.

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Peter Sikach talked about, yeah, this insane weapons sale to Israel. Yeah, at the

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same time, again, he's propping up even more sales to Israel. Uh,

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the— again, it's just so disappointing that—

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and it's what's most disappointing is that he still has any support at all.

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And again, the other side is horrible, so, you know, you want to talk about

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them, they're, they're no, uh, you know, they're no winners either,

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as, uh, as Rodney would say. But, um,

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yeah, I, I don't, I don't know. Uh, but this $5,000

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thing, as BRV said, we're supposed to get a $5,000, and that was the first

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check. Because first of all, Doge was supposed to continue and go from agency to

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agency. So Elon Musk said, for starters, because the whole

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idea was this was supposed to be a form of reparations to the American taxpayer

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for all this waste, fraud, and abuse they were going to discover. Well, he stopped

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after one agency, and so we might have gotten $100,000 each

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or something, who knows. I mean, my estimation would be at least.

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So we didn't even get the $5,000, and they stopped talking about it.

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The tariff thing, and Trump said again, I don't know if you heard, Tony,

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again he said once again that we can eliminate income

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taxes and replace them with tariffs. He was saying that last year. Sure, said it

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3 years ago, 5 years ago. Yeah, yeah. And he— so he still talks

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about it. And he said— I was watching a documentary, anybody who wants to watch

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it on Netflix, and Netflix has some good things here or there. It's called

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American Factory, was done several years ago, but it

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just showed like one factory closing, GM plant, and like

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they showed one worker there that, you know, a ton, you know, very integrated,

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uh, grew. One woman there that was making— talked about

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she was making more than $29 an hour. Again, this is 7, 8, 9,

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10 years ago. When the Chinese company bought

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it out, she was making $12. And that,

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that's the reality. And that's the stuff Trump was supposed to change.

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Yes, sir. Yeah, that— I'm with you, Karen. Yeah, there's lots of reasons why we

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take— there's no reason for anybody to stand on ceremony, take it. But, uh,

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Trump has still not done anything that industry I'm all for

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tariffs, but not when they're not coupled with any— he has no

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industry to protect. The whole thing is that's protectionism, to protect—

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we have no industry to protect. So there, it's just, it's ridiculous.

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And they're talking about how they've been success— I don't know how they've been successful.

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How are they? So I don't know at this point. I obviously, I can't defend

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Trump anymore, but I will definitely accept whatever he gives,

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$5,000. And if, if we get up to all those different rebates,

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I'll gladly accept them. If he pays me $5,000

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more, I'll vote for him again, or I'll claim I do. How does he know

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if I voted for him or not? But the whole thing is just ridiculous.

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Hey man, listen, I, I, I agree, Don,

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man. If, if the, the ship is, is going down,

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everything is getting harder for Americans no matter what

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the statistics say, right? It was the same thing with Joe Biden.

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Everything was getting harder. They were saying one thing, Americans were

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experiencing another. Right, same thing.

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Um, take the money. Get your— you

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get yourself and your family in a position where you can— first

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of all, this is all fictional. We're not getting any money, okay? But you

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know, in the event that you did get some money, you know,

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you— I mean, there's a lot of people that say we're going to stand on

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principle, and then when they get that money, they forget all about that shit,

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right? So, so there's that. So I don't really believe the people that say,

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oh, I'm not taking it because it's socialism or whatever.

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People put $5,000 in your account, you're going to take it and you're going to

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spend it, and you probably need it, right? So, so there's already in

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arrears though. Even if you got the $5,000, you've already spent that on inflation.

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Inflation is insidious. I mean, it's a tax, it's a stealth

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tax, it's a silent weapon for a quiet war to rob you.

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Jesus, that's already going on anyway. So even if you got the $5,000,

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if you put it against— like, you actually use math and overlaid it,

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you already spent it. I mean, yeah, maybe it's a rebate

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back, but it's like a tax return, so you're not even going to get it

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on top of all the stuff that's already— you can

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at least leave me with an illusion that I got the $5,000. You don't

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have to do that to me. No, I'm sorry. I, I feel

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like, you remember the, the John Cusack movie Better Off Dead? This is

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a deep reference, you know, like early '80s or mid-'80s when he

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goes, give me my $2. I want, right? Yeah, that's what we need. Uh,

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maybe we do a class action lawsuit, uh, against this administration,

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like, to get all the rebates we were promised and all the stuff that

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was supposed to be true. I mean, it, it is a breach of promises.

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Angel Blue talks about, uh, maybe there's,

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uh, right, there's fine print in the writing, what we're agreeing to. I don't think

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we're signing anything to vote for it, but yeah, that we certainly have to watch

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that. Angel, I sent you, I emailed you the, uh I had to take it

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down because there was too much COVID talk on there, so I took it down

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from YouTube and, uh, I sent it to you, the America Unplugged link. So I

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emailed it to you, so you should have that. Oh, that's a, that's a,

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that's a good thing done. Um,

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that's what it is, it's 40 acres and a mule.

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That's what they're doing. If, if, uh, you should,

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you should start a program, like if you need to take the,

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the show down and somebody else wants it, you can email it or whatever.

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If for subscribers, if subscribers want it, you can email it to them. I don't

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know, it's something real quick that Don touched on. He's talking about supporting tariffs,

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and I, I mean, gosh, guys, if you go back in my life and like

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even when I was in politics, like running for office, that's just something I truly

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believed in. I was an economic nationalist. Trump has beat that out of me.

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I can't be the only one. Um, and I think that maybe is the whole

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purpose of him, is that abandoning nationalistic

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or traditionalistic, traditional beliefs, because now I'm just completely

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libertarian. I just like, I just do what, you know, as far as, uh,

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trade is concerned, I just— no barriers. Uh, I used to believe

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in strategic, um, you know, economic nationalism, tariffs. I,

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I think it works, but I don't think it works, you know, because it's been

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so bastardized. So I can't be— I think that's probably a— well,

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you're right. And Trump, Trump probably ruined that and so many things

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for so many people, because we— how long did we wait for somebody to,

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uh, to criticize NAFTA? I mean, I remember in the '90s I was

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arguing with all these, you know, I'm a community college dropout and I was arguing

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with these people that graduated from big universities and they're talking down to me.

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And I said, you know how stupid this is? Well, you don't understand. Yeah,

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I don't understand. Right. I'm one of the unwashed masses, but obviously NAFTA blew

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up in our face. It was horrible. All these deals were terrible. And that was

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one of the many things that Trump ran. He caught a lot of people on

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the left from that. Because again, if you watch that movie American Factory and

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you watch the other documentaries like that, you see what an impact this kind of

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stuff had— these kind of decisions had on working-class people. People don't realize how

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much money people in those factories used to make. That woman,

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she clearly didn't have a college degree. She might even graduated from high school,

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I don't know. And she was making $29 an hour and change

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probably, uh, 10 years ago or more.

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So which is, I don't know what, maybe $35 an hour now. Decent.

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And I'm sure she had much better benefits because again, they had a trade union.

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They eviscerated the unions. People on the right that don't like unions.

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Yeah, I don't like the mob influence either, but they mean higher wages and

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better benefits. I know. And, and, uh, so for people to,

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to not understand that the betrayal here of Trump,

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he doesn't talk about that. Now all he talks about are the tariffs,

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but there he's isolating them. Somebody pointed out in the chat, you can't have

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tariffs. Tariffs don't work if you don't have any domestic industry.

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We're not building anything. It's ridiculous.

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Yeah, I, I just put that up. I forgot who it was

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though. Um, speaking of libertarian,

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um, I have a theory, but let's,

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let's flesh it out a little bit. Um, Trump says he

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has control of Greenland, right? Let me, let me pull this up,

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um, and we could talk about it real quick. Hold on, let me take this

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comment down. And I'll put this

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up. What's up, buddy? Just like he has control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Just like he has control of the strait. I mean, I, I don't know,

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I— this might be legit from what they're saying. I have no idea.

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Uh, it says President Trump announces complete and permanent— I mean, this sounds— who

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knows, right? Who knows? Winning American

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security, um, control over Greenland and,

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and, uh Excludes, uh, any adversary. Uh,

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Greenland. And then what else is saying here? Hold on for a second, let me

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see. Historic deal with Greenland. Well, he's saying he has full control.

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This is what he's saying. Uh, this is, uh, Donald Trump's official post.

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Um, now I wanted to get your

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thoughts on this, Tony, because I know the whole deal with, uh, with, uh,

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Pat Buchanan and, and what happened here.

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I got you, bud. Hold on. Thank you. The, you know, Pat Buchanan

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has been talking about Greenland for some time, and, and this isn't a new idea,

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right? They've been talking about the, um, why it's

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needed for geographic protection,

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right? Uh, a military strategic point to

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defend against, uh, Russia and China.

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But there's a new wrinkle in all of this,

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and I think it's, it's, uh more

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influential at this point, in my opinion, than the strategic defensive

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aspect of the whole deal with Greenland. Um,

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there is the potential,

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and I think it's a high potential, definitely under Trump.

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But if Gavin Newsom gets in or any of these other people,

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it's still happening, in my opinion. Like, nothing is going to change

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here. They They want to set up a,

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a quote-unquote freedom city in Greenland. They want

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to do this. Uh, uh, it's called— they're called freedom cities, network cities.

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There's a whole bunch of stuff. It's this, this one company named Praxis.

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The dude that runs it is, uh,

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Dryden— Dryden Brown, if I remember correctly.

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And, um, he personally

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tried to buy Greenland with some money. He said, we're gonna buy it, but Peter

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Thiel actively contributes to this

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project, and he contributes to a lot of these quote-unquote

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freedom cities throughout the world. There's one in Honduras, right,

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Prospera, that, uh, Peter Thiel has, has given

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money to. But he's invested in Praxis through another company.

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There's a, there's a company that gives money to Praxis, and Peter Thiel gives

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money to that company, right? And they fund these independent

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cities. That build, build themselves as libertarian because, you know,

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all restrictions are down, right? There are no barriers to a lot of things,

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right? But I think that's like a Trojan horse.

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I, I— it sounds appealing to a lot of people when you hear the libertarian

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aspect of it, right? Because there's a lot of things that are

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personally appealing to, to that philosophy. Um, but I

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think it's more of a neo-reactionary city that we're looking at.

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Right? And it's, it's being presented under the gaze of

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libertarianism, but in reality, you know, it's neo-reactionary.

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And sure, there's a lot of, a lot of restrictions that, that are— and barriers,

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you know, that, that are— that have been brought down as a result, but it's

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only for Peter Thiel and his ilk to be able to do whatever the hell

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they want. It doesn't necessarily apply to you, to you or to us.

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And, and it's going to be incredibly selective to get into these cities.

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This guy, uh, um, Dryden Brown has compared

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what's going on, what he wants to happen in Greenland, to Hyperborea,

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for one. Okay, so this is what these people are thinking. And if you think

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that, you know, because you're white you'll be able to get in there, it's a

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specific IQ and it's also an age restriction.

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So if, if, uh, if you're older, you're not getting

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in according to this guy. And they— this is going to happen at some

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point under the Trump administration. If, if— I mean, they are greasing the

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skates. J.D. Vance is the Vice President of the United States. If something happens

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to Donald Trump, he will be the President of the United States,

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and then Peter Thiel is the President of the United States,

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period, point blank. There's nothing that J.D.

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Vance won't do for Peter Thiel. He's completely

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altered his character. He's a totally different guy. So it could definitely happen.

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Under Donald Trump, and, and the, the skids will be greased

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heavily in order to happen. But don't, don't think that

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when Gavin Newsom gets in, or any of these other fools, when they get

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in, that it's going to get any better. Some things will change, but these people

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will still get what they want. We got problems with

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this, I think, given that they're actively trying to create

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new ways of governance in which they are

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the monarchs. They are the kings, not us.

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It doesn't get any better. We're trading one thing for another, and it's not a

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good thing. That's what I'm saying about Greenland right now. I, I, I,

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I don't like the talk of Greenland. I don't like any of it. And in

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particular for this, I think this is the main driver for it. There's also an

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aspect of defense, I think, Tony. I think that's still a thing, but I think

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this is the main driver for it personally. What's up, Tony? Well, it may be

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outdated for defense, and I I learned about this years and years ago reading

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Pat Buchanan's book from 1999 called A Republic, Not an Empire.

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By the way, he wrote that book and he was sabotaged

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by Donald Trump in the 2000 Reform Party election.

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All Pat wanted to do was get into the debates. Trump ruined that, just,

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I guess, on purpose, just coming in and, uh, completely throwing it

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into chaos because of this book. And then he called, uh,

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Buchanan a Hitler lover. That's what he called him because he wrote an America

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First blueprint. Now you fast forward all these years, Greenland was

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a part of that by being more strategic. Now I don't know that what that—

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that this is part of that. I don't think that the strategy

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of America First, uh, via Pat Buchanan is part of what we're looking at here

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with Greenland. It could have something to do with, uh,

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minerals. There could be some, like you just mentioned, the Freedom

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Cities or some sort of tech experiment by one of these deranged

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assholes, something like that. I, I don't buy any of the strategic

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stuff anymore, even though it does make perfect sense. But we're being so non-strategic

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everywhere else, uh, being so vulnerable, um,

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you know, pulling our Pacific Fleet to support Operation Epstein

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Fury, you know, in Iran. So I, I don't know. Um,

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I think all things are on the table, and you're absolutely right, Billy. Whatever goes

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on with Trump could take something and brand it, but this must

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be behind the scenes and in the works before him anyway

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with whatever's happening in Greenland. There must be— they're probably

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putting some sort of, of branding on it that is not what

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it actually is. And that's where I think that's probably where we should have caution

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when we're discussing whatever Greenland is. It probably isn't even what I thought

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it was, uh, was just a strategic initiative, right? And I think

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you're right, Tony. Uh, Don, what are your thoughts, brother? Well,

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if Pat Buchanan was concerned with Greenland, that's— I mean, I didn't agree. I,

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I liked Pat Buchanan for most things. You know, Pat Buchanan never,

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you know, always believed Oswald killed JFK. So, you know, he certainly was

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far from perfect. But, uh, if he was distracted by Greenland, again,

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that's not an America First position. And that's why I object to— I object to

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any of this foreign stuff. I don't care about Greenland. I don't care about,

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uh— I, I feel for the Palestinians, but I don't care about what's happening

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in the Middle East as far as— unless we're supporting it. America First

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means what it says, and Trump is not doing that. Obviously he's

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doing everything but that. And this $5,000 payment,

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which of course will never happen, that would be about the only America

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First thing he ever did. But, uh, yeah, I think I don't even understand the

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issues in terms of Greenland. And, uh, but somebody in

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the chat talked about— I didn't know Roger Stone, my, my friend that

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I was on his show recently, again, out of nowhere he called I don't know,

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that was bizarre. But, um, he said, I know we disagree on

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everything. I said, yeah, yeah, we do. And he said, but we had a nice

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conversation about the JFK assassination. But, uh, Trump definitely did his

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best to destroy Pat Buchanan. But people need to, to not forget that when

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Buchanan— he stole a lot of Buchanan's ideas. He stole his entire anti-NAFTA thing and

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trade deal stuff, and, uh, from Buchanan.

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And yet he tried to stop him from getting the Reform Party nomination of,

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uh, Ross Perot. And, and that infighting is what killed the Reform Party. We had

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a third party. We had what looked like a viable third

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party in Ross Perot's Reform Party. What happened after

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Buchanan got that nomination? They claimed he got 1% of the vote or something,

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which is probably fake, but whatever. That was it. Reform Party hasn't been

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heard from since. Jesse Ventura was the only, uh, politician to ever get elected

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as governor of Minnesota. He really didn't do any Reform Party

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stuff after he got out of office, and he started getting radical, but,

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uh, I don't know, man. It's not very, um, as always,

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things, uh, things are not looking up here. I like to come on sometime and

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have some good news, but I just don't see any on the horizon there.

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Well, I'll join you with

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that. I, I don't see very much of, of this, uh,

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getting better. I, I want, I want some hope. Give me some hope.

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Oh, well, what, what, what word spells— obviously a fantasy football guy keeps talking about

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the Chiefs-Broncos game script. Well, you know, they're all People are coming around to

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my way of thinking, man. In the 1970s, I was alone talking about the games

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being fixed. Now more than half of X thinks that.

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Just— you see the Michigan-Western Michigan game where they just gave

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them an extra play at the end so they could win? It was ridiculous.

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And they had a Hail Mary. I mean, the clock clearly ran out. But yeah,

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these, these things are— why people think they wouldn't be fixed when

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there's how many billions of dollars are involved with gambling and betting

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lines and everything. And me, like a heroin addict,

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still paying attention to it. Who knows why, dude. Puka Nacua is

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questionable, brother. Uh, don't scare me like that. That's a problem

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for me. I, I have him on my team. He's, he's on my, on my

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keeper team, on my, uh, what do you call that thing, my, uh, you know,

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my keeper league. There you go. He's on there. Please don't scare me about Puka

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Nacua. I love fantasy football. It's fantastic. Do not take that away from me too.

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If you know something about fantasy football, Tony, that, that's gonna further degrade

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my, my entertainment here, please just don't mention

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it. I don't want to know. I want to live in my ignorance. Have you

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thought about— this is the extent of my knowledge— have you thought about adding Roger

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Staubach? Or maybe, maybe Emmitt Smith?

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What's Emmitt Smith? Michael Irvin? Hell yeah.

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That's when my knowledge of any sports cuts off. It's sometime

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in around the time The Matrix came out. It wasn't for

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fantasy football. And, uh,

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DraftKings and all these horrible betting things which have caused so many young people to

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lose tons of money because it's so easy. You can just go on your app

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and they, they bet things and they think they're going to win, right? Uh,

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if it wasn't for that, the NFL would be dead. The NBA was— is already

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dead. They're just corporate sponsors keeping it alive. The only thing keeping the NFL afloat

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is fantasy football and this betting stuff. So you can bet on everything—

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who's going to score the first touchdown. People are betting on the coin toss at

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the Super Bowl. I mean, just insane. Decadent stuff. But, uh, you know,

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this is— well, you know why, Donnie. You wrote Survival of the Richest and you

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understand, like, we become a gambling economy because you can't make anything

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off traditional investments anymore. Like, that, you know, you're— our

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grandparents, especially your grandparents, Donnie, I mean, going back,

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um, and your parents even, uh, if you go back, if you were able to

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work and you saved, you could retain value. That's what

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a lot of the craziness you know, I know this is my wheelhouse, but a

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lot of the insanity with our, our culture, what's happening with,

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you know, like the sports betting, what's happening with entertainment,

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what's happening in politics, it's because we don't

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have sound money. And so there is no basis for any sort of exactitude.

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There's like, there is no more math. And so basically there's nothing is real.

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So everything is on the table. And it's become, it's like,

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you know, 5 years ago when you had All these people getting like their— we

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did get checks under COVID-1984. Like there was some checks you

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got. Yeah. And people took those checks and they bought like, uh, GameStop. And they

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did that. They bought GameStop stock because

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it was, it was shorted by these big hedge funds and they wanted to hurt

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the hedge funds. People literally held that stock to screw over

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the 1%, which is— yeah. What I, I, I know, I, I think that

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in, in addition to this, it gets to the underlying problem I talked about

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in Survival of the Rich is people aren't being paid enough. So that's why you

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have so many people with the get-rich-quick schemes. The lottery, the lottery is

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popular because everybody dreams of that. Even though it's, you get more

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of a chance of getting struck by lightning 8 times in a day or something

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than winning the big one. But everybody dreams of that because they

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know that no matter how they can work there and work 2 jobs their entire

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lives, and they're never going to be able to get ahead really.

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And it's, they're not being paid enough so that you have that. You have betting

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on sports. I know so many people, I'm not making any money, but hey,

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I'm, you know, I'm doing good on betting and they don't understand that.

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These things are rigged so that you have to lose 80% of the

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time so they keep winning. And, and again, people are being

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fooled into that— the lottery, all these things— because they

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know there's no path to upward, or even like you said,

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security. In the past, when you had a job, at least when

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you retired, you got at least got a gold watch. You had a traditional pension,

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and, uh, Social Security supplemented it. You were— now that's not the case anymore.

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Pensions have been eliminated. People aren't getting paid enough.

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AI is going to come in. Who knows what jobs will even be left?

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So this is the hope people have. That's why you have so many media influencers

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doing what we're doing and, you know, much more successful minority of them

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trying to get clicks and trying to make, you know, like the Cast Me

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Outside girl and all these crazy people that somehow made a lot of money doing

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it. Or OnlyFans. That's, that's the hope for young people. That's why I want to

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be a media— they can't play sports, so they'll— or maybe can't make it in

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Hollywood. They're going to be immediate. It's all because we don't have enough money.

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We're not being paid. You can't get a good job— is what, for a very

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small group of people? 80% of the people are being underpaid, correct?

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That's my premise anyhow. It's gonna be— and that's only gonna be

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more and more of a truism, you know. Um, for the audience, and something

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to think about, let this rest in your subconscious. I like to do this every

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once in a while on my show. You know, gasoline has stayed a dime a

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gallon our entire lives. If you go back to 1964,

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but right before, uh, you know, Lyndon Johnson decided to

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take the silver out of our coinage, gas was about a dime a gallon.

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Don can back me up on this. Now if you fast forward all these years,

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if you take a silver dime, it's worth about $5.

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Okay, so retail maybe $6. So maybe a dime for a diesel

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gallon now. So that's, that's the static issue

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with like real value and how crazy our,

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our currency has gotten. The gasoline didn't change,

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the silver didn't change, it's your currency that changed. But everything else

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is a side argument of nothingness. Like, you can argue about politics and balancing

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the budget and all this other stuff, but unless you have some sort

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of exactitude with your currency, you get all these problems

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that we get now. And you cannot be paid enough because you can't outpace

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inflation. It's, it's, that's the, that's the magic

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trick that has really, uh, come close to coming close to destroying

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Western civilization, in my opinion. Very good, very good.

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All right, uh, Donald Trump has banned CNN and

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MSNOW and Politico from the White House. I don't know

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what triggered this. I think it was probably Epstein,

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uh, to some degree. I think he was being asked about Epstein or something like

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this, and he was like, everybody has to go. Ago. Um, it's all fake news

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and they suck, so they can't be here. Uh, this is

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fascism 101. Very, very simple.

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Uh, whether you agree with the outlets or not is not the point.

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The point is that he is banning, uh, journalists from

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covering the White House, being inside the White House, and being able to ask him

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questions that he doesn't like. I mean, the, the relationship between, um,

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uh, the government and the press should be an adversarial one to begin with.

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Right? We're supposed to— not that we're, uh,

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journalists here, but I'm just saying in general, we're supposed to ask questions

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that make them uncomfortable, questions that they need to answer,

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right, for the American people. We shouldn't be making them— giving them

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cushy passes like, great, great hair, sir Donald Trump,

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or saying, what is it, great job you did with whatever.

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And that's what he wants to hear, you know. So those are the people that

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currently have access to the White House. Anybody that challenges

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his narrative or challenges anything he says, first off, he gets belligerent and

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very, very, uh, uh, uh, offensive, you know,

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to, uh, to the people that, that are asking him

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the questions. And now he's banned them all together. Angry Tiger

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sent me the, the, um, the article, and I was like, didn't this happen already?

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Because, because Pete Hegseth did it in, in the, in the Pentagon,

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you know. Um, so this has been an ongoing assault on

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journalism by the Trump administration, uh,

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further degrading, uh, what makes us America here,

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you know, because this is what happens in third world countries, man. This is what

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happened over in, um, in El Salvador,

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right? This is what, what happened over with Viktor Orbán. This is,

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this is what happens. This is the script. Anyway, go ahead, sir.

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Go ahead, Tony. Well, first of all, I remember

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the first time I came into contact with the press as someone who I originally

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had articles written about me when I was really young, you know, going back to

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my powerlifting days. And that was really friendly, like sportswriters and things like that.

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And I dealt with the press. But when I decided I was going to get

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into politics at 32, I had my first run-in with

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the Dallas Morning News, which is the big paper here in Dallas. They called me.

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I had a great conversation with this young lady, and we, we talked for about

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45 minutes. And then she published this terrible hit piece on me. I mean,

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it was like, it was not the conversation that we had. And even the title

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of the article was, uh, Army Veteran with PTSD Takes

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on Local Rep. I mean, like I never mentioned those words. I just

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talked about being a combat veteran and some of the challenges. I mean, they,

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they did an over-the-top job trying to kill off— because

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I had some momentum. I was ranked like in the top 100 of digital influencers

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in politics in the nation at the time. I did that myself. Wow.

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Anyway, they— this young lady just completely— and I emailed

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her, I was like, what's— question mark, what is this? You know, but I realized

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what it was. Um, but, you know, months later I had a chance to use

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the same outlet for another piece that was positive,

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and they took it. So it's kind of like you work with them, you understand

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what they are. It's a thin-skinned thing. It is fascistic,

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like you mentioned. Um, the press has a job to do.

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I'm— I assume that this is a harbinger of

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things to come. Yeah, because even the Nixon administration,

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uh, with their enemies list still kept their enemies close. Like those

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people, you know, Jack Anderson from the New York Times and all, like those people

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were still like in the sphere of the White House and talking to

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Kissinger and all this stuff. Trump's isolating himself. Remember where he got where he

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was is because he would talk to anybody. If you remember back in

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2015, 2016, before, you know, the first

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administration, he would sit down with any outlet and it was all the time and

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he got a lot of coverage. Um, so this is probably just part

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of the, the, the life cycle of whatever, you know,

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MAGA. And then the mere fact that I didn't know this

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until Thomas Massie said it the other day, like, we're— this is

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a paper tiger in a lot of ways, what we're looking at with the Trump

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administration. Thomas Massie mentioned the other day that, you know, they really can't

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truly change the Department of Defense to the Department of War without Congress's

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authorization. And I didn't know that. Like, that has not been a thing.

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Like, it's, it's just— it— when the next administration comes in, they'll just take

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the stickers off, they'll take the placards off and redo it. It'll be the Department

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of Defense again. And that's how temporary all this stuff is. And you're

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already talking about a lame duck presidency that's going to be mired in,

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uh, a blue wave, if you— whatever the hell that means. But it's coming.

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Like, if there's any semblance of, of legitimacy

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to our elections, then that will be a thing. The, the economy

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sucks too bad, the gas prices are too high, and uncertainty is too high,

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you're going to get something else to oppose it. So this is a harbinger of

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things to come. The press is, um, the, the press

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can destroy you. Um, that's their job, you know. And a lot of them are,

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um, well, that their job is— they've kind of obviously neglected

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their job to what their true job is, is to get to the truth.

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But you got to understand what the beast is, what you're looking at. I,

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I got to learn that at at 32. I was, uh, I didn't know the

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Dallas Morning News was a medical institution until like, like they diagnosed

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me with something, which is, uh, you know, I guess

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it's infamous.

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Go ahead, finish up. No, go ahead. That's, that's about it. I just think it's

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a, it's probably par for the course. Don Jeffries.

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Well, it would take somebody who has deteriorated as much as Trump to make people—

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I didn't know, I didn't— MS Now, that's how I had a clue it's not

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MSNBC anymore. I didn't know they changed the the name. Okay, but, uh,

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regardless, these outlets are state-controlled press, so it's hilarious.

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I think this is, uh, it's just smoke and mirrors. And they get people—

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get the left— the left, you know, when I was on the left, we cared

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about free speech, and we had organizations with free speech in them,

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ACLU and everything. Now they don't care about it at all. So it's laughable that

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they would be upset about not even being there, uh, because they're— for years they're,

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they're like trained puppets, you know. They, they don't ask any hard questions

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of any president. They never have. I mean, with Trump, every question seems

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hard because that's his shtick, you know, that's his act,

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just to get irated when anybody questions him about anything. So I,

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I don't look at it as much of anything because I don't think— I'm for

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you. First of all, they never let— if, if Trump was really an alternative

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type president, then he would let people like American Free Press, what I write for,

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he would let those kind of people have White House credentials. But he's not going

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to do that. He never has. He's never let any alternative people in there except

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for, uh, Who did he— some— was

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it Joe Rogan? I don't know, some— somebody was, you know, and not

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my idea of alternative. But, uh, so I don't look at this much of anything.

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It's certainly— I'm against censorship, but we don't have a— we

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don't have a press— we don't have a free press. So yeah, the premise

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I think is, is stated incorrectly. You have, you have,

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you know, this, this actor now playing,

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uh, Emperor Hirohito or whatever, Genghis Khan or whatever he's trying to play

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his new act as. And you have a— you have TASS,

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basically. You have TASS and Pravda sitting there who are

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acting outraged that they can't ask questions. I mean, whoever's over there will ask the

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same stupid questions. You just— you just won't get him to say it's fake

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news, you're out of here, and leave, and all the other drama he does,

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whatever. It's— it says much ado about nothing,

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as Shakespeare said. Well, um,

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uh, uh, I think Caitlin Collins Uh,

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has pushed back pretty hard against, against the president.

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Uh, against this one, against Trump, sure. Because yeah, against Trump, that's the one

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we're talking about right now, you know, right? Um, I think, I think they've—

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she's pushed back, uh, hard. I think she's an example of what I think.

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And I think you're right, I think a lot of people went in there and

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gave him softball questions because you could have asked them so much, right? There was

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so much to, to, to push back against. And I think as

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he becomes a lame duck president— and I want to say that we've been saying

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this here for the better part of 2 years that

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Trump was going to become a lame duck president, and people had visceral reactions

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to when that was being reported here on

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America Unplugged. And, and now it's a reality. It's gonna happen. He's going to

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be the lame— as soon as November comes, I would make the argument that he

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is already that, but when November comes around, he is going to be

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a lame duck president. And you're gonna see even the most

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loyal MAGAs start turning on him, meaning in the

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government, not the cult. The, the people, the pit of vipers

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that he surrounded himself with, those are the people that are going to start turning

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on him. And they already have to a degree. Look at Tucker Carlson.

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What's the difference? What's up? I'm sorry to interrupt.

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What's up? What's the difference between them writing articles critical of

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you outside of the White House press corps or inside it? Like, what's the difference?

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They're still going to write them. I mean, if you look at the the,

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the press in general through the Biden administration,

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it was fawning, you know, like most of it was just, I can't miss the—

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remember Joe Scarborough? It's the best Biden ever. He's cogent.

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I mean, all this stuff like this is, I can't believe how, you know,

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how sharp he is. And he's just standing there, you know, look like—

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and, uh, but the press was like, this is the best ever and I love

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it and he's so great. And I just remember thinking, this is— you just

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delegitimize yourself. Even given that, to just rem— to

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have a ban on it just makes you look weak because they're going to write

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the same stuff regardless. And when the next administration comes,

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and it most likely will be a Democrat, there'll be no negative coverage. None.

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I mean, you get Fox News. I mean, I guess, and that'll be a thing.

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Um, but it's, it's, it is the— it speaks to the insanity

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of our times that Trump does pretty much everything that the establishment wants

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him to do that is detrimental to liberty and freedom.

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And then there's still critical press. I don't understand that.

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Like, he's doing every— he gave you the great lockdown. I mean,

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he gave you everything you wanted with the COVID-1984 and all that

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stuff too. I mean, it's, it's foreign policy. We've not brought the troops

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home. We didn't bring the jobs back. You know, inflation's out of control. I mean,

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it's all the stuff that the establishment wants. So, you know,

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the, the press thing, I think it's just an added deal about ego. This is,

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um, ego politics? I think,

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I think it's important to have direct access,

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um, to the president, to be present, uh,

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while he's, while he's giving real-time, uh,

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you know, um, comments or whatever, or talking about

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laws or whatever it is he's talking about. I think it's important to have some

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press that stands in opposition to,

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to, to what he's doing, right, or to what the administration wants to

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carry out. Live in person to challenge him in real

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time. You know, when, when they have time to regroup

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or sanitize a message, there's that,

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right? But then the, the press, the press have to do their part, of course,

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and challenge him, which I don't think they've been doing well as of— as recently

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they have because of he's becoming a lame duck. So people

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are less afraid of him at this point, reporters.

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So they're stepping it up, they're being more more, uh,

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adversarial towards him, more, you know, they're willing to push back

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on him. Remember that, that last— I forgot that he did an interview not too

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long ago where he got up and left. A couple of months ago, he just

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got up and left. I think that was, uh, Meet the Press or somebody.

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I forget what it was. Um, but it's important to, to have that type

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of access to the president for those reasons. He needs to be held accountable in

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real time, you know, and, and, uh,

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challenged in real time. And, and there needs to be a variety

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of people in there that have different viewpoints so they can capture,

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uh, what went on there in their, um,

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with their scope, right? So it doesn't just become one narrative

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coming out of the White House. So that's what— that's why I think it's important

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that it— that does happen. Will negative press continue to happen? Of course, right?

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Well, we hope so, you know, we want that, you know. But,

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um, but yeah, that's why I think it's important, and that's why he banned them.

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He doesn't want to put up with it. He doesn't want the questions. He wants

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to be asked questions that glorify him, that put him up on

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a level of godhood. That's what the man wants. He doesn't want anybody

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challenging any narratives he puts out. Yeah, and I think we

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need to— Angel Blue in the comments mentioned the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act

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that happened back in 2012. I'm sure, Don, you know what that is, the Smith-Mundt

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Modernization Act, uh, where basically we legalized propaganda again.

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It was, um, revised where, you know, these outlets can run

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uh, state-sponsored propaganda. So who knows?

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Factions fighting factions inside of our— it's all

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a show. There's never— if, if there was really truth— Peter

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talked about— I didn't— I guess I kind of remember Infowars briefly, I guess,

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under Trump, was very briefly in the White House, but that didn't last very long.

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And, uh, really, as loyal as Alex Jones was to him, Trump should have had

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him up front the entire time. But, uh, they, they, they should open

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it up to all these. And I, I, I remember when Spotlight, you know,

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back in the '80s and '90s, they had a far bigger circulation than

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the Washington Times. I mean, hundreds of thousands more. They just completely

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suppressed it. And the Reagan administration and all

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the, uh, Bush administration, they refused to

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give them credentials. They tried for years because they didn't want to take

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a chance on a real reporter asking a real question. You, you— Trump

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gets some of those questions because of I think some of these reporters, they're not

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all in on the act. So some of them really just hate him. And so

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they're, they're going to question him more aggressively than certainly they would have Biden or

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Clinton or something. But, uh, they're never going to ask it. You're not going to

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see anybody talk, grill him about the Epstein list. You know, sir, on this day,

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you know, you talked about the Epstein list and now you're calling it a hoax.

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Why, why are you doing that? Yeah. And why don't you want that? Why don't—

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if you're— if you have nothing to— if you're— why don't you release it all?

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Yeah, but you're never going to get them to do that. You're not going to

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get them to show all the times he said about how stupid it would be

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to go to war with Iran and then doing it. You're not going to do

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that. And so it's, it's, you know, I, again, I think it's much ado about

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nothing. And everybody will complain, the left will get all excited, but these are CNN,

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MS Now, whatever they're calling it, Fox News has said these

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are all state-controlled media. They're just like TASS and Pravda.

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It's just the people are too dumb in America to realize that these are not

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outlets of free press. Yeah, and watch the pendulum swing to then when the next

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administration comes in, they'll get rid of any other— like, if it's a dissenting view

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of their administration, that'll happen too. Oh yeah, Fox News will be bad. Yeah,

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sure, sure. We'll get to be— we'll get to be witnesses to that. Although I

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feel like, like, act like, uh, I don't even think OAN is still a thing.

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I don't— I don't even remember. But Newsmax, you know,

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InfoWars, they shouldn't be anywhere near the freaking White House. I'm sorry.

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There really isn't. I mean, there isn't really the equivalent of a

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right-wing media.

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Not really. It's faux. Like, you know, like real, right?

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Like a real one. Like a real— like, right, it actually has access.

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There isn't really— real conservatism doesn't exist. Doesn't exist.

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Yeah, right. So if that were to happen, that would be dope.

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That would, that would be dope. And I would co-sign it, and I would watch

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and listen and support and try— you know, we need legit alternatives.

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We, we don't need what we, what we currently have. White Wolf says that

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Trump a lame duck. You ain't seen nothing yet. I don't disagree with you.

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I think he is a lame duck, but I think that's when he gets most

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dangerous. Correct. Um, you know, because, because he's going to, uh,

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to provide some, you know, entertaining moments, uh,

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coming up. And, uh, before we go to Russia, I want to address this guy

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here. Dark Alley Entertainment, how you doing? Uh,

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remember, um, the record remembers Billy thought 100% Kamala

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was going to win. Yeah, I did, I did, I did think she was going

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to win. I was hoping she was going to win because, uh, let the record

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hold 100%, I told you everything that happened if she didn't

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win, and it is happening. All right, so, um, give me credit for that

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too if you're going to give me credit for Kamala Harris. Um, let's talk about

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Russia real quick before we get up out of here. Um,

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So, uh, the European Union and NATO

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have gotten together. Article 4 is, uh, is,

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is a thing right now, and, and they're talking about, um,

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or they're actively doing like, like preparing for something.

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What they're preparing for, I don't know, but it's concerning.

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John Brisson's been following it. Um, I've, I've been reading up on it a little

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bit and been following the reports. Uh, you know, Germany,

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Germany has, has upped, uh, their, uh their

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hospitals trying to, to get ready for, for mass,

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you know, uh, hospital beds being filled.

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You know, that's, that's concerning. Um, you know,

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um, military budgets have been brought up as well. Um, and they

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are citing that Russia is waging some type

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of hybrid attack. Um, they've been, uh,

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drones have been, uh, found, uh, over, uh across

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the Polish border, you know. And they did recently allegedly

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try to kill, uh, some diplomats that were between

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the Ukrainian and Polish border. There was an attack launched there conveniently

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at the same time. Uh, the German— one of the German airports is closed

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down now as we speak. At least it was reported, maybe it was yesterday,

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but, um, I saw the report today because

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of drone, um, activity, Russian drone activity around the areas.

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Um, it's concerning. Uh, Russia has, uh, I think it's,

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uh, Sergei— what's his name— Sergei Lavrov.

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I'm getting the name wrong, something to that effect. Um, he said that,

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uh, you know, uh, it would be a quick conflict, a short war, uh,

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hinting at a nuclear strike. Yeah.

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Uh, Poland said the same thing. Poland was like, we'll take care of Russia very

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quickly. Um, the European Union, on the other hand,

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um, is, uh is saying that

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there is no plans for a hot war, a kinetic war,

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um, and they are trying to avoid that at all costs. But they're,

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they're also keeping an eye on Russian aggression. This is the

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same thing Vladimir Putin did, uh, leading up to Ukraine.

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So it's very concerning to me, uh, you know, same rhetoric,

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same everything. Um, the Russian propaganda is

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real. Russians, uh, psychological operations are real,

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and a lot of the alternative media is under that spell.

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Heads up. Uh, it's happening though. Uh, so let's hope,

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uh, it doesn't turn into a kinetic war. We do not want that. Uh,

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but, but here is where we find ourselves. Tony Arterburn, what's up? Well,

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let's not forget, I mean, NATO or U.S.

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intelligence, for whoever, um, probably in conjunction with Ukraine,

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blew up that pipeline that was running from Russia to Germany

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that was basically a linkage of peace. Like, here, we're going to sell you energy

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Um, that happened. And do we have proof that it was NATO,

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or is that speculation? Well, you know, I think there's a lot more evidence pointing

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out that it is NATO or NATO-related or U.S.-sponsored in

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some way than it ever was. Like, Russia didn't do it to themselves. I mean,

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that would just— it wouldn't make any sense. That, that was the narrative

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that people do that, right? According to people here. Yeah,

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I, I personally, I don't believe— from whatever I've seen Um,

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and I— this has been years. Gosh, it's been what, 20— has it been 2022,

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2023? Time is flying, man. Yeah,

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yeah. And they had quotes from the— quotes from American officials on it that just

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pretty much did everything but say, yeah, we did it. Like an inside job of

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just taking it out, making it look like Russia did it, because they want to

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sever any sort of economic ties to Russia

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in the future. Because NATO stands on its own. The European

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Union is, is a a bankrupt entity. They're losing,

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um, the staying power of members due to their economic,

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uh, disintegration between the, the nation-states that are— they

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make them linkage together. And the issue that they've got is they— the same issue

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that we've got, except they've got much worse. The only way to really get out

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of this or have a, a, an escape valve for their economic

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policies, which are absolutely disastrous— they've got a shrinking uh, internal population,

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a growing migrant population, because they have to put people on the payroll.

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It's like a Ponzi scheme, and the entire thing

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is causing so much friction internally they have to have a war.

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Uh, I think they want to keep that as an option. I think a lot

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of these things, when they're pointing out like, you know, opening up hospitals or signaling

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all that as part of a defense condition, kind of like we have DEFCON here

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in the United States, they're probably moving to a different DEFCON

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or at least posturing that, because everything in that, in, in high-stakes

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foreign policy, is posturing. It's language. You talk about Lavrov putting,

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putting out that quotation, uh, about it'll be

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a short war, but it's like national survival. You're pushing Russia

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to have to fight for its, its own internal nationalistic

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survival at some point. When Russia loses about a million people

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net a year in population, they'll have the same population that we had in 1947

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in about 10 or 15 years. It's not a booming place. It's a very,

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it's very high in natural resources and they have the remnants of the armaments from

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the, the Soviet Empire. It's a dangerous thing to screw with.

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Um, but that's what our leaders are doing. And if you look at these psychopaths,

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they wanna plant, plant the rainbow flag in Moscow. Uh,

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they're revolutionary Jacobin bloodthirsty warmongers, in my

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opinion. Um, there's always a way to do a deal and our boomer

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overro— overlords have screwed that up. And they cling

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to all these past, uh, belief systems

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that are hollow and, um, the, the carcasses

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of dead policies, as Lord Acton talked about. But I, I, I think that the—

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it's a dangerous escalation for, for reasons that could probably be

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negotiated. Don Jeffrey's thoughts, and then we're getting out of

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here. Well, I'm not really concerned about anything Russia's alleged

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or anybody's allegedly doing. I know what we're doing, and it's no good. And I

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you know, for propaganda. We're besieged by Zionist propaganda non-stop,

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so I'm concerned about that. Um, I, you know,

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I, we— I'm tired of foreign boogeymen. I don't care if it's Putin or,

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uh, Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, whatever nonsense they're coming

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up with. We have boogeymen in Washington, D.C. Yeah, those are my—

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those are my concerns. Washington, D.C. is the enemy because we have evil people

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running things, and I'm tired of them blaming, trying to distract us with what's

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going on here, what's going— do you see what— no, no, I see what you're

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doing. I see what you're doing— nothing. You haven't touched our infrastructure

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for 60-some years. You've built a rigged economy where 80% of the people are losing

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all the time. You've killed upward mobility and any chance of job opportunities

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for the vast majority of young people. That's what I see. And you're distracting,

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you're giving money to Ukraine constantly and giving money, more money

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even, to Israel, getting involved in a nonsensical war.

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That's what I see. I don't care what Russia is doing. And, you know,

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last I heard, Russia is paying its women to have babies.

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Maybe we got to do that because, uh, you know, we're going to

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depopulate humanity and give the eugenicists what they want at the rate we're going.

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Yeah, well, you know, Peter Thiel has a different, uh,

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solution to that. It's called, uh, um,

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everlasting life, and that's what they're working on, you know.

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But, um, I, I, I don't think we factor into

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that equation. Something, something funny. Billy,

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can America Unplug— we move the show to the moon? I think.

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Or can we go intergalactic? What about— can we do, um,

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Space and Time Unplugged? Like, just get out of this entire zone. Like, maybe I

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like Moon Unplugged. That's kind of dope. Moon Unplugged. Mars Unplugged.

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Uh, we're done with all this earthly nonsense,

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okay? Fuck this. You know how hard it is? You're the commentator anymore

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when you don't even have a side other than just like, you guys are psychopaths.

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Like, I just look at the news and I don't— I think my— I locked—

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I talked 11 minutes on my show on Thursday about, uh, the, um,

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They found a new species of cat. Did you see that?

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I saw that. Well, see, I'm interested in that. Yeah, you know, I'm interested

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in the cat. I want to see the cat, man. That's cool. It's a,

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it's a jungle cat. It's, it's a, it's smaller than a house cat. It's a

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good-looking cat. It was, it was, at least if, if that picture that I saw

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was the correct one, it was— I want one. Yeah, I want him to live.

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I mean, they'll be friends with Pumpkin here and, and Wise Wolf and Denison.

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I can have 2 cats. Since, since my boy Xi Jinping, who listens

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to America Unplugged all the time, is probably listening to right now, I will make

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a request. Request for a panda. We don't have one here in,

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in the Bronx Zoo. I would like one, and I also would like one personally

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for myself. I will also take a red panda. I'm cool with that

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either way. All right, let's get up out of here. It's America Unplugged. We're gonna

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keep our eye on everything. I thought it was a really concise show. We,

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we freaking tackled a lot. Typically we, we, we have,

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you know, all these ideas of what we're gonna do when we spend our time

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on one subject or two tops, you know, so This

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was good in my opinion. I hope everybody got something out of it. My name

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is Billy Ray Valentine. This is Tony Arterburn. Tell them where they can find you,

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sir. You can go to tony.gold, my website, or arterburn.gold.

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You can find me there. Arterburn Radio Transmission, Para Truth Podcast,

01:01:29.941 --> 01:01:33.453
Wise Wolf Gold and Silver, all that stuff. Go find Wise

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Wolf. Hold on, what is it? The new species of cat was probably developed

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by DARPA. Can we— can I have 5 minutes?

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Can you give me something here? Like, you know,

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like, fuck, bro, just give me one thing. And it's

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been by Bill Gates mosquitoes.

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Don Jeffries the Legendary, what's up, sir? You can follow me on Substack.

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I'm not shadowbanned there yet. donaldjeffries.substack.com. I protest,

01:02:00.350 --> 01:02:03.330
just like my podcast. Uh, on Twitter, if you're not following me on X,

01:02:03.830 --> 01:02:07.050
please follow me @donjeffries. My books are all that. They're finishing up

01:02:07.550 --> 01:02:10.846
my book Unsports. Uh, hopefully that'll be out not too long from now. Finish final

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touches on it and, uh, becoming the foremost thought criminal in the world

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after I write that. Fantastic. Dark Alley Entertainment, what's up? You call

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it the obvious? Tell that to 99% of the rest of the alternative media,

01:02:22.456 --> 01:02:25.828
buddy, and that's on record. So you call it the obvious, but tell that

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to them because it wasn't very obvious to them. My name is Billy Ray Valentine.

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Listen, I just did a show on Guerrilla Underground.

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I put it up on, on, uh,

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gorillaunderground.podbeam.com, uh, what used to be formerly

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The Infinite Fringe. It's up there, it's nice and produced, it sounds good. And it's,

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um, you know, um, I had a, a PhD on, on cult,

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uh, behavior and cognitive liberty on, and, uh,

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and he grilled me to see if I was in a cult or not.

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His idea, not mine. Uh, so that was there. Go,

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go check it out. It's also on my Guerrilla Underground,

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um, YouTube channel, but I will put it up on Rumble for the haters.

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I'm gonna do that today so you guys can have it and pick it apart

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as much as you want, but you, you will get some good information out of

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it about mind coercion, uh, mind control, uh,

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you know, and, um, mind privacy and how they are actively trying

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to get into your mind. So we did cover that before he decided to psychoanalyze

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me, um, which was entertaining. I, I would say so myself

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anyway, uh This Sunday I may go live, but if not,

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I'm dropping an episode, probably a pre-recorded, and throwing them up there. And I have

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at least 4 or 5 more interviews, not including

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Tony, who was supposed to come on, and Guard, who's supposed to

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come on. So that's 7, you know. So we're, we're,

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we're working. We're starting to get a little bit of momentum, and hopefully

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we can do consistent shows for a little bit and, and try to see if

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we can build something. Uh, we also have a Gorilla Underground, um,

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Instagram page. I'll put a link here for you guys to, to follow it.

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It's, it's all news. It's all news related, uh, no, no opinions,

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just news. That's it. All right, we're getting out of here. Tony,

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you want to burn it down? Yes, let's burn it down, please.

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Everything else is burning down, may as well.